G Davis
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 6305 |
|---|---|
| NOME | G Davis |
| PRENOMES | G |
| SOBRENOME | Davis |
| ASSINATURA | DAVIS G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1184-5175 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 49 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 160 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1950 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The Role of Slavery in Athenian Democracy
Classical Athens is strongly associated with two phenomena: democracy, and slavery.The interaction between these two institutions, seemingly at odds when evaluated by modern standards, reveals a complex web of philosophical, social, and economic relationships.The question of whether or not Athenian democracy was predicated on slavery as an institution has been the subject of scholarly debate for centuries, and no strict answer has been reached.Ho…
Counting the beat
A subtle but insistent beat tracks through the life of Peter Beilharz.The tap is, like Peter, just a little ahead of the time, an improvised jazz rhythm played with brushes, underpinning the ensemble while avoiding solos.Music has been there since the start -still at school in Croydon, Peter haunted the venues of Melbourne, drumming for blues bands, rubbing shoulders with a handful of players who would become famous, and the many for whom music w…
Gay Sex Kits’
The research for this essay was funded as part of the ‘Cruising the 1970s: Unearthing Pre-HIV/AIDS Queer Sexual Cultures’ project, financed by HERA and the European Commission
Desire Revolution
How might historical queer and trans activist tactics and visions of the future be used to invigorate contemporary LGBTQ+ politics and thought? This article provides an introduction to the ‘Imagining Queer Europe Then and Now’ special issue of Third Text, an issue which emerges from the final conference of the pan-European queer history project ‘Cruising the Seventies’. We identify the uneven and complex ways in which LGBTQ+ activism, networks, e…
From commodity to money
The reasons why the Western Mediterranean, especially Carthage and Rome, resisted monetization relative to the Eastern Mediterranean are still unclear. We address this question by combining lead (Pb) and silver (Ag) isotope abundances in silver coinage from the Aegean, Magna Graecia, Carthage and Roman Republic. The clear relationships observed between 109 Ag/ 107 Ag and 208 Pb/ 206 Pb reflect the mixing of silver ores or silver objects with Pb m…
The Queer Archive in Fragments
Sunil Gupta's 'London Gay Switchboard' (1980) was a forty-minute tape-slide work made whilst Gupta was a student at Farnham. The work was only staged once, and has survived in pieces: individual photographs have been shown, and a short edit of the work was made from surviving fragments. This essay attempts, for the first time, to reconstruct the work from elements in Gupta's archive. It also interrogates the value of the archival fragment for que…
James Benning’s Environments
Review of: James Benning’s Environments: Politics, Ecology, Duration , Nikolaj Lübecker and Daniele Rugo (eds) (2017 h/bk, 2019 p/bk) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 224 pp., ISBN 978-1-47441-794-5, h/bk, £75.00, ISBN 978-1-47443-173-6, p/bk, £19.99
And Back Again
There is a scene in Don DeLillo’s novel Mao II (1991) in which one of the main characters, a photographer named Brita, attends a gallery opening in New York. She approaches a large painting of the Russian politician Mikhail Gorbachev entitled Gorby I, which is executed in a Warholian style: Brita wondered if this piece might be even more Warholish than it was supposed to be, beyond parody, homage, comment and appropriation. There were six thousan…
The speed of the VCR
This essay makes two interrelated arguments. First, it engages with the notion of cinematic slowness, and the recent emergence of ‘slow cinema’ as an object of analysis. The canon of slow cinema as it has been constructed to date is challenged, and an expansion is proposed. In addition to the roster of examples of international auteurist art cinema now recognised as ‘slow’, it is suggested that instances of slow films can also be found within the…
James Benning, taxidermist
This essay explores the relationship between cinema and taxidermy, and some of the ways in which artists and experimental film-makers have used the moving image to engage with the ramifications of stuffing and preserving animals. It is argued that the taxidermied creature's eerie mixture of death and life has particular resonance for film-makers with an interest in slowness and stasis. James Benning's 2014 film natural history, which was shot beh…
Waiting as Such
This essay explores the subject of waiting in relation to cinema. It looks in particular at films that engage at length with waiting through extended duration, focusing on one 'black box' example (Lav Diaz's Death in the Land of Encantos) and one 'white cube' example (Wang Bing's Crude Oil). The essay outlines various ways in which waiting has been theorised, and interrogates how these can be related to cinema. In addition to exploring the ways i…
Intergovernmental Relations and the Role of Senior Officials
