Journal articles: 'Australian Science fiction'

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Kerry, Stephen Craig. "Australian Queer Science Fiction Fans." Journal of Homosexuality 66, no. 1 (November 7, 2017): 100–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2017.1395262.

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Sean McMullen. "Australian Science Fiction in the Sixties." Antipodes 27, no. 1 (2013): 73. http://dx.doi.org/10.13110/antipodes.27.1.0073.

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Leane, Elizabeth, and Stephanie Pfennigwerth. "Antarctica in the Australian imagination." Polar Record 38, no. 207 (October 2002): 309–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s003224740001799x.

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AbstractAntarctica and Australia share a geographical marginality, a commonality that has produced and continues to reinforce historical and political ties between the two continents. Given this close relationship, surprisingly few fulllength novels set in or concerned with the Antarctic have been produced by Australian authors. Until 1990, two latenineteenth- century Utopias, and two novels by Thomas Keneally, were (to our knowledge) the sole representatives of this category. The last decade, however, has seen an upsurge of interest in Antarctica, and a corresponding increase in fictional response. Keneally's novels are ‘literary,’ but these more recent novels cover the gamut of popular genres: science fiction, action-thriller, and romance. Furthermore, they indicate a change in the perception of Antarctica and its place within international relations. Whereas Keneally is primarily concerned with the psychology of the explorer from the ‘Heroic Age,’ these younger Australian writers are interested in contemporary political, social, and environmental issues surrounding the continent. Literary critics have hitherto said little about textual representations of Antarctica; this paper opens a space for analysis of ‘Antarctic fiction,’ and explores the changing nature of Australian-Antarctic relations as represented by Australian writers.

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Richards, Isabel, and Anna-Sophie Jürgens. "Being the environment: Conveying environmental fragility and sustainability through Indigenous biocultural knowledge in contemporary Indigenous Australian science fiction." Journal of Science & Popular Culture 4, no. 2 (December 1, 2021): 153–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jspc_00031_1.

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In contemporary Indigenous Australian fiction, all (non-)human animals, plants and the land are interconnected and interdependent. They are aware that they are not in the environment but are the environment. The planet and its non-human inhabitants have a creative agency and capacity for experience that demands our ethical consideration. In this article we investigate how Ambelin Kwaymullina’s Tribe novels and Ellen van Neerven’s novella Water empower environmental awareness by promoting sustainability and protection of the environment – within their fictional worlds and beyond. We argue that the human–nature relationship explored in these science fiction texts conveys the importance of Indigenous biocultural knowledge for resolving twenty-first-century global challenges. We clarify the role of fictional texts in the broader cultural debate on the power and importance of Indigenous biocultural knowledge as a complement to western (scientific) understanding and communication of environmental vulnerability and sustainability. Contemporary Indigenous Australian literature, this article shows, evokes sympathy in readers, inspires an ecocentric view of the world and thus paves the path for a sustainable transformation of society, which has been recognized as the power of fiction. Indigenous Australian fiction texts help us to rethink what it means to be human in terms of our relationship to other living beings and our responsibility to care for our planet in a holistic and intuitive way.

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Guttfeld, Dorotta. "Australian Science Fiction: in Search of the “Feel”." Zeitschrift für Australienstudien / Australian Studies Journal 2122 (2008): 65–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.35515/zfa/asj.2122/200708.08.

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Matek, Ljubica. "Australian Aboriginal SF – Blending Genre and Literary Fiction: A Review of Futuristic Worlds in Australian Aboriginal Fiction by Iva Polak." ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries 15, no. 1 (April 18, 2018): 129–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/elope.15.1.129-131.

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The fact that Iva Polak’s monograph Futuristic Worlds in Australian Aboriginal Fiction is the first volume in Peter Lang’s World Science Fiction Studies series, edited by Sonja Fritzsche, is symbolic of the actual novelty and relevance of Polak’s work. It is, in fact, the first book-length study in English dedicated to the analysis of Australian Aboriginal fiction from the point of view of the theory of the fantastic.

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Rooney, Brigid, and Michael Wilding. "Studies in Classic Australian Fiction." Labour History, no. 76 (1999): 187. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/27516642.

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Klik, Lukas. "The Mabo Turn in Australian Fiction." Journal of Australian Studies 42, no. 4 (October 2, 2018): 540–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2018.1542939.

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Cogbill-Seiders, Elisa. "Review of "The science of communicating science by Craig Cormick," Cormick, C. (2019). The science of communicating science. CSIRO publishing." Communication Design Quarterly 9, no. 1 (March 2021): 37–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3437000.3437005.

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The Science of Communicating Science by Dr. Craig Cormick is a lively introduction to the foundational principles of science communications, particularly those oriented towards the public. Dr. Craig Cormick is a well-known science communicator and former president of the Australian Science Communicators, a network of science communicators and journalists. Cormick has also written over 30 books of fiction and non-fiction---in addition to academic articles---and has worked with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), which incidentally also published his textbook. The Science of Communicating Science operates on the premise that science communication is a complex process requiring extensive and time-consuming interdisciplinary research. Cormick's textbook aims to simplify the learning process by distilling well over 400 sources into a compact volume so that novice science communicators may learn important skills for informing and empowering the public by telling engaging stories, fostering interdisciplinary skills, and understanding the audience.

