Scott Webster
Biographic Data
| ID | 3649343 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Scott Webster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Scott |
| FAMILY NAME | Webster |
| SIGNATURE | WEBSTER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9565-4514 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Enablers of community‐led action in Australian climate disasters
This study explores how disaster‐impacted communities in New South Wales, Australia, mobilised during and after the bushfire crisis of 2019–20 and multiple catastrophic floods between 2020 and 2022. Interviews were conducted across three regions: Northern Rivers; Blue Mountains; and Hawkesbury. Our findings illuminate how community‐led actions are driven by a broad range of ‘local knowledges’, based in and organised through long‐standing networks…
Climate-related Planned Relocation as Domicide
This study critically examines how climate-related planned relocation constitutes domicide -the destruction of home extending beyond the physical or material sense. We develop a conceptual framework to understand how domicide unfolds gradually through disruptions to material-economic, socio-communal, ecological-geographic, and identity-cultural dimensions, driven by institutional logics prioritising physical safety and economic development while …
Recognition and relationship-building
The role played by communities in all phases of disasters is critical, yet genuine collaboration between community-led groups and disaster management agencies remains scarce. This paper examines the dynamics of these interactions in the aftermath of a catastrophic flood and landslip event in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia, in 2022. Using qualitative data from 41 interviews undertaken one to two years after the disaster, …
Using trauma-informed approaches
Climate disasters like floods and bushfires have increased in frequency and intensity in Australia. For many, these disasters are associated with trauma. In order to further our understanding of the impacts of these disasters on individuals and communities, we need to conduct research, but the research design and implementation need to be sensitive to that trauma and support the safety of both participants and researchers. This paper provides a d…
From Cadi to the Domain
Exploring Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens, known as Cadi and Wahganmuggalee to the Cadigal people, I trace how this landscape was ‘made strange’ through the colonial introduction of foreign flora species and the consequent material upheaval of space. But the modern Gardens are also a complex mnemonic landscape. Sculptures, art installations and guided tours attest to Cadigal heritage and cultural practices in a broader landscape that also includes…
Revisiting memoricide
Memoricide, it seems, is memory made rubble and ash. Its emblematic imagery is of scenes many would find familiar: burning ash-snow from Sarajevo’s Vijecnica ; satellite images of Palmyra’s missing structures; the exploding Bamiyan Buddhas. Physically altering space is understandably a highly visible tactic. However, when explicitly built into definitions, the emphasis on physical destruction has been on specific forms targeted: archival institut…
The Epistemological Development of Education
Epistemological Development of Education
Domus, Dream, Domicide
This article explores the way in which bushfires challenge our theoretical frameworks for comprehending both ‘home’ and ‘home destruction’. Disaster scholarship has long argued that the very idea of ‘natural disaster’ remains inadequate as a term of description for the entanglements of the human and natural – acutely so for the entanglements that are at the heart of a changing climate and its consequences. The article proposes a new conception of…
The ‘Palestine poster’ and everyday memoricide
This article looks at the Liberation Graphics Collection of Palestine Posters – a collection of 1600 ‘Palestine posters’ submitted to UNESCO’s Memory of the World programme during its 2014–2015 and 2016–2017 rounds. Despite receiving unanimous support for inscription, this nomination was effectively vetoed twice by UNESCO’s Director-General. The Collection frames the Palestine poster as ‘an essential medium through which Palestinians communicated…
Quality and tyranny
This article takes the introduction of a compulsory rubric for assessment across all units taught in an arts and education faculty as an opportunity for the identification and discussion of competing discourses around this process. We identify five discourses that complicate those of quality and efficiency in relation to rubrics: imperatives for twenty-first century learning; authentic assessment; Indigenous perspectives; creative praxis and acad…
Understanding Curriculum
Understanding Curriculum is a critical introduction to contemporary curriculum theory and practice. Substantially revised, the second edition includes more detailed consideration of the ideological underpinnings of curriculum development, features new chapters on assessment and reporting, and updated vignettes and extracts. These features, combined with all the elements of the previous edition, encourages readers to reflect on how curriculum theo…
