Debbie Rodan Livres

Focusing on human-animal interaction in contemporary Australia, this interdisciplinary study explores innovative concepts for cohabitation. It examines the roles of advocates, activist groups, and mainstream media in shaping perceptions and practices. By analyzing these perspectives, the book seeks to propose improved models for communal living between humans and animals, highlighting the potential for more harmonious coexistence in the twenty-first century.

Focusing on the representation of marginalized identities, this book explores how disability, obesity, and aging are portrayed in media, particularly in television and online forums. Through case studies from popular reality shows, dramas, and comedies in the UK, USA, and Australia, it highlights the symbolic power of media in shaping perceptions and reactions to these identities. The analysis reveals how societal attitudes contribute to the ongoing stigma surrounding these groups, emphasizing their status as 'spurned' identities in contemporary culture.

Explores the pursuit of peace in Europe from the 1815 Congress of Vienna through to the 1951 Paris Treaty and beyond

Looks at digital culture and activist campaigns within Australia and the Asia Pacific region as well as how digital culture facilitates public participation and deliberation using an interdisciplinary approach.

Debbie Rodan adds breadth and depth to the field of literary, cultural and gender studies through a meticulous investigation of notions such as re-presentation, justice and legitimation. She examines their historical and philosophical trajectories as well as their politico-juridical underpinnings through an ambitious and timely recuperation of the Enlightenment projects of rationality and emancipation. The point of departure is a critical engagement with the theoretical work of John Rawls, Jürgen Habermas and Jean-François Lyotard. Rodan claims each can be read as foregrounding diverse ways of constituting identity within the social world. Recognition of other people's identity at the social, cultural and national level is crucial to the possibility of justice. Rodan tests the concepts of justice, legitimation and identity through detailed critical readings/analyses of a range of texts. The range includes the film East is East, a number of auto/biographical narratives as well as the Australian government report, Bringing Them Home, which is concerned with the removal of Aboriginal children from their families. She avoids polarising Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal notions of justice, identity etc. by including texts which raise and problematise questions of ethnicity and gender.