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Walsh, Pete. "What ifs and idle daydreaming: The creative processes of Andrew McGahan." Queensland Review 23, no. 1 (May 31, 2016): 62–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qre.2016.7.

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AbstractAndrew McGahan is one of Queensland's most successful novelists. Over the past 23 years, he has published six adult novels and three novels in his Ship Kings series for young adults. McGahan's debut novel, Praise (1992), won the Vogel National Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript, Last Drinks (2000) won the Ned Kelly Award for Crime Writing, and The White Earth went on to win the Miles Franklin Literary Award, The Age Book of the Year Award and the Courier-Mail Book of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards. In 2009, Wonders of a Godless World earned McGahan the Best Science Fiction Novel in the Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction. McGahan's unashamedly open critiques of Australian, and specifically Queensland, society have imbued his works with a sense of place and space that is a unique trait of his writing. In this interview, McGahan allows us a brief visit into the mind of one of Australia's pre-eminent contemporary authors, shedding light on the ‘what ifs’ and ‘idle daydreaming’ that have pushed his ideas from periphery to page.

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Nimon, Maureen. "Living With Ourselves: Recent Australian Science Fiction for Children and Young People." Children's Literature Association Quarterly 15, no. 4 (1990): 185–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/chq.0.0840.

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Courchesne, Jade. "Two Worlds Combined: How Cleverman (2016-2017) Reimagines Indigenous Storytelling." Film Matters 13, no. 2 (September 1, 2022): 60–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/fm_00227_7.

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This article discusses the Australian television drama, Cleverman, a show that blends together science fiction, conventions of the superhero genre, and influences from Indigenous storytelling to yield an honest critique of modern Australian politics. Tackling Australia’s documented history of Indigenous maltreatment while weaving in elements of the Dreaming, the article dissects how Cleverman depicts the legacy of intercultural and intergenerational trauma inflicted upon Indigenous populations, provoking a discourse on how government initiatives continue to have serious, negative repercussions on marginalized communities.

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Birns, Nicholas. "Introduction to John Kinsella's PINK LAKE." Thesis Eleven 155, no. 1 (December 2019): 3–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0725513619892170.

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John Kinsella’s fiction emphasizes similar themes of environmental activism, political protest, and critique of Australian society, as does his widely acclaimed poetry. As in his verse, his orientation as a fiction writer is both local and global, regional and cosmopolitan. But in his fiction Kinsella engages in a double interrogation of both mainstream society and his own posture in opposition to it. In the novella Pink Lake a film director is interviewed by an uncomprehending journalist and driven to desperation by the philistinism of Australian society. But his own arrogance, unexamined white and male privilege, and illusion that just because he practices what he calls cinema vérité he has in fact attained the truth mean that he is part of the problem as well. Kinsella examines the problematics of social critique in a neoliberal world, noting their ironies while still believing in their possibility and necessity.

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Milner, Andrew. "The Sea and Eternal Summer: Science Fiction, Futurology and Climate Change." Swamphen: a Journal of Cultural Ecology (ASLEC-ANZ) 3 (October 9, 2013): 125–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.60162/swamphen.3.10612.

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This paper will be concerned to analyse what is almost certainly the earliest Australian climate change dystopia. In 1985 George Turner published a short story, The Fittest, in which he began to explore the fictional possibilities of the effects of global warming. He quickly expanded this story into a full-length novel published as The Sea and Summer in Britain and as Drowning Towers in the United States. The Sea and Summer is set mainly in Melbourne, a vividly described, particular place, terrifyingly transformed into the utterly unfamiliar. Turner’s core narrative describes a world of mass unemployment and social polarisation, in which rising sea levels have inundated the Bayside suburbs; the poor ‘Swill’ live in high-rise tower blocks, the lower floors of which are progressively submerged; the wealthier ‘Sweet’ in suburbia on higher ground. The paper will argue that Turner’s novel is long overdue a positive critical re-evaluation.

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Taylor, Claire. "Between Science Fiction and a Travelogue: Albalucía Angel’s Tierra de nadie." La Manzana de la Discordia 4, no. 2 (March 16, 2016): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.25100/lamanzanadeladiscordia.v4i2.1447.

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(Entre la ciencia ficción y la bitácora de viaje: Tierra de nadie de Albalucía Ángel)Resumen: Este artículo explora la estructura dualde Tierra de nadie,última novela de Albalucía Angel,como tanto una bitácora de viaje como una obra deciencia ficción. El primer hilo tiene que ver con lo que laautora ha llamado mujeres galácticas, un grupo demujeres extraterrestres que descienden a la Tierra yviajan por diversas regiones y circunstancias en buscade desatar la ‘bondad’, y que corresponde a lascaracterísticas de una narrativa de ciencia ficción. Elsegundo de estos hilos narra las experiencias de unamujer protagonista, claramente colombiana de origen,y narra sus viajes alrededor del globo, experimentandodiferentes culturas, desde la europea a la australiana yla india. Estas experiencias reflejan de modo libre las dela autora en sus viajes en estos países, y por lo tantopodría clasificarse como escritura de viajes. De este modoel texto combina y entrelaza las localidades geográficascon la narrativa, cambiando de viajes galácticos a relatosde viajes cotidianos. La conclusión, donde se unen losdos hilos, se interpreta en términos de la posición teóricade Luce Irigaray sobre el proceso de «convertirse endivinidades mujeres».Palabras clave: Novela, mujeres escritoras, género,ciencia ficción, bitácora de viaje.Abstract: This article explores the dual structure ofTierra de nadie, Albalucía Angel’s latest novel, as both atravelogue and a work of science fiction. The first stranddeals with what the author has termed mujeres galácticas,a group of extraterrestrial women who descend to Earthand travel through various regions and circumstancesin their quest to unleash ‘bondad’, and it corresponds tothe characteristics of a science fiction (SF) narrative.The second of these strands narrates the experiences of afemale protagonist, clearly Colombian in origin, andnarrates her travels around the globe, experiencingdifferent cultures, from European to Australian andIndian cultures. These experiences loosely mirror theauthor’s own in her travels around these countries, andcould therefore be classified as travel writing. Thus thetext combines and intertwines geographical locations,with the narrative, switching from galactic journeys toeveryday travel accounts. The conclusion, where the twostrands are united, is interpreted in terms of LuceIrigaray’s theoretical position regarding the process of‘becoming divine women’.Key words: Novel, women writers, gender, sciencefiction, travelogue.

