Matthew Clarke
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3696832 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Matthew Clarke |
| PRENOMES | Matthew |
| SOBRENOME | Clarke |
| ASSINATURA | CLARKE M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8750-4521 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 83 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 212 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 77 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 6 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Meso-level education governance
Academic research has increasingly prioritised learner-centred reform, often overlooking the political dynamics that shape how reforms unfold. Large-scale change frequently falters because technocratic approaches fail to account for these complex political processes, while neoliberal, performance-driven agendas reinforce top-down reforms that marginalise the cultural and relational dimensions essential for meaningful improvement. This article exa…
Do White Saviour perceptions reduce charitable giving? Evidence from five online studies
International aid charities face a dilemma by virtue of the White Saviour: Appeal photos of Caucasian helpers in Global South settings can build a bridge to donors or cause donor resentment with changing social norms. We examine four resulting empirical questions using a series of online studies: What is the White Saviour? How do White Saviour perceptions arise from charitable appeals? And what is their effect on both donation intentions and beha…
Religion and Development Work
More than eight out of ten people self-identify as holding religious beliefs. The majority of these people are located in the Global South. Since the middle of the last century, the international community has focused on addressing poverty and improving living standards of the most vulnerable, most often through international aid. This ‘development project’ has involved national and local governments as well as multilateral and non-state actors. …
Immunitas and (un)desirable teacher knowledge in teacher education
Since the latter half of the 20th century many political efforts and initiatives have been launched to ensure that teacher education provides teachers with a positive (orderly) knowledge base. This includes things like professional teacher standards and notions like ‘best practices’ and ‘evidence‐based practice’. Building on the work of Esposito and with inspiration from psychoanalytic theory, we argue that today's educational policy can be seen …
Impacts of child sponsorship communications
Child sponsorship programmes often seek to establish a personal relationship between a sponsor and child through the exchange of letters, photos, and sometimes gifts. This paper examines the impact of these activities using data from communities supported by World Vision in Georgia, Ethiopia, Peru, Senegal, and Sri Lanka. Findings indicate that some types of communications were associated with higher levels of psychosocial wellbeing. While findin…
Mastering humanitarianism? A survey of postgraduate humanitarian courses
Humanitarian events are increasing globally, both in number and intensity. In response, the international community spends approximately US$30 billion annually to alleviate both the immediate consequences of these climatic, geographic, and human-induced events but also to support mitigation and recovery. Over the past two decades, the humanitarian sector has increasingly professionalised. One under-studied aspect of this professionalisation is an…
Narrating the South Pacific in and Beyond Great Power Politics
First-Run Syndication and Unwired Networks in the 1980s
This article historically examines the boom in US first-run syndication during the 1980s. At this time, Hollywood-based major distributors eagerly entered this market, thanks to regulatory and industrial changes, in an effort to create competing unwired television networks. The article presents a contextual history to describe these changes and uses two sustained case studies—Viacom’s Superboy and Buena Vista TV’s DuckTales—to more closely examin…
Epistemic Violence and the Rise of the Pseudo‐Secular Islamic FBO in the Age of the ‘Religious Turn’ in Development
Over the past two to three decades, there has been a significant shift within the development sector. Previously considered ‘taboo’, religiously inspired Faith Based Organisations (FBOs) have become increasingly welcomed and involved as partners and collaborators with international financial institutions and leading aid donors. However, while a place has been set at the table this has not been an equitable one. Rather, there is still the expectat…
Politics as a transitory vocation
A career in parliament is inherently a transitory vocation, and parliamentary turnover is critical for a healthy democracy. Yet many MPs fail to prepare for the time when they must leave parliament. This lack of preparedness exacerbates the challenges of post-parliamentary life. Drawing on research conducted with former members of the Parliament of Victoria, Australia, this article reports on the experiences of MPs leaving parliament. Former MPs,…
Education and the Fantasies of Neoliberalism
Education and the Fantasies of Neoliberalism revitalizes conversations about the nature and purpose of education in a global context characterized by concerns about quality and equity in education, reflecting wider economic and political anxieties around declining productivity and social inclusion. The book illustrates how Lacanian psychoanalytic theory offers a conceptual vocabulary for exposing and critiquing the fantasmatic nature of policy an…
A Potent Fuel? Faith Identity and Development Impact in World Vision Community Programming
