Janice Newton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673511 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janice Newton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janice |
| FAMILY NAME | Newton |
| SIGNATURE | NEWTON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Federation University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Two Victorian corroborees
Soon after separation of Port Phillip District from New South Wales, 2 in 1851 and 1852, Guardian of Aborigines William Thomas witnessed and recorded new corroborees at Moonee Ponds, west of Melbourne, and on the northern bank of the Yarra. The first ceremony in 1851 was performed by the Wathawurrung from Leigh Creek, Buninyong and Bacchus Marsh and a few Bunwurrung from Melbourne. A leader, Ninggollobin, told Thomas that it was a new 'Sunday' or…
The Formative Decades of the CPSA
Drawing on the CPSA's archival records, this article explores the origins of CPSA and the patterns of representation in its founding decades. We focus on the pre-World War II years, when disciplinary boundaries were fluid and scholars sought to shift policy discussion from moral reform to reform guided by science and professionalism. The CPSA's founding vision aspired to engage “typical citizens” in discussion of current issues. Despite the ambit…
Rural Autochthony? The Rejection of an Aboriginal Placename in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
This article addresses the question of why the name 'Mullawallah', advanced by local Wada wurrung for a new suburb in the Ballarat area, was contested and rejected by residents. It argues that the intersection between corporate profit, government policy and meaning-based issues of belonging should be highlighted for a deeper understanding of practices around place naming. The contextual conditions regarding the democratisation of place-naming pol…
Procreative and performative kinship among residents in Victorian caravan parks
Recent senior anthropologists have heralded a new era where performative social and cultural kinship may eclipse procreational ‘biological kinship’ in contemporary western society. This article takes research on permanent residents in caravan parks as an extreme case that may act as an exemplar for future western contexts. Between 2003 and 2008, interviews with caravan‐park managers, 50 interviews with park residents and short field stays at 17 o…
Realigning the Sacred and Secular among a Marginalised Population of Caravan Park Residents
This article addresses calls for qualitative research into the realignment of the sacred and secular among contemporary Western individuals, as well as considering the signi?cance of the economic and social marginality of caravan-park living on this. The 50 Victorian residents interviewed did not exhibit the enhanced spirituality experienced globally among some poor communities. Rather, the sample would seem particularly secular, albeit softened …
Rethinking Appropriation of the Indigenous
The aim of this paper is to set out the effects of romanticism on attitudes of the New Age movement to Indigenous Aboriginal Australian culture and people. Past scholarship has clearly expounded insensitive and exploitative New Age appropriation of Indigenous culture and emphasized inequalities in the power to represent one's own group. Essentialist, romantic stereotypes detract from deep understanding of Indigenous Australians, and negotiated so…
Reversing housing and health pathways? Evidence from Victorian caravan parks
The aim of this article is to highlight a link between housing and health that may have been underestimated: the pathway from poor health towards marginal housing in caravan parks. Almost all research on links between housing and health is derived from large-scale surveys and correlational analyses which suggest a causation path from poor housing to poor health. The big picture of such studies may in fact disguise a reality for a smaller group wh…
Technology and Cooperative Labour Among the Orokaiva
In human history technology has had an obvious in fluence on the labour process and division of labour. This paper looks at the impact of introduced technology on the size and composition of labour units required for productive work in Koropata, Papua New Guinea. Although new tools and weapons have made smaller working units more feasible for gardening, hunting and fishing, a network of kin is necessary to ensure long term production in the socie…
Emotional attachment to home and security for permanent residents in caravan parks in Melbourne
The aim of this article is to explore emotional attachment to home of permanent residents in caravan parks. Analysis of a small number of life histories, with specific probes around matters of belonging to home, community and place, reveals deeper insight when viewed through theoretical lenses provided by the work of Giddens on ontological security and the ideas around emotion and home provided by housing researchers such as Clapham. The explorat…
Dunnies and Australian culture