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Stockwell, Peter. "Schema Poetics and Speculative Cosmology." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 12, no. 3 (August 2003): 252–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09639470030123005.

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Speculative cosmology is a sub-genre of science fiction that particularly focuses on the difficulties for the deployment of existing knowledge in reading. This article assesses the usefulness of competing models of world-monitoring in order to arrive at a usable framework for discussing the particular issues in science fictional reading. It is suggested that schema theory, while containing many flaws in general, nevertheless offers an appropriate degree of delicacy for the exploration of sf. Schema poetics - the application of the theory to the literary context - is used to discuss speculative cosmology, with a focus on the work of the Australian sf writer Greg Egan. The analysis investigates the connection between stylistic form and schema operation, and proposes an explanation of `plausibility'. Specifically, sf tends to provide a readerly counterpart in the text, and thereby dramatizes schema refreshment as if it were mere schema accretion.

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McKay, Belinda. "Narrating Colonial Queensland: Francis Adams, Frank Jardine and ‘The Red Snake’." Queensland Review 15, no. 1 (January 2008): 97–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1321816600004591.

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In 1949, Clive Turnbull remarked that Australian Life (1892), a collection of short stories by Francis Adams, ‘is a book that deserves to be resurrected’. While two of the radical English writer's novels have been republished over the last three decades, Australian Life — which Turnbull regarded as ‘perhaps the most noteworthy’ of Adams' works of fiction — has not been resurrected either in print or online, and is accessible only in rare book libraries. Republication here in Queensland Review of the original version of Adams' short story ‘The Red Snake’, which appeared first in the Boomerang in 1888 and was later revised for Australian Life, may help to renew interest in Francis Adams' carefully crafted but disturbing narratives of life in the Australian colonies in the 1880s.

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Ryan, Simon. "Books for boys: manipulating genre in contemporary Australian young adult fiction." Journal of Australian Studies 43, no. 3 (July 3, 2019): 396–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2019.1649798.

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Wilkins, Kim. "Popular genres and the Australian literary community: the case of fantasy fiction." Journal of Australian Studies 32, no. 2 (June 2008): 265–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443050802056771.

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Green, Stephanie. "The condition of recognition: Gothic intimations in Andrew McGahan's The White Earth." Queensland Review 23, no. 1 (May 31, 2016): 84–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qre.2016.9.

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AbstractThis article discusses the evocation of the Gothic as a narrative interrogation of the intersections between place, identity and power in Andrew McGahan's The White Earth (2004). The novel deploys common techniques of Gothic literary fiction to create a sense of disassociation from the grip of a European colonial sensibility. It achieves this in various ways, including by representing its central architectural figure of colonial dominance, Kuran House, as an emblem of aristocratic pastoral decline, then by invoking intimations of an ancient supernatural presence which intercedes in the linear descent of colonial possession and, ultimately, by providing a rational explanation for the novel's events. The White Earth further demonstrates the inherently adaptive qualities of Gothic narrative technique as a means of confronting the limits to white belonging in post-colonial Australia by referencing a key historical moment, the 1992 Mabo judgment, which rejected the concept of terra nullius and recognised native title under Australian common law. At once discursive and performative, the sustained way in which the work employs the tropic power of Gothic anxiety serves to reveal the uncertain terms in which its characters negotiate what it means to be Australian, more than 200 years after colonial invasion.

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Maloney, Vivien. "Disruptive gatekeepers: The representation of father‐figures in contemporary Australian women's short fiction." Journal of Australian Studies 27, no. 76 (January 2003): 57–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443050309387824.

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Mather, Philippe. "Intercultural sensitivity in Orientalist cinema." East Asian Journal of Popular Culture 6, no. 2 (August 1, 2020): 177–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/eapc_00024_1.

