Dr Neville Buch

Professional Historian and History Consultancy Services Brisbane

Category: Mapping Brisbane History

  • Is this what you think in your silence? Bizarre Reactions. The Rhetoric of Dismissal – Defending the Scholarship of Neville Buch

    Is this what you think in your silence? Bizarre Reactions. The Rhetoric of Dismissal – Defending the Scholarship of Neville Buch

    20 April 2026 Dear Friends, Abstract This essay provides a critical evaluation of Sophia Corwin’s 2026 article, “The Epistemic Poverty of Suburban Quixotism,” arguing that Corwin’s response to Dr. Neville Buch constitutes a “bizarre” rhetorical performance that substitutes personal mockery for scholarly engagement. While Corwin attempts to “eviscerate” Buch’s work as “AI-slop” and “academic vacuity,”…

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  • Brisbane Olympics: The Thinking

    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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  • The City of Intellect: Urban Sociology and Suburban Action

    The City of Intellect: Urban Sociology and Suburban Action

      PDF File: The City of Intellect. Urban Sociology and Suburban Action     The City of Intellect: Urban Sociology and Suburban Action Abstract The Southern Brisbane Suburban Forum (SBSF) provides a revolutionary framework for Brisbane residents to engage with their environment, moving beyond the reductive logic of “rates, roads, and rubbish”. Drawing on the…

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  • Detailed Intellectual History of Brisbane, Queensland; or “Brisbane’s Intellectual Ascent: A History of Humanistic Cognition”

    Detailed Intellectual History of Brisbane, Queensland; or “Brisbane’s Intellectual Ascent: A History of Humanistic Cognition”

        BRISBANE’S INTELLECTUAL ASCENT: A HISTORY OF HUMANISTIC COGNITION   https://www.academia.edu/162374166/Detailed_Intellectual_History_of_Brisbane_Queensland_or_Brisbanes_Intellectual_Ascent_A_History_of_Humanistic_Cognition_         Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642     Abstract The intellectual history of Brisbane is a narrative of transition from a colonial outpost characterized by “historical forgetfulness” to a burgeoning centre for inclusive humanism and digital humanism. For too long,…

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  • Management Institute for Contributory Economy: Mapping Brisbane for the World

    Management Institute for Contributory Economy: Mapping Brisbane for the World

      5 December 2025 PDF File (Attachment) Mapping Brisbane for the World   Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) Scholar, Principal Researcher, Team Leader, Management Institute for Contributory Economy Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA     cc. Drs. Michael Mackin and Neil Peach, Directors, Management Institute for Contributory Economy      …

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  • Why the Misunderstanding? Please Learn from what I am saying.

    Why the Misunderstanding? Please Learn from what I am saying.

        Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA 28 April 2025       Dear friends,       Why the Misunderstanding? Please Learn from what I am saying.       John Miller is the editor of UUnderworld, a freethinker magazine, for those freethinkers unconstrained by the…

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  • MBH Project on the Public History International Map; Isn’t it time for State and Council Funding to Keep the MBH Project Going?

    MBH Project on the Public History International Map; Isn’t it time for State and Council Funding to Keep the MBH Project Going?

    Now that the MBH Project is on the Public History International Map, Isn’t it time for State and Council Funding to Keep the MBH Project Going?         BUSINESS Office: 18 Callendar St, Sunnybank Hills QLD 4109 AUSTRALIA 22 February 2025   Re: 2024 World Conference of Public History: follow up Dear South-East…

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  • 2024-12-06 Further Discussions on Cognition Histories and Sociology

    2024-12-06 Further Discussions on Cognition Histories and Sociology

    https://www.facebook.com/events/601373408905942/         The Enormity of Facebook Technology Design Failure. But I finally beat it.     Cognition is the “mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses” It is simply the act or process of knowing.     Cognition histories is simply an account of…

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  • BACK-UP. THE TECHNOLOGICAL ATTACK. Re: Education ? Placement poverty in Australia (Case Ref: LW62300)

    Dear …everyone thinking in Australia,       [This post reproduces an email to the Australian public persons. It was the second email sent. The system is attempting to destroy the capacity for the information technology as in email workhorses to handle large and critical thinking as substantial text; fightback to the dumbing-down of the commercial world ! swearword…

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  • Thank You. Community Advocacy for Southern Brisbane

    Thank You. Community Advocacy for Southern Brisbane

    Dear Professor Evans,   On behalf of the Southern Brisbane Suburban Forum, and the Brisbane Southside History Network, I wish to thank you in your very supportive comments for our networks of community organisations, south of the Brisbane river.   The recent article “penned” by you in The Courier Mail was extraordinary community advocacy for municipal benefits in Southern Brisbane.      …

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