Griffith Review 64

Griffith Review 64
Author: Ashley Hay
Publisher: Text Publishing
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2019-05-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781925773620

Griffith Review 64: The New Disruptors takes a wide-ranging look at some of the upheavals and interruptions that have come with our increasingly technological world.

Griffith Review 68: Getting On

Griffith Review 68: Getting On
Author: Ashley Hay
Publisher: GRIFFITH REVIEW
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2020-05-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1922212490

In a world where seventy is the new fifty, old age isn't what it used to be. COVID-19 has changed fundamental concepts of ageing, maturity and mortality. And with the virus's particular impacts on the aged, it's time to challenge – and rectify – the exclusion of the elderly from our culture, and focus on people as people, not as problems to be solved. With exciting new work from Helen Garner, Charlotte Wood, Gabbie Stroud, David Sinclair, Vicki Laveau-Harvie, Samuel Wagan Watson, Andrew Stafford, Jay Phillips, Jane R Goodall, Glenn A Albrecht, Leah Kaminsky, Ailsa Piper and many more, Griffith Review 68: Getting On offers an insightful exploration of the changing truths of ageing – as well as celebrating the triumph of longevity. It's a timely look at the question of how we age successfully – as individuals, as a society, as a population.

Griffith Review 67: Matters of Trust

Griffith Review 67: Matters of Trust
Author: Ashley Hay
Publisher: GRIFFITH REVIEW
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2020-02-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1922212482

Are we ready to embrace the personal and political dimensions of trust? Griffith Review 67: Matters of Trust provides a fascinating and forensic examination of how we experience trust in our public and personal lives. With new work from Anne Tiernan, David Ritter, Cameron Muir, Alex Miller, Sophie Overett, Omar Sakr, John Kinsella, Damon Young and many more, this timely edition of Griffith Review explores the implications and opportunities of a collapse in trust, from politics and diplomacy to the dynamics of the most intimate personal relationships. In asking how we can find connection in increasingly divided and disrupted spaces, Matters of Trust offers stories of transformation, epiphany and hope.

Griffith REVIEW 45

Griffith REVIEW 45
Author: Julianne Schultz
Publisher: Text Publishing
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2014-07-23
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781922182425

The way we work has changed profoundly in recent years. This timely edition of the multi-award-winning Griffith REVIEW explores the extraordinary structural changes triggered by globalisation, the internet and the collapse of unions. Job security is a thing of the past—many welcome the flexibility of the new environment while others find it hard to adjust. The Way We Work features stories from the coalface of work—traditional and non-traditional jobs described with insight, flair and passion. Contributors include Ashley Hay, Rebecca Huntley, Gideon Haigh, Peter Mares, Kathy Marks, Craig McGregor, David Peetz and more.

Moral Combat

Moral Combat
Author: R. Marie Griffith
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2017-12-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0465094767

From an esteemed scholar of American religion and sexuality, a sweeping account of the century of religious conflict that produced our culture wars Gay marriage, transgender rights, birth control -- sex is at the heart of many of the most divisive political issues of our age. The origins of these conflicts, historian R. Marie Griffith argues, lie in sharp disagreements that emerged among American Christians a century ago. From the 1920s onward, a once-solid Christian consensus regarding gender roles and sexual morality began to crumble, as liberal Protestants sparred with fundamentalists and Catholics over questions of obscenity, sex education, and abortion. Both those who advocated for greater openness in sexual matters and those who resisted new sexual norms turned to politics to pursue their moral visions for the nation. Moral Combat is a history of how the Christian consensus on sex unraveled, and how this unraveling has made our political battles over sex so ferocious and so intractable.

Griffith Review 67

Griffith Review 67
Author: Ashley Hay
Publisher: Text Publishing
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2020-02-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781922268839

Griffith Review 67: Matters of Trust explores the transformation of society through the way we interact with institutions, in essays from top emerging and established writers.

Griffith REVIEW 40

Griffith REVIEW 40
Author: Julianne Schultz
Publisher: Text Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-04-24
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781922079978

A timely and groundbreaking edition of Griffith REVIEW exploring the changing relationship between women and power in public and private spheres, in Australia and the world. In one generation, women have taken control of their economic fate, risen to the most powerful political positions in the land and climbed to the top of the corporate ladder. Yet a misogynist undercurrent persists. The impact of this gender revolution extends across society—from homes to schools, politics to the military, marriage to media—challenging long-held verities. In Women & Power, Griffith REVIEW brings an international perspective to these dilemmas, exploring the changing relationship between women and power in public and private spheres, here and overseas. Have social changes caught up with economic changes? Are children paying a price for the rise of the two-income household? Can women have it all? Does it matter whether Julia Gillard’s fruit bowl is empty or full? Women & Power offers provocative and insightful perspectives on these questions. The empowerment of women was one of the great changes of the past fifty years—handling its consequences remains a pressing challenge.

Griffith Review 65

Griffith Review 65
Author: Ashley Hay
Publisher: Text Publishing
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2019-08-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781925773798

Griffith Review 65: Crimes and Punishments tells stories of reform and possibility from inside our institutions, from the greatest to the smallest of their participants.

Electrify

Electrify
Author: Saul Griffith
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2021-10-12
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0262367270

An optimistic--but realistic and feasible--action plan for fighting climate change while creating new jobs and a healthier environment: electrify everything. Climate change is a planetary emergency. We have to do something now—but what? Saul Griffith has a plan. In Electrify, Griffith lays out a detailed blueprint—optimistic but feasible—for fighting climate change while creating millions of new jobs and a healthier environment. Griffith’s plan can be summed up simply: electrify everything. He explains exactly what it would take to transform our infrastructure, update our grid, and adapt our households to make this possible. Billionaires may contemplate escaping our worn-out planet on a private rocket ship to Mars, but the rest of us, Griffith says, will stay and fight for the future. Griffith, an engineer and inventor, calls for grid neutrality, ensuring that households, businesses, and utilities operate as equals; we will have to rewrite regulations that were created for a fossil-fueled world, mobilize industry as we did in World War II, and offer low-interest “climate loans.” Griffith’s plan doesn’t rely on big, not-yet-invented innovations, but on thousands of little inventions and cost reductions. We can still have our cars and our houses—but the cars will be electric and solar panels will cover our roofs. For a world trying to bounce back from a pandemic and economic crisis, there is no other project that would create as many jobs—up to twenty-five million, according to one economic analysis. Is this politically possible? We can change politics along with everything else.