Peter Baron
Biographic Data
| ID | 733629 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Baron |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Baron |
| SIGNATURE | BARON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8239-2885 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Employable me
Few issues have attracted as much policy interest in the tertiary sector as graduate employability.Graduate employability positions universities and their students as key players in the national economy.At the same time, the standard conception of graduate employability, as it has evolved from human capital theory and modified by neoliberal ideology, has met with significant criticism.This paper reports on our analysis of the strategic plans of A…
The impact of employability on Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences degrees in Australia
In Australia, Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) faculties are under pressure to demonstrate that their degrees result in employable graduates. Employability has become a key strategic goal of all universities and is driving federal government funding changes. We surveyed 17 Directors of Learning and Teaching in HASS across Australia’s 37 public universities to ascertain their views on how employability has affected HASS. Our thematic an…
Violence Against Young Women in Non-urban Areas of Australia
Violence against women is globally prevalent and harmful to women’s health and well-being. Younger women are at higher risk of abuse, especially those from non-urban areas who may face specific barriers to disclosure and support. The aim of this review was to map the breadth and nature of the “violence against women” literature particular to young non-urban Australian women and identify research gaps to inform future research with young people. A…
On being distinctive
It is an honour to be asked to reflect on the Griffith Law Review on the occasion of its 25-year anniversary. The Griffith Law Review was launched in 1992, the same year its host faculty, Griffith
Althusser's mirror
In this paper, I propose that Althusser's theory of interpellation can explain why law students and lawyers so readily accept the proposition that the causes of, and solutions to, lawyer distress lie with the individual. Interpellation, according to Althusser, is the process by which ideologies address the individual. The process of interpellation simultaneously confers upon the individual the status of subject; and ensures the individual volunta…
The Elephant in the Room? Lawyer Wellbeing and the Impact of Unethical Behaviours
Over the past few years, there has been increasing concern about the high incidence of depression, anxiety, substance abuse and suicide amongst members of the legal profession. Although the factors implicated in lawyer distress are said to be both structural and individual, the overall tendency in addressing lawyer distress has been to focus on the individual. In other work, I have sought to show that this focus may be unfortunate, tending to ren…
Sleight of hand
For some years in the US, the deleterious effects upon the wellbeing of students studying law have been observed and studies repeatedly show that lawyers suffer disproportionately high levels of depression and addiction. In Australia, Courting the Blues and subsequent studies have found that law students also experience a loss of wellbeing after commencing their law studies and that relatively high levels of distress persist after graduation. Stu…
Working the Clock
In this paper, I want to use the term ‘body’ both in regard to the bodies of individual academics and in regard to the academic collective within the university. I wish to argue that both bodies have been colonised by aggressive neoliberal managerialism and its attendant technologies. In particular, I shall argue, borrowing from Nanni's work on imperial colonisation, that the technologies of time are core to this process of colonisation. Nanni ar…
Enter the Imaginarium
This paper was motivated by contemporary discussions around the ‘future of feminism’, the pessimism expressed as to feminisim’s continued relevance, and the work for the feminist project that remains undone. In this paper, I use a Lacanian analysis to reveal the role of the Imaginary in contemporary society. In Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, the Imaginary is the realm of mirrors, illusion, deception and binary distinctions. In recent years, we w…
Citizenship and the Rise of the Psychotic
The advent of globalisation, individualism and the spread of consumerist capitalism have led to a decline in the sovereignty of the nation-state and restructured the relationship between private and public. These developments have renewed academic interest in, and questioning of, the concept of citizenship. In a particularly influential paper, Isin, basing his analysis in Freud, argues that what we are witnessing in the contemporary democratic We…
Changing Citizenships
The articles in this symposium explore the unstable and contested notion of citizenship within an increasingly globalised world. The contributors chart the changing hues of citizenship that are being projected by the fractioning of sovereignty, where in some contexts it appears that the modern state is waning and in others there can be seen a violent and dominate hyper-sovereignty
The Web of Desire and the Narcissistic Trap
This paper seeks to provide an alternative reading of Re Alex: Hormonal Treatment for Gender Identity Dysphoria [2004] FamCA 297 ( 13 April 2004 ) from a psychoanalytic perspective. The claim of this paper is that psychoanalytic theory can provide an alternative reading of Alex's case that emphasises the social and cultural construction of gender. The implications of such an alternative reading are both particular and more general: the particular…
Buttercup Goes to Law School
This article is concerned with issues of the health and wellbeing of Australian law students. Overseas studies show a decline in the values and motivation of students who undertake law leading to a significant risk to mental health. The authors are currently engaged in research that seeks to determine whether Australian law students experience a similar decline. The hypothesis of this study is that law students experience a decline in life satisf…
Bloody Bones
Probleme der Japanischen Regionalpolitik. Unter Besonderer Berkucksichtigung der Entwicklung Hokkaidos
Working the Clock
In this paper, I want to use the term ‘body’ both in regard to the bodies of individual academics and in regard to the academic collective within the university. I wish to argue that both bodies have been colonised by aggressive neoliberal managerialism and its attendant technologies. In particular, I shall argue, borrowing from Nanni's work on imperial colonisation, that the technologies of time are core to this process of colonisation. Nanni ar…
The impact of employability on Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences degrees in Australia