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Edward Said’s dogmas of Orientalism are a succinct summary of western perceptions of the East, which reveal an essentially racist discourse that also speaks to the westerner’s self-perception. While there is a tendency in fiction film to polarize attitudes as either friendly or hostile, for reasons of narrative economy and to enhance dramatic conflict, this article argues that it is possible to measure the behaviour of fictional characters on a continuum describing intercultural sensitivity to assess how these characters appear to respond to the idea of cultural differences, broadly ranging from the most ethnocentric views to more ethnorelative ones. Since the intercultural development continuum (IDC) is structured as five developmental stages, it provides a finer psychological template than Orientalist binaries, offering a more nuanced view of character motivations and attitudes. The IDC scale is ideally suited to narrative analysis as it usefully describes successive stages that characters may exhibit throughout the course of a story depicting intercultural exchanges. The IDC allows the analyst to gauge the degree of conformance of any given film to Said’s aforementioned dogmas, particularly those films that either express an ambivalent attitude or appear superficially more enlightened or accommodating of difference. This model will be illustrated with a number of case studies selected from a filmography focusing on western representations of Singapore in film and television, from 1940 to 2015, including titles such as the Bette Davis plantation melodrama The Letter, the science fiction thriller Hitman: Agent 47 and the Australian period TV series Serangoon Road.

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Morris, Robyn. "Food, race and the power of recuperative identity politics within Asian Australian women's fiction." Journal of Australian Studies 32, no. 4 (December 2008): 499–508. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443050802471400.

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Virginás, Andrea. "Embodied Genetics in Science-Fiction, Big-Budget to Low-Budget: from Jeunet’s Alien: Resurrection (1997) to Piccinini’s Workshop (2011)." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies 8, no. 1 (September 1, 2014): 149–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ausfm-2014-0031.

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Abstract The article uses and revises to some extent Vivian Sobchack’s categorization of (basically) American science-fiction output as “optimistic big-budget,” “wondrous middle-ground” and “pessimistic low-budget” seen as such in relation to what Sobchack calls the “double view” of alien beings in filmic diegesis (Screening Space, 2001). The argument is advanced that based on how diegetic encounters are constructed between “genetically classical” human agents and beings only partially “genetically classical” and/or human (due to genetic diseases, mutations, splicing, and cloning), we may differentiate between various methods of visualization (nicknamed “the museum,” “the lookalike,” and “incest”) that are correlated to Sobchack’s mentioned categories, while also displaying changes in tone. Possibilities of revision appear thanks to the later timeframe (the late 1990s/2000s) and the different national-canonical belongings (American, Icelandic-German- Danish, Hungarian-German, Canadian-French-American, and Australian) that characterize filmic and artistic examples chosen for analysis as compared to Sobchack’s work in Screening Space.1

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Aliaga-Lavrijsen, Jessica. "Pregnancy, Childbirth and Nursing in Feminist Dystopia: Marianne de Pierres’s Transformation Space (2010)." Humanities 9, no. 3 (July 7, 2020): 58. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h9030058.

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Marianne de Pierres’s Transformation Space (2010) is a rare example of an Australian novel set in an apocalyptic and dystopic interstellar future where pregnancy, childbearing and nursing have a presence that is quite uncommon in Science Fiction (SF). Despite the fact that the genre of SF and that of space opera in particular have been traditionally quite male-oriented, in the last years feminist theories of several kinds have been an undeniable transformative influence. This article intends to analyse not only how these specifically female issues related to motherhood/mothering are presented in the novel, but also to explore their function and role. A close reading of these topics will show whether they endorse a solid feminist stance or are just colourful feminist details in a male-dominated space opera and, in turn, if they have a specifically narrative purpose in the context of the dystopic subgenre.

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Bradford, Clare, Kerry Mallan, and John Stephens. "New world orders and the dystopian turn: transforming visions of territoriality and belonging in recent Australian children's fiction." Journal of Australian Studies 32, no. 3 (September 2008): 349–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443050802294091.

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Birns, Nicholas. "Sharon Faylene and the woman from the welfare: Heterosexual fulfilment and modernist form in Criena Rohan'sThe Delinquents." Queensland Review 23, no. 2 (December 2016): 196–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qre.2016.29.

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AbstractCriena Rohan'sThe Delinquents(1962) has always had a cult appeal — in 1989 it was made into a movie, starring Kylie Minogue as Lola and an unknown American as Brownie — and was recently reissued as a Text Classic. A short novel written by a writer who did not have a long career, and published between more commonly scrutinised periods of Australian fiction,The Delinquentsis still, however, liminal.The Delinquentsis very much a novel of rebellion and subversion, as its teenage protagonists, Brownie Hansen and Lola Lovell, pursue their love over the opposition of both sets of parents the police, the bourgeois consensus and everybody who is not them. By the fiery smoldering of its passion, though, their love sustains them and they emerge at the end, buffeted but united and resilient. This article argues that Rohan's book represents a Queensland iteration of a ‘regional modernism’.

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Sleep, Lyndal, and Paul Harris. "The importance of digital inclusion in accessing care and support in our increasingly digitised world." Journal of Social Inclusion 12, no. 2 (December 22, 2021): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.36251/josi252.

