William De Maria
Biographic Data
| ID | 4196938 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William De Maria |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | De Maria |
| SIGNATURE | DE MARIA W |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
White welfare
The basic trouble with the aborigines today is that they have lost their pride of race and will to exist . . . We are now trying to train the aborigines in North Queensland to live in villages instead of tribes. So said the Premier of Queensland, E.M. Hanlon, at the 1946 Premiers' Conference.1 It is a telling statement because wittingly or unwittingly the Premier summed up an official atti tude to Aboriginal Australians that has characterised 'bl…
Why is the president of Malawi angry? Towards an ethnography of corruption
This paper revisits African ‘corruption’. Perennial issues about how to define, measure and manage ‘corruption’ have, up until now, been controlled within the Western neo‐colonialist prerogative. The paper illustrates the power of the Western gaze on African ‘corruption’ by considering the most popular measure of African ‘corruption’ and exposing hitherto undetected symbioses between it and the pre‐requisite requirements of corporations doing int…
Business, ethnography and the global economic crisis
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to problematise the concept of corruption as it is used in the African context by exposing the weaknesses in the business model used to define corruption and resource the massive yet incompetent anti‐corruption effort. The paper then aims to follow this critique by considering an alternative way of dealing with the awesome dimensions of African corruption. Design/methodology/approach The paper utilises in‐dept…
Cross Cultural Trespass
The African Union and the African Development Bank estimate that corruption costs African economies more than US$148 billion dollars each year. This leads to a loss of 50% in tax revenue, increases the cost of African goods by as much as 20% and eats away 25% of Africa's GDP. Little wonder that fighting African corruption has become serious business. One weapon being used in the battle is the anti-corruption agency. These are new features on the …
Whistleblowers and Organizational Protesters
The article contemplates a new alliance between whistleblowing and protesting. This is done in the context of seeking more powerful interventions in the fight against corruption in business and government. The prevailing view that whistleblowing and protesting are unconnectable forms of ethical resistance is challenged. The article argues that whistleblowing and protesting may have enormous untapped synergistic potential. This position is conside…
FoI Unshackled? The Murray Bill
Commercial‐in‐Confidence
This article addresses the issue of accountability and transparency in relation to the use of commercial-in-confidence clauses to withhold information. The issue is contentious. On the one hand some like the Senate Finance and Public Administration Reference Committee (SFPARC) argue that: 'Put simply there can be no accountability if there is no information' (SFPARC 2000). On the other hand, an alternative view is: 'I think that the sanctity of c…
Flapping on clipped wings
This article somewhat recklessly assumes that social workers can act ethically. It agrees in other words that Husband's notion of the morally active practitioner is possible, under the right conditions (Husband 1995, ch.5). The paper also assumes that ethical principles can and should be conflicted over, as they have been throughout human history. With great caution and reservation the paper also accepts that virtue can be regulated and ethical a…
Eating Its Own
This paper reports on Australia's largest whistleblower study. Specifically it focuses on the experiences of whistleblowers in the Queensland public sector during the Goss Labor government's first term. Rather than being affirmed as good citizen‐workers when they took disclosures of wrongdoing to their supervisors within the units in which they worked, the whistleblowers encountered obstruction and vilification. Their experiences offer a rare che…
The welfare whistleblower
This paper examines the plight of welfare professionals who become embroiled in controversy as a result of making public interest disclosures (whistleblowing). The paper will attempt to show that workplaces can rapidly degenerate into industrial nightmares for that small group who choose ethics over expediency. Whistleblowing is seen as a dangerous but absolutely vital activity. The paper speculates as to why too few welfare professionals use thi…
Quarantining Dissent
Critical Pedagogy and the Forgotten Social Work Student
Radical consciousness in social work has been surrounded and besieged by neo-conservatism for over two decades now. Yet it stubbornly holds on. More than that, as this paper argues, radical consciousness is again in an emergent state. To learn from its past mistakes, radicalism in social work will have to be more responsive to its teaching mission. Within the spirit of that message this paper moves its focus from the street to the classroom. An a…
Social Work and Mediation
