Kula hem och kula vall : Fallstudier över fäbodbrukets tillämpning i Rättviks kommun 1998 och 2006

Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka vad innehav och drift av fäbodbruk innebär för fäbod¬brukare och på vilket sätt fäbodbrukets kulturarv är meningsskapande och betydelsefullt för fäbodbrukarna. I uppsatsen har det ställts ett antar frågor för att bättre kunna undersöka syftet. Dessa frågor är länkade till ett praktiskt, ett ekonomiskt, ett kulturbevarande och ett förhåll¬ningssättslänkat tema inom fäbodbruket. Till grund för uppsatsen ligger fallstudier från 1998 och 2006. Uppsatsen är avgränsad till att handla om det nutida fäbodbruket i Rättviks kom¬mun. Resultatet av undersökningen är att innehav och drift av fäbodbruk framför allt innebär per¬sonlig glädje men också arbete och svårigheter för fäbodbrukarna. Fäbodbrukets historiebruk är meningsskapande och betydelsefullt för fäbodbrukarna eftersom de delar av historiekultu¬ren som fäbodbrukarna reproducerar i det nutida fäbodbruket skapar en kontext till nutiden och en länk till historien.

Whatever happened in Torres Strait?: interpreting the Anglican split of 1998

Recent movements within world Anglicanism towards a more democratic representation of the church are in contrast to Torres Strait Islanders' assertion of their own male-led conservative and hierarchical body. These characteristics have marked Torres Strait Island Anglicanism for many years. On the surface, the various strands leading to a conflict over a choice of leader in 1997 focused upon discordant relationships and faulty decision-making procedures, especially the surrender of the diocese of Carpentaria to the adjacent diocese of North Queensland and a subsequent choice of a bishop where Torres Strait clergy claimed that the terms of the surrender had been dishonoured. Yet below the surface, the cleavage between Island and European leadership was also a sign of the ideological shift which was occurring in the Anglican Church of Australia. Supported by European elements within that church opposed to the ordination of women, Islander clergy charged that the mainland body was deserting the faith and order of the 'church of the fathers'. With the Islanders newly empowered, as they perceived it, by the Mabo judgement of the High Court of Australia in 1992, their perception appears to have been that, in spirit, the mainland church denied what the High Court's decision recognised: the ultimate control by Islanders over their own affairs.

Reappraising the waterfront dispute of 1998

Literature about the waterfront dispute is analysed in terms of realism," radicalism," critical analysis," and cultural, reflexive or discursive analysis." These four headings are ,used to investigate various possible backgrounds to the dispute and to consider contending interpretations of the course of the dispute. None of the literature has anything to say, however, about the use of web pages and email during the dispute. Interviews with four web masters reveal two insights: one, it is pertinent to distinguish between the use of computers to disseminate information and their use to promote union campaigns and organisation; and two, it is productive to analyse political actors in terms of how they deploy available discourses.

The ambivalence of otherness: the manifestation of `whiteness` in an Australian school--1988-1998

In recent times, and in times of insurgent globalisation, modern notions of identity and with them, conceptions of essential and primordially defined difference seem to have fallen apart. Identity is understood as postmodern, a 'moveable feast' of ever-in-process, negotiated differences. The examination of the material and conceptual terms and conditions that position these logics otherwise suggests that these arguments remain tied within conceptions of ourselves made through the ambivalent conceptions of others. In this paper, I trace these paradoxical relations as they are represented in a particular local Melbourne school at each end of a decade and at a time of increasing demographic change and global transformation. Teachers and parents understood and defined their identities and the identities of others in ways that were increasingly fragmented, changing and complex. Beneath these changing patterns, they continued to define others as different and as not us in ways that were ambivalent and extreme. These negotiations took place differently in recent years as the definitions of essential notions of identity changed and became more complex to define. Nevertheless, they continued as ambivalent stories of otherness that transversed the tortuous spectrum between orientalism and nativism speculated upon in post-colonial writings.

Rabies in Maine: 1998-2008

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