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The helping professions are increasingly using digital technologies like automated decision making, artificial intelligence and video or telehealth to meet the needs of their clients (Carney, 2020; Henman 2019). This trend was accelerated by the pandemic, as we relied more on digital connections and service models to ensure continuity and care during periods of lockdown and in accordance with social distancing guidelines (Meijer, & Webster, 2020). Consultations over real-time video (e.g. Zoom), once the topic of futuristic, speculative fiction have become commonplace, even mundane. Automated, digital solutions are also becoming increasingly commonplace across different human service contexts. For instance, the use of chat bots by Services Australia that use artificial intelligence to understand your questions, and answer them, have been rolled out over recent years as the number of people accessing online support during the pandemic escalated. Even facial recognition technology was trialled in Australia for the first time in a social services context, during the 2020 bushfires, allowing speedy identification and assessment of people in need after their documentation had been destroyed in the fires (Hendry, 2020). The phasing out of cash and rise of digital currencies and service platforms are further evidence that our world is rapidly becoming more digitised. Concordantly, the receipt of care and support is increasingly becoming dependent on access to digital technologies. This presents a new challenge – i.e. digital inclusion. Digital inclusion is about ensuring all can access and use digital technology and services (Australian Digital Inclusion Index, 2021; United Nations, 2021). If we aim to avoid a growing divide based on digital inclusion/exclusion, it is vital that attention to inequalities are at the forefront of our minds if the embrace of all things digital continues unabated (Crawford, 2021).

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Boshoff, Dorothea. "Fragile Spaces: Situated Knowledges in Orion’s Academia." Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics 7, no. 2 (September 1, 2023): 28. http://dx.doi.org/10.20897/femenc/13556.

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Through the element of estrangement often present in science fiction, Australian author Marianne de Pierres presents a world, which, while very different from our world, highlights issues very relevant to it. Close reading and literary analysis of <i>The Sentients of Orion</i> reveal an impoverished planetary world where most characters are stripped of, or crippled in terms of displaying and accepting love, affection and emotional intimacy. With reference to the recently published dialogue between Rosi Braidotti and Nina Lykke ‘The Long March Through the Patriarchal Institutions’ (2021), this paper will demonstrate how the negative experiences of love and intimacy of female academics and scientists in <i>The Sentients of Orion</i> are contributed to by the academic system in which they are situated. The analysis will show how patriarchal academic institutions alienate female characters, thus impacting negatively on their choices in terms of sexuality and gender performance. While gender performance and the results of the presence or absence of intimacy in the novels are situated and bound by specificity, the paper aims to show how the lack of tolerance for individuality allowed by the patriarchal systems of knowledge making on Orion impacts negatively on female agency.

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Persson, Asha, Christy E. Newman, Pene Manolas, Martin Holt, Denton Callander, Tina Gordon, and John de Wit. "Challenging Perceptions of “Straight”: Heterosexual Men Who Have Sex with Men and the Cultural Politics of Sexual Identity Categories." Men and Masculinities 22, no. 4 (July 17, 2017): 694–715. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1097184x17718586.

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Research shows that some heterosexually identified men engage in sex with men; however, they remain largely hidden and little understood. Despite long-standing scholarly recognition that sexual identity and orientation do not always neatly coincide, the culturally normative heterosexual/homosexual binary tends to shape mainstream perceptions of such men as well as render them invisible in sexual health systems reliant on stable sexual identity categories. This invisibility, in turn, perpetuates the fiction of the binary. We explore perspectives on heterosexually identified men who have sex with men, drawing on recent research literature and on qualitative interviews with “key informants” in the Australian sexual health field who have frontline knowledge of these men. We consider the limitations of inventing a label to “encapsulate” these diverse men but also the significance of finding a language that meaningfully acknowledges their sexual realities and highlights heterosexuality as more varied and fluid than social attitudes and traditional sexual identity categories permit.

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Hunt, Dallas. "“In search of our better selves”: Totem Transfer Narratives and Indigenous Futurities." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 42, no. 1 (January 1, 2018): 71–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.17953/aicrj.42.1.hunt.

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Much contemporary science fiction urges us to focus on eco-activism and sustainable futures in order to prevent environmental catastrophe. From a critical Indigenous and anticolonial perspective, however, the question becomes “for whom are these futures sustainable”? Set in a nondescript desert dystopia, George Miller's film Mad Max: Fury Road 2015 alludes to the westerns of yesteryear and the Australian “outback”—spaces coded as menacing in their resistance to being tamed by settler-colonial interests. This article charts how Miller's film, while preoccupied with issues pertaining to global warming and ecological collapse, replicates and reifies settler replacement narratives, or what Canadian literature scholar Margery Fee has referred to as “totem transfer” narratives (1987). In these narratives, ultimately the “natives” transfer their knowledges and then disappear from view, helping white settlers remedy the self-created ills that currently threaten their worlds and enabling them to inherit the land. In the second half, I also consider how Indigenous futurist texts offer decolonizing potentials that refute the replacement narratives that persist in settler-colonial contexts. In particular, I examine how Indigenous cultural production emphasizes the importance of the intergenerational transfer of Indigenous knowledges and refuses the hermeneutic of reconciliation that seeks to discipline Indigenous futures in the service of a settler-colonial present.

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Milner, Andrew, and James Burgann Milner. "Anthropocene Fiction and World-Systems Analysis." Journal of World-Systems Research 26, no. 2 (August 19, 2020): 350–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2020.988.