This paper locates social work within the current mediation craze. It paints a scene in which mediation will pick up much of social work's traditional (and oppressive) conflict management agenda. Mediation's current popularity is juxtaposed with traditional (non-activist) social work's emerging unpopularity. The expanding frontiers of mediation are noted, not as a de novo experiment in conflict control, but rather as a desperate re-tooling of emb…
Alive On the Street, Dead In the Classroom
International evidence is presented for a renewal of radical social work. After a decade of monopolization by neoconservatism in all aspects of public policy and private consciousness, a new commitment to radical analysis and transformation is detected. Radical social work, the second time around, will need to avoid the earlier mistake of abandoning action for critique. In the context of social work education the manufacture of radicalism in the …
Queensland Whistleblowing
This paper critically evaluates one of the more interesting American imports in the last couple of years – the whistleblower. While noting that post‐Fitzgerald public life in Queensland is an obvious nurturant setting for the whistleblower, the paper considers how moral recovery may not be the most appropriate context for organisational dissent The paper predicts that whistleblowing will be captured in the heroic paradigm of the lone dissenting v…
New Society Blueprint or Political Ploy
Combat and Concern
(1989). Combat and Concern: The Warfare-Welfare Nexus. War & Society: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 71-86
Combat and Concern
Public Documents Financial Assistance for Local Government. A Submission to the Grants Commission
James Joyce in his deepest metaphysical moments was no match for the writer(s) of this Report. Whilst recognizing that interdepartmental reports provide never-to-be-missed opportunities for one-upmanship between bureaucracies, one expects more clarity and simplicity when such technical bulletins are made public (as this one has). Paradoxically the Department of Urban and Regional Development (D.U.R.D.) has its own precedent in the excellent repor…
A Study of Shock Absorbers, Brakes and Blunt Tools
The frivolous title of this paper should not detract from the seriousness of the theme. A growing number of people feel that the psychiatric system in New South Wales is developing in a way that violates patients' rights, and counters positive social change. This paper is not an objective treatise. My style is personal and narrative rather than formal and scholastic. The first section, “The Madness Machine”, briefly discusses the dimensions and d…
Cross Cultural Trespass
The African Union and the African Development Bank estimate that corruption costs African economies more than US$148 billion dollars each year. This leads to a loss of 50% in tax revenue, increases the cost of African goods by as much as 20% and eats away 25% of Africa's GDP. Little wonder that fighting African corruption has become serious business. One weapon being used in the battle is the anti-corruption agency. These are new features on the …
Whistleblowers and Organizational Protesters
The article contemplates a new alliance between whistleblowing and protesting. This is done in the context of seeking more powerful interventions in the fight against corruption in business and government. The prevailing view that whistleblowing and protesting are unconnectable forms of ethical resistance is challenged. The article argues that whistleblowing and protesting may have enormous untapped synergistic potential. This position is conside…
Why is the president of Malawi angry? Towards an ethnography of corruption
This paper revisits African ‘corruption’. Perennial issues about how to define, measure and manage ‘corruption’ have, up until now, been controlled within the Western neo‐colonialist prerogative. The paper illustrates the power of the Western gaze on African ‘corruption’ by considering the most popular measure of African ‘corruption’ and exposing hitherto undetected symbioses between it and the pre‐requisite requirements of corporations doing int…
Flapping on clipped wings
This article somewhat recklessly assumes that social workers can act ethically. It agrees in other words that Husband's notion of the morally active practitioner is possible, under the right conditions (Husband 1995, ch.5). The paper also assumes that ethical principles can and should be conflicted over, as they have been throughout human history. With great caution and reservation the paper also accepts that virtue can be regulated and ethical a…
The welfare whistleblower
This paper examines the plight of welfare professionals who become embroiled in controversy as a result of making public interest disclosures (whistleblowing). The paper will attempt to show that workplaces can rapidly degenerate into industrial nightmares for that small group who choose ethics over expediency. Whistleblowing is seen as a dangerous but absolutely vital activity. The paper speculates as to why too few welfare professionals use thi…
Combat and Concern
(1989). Combat and Concern: The Warfare-Welfare Nexus. War & Society: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 71-86
Social Work and Mediation
This paper locates social work within the current mediation craze. It paints a scene in which mediation will pick up much of social work's traditional (and oppressive) conflict management agenda. Mediation's current popularity is juxtaposed with traditional (non-activist) social work's emerging unpopularity. The expanding frontiers of mediation are noted, not as a de novo experiment in conflict control, but rather as a desperate re-tooling of emb…
