J Webb
Biographic Data
| ID | 41827 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Webb |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Webb |
| SIGNATURE | WEBB J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Canberra |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4912-7021 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Learning From Failure for Doctoral Education
Failure in doctoral education is a taboo topic for many supervisors and doctoral candidates. Failure in thesis doctoral examination is hard to admit to or explain and has not been deeply investigated. We aim to disrupt the silence around failure in the doctoral context and generate new discussions relevant to doctoral education. We conduct a theoretical integrative review (TIR), which allows for the inclusion of primary research studies, along wi…
Tree mortality provides early warning sign of ecosystem functional transition in coastal freshwater forested wetlands
Globally, coastal forested wetlands are increasingly affected by relative sea level rise. However, the mechanisms underlying coastal wetland degradation remain unclear. Using the eddy covariance approach, we evaluated the long-term (i.e. 2009–2019) net ecosystem exchange (NEE), associated hydrology, and ecosystem structural changes in a forested wetland in North Carolina, USA. We quantified tree mortality in response to changes in hydrology. The …
Human-cattle interactions in PPNB and Early/Middle Bronze Age Cyprus: Integrating zooarchaeological and stable isotope data
Forecasting industrial induced tipping points in first nations’ land use in northeast British Columbia
This study examined the impact of industrial development on the land use practices of the Saulteau First Nations (SFN) in northeastern British Columbia. Using household surveys and spatial data analysis, we identify ex-ante the point(s) at which the cumulative environmental changes brought about by industrial activities induce tipping points in First Nations land use. Used here, tipping point is a threshold at which incremental or immediate ecolo…
The field of cultural production
Understanding Bourdieu
Bourdieu's work is formidable-the journey is tough. Follow this French foreign legion-take an apple, take a hanky-but take this book.Peter Beilharz , Professor of Sociology , La Trobe UniversityPierre Bourdieu's work on the sociology of culture and language, on practical reason, on education, on citizenship and the cultures of poverty, and on a range of other topics is now coming to be seen as one of the 20th century's most important contribution…
Understanding Foucault: A critical introduction
'An outstandingly good introduction to Foucault's work: lucid, measured, well organised, and covering this complex and in many ways heterogeneous body of work with remarkable thoroughness and ease.' - Professor John Frow, University of MelbourneMichel Foucault is now regarded as one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. He is known for his sensibility of critique and his commitment to movements for social change. His analysis o…
Biomechanical Effects of Carrying a Unilateral Load on Human Bipedalism, as Indicated by Footprint Trail Parameters
Globalisation and identity: The challenge of a globalising world
In this chapter we move from the postcolonial moment to the implications of economic and cultural globalisation, the tension between local and global imperatives, and artists’ responses to the effects of this new structure. Case studies address the personal histories, contexts and art of Kimsooja from South Korea; Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan from the Philippines; and Oscar Ho Hing-kay and John Young Zerunge from Hong Kong. All are articulate cri…
Art and human rights: Contemporary Asian contexts
Contemporary Asian art has had a remarkable impact on global art practice, and simultaneously has produced an enduring record of the history of that region from the moment of decolonisation to the present. Many artists in the region have a deep concern about what it means to be human and to contribute to the development of a better future for their communities as well as having a sustained commitment to making art. This book, written at the start…
Paleochannels and Patches: A Geoarchaeological Assessment of Silcrete Sources in the Cumberland Plain, Eastern Australia
Although Aboriginal occupation dates to the Pleistocene, silcrete artifacts only begin to dominate archaeological sites found in the Cumberland Plain of western Sydney, eastern Australia, during the mid‐late Holocene. These assemblages routinely include large numbers of backed artifacts. A geoarchaeological survey of five potential silcrete source areas found that silcrete is irregularly distributed along ridgelines within gravel patches that rep…
Examining the Creative Arts Doctorate in Australia: Implications for supervisors
One of the significant roles performed by the higher degree research (HDR) supervisor is to assist students to prepare their dissertations for examination. At a time when there is increasing interest in how the academy manages the transition of creative arts HDR candidates from apprentice to peer, there is also concern about the processes, practices, and policies associated with this largely under-researched area of research training. In a recent…