In Australia, Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) faculties are under pressure to demonstrate that their degrees result in employable graduates. Employability has become a key strategic goal of all universities and is driving federal government funding changes. We surveyed 17 Directors of Learning and Teaching in HASS across Australia’s 37 public universities to ascertain their views on how employability has affected HASS. Our thematic an…
Buttercup Goes to Law School
This article is concerned with issues of the health and wellbeing of Australian law students. Overseas studies show a decline in the values and motivation of students who undertake law leading to a significant risk to mental health. The authors are currently engaged in research that seeks to determine whether Australian law students experience a similar decline. The hypothesis of this study is that law students experience a decline in life satisf…
Probleme der Japanischen Regionalpolitik. Unter Besonderer Berkucksichtigung der Entwicklung Hokkaidos
Bloody Bones
Buttercup Goes to Law School
This article is concerned with issues of the health and wellbeing of Australian law students. Overseas studies show a decline in the values and motivation of students who undertake law leading to a significant risk to mental health. The authors are currently engaged in research that seeks to determine whether Australian law students experience a similar decline. The hypothesis of this study is that law students experience a decline in life satisf…
The Web of Desire and the Narcissistic Trap
This paper seeks to provide an alternative reading of Re Alex: Hormonal Treatment for Gender Identity Dysphoria [2004] FamCA 297 ( 13 April 2004 ) from a psychoanalytic perspective. The claim of this paper is that psychoanalytic theory can provide an alternative reading of Alex's case that emphasises the social and cultural construction of gender. The implications of such an alternative reading are both particular and more general: the particular…
Citizenship and the Rise of the Psychotic
The advent of globalisation, individualism and the spread of consumerist capitalism have led to a decline in the sovereignty of the nation-state and restructured the relationship between private and public. These developments have renewed academic interest in, and questioning of, the concept of citizenship. In a particularly influential paper, Isin, basing his analysis in Freud, argues that what we are witnessing in the contemporary democratic We…
Changing Citizenships
The articles in this symposium explore the unstable and contested notion of citizenship within an increasingly globalised world. The contributors chart the changing hues of citizenship that are being projected by the fractioning of sovereignty, where in some contexts it appears that the modern state is waning and in others there can be seen a violent and dominate hyper-sovereignty
Enter the Imaginarium
This paper was motivated by contemporary discussions around the ‘future of feminism’, the pessimism expressed as to feminisim’s continued relevance, and the work for the feminist project that remains undone. In this paper, I use a Lacanian analysis to reveal the role of the Imaginary in contemporary society. In Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, the Imaginary is the realm of mirrors, illusion, deception and binary distinctions. In recent years, we w…
Sleight of hand
For some years in the US, the deleterious effects upon the wellbeing of students studying law have been observed and studies repeatedly show that lawyers suffer disproportionately high levels of depression and addiction. In Australia, Courting the Blues and subsequent studies have found that law students also experience a loss of wellbeing after commencing their law studies and that relatively high levels of distress persist after graduation. Stu…
Working the Clock
In this paper, I want to use the term ‘body’ both in regard to the bodies of individual academics and in regard to the academic collective within the university. I wish to argue that both bodies have been colonised by aggressive neoliberal managerialism and its attendant technologies. In particular, I shall argue, borrowing from Nanni's work on imperial colonisation, that the technologies of time are core to this process of colonisation. Nanni ar…
Althusser's mirror
In this paper, I propose that Althusser's theory of interpellation can explain why law students and lawyers so readily accept the proposition that the causes of, and solutions to, lawyer distress lie with the individual. Interpellation, according to Althusser, is the process by which ideologies address the individual. The process of interpellation simultaneously confers upon the individual the status of subject; and ensures the individual volunta…
The Elephant in the Room? Lawyer Wellbeing and the Impact of Unethical Behaviours
Over the past few years, there has been increasing concern about the high incidence of depression, anxiety, substance abuse and suicide amongst members of the legal profession. Although the factors implicated in lawyer distress are said to be both structural and individual, the overall tendency in addressing lawyer distress has been to focus on the individual. In other work, I have sought to show that this focus may be unfortunate, tending to ren…
On being distinctive
It is an honour to be asked to reflect on the Griffith Law Review on the occasion of its 25-year anniversary. The Griffith Law Review was launched in 1992, the same year its host faculty, Griffith
Violence Against Young Women in Non-urban Areas of Australia
Violence against women is globally prevalent and harmful to women’s health and well-being. Younger women are at higher risk of abuse, especially those from non-urban areas who may face specific barriers to disclosure and support. The aim of this review was to map the breadth and nature of the “violence against women” literature particular to young non-urban Australian women and identify research gaps to inform future research with young people. A…
The impact of employability on Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences degrees in Australia
In Australia, Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) faculties are under pressure to demonstrate that their degrees result in employable graduates. Employability has become a key strategic goal of all universities and is driving federal government funding changes. We surveyed 17 Directors of Learning and Teaching in HASS across Australia’s 37 public universities to ascertain their views on how employability has affected HASS. Our thematic an…
Employable me
Few issues have attracted as much policy interest in the tertiary sector as graduate employability.Graduate employability positions universities and their students as key players in the national economy.At the same time, the standard conception of graduate employability, as it has evolved from human capital theory and modified by neoliberal ideology, has met with significant criticism.This paper reports on our analysis of the strategic plans of A…
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Legal Education and Practice Innovations (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Art (3 works) · Distress (3 works) · Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues (3 works)