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Review of 'Knowledge and Global Power: Making New Sciences in the South' by Fran Collyer, Raewyn Connell, João Maia and Robert Morrell, Clayton, Australia: Monash University Publishing, 2018, 217 pp., ISBN 9781925495775

Fri, 26 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Title: Review of 'Knowledge and Global Power: Making New Sciences in the South' by Fran Collyer, Raewyn Connell, João Maia and Robert Morrell, Clayton, Australia: Monash University Publishing, 2018, 217 pp., ISBN 9781925495775 Contributor(s): Charteris, Jennifer Abstract: Leveraging feminist and postcolonial critiques in their book Knowledge and Global Power: Making New Sciences in the South, academics Fran Collyer, Raewyn Connell, João Maia and Robert Morrell outline the global power relations of knowledge production and critique how knowledge is constituted, disseminated and validated. Knowledge production practices that both ignore the heritage of colonisation across the globe and erase situated knowledges that are produced in the global South have been challenged over the last decade (Connell, 2007; Connell et al., 2017). The authors foreground localised knowledges and theories from the peripheral South to disrupt the privileged knowledge, theories and discourses that are developed in the global North, or metropole (Connell, 2007).

Review of 'Radical Collegiality through Student Voice: Educational Experience, Policy and Practice', by Roseanna Bourke and Judith Loveridge (eds.), Springer, Singapore, 2018. 219 pp. ISBN 9789811318573. NZ$155.

Title: Review of 'Radical Collegiality through Student Voice: Educational Experience, Policy and Practice', by Roseanna Bourke and Judith Loveridge (eds.), Springer, Singapore, 2018. 219 pp. ISBN 9789811318573. NZ$155. Contributor(s): Charteris, Jennifer Abstract: The student voice movement has grown in importance over the last few decades as a means of achieving inclusive educational experiences, policy and practice, and for gauging efficiencies (e.g. schooling improvement). With its democratic agenda, ‘Radical Collegiality through Student Voice: Educational Experience, Policy and Practice’ is a timely (if not overdue) contribution to student voice literature. Radical collegiality breaks with the status quo, ruptures normative conventions, and permits students, educators and researchers to "reclaim and re-narrate a radical history of democratic education within the public sector" (Fielding 2011, p. 5).

Book Review - Forensic Communication in Theory and Practice: A study of discourse analysis and transcription by Franca Orletti & Laura Mariottini (eds)

Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Title: Book Review - Forensic Communication in Theory and Practice: A study of discourse analysis and transcription by Franca Orletti & Laura Mariottini (eds) Contributor(s): Fraser, Helen Abstract: Forensic Communication in Theory and Practice: A study of discourse analysis and transcription
This edited volume is a useful addition to the body of academic literature bringing in- formation to the English-speaking world about the practice of forensic linguistics in non-English-speaking countries – a body which, despite valuable contributions in the current journal and elsewhere, remains too small. A particularly welcome aspect of the book is its inclusion of several chapters on an area too lightly covered in academic literature in any language, namely transcription of covert recordings (conversations captured secretly, by telephone intercept or by ambient or undercover recording, and used as forensic evidence in criminal trials). In this, as in other topics covered, another commendable aspect of the book is the intertwining of theoretical and practical topics captured by its title. The contents are based upon papers presented at the conference Theories, practices and instruments of forensic linguistics organised by the book’s editors in Rome, 1-3 Dec 2014. After an introduction by the editors, the book is divided into four parts, which I overview briefly, before adding some evaluative comments.

Book Review - Recomposing Ecopoetics: North American Poetry of the Self-Conscious Anthropocene, by Lynn Keller.

Mon, 01 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Title: Book Review - Recomposing Ecopoetics: North American Poetry of the Self-Conscious Anthropocene, by Lynn Keller. Contributor(s): Ryan, John Charles Abstract: Recomposing Ecopoetics: North American Poetry of the Self-Conscious Anthropocene. By Lynn Keller. (Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism) Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 2918. xv+284 pp. £49 (pbk £22). ISBN 978-0-813-94061-8 (pbk 978-0-813-94062-5).
In the introduction to her study of North American ecopoetry appearing in the last fifteen years, Lynn Keller defines the self-conscious Anthropocene as ‘a powerful cultural phenomenon tied to reflexive, critical, and often anxious awareness of the scale and severity of human effects on the planet’ (p. 2). This concept signifies a ‘period of changed recognition [original emphasis]’ marked by intense awareness of the human capacity to transform the biosphere (p. 2). As scientists continue to debate the value of formalizing the epoch as a geotemporal unit, Keller reminds us, poets at the same time have been responding to the scale and severity of ecological crises. The impact of Anthropocene immediacies on the theory and practice of poetry, nonetheless, has been curiously underappreciated in environmental criticism.