John Ashbery's Commotion

A consideration of John Ashbery's Commotion of the Words in relation to Edouard Glissant's concept of the "agent of commotion" from Poetics of Relation

Risk and resilience:Crime and violence prevention in Aboriginal communities

Developmental prevention involves the manipulation of multiple risk and protective factors early in developmental pathways that lead to offending, often at transition points between life phases. The emphasis is not just on individuals but also their social contexts. Risk and protective factors for crime and violence in Aboriginal communities include such standard factors as child abuse, school failure and supportive family environments, but additional factors arise from unique aspects of Aboriginal history, culture and social structure. This paper draws on existing literature, interviews with urban Aboriginal community workers, and data from the Sibling Study to delineate those interrelated risk factors (forced removals, dependence, institutionalised racism, cultural features and substance use) and the equally interrelated protective factors (cultural resilience, personal controls and family control measures). These are 'meta factors' that provide a lens through which the standard lists can be interpreted, and are a starting point for the understanding of indigenous developmental pathways.Arts, Education & Law Group, School of Criminology and Criminal JusticeFull Tex

Book Review: Reluctant Indonesians: Australia, Indonesia, and the future of West Papua Clinton Fernandes

Book Review: Reluctant Indonesians: Australia, Indonesia, and the future of West Papua by Clinton Fernandes Melbourne: Scribe, 2006, 144pp

Growth Prospects in China and India Compared

This paper compares the growth prospects of China and India through a growth accounting analysis. Consistent time series for capital stock and employment are constructed using available survey data, and recent revisions to the national accounts for both countries are incorporated. The results allow for a discussion of the sources of growth in both countries, and a consideration of each country's rate of potential growth in light of the outlook for national savings, as demographic shifts occur in each country.Growth accounting; potential growth; capital measurement; demographics; China; India

Product Market Regulation and Competition in China

The extent of competition in product markets is an important determinant of economic growth in both developed and developing countries. This paper uses the 2008 vintage of the OECD indicators of product market regulation to assess the extent to which China’s regulatory environment is supportive of competition in markets for goods and services. The results indicate that, although competition is increasingly robust across most markets, the overall level of product market regulation is still restrictive in international comparison. These impediments to competition are likely to constrain economic growth as the Chinese economy continues to develop and becomes more sophisticated. The paper goes on to review various aspects of China’s regulatory framework and suggests a number of policy initiatives that would improve the extent to which competitive market forces are able to operate. Breaking the traditional links between state-owned enterprises and government agencies is an ongoing challenge. Reducing administrative burdens, increasing private sector involvement in network sectors and lowering barriers to foreign direct investment in services would also increase competition and enhance productivity growth going forward. Some of the reforms introduced by the Chinese government over the past two years go in this direction and should therefore help foster growth.

First Scarab Host for \u3ci\u3eStrongygaster Triangulifer\u3c/i\u3e (Diptera: Tachinidae): the Dung Beetle, \u3ci\u3eAphodius Fimetarius\u3c/i\u3e (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

We report Strongygaster (=Hyalomyodes ) triangulifer as a solitary primary parasite of the adult introduced dung beetle, Aphodius fimetarius. This is the first record of this tachinid fly parastizing scarab

Comment faire apparaître Écho ? Soeurs, saintes et sibylles de Nan Goldin et Autoportrait en vert de Marie Ndiaye

Cet article étudie l’usage du portrait photo-textuel dans l’écriture autobiographique au féminin, par le biais de l’analyse parallèle de Soeurs, saintes et sibylles de Nan Goldin, et de Autoportrait en vert de Marie Ndiaye. Grâce au jeu entre photographie et littérature, ces objets intermédiatiques présentent une structure en écho (et reposent sur une série d’échos) qui permet de revoir le mythe d’Écho et de Narcisse ainsi que le rapport entre le visuel et le verbal. Goldin et Ndiaye fondent leur travail sur l’indécidabilité de la photographie pour écrire entre le mythe et l’histoire personnelle, le sacré et le profane. Par ailleurs, les oeuvres étudiées peuvent être lues comme des légendes et des échos dans le cadre du corpus de chacune des auteures. Ces pratiques intermédiaires mettent en place une série de résonances qui permettent aux femmes, à l’intérieur des deux textes, d’être vues et entendues. Par le vacillement entre portrait et autoportrait, ces pratiques réussissent à faire apparaître des visages là où il y avait des voix.This article examines contemporary photo-textual portraiture in women’s autobiographical writing through a parallel analysis of Nan Goldin’s Soeurs, saintes et sibylles and Marie Ndiaye’s Autoportrait en vert. These mixed media works function through and as a series of echoes that revisit the myth of Echo and Narcissus and reforge the relationship between visual and vocal in the interplay between literature and photography. Goldin and Ndiaye seize upon the indeterminate nature of photographs to write between myth and personal history, between the sacred and the secular. The works studied are also read as legends or echoes of each author’s corpus. These intermediary practices establish a series of resonances that enable the women in each author’s text to be seen and heard, and give faces to voices in the vacillation of portraiture and self-portraiture