P Kelaita
Biographic Data
| ID | 51847 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Kelaita |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Kelaita |
| SIGNATURE | KELAITA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9468-2708 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Framing drug policy reform
The majority of third-sector organisations advanced cohesive, rights-based, and harm-reduction-oriented frames, including strong support for legal reform. In contrast, the report framed drug policy reform primarily through service-level and harm-reduction recommendations, while more politically contentious proposals-particularly decriminalisation and prison-based harm reduction-were less visible or absent. Our findings illustrate how frame-tracki…
The malleable logics of mandate
The use of mandate by politicians reveals the conditions that get set around policy change. The use of mandate by advocates suggests that expectations of policy events are different to those of government. Appreciating how mandate is multiply used and comes to have effects opens avenues for maximising the opportunity in policy windows
Politically Acceptable Effects
“Unintended consequences” is a taken-for-granted narrative used to refer to the effects of a policy that overflow the original intended effect. In drug policy scholarship, “unintended consequences” is used to call for better and more accountable decision making. In this article, I draw from sociology, science and technology studies, and policy anthropology to consider the political decisions that underpin “unintended consequences.” I elaborate th…
Designing Better Drug Regulation
Drug policy design is often a process of comparison between options, consideration of evidence and politics, and working within values pluralism and the constraints of imagination. As a result, drug policy change is characterized by fits and starts, incremental change, and limited by perceptions of what is politically and socially possible. This paper explores policy design methods that might be employed to address the challenges of policy design…
Values in drug policy documents
Background Documents are influential in shaping drug policy debates and are valuable data for drug policy research. In this article we conduct a values analysis of one drug policy document. The objectives were to assess the values within a policy document; assess the utility of Schwartz’s values framework in documentary analysis; and consider the relationship between values and policy positions.Methods We chose the report foreword of a Special Co…
Geographic Differences in Public Opinion on Drug Policy
The policy author-function
Covid-19 and the biopolitics of stigma in public housing
The COVID-19 'hard lockdowns' in Melbourne, Australia in 2020 targeted public housing estates thus trading on perceptions of risk associated with public housing as some of the most stigmatised sites in post-industrial cities. This article draws on interviews with Melbourne public housing tenants on their experience of COVID-19 lockdowns to analyse the place of stigma in residents' accounts. Pairing Wacquant et al's (2014) concept of 'territorial …
Suburban vogue and other queer survival strategies
Vogue conjures many things: honed Black and Brown queer and trans bodies, queer space, and communal resistance to hostile worlds. It is rarely something associated with the suburbs, US or elsewhere. This article investigates how the international expansion of vogue leads to the raced and geographic specificity of suburban Sydney. It does this through an analysis of Slay Your Oppressor(s) (2016), a hybridized vogue-martial arts performance by Bhen…
Post-retirement enlightenment syndrome
Post-Retirement Enlightenment Syndrome is a term used by some in illicit drug policy to reflect the experience of having politicians "come out" in favour of drug policy reform only after retirement. To date, the phenomenon has not been examined in any systematic manner. While discussions of the phenomenon on social media tend to be playful, they nevertheless express real frustration with the reluctance of privately supportive sitting politicians …
Pandemic policing and the construction of publics
COVID-19 responses have cast a spotlight on the uneven impacts of public health policy with particular populations or sites targeted for intervention. Perhaps the starkest example in Australia was the 'hard' lockdown of nine public housing complexes in inner-city Melbourne from 4 to 18 July 2020, where residents were fully confined to their homes. These complexes are home to diverse migrant communities and the lockdown drew public criticism for u…
Tracks to gay elsewheres
This article considers how cultural narratives of queer migration to urban centres are understood through media and cultural references that mark specific non-urban places and times. Through an analysis of queer migration narratives in Smalltown Boy (1984), a song and music video by UK band Bronski Beat, and Boytown (2012), its suburban Sydney reimagining by artist Daniel Mudie Cunningham and DJ Stephen Allkins, I argue that the interconnections …
Corny Matters
To many, Karen Carpenter needs no introduction. One half of the American brother-sister soft rock duo the Carpenters, Karen Carpenter's voice is familiar to all who know their 1970s hits including '(They Long to Be) Close to You', 'We've Only Just Begun', or 'Goodbye to Love', the genre-shifting power ballad that to this day sustains countless karaoke renditions. But Karen Carpenter is also known to many by her death in 1983 from heart failure as…
Pandemic policing and the construction of publics
COVID-19 responses have cast a spotlight on the uneven impacts of public health policy with particular populations or sites targeted for intervention. Perhaps the starkest example in Australia was the 'hard' lockdown of nine public housing complexes in inner-city Melbourne from 4 to 18 July 2020, where residents were fully confined to their homes. These complexes are home to diverse migrant communities and the lockdown drew public criticism for u…
