ABORIGINAL POPULATIONS and LAND BOUNDARIES
Laurie Taylor hears stories about boundaries from Australian academic, Professor David Turnbull.
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 Carol Smart Director of the Centre for Research on Family, Kinship and Childhood at the University of Leeds and Nickie Charles 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:
Professor David Turnbull
Senior Lecturer at the Arts Faculty, Deakin University
Masons, Tricksters and Cartographers: Makes of knowledge and Space (Comparative Studies in the Sociology of Scientific and Indigenous Knowledge)
Taylor and Francis
ISBN 9058230015
Professor Carol Smart
Director of the Centre for Research on Family, Kinship and Childhood
at University 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, Carol Smart
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 Nickie Charles
Professor of Sociology
Paper:The Piano in the Parlour Methodological Issues in the Conduct of a Re-study
(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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