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As developed by Immanuel Wallerstein and various co-thinkers, world-systems analysis is essentially an approach to economic history and historical sociology that has been largely indifferent to literary studies. This indifference is perhaps surprising given that the Annales school, which clearly influenced Wallerstein’s work, produced a foundational account of the emergence of modern western literature in Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin’s L’apparition du livre (1958). More recently, literary scholars have attempted to apply this kind of analysis directly to their own field. The best-known instances are probably Pascale Casanova’s La republique mondiale des lettres (1999), Franco Moretti’s Distant Reading (2013) and the Warwick Research Collective’s Combined and Uneven Development (2015). More recently still, Andrew Milner in Australia and Jerry Määttä in Sweden have sought to apply “distant reading” more specifically to the genre of science fiction. Milner’s model of the “global SF field” identifies an original Anglo-French core, supplemented by more recent American and Japanese cores, longstanding Russian, German, Polish and Czech semi-peripheries, an emergent Chinese semi-periphery, and a periphery comprising the rest of the world. This essay attempts to apply that model to what Adam Trexler has termed “Anthropocene fictions” and Daniel Bloom “cli-fi”, which we treat here as a significant sub-genre of contemporary science fiction.

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Henry, Louise. "Susan Sheridan, The Fiction of Thea Astley, Cambria Australian Literature, edited by Susan Lever, New York: Cambria Press, 2016, 186 ppl., ISBN 9 7816 0497 9329, US$99.99." Queensland Review 26, no. 2 (December 2019): 286–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qre.2019.35.

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Golding, David. "No Future? The Lack of Science Fiction Published in Australia." Publishing Research Quarterly 27, no. 1 (December 16, 2010): 62–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12109-010-9191-2.

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Lamb, Jonathan. "Fiction and Fakements in Colonial Australia." Postcolonial Studies 23, no. 3 (July 2, 2020): 360–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2020.1802114.

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Higgins, Marc, Blue Mahy, Rouhollah Aghasaleh, and Patrick Enderle. "Patchworking Response-ability in Science and Technology Education." Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology 10, no. 2-3 (December 30, 2019): 356–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.7577/rerm.3683.

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Within science and technology education, concepts of justice, in/equity, and ethics within science education are simultaneously ubiquitous, necessary, yet un(der)theorized. Consequently, the potential for reproducing and reifying systems of power remains ever present. In response, there is a recent but growing movement within science and technology education that follows the call by Kayumova and colleagues (2019) to move “from empowerment to response-ability.” It is a call to collectively organize, reconfigure, and reimagine science and technology education by taking seriously critiques of Western modern science and technology from its co-constitutive exteriority (e.g., feminist critiques). Herein, we pursue the (re)opening of responsiveness with/in methodology by juxtaposing differential, partial, and situated accounts of response-ability: de/colonizing the Anthropocene in science teacher education in Canada (Higgins); speculative fiction at the science-ethics nexus in secondary schooling in Australia (Mahy); and a reciprocal model for teaching and learning computational competencies with Latinx youth in the US (Aghasaleh and Enderle).

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Stirling, Lesley, and Jennifer Green. "Narrative in ‘societies of intimates’." Narrative in ‘societies of intimates’ 26, no. 2 (December 31, 2016): 173–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.26.2.01sti.

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When the Australian writer Richard Flanagan accepted the 2014 Man Booker Prize for fiction, he said that “As a species it is story that distinguishes us”. While the prize was given for a literary work written in English, Australia and the surrounding regions are replete with a rich diversity of oral traditions, and with stories remembered and told over countless generations and in many languages. In this article we consider both the universality and the cross-cultural and cross-linguistic diversity of various forms of narrative. We explore the question of what a linguistic typology of narrative might look like, and survey some of the literature relevant to this issue. Most specifically, we ask whether some observed differences in narrative style, structure, or delivery could derive from social features of the communities which produce them: their social density, informational homogeneity, and the high degree of common ground they share.

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Shamsi, Shokoofeh. "Seafood-borne parasites in Australia: human health risks, fact or fiction?" Microbiology Australia 41, no. 1 (2020): 33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ma20009.

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Seafood is an increasingly popular source of healthy protein. Since 1961, the average annual increase in global food fish consumption has been twice as high as population growth and exceeds the consumption of meat from all terrestrial animals combined1. The following overview of seafood safety concerns is intended to help readers to understand potential risks associated with parasites in seafood products and the need for a national approach to reduce or minimise them. It is important to note that parasite infections are not limited to seafood: all other types of foods, including vegetables and red meat can also be infected with a broad range of parasites, some of which are more dangerous than parasites in seafood. The main issue is lack of science based contemporaneous safety protocols which focus on seafood-borne parasites. As a result, in Australia regulatory control of parasites in seafood lags far behind other food sectors. Seafood safety is a broad topic. The focus of this article is on an understudied field in Australia, seafood-borne parasitic diseases. The word ‘seafood' in this context encompasses fish and shellfish products from marine and freshwater ecosystems that are, directly or indirectly, meant for human consumption.

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Hazell, Anne. "Meals in minutes: food in contemporary Australian adolescent fiction." Australian Library Journal 49, no. 2 (January 2000): 151–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00049670.2000.10755916.

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Margaret, Thornton. "Deconstructing Affirmative Action." International Journal of Discrimination and the Law 2, no. 4 (September 1997): 299–315. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/135822919700200404.

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The phrase affirmative action (AA) has been in use in Australia for two decades, mainly in the context of improving the profile of women in the workplace. Federal legislation was enacted in 1986 but the formalistic focus on the preparation of plans, numerosity and the lodgment of reports has deflected attention away from the elusive substance of AA. The procedural veil will be lifted to focus more closely on the nature of the substance, with particular regard to managerial positions. It will be argued that the construction of femininity and masculinity, through what are termed ‘the fictive feminine’ and ‘the imagined masculine’, is resistant to structural change. However, the adoption of co-operative workplace practices, as advocated by a recent influential Australian Government report, does have the potential to challenge the gender polarity.