Canberra: Ideal city, imagined city
Canberra is now a century old, and locals are recovering from a year of centenary celebrations. One of the factors that emerged during this year was the gap between its two states of being: Canberra is both the national capit[al] – the ‘head’ of the nation; and at the same time a community's hometown. The centenary celebrations also generated discussion about its history, and the process of its development from territory, through ‘sheep paddock’,…
The visible and the invisible: Legacies of violence in contemporary Australian Aboriginal contexts
Australia's history begins over 50,000 years ago, but a little over 200 years ago, this history was officially erased through the violence of settlement/invasion, and a new history was written into the official record. This paper addresses the particular “invisibility” that has, since, been the experience for Indigenous Australians in two modes. The first is the invisibility that was introduced by the legal fiction of “terra nullius” and sustaine…
Making Worlds: Art, Words and Worlds
Introduction'The world' seems, often, to be more a proposition than a place, more a theory than a thing-in-itself. The fluidity of its meanings means that dominant discourse tends to focus on conceptual, economic and political, rather than on lived experience, phenomenological encounters, or multiple ways of being in what each person might consider 'the world'. How we might access plural experience of world is a point of considerable scholarly de…
Fiction and Testimony in Don DeLillo's Falling Man
The noun ‘testimony’ has a very strong relationship with truth. As a mode of evidentiary discourse, it is more closely associated with law and church than with the creative field. However, artists too may bear witness, or testify, to public events. One such artist, I suggest, is Don DeLillo, who gives an account of the 11 September 2001 disaster in New York and its aftermath in Falling Man: A Novel (2007). Though it is fiction, as signalled so cl…
Introduction: The Terms of Representation
Who Is Kevin, and Why Do We Need to Talk About Him? Lionel Shriver, Kevin, and the Problem of Representation
Eva, Franklin and Kevin exemplify not just the absence at the heart of discourses of 'the family' , but the emptiness of the rhetoric of freedom and democracy, and silence about the violence of global capital. Because of this I will leave aside the issues of the monstrous mother (the woman who cannot love her child) and the monstrous child (the son who refuses all social constraints), in favour of an investigation into the ways in which Kevin ill…
Understanding Representation
Some Kind of Virus: The Zombie as Body and as Trope
‘Exactly Like Where You Are Right Now… Only Much, Much Better’: Art and Human Rights in Unaustralia
1 Jen Webb is Director of Communication Research at the University of Canberra, and teaches creative writing and cultural theory. Jen has worked on a number of research and production projects addr
Lotus japonicus Handbook
Poems: How long the road, When the eye sees, The people who live at the wrong end of the day, The eternity knot
Technology, Reason and Globalisation?—O Brother
The Coen Brothers' movie O Brother Where Art Thou is a ragbag of intertexts and gags that also pays very serious attention to questions of community and culture, class and race. In tracing the path of the protagonists through De-pression-era Mississippi, it takes its audiences through the experience of social transformation, from superstition and local concerns to a supposedly brave new (global and technological) world. Although the film is set i…
Understanding Globalization
Understanding Representation
Some Kind of Virus: The Zombie as Body and as Trope
Bourdieu's Concept of Reflexivity as Metaliteracy
For Bourdieu, the extent to which agents can attain knowledge of, and negotiate, various cultural fields is dependent upon, and explicable in terms of, two epistemological types. The first is a practical sense (the ‘logic of practice’), while the second involves a sort of conscious comprehension that he names ‘reflexivity’. Bourdieu defines reflexivity as an interrogation of the three types of limitations (of social position, of field and of the …
Bourdieu's Notion of Reflexive Knowledge
This article addresses Pierre Bourdieu's work on the principal logics under which human beings negotiate fields and engage in practice: either practical or reflexive knowledge. Bourdieu argues that reflexivity is capable of being taught and learned, and consciously incorporated into different levels of praxis. We describe and analyse the paths Bourdieu takes in arriving at this notion via both the usual suspects associated with his body of theory…
Paleochannels and Patches: A Geoarchaeological Assessment of Silcrete Sources in the Cumberland Plain, Eastern Australia
Although Aboriginal occupation dates to the Pleistocene, silcrete artifacts only begin to dominate archaeological sites found in the Cumberland Plain of western Sydney, eastern Australia, during the mid‐late Holocene. These assemblages routinely include large numbers of backed artifacts. A geoarchaeological survey of five potential silcrete source areas found that silcrete is irregularly distributed along ridgelines within gravel patches that rep…
