Graham Dwyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 836102 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Graham Dwyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Graham |
| FAMILY NAME | Dwyer |
| SIGNATURE | DWYER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swinburne University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2574-7760 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Bushfire public inquiries
Victoria, Australia consistently experiences significant bushfires. This article examines the ways in which public inquiry recommendations after major bushfires in Victoria have played an important role in shifting the emphasis of emergency management organisations (EMOs) from bushfire response to bushfire preparedness through hybrid emergency management arrangements. Based on a qualitative analysis of Victorian public inquiry bushfire reports fr…
Better bushfire safety decision‐making
In the context of bushfires (and other emergencies), state agencies should avoid developing policy and/or advice that locks people into rigid binary choices. In Victoria, Australia post‐fire inquiries have found the bushfire safety advice often referred to as ‘Stay ( and defend your property ) or Go ( early before the fire arrives )’ to be contradictory and competing in its logic. However, this advice continues to provide a basis for positive com…
Struggling to make sense of it all
Organizations operating in extreme contexts regularly face dangerous incidents they can neither prevent nor easily control. In such circumstances, successful sensemaking can mean the difference between life and death. But what happens afterwards? Our study of emergency management practitioners following a major bushfire reveals a process of post-incident sensemaking during which practitioners continue to make sense of the incident after it ends, …
Enacting safety
Making Sense of Natural Disasters
Learning to learn from bushfire
The Black Summer Fires of 2019/2020 remind us not only that Australia is arguably the most bushfire prone area in the world but also that we have much to learn in terms of how we learn from such events. Bushfires interact with emergency management systems in a manner that is complex and unpredictable which all too often results in damages and losses, so significant that governments establish public inquiries to forensically examine what happened …
Hiding in plain sight
I examine how failures surrounding a quarantine detention program for returned travellers from overseas brought a deadly second wave of the Covid‐19 virus into existence in Victoria, Australia. In addition to providing insights into the ways in which public administration organizations (PAO) can plan for and respond to wicked problems, I propose that they can learn to manage latent failures and equivocal circumstances before, during, and after su…
Krishna Prasadam
In the Hare Krishna movement ritually sanctified food (known as prasadam) lies at the heart of key religious and ceremonial activity, and has progressively become the main rallying point for the movement’s preaching strategy or mission in the West. This article examines the experiential and doctrinal import of prasadam in the lives of adherents of the Krishna Consciousness movement and discusses its role as a preaching or proselytizing tool. As a…
Attending Krsna’s Image
Attending Krsna’s Image: Caitanya Vaisnava Murti-seva as Devotional Truth, by Kenneth R. Valpey. Abingdon, Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2006. xiv + 225 pp., £80 (hb). ISBN 0-415-38394-3
Religions of South Asia
Religions of South Asia: An Introduction, by Sushil Mittal and Gene Thursby (eds). Abingdon: Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2006. xvi + 308 pp., £65 (hb); £19.99 (pb). ISBN 0-415-22390-3 (hb); ISBN 0-415-22391-1 (pb)
Living and dying exhibition at the british museum
The consciousness of surrender and the surrendered consciousness
This article is based on research at Bhaktivedanta Manor, the main UK centre of the Hare Krishna movement, and it examines ecstatic dreams of Lord Krishna which devotees at the Manor claim to experience. With a focus on one key informant's account of such dreams, the article explores the role the dreams play in spiritual and devotional life. Moving away from psychoanalytic and from similar or related psychological interpretations of spiritual dre…
Beyond the grave
With a focus on the main UK centre of the Hare Krishna movement, this article examines current developments in the devotional lives of Hare Krishna devotees. It concentrates on devotees' dreams of the movement's late founder and argues that, while this phenomenon has been much neglected by scholars who have written about the movement, it is an important key, not merely for understanding the spiritual orientation and religious commitment of many o…
The Feast of the Sorcerer
Struggling to make sense of it all
Organizations operating in extreme contexts regularly face dangerous incidents they can neither prevent nor easily control. In such circumstances, successful sensemaking can mean the difference between life and death. But what happens afterwards? Our study of emergency management practitioners following a major bushfire reveals a process of post-incident sensemaking during which practitioners continue to make sense of the incident after it ends, …
Learning to learn from bushfire
The Black Summer Fires of 2019/2020 remind us not only that Australia is arguably the most bushfire prone area in the world but also that we have much to learn in terms of how we learn from such events. Bushfires interact with emergency management systems in a manner that is complex and unpredictable which all too often results in damages and losses, so significant that governments establish public inquiries to forensically examine what happened …
