ABORIGINAL POPULATIONS and LAND BOUNDARIES
Laurie Taylor hears stories about boundaries from Australian academic, Professor .
Professor Turnbull is interested in the value put on different systems of knowledge and has been exploring the contrasting ways in which Australia’s Aboriginal and Western populations understand land borders and why both are now being treated with equal respect in Australian courts.
He tells Laurie Taylor about one case where the Aboriginal interpretation of the state-line which separates Western Australia from the rest of the Continent made rather more sense than the so-called scientific boundary marker which appears in Western-style atlases. The rational looking black line on the map turns out to be the result of a story involving the Spice Islands, the Pope and a couple of posts.
CHANGING NATURE OF THE FAMILY
How has the family coped with forty years of rising divorce and an increasingly mobile population?
Laurie Taylor compares notes with Professor Director of the Centre for Research on Family, Kinship and Childhood at the University of Leeds and Professor of Sociology at the University of Swansea, whose current research project is looking at how family life has changed in Swansea over the last forty years.
Additional Information:
Senior Lecturer at the
Masons, Tricksters and Cartographers: Makes of knowledge and Space (Comparative Studies in the Sociology of Scientific and Indigenous Knowledge) Taylorand Francis ISBN 9058230015
Director of the atUniversity of Leeds
The changing Experience of Childhood – Families and Divorce Amanda Wade, Bren Neale, Carol Smart Polity Press ISBN 0745624006
Good to Talk? Conversations with Children after Divorce Bren Neale, CarolSmart Young Voice ISBN 1903456029
Family Fragments Carol Smart, Bren Neale Polity Press ISBN 0745618944
The “New” Family Edited by Elizabeth Silva and Carol Smart Sage Publications Ltd ISBN 0761958568
Professor of Sociology
Paper: (Volume 7, issue 2) Charlotte Aull Davies and Nickie Charles This paper considers the methodological issues with reference to the restudy of family and household research.
Original studies:
Family and Social Change: A Study of Family and Kinship in a South Wales Town Colin Rosser, Christopher Charles Harris Routledge ISBN 0710094345
Family and Kinship in East London Michael Young and Peter Wilmott Penguin Books ISBN 0140552162
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