The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) is the most important forum for intergovernmental relations in Australian federalism. Though decision‐making processes in intergovernmental relations in Australia have been well documented in recent research, the role of senior officials within the COAG process is less often studied. Though not the primary decision makers, this article suggests senior officials play a significant role in intergovernmen…
Sunlight on a broken column
M. Bennister, Prime ministers in power: Political leadership in Britain and Australia (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), 240 pp., £64.00, ISBN 9780230273214 (hbk)M. Foley, Political leadershi
Ex-Cinema
Austrian experimental filmmaker Martin Arnold has created a number of works – including pièce touchée (1989), passage à l'acte (1993) and Alone: Life Wastes Andy Hardy (1998) – in which short fragments of Hollywood films are extrapolated from their sources and run back and forth, extending their duration. Alone, for instance, which is fifteen minutes in length, is constructed out of various moments from the Andy Hardy film series. Andy (Mickey Ro…
A cinema of endurance
Simon Szreter and Kate Fisher, Sex Before the Sexual Revolution
The history of sexuality has come a long way from the ‘virgin field’ described by Vern Bullough in 1972. The discipline has flourished intellectually and methodologically, with the concept of sexuality now deployed as a prism through which a range of social and political issues can be explored. Nonetheless, the historian has to tread carefully in such sensitive and secretive territory. With sex the quintessentially private act, most leave little …
Sperm Counts
Journal Article Sperm Counts: Overcome by Man's Most Precious Fluid Get access Lisa Jean Moore, Sperm Counts: Overcome by Man's Most Precious Fluid, New York and London: New York University Press, 2007. Pp. 256. $26.95. ISBN 0814757189 Gayle Davis Gayle Davis University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 21, Issue 1, April 2008, Pages 187–189, https://doi…
The Politics of Madness
Journal Article The Politics of Madness: The State, Insanity, and Society in England, 1845-1914 Get access Joseph Melling and Bill Forsythe, The Politics of Madness: The State, Insanity, and Society in England, 1845-1914, London and New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. xviii + 278. £80. ISBN 978-0-415-30174-9. Gayle Davis Gayle Davis University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History o…
One Big Conversation
Sir Robert Garran was, on Federation, Australia's first – and for several days only2– Commonwealth public servant. Garran would go on to serve 31 years as Secretary of the Attorney-General's Department, working for 11 attorneys-general and 16 governments – a record unlikely to be broken, noted R.S. Parker.3 Garran set an important tone for the Australian Public Service he helped call into being – clear, lucid and devoid of pomposity, non-partisan…
The Practices of Economic Competition on Markets of Consumer Goods of Contemporary Russia
Serial Television
Glen Creeber, Serial Television: Big Drama on the Small Screen. London: BFI, 2004, 184pp, and Jonathan Bignell and Stephen Lacey (eds), Popular Television Drama: Critical Perspectives. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2005, 230pp. At the Cultures of British Television Drama conference held in September 2005 at the University of Reading, one of the event's participants voiced a personal concern that the field of television stu…
Paradoxes and contradictions in government approaches to contemporary cultural policy
Globalisation poses interesting challenges but does not undermine the ability of government to make decisions about cultural policy at a state, national or regional level. On the contrary, government has never been so active in cultural matters, adding support for lifestyle and cultural infrastructure to existing concerns with traditional arts forms. The dilemma for government, rather, is to find a rationale for an increasingly fragmented approac…
What Use is a Policy Cycle? Plenty, if the Aim is Clear
What use is a policy cycle? Plenty, if the aim is to help public servants make sense of the policy task. Setting out a sequence of steps to turn ideas into Cabinet recommendations can provide structure in the otherwise dizzying world of policy‐making. It would be a mistake, though, to see a policy cycle as other than a first step, a guide amid complexity. To read the policy cycle as rationalism revived is to misjudge both form and intent. Debate …
Mapping Public Participation in Policy Choices
In an era of democratic discontent, more and better participation in policy making has become a standard expectation. Yet it is rarely clear what counts as participation, and how the many practices loosely bundled under the label should be understood. This paper has a modest undergrowth‐clearing objective: to examine assumptions behind competing typologies of participation, and to propose a classification framework less laden by idealist notions …
Rediscovering Implementation
There is vast literature on how to implement public policies, with endless case studies emphasising a few key lessons. The drive to contracting in the public sector raises familiar threats to coherent program implementation, and adds those of control and incentives. Contracting fragments program responsibility among multiple contractors, and separates policy agencies from service delivery contractors. It raises questions about political control a…
