Dr Neville Buch

Professional Historian and History Consultancy Services Brisbane

Category: MICE: Management Institute for Contributory Economy

  • Strategic Cousins: The Cognition of Australian and Canadian Political Unison

    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 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)

    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

    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)

    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…

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  • Geoffrey Bolton. Comprehensive Historiography

    Geoffrey Bolton. Comprehensive Historiography

      Geoffrey Bolton: Comprehensive Historiography and the Philosophy of Geoffrey Bolton (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.…

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  • Implosion of the un-intelligent

    Implosion of the un-intelligent

    From the Sydney Morning Herald, 4 March 2006   Jackie O exits show, Kyle Sandilands suspended amid on-air feud fallout KIIS FM has terminated Jackie “O” Henderson’s $100 million contract after she told executives she could not continue to work with Kyle Sandilands following an on-air feud with her co-star. The decision, announced on the…

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  • Socialist Historiography and the Philosophy of ‘Ray Evans’ HAPI Past Series

      https://www.academia.edu/164902737/Socialist_Historiography_and_the_Philosophy_of_Ray_Evans_HAPI_Past_Series       Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642   Abstract This essay examines the historiographical legacy of Raymond Evans, a transformative figure within the University of Queensland’s School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry (HAPI). Evans’ career, spanning from the 1960s to his retirement as Associate Professor in 2002, is defined by a radical…

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  • ART and Christian Churches

    ART and Christian Churches

    Abstract This essay examines the causal link between the decline of Australian churches and the systematic adoption of the American Revivalist Tradition (ART), as forewarned by Dr. Neville Buch in his 1995 doctoral research. It argues that the transition from a British-oriented  “clerical Enlightenment”  to a mechanized American model of faith has induced a state…

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  • Buch, Neville (2025). On The CounterPoint Statement, Unnderworld 2(11) 112-5

    Buch, Neville (2025). On The CounterPoint Statement, Unnderworld 2(11) 112-5

    On The CounterPoint Statement Unnderworld 2(11) 112-5 Abstract In response to John Miller’s inquiry regarding the “how” and “where” of resistance for liberal congregations facing an authoritarian state—defined here as authority exceeding the fair intent of the law—this essay argues for a neganthropic turn. Drawing on the philosophies of Bernard Stiegler, Bernard Williams, and Dr. Neville…

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