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This research report describes individual Indian descendants in Ho Chi Minh city in the aim of raising research questions for the scholarship of Indian diaspora studies. I focus on the Indian diasporic members who are largely descendants of those who, in the second half of the nineteenth century and before, migrated from French–British India to Vietnam. They are economically and culturally different from the current Indian expats, the members of the capitalized 'Cộng Đồng Người Ấn Độ' (Indian Community) in Vietnam. The current Indian immigrants largely work in Indian companies and multinational groups. In other words, the Indians in Vietnam are not classified either as children of 'Kinh paternalism' or of Vietnamese 'state paternalism' (Salemink, The Ethnography of Vietnam's Central Highlanders: A Historical Contextualization, 1850–1900. London: Routledge Curzon, 2003, 258, 287). Nor, are they perceptually overseas daughters and sons of 'Hindu paternalism' (Omvedt, Reinventing Revolution: New Social Movements and the Socialist Tradition in India. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1993, 31). The Indian descendants in Vietnam belong nowhere politically. The ambiguity of the Indian descendants in Vietnamese history and society does not suggest that they would be a research subject of the Indian or South Asian diasporas in the field of diaspora studies. Indeed, exploring the Indian diaspora in the dynamic contexts of Vietnamese nationalism offers a new direction in the diaspora studies in general and South Asian diasporas in particular. The report is based on my ethnographic research in Ho Chi Minh City in 2012–2014 at Indian individuals' houses and at cultural centres.

Good citizenship is often associated with patriotism. The patriotic citizen identifies deeply with her country and has a primary and far-reaching loyalty to the country. In the twenty-first century, forms of identification that support patriotic citizenship are increasingly undermined. State boundaries play an ever smaller role in forging citizens' identities, in defining citizens' moral horizons, and as sites of the political problems with which citizens are most concerned. But there are still good reasons to want people to be good citizens, even if they cannot be patriotic citizens. What could take the place of patriotic citizenship? This paper sketches a model of the "wordly citizen." The worldly citizen does not identify primarily with her country, but she nevertheless holds a strong derived commitment to her state, grounded in an accurate understanding of her place in her local community and the wider world. Worldly citizenship, the paper argues, is both recognizable and achievable. It stands as an attractive alternative to patriotic citizenship, and also to the "global citizenship" associated with strong forms of cosmopolitanism.

Good citizenship is often associated with patriotism. The patriotic citizen identifies deeply with her country and has a primary and far-reaching loyalty to the country. In the twenty-first century, forms of identification that support patriotic citizenship are increasingly undermined. State boundaries play an ever smaller role in forging citizens' identities, in defining citizens' moral horizons, and as sites of the political problems with which citizens are most concerned. But there are still good reasons to want people to be good citizens, even if they cannot be patriotic citizens. What could take the place of patriotic citizenship? This paper sketches a model of the "wordly citizen." The worldly citizen does not identify primarily with her country, but she nevertheless holds a strong derived commitment to her state, grounded in an accurate understanding of her place in her local community and the wider world. Worldly citizenship, the paper argues, is both recognizable and achievable. It stands as an attractive alternative to patriotic citizenship, and also to the "global citizenship" associated with strong forms of cosmopolitanism.

Rachel Schmidt had absolutely no experience with radio broadcasting, but when she was offered a chance to host a show for the new ASUW Student Station, she couldn't pass up the opportunity! She and Tara Sweeney (her equally inexperienced roommate and fellow Junior in UW's Honors Program) put their heads together and fleshed out plans for an hour long show entitled, 'A Look Around: An International Hour focused on events, people, and cultures from around the globe." Beginning in January of the Spring 2010 semester and wrapping up in late April, A Look Around aired twice a week on Tuesdays and Fridays at 4pm at UWSR.org. Influenced by their courses of study, the co-hosts made it the mission of their program to seek out and relate international current events and histories. They interviewed several foreign students and faculty, as well as those native to the US who had travelled abroad. Additionally, they conveyed aspects of culture – music/films, religion, and social justice issues. Much was discovered of world politics, entertainment, and antiquity (and the role of the U.S.), as well as the technicalities of news distribution.