In 2002, Dunnedoo, in New South Wales, by-passed the graceful imagery of the Aboriginal meaning of their home, 'Black Swan', to propose a giant 'dunny' as a tourist attraction for their town. This study explores why Australians have a particular relationship to the dunny and, in doing so, attempts to merge some theoretical insights of oral historiography and symbolic anthropology
Childlessness and Women Managers
Childlessness is increasing and might reflect acceptance of diversity, scope for individual choice, and a creative 'social imaginary' about being feminine without being a mother. Childlessness also appears to have a contextual manifestation arising from the recognition that the long hours work culture in many organizations does not support appropriate parenting. A qualitative study of Australian managers reveals the contradictory discourses of ch…
Permanent residents in caravan parks, managers and the persistence of the social
Until recently, permanent residents in caravan parks were often absent from discussions about homelessness and housing in the Australian context. When permanent residency was recognised and legislated for in the 1980s, efforts were made to ensure scope for standard community infrastructure such as roads, sewerage and community gathering places. Although the number of long term caravan parks in Australia has recently decreased, on the edge of Melb…
Motivation & Success
In this paper factors that motivate women to take up and stay in small businesses in rural and regional areas are analysed in relation to research undertaken in 2001 with 359 women from the Western Region of Victoria. A modification of a typology of business motivation developed by Baines and Wheelock (1998) is posited to acknowledge the variety of motivations and aspirations operating among the women. There is a strong theme of family and person…
Student Poverty at the University of Ballarat
This article draws together the findings of two recent studies at the University of Ballarat which suggest that poverty is experienced among a considerable minority of students. In a pilot study of 54 students and a phenomenological study of 17 students, different ways of measuring poverty were considered: the Poverty Line, dependence on a government allowance, cultural criteria and self‐perception. It was found that undertaking part‐time work fa…
Rejecting Suburban Identity on the Fringes of Melbourne
This paper concerns a community, Valinda, on the suburban fringe of Melbourne. It considers the processes by which the community has acted to reject the perceived attributes of suburbanisation. Optimistic aims of progress in the 1940s and 1950s have been replaced by more nostalgic points of view in the 1970s and 1980s, a transition I document in a number of different areas. The paper concludes with an examination of key agents in the anti‐suburba…
Domesticating the bush
The Feminist Challenge to the Canadian Left 1900-1918
Dreams of Equality
Canadian women on the political left in the first half of the twentieth century fought with varying degrees of commitment for women's rights. Women's dreams of equality were in part a vision of economic and class equality, though they also represented profound desires for equality with men - both within their own parties and in the larger society. In both the Communist Party of Canada and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, a male-dominated…
Women And Modern Marriage Among The Orokaivans
Childlessness and Women Managers
Childlessness is increasing and might reflect acceptance of diversity, scope for individual choice, and a creative 'social imaginary' about being feminine without being a mother. Childlessness also appears to have a contextual manifestation arising from the recognition that the long hours work culture in many organizations does not support appropriate parenting. A qualitative study of Australian managers reveals the contradictory discourses of ch…
Emotional attachment to home and security for permanent residents in caravan parks in Melbourne
The aim of this article is to explore emotional attachment to home of permanent residents in caravan parks. Analysis of a small number of life histories, with specific probes around matters of belonging to home, community and place, reveals deeper insight when viewed through theoretical lenses provided by the work of Giddens on ontological security and the ideas around emotion and home provided by housing researchers such as Clapham. The explorat…
Dreams of Equality
Canadian women on the political left in the first half of the twentieth century fought with varying degrees of commitment for women's rights. Women's dreams of equality were in part a vision of economic and class equality, though they also represented profound desires for equality with men - both within their own parties and in the larger society. In both the Communist Party of Canada and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, a male-dominated…
Rethinking Appropriation of the Indigenous
The aim of this paper is to set out the effects of romanticism on attitudes of the New Age movement to Indigenous Aboriginal Australian culture and people. Past scholarship has clearly expounded insensitive and exploitative New Age appropriation of Indigenous culture and emphasized inequalities in the power to represent one's own group. Essentialist, romantic stereotypes detract from deep understanding of Indigenous Australians, and negotiated so…
