Elaine Mckewon
Biographic Data
| ID | 696159 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elaine Mckewon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elaine |
| FAMILY NAME | Mckewon |
| SIGNATURE | MCKEWON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Talking Points Ammo
The Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) is an Australian neoliberal think tank and high-profile news source that rejects the evidence of anthropogenic climate change and opposes mitigation strategies such as an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). This paper uses Ernest Bormann's Symbolic Convergence Theory firstly to identify the anti-climate science fantasy themes developed by the IPA and then to trace the chaining out of these fantasy themes from the…
Duelling realities
In the lead-up to the first Australian parliamentary debates on an emissions trading scheme (ETS) in 2009, Ian Plimer – mining geologist, mining company director and climate change contrarian – published a book that argued there is no link between human activity and climate change. Plimer boasted that his book, Heaven and Earth: Global Warming – The Missing Science, would ‘knock out every single argument we hear about climate change’. While promo…
Duelling Realities
The Scarlet Mile
The historical geography of prostitution in Perth, Western Australia
This paper charts major changes in the locational distribution of female prostitution in the Perth metropolitan area during the twentieth century, and aims to explain why these changes took place. The study confirmed that there is a positive relationship between changes to law enforcement policy and changes to the spatial distribution of the sex industry. Factors that affect law enforcement policy (and thus the location of prostitution) include t…
Talking Points Ammo
The Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) is an Australian neoliberal think tank and high-profile news source that rejects the evidence of anthropogenic climate change and opposes mitigation strategies such as an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). This paper uses Ernest Bormann's Symbolic Convergence Theory firstly to identify the anti-climate science fantasy themes developed by the IPA and then to trace the chaining out of these fantasy themes from the…
Duelling realities
In the lead-up to the first Australian parliamentary debates on an emissions trading scheme (ETS) in 2009, Ian Plimer – mining geologist, mining company director and climate change contrarian – published a book that argued there is no link between human activity and climate change. Plimer boasted that his book, Heaven and Earth: Global Warming – The Missing Science, would ‘knock out every single argument we hear about climate change’. While promo…
The historical geography of prostitution in Perth, Western Australia
This paper charts major changes in the locational distribution of female prostitution in the Perth metropolitan area during the twentieth century, and aims to explain why these changes took place. The study confirmed that there is a positive relationship between changes to law enforcement policy and changes to the spatial distribution of the sex industry. Factors that affect law enforcement policy (and thus the location of prostitution) include t…
The historical geography of prostitution in Perth, Western Australia
This paper charts major changes in the locational distribution of female prostitution in the Perth metropolitan area during the twentieth century, and aims to explain why these changes took place. The study confirmed that there is a positive relationship between changes to law enforcement policy and changes to the spatial distribution of the sex industry. Factors that affect law enforcement policy (and thus the location of prostitution) include t…
The Scarlet Mile
Talking Points Ammo
The Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) is an Australian neoliberal think tank and high-profile news source that rejects the evidence of anthropogenic climate change and opposes mitigation strategies such as an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). This paper uses Ernest Bormann's Symbolic Convergence Theory firstly to identify the anti-climate science fantasy themes developed by the IPA and then to trace the chaining out of these fantasy themes from the…
Duelling realities
In the lead-up to the first Australian parliamentary debates on an emissions trading scheme (ETS) in 2009, Ian Plimer – mining geologist, mining company director and climate change contrarian – published a book that argued there is no link between human activity and climate change. Plimer boasted that his book, Heaven and Earth: Global Warming – The Missing Science, would ‘knock out every single argument we hear about climate change’. While promo…
Duelling Realities
Climate Change Communication and Perception (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Newspaper (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Economics (2 works)