This paper explores the role of faith identity on impact in development by looking at the programming of a major international faith‐based development organisation (FBDO). It argues that faith identity rests not only in the internal projected identity of the FBDO but also on perceptions of that identity in the community, highlighting the role context plays in the formulation of faith identity and its impact. Secondly, the paper argues that FBDOs …
The Principles and Ethics of Including Children with Disability in Child Research
This paper provides a set of principles and ethics, developed in collaboration between Pacific‐ and Australian‐based researchers, to guide research practice in a project enabling the self‐reporting of children with disability in Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea (PNG). The paper presents both a summary of academic literature relating to these principles and ethics, as well as their succinct ‘translation’ into a set of action statements for researchers…
Beyond Gay
This essay considers Denton Welch’s autobiographical novel In Youth is Pleasure (1945) as a queer response to the classic bildungsroman design. It argues, first, that the novel exists structurally within Welch’s oeuvre as an instance of failed development or maturity, evidencing his inability to move beyond the ‘precious’, adolescent stories of his youth. I turn in this context to consider In Youth is Pleasure as a novel that is itself about immo…
Understanding disasters
Over the past decade, humanitarian events affected on average 120 million people annually. Whilst many of these events are human-induced, a large number of the 400 or so complex humanitarian emergencies that require international response each year are natural. Such events result in loss of life, injure and maim survivors, destroy infrastructure and give rise to psycho-social trauma. Aid agencies working alongside affected communities must addres…
Building a humanitarian sector career
Each year over the last decade, there were on average 400 humanitarian disasters or emergencies, killing more than 100,000 people and affecting a further 200 million. Such humanitarian events require immediate responses as well as effective longer-term activities to aid communities recover. The global response is now valued over US$27 billion annually. More than half a million people are estimated to work in this sector, the majority being locall…
Questions to Help Understand Religion and Development in Vanuatu
Across the Pacific, Christianity features prominently in both the modern history as well as the contemporary social-political experiences of these countries. In Vanuatu, self-professed Christian religious belief approaches one hundred per cent of the population. It is clear that religion in Vanuatu has important effects on development processes, social services, institutions, and social networks. Yet, despite this self-evident close integration, …
The dragon versus the kangaroo
China's engagement within the South Pacific has increased dramatically in recent years mainly through significant increases in development assistance. Development assistance is provided to address humanitarian needs but to also secure national interests of the donor. This paper examines the extent and nature of Australia's and China's influence in Vanuatu from the perspectives of the Ni-Vanuatu people using new data. China is perceived as having …
Understanding Islamic aid flows to enhance global humanitarian assistance
Local Agency and Complex Power Shifts in the Era of Belt and Road
Beijing’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has exacerbated a longstanding concern about the power shift from the West to China. The existing debate, however, is both motivated by, and fixated on, the strategic concerns of and about great powers (and to a lesser extent, middle powers). What is often overlooked is the concerns and voices of smaller countries and contested regions where some of the power-shift symptoms allegedly unfold, such…
The morbid dance of ideology on the scaffold
Sacred Places and Sustainable Development
Religious beliefs are not only profound, some of them are also pervasive, persistent and persuasive. It follows that the cultural and religious experiences of communities often play a central role in determining their worldviews and the ways in which they understand their own circumstances. These worldviews, it follows, can thereby assist in providing narratives for community development in places that have particular meaning to these communities…
Listening to the voices of children
In developing countries, children with disability lack basic services yet their voices are missing in the development agenda. This article reports on research to investigate the human rights needs and priorities of 89 children with disability aged 5–18 years in Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea. An accessible and inclusive research method was developed to enable children with diverse disabilities to communicate their own views via visual, audio and ta…
Fantasy, nostalgia and ideology
Development and Religion
Contents: Foreword by Katherine Marshall Preface 1. The Religion - Development Nexus 2. Hinduism - Dharma and Active Citizenship 3. Buddhism - A Middle Way for Development 4. Judaism - A Cry for Justice 5. Christianity - Development as an Option for the Poor 6. Islam: Equality and Action 7. Conclusion References Index
The Ethico‐politics of Teacher Identity
Identity is a contemporary buzzword in education, referencing the individual and the social, the personal and the political, self and other. Following Maggie MacLure, we can think of identity in terms of teachers ‘arguing for themselves’, or giving an account of themselves. Yet in the wake of poststructuralism's radical de‐centering of the subject and its highlighting of a number of impediments to agency, we might well ask how teachers are to giv…
Cruel optimism’
