Category: Working papers
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3 Slow community: the ethics of care
In one way or another, I want to propose, a community worthy of the name is made of care. It’s possible to call a collection of people a community because they live in the same place, or because they interact with each other in some particular ways. We don’t seem to hesitate to use the…
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2 Slow community: Face to face
I have some good men friends, greatly valued. I have coffee with them most mornings in the local cafe. I often think of the group of African-American men of much the same older age in south Chicago whom Mitchell Duneier wrote about, in 1992, with much affection and sympathy, in his Slim’s Table; they seem…
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1 Slow Community: Walking with our people
Every morning, unless the westerlies are coming in wild, I walk the path around the boat harbour in the small Australian coastal town where I live. The path moves through native salt-tolerant trees and shrubs which grow down to the water’s edge. The first section of it is surfaced; then, without fanfare, it mounts a…
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State History Conference Presentation: Robe Conservation Study 1979
On October 25 Dr Geoff Wells presented to the State History Conference 2015 at Robe SA, on the Robe Conservation Study 1979. This study was a ground-breaking piece of work in many ways. Mounted at the end of a decade which had seen the first substantial building blocks put in place in environmental policy and…
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Social Impact Bonds and systemic risk: a preliminary analysis
Social investment has become a new and widely-embraced approach to increasing funding in the social services sector. Associated with it is an anticipated change in the way the not-for-profit sector operates, moving it to more explicitly business and managerial practice. It is hoped that by engaging commercial incentives, and by using commercial principles and mechanisms,…
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RCA submission to the SA Parliamentary Inquiry on Fracking
There is a strong push on to commence fracking operations on an industrial scale in the south-east of South Australia. RCA opposes the initiative. The push is coming from mining companies, such as Beach Energy, and is supported by both sides of politics. A Parliamentary committee has been established to inquire into fracking in the…