Hiding in plain sight
I examine how failures surrounding a quarantine detention program for returned travellers from overseas brought a deadly second wave of the Covid‐19 virus into existence in Victoria, Australia. In addition to providing insights into the ways in which public administration organizations (PAO) can plan for and respond to wicked problems, I propose that they can learn to manage latent failures and equivocal circumstances before, during, and after su…
Krishna Prasadam
In the Hare Krishna movement ritually sanctified food (known as prasadam) lies at the heart of key religious and ceremonial activity, and has progressively become the main rallying point for the movement’s preaching strategy or mission in the West. This article examines the experiential and doctrinal import of prasadam in the lives of adherents of the Krishna Consciousness movement and discusses its role as a preaching or proselytizing tool. As a…
The Feast of the Sorcerer
Beyond the grave
With a focus on the main UK centre of the Hare Krishna movement, this article examines current developments in the devotional lives of Hare Krishna devotees. It concentrates on devotees' dreams of the movement's late founder and argues that, while this phenomenon has been much neglected by scholars who have written about the movement, it is an important key, not merely for understanding the spiritual orientation and religious commitment of many o…
The consciousness of surrender and the surrendered consciousness
This article is based on research at Bhaktivedanta Manor, the main UK centre of the Hare Krishna movement, and it examines ecstatic dreams of Lord Krishna which devotees at the Manor claim to experience. With a focus on one key informant's account of such dreams, the article explores the role the dreams play in spiritual and devotional life. Moving away from psychoanalytic and from similar or related psychological interpretations of spiritual dre…
Living and dying exhibition at the british museum
Religions of South Asia
Religions of South Asia: An Introduction, by Sushil Mittal and Gene Thursby (eds). Abingdon: Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2006. xvi + 308 pp., £65 (hb); £19.99 (pb). ISBN 0-415-22390-3 (hb); ISBN 0-415-22391-1 (pb)
Attending Krsna’s Image
Attending Krsna’s Image: Caitanya Vaisnava Murti-seva as Devotional Truth, by Kenneth R. Valpey. Abingdon, Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2006. xiv + 225 pp., £80 (hb). ISBN 0-415-38394-3
Krishna Prasadam
In the Hare Krishna movement ritually sanctified food (known as prasadam) lies at the heart of key religious and ceremonial activity, and has progressively become the main rallying point for the movement’s preaching strategy or mission in the West. This article examines the experiential and doctrinal import of prasadam in the lives of adherents of the Krishna Consciousness movement and discusses its role as a preaching or proselytizing tool. As a…
Learning to learn from bushfire
The Black Summer Fires of 2019/2020 remind us not only that Australia is arguably the most bushfire prone area in the world but also that we have much to learn in terms of how we learn from such events. Bushfires interact with emergency management systems in a manner that is complex and unpredictable which all too often results in damages and losses, so significant that governments establish public inquiries to forensically examine what happened …
Hiding in plain sight
I examine how failures surrounding a quarantine detention program for returned travellers from overseas brought a deadly second wave of the Covid‐19 virus into existence in Victoria, Australia. In addition to providing insights into the ways in which public administration organizations (PAO) can plan for and respond to wicked problems, I propose that they can learn to manage latent failures and equivocal circumstances before, during, and after su…
Enacting safety
Making Sense of Natural Disasters
Better bushfire safety decision‐making
In the context of bushfires (and other emergencies), state agencies should avoid developing policy and/or advice that locks people into rigid binary choices. In Victoria, Australia post‐fire inquiries have found the bushfire safety advice often referred to as ‘Stay ( and defend your property ) or Go ( early before the fire arrives )’ to be contradictory and competing in its logic. However, this advice continues to provide a basis for positive com…
Struggling to make sense of it all
Organizations operating in extreme contexts regularly face dangerous incidents they can neither prevent nor easily control. In such circumstances, successful sensemaking can mean the difference between life and death. But what happens afterwards? Our study of emergency management practitioners following a major bushfire reveals a process of post-incident sensemaking during which practitioners continue to make sense of the incident after it ends, …
Bushfire public inquiries
Victoria, Australia consistently experiences significant bushfires. This article examines the ways in which public inquiry recommendations after major bushfires in Victoria have played an important role in shifting the emphasis of emergency management organisations (EMOs) from bushfire response to bushfire preparedness through hybrid emergency management arrangements. Based on a qualitative analysis of Victorian public inquiry bushfire reports fr…
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