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Clarke, Patricia. "The Queensland Shearers' Strikes in Rosa Praed's Fiction." Queensland Review 9, no. 1 (May 2002): 67–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1321816600002750.

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Novelist Rosa Praed's portrayal of colonial Queensland in her fiction was influenced by her social position as the daughter of a squatter and conservative Cabinet Minister, Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior, and limited by the fact that she lived in Australia for much less than one-third of her life. After she left Australia in 1876, she recharged her imagination, during her long novel-writing career in England, by seeking specific information through family letters and reminiscences, copies of Hansard and newspapers. As the decades went by and she remained in England, the social and political dynamics of colonial society changed. Remarkably, she remained able to tum sparse sources into in-depth portrayals of aspects of colonial life.

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Taylor, Cheryl. "Shaping a Regional Identity: Literary Non-Fiction and Short Fiction in North Queensland." Queensland Review 8, no. 2 (November 2001): 41–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1321816600006826.

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Stories, anecdotes, and descriptive articles were the earliest publications, following the main wave of colonisation in the 1860s, to bring Queensland north and west of Proserpine to the attention of the national and international community. Such publications were also the main vehicle of an internal mythology: they shaped the identity of the inhabitants, diversified following settlement, and their sense of the region. The late date of settlement compared with south-eastern Australia meant that frontier experience continued both as a lived reality and as mythology well into the twentieth century. The self-containment of the region as actual and exemplary frontier was breached only with the arrival of television and university culture in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Norman, F. I., J. A. E. Gibson, and J. S. Burgess. "Klarius Mikkelsen's 1935 landing in the Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica: some fiction and some facts." Polar Record 34, no. 191 (October 1998): 293–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400025985.

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AbstractExploratory activities of Norwegians, particularly those directed by Lars Christensen, off eastern Antarctica are discussed briefly in relation to contemporary Antarctic investigations and politics. The interests of Norway there and Christensen's role in establishing an understanding of the local coastline are indicated. Particular attention is paid to the landing made by Klarius Mikkelsen in the Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica, on 20 February 1935. Note is taken of the site's recent re-discovery, and the symbolic role of the landing in the national aspirations of Norway, Britain, and Australia is discussed. Mikkelsen operated under commercial and scientific interests promoted by Christensen, and his landing was, at least in published material, seen as an extension of them. However, there is a suggestion that not only had a new Norwegian land been discovered, and a landing made, but that a claim to it was at least considered. Such a claim was not appropriate given previous agreements between Norway and Britain. The site's location and environs are discussed, as are subsequent flights over it and visits made there by Australian expeditioners. The ambiguity associated with claims that Caroline Mikkelsen was the first woman to land on the Antarctic mainland is also examined. Since Mikkelsen's site was on an island within the Tryne Group, to the north of Davis station, if a mainland location is required to establish such an event, then an alternative (Scullin Monolith) is proposed; however, on this occasion four women were involved, but who was first ashore remains uncertain.

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Chandler, David. "New Zealand in Great Famine Era Irish politics: The strange case of A Narrative of the Sufferings of Maria Bennett." Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies 9, no. 2 (December 1, 2021): 215–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00068_1.

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A Narrative of the Sufferings of Maria Bennett, a crudely printed, eight-page pamphlet, was published in Dublin in spring 1846. It has been interpreted as an early fiction concerning New Zealand, or alternatively as a New Zealand ‘captivity narrative’, possibly based on the author’s own experiences. Against these readings, it is argued here that Maria Bennett, more concerned with Ireland than New Zealand, is a piece of pro-British propaganda hurried out in connection with the British Government’s ‘Protection of Life (Ireland) Bill’ ‐ generally referred to simply as the ‘Coercion Bill’ ‐ first debated on 23 February 1846. The Great Famine had begun with the substantial failure of Ireland’s staple potato crop in autumn 1845. This led to an increase in lawlessness, and the Government planned to combine its relief measures with draconian new security regulations. The story of Maria Bennett, a fictional young Irishwoman transported to Australia but shipwrecked in New Zealand, was designed to advertise the humanity of British law. Having escaped from the Māori, she manages to get to London, where she is pardoned by Sir James Graham, the Home Secretary, the man responsible for the Coercion Bill. New Zealand, imagined at the very beginning of the British colonial era, functions in the text as a dark analogy to Ireland, a sort of pristine example of the ‘savage’ conditions making British rule necessary and desirable in the first place. A hungry, lawless Ireland could descend to that level of uncivilization, unless, the propagandist urges, it accepts more British law.

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Kelly, Matthew. "An Evidence Based Methodology to Facilitate Public Library Non-fiction Collection Development." Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 10, no. 4 (December 13, 2015): 40. http://dx.doi.org/10.18438/b8pw2p.