The visible and the invisible: Legacies of violence in contemporary Australian Aboriginal contexts
Australia's history begins over 50,000 years ago, but a little over 200 years ago, this history was officially erased through the violence of settlement/invasion, and a new history was written into the official record. This paper addresses the particular “invisibility” that has, since, been the experience for Indigenous Australians in two modes. The first is the invisibility that was introduced by the legal fiction of “terra nullius” and sustaine…
Forecasting industrial induced tipping points in first nations’ land use in northeast British Columbia
This study examined the impact of industrial development on the land use practices of the Saulteau First Nations (SFN) in northeastern British Columbia. Using household surveys and spatial data analysis, we identify ex-ante the point(s) at which the cumulative environmental changes brought about by industrial activities induce tipping points in First Nations land use. Used here, tipping point is a threshold at which incremental or immediate ecolo…
Who Is Kevin, and Why Do We Need to Talk About Him? Lionel Shriver, Kevin, and the Problem of Representation
Eva, Franklin and Kevin exemplify not just the absence at the heart of discourses of 'the family' , but the emptiness of the rhetoric of freedom and democracy, and silence about the violence of global capital. Because of this I will leave aside the issues of the monstrous mother (the woman who cannot love her child) and the monstrous child (the son who refuses all social constraints), in favour of an investigation into the ways in which Kevin ill…
Technology, Reason and Globalisation?—O Brother
The Coen Brothers' movie O Brother Where Art Thou is a ragbag of intertexts and gags that also pays very serious attention to questions of community and culture, class and race. In tracing the path of the protagonists through De-pression-era Mississippi, it takes its audiences through the experience of social transformation, from superstition and local concerns to a supposedly brave new (global and technological) world. Although the film is set i…
Negotiating Alterity: Indigenous and 'Outsider' art
(2002). Negotiating Alterity: Indigenous and 'Outsider' art. Third Text: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 137-152
Eating dust: Electronic media and regional arts
Art and the ideal community
(1999). Art and the ideal community. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 23, War and Other Catastrophes, pp. 140-143
Cleaning up the Grunge
In 1996, Triple J's 'Unearthed' competition awarded the Central Queensland prize to Andalusion, a grunge band of four young high school students. Since winning this award, the band has been transformed from a group of musical amateur-enthusiasts to a semi-professional band with an industry manager, recording contracts, video and CD recordings, steady (paid) gigs in public venues and a clear career trajectory. The band's music is also changing fro…
Beaches and Bodies
Bodies and beaches, I argue in this paper, share an identity because each is a liminal point: beaches are the space between the social and the cultural, between the sea and the land; bodies are also a space between the social and the cultural, but more particularly are between life and death. Bodies and beaches have each attracted the attention of artists (particularly writers); and have attracted my interest because of their connection to being …
The field of Cultural Production
Bourdieu's Notion of Reflexive Knowledge
This article addresses Pierre Bourdieu's work on the principal logics under which human beings negotiate fields and engage in practice: either practical or reflexive knowledge. Bourdieu argues that reflexivity is capable of being taught and learned, and consciously incorporated into different levels of praxis. We describe and analyse the paths Bourdieu takes in arriving at this notion via both the usual suspects associated with his body of theory…
Negotiating Alterity: Indigenous and 'Outsider' art
(2002). Negotiating Alterity: Indigenous and 'Outsider' art. Third Text: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 137-152
Understanding Globalization
Bourdieu's Concept of Reflexivity as Metaliteracy
For Bourdieu, the extent to which agents can attain knowledge of, and negotiate, various cultural fields is dependent upon, and explicable in terms of, two epistemological types. The first is a practical sense (the ‘logic of practice’), while the second involves a sort of conscious comprehension that he names ‘reflexivity’. Bourdieu defines reflexivity as an interrogation of the three types of limitations (of social position, of field and of the …
Poems: How long the road, When the eye sees, The people who live at the wrong end of the day, The eternity knot
Technology, Reason and Globalisation?—O Brother
The Coen Brothers' movie O Brother Where Art Thou is a ragbag of intertexts and gags that also pays very serious attention to questions of community and culture, class and race. In tracing the path of the protagonists through De-pression-era Mississippi, it takes its audiences through the experience of social transformation, from superstition and local concerns to a supposedly brave new (global and technological) world. Although the film is set i…
