Laura Mclauchlan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 85711 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Laura Mclauchlan |
| PRENOMES | Laura |
| SOBRENOME | Mclauchlan |
| ASSINATURA | MCLAUCHLAN L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4393-0614 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Arts of noticing unloved others
A growing body of scholarly work acknowledges the importance of attending to the entanglements of human and more-than-human lives, including the importance of affect for how we come to understand other organisms. However, to date, little work has been done on the affective aspects of how more-than-human beings come to be understood in policy. Environmental humanities approaches including expert engagement with affective storytelling, attention to…
Working Beyond Anthropology Across Different Epistemic Cultures
The ASAANZ conference in Dunedin in 2023 was a catalyst for this conversation about anthropological practices of interdisciplinarity which we have glossed as working across different epistemic cultures. In this piece, we canvas the concept of disciplines as epistemic cultures, argue for the continued need for disciplines, and discuss the benefits of engagement across epistemic cultures when addressing certain research, policy and educational matt…
Regulating the Plant Versus Regulating the Drug
The cultivation of cannabis has been shaped by underpinning social, political, and economic dynamics over thousands of years. Recently, a new wave of regulatory reform has opened up legal and decriminalized ways of growing, obtaining, and using cannabis plants and products. Yet in some locations, these reforms continue to be informed by conceptualizations of cannabis as “drug” invoking links to criminality. The dominant figuring of cannabis as “d…
Citizens’ juries and their role in improved alcohol policy
Background Increasing public participation has the potential to inform better alcohol policy. One method for increasing participation is the citizens’ jury – a strategy that has been both touted as a panacea for issues of democratic representation and dismissed as ineffective in impacting policy. Seeking to look past both hype and cynicism, we reflect on two Australian juries with an aim to identify both the potentials and pitfalls of the use of …
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 …
Navigating the grey
It's professional but it's personal”
Established Tables and Emergent Huddles
In this paper we document and analyze emergent participatory processes in drug policy, focusing on the relations between established modes of engagement and emergent participatory formats. We do this through analysis of a case example, attending to policy changes to opioid pharmacotherapy treatment in the context of COVID-19 in Australia. Semistructured interviews ( n = 22) were undertaken between August 2020 and March 2021 with people closely in…
Composting (in) the gender studies classroom
Drawing on our experience co-teaching an undergraduate unit called "Gender and Environment," we argue for an expansive feminist approach to teaching climate change that embodies the content of the unit in its classroom practice. This requires: (a) understanding the classroom not as separate from the phenomenon of climate change but as one of its sites, striated by the diverse bodies, histories, and other materialities that comprise it; (b) a rigo…
Wild Disciplines and Multispecies Erotics
While the erotic can be a vital source of change and sustenance for environmental action, how do we ensure we want well? Particularly, how do we do so when our care is directed towards a member of another species? Radically in decline in the UK, hedgehogs are increasingly attended to by thousands of largely urban-based volunteer conservationists nationwide. While these ‘hedgehog champions’ are typically captivated by the charms of hedgehogs, they…
A Multispecies Collective Planting Trees
To what extent do our narratives support the work of ecological care? While working in anti-extinction conservation requires paying careful attention to the realities of precarity and ambiguity, this is not necessarily reflected in our public narratives of such work. Instead, as is typified in Jean Giono's 1953 short story 'The man who planted trees', many conservation narratives are pitched in heroic modes, framing conservation labour as working…
Sadness and the Noir of Urban Hedgehog Conservation
Hedgehogs are a difficult animal to love in contemporary urban worlds. Hogs struggle to thrive in cities splintered by traffic and impermeable fencing, and frequently find even apparently innocuous litter and infrastructure to be hazardous. While public conservation campaigns are often upbeat, privately, many hedgehog champions express sadness about the possibility of really helping hedgehogs. With champions’ lifeways contributing to the trouble …
‘Third mission’ activities, commercialisation and academic entrepreneurs
The growth of ‘third mission’ activities aimed at commercialising universities and creating more entrepreneurial academics is a global phenomenon yet has received scant attention from anthropologists. This paper reports on an ethnographic study that examines the rise of university commercialisation in New Zealand, a country that pioneered many of the reforms associated with neoliberalism. Exploring different sites and spaces of university commerc…
Universities and the commercial construction of reality
Quiet as lambs’
Communicative action in the Human Assisted Reproductive Technology (HART) debates in the New Zealand Parliament in 2004 is analysed in this paper using Habermasian concepts of deliberation. The marked cooperativeness of these debates, which surprised the elected participants themselves, is demonstrated through a comparison with the related and almost simultaneous Care of Children debate, using a Discourse Quality Index inspired by Steiner et al (…
Wild Disciplines and Multispecies Erotics
While the erotic can be a vital source of change and sustenance for environmental action, how do we ensure we want well? Particularly, how do we do so when our care is directed towards a member of another species? Radically in decline in the UK, hedgehogs are increasingly attended to by thousands of largely urban-based volunteer conservationists nationwide. While these ‘hedgehog champions’ are typically captivated by the charms of hedgehogs, they…
Composting (in) the gender studies classroom
Drawing on our experience co-teaching an undergraduate unit called "Gender and Environment," we argue for an expansive feminist approach to teaching climate change that embodies the content of the unit in its classroom practice. This requires: (a) understanding the classroom not as separate from the phenomenon of climate change but as one of its sites, striated by the diverse bodies, histories, and other materialities that comprise it; (b) a rigo…