Transforming, storing and consuming athletic experiences
The analysis of sport performance in competitive contexts has become synonymous with the use of a range of software applications and hardware e.g. heart rate monitors and gps systems. With the prevalence of technology in mind, a small but growing corpus of literature has begun to consider this phenomenon and its influence upon the coaching process. This study adds to this literature by detailing the autoethnographic experiences of a case study co…
Post-Domicide Artefacts
This article is concerned with the experiences of domicide-that is, the suffering caused by the deliberate destruction of home by human agency in pursuit of certain objectives-faced by Palestinians as a legacy (as well as in the present) of the ongoing conflict with Israel. Existing scholarly and activist research provides some essential data about these experiences, but intellectual contributions remain primarily focused on the act of demolition…
Measuring Up in Education
When we think about the notion of “measurement”, there is a tendency to see closed and therefore quantifiable systems that act in producing a reductive concept of X enabling its measurement, which
What can Japan offer to Australia
Transforming, storing and consuming athletic experiences
The analysis of sport performance in competitive contexts has become synonymous with the use of a range of software applications and hardware e.g. heart rate monitors and gps systems. With the prevalence of technology in mind, a small but growing corpus of literature has begun to consider this phenomenon and its influence upon the coaching process. This study adds to this literature by detailing the autoethnographic experiences of a case study co…
Revisiting memoricide
Memoricide, it seems, is memory made rubble and ash. Its emblematic imagery is of scenes many would find familiar: burning ash-snow from Sarajevo’s Vijecnica ; satellite images of Palmyra’s missing structures; the exploding Bamiyan Buddhas. Physically altering space is understandably a highly visible tactic. However, when explicitly built into definitions, the emphasis on physical destruction has been on specific forms targeted: archival institut…
Domus, Dream, Domicide
This article explores the way in which bushfires challenge our theoretical frameworks for comprehending both ‘home’ and ‘home destruction’. Disaster scholarship has long argued that the very idea of ‘natural disaster’ remains inadequate as a term of description for the entanglements of the human and natural – acutely so for the entanglements that are at the heart of a changing climate and its consequences. The article proposes a new conception of…
Climate-related Planned Relocation as Domicide
This study critically examines how climate-related planned relocation constitutes domicide -the destruction of home extending beyond the physical or material sense. We develop a conceptual framework to understand how domicide unfolds gradually through disruptions to material-economic, socio-communal, ecological-geographic, and identity-cultural dimensions, driven by institutional logics prioritising physical safety and economic development while …
Post-Domicide Artefacts
This article is concerned with the experiences of domicide-that is, the suffering caused by the deliberate destruction of home by human agency in pursuit of certain objectives-faced by Palestinians as a legacy (as well as in the present) of the ongoing conflict with Israel. Existing scholarly and activist research provides some essential data about these experiences, but intellectual contributions remain primarily focused on the act of demolition…
What can Japan offer to Australia
Measuring Up in Education
When we think about the notion of “measurement”, there is a tendency to see closed and therefore quantifiable systems that act in producing a reductive concept of X enabling its measurement, which
Post-Domicide Artefacts
This article is concerned with the experiences of domicide-that is, the suffering caused by the deliberate destruction of home by human agency in pursuit of certain objectives-faced by Palestinians as a legacy (as well as in the present) of the ongoing conflict with Israel. Existing scholarly and activist research provides some essential data about these experiences, but intellectual contributions remain primarily focused on the act of demolition…
Transforming, storing and consuming athletic experiences
The analysis of sport performance in competitive contexts has become synonymous with the use of a range of software applications and hardware e.g. heart rate monitors and gps systems. With the prevalence of technology in mind, a small but growing corpus of literature has begun to consider this phenomenon and its influence upon the coaching process. This study adds to this literature by detailing the autoethnographic experiences of a case study co…