This study provides a critical exploration of the way teachers’ attachment to notions of professionalism may facilitate a process whereby teachers find themselves obliged to enact centralised and local education policies that they do not believe in but are required to implement. The study argues that professionalism involves an entanglement of (past) occupational and (present) organisational discourses and that the remainders of the former facili…
Understanding faith-based organizations
Organizations with a faith basis play a prominent, sometimes dominant, role within the development sector. In the latter half of the twentieth century, many faith-based organizations (FBOs) – motivated by their religious faith and beliefs – began to work beyond their own borders to improve the material well-being of the world’s poor. However, despite the significant presence of FBOs within the arena of aid and development, little agreement exists…
Talkin’ ‘bout a revolution
This paper provides a critical analysis of the Australian government’s education revolution policy as promulgated in the media release document, Quality Education: The Case for an Education Revolution in our Schools. It seeks to problematize the government’s claim to marry quality and equity, via an analysis of the discursive strategies of the Australian government’s revolution talk. My analysis draws on the work of political theorists Jason Glyn…
The impact of influenza epidemics on mortality
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of recent influenza epidemics on mortality in the United States and to develop an index for comparing the severity of individual epidemics. METHODS: A cyclical regression model was applied to weekly national vital statistics from 1972 through 1992 to estimate excesses in pneumonia and influenza mortality and all-cause mortality for each influenza season. Each season was categorized on…
Motivation as Ethical Self-Formation
Motivation is a concept more frequently found in venues concerned with educational psychology than in ones concerned with educational philosophy. Under the influence of psychology, and its typically dualistic way of making sense of the world, motivation in education has tended to be viewed in dichotomous terms, for example, as intrinsic or extrinsic in character. Such psychology-derived theories of educational motivation operate within a dichotom…
Evaluating land administration projects in developing countries
The Relationship between Economic Development and Social Welfare
Dilemmas of identity, language and culture in higher education in China
A vast array of cultural traditions and languages can be found among China's 55 legally recognized minority nationalities. Mother tongue education has been the norm for several of the large minority groups (namely, Koreans, Kazaks, Mongolians, Tibetans, and Uyghurs) for most of the time since 1949. This article, which is based on empirical data, reports a study of a group of academics with a Uyghur background at Xinjiang University. The findings …
Politics as a transitory vocation
A career in parliament is inherently a transitory vocation, and parliamentary turnover is critical for a healthy democracy. Yet many MPs fail to prepare for the time when they must leave parliament. This lack of preparedness exacerbates the challenges of post-parliamentary life. Drawing on research conducted with former members of the Parliament of Victoria, Australia, this article reports on the experiences of MPs leaving parliament. Former MPs,…
The sublime objects of education policy
Quality and equity are touchstones of education policy in the twenty-first century in a range of global contexts. On the surface, this seems fitting: after all, who could object to more quality and greater equity in education? Yet what do we mean by quality and equity, and how are they related? This paper draws on Lacanian psychoanalytic theory to argue that not only are quality and equity far more complex than education policy formulations typic…
Good works and God's work
Eighty per cent of the world's population profess religious faith, making religious belief a common human characteristic found in all cultures and societies. Within development studies' literature and practice, religion and faith have been largely ignored or misunderstood. While religious organisations are primarily concerned with providing spiritual leadership, an interest in the physical welfare of their communities is also a core aspect of the…
The discursive construction of interpersonal relations in an online community of practice
Local Agency and Complex Power Shifts in the Era of Belt and Road
Beijing’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has exacerbated a longstanding concern about the power shift from the West to China. The existing debate, however, is both motivated by, and fixated on, the strategic concerns of and about great powers (and to a lesser extent, middle powers). What is often overlooked is the concerns and voices of smaller countries and contested regions where some of the power-shift symptoms allegedly unfold, such…
Domains of faith impact
Increasing interest in faith-based international development organisations (FBOs) recently has improved understanding of these agencies. One reason for complex, often contradictory findings is the lack of frameworks analysing the interactions of worldviews on organisational structures, processes, and behaviours of agencies, and development outcomes. We utilise Lincoln's (2003. Holy Terrors: Thinking about Religion after September 11. Chicago: Uni…
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in the Asia‐Pacific region
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a set of international development targets agreed to by members of the United Nations in 2000. The goals aim to improve many of the dimensions of extreme poverty and are to be achieved by 2015. This paper provides an overview of the issues relevant to the achievement of the MDGs in the Asia‐Pacific region. The paper begins by discussing the critiques of the MDGs before assessing whether countries in the…