White welfare
The basic trouble with the aborigines today is that they have lost their pride of race and will to exist . . . We are now trying to train the aborigines in North Queensland to live in villages instead of tribes. So said the Premier of Queensland, E.M. Hanlon, at the 1946 Premiers' Conference.1 It is a telling statement because wittingly or unwittingly the Premier summed up an official atti tude to Aboriginal Australians that has characterised 'bl…
Commercial‐in‐Confidence
This article addresses the issue of accountability and transparency in relation to the use of commercial-in-confidence clauses to withhold information. The issue is contentious. On the one hand some like the Senate Finance and Public Administration Reference Committee (SFPARC) argue that: 'Put simply there can be no accountability if there is no information' (SFPARC 2000). On the other hand, an alternative view is: 'I think that the sanctity of c…
Eating Its Own
This paper reports on Australia's largest whistleblower study. Specifically it focuses on the experiences of whistleblowers in the Queensland public sector during the Goss Labor government's first term. Rather than being affirmed as good citizen‐workers when they took disclosures of wrongdoing to their supervisors within the units in which they worked, the whistleblowers encountered obstruction and vilification. Their experiences offer a rare che…
Quarantining Dissent
Critical Pedagogy and the Forgotten Social Work Student
Radical consciousness in social work has been surrounded and besieged by neo-conservatism for over two decades now. Yet it stubbornly holds on. More than that, as this paper argues, radical consciousness is again in an emergent state. To learn from its past mistakes, radicalism in social work will have to be more responsive to its teaching mission. Within the spirit of that message this paper moves its focus from the street to the classroom. An a…
Queensland Whistleblowing
This paper critically evaluates one of the more interesting American imports in the last couple of years – the whistleblower. While noting that post‐Fitzgerald public life in Queensland is an obvious nurturant setting for the whistleblower, the paper considers how moral recovery may not be the most appropriate context for organisational dissent The paper predicts that whistleblowing will be captured in the heroic paradigm of the lone dissenting v…
A Study of Shock Absorbers, Brakes and Blunt Tools
The frivolous title of this paper should not detract from the seriousness of the theme. A growing number of people feel that the psychiatric system in New South Wales is developing in a way that violates patients' rights, and counters positive social change. This paper is not an objective treatise. My style is personal and narrative rather than formal and scholastic. The first section, “The Madness Machine”, briefly discusses the dimensions and d…
Public Documents Financial Assistance for Local Government. A Submission to the Grants Commission
James Joyce in his deepest metaphysical moments was no match for the writer(s) of this Report. Whilst recognizing that interdepartmental reports provide never-to-be-missed opportunities for one-upmanship between bureaucracies, one expects more clarity and simplicity when such technical bulletins are made public (as this one has). Paradoxically the Department of Urban and Regional Development (D.U.R.D.) has its own precedent in the excellent repor…
A Study of Shock Absorbers, Brakes and Blunt Tools
The frivolous title of this paper should not detract from the seriousness of the theme. A growing number of people feel that the psychiatric system in New South Wales is developing in a way that violates patients' rights, and counters positive social change. This paper is not an objective treatise. My style is personal and narrative rather than formal and scholastic. The first section, “The Madness Machine”, briefly discusses the dimensions and d…
New Society Blueprint or Political Ploy
Combat and Concern
(1989). Combat and Concern: The Warfare-Welfare Nexus. War & Society: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 71-86
Combat and Concern
Social Work and Mediation
This paper locates social work within the current mediation craze. It paints a scene in which mediation will pick up much of social work's traditional (and oppressive) conflict management agenda. Mediation's current popularity is juxtaposed with traditional (non-activist) social work's emerging unpopularity. The expanding frontiers of mediation are noted, not as a de novo experiment in conflict control, but rather as a desperate re-tooling of emb…
Alive On the Street, Dead In the Classroom
International evidence is presented for a renewal of radical social work. After a decade of monopolization by neoconservatism in all aspects of public policy and private consciousness, a new commitment to radical analysis and transformation is detected. Radical social work, the second time around, will need to avoid the earlier mistake of abandoning action for critique. In the context of social work education the manufacture of radicalism in the …
Queensland Whistleblowing