As an unwritten language that was until recently used mainly in informal face-to-face communication, New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) has many lexical gaps. The need to fill these gaps is driven in part by the increasing participation of Deaf NZSL users in new social, political, occupational and educational domains (McKee, 2017). As a result, and with increased status and visibility of NZSL in the public domain, there is now a growing demand for translation and interpreting of information into NZSL. The immediate need to translate and simultaneously interpret public health information during the Covid-19 pandemic response in New Zealand is an example of an event that has rapidly generated and disseminated neologisms in NZSL. This paper explores some of the processes of NZSL covid-related vocabulary development and community adoption and discusses the implications for NZSL lexicography. We will begin by reporting on the observations of a number of NZSL translators and interpreters who were producing coronavirus-related texts in NZSL during the pandemic response. In focus group interviews they discussed strategies used when under pressure to coin or borrow new signs on the spot, without being able to draw on available community discourse around the topic (since regular televised press briefings and official online public health communications translated into NZSL were often the NZSL-using Deaf community's first exposure to corona-related concepts and vocabulary). We also report interpreters' and translators' observations around the dissemination of coronavirus-related signs within their team and in the wider community. We also explore signs that were contributed to our vocabulary crowdsourcing platform NZSL Share. Launched in early 2020, NZSL Share is a sister website to the Online Dictionary of NZSL and is intended to enable direct, interactive input by the Deaf community into documenting NZSL. NZSL users can upload and discuss proposed neologisms as well as previously unrecorded signs in community use. NZSL ...

© Mikaela Backman, Charlie Karlsson and Orsa Kekezi 2019. All rights reserved. Senior entrepreneurship is the fastest growing sector of entrepreneurship in Australia, and this chapter identifies the scope and impact of senior entrepreneurship. A high prevalence of senior entrepreneur activity is linked to positive economic and social benefits, aligned to motivation, attitudes, skills, opportunities, success, engagement, barriers, benefits, education and training, government support, life adaptations and other emergent senior entrepreneurship themes. Using data from significant entrepreneurship databases and Australian studies on this phenomenon, the analysis combines nuances specific to Australian senior entrepreneurs, together with suggestions for policy-makers and nascent senior entrepreneurs.

This report sets out the results of research by Victoria University of Wellington on certain key issues around debt collection in the context of lending under consumer credit contracts in New Zealand, as at date of writing (August 2019). The proposed changes to the law (in the October 2018 package of reforms and in the Credit Contracts Legislation Amendment Bill (CCLAB), introduced 11 April 2019) do not address the most concerning aspects of debt collection, which are issues with harassment and the costs of debt collection.

The expansion of smart computer-led technologies into new disciplines enables local governments to design and manage their cities with novel smart discourses. Smart Heritage, the convergence of the smart city and heritage disciplines, offers local governments means to regulate and steer these issues. However, due to its novelty, currently, no research exists on the opportunities and trajectory of Smart Heritage within local government. Therefore, the here presented paper reports the opportunities and recommendations for Smart Heritage within local government, drawing on interviews with smart city and heritage advisors from three Australian local councils. It finds opportunities for smart computer-led technologies to design unique economic, place-making, and governance experiences in cities and recommendations that normalise the delivery of local governments' regulatory duties by these technologies. The findings are significant for leading smart technologies further into the practical-political framework of local government and diversifying smart cities' scope while at the same time combining two separated policies.

This report sets out the results of research by Victoria University of Wellington on certain key issues around debt collection in the context of lending under consumer credit contracts in New Zealand, as at date of writing (August 2019). The proposed changes to the law (in the October 2018 package of reforms and in the Credit Contracts Legislation Amendment Bill (CCLAB), introduced 11 April 2019) do not address the most concerning aspects of debt collection, which are issues with harassment and the costs of debt collection.

The expansion of smart computer-led technologies into new disciplines enables local governments to design and manage their cities with novel smart discourses. Smart Heritage, the convergence of the smart city and heritage disciplines, offers local governments means to regulate and steer these issues. However, due to its novelty, currently, no research exists on the opportunities and trajectory of Smart Heritage within local government. Therefore, the here presented paper reports the opportunities and recommendations for Smart Heritage within local government, drawing on interviews with smart city and heritage advisors from three Australian local councils. It finds opportunities for smart computer-led technologies to design unique economic, place-making, and governance experiences in cities and recommendations that normalise the delivery of local governments' regulatory duties by these technologies. The findings are significant for leading smart technologies further into the practical-political framework of local government and diversifying smart cities' scope while at the same time combining two separated policies.

Speculative, paper-based allegorical architectural projects are rarely if ever conceived with the intention of being built; rather, they are typically situated as critical reflections on a present and a speculative future characterised by dystopian conditions. Their primary aim is to draw our attention to challenging environmental, political, economic and social issues that characterise our world. The machine has played a vital role in both the advancement as well as the degradation of our environmental, political, economic and social realms. This apparent contradiction situates the machine simultaneously as both protagonist and antagonist in dialectic narratives within the allegorical architectural project. Surrealism provides an important vehicle for telling stories characterised by contradictions, unexpected juxtapositions, and distant realities. This paper looks at the application of surrealist techniques in five allegorical architectural projects where the machine – as architecture – represents both the sanctuary that protects us from a dystopian condition, as well as the technological advancements that caused it. In one example, architecture is composed of five integrated machines that represent time, place and society: a theodolite, clock, compass, camera obscura, and loom. The machines – as architecture – provide a utopian environment inside the architectural habitat; but in doing so, they are destroying the natural environment outside. In another example, architecture is a machine that continually changes form as it builds itself from the debris filling a toxic dump site. The inhabitants of the architectural machine are a network of waste pickers who must recycle salvageable waste to survive, all the while living in a habitat composed of its toxic remains. This paper asks: how can a surrealist approach to the allegorical architectural project provide a voice to architectural landscapes characterised by environmental disaster, so that their tales may be remembered as important lessons for future generations?