Achieving behaviour change
n\t\t\t\t\tNGOs have played an important role worldwide in the fight to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS through achieving behaviour change. NGOs have often been at the forefront of innovative changes, influencing government and international programming activities. This paper identifies and analyses the evolution of the HIV/AIDS programmes of one NGO in Thailand over a period of ten years. Three generations of programming are identified both throu…
The development impact of remittances to Nicaragua
Workers' remittances represent a resource flow from rich to poor countries. The global value of remittances has risen sharply to over US$100 billion a year. This represents the second largest external income source for developing countries behind foreign direct investment (FDI), and far outstrips official development assistance (ODA). Remittances to developing countries are becoming increasingly important as other sources of external income decli…
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Interventions in the Pacific
Reconciling custom, citizenship and colonial legacies
Nation‐building remains a key challenge in Vanuatu. From the origins of this new nation in 1980, it was clear that creating a unifying sense of national identity and political community from multiple languages and diverse traditional cultures would be difficult. This paper presents new survey and focus group data on attitudes to national identity among tertiary students in Vanuatu. The survey identifies areas of common attitudes towards nationali…
The Determinants of Economic Growth Versus Genuine Progress in South Korea
Churches, mosques, and condoms
n\t\t\t\t\tThere are an estimated 33 million people living with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) worldwide. While national education campaigns have been successful in providing a broad platform of awareness of HIV and AIDS, within some countries faith-based organisations (FBOs) have assumed an important role in educating and supporting local communities to reduce HIV transmission. This article conceptualises the successful characteristics o…
National account measures and sustainability objectives
A dominant objective within the public policies of all SE Asian countries has been the achievement of economic growth. The issue of sustainability has serious implications for this policy objective. Pursuit of economic growth is concerned solely with the present, whilst sustainability is concerned with ensuring the current generation meets its present needs without threatening future generations' ability to do likewise. National accounts, such as…
Do White Saviour perceptions reduce charitable giving? Evidence from five online studies
International aid charities face a dilemma by virtue of the White Saviour: Appeal photos of Caucasian helpers in Global South settings can build a bridge to donors or cause donor resentment with changing social norms. We examine four resulting empirical questions using a series of online studies: What is the White Saviour? How do White Saviour perceptions arise from charitable appeals? And what is their effect on both donation intentions and beha…
Epistemic Violence and the Rise of the Pseudo‐Secular Islamic FBO in the Age of the ‘Religious Turn’ in Development
Over the past two to three decades, there has been a significant shift within the development sector. Previously considered ‘taboo’, religiously inspired Faith Based Organisations (FBOs) have become increasingly welcomed and involved as partners and collaborators with international financial institutions and leading aid donors. However, while a place has been set at the table this has not been an equitable one. Rather, there is still the expectat…
The impact of influenza epidemics on mortality
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of recent influenza epidemics on mortality in the United States and to develop an index for comparing the severity of individual epidemics. METHODS: A cyclical regression model was applied to weekly national vital statistics from 1972 through 1992 to estimate excesses in pneumonia and influenza mortality and all-cause mortality for each influenza season. Each season was categorized on…
The epidemiology of necrotizing enterocolitis infant mortality in the United States
OBJECTIVES: This study examined trends and risk factors for infant mortality associated with necrotizing enterocolitis in the United States. METHODS: Necrotizing enterocolitis-associated deaths and infant mortality rates from 1979 through 1992 were determined by means of US multiple cause-of-death and linked birth/infant death data. RESULTS: Annual necrotizing enterocolitis infant mortality rates decreased from 1979 through 1986 but increased the…
Achieving behaviour change
n\t\t\t\t\tNGOs have played an important role worldwide in the fight to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS through achieving behaviour change. NGOs have often been at the forefront of innovative changes, influencing government and international programming activities. This paper identifies and analyses the evolution of the HIV/AIDS programmes of one NGO in Thailand over a period of ten years. Three generations of programming are identified both throu…
The Relationship between Economic Development and Social Welfare
The Professionalization of Inshore Fishers
Making long-term economic growth more sustainable
Diminishing and negative welfare returns of economic growth
The relationship between national income and health