The Formative Decades of the CPSA
Drawing on the CPSA's archival records, this article explores the origins of CPSA and the patterns of representation in its founding decades. We focus on the pre-World War II years, when disciplinary boundaries were fluid and scholars sought to shift policy discussion from moral reform to reform guided by science and professionalism. The CPSA's founding vision aspired to engage “typical citizens” in discussion of current issues. Despite the ambit…
Permanent residents in caravan parks, managers and the persistence of the social
Until recently, permanent residents in caravan parks were often absent from discussions about homelessness and housing in the Australian context. When permanent residency was recognised and legislated for in the 1980s, efforts were made to ensure scope for standard community infrastructure such as roads, sewerage and community gathering places. Although the number of long term caravan parks in Australia has recently decreased, on the edge of Melb…
Two Victorian corroborees
Soon after separation of Port Phillip District from New South Wales, 2 in 1851 and 1852, Guardian of Aborigines William Thomas witnessed and recorded new corroborees at Moonee Ponds, west of Melbourne, and on the northern bank of the Yarra. The first ceremony in 1851 was performed by the Wathawurrung from Leigh Creek, Buninyong and Bacchus Marsh and a few Bunwurrung from Melbourne. A leader, Ninggollobin, told Thomas that it was a new 'Sunday' or…
Student Poverty at the University of Ballarat
This article draws together the findings of two recent studies at the University of Ballarat which suggest that poverty is experienced among a considerable minority of students. In a pilot study of 54 students and a phenomenological study of 17 students, different ways of measuring poverty were considered: the Poverty Line, dependence on a government allowance, cultural criteria and self‐perception. It was found that undertaking part‐time work fa…
Domesticating the bush
The Feminist Challenge to the Canadian Left 1900-1918
Women And Modern Marriage Among The Orokaivans
Dreams of Equality
Canadian women on the political left in the first half of the twentieth century fought with varying degrees of commitment for women's rights. Women's dreams of equality were in part a vision of economic and class equality, though they also represented profound desires for equality with men - both within their own parties and in the larger society. In both the Communist Party of Canada and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, a male-dominated…
The Feminist Challenge to the Canadian Left 1900-1918
Domesticating the bush
Rejecting Suburban Identity on the Fringes of Melbourne
This paper concerns a community, Valinda, on the suburban fringe of Melbourne. It considers the processes by which the community has acted to reject the perceived attributes of suburbanisation. Optimistic aims of progress in the 1940s and 1950s have been replaced by more nostalgic points of view in the 1970s and 1980s, a transition I document in a number of different areas. The paper concludes with an examination of key agents in the anti‐suburba…
Student Poverty at the University of Ballarat
This article draws together the findings of two recent studies at the University of Ballarat which suggest that poverty is experienced among a considerable minority of students. In a pilot study of 54 students and a phenomenological study of 17 students, different ways of measuring poverty were considered: the Poverty Line, dependence on a government allowance, cultural criteria and self‐perception. It was found that undertaking part‐time work fa…
Motivation & Success
In this paper factors that motivate women to take up and stay in small businesses in rural and regional areas are analysed in relation to research undertaken in 2001 with 359 women from the Western Region of Victoria. A modification of a typology of business motivation developed by Baines and Wheelock (1998) is posited to acknowledge the variety of motivations and aspirations operating among the women. There is a strong theme of family and person…
Childlessness and Women Managers
Childlessness is increasing and might reflect acceptance of diversity, scope for individual choice, and a creative 'social imaginary' about being feminine without being a mother. Childlessness also appears to have a contextual manifestation arising from the recognition that the long hours work culture in many organizations does not support appropriate parenting. A qualitative study of Australian managers reveals the contradictory discourses of ch…
Permanent residents in caravan parks, managers and the persistence of the social
Until recently, permanent residents in caravan parks were often absent from discussions about homelessness and housing in the Australian context. When permanent residency was recognised and legislated for in the 1980s, efforts were made to ensure scope for standard community infrastructure such as roads, sewerage and community gathering places. Although the number of long term caravan parks in Australia has recently decreased, on the edge of Melb…
