Dr Neville Buch

Professional Historian and History Consultancy Services Brisbane

Category: Concepts in Public History for Marketplace Dialogue

  • Semantics, Power, and Local Politics in Misunderstanding Urban Sociology

    Semantics, Power, and Local Politics in Misunderstanding Urban Sociology

      By Neville Buch, Ph.D., MPHA Third Paper, Exploratory, Version for 2023 Sydney TASA Conference   Slide 1. Introduction In preparing the publication and presentation papers for the Sydney TASA Conference, at the end of November 2023, this is a third paper, an exploratory pre-look at the arguments, explaining the sociological models in more detail…

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  • Misunderstanding interdisciplinary studies and research

    Misunderstanding interdisciplinary studies and research

    Dear friends,       It seems that university academics have existed for too long in the ivory tower, that they do not understand the dynamics of interdisciplinary studies and research. Take, for example, the Monash Study where “50 Monash executives and researchers found that ‘tangible’ factors were the main barriers to multidisciplinary research.” My paper for…

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  • Economics by Judy Horacek

    Economics by Judy Horacek

    Featured Image: [I am tired of singing the song, the image says nearly all of the government’s unaddressed problem] Economics – The Musical | Judy Horacek Cartoon All cartoons © Judy Horacek Published in Truth, Lies and Consequences | Between the Lines 27 October 2023 The Australia Institute for fair research purpose. I am so…

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  • Thinking on the Excuses of the Premier of Queensland

    Thinking on the Excuses of the Premier of Queensland

    The Correspondence     TF-23-1204 – Message for Dr Buch from the Premier (attached): Gmail – TF_23_12404 – Message for Dr Buch     In response to my short plea to save The Gabba Community from the pain of losing a primary school and a park, the Premier of Queensland has sent me a two…

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  • The Worse Parliamentary Process

    The Worse Parliamentary Process

    This is the worse parliamentary process undertaken, globally, in my living memory, and although I am not the expert historian, I do not recall in history anything I have read – if so, please tell me.       The former U.S. parliamentary speaker, Kevin McCarthy, was thrown out of his office by his own…

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  • AI and the Future of Work – MARKETOONIST

    AI and the Future of Work – MARKETOONIST

    Marketoonist’s cartoon rides on the concept of productivity in managerialism. Since the 1990s the neo-liberal economy contain a noble motivation of group meetings to allow open participation of service workers in the managing of their work space, but in actuality it was the activities of an older paradigm, known as groupthink: a restrictive form of…

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  • It is a done deal, one way or another: The Spiral of History

    It is a done deal, one way or another: The Spiral of History

    Dear friends, Marcia Langton is correct. From my white liberal view, and keen on the conversation between European philosophies and Aboriginal philosophies, if it is Yes, Australians would have achieved recognition as far as it can go by voting (the rest is advice and legislation); if it is No, like Langton, I see no way forward.…

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  • Urban Sociology and Philosophic Thinking for Sustainable Living, and Thinking in the City: Please Read

    Urban Sociology and Philosophic Thinking for Sustainable Living, and Thinking in the City: Please Read

    Two months ago I published an important paper, called, “Urban Sociology and Philosophic Thinking for Sustainable Living, and Thinking in the City”. It is available to read at my website:     Urban Sociology and Philosophic Thinking     and also with the emerging academic community, outside the universities:     https://www.academia.edu/105414043/Urban_Sociology_and_Philosophic_Thinking_for_Sustainable_Living_and_Thinking_in_the_City     As…

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  • That’s just the way it is; Ah, but don’t you believe them

    That’s just the way it is; Ah, but don’t you believe them

    That’s just the way it is Ah, but don’t you believe them     *****   The Way It Is Song by Bruce Hornsby   Standing in line, marking time Waiting for the welfare dime ‘Cause they can’t buy a job The man in the silk suit hurries by As he catches the poor old…

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  • Shout. There are Things I Can Do Without. And Truth Matters

    Shout. There are Things I Can Do Without. And Truth Matters

        Listening to the Tears For Fear’s song, “Shout”, when faced with The Cynical Voice towards The Voice Referendum completed October 14, I think of the lyrics:     In violent times You shouldn’t have to sell your soul In black and white They really, really ought to know Those one track minds That…

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