Mapping Public Participation in Policy Choices
In an era of democratic discontent, more and better participation in policy making has become a standard expectation. Yet it is rarely clear what counts as participation, and how the many practices loosely bundled under the label should be understood. This paper has a modest undergrowth‐clearing objective: to examine assumptions behind competing typologies of participation, and to propose a classification framework less laden by idealist notions …
What Use is a Policy Cycle? Plenty, if the Aim is Clear
What use is a policy cycle? Plenty, if the aim is to help public servants make sense of the policy task. Setting out a sequence of steps to turn ideas into Cabinet recommendations can provide structure in the otherwise dizzying world of policy‐making. It would be a mistake, though, to see a policy cycle as other than a first step, a guide amid complexity. To read the policy cycle as rationalism revived is to misjudge both form and intent. Debate …
Sperm Counts
Journal Article Sperm Counts: Overcome by Man's Most Precious Fluid Get access Lisa Jean Moore, Sperm Counts: Overcome by Man's Most Precious Fluid, New York and London: New York University Press, 2007. Pp. 256. $26.95. ISBN 0814757189 Gayle Davis Gayle Davis University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 21, Issue 1, April 2008, Pages 187–189, https://doi…
Paradoxes and contradictions in government approaches to contemporary cultural policy
Globalisation poses interesting challenges but does not undermine the ability of government to make decisions about cultural policy at a state, national or regional level. On the contrary, government has never been so active in cultural matters, adding support for lifestyle and cultural infrastructure to existing concerns with traditional arts forms. The dilemma for government, rather, is to find a rationale for an increasingly fragmented approac…
From commodity to money
The reasons why the Western Mediterranean, especially Carthage and Rome, resisted monetization relative to the Eastern Mediterranean are still unclear. We address this question by combining lead (Pb) and silver (Ag) isotope abundances in silver coinage from the Aegean, Magna Graecia, Carthage and Roman Republic. The clear relationships observed between 109 Ag/ 107 Ag and 208 Pb/ 206 Pb reflect the mixing of silver ores or silver objects with Pb m…
Carving Out Policy Space for State Government in a Federation
To be a player in federal negotiations, state governments need sophisticated internal coordination skills. The more intense the federal agenda, the greater the demands made on state government machinery to prepare comprehensive policy advice for those representing the state. This study argues that moves in Australia to reform federalism, by dealing with jurisdictional overlap, also produced a significant upgrading of state coordination capacity. …
Rediscovering Implementation
There is vast literature on how to implement public policies, with endless case studies emphasising a few key lessons. The drive to contracting in the public sector raises familiar threats to coherent program implementation, and adds those of control and incentives. Contracting fragments program responsibility among multiple contractors, and separates policy agencies from service delivery contractors. It raises questions about political control a…
One Big Conversation
Sir Robert Garran was, on Federation, Australia's first – and for several days only2– Commonwealth public servant. Garran would go on to serve 31 years as Secretary of the Attorney-General's Department, working for 11 attorneys-general and 16 governments – a record unlikely to be broken, noted R.S. Parker.3 Garran set an important tone for the Australian Public Service he helped call into being – clear, lucid and devoid of pomposity, non-partisan…
The Politics of Traffic Lights
This case study explores how organisational professionals cope with politics. It examines engineers responsible for synchronising traffic signals in Brisbane. How do engineers, working with complex statistical models of traffic flow, handle disruptive political demands for a pedestrian crossing or a shopping mall in the middle of an otherwise coordinated traffic signals system? And how do these organisational professionals, committed to installin…
Rethinking Caretaker Conventions for Australian Governments
Australia has well‐established conventions for caretaker governments. These conventions regulate how a government should operate once an election is called, and have been documented for some decades. Yet the current conventions date from an era when elections usually produced clear and immediate results. Can our caretaker conventions cope with the emerging reality of indecisive elections and long delays before a new government is confirmed? This …
Is There a Future for Contracting in the Australian Public Sector
Contracting has moved from the margins to the centre of public management. Significant sections of the public workforce, from benefits delivery to corporate services, now find their functions open to tender. Governments prefer to concentrate on policy analysis and development, leaving service delivery to the market. As purchasers rather than providers, governments are redefining the role and scope of the state. But are Australian governments read…
Alexis de Tocqueville and the Internet
