Major Publications and Reports of the RUWCF Research Team
Books and Monographs
Higgins, V. and Lawrence, G. (eds) (2005) Agricultural Governance: Globalization and the New Politics of Regulation, Routledge: London.
Snell, DL & Hart, AM (2007) I think about Leaving Everyday; Doesn’t everyone: Report for the Gippsland Apprenticeship Research Project, Regional Development Victoria, December.
Prasad, S., Hince, K. and Snell, D. (2003) Employment and Industrial Relations in the South Pacific: Samoa, Tonga, the Cook Islands, Kiribati, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and the Fiji Islands, McGraw-Hill , Sydney.
Ballis, H., Collis, M. and Veno, A. (1996) Peak Staff: Shiftwork, Families and Community Churchill: Monash University.
Book Chapters and Articles
Cooper, S. (2006) 'The Posthuman Challenge to Andrew Feenberg' in Philosophy of Technology: New Debates in the Democratization of Technology SUNY Press.
Cooper, S. (2006) 'Imagining the Posthuman: a Review of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let me go and Michel Houellebecq's The possibility of an Island' Arena Magazine 81 Feb-March.
Cooper, S. (2005)'Art, Biotech and Security; The case of Steven Kurtz' in Arena Magazine 80 Dec-January
Cooper, S. (2005) 'High-Tech War and the Securing of Consent' in Southern Review v37(3), 2005, pp. 73-86
Cooper, S. (2005) 'Postmodernism-lite: reflections on the recent VCE English debate.(english education curriculum planning)'. Arena Magazine 79 (Oct-Nov): p21-4
Cooper, S. and Rossiter, N. (2005) 'Processual Media Theory and the Study of New Media: Towards a New Research Approach' in Kwamena Kwansah Aidoo (ed.) Topical Issues in Communications and Media Research Nova Press
Cooper, S. (2005) 'The rise of expert culture: a public sphere dominated by expert opinion is increasingly incapable of morally or historically grounded reflection' Arena Magazine 77 (June-July): p50-3
Cooper, S. (2005) 'Downloading the siren's song: the technological management of otherness'(Cooper's Last)(Silence in contemporary music, politics and society) Arena Magazine 76 (April-May): p49-52
Cooper, S. (2005) 'The democratisation of compassion? A culture of fleeting information and images, evident in the response to the tsunami, threatens to undermine more consistent ethical behaviour' Arena Magazine 75 (Feb-March): p46-9
Cooper, S. (1999) Social Impact of Electronic Commerce in the LaTrobe Valley Region, Latrobe Shire. 77 pages. (Also published electronically : www.latrobe.vic. gov. au)
Cooper, S. (1997) "Plenitude and Alienation: The subject of Virtual Reality", Virtual Politics: Identity
and Community in Cyberspace, ed. D. Holmes, Sage Press, pp 93-106.
Cooper, S. (1999)"Avoiding E-Ghettoes" Managing Information Systems, Sept , pp. 76-82.
Cooper, S. (1997) "Heidegger and a further question Concerning Technology", Arena Journal 9, pp.23-56.
Dearman, P. (2005) "Computerized social casework recording: Autonomy and control in Australia's income support agency", in Labor Studies Journal, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 47-65.
Dearman, P. (2003), "The online university as managerial investment in transforming spaces for autonomous judgement", in Southern Review: Communication, Politics & Culture, vol. 36, no. 2, 2003, pp.25-39
Higgins, V. (2006) "Re-figuring the Problem of Farmer Agency in Agri-Food Studies: A Translation Approach", Agriculture and Human Values, 23(1).
Higgins, V. and Kitto, S. (2004) "Mapping the Dynamics of New Forms of Technological Governance in Agriculture: Methodological Considerations", Environment and Planning A, 36: 1397-1410.
Herbert-Cheshire, L. and Higgins, V. (2004) "From Risky to Responsible: Expertise and the Governing of Community-Led Rural Development",Journal of Rural Studies, 20(3): 289-302.
Higgins, V. (2005) "Governing Agriculture through the Managerial Capacities of Farmers: The Role of Calculation", in V. Higgins and G. Lawrence (eds), Agricultural Governance: Globalization and the New Politics of Regulation, Routledge: London: 118-132.
Higgins, V. and Lawrence, G. (2005) "Introduction: Globalization and Agricultural Governance", in V. Higgins and G. Lawrence (eds), Agricultural Governance: Globalization and the New Politics of Regulation, Routledge: London: 1-15.
Higgins, V. and Natalier, K. (2004) "Governing Environmental Harms in a Risk Society", in R. White (ed.), Controversies in Environmental Sociology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 77-91.
Higgins, V. (2004) "Government as a Failing Operation: Regulating Administrative Conduct 'at a Distance' in Australia",Sociology, 38(3): 457-476.
Snell, DL & Hart, AM (2008) 'Reasons for Non-completion and Dissatisfaction among Apprentices and Trainees: A Regional Case Study', The International Journal of Training Research.
Snell, DL & Hart, AM (2007) “Vocational Training in Australia: is there a link between attrition and quality?”, Education + Training. Volume 49 Issue 6, pp. 500-512.
Forbes-Mewett, H. and Snell, D. (2006) 'Women's participation in 'a boys' club': a Case Study of a Regional Trades and Labour Council'
Prasad, S. and Snell, D. (2005) 'The Sword of Justice' in D. Eade and A. Leather (eds.) Development NGOs and Labor Unions. Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press: 321-340.
Snell, D. and Prasad, S. (2004) 'Enabling Civic Capacities for Conflict Prevention and Peace Building: Lessons from the Fiji Crisis' in Annelies Heijmans (ed) Searching for Peace in Asia & the Pacific. London: Lynne Rienner: 543-563.
