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Building a Defiant Future: Regional, Rural & Remote Women

International Women's Day Proceedings, #1

by Tara Brabazon ...

Series Book 1 - International Women's Day Proceedings
Women in regional, rural and remote environments are - too often - doubly marginalized. This book, emerging from a conference held on International Women's Day, summons and values the words, work and life of these women that are - frequently - rendered marginal and marginalized. Each chapter explores how women activate alternatives in education, health, agriculture, disability and leadership. ... Read more

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Women in regional, rural and remote environments are - too often - doubly marginalized. This book, emerging from a conference held on International Women's Day, summons and values the words, work and life of these women that are - frequently - rendered marginal and marginalized. Each chapter explores how women activate alternatives in education, health, agriculture, disability and leadership.
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Ten Drafts to Complete Your PhD

by Tara Brabazon ...

Starting a PhD is an important moment in our lives. Completing a PhD is an incredible achievement. Only 1% of the world's population holds a PhD. Attrition rates are high. In many nations, only 50% of the people that start a PhD finish it. Why? What is going wrong between admission and graduation?Ten drafts to complete your PhD provides concrete strategies to complete a doctorate. Structured ... Read more

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Starting a PhD is an important moment in our lives. Completing a PhD is an incredible achievement. Only 1% of the world's population holds a PhD. Attrition rates are high. In many nations, only 50% of the people that start a PhD finish it. Why? What is going wrong between admission and graduation?Ten drafts to complete your PhD provides concrete strategies to complete a doctorate. Structured
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From Revolution to Revelation

Generation X, Popular Memory and Cultural Studies

by Tara Brabazon ...

From Revolution to Revelation offers a new paradigm for Cultural Studies. Tara Brabazon explores our understanding of our own past and the collective past we share with others through popular culture. She investigates Generation X, the ’post-youth’ generation born between 1961 and 1981, and the popular cultural literacies that are the basis of this imagining community. She looks at the ways in ... Read more

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From Revolution to Revelation offers a new paradigm for Cultural Studies. Tara Brabazon explores our understanding of our own past and the collective past we share with others through popular culture. She investigates Generation X, the ’post-youth’ generation born between 1961 and 1981, and the popular cultural literacies that are the basis of this imagining community. She looks at the ways in
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How to Embrace Academic Failure

Building a Career with Meaning, Integrity and Honesty

by Tara Brabazon ...

Series series How To Guides
This compelling book explores current attitudes towards failure in academia. Tara Brabazon argues that success and failures are rarely linked and instead failure can be harnessed as both a diagnostic and a literacy to improve research integrity, authenticity, accountability and consciousness.Brabazon demonstrates how instances of failure can facilitate an awareness of asymmetrical power dynamics ... Read more

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This compelling book explores current attitudes towards failure in academia. Tara Brabazon argues that success and failures are rarely linked and instead failure can be harnessed as both a diagnostic and a literacy to improve research integrity, authenticity, accountability and consciousness.Brabazon demonstrates how instances of failure can facilitate an awareness of asymmetrical power dynamics
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Playing on the Periphery

Sport, Identity and Memory

by Tara Brabazon ...

Series series Sport in the Global Society
Part of the Sport in the Global Society series, this innovative and creative text explores collective history, memory, and sport culture, tracking the passage of sports away from England. The author investigates why ‘elite’ English sports – such as rugby and cricket – became national sports in New Zealand and Australia, and asks why ‘working class’ English sports – such as football – have ... Read more

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Part of the Sport in the Global Society series, this innovative and creative text explores collective history, memory, and sport culture, tracking the passage of sports away from England. The author investigates why ‘elite’ English sports – such as rugby and cricket – became national sports in New Zealand and Australia, and asks why ‘working class’ English sports – such as football – have
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12 Rules for (Academic) Life

A Stroppy Feminist’s Guide through Teaching, Learning, Politics, and Jordan Peterson

by Tara Brabazon ...

Series series Education (R0)
These are strange times. Climate crises. Health crises. Collapsing systems. Influencers. And yes - Jordan Peterson.We are currently living in a (Post) Peterson Paradigm. This book – 12 Rules for (Academic) Life - explores what has happened to teaching, learning and politics through this odd and chaotic intervention. Deploying feminism, this lens and theory offers a glass-sharpened view of this ... Read more

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These are strange times. Climate crises. Health crises. Collapsing systems. Influencers. And yes - Jordan Peterson.We are currently living in a (Post) Peterson Paradigm. This book – 12 Rules for (Academic) Life - explores what has happened to teaching, learning and politics through this odd and chaotic intervention. Deploying feminism, this lens and theory offers a glass-sharpened view of this
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Digital Dieting

From Information Obesity to Intellectual Fitness

by Tara Brabazon ...