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Abstract Objective – This research was designed as a pilot study to test a methodology for subject based collection analysis for public libraries. Methods – WorldCat collection data from eight Australian public libraries was extracted using the Collection Evaluation application. The data was aggregated and filtered to assess how the sample’s titles could be compared against the OCLC Conspectus subject categories. A hierarchy of emphasis emerged and this was divided into tiers ranging from 1% of the sample. These tiers were further analysed to quantify their representativeness against both the sample’s titles and the subject categories taken as a whole. The interpretive aspect of the study sought to understand the types of knowledge embedded in the tiers and was underpinned by hermeneutic phenomenology. Results – The study revealed that there was a marked tendency for a small percentage of subject categories to constitute a large proportion of the potential topicality that might have been represented in these types of collections. The study also found that distribution of the aggregated collection conformed to a Power Law distribution (80/20) so that approximately 80% of the collection was represented by 20% of the subject categories. The study also found that there were significant commonalities in the types of subject categories that were found in the designated tiers and that it may be possible to develop ontologies that correspond to the collection tiers. Conclusions – The evidence-based methodology developed in this pilot study has the potential for further development to help to improve the practice of collection development. The introduction of the concept of the epistemic role played by collection tiers is a promising aid to inform our understanding of knowledge organization for public libraries. The research shows a way forward to help to link subjective decision making with a scientifically based approach to managing knowledge resources.

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Stewart, Kim, and Christina Spurgeon. "Researching media participation by listening to people with disability." Media, Culture & Society 42, no. 6 (December 26, 2019): 969–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0163443719890536.

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A significant body of literature examines the under-representation of people with disability in the media. In news and fictional portrayals, people with disability are often defined by disability first, their personhood second, perpetuating stereotypes of people with disability as different. Activists attempt to change how media portray people with disability. Less well-considered are the challenges of media participation. This article argues that the presence of people with disability in the spaces that comprise media institutions is also a necessary condition for social change, not just improved representation and participation. However, even in Australian community broadcasting, a sector founded in a normative policy commitment to democratising media participation, people with disability encounter a range of barriers to accessing the resources and spaces of community broadcasting. The Australian case study reported here supports broad consideration of how listening to the views of community broadcasting participants with disability contributes to improving their media presence.

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Gonsalves, Kavita, Marcus Foth, and Glenda Amayo Caldwell. "Radical Placemaking: Utilizing Low-Tech AR/VR to engage in Communal Placemaking during a Pandemic." Interaction Design and Architecture(s), no. 48 (June 10, 2021): 143–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-048-007.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has made the struggles of the excluded louder and has also left them socially isolated. The article documents the implementation of one instance of Radical Placemaking, an “intangible”, community-driven and participatory placemaking process, in Kelvin Grove Urban Village (KGUV), Brisbane, Australia to tackle social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. KGUV community members were engaged in storytelling and interactive fiction online workshops to create experiential, place-based and mobile low-tech AR digital artefacts. The article expands on the methodology which involved a series of online workshops to design low-tech AR digital artefacts using digital collaboration tools (Google Classroom, Slack, Zoom) and VR environments (Mozilla Hubs). The study’s findings confirm the role of accessible AR/VR technology in enabling marginalised communities to create connectedness and community by co-creating their own authentic and diverse urban imaginaries of place and cities.

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Leane, Elizabeth. "The Adelie Blizzard: the Australasian Antarctic Expedition's neglected newspaper." Polar Record 41, no. 1 (January 2005): 11–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247404003973.

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To prevent boredom and restlessness during early Arctic and Antarctic over-wintering expeditions, leaders often encouraged ‘cultural’ activities, one of the most successful of which was the production of newspapers. Expedition members contributed poetry, short fiction, and literary criticism as well as scientific articles and accounts of their daily activities. These newspapers provide an important insight into the experiences and attitudes of the men who took part in the expeditions. In some cases, the newspaper would be published on the expedition's return, as a means of publicity, fund-raising, and memorialisation. The most famous example is the South Polar Times, the newspaper produced by Robert Falcon Scott's two expeditions. Other polar newspapers remain unpublished and unexamined. This article focuses on the Adelie Blizzard, the newspaper of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911–14, led by Douglas Mawson. Despite Mawson's efforts, the Adelie Blizzard was never published, and is rarely discussed in any detail in accounts of the expedition. The aim of this article is to address this neglect, by examining the genesis, production and attempted publication of the Adelie Blizzard.

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Zipin, Lew. "Simplistic Fictions in Australian Higher Education Policy Debates: a Bourdieuan analysis of complex power struggles." Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 20, no. 1 (April 1999): 21–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0159630990200102.

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Rogers, Juliet. "Remnants of mutilation in anti-FGM law in Australia: a reply to ‘The prosecution of Dawoodi Bohra women’ by Richard Shweder." Global Discourse 12, no. 1 (February 1, 2022): 145–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/204378921x16349692612474.

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This article examines the absence of discussion about male circumcision in the first legal case against female circumcision in Australia, the Vaziri and Magennis case of 2015, 2018 and 2019, where the High Court of Australia prosecuted three people for practising female circumcision. It engages with the work of Rick Shweder on this case, arguing that what powerfully informs legal cases on this topic in Australia is less anthropological or medical evidence, than anti-female genital mutilation advocacy in the forms of literature and activism. These forms of anti-female genital mutilation discourse, the article argues, obscure the obvious comparison between male circumcision – as a ritual or ceremony that results in the production of a man as a man of God or of the nation – and female circumcision, which is understood as a mutilation. In lieu of the missed comparison, the result of this representation in legal and fictional texts is a rendering of the woman as unable to authorise her own agency, that is, as a remnant of mutilation, a rendering that is far from accurate.

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Journal articles on the topic 'Australian Science fiction'

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