Professional Historian and History Consultancy Services Brisbane
Category: Intellectual History
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Badge of Honour
Neville, This email is to formally advise you that your ongoing email behaviour is completely unacceptable and unprofessional. It must stop. In February 2024 the PHA warned you about this, and other unacceptable behaviours. Your incessant email campaigns reflect badly on yourself and the PHA cannot support or condone them.…
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Vale Marion Maddox 1965 – 2025: MICE Condolences
Marion Maddox (passed 16 September 2025) was a Professor in the Discipline of Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University where she taught Australian politics and religious studies until her retirement in 2021. Prior to her tenure at Macquarie University, she held positions at Victoria University Wellington for seven years, the University of…
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Political Anthropology as Method (Arpad Szakolczai and Australian thinkers)
“Political Anthropology is a way of doing academic/scholarly/research work in order to understand political reality…Humans can never transcend such a participatory perspective.” Barry Cooper, Professor of Politics, University of Calgary, Canada. Political Anthropology as Method Front Matter There is hope if we engage the socio-political anthropological thinking: Environmental Hope.…
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Define and Explain Personalism
By Dr Neville Buch with A.I. assistance Define and Explain Personalism Jan Olof Bengtsson writes in The Worldview of Personalism: Origins and Early Development (2006:283): Deeply involved in the complexities of a crossover period, when the influence of traditional culture was not yet eclipsed by radical modernism, idealistic personalism evinces many…
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Changing the Minds of University Marketers
A Post at UQ Change Makers: Early this morning I had a conversation with an old undergraduate graduate on his need to retire the nostalgia and to think about the past and present with more intelligence (double meaning). It got me thinking about the historical ideas which have been swirling…
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A Eulogy for Jack
2025-07-07 A Eulogy for Jack Dr Jack Ford 4 May 1957 – 29 June 2025 My Dearest Friend… Acknowledgements to Brenda Biggs, Leela Ford, and Drs. Sue Keays, Chris Hanlon, Catherine Manathunga, Peter Overlack, Joanne Scott, Bernadette Turner, and Dr Jack Ford’s primary source data. “You just keep telling…
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Freedom in both The Domestic Home and The Open Road
Three years I was somewhere else on my journey. There are many ways to think about this past. A few thoughts from where I am at, **in** (not simply ‘at’) ‘home’, is that I am just as alone as I was then. The open road never gave me companionship, but neither did I expected it.…
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The Thinking Person, Life, Hope, for Me in 2025: Why Ignoring Professional Historians will be the end of Good Local Governance?
Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) Extensively Experienced and Qualified Queensland Professional History of the Queensland Mind. Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA 6 June 2025 (Queensland Day) It is unique in the country: https://mappingbrisbanehistory.com.au/ But then many would appear to be small minded…
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Re: Why do we understand how others read “Humanism”?
Death and life flourishing is at the centre of our humanity. Which is why we understand how others read “Humanism”. Each person has their own ideas of what is the experience of death and life, but, surprise, surprise (Gomer Pyle), we find others have different ideas. Understanding others is, thus, only possible in common schemas…
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Interbelief and the Level Playing Field
SEA OF FAITH IN AUSTRALIA (SoFiA) – Melbourne. Interbelief and the Level Playing Field Australian Book. LPF. Stupidity of the Market Economy in Higher Education – Dr Neville Buch Attitudes. Socio-Historical Change in Unitarian Universalism Some of us are participating in SoFiA’s online events. Dr. Neville Buch will present the topic and lead…