Imagine if a student spent as much time managing information as celebrities doted on dieting? While eating too much food may be the basis of a moral panic about obesity, excessive information is rarely discussed as a crisis of a similar scale. Obviously, plentiful and high quality food is not a problem if eating is balanced with exercise. But without the skills of media and information literacy, ... Read more

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Imagine if a student spent as much time managing information as celebrities doted on dieting? While eating too much food may be the basis of a moral panic about obesity, excessive information is rarely discussed as a crisis of a similar scale. Obviously, plentiful and high quality food is not a problem if eating is balanced with exercise. But without the skills of media and information literacy,
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The University of Google

Education in the (Post) Information Age

by Tara Brabazon ...

Looking at schools and universities, it is difficult to pinpoint when education, teaching and learning started to haemorrhage purpose, aspiration and function. Libraries and librarians have been starved of funding. Teachers cram their curriculum with 'skill development' and 'generic competencies' because knowledge, creativity and originality are too expensive to provide to unmotivated students and ... Read more

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Looking at schools and universities, it is difficult to pinpoint when education, teaching and learning started to haemorrhage purpose, aspiration and function. Libraries and librarians have been starved of funding. Teachers cram their curriculum with 'skill development' and 'generic competencies' because knowledge, creativity and originality are too expensive to provide to unmotivated students and
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Thinking Popular Culture

War, Terrorism and Writing

by Tara Brabazon ...

This book is about war and popular culture, and war in popular culture. Tara Brabazon summons, probes, questions and reclaims popular culture, challenging the assumptions of war, whiteness, Christianity, modernity and progress that have dominated our lives since September 11.Â Addressing modes of thinking, design, music and visual media, Thinking Popular Culture offers a journey through courageous ... Read more

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This book is about war and popular culture, and war in popular culture. Tara Brabazon summons, probes, questions and reclaims popular culture, challenging the assumptions of war, whiteness, Christianity, modernity and progress that have dominated our lives since September 11.Â Addressing modes of thinking, design, music and visual media, Thinking Popular Culture offers a journey through courageous
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Popular Music

Topics, Trends & Trajectories

by Tara Brabazon ...

An incredibly wide-ranging critical account of popular music. The book is an essential resource for all staff and students in the field′ - John Storey, Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of SunderlandOrganized in accessible sections and covering the main themes of research and teaching it examines:• The key approaches to understanding popular music• The main settings of ... Read more

$71.99 USD

An incredibly wide-ranging critical account of popular music. The book is an essential resource for all staff and students in the field′ - John Storey, Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of SunderlandOrganized in accessible sections and covering the main themes of research and teaching it examines:• The key approaches to understanding popular music• The main settings of
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Unique Urbanity?

Rethinking Third Tier Cities, Degeneration, Regeneration and Mobility

by Tara Brabazon ...

Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
This book investigates small cities - cities and towns that are not well known or internationally branded, but are facing structural economic and social issues after the Global Financial Crisis. They need to invent, develop and manage new reasons for their existence. The strengths and opportunities are often underplayed when compared to larger cities. These small cities do not have the profile of ... Read more

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This book investigates small cities - cities and towns that are not well known or internationally branded, but are facing structural economic and social issues after the Global Financial Crisis. They need to invent, develop and manage new reasons for their existence. The strengths and opportunities are often underplayed when compared to larger cities. These small cities do not have the profile of
... Read more
Trump Studies

An Intellectual Guide to Why Citizens Vote Against Their Interests

by Tara Brabazon, Steve Redhead, Runyararo S. Chivaura ...

Series series Emerald Points
Why do citizens vote against their own best interest?Trump Studies addresses this key question; probing the value of thinking, reading, writing and interpretation during times of economic, social and political uncertainty. With a compelling voice and academic rigour, the authors explore how and why xenophobia and sexism are the grammar of contemporary popular culture and politics.The Brexit result ... Read more

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Why do citizens vote against their own best interest?Trump Studies addresses this key question; probing the value of thinking, reading, writing and interpretation during times of economic, social and political uncertainty. With a compelling voice and academic rigour, the authors explore how and why xenophobia and sexism are the grammar of contemporary popular culture and politics.The Brexit result
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