Tracks to gay elsewheres
This article considers how cultural narratives of queer migration to urban centres are understood through media and cultural references that mark specific non-urban places and times. Through an analysis of queer migration narratives in Smalltown Boy (1984), a song and music video by UK band Bronski Beat, and Boytown (2012), its suburban Sydney reimagining by artist Daniel Mudie Cunningham and DJ Stephen Allkins, I argue that the interconnections …
Corny Matters
To many, Karen Carpenter needs no introduction. One half of the American brother-sister soft rock duo the Carpenters, Karen Carpenter's voice is familiar to all who know their 1970s hits including '(They Long to Be) Close to You', 'We've Only Just Begun', or 'Goodbye to Love', the genre-shifting power ballad that to this day sustains countless karaoke renditions. But Karen Carpenter is also known to many by her death in 1983 from heart failure as…
Tracks to gay elsewheres
This article considers how cultural narratives of queer migration to urban centres are understood through media and cultural references that mark specific non-urban places and times. Through an analysis of queer migration narratives in Smalltown Boy (1984), a song and music video by UK band Bronski Beat, and Boytown (2012), its suburban Sydney reimagining by artist Daniel Mudie Cunningham and DJ Stephen Allkins, I argue that the interconnections …
Post-retirement enlightenment syndrome
Post-Retirement Enlightenment Syndrome is a term used by some in illicit drug policy to reflect the experience of having politicians "come out" in favour of drug policy reform only after retirement. To date, the phenomenon has not been examined in any systematic manner. While discussions of the phenomenon on social media tend to be playful, they nevertheless express real frustration with the reluctance of privately supportive sitting politicians …
Pandemic policing and the construction of publics
COVID-19 responses have cast a spotlight on the uneven impacts of public health policy with particular populations or sites targeted for intervention. Perhaps the starkest example in Australia was the 'hard' lockdown of nine public housing complexes in inner-city Melbourne from 4 to 18 July 2020, where residents were fully confined to their homes. These complexes are home to diverse migrant communities and the lockdown drew public criticism for u…
Suburban vogue and other queer survival strategies
Vogue conjures many things: honed Black and Brown queer and trans bodies, queer space, and communal resistance to hostile worlds. It is rarely something associated with the suburbs, US or elsewhere. This article investigates how the international expansion of vogue leads to the raced and geographic specificity of suburban Sydney. It does this through an analysis of Slay Your Oppressor(s) (2016), a hybridized vogue-martial arts performance by Bhen…
Values in drug policy documents
Background Documents are influential in shaping drug policy debates and are valuable data for drug policy research. In this article we conduct a values analysis of one drug policy document. The objectives were to assess the values within a policy document; assess the utility of Schwartz’s values framework in documentary analysis; and consider the relationship between values and policy positions.Methods We chose the report foreword of a Special Co…
Geographic Differences in Public Opinion on Drug Policy
The policy author-function
Covid-19 and the biopolitics of stigma in public housing
The COVID-19 'hard lockdowns' in Melbourne, Australia in 2020 targeted public housing estates thus trading on perceptions of risk associated with public housing as some of the most stigmatised sites in post-industrial cities. This article draws on interviews with Melbourne public housing tenants on their experience of COVID-19 lockdowns to analyse the place of stigma in residents' accounts. Pairing Wacquant et al's (2014) concept of 'territorial …
Framing drug policy reform
The majority of third-sector organisations advanced cohesive, rights-based, and harm-reduction-oriented frames, including strong support for legal reform. In contrast, the report framed drug policy reform primarily through service-level and harm-reduction recommendations, while more politically contentious proposals-particularly decriminalisation and prison-based harm reduction-were less visible or absent. Our findings illustrate how frame-tracki…
The malleable logics of mandate
The use of mandate by politicians reveals the conditions that get set around policy change. The use of mandate by advocates suggests that expectations of policy events are different to those of government. Appreciating how mandate is multiply used and comes to have effects opens avenues for maximising the opportunity in policy windows
Politically Acceptable Effects
“Unintended consequences” is a taken-for-granted narrative used to refer to the effects of a policy that overflow the original intended effect. In drug policy scholarship, “unintended consequences” is used to call for better and more accountable decision making. In this article, I draw from sociology, science and technology studies, and policy anthropology to consider the political decisions that underpin “unintended consequences.” I elaborate th…
Designing Better Drug Regulation
Drug policy design is often a process of comparison between options, consideration of evidence and politics, and working within values pluralism and the constraints of imagination. As a result, drug policy change is characterized by fits and starts, incremental change, and limited by perceptions of what is politically and socially possible. This paper explores policy design methods that might be employed to address the challenges of policy design…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Drug (5 works) · Policy Transfer and Learning (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Public policy (4 works) · Art (3 works)