When Alexis de Tocqueville stepped ashore in the United States, in May of 1831, his native France was again hearing demands for democracy. Tocqueville, scion of a noble Norman family buffeted by the revolution of 1789, worried about the wilder instincts, vices, and caprices unleashed by a renewed French populism. In coming to America, Tocqueville hoped to assess whether a workable, stable democracy might be possible. Of his nine months in the New…
The Significance of Compellability in the Prosecution of Domestic Assault
With the declaration of the competence and compellability of a spouse to give evidence against a violent partner it was hoped that a significant barrier to the effective prosecution of ‘domestic’ assault had been removed. Examination of the theoretical arguments for and against compulsion suggests that these are finely balanced. Empirical investigation reveals that, partly for pragmatic and partly for humanitarian reasons, the compellability prov…
The Role of Slavery in Athenian Democracy
Classical Athens is strongly associated with two phenomena: democracy, and slavery.The interaction between these two institutions, seemingly at odds when evaluated by modern standards, reveals a complex web of philosophical, social, and economic relationships.The question of whether or not Athenian democracy was predicated on slavery as an institution has been the subject of scholarly debate for centuries, and no strict answer has been reached.Ho…
Gay Sex Kits’
The research for this essay was funded as part of the ‘Cruising the 1970s: Unearthing Pre-HIV/AIDS Queer Sexual Cultures’ project, financed by HERA and the European Commission
Intergovernmental Relations and the Role of Senior Officials
The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) is the most important forum for intergovernmental relations in Australian federalism. Though decision‐making processes in intergovernmental relations in Australia have been well documented in recent research, the role of senior officials within the COAG process is less often studied. Though not the primary decision makers, this article suggests senior officials play a significant role in intergovernmen…
Serial Television
Glen Creeber, Serial Television: Big Drama on the Small Screen. London: BFI, 2004, 184pp, and Jonathan Bignell and Stephen Lacey (eds), Popular Television Drama: Critical Perspectives. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2005, 230pp. At the Cultures of British Television Drama conference held in September 2005 at the University of Reading, one of the event's participants voiced a personal concern that the field of television stu…
Does the Teaching of Public Administration Have a Future
The Search for Policy Coordination
The imperative to coordinate is strong, but the means remain contentious. One approach is to amalgamate agencies into a few large organizations, the other to encourage a diversity of policy options. Drawing on the federal amalgamations of departments in Australia since 1987, this paper reports that senior bureaucrats find more policy coordination benefits than costs from working in larger structures, while ministers report a loss of options and a…
Independent public service broadcasting? The BBC, RTE and Northern Ireland
(1988). Independent public service broadcasting? The BBC, RTE and Northern Ireland. The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 38-53
Negotiated Policy or Metanonsense? A Response to the Policy Prescriptions of Murray Frazer
The Rural-Urban Migration in Hong Kong and Its New Territories
Population migration from rural areas to urban districts is no new phenomenon peculiar t the twentieth century. Indeed, thr ughout histo ic imes ther is ample evidence in all civilized countries of such movements. In its 120 years as a British dependency Hong Kong has been particularly concerned with such population surges and fluctuations. Until its occupation by the Japanese during the Second World War an intimate free-population ebb and flow b…
Hong Kong in Its Geographical Setting
The Far East
Hong Kong in Its Geographical Setting
Hong Kong in Its Geographical Setting
The Geology of Hong Kong
The Rural-Urban Migration in Hong Kong and Its New Territories
Population migration from rural areas to urban districts is no new phenomenon peculiar t the twentieth century. Indeed, thr ughout histo ic imes ther is ample evidence in all civilized countries of such movements. In its 120 years as a British dependency Hong Kong has been particularly concerned with such population surges and fluctuations. Until its occupation by the Japanese during the Second World War an intimate free-population ebb and flow b…
Economic Geology of Hong Kong
"Quis… Digne Scripserit?" The "Topos" of "Alter Homerus" in Horace "C". 1.6
Negotiated Policy or Metanonsense? A Response to the Policy Prescriptions of Murray Frazer
Independent public service broadcasting? The BBC, RTE and Northern Ireland
(1988). Independent public service broadcasting? The BBC, RTE and Northern Ireland. The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 38-53
How the Nationals Lost Queensland
The Politics of Traffic Lights
This case study explores how organisational professionals cope with politics. It examines engineers responsible for synchronising traffic signals in Brisbane. How do engineers, working with complex statistical models of traffic flow, handle disruptive political demands for a pedestrian crossing or a shopping mall in the middle of an otherwise coordinated traffic signals system? And how do these organisational professionals, committed to installin…