Cryptocurrencies are relatively new, and they are emerging as an increasingly important part of the global and domestic financial system. To the extent they act as partial (or even, arguably, complete) substitutes for fiat currencies and the traditional banking system, they are increasingly coming into the purview of government legislators and regulators. Cryptocurrencies bring novel new features to currency and payment systems and while these features raise new risks, at the same time cryptocurrencies offer potentially large dynamic efficiency gains, from both more efficient transacting and new products and services. If regulations are to be imposed, then to avoid stifling innovation, care must be taken to ensure they address real problems, and not just hypothetical concerns. We find that the greatest point of vulnerability for consumers lies in the new institutions created to mediate between users and the technological elements of cryptocurrencies: cryptocurrency exchanges. Traditional regulatory agencies are ill-equipped to govern these institutions, as they lack the knowledge of "insiders" regarding the novelty, the technologies and the potential ways of using and abusing them. Drawing on the history of emergent regulation of share markets and currency exchanges, we suggest that industry self-regulation offers a better means of governing cryptocurrency exchange activity in their nascent stages. More formal legal regulation can evolve as better information is gained about how these institutions operate and develop. This approach will offer the best chance of cryptocurrency ecosystems evolving without risk of their novel beneficial elements being crowded out by imposing rules better suited to conventional banking, payments and securities governance and regulation. In addition, we highlight the features of cryptocurrencies that make them in inherently almost impossible to regulate in the same way as other instruments.

Speculative, paper-based allegorical architectural projects are rarely if ever conceived with the intention of being built; rather, they are typically situated as critical reflections on a present and a speculative future characterised by dystopian conditions. Their primary aim is to draw our attention to challenging environmental, political, economic and social issues that characterise our world. The machine has played a vital role in both the advancement as well as the degradation of our environmental, political, economic and social realms. This apparent contradiction situates the machine simultaneously as both protagonist and antagonist in dialectic narratives within the allegorical architectural project. Surrealism provides an important vehicle for telling stories characterised by contradictions, unexpected juxtapositions, and distant realities. This paper looks at the application of surrealist techniques in five allegorical architectural projects where the machine – as architecture – represents both the sanctuary that protects us from a dystopian condition, as well as the technological advancements that caused it. In one example, architecture is composed of five integrated machines that represent time, place and society: a theodolite, clock, compass, camera obscura, and loom. The machines – as architecture – provide a utopian environment inside the architectural habitat; but in doing so, they are destroying the natural environment outside. In another example, architecture is a machine that continually changes form as it builds itself from the debris filling a toxic dump site. The inhabitants of the architectural machine are a network of waste pickers who must recycle salvageable waste to survive, all the while living in a habitat composed of its toxic remains. This paper asks: how can a surrealist approach to the allegorical architectural project provide a voice to architectural landscapes characterised by environmental disaster, so that their tales may be remembered as important lessons for future generations?

© Mikaela Backman, Charlie Karlsson and Orsa Kekezi 2019. All rights reserved. Senior entrepreneurship is the fastest growing sector of entrepreneurship in Australia, and this chapter identifies the scope and impact of senior entrepreneurship. A high prevalence of senior entrepreneur activity is linked to positive economic and social benefits, aligned to motivation, attitudes, skills, opportunities, success, engagement, barriers, benefits, education and training, government support, life adaptations and other emergent senior entrepreneurship themes. Using data from significant entrepreneurship databases and Australian studies on this phenomenon, the analysis combines nuances specific to Australian senior entrepreneurs, together with suggestions for policy-makers and nascent senior entrepreneurs.

The governance of future built environments requires novel interdisciplinary discourses to address the complex needs within cities. Smart Heritage, the novel convergence of smart city and heritage disciplines, is one such interdisciplinary discourse that local governments can leverage for unique perspectives and capabilities. To deliver interdisciplinary discourses like Smart Heritage, it is the task for local governments to orchestrate the knowledge, processes, and initiatives between the two contributing disciplines and apply them to their local context and needs. However, as a novel discourse, no academic research is present on how smart city and heritage disciplines converge to deliver Smart Heritage within local government. This paper reports on the interdisciplinary knowledge, processes, and initiatives between the smart city and heritage disciplines in local government. The research conducted interviews with smart city and heritage advisors from three local governments in Australia and draws key findings on these themes. The findings from an academic understanding of how local governments engage with the Smart Heritage discourse.