Lotus japonicus Handbook
‘Exactly Like Where You Are Right Now… Only Much, Much Better’: Art and Human Rights in Unaustralia
1 Jen Webb is Director of Communication Research at the University of Canberra, and teaches creative writing and cultural theory. Jen has worked on a number of research and production projects addr
Some Kind of Virus: The Zombie as Body and as Trope
Introduction: The Terms of Representation
Who Is Kevin, and Why Do We Need to Talk About Him? Lionel Shriver, Kevin, and the Problem of Representation
Eva, Franklin and Kevin exemplify not just the absence at the heart of discourses of 'the family' , but the emptiness of the rhetoric of freedom and democracy, and silence about the violence of global capital. Because of this I will leave aside the issues of the monstrous mother (the woman who cannot love her child) and the monstrous child (the son who refuses all social constraints), in favour of an investigation into the ways in which Kevin ill…
Understanding Representation
Fiction and Testimony in Don DeLillo's Falling Man
The noun ‘testimony’ has a very strong relationship with truth. As a mode of evidentiary discourse, it is more closely associated with law and church than with the creative field. However, artists too may bear witness, or testify, to public events. One such artist, I suggest, is Don DeLillo, who gives an account of the 11 September 2001 disaster in New York and its aftermath in Falling Man: A Novel (2007). Though it is fiction, as signalled so cl…
Making Worlds: Art, Words and Worlds
Introduction'The world' seems, often, to be more a proposition than a place, more a theory than a thing-in-itself. The fluidity of its meanings means that dominant discourse tends to focus on conceptual, economic and political, rather than on lived experience, phenomenological encounters, or multiple ways of being in what each person might consider 'the world'. How we might access plural experience of world is a point of considerable scholarly de…
Canberra: Ideal city, imagined city
Canberra is now a century old, and locals are recovering from a year of centenary celebrations. One of the factors that emerged during this year was the gap between its two states of being: Canberra is both the national capit[al] – the ‘head’ of the nation; and at the same time a community's hometown. The centenary celebrations also generated discussion about its history, and the process of its development from territory, through ‘sheep paddock’,…
The visible and the invisible: Legacies of violence in contemporary Australian Aboriginal contexts
Australia's history begins over 50,000 years ago, but a little over 200 years ago, this history was officially erased through the violence of settlement/invasion, and a new history was written into the official record. This paper addresses the particular “invisibility” that has, since, been the experience for Indigenous Australians in two modes. The first is the invisibility that was introduced by the legal fiction of “terra nullius” and sustaine…
Paleochannels and Patches: A Geoarchaeological Assessment of Silcrete Sources in the Cumberland Plain, Eastern Australia
Although Aboriginal occupation dates to the Pleistocene, silcrete artifacts only begin to dominate archaeological sites found in the Cumberland Plain of western Sydney, eastern Australia, during the mid‐late Holocene. These assemblages routinely include large numbers of backed artifacts. A geoarchaeological survey of five potential silcrete source areas found that silcrete is irregularly distributed along ridgelines within gravel patches that rep…
Examining the Creative Arts Doctorate in Australia: Implications for supervisors
One of the significant roles performed by the higher degree research (HDR) supervisor is to assist students to prepare their dissertations for examination. At a time when there is increasing interest in how the academy manages the transition of creative arts HDR candidates from apprentice to peer, there is also concern about the processes, practices, and policies associated with this largely under-researched area of research training. In a recent…
Globalisation and identity: The challenge of a globalising world
In this chapter we move from the postcolonial moment to the implications of economic and cultural globalisation, the tension between local and global imperatives, and artists’ responses to the effects of this new structure. Case studies address the personal histories, contexts and art of Kimsooja from South Korea; Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan from the Philippines; and Oscar Ho Hing-kay and John Young Zerunge from Hong Kong. All are articulate cri…
Art and human rights: Contemporary Asian contexts
Contemporary Asian art has had a remarkable impact on global art practice, and simultaneously has produced an enduring record of the history of that region from the moment of decolonisation to the present. Many artists in the region have a deep concern about what it means to be human and to contribute to the development of a better future for their communities as well as having a sustained commitment to making art. This book, written at the start…
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