Understanding Curriculum
Understanding Curriculum is a critical introduction to contemporary curriculum theory and practice. Substantially revised, the second edition includes more detailed consideration of the ideological underpinnings of curriculum development, features new chapters on assessment and reporting, and updated vignettes and extracts. These features, combined with all the elements of the previous edition, encourages readers to reflect on how curriculum theo…
Quality and tyranny
This article takes the introduction of a compulsory rubric for assessment across all units taught in an arts and education faculty as an opportunity for the identification and discussion of competing discourses around this process. We identify five discourses that complicate those of quality and efficiency in relation to rubrics: imperatives for twenty-first century learning; authentic assessment; Indigenous perspectives; creative praxis and acad…
The ‘Palestine poster’ and everyday memoricide
This article looks at the Liberation Graphics Collection of Palestine Posters – a collection of 1600 ‘Palestine posters’ submitted to UNESCO’s Memory of the World programme during its 2014–2015 and 2016–2017 rounds. Despite receiving unanimous support for inscription, this nomination was effectively vetoed twice by UNESCO’s Director-General. The Collection frames the Palestine poster as ‘an essential medium through which Palestinians communicated…
The Epistemological Development of Education
Epistemological Development of Education
Domus, Dream, Domicide
This article explores the way in which bushfires challenge our theoretical frameworks for comprehending both ‘home’ and ‘home destruction’. Disaster scholarship has long argued that the very idea of ‘natural disaster’ remains inadequate as a term of description for the entanglements of the human and natural – acutely so for the entanglements that are at the heart of a changing climate and its consequences. The article proposes a new conception of…
Revisiting memoricide
Memoricide, it seems, is memory made rubble and ash. Its emblematic imagery is of scenes many would find familiar: burning ash-snow from Sarajevo’s Vijecnica ; satellite images of Palmyra’s missing structures; the exploding Bamiyan Buddhas. Physically altering space is understandably a highly visible tactic. However, when explicitly built into definitions, the emphasis on physical destruction has been on specific forms targeted: archival institut…
Recognition and relationship-building
The role played by communities in all phases of disasters is critical, yet genuine collaboration between community-led groups and disaster management agencies remains scarce. This paper examines the dynamics of these interactions in the aftermath of a catastrophic flood and landslip event in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia, in 2022. Using qualitative data from 41 interviews undertaken one to two years after the disaster, …
Using trauma-informed approaches
Climate disasters like floods and bushfires have increased in frequency and intensity in Australia. For many, these disasters are associated with trauma. In order to further our understanding of the impacts of these disasters on individuals and communities, we need to conduct research, but the research design and implementation need to be sensitive to that trauma and support the safety of both participants and researchers. This paper provides a d…
From Cadi to the Domain
Exploring Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens, known as Cadi and Wahganmuggalee to the Cadigal people, I trace how this landscape was ‘made strange’ through the colonial introduction of foreign flora species and the consequent material upheaval of space. But the modern Gardens are also a complex mnemonic landscape. Sculptures, art installations and guided tours attest to Cadigal heritage and cultural practices in a broader landscape that also includes…
Enablers of community‐led action in Australian climate disasters
This study explores how disaster‐impacted communities in New South Wales, Australia, mobilised during and after the bushfire crisis of 2019–20 and multiple catastrophic floods between 2020 and 2022. Interviews were conducted across three regions: Northern Rivers; Blue Mountains; and Hawkesbury. Our findings illuminate how community‐led actions are driven by a broad range of ‘local knowledges’, based in and organised through long‐standing networks…
Climate-related Planned Relocation as Domicide
This study critically examines how climate-related planned relocation constitutes domicide -the destruction of home extending beyond the physical or material sense. We develop a conceptual framework to understand how domicide unfolds gradually through disruptions to material-economic, socio-communal, ecological-geographic, and identity-cultural dimensions, driven by institutional logics prioritising physical safety and economic development while …
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · History (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Emergency management (3 works)