AUR vol46, no1, Aug 2003
Cover image: Whilst Men Play their Games by Gavin Brown, copyright 2003
In this issue of AUR (available in PDF format)
Articles
AN
AMERICAN EMPIRE?
It’s the issue of the era. Has
America’s new power and authority in the world turned it into a rogue power? Or
are America’s critics simply refusing to acknowledge the realities of a new era?
Has the US become the imperial power of the 21st century? And if so, is that actually a
bad thing? Michael Ignatieff’s article puts the case for a new era of ambivalent
empire. We asked four Australian scholars to respond from their different areas of
expertise.
- The Burden... Michael Ignatieff
- A Brittle Optimism... David Goodman
- The Burden of ‘Hyper-Power’... Neville Meaney
- Fear of Slipping... David McKnight
- Upsetting the Balance... Bob Howard
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MARKETS IN
MERIT
Salary loadings of various kinds are rapidly becoming the norm in
different parts of the university. Their rationales vary from market forces to merit, and all points
in between. Frank Stilwell argues that there’s no justification for any differential
loadings for special groups of staff. Michael Darcy responds that the industrial realities are more
complicated than that position allows.
- Markets in Merit or Merits in Markets... Frank Stilwell
- Markets, Markets Everywhere... Michael Darcy
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In our
last issue, Justin Zobel and Margaret Hamilton argued for new measures to tackle plaigiarism and its
corrosive effects on staff and student morale. Here Robert Briggs responds that a moralistic
attitude towards plagiarism is unlikely to tackle the problem in a coherent way, and that new
thinking about plagiarism and pedagogy is required.
- Shameless! Reconceiving the Problem of Plagiarism... Robert Briggs
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Australia’s
higher education reforms aren’t happening in a vacuum. Mark Rosenfeld reports about
surprisingly similar movements in Canada’s largest province.
- Canuck-Do Higher Education... Mark Rosenfeld
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Processes
for examining PhD theses vary from university to university, and from department to
department. Lawson, Marsh and Tansley argue that a uniform national code of practice is
overdue.
- Examining the Examiners... Alan Lawson, Helene Marsh and Trevor Tansley
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Reviews
PANIC
STATIONS
Ever since the Tampa, Australian intellectuals have been in a state
of shock. David Burchell looks at some of the literary
results.
- Ghassan Hage, Against Paranoid Nationalism: Searching for Hope in a Shrinking Society
- Australian Humanities Review, Special issue on ‘The War on Terror’
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THE TROUBLE WITH
RADICALS
Andrew Norton has answers to every higher education problem.
Trouble is, they’re all the same. Tom Clark reviews his latest
book.
- Andrew Norton, The Unchained University
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BRIEF REVIEWS BY
MARYANNE DEVER
- Kirsty Williamson (ed.), Research Methods for Students, Academics and Professionals: Information Management Systems
- Suzanne Franzway, Sexual Politics and Greedy Institutions: Union Women, Commitments and Conflicts in Public and Private
- Tyrell Burgess, The Devil’s Dictionary of Education