Federalism Versus Centralisation
Following Wildavsky's argument that a federal bias is often the best principle for organising public policy, this study compares two national public broadcasting systems: the diffuse pattern of multiple agencies used in the United States of America and the highly centralized design employed in Australia. The paper examines whether each structure can respond to an audience while resisting the partisan demands of politicians. Significant advantages…
Research Note
We trained hard — but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. From Petronii Arbitri Satyricon , AD 66, attributed to Gaius Petronius
The Search for Policy Coordination
The imperative to coordinate is strong, but the means remain contentious. One approach is to amalgamate agencies into a few large organizations, the other to encourage a diversity of policy options. Drawing on the federal amalgamations of departments in Australia since 1987, this paper reports that senior bureaucrats find more policy coordination benefits than costs from working in larger structures, while ministers report a loss of options and a…
The Public Sector Ethics Movement in Queensland
Regulation, Social Capital and Choice
Alexis de Tocqueville and the Internet
When Alexis de Tocqueville stepped ashore in the United States, in May of 1831, his native France was again hearing demands for democracy. Tocqueville, scion of a noble Norman family buffeted by the revolution of 1789, worried about the wilder instincts, vices, and caprices unleashed by a renewed French populism. In coming to America, Tocqueville hoped to assess whether a workable, stable democracy might be possible. Of his nine months in the New…
Does the Teaching of Public Administration Have a Future
The Significance of Compellability in the Prosecution of Domestic Assault
With the declaration of the competence and compellability of a spouse to give evidence against a violent partner it was hoped that a significant barrier to the effective prosecution of ‘domestic’ assault had been removed. Examination of the theoretical arguments for and against compulsion suggests that these are finely balanced. Empirical investigation reveals that, partly for pragmatic and partly for humanitarian reasons, the compellability prov…
Is There a Future for Contracting in the Australian Public Sector
Contracting has moved from the margins to the centre of public management. Significant sections of the public workforce, from benefits delivery to corporate services, now find their functions open to tender. Governments prefer to concentrate on policy analysis and development, leaving service delivery to the market. As purchasers rather than providers, governments are redefining the role and scope of the state. But are Australian governments read…
Carving Out Policy Space for State Government in a Federation
To be a player in federal negotiations, state governments need sophisticated internal coordination skills. The more intense the federal agenda, the greater the demands made on state government machinery to prepare comprehensive policy advice for those representing the state. This study argues that moves in Australia to reform federalism, by dealing with jurisdictional overlap, also produced a significant upgrading of state coordination capacity. …
Ulysses and the Temptation of Idleness
Editorials in rhyme may make bad poetry, but the poetic still talks to the political in challenging ways. This paper takes a Victorian classic, Alfred Lord Tennyson's Ulysses , and explores its portrait of a tired and idle political leader, desperate for distraction. Tennyson's intentions are ambiguous, his message about aged leaders and power open to interpretation. His apparent warning about narcissists and power are provocative, but the poem m…
Rediscovering Implementation
There is vast literature on how to implement public policies, with endless case studies emphasising a few key lessons. The drive to contracting in the public sector raises familiar threats to coherent program implementation, and adds those of control and incentives. Contracting fragments program responsibility among multiple contractors, and separates policy agencies from service delivery contractors. It raises questions about political control a…
Rethinking Caretaker Conventions for Australian Governments
Australia has well‐established conventions for caretaker governments. These conventions regulate how a government should operate once an election is called, and have been documented for some decades. Yet the current conventions date from an era when elections usually produced clear and immediate results. Can our caretaker conventions cope with the emerging reality of indecisive elections and long delays before a new government is confirmed? This …
The Image of Georgian Bath, 1700-2001
Journal Article The Image of Georgian Bath, 1700–2001: Towns, Heritage, and History, Peter Borsay Get access Graham Davis Graham Davis Bath Spa University College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 116, Issue 467, June 2001, Pages 741–742, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/116.467.741 Published: 01 June 2001
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