Sadness and the Noir of Urban Hedgehog Conservation
Hedgehogs are a difficult animal to love in contemporary urban worlds. Hogs struggle to thrive in cities splintered by traffic and impermeable fencing, and frequently find even apparently innocuous litter and infrastructure to be hazardous. While public conservation campaigns are often upbeat, privately, many hedgehog champions express sadness about the possibility of really helping hedgehogs. With champions’ lifeways contributing to the trouble …
Universities and the commercial construction of reality
Quiet as lambs’
Communicative action in the Human Assisted Reproductive Technology (HART) debates in the New Zealand Parliament in 2004 is analysed in this paper using Habermasian concepts of deliberation. The marked cooperativeness of these debates, which surprised the elected participants themselves, is demonstrated through a comparison with the related and almost simultaneous Care of Children debate, using a Discourse Quality Index inspired by Steiner et al (…
Quiet as lambs’
Communicative action in the Human Assisted Reproductive Technology (HART) debates in the New Zealand Parliament in 2004 is analysed in this paper using Habermasian concepts of deliberation. The marked cooperativeness of these debates, which surprised the elected participants themselves, is demonstrated through a comparison with the related and almost simultaneous Care of Children debate, using a Discourse Quality Index inspired by Steiner et al (…
‘Third mission’ activities, commercialisation and academic entrepreneurs
The growth of ‘third mission’ activities aimed at commercialising universities and creating more entrepreneurial academics is a global phenomenon yet has received scant attention from anthropologists. This paper reports on an ethnographic study that examines the rise of university commercialisation in New Zealand, a country that pioneered many of the reforms associated with neoliberalism. Exploring different sites and spaces of university commerc…
Universities and the commercial construction of reality
Sadness and the Noir of Urban Hedgehog Conservation
Hedgehogs are a difficult animal to love in contemporary urban worlds. Hogs struggle to thrive in cities splintered by traffic and impermeable fencing, and frequently find even apparently innocuous litter and infrastructure to be hazardous. While public conservation campaigns are often upbeat, privately, many hedgehog champions express sadness about the possibility of really helping hedgehogs. With champions’ lifeways contributing to the trouble …
Wild Disciplines and Multispecies Erotics
While the erotic can be a vital source of change and sustenance for environmental action, how do we ensure we want well? Particularly, how do we do so when our care is directed towards a member of another species? Radically in decline in the UK, hedgehogs are increasingly attended to by thousands of largely urban-based volunteer conservationists nationwide. While these ‘hedgehog champions’ are typically captivated by the charms of hedgehogs, they…
A Multispecies Collective Planting Trees
To what extent do our narratives support the work of ecological care? While working in anti-extinction conservation requires paying careful attention to the realities of precarity and ambiguity, this is not necessarily reflected in our public narratives of such work. Instead, as is typified in Jean Giono's 1953 short story 'The man who planted trees', many conservation narratives are pitched in heroic modes, framing conservation labour as working…
Navigating the grey
It's professional but it's personal”
Established Tables and Emergent Huddles
In this paper we document and analyze emergent participatory processes in drug policy, focusing on the relations between established modes of engagement and emergent participatory formats. We do this through analysis of a case example, attending to policy changes to opioid pharmacotherapy treatment in the context of COVID-19 in Australia. Semistructured interviews ( n = 22) were undertaken between August 2020 and March 2021 with people closely in…
Composting (in) the gender studies classroom
Drawing on our experience co-teaching an undergraduate unit called "Gender and Environment," we argue for an expansive feminist approach to teaching climate change that embodies the content of the unit in its classroom practice. This requires: (a) understanding the classroom not as separate from the phenomenon of climate change but as one of its sites, striated by the diverse bodies, histories, and other materialities that comprise it; (b) a rigo…
Citizens’ juries and their role in improved alcohol policy
Background Increasing public participation has the potential to inform better alcohol policy. One method for increasing participation is the citizens’ jury – a strategy that has been both touted as a panacea for issues of democratic representation and dismissed as ineffective in impacting policy. Seeking to look past both hype and cynicism, we reflect on two Australian juries with an aim to identify both the potentials and pitfalls of the use of …
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 …
Regulating the Plant Versus Regulating the Drug
The cultivation of cannabis has been shaped by underpinning social, political, and economic dynamics over thousands of years. Recently, a new wave of regulatory reform has opened up legal and decriminalized ways of growing, obtaining, and using cannabis plants and products. Yet in some locations, these reforms continue to be informed by conceptualizations of cannabis as “drug” invoking links to criminality. The dominant figuring of cannabis as “d…
Arts of noticing unloved others
A growing body of scholarly work acknowledges the importance of attending to the entanglements of human and more-than-human lives, including the importance of affect for how we come to understand other organisms. However, to date, little work has been done on the affective aspects of how more-than-human beings come to be understood in policy. Environmental humanities approaches including expert engagement with affective storytelling, attention to…
Working Beyond Anthropology Across Different Epistemic Cultures
The ASAANZ conference in Dunedin in 2023 was a catalyst for this conversation about anthropological practices of interdisciplinarity which we have glossed as working across different epistemic cultures. In this piece, we canvas the concept of disciplines as epistemic cultures, argue for the continued need for disciplines, and discuss the benefits of engagement across epistemic cultures when addressing certain research, policy and educational matt…
Political science (9 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Public relations (5 obras) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 obras) · Politics (4 obras) · Psychology (4 obras) · Public Administration (4 obras) · Biology (3 obras)