Dunnies and Australian culture
In 2002, Dunnedoo, in New South Wales, by-passed the graceful imagery of the Aboriginal meaning of their home, 'Black Swan', to propose a giant 'dunny' as a tourist attraction for their town. This study explores why Australians have a particular relationship to the dunny and, in doing so, attempts to merge some theoretical insights of oral historiography and symbolic anthropology
Emotional attachment to home and security for permanent residents in caravan parks in Melbourne
The aim of this article is to explore emotional attachment to home of permanent residents in caravan parks. Analysis of a small number of life histories, with specific probes around matters of belonging to home, community and place, reveals deeper insight when viewed through theoretical lenses provided by the work of Giddens on ontological security and the ideas around emotion and home provided by housing researchers such as Clapham. The explorat…
Technology and Cooperative Labour Among the Orokaiva
In human history technology has had an obvious in fluence on the labour process and division of labour. This paper looks at the impact of introduced technology on the size and composition of labour units required for productive work in Koropata, Papua New Guinea. Although new tools and weapons have made smaller working units more feasible for gardening, hunting and fishing, a network of kin is necessary to ensure long term production in the socie…
Reversing housing and health pathways? Evidence from Victorian caravan parks
The aim of this article is to highlight a link between housing and health that may have been underestimated: the pathway from poor health towards marginal housing in caravan parks. Almost all research on links between housing and health is derived from large-scale surveys and correlational analyses which suggest a causation path from poor housing to poor health. The big picture of such studies may in fact disguise a reality for a smaller group wh…
Realigning the Sacred and Secular among a Marginalised Population of Caravan Park Residents
This article addresses calls for qualitative research into the realignment of the sacred and secular among contemporary Western individuals, as well as considering the signi?cance of the economic and social marginality of caravan-park living on this. The 50 Victorian residents interviewed did not exhibit the enhanced spirituality experienced globally among some poor communities. Rather, the sample would seem particularly secular, albeit softened …
Rethinking Appropriation of the Indigenous
The aim of this paper is to set out the effects of romanticism on attitudes of the New Age movement to Indigenous Aboriginal Australian culture and people. Past scholarship has clearly expounded insensitive and exploitative New Age appropriation of Indigenous culture and emphasized inequalities in the power to represent one's own group. Essentialist, romantic stereotypes detract from deep understanding of Indigenous Australians, and negotiated so…
Procreative and performative kinship among residents in Victorian caravan parks
Recent senior anthropologists have heralded a new era where performative social and cultural kinship may eclipse procreational ‘biological kinship’ in contemporary western society. This article takes research on permanent residents in caravan parks as an extreme case that may act as an exemplar for future western contexts. Between 2003 and 2008, interviews with caravan‐park managers, 50 interviews with park residents and short field stays at 17 o…
Rural Autochthony? The Rejection of an Aboriginal Placename in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
This article addresses the question of why the name 'Mullawallah', advanced by local Wada wurrung for a new suburb in the Ballarat area, was contested and rejected by residents. It argues that the intersection between corporate profit, government policy and meaning-based issues of belonging should be highlighted for a deeper understanding of practices around place naming. The contextual conditions regarding the democratisation of place-naming pol…
Two Victorian corroborees
Soon after separation of Port Phillip District from New South Wales, 2 in 1851 and 1852, Guardian of Aborigines William Thomas witnessed and recorded new corroborees at Moonee Ponds, west of Melbourne, and on the northern bank of the Yarra. The first ceremony in 1851 was performed by the Wathawurrung from Leigh Creek, Buninyong and Bacchus Marsh and a few Bunwurrung from Melbourne. A leader, Ninggollobin, told Thomas that it was a new 'Sunday' or…
The Formative Decades of the CPSA
Drawing on the CPSA's archival records, this article explores the origins of CPSA and the patterns of representation in its founding decades. We focus on the pre-World War II years, when disciplinary boundaries were fluid and scholars sought to shift policy discussion from moral reform to reform guided by science and professionalism. The CPSA's founding vision aspired to engage “typical citizens” in discussion of current issues. Despite the ambit…
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