This paper critically evaluates one of the more interesting American imports in the last couple of years – the whistleblower. While noting that post‐Fitzgerald public life in Queensland is an obvious nurturant setting for the whistleblower, the paper considers how moral recovery may not be the most appropriate context for organisational dissent The paper predicts that whistleblowing will be captured in the heroic paradigm of the lone dissenting v…
Critical Pedagogy and the Forgotten Social Work Student
Radical consciousness in social work has been surrounded and besieged by neo-conservatism for over two decades now. Yet it stubbornly holds on. More than that, as this paper argues, radical consciousness is again in an emergent state. To learn from its past mistakes, radicalism in social work will have to be more responsive to its teaching mission. Within the spirit of that message this paper moves its focus from the street to the classroom. An a…
Quarantining Dissent
The welfare whistleblower
This paper examines the plight of welfare professionals who become embroiled in controversy as a result of making public interest disclosures (whistleblowing). The paper will attempt to show that workplaces can rapidly degenerate into industrial nightmares for that small group who choose ethics over expediency. Whistleblowing is seen as a dangerous but absolutely vital activity. The paper speculates as to why too few welfare professionals use thi…
Flapping on clipped wings
This article somewhat recklessly assumes that social workers can act ethically. It agrees in other words that Husband's notion of the morally active practitioner is possible, under the right conditions (Husband 1995, ch.5). The paper also assumes that ethical principles can and should be conflicted over, as they have been throughout human history. With great caution and reservation the paper also accepts that virtue can be regulated and ethical a…
Eating Its Own
This paper reports on Australia's largest whistleblower study. Specifically it focuses on the experiences of whistleblowers in the Queensland public sector during the Goss Labor government's first term. Rather than being affirmed as good citizen‐workers when they took disclosures of wrongdoing to their supervisors within the units in which they worked, the whistleblowers encountered obstruction and vilification. Their experiences offer a rare che…
FoI Unshackled? The Murray Bill
Commercial‐in‐Confidence
This article addresses the issue of accountability and transparency in relation to the use of commercial-in-confidence clauses to withhold information. The issue is contentious. On the one hand some like the Senate Finance and Public Administration Reference Committee (SFPARC) argue that: 'Put simply there can be no accountability if there is no information' (SFPARC 2000). On the other hand, an alternative view is: 'I think that the sanctity of c…
Cross Cultural Trespass
The African Union and the African Development Bank estimate that corruption costs African economies more than US$148 billion dollars each year. This leads to a loss of 50% in tax revenue, increases the cost of African goods by as much as 20% and eats away 25% of Africa's GDP. Little wonder that fighting African corruption has become serious business. One weapon being used in the battle is the anti-corruption agency. These are new features on the …
Whistleblowers and Organizational Protesters
The article contemplates a new alliance between whistleblowing and protesting. This is done in the context of seeking more powerful interventions in the fight against corruption in business and government. The prevailing view that whistleblowing and protesting are unconnectable forms of ethical resistance is challenged. The article argues that whistleblowing and protesting may have enormous untapped synergistic potential. This position is conside…
Business, ethnography and the global economic crisis
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to problematise the concept of corruption as it is used in the African context by exposing the weaknesses in the business model used to define corruption and resource the massive yet incompetent anti‐corruption effort. The paper then aims to follow this critique by considering an alternative way of dealing with the awesome dimensions of African corruption. Design/methodology/approach The paper utilises in‐dept…
Why is the president of Malawi angry? Towards an ethnography of corruption
This paper revisits African ‘corruption’. Perennial issues about how to define, measure and manage ‘corruption’ have, up until now, been controlled within the Western neo‐colonialist prerogative. The paper illustrates the power of the Western gaze on African ‘corruption’ by considering the most popular measure of African ‘corruption’ and exposing hitherto undetected symbioses between it and the pre‐requisite requirements of corporations doing int…
White welfare
The basic trouble with the aborigines today is that they have lost their pride of race and will to exist . . . We are now trying to train the aborigines in North Queensland to live in villages instead of tribes. So said the Premier of Queensland, E.M. Hanlon, at the 1946 Premiers' Conference.1 It is a telling statement because wittingly or unwittingly the Premier summed up an official atti tude to Aboriginal Australians that has characterised 'bl…
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