Traffic is a refereed interdisciplinary postgraduate journal published by the University of Melbourne Graduate Student Association (GSA).
ISSN 1447-2538
The journal aims to showcase the best of Melbourne University's postgraduate community research, and to provide a forum for graduate students to present their work in an engaging and interesting style to a broader audience beyond their departmental peers. Through publishing a diverse range of postgraduate research, Traffic seeks to facilitate a sense of cohesiveness in the postgraduate community and to counter its fragmentation.
The journal is refereed (using a double "blind" peer review process), so it counts for valuable "publication points" when applying for jobs, scholarships or grants. It is also licensed by Gale Cengage databases, meaning that scholars worldwide can access and cite articles published in Traffic. If you are a Science researcher considering submitting to the journal, check out our
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To contact the editor of Traffic, email traffic (at) gsa.unimelb.edu.au or telephone (03) 8344 8308
The Call for Papers for
Traffic 11 has now closed and while
we are no longer accepting article submissions, we are still seeking book reviewers.
We're also planning a 'best-of'
Traffic edition, drawing together the most engaging papers from the past ten issues.
Traffic, GSA's interdisciplinary, refereed graduate student journal, is calling for submissions to its eleventh edition. Tailor your research to suit the theme 'Fact or Fiction?' and you could win a $1,000 prize.
Foreword - Traffic 10
Just over a decade or so ago, almost everywhere you looked, history as a discipline appeared to be in a bad way. In Australia, Keith Windschuttle, at that time a relatively obscure media lecturer, published his readable but intemperate volume, The Killing of History (1994), in which he lamented the death of history at the hands of cultural studies...
...History
in several of its varieties is represented here: no primitive
neo-conservative crudities that abhor nuance and ambiguity; no
over-reliance on postmodernist puns that suggest a lack of awareness of
Christopher Norris’s demolition of Derrida; no half-understood
poststructuralist mutterings that show ignorance of Andrew Scull’s
recent demolition of Foucault’s scholarship: just good, incisive
scholarship―and interesting stories.
Tony Taylor, Monash University
The Traffic Seminar with Ghassan Hage was a great success!
See photos from the event...
Traffic Seminar: The Global Power of the Olympic Games, Beijing 2008 in Historical Perspective - 13 August
Why was China was so eager to host the Olympic Games? What does it hope to gain? And what has hosting the Olympic Games meant for host countries politically, economically, and culturally?
Professor Ghassan Hage in Conversation on Academic Freedom (23 June)
Where do the limits on academic freedom begin and end? Who defines this and how?
On Monday 23rd June at 5.30pm (Theatre D- Old Arts) Future Generation Professor of Anthropology and Social Theory Ghassan Hage will speak at the inaugural Traffic seminar on the subject of academic freedom.
Traffic 9 : Serendipity
2007
Contents, Articles (with links to abstracts), Reviews
There is no doubt that many research conclusions are generated through a series of logical, reasoned steps and arduous hours of writing and experimentation. The inspiring effects of serendipitous happenings upon research do not eliminate the prerequisites of toil and rigour, but losing one’s ‘bearings’ can push the researcher into new territory in which to apply his or her efforts. Occasionally, ‘happy accidents’ can lead to conclusions that might never have otherwise been revealed
Abstracts of articles in Traffic 9