The importance of good health of a population is crucial when determining social welfare. A new health-adjusted national income indicator that explores the relationships between economic growth, health and social welfare in Bangkok, Thailand from 1975 to 1999 is applied. This new approach to social welfare analysis is based on normative social choice theory, cost-benefit and systems analysis and is called (new) 3 welfare economics. This paper arg…
National account measures and sustainability objectives
A dominant objective within the public policies of all SE Asian countries has been the achievement of economic growth. The issue of sustainability has serious implications for this policy objective. Pursuit of economic growth is concerned solely with the present, whilst sustainability is concerned with ensuring the current generation meets its present needs without threatening future generations' ability to do likewise. National accounts, such as…
The development impact of remittances to Nicaragua
Workers' remittances represent a resource flow from rich to poor countries. The global value of remittances has risen sharply to over US$100 billion a year. This represents the second largest external income source for developing countries behind foreign direct investment (FDI), and far outstrips official development assistance (ODA). Remittances to developing countries are becoming increasingly important as other sources of external income decli…
Measuring Human Well-being in Thailand
Numerous methods exist within the literature to measure human well-being. A limitation of some approaches however is that they fail to explicitly consider society's views, choices and preferences on how human well-being should be defined. It is possible though to explicitly incorporate society's value judgements in defining and measuring human well-being through normative social choice theory. Normative social choice theory reflects the views, op…
Understanding Human Well-being
With more than a billion people living on less than one dollar per day, human well-being is a core issue for both researchers and policymakers. The Millennium Development Goals are a powerful reminder of this point. We now know more about human well-being and the related concepts of poverty and inequality than ever before, as a result of many conceptual and methodological advances and better data. Yet despite this progress, the vitality of underl…
Language Policy and Language Teacher Education in the United Arab Emirates
Sustainable Welfare in the Asia-Pacific
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in the Asia‐Pacific region
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a set of international development targets agreed to by members of the United Nations in 2000. The goals aim to improve many of the dimensions of extreme poverty and are to be achieved by 2015. This paper provides an overview of the issues relevant to the achievement of the MDGs in the Asia‐Pacific region. The paper begins by discussing the critiques of the MDGs before assessing whether countries in the…
Evaluating land administration projects in developing countries
The Ethico‐politics of Teacher Identity
Identity is a contemporary buzzword in education, referencing the individual and the social, the personal and the political, self and other. Following Maggie MacLure, we can think of identity in terms of teachers ‘arguing for themselves’, or giving an account of themselves. Yet in the wake of poststructuralism's radical de‐centering of the subject and its highlighting of a number of impediments to agency, we might well ask how teachers are to giv…
The Millennium Development Goals and Beyond
This book examines how international aid donors and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) can assist countries in the Asia-Pacific region achieve the Millennium Development Goals. The book examines th
The Strict Maze of Media Tie-In Novels
This article examines the production of media tie-in novelizations in the context of contemporary network television and their attempts to expand content outside of the confines of traditional programming. Following a production of culture approach, the article combines interviews with tie-in authors with textual analysis of the texts they produce. Through a thorough examination of the drafting of a series of novels based on the American Broadcas…
Lost and Mastermind Narration
ABC’s Lost is indicative of a recent trend in television programming that exploits seriality, information multiplicity and real virtuality. While these aesthetic innovations have arguably facilitated the franchising of this and other programs, it has also created several textual problems around the issues of canon, authority and narration. In this article, I illustrate how Lost uses the strategies of what I call mastermind narration to rearticula…
Over the border and under the radar
Active citizens can become a powerful driver of development by holding to popular account those who traditionally wield decision-making power at the local and national levels. Active citizenship draws from a long history of understanding the importance of community participation and ownership of development interventions. However, in spite of its inherent strengths, active citizenship may not be a possible (or optimal) outcome in all circumstance…
Guest editors' introduction
The discursive construction of interpersonal relations in an online community of practice
Post-Disaster Reconstruction
Preface - Silence can be Deafening and Emptiness can be Blinding Introduction 1. Deconstructing Aceh's Reconstruction Part I: The Context of Reconstruction 2. The Role of Islamic Law (Shari'a) in Post-tsunami Reconstruction 3. Political Reconstruction in Aceh 4. Reconstruction through Participatory Practice? Part II: Case Studies 5. Towards a Model of Constructive Engagement between Aid Deliverers and Recipients in a Disaster Situation: The Case …
The end of economic growth? A contracting threshold hypothesis
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