Prasad, S. and Snell, D. (2004) 'The Sword of Justice: South Pacific Trade Unions and NGOs During a Decade of Lost Development'Development in Practice 14 (1-2): 267-279.
Snell, D. (2003) 'Working Futures: The Changing Nature of Work and Employment Relations in Australia (Book Review)' The Journal of Industrial Relations 45 (1): 113-115.
Snell, D. (2001). Reversing Coporatisation: The Trials and Tribulations of Fiji's Civil Aviation Reforms' In S. Prasad and K. Hince (ed).Industrial Relations in the South Pacific. SSED Publications: The University of the South Pacific.
Snell, D. and Prasad, S. (2001) 'Benchmarking and Participatory Development: The Case of Fiji's Sugar Industry Reforms'Development and Change Journal, 32 (2): 255-276.
Snell, D. and Prasad, S. (2001) 'Labor's Agonizing Struggle: TheVictory and Overthrow of Fiji's Labor Government' Winter,Labor Studies Journal 25 (4): 84-102.
Snell, D. (2001) 'Globalization and Workplace Reforms in Two Regional Agri- Food Industries: Australia's Meat Processing Sector and Fiji's Sugar Mills' Journal of Pacific Studies. 24 (1): 51-76.
Prasad, S., Snell, D. and Hince, K. (2001) .'Against the Tide: Rebuilding Tripartism in Fiji' Journal of Pacific Studies. 24 (1): 99-123.
Snell, D. and Prasad, S. (2000) 'Behind the Fiji Crisis: Politics of Labour in an Ethnically Divided Society' Arena Journal (15), 39-56.
Snell, D. (2000) 'Fiji's Civil Aviation: New Zealand Style Restructuring Using New Zealand Replacement Workers' New Zealand Journal of Industrial Relations, 25 (2), 109-118.
Yell, S. (2006 forthcoming) "Theorising Text, Medium and Practice in the New Media Age", New Media and Society
Atkinson, P. & Yell, S. (2006) "Affect, Time and the Enunciative Body", Southern Review 38.2
Yell, S. (2003) "New for Old? Converging Media and Email Practices in the Workplace", Australian Journal of Communication 30.1, pp.93-108.
Yell, S. (2003) "The Unruly Space of Email", Southern Review 36.2, pp.52-67.
Yell, S. (2001) "Email and Public Debate in Universities",Southern Review 34.1, pp.22-31.
Bright, P., Schirato, T. & Yell, S. (2000)"Communication Meta-Literacies and Tertiary Graduates", Australian Journal of Communication 27.2 pp.99-110.
Conference Papers, Seminars, Working Papers and Reports
Dearman, P. & C. Galloway (2005), "Putting podcasting into perspective ", in Radio in the World, proceedings of Radio Conference 2005, RMIT University, Melbourne,publishedathttp://search.informit.com.au/browsePublication;isbn=1921166126;res=E-LIBRARY
Dearman, P. (2000), "Casework recording procedures: accounting for the development of ethical self ", in Ethics, Events, Entertainment, proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Australian & New Zealand Communication Association, Lismore, Southern Cross University.
Snell, D. L., Hart, A. M., (2007) “Corporate welfare and the neo-liberalisation of public policy - implications for employment and training”, Proceedings of the International Conference What Public Policies for Work in a Global Era?, 24 May 2007 to 26 May 2007, Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work, Montreal Canada, p. 37.
Snell, D. (2006) 'Restorative Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction in the Fiji Islands' to be presented at the XVI ISA World Congress of Sociology meetings, Durban, South Africa 23-29 July.
Snell, D. (2006) 'MNCs, Human Rights and Violent Conflic in the Global South: the Role and Response of Trade Unions and Nongovernmental Organisations'to be presented at the Global Companies, Gobal Unions and Global Research International Conference New York, New York 9-11 February.Snell, D. (2005) 'The Significance of Social Movements: America's Living Wage Movement' to be presented at the Australian Sociological Association Annual Conference, Tasmania University, Hobart, Tasmania, 5-8 December.
Snell, D. (2004) 'Structural Change, Employment, Unionisation and Uneven Development Within the Region: The Latrobe Valley, Australia Experience' paper to be presented at the United Adult Labour Education/ American Federation of Labour-Congress of Industrial Organisations Annual Conference, Chicago 14-18 April.
Doughty, K., Snell, D., Prasad, S. (2003) 'Constraints and Contributors to Violent Conflict in Fiji' Collaborative for Development Action (www.cdainc.com).
Snell, D., D'Urbano, T., Cunningham, A. (2002) ' The State of Employment in the Latrobe Valley: Findings from the 2001 Latrobe Valley Employment and Industry Survey' Research Unit in Work and Communications Futures Working Paper 4/02.
Prasad, S. and Snell, D. 2002. Globalisation and Workers Rights in the South Pacific: Case Studies of the Fiji Islands, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, vanuatu and Kiribati, Report prepared for the International Labour Organisation, Office for the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji.
Prasad, S. and Snell, D. 2002. Globalisation, Economic Crisis and the Changing Face of Labour Relations in the Fiji Islands. Report prepared for the Fiji Trade Union Congress
Prasad, S., Dakuvula, J. and Snell, D. (2001). Economic Development, Democracy and Ethnic Conflict in the Fiji Islands. Minority Rights Group International Publications, London.
Snell, D. 2001. 'Trade Unionism and Community Engagement', South Pacific and Oceanic Council of Trade Unions Conference, 19-22 September, Suva, The Fiji Islands.
Collis, M. and Snell, D. 2001. 'Creating a 'Flexible' Labour Force: Workers' Experience of Restructuring in the Victorian Power Industry' Work, Employment and Society Conference, University of Nottingham, 11-13 September.