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The Buch Matrix: A Guide to Human Authorship
Being A Dummies Guide to A Matrix of Sociology https://www.academia.edu/165215495/The_Buch_Matrix_A_Guide_to_Human_Authorship_A_Matrix_of_Sociology_ Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 Abstract “The Buch Matrix” is a special map designed by Dr. Neville Buch to help people understand how our world is put together. It looks at four main parts of life: the State…
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The Soft City. Cognitive Governance and Urban Advocacy (community)
https://www.academia.edu/165189954/The_Soft_City_Cognitive_Governance_and_Urban_Advocacy Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 The Soft City. Cognitive Governance and Urban Advocacy (community) Abstract This essay examines the role of community as the fundamental substrate for urban advocacy, defining it sociologically as an interpersonal synthesis of lived experience rather than a mere geographic or administrative unit. Urban advocates often…
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Reforming 21st-century Theology and Sociology
Dr Neville Buch The Basic Propositions of 21st Century Theology-Religion-Sociology Abstract This essay explores the revolutionary reform currently reshaping 21st-century Theology, Religion, and Sociology, moving these disciplines away from the “mechanical liquidation of discernment” and the “immense regression” of the human spirit. Drawing on the interdisciplinary synthesis of Dr. Neville Buch, Jürgen Habermas, and…
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Silence is not a pathway to Peace
https://www.academia.edu/165126270/Silence_is_not_a_pathway_to_Peace Attached: Silence is not a pathway to Peace Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 Abstract: This essay explores the proposition that silence, rather than serving as a conduit for harmony, acts as a primary catalyst for “Historical Forgetfulness” and the “immense regression” of the human spirit. Drawing on the political philosophy…
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An Intelligent Understanding
https://www.academia.edu/165011433/An_Intelligent_Understanding https://drnevillebuch.com/an-intelligent-understanding/ Attached: An Intelligent Understanding Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 Abstract: This essay explores the persistent human tendencies toward prejudice, racism, and ethnocentrism, framing these “human flaws” through the lens of Dr. Neville Buch’s Spiral Historiography and the Dynamic of Cognition (DoC) framework. By comparing contemporary Western narratives of exclusion…
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Strategic Cousins: The Cognition of Australian and Canadian Political Unison
Dr Neville Buch Abstract This essay presents a Dynamic of Cognition (DoC) analysis of the unison in Canadian and Australian political thinking, as evidenced in the 2026 Hansard record of the Australian Parliament’s welcome to the Rt Hon. Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada. By applying the DoC framework—centring on the transition from unreflective habits…
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The Best Use of A.I. and Higher Education
“The workers who use AI best will deploy human judgment to analyse and evaluate information. To succeed in a workplace, not simply at a desk, they will be able to listen as well as to communicate. Their relentless curiosity will be grounded in intellectual humility, while their ethical behaviour will require moral courage.” …
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Identity Politics and the Ascent toward Comprehensive Empathy (Anthropologic Pedagogy)
Intellectual historians of Australia, the questions and answers section ties everything together in the attached essay of the Dynamic of Cognition and Spiral Historiography. Identity Politics and the Ascent toward Comprehensive Empathy (Anthropologic Pedagogy) This essay explores the proposition that “Identity Politics is Personal,” an argument developed by Dave Andrews which…
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Brisbane Olympics: The Thinking
Neville Buch (Dr) Abstract: The writer is involved in Brisbane’s Urban Coalition alliance of community organisations in urban sociology, discussing the planning for the Brisbane Olympics. This article explains why the thinking of the local Brisbane Olympic Committee has strayed so badly. (2023 words). Unsurprising is that populists, including political representatives, do…
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Charles Ringma: Comprehensively Christian Historiography and the Philosophy of Charles Ringma (HAPI Past Series)
Series Abstract: For the past few years, I have been researching and writing about the defuncted Department of History, University of Queensland, 1911-2000. It will take a few more years before a tome on the subject may be published. In the meantime, it has occurred to me to write up on the past academics of…