Emma Rush is a lecturer in philosophy and ethics at
Charles Sturt University Faculty of Arts, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, notable for her work on sexualisation of children.
In 2006, Rush worked on a series of reports for
The Australia Institute
The Australia Institute is a left-wing public policy think tank based in Canberra, Australia. Since its launch in 1994, it has carried out research on a broad range of economic, social, and environmental issues.
The institute has offices in Ca ...
. Two of the reports which she co-authored
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led to a senate inquiry into the sexualisation of children.
Rush has also been consulted by the media, including Australia's
ABC News
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The Sydney Morning Herald
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Research
Rush's main areas of research are: ethics in public life, particularly, sexualisation of children and the corporatisation of child care; professional ethics, particularly social work ethics, with a developing project on resilience; and
environmental ethics
In environmental philosophy, environmental ethics is an established field of practical philosophy "which reconstructs the essential types of argumentation that can be made for protecting natural entities and the sustainable use of natural resourc ...
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Media
Rush has acted as a media consultant over issues relating to sexualisation, advertising and pornography debates by
ABC Radio, Australia,
ABC News, Australia, ''
The Sydney Morning Herald
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The Conversation
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'', and
Melinda Tankard Reist's website.
Selected bibliography
Ph.D thesis
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2006 papers for The Australia Institute
2006 discussion papers for the Australia Institute
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2006 web papers for the Australia Institute
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* Rush, E., Short, M., Burningham, G., Cartledge, J. (2020). ‘Philosophy and ethics: Sustaining social inclusion in the disability sector’. In Crisp, B.R. and Taket, A. (Eds.), ''Sustaining Social Inclusion,'' Routledge, pp. 203–217. ISBN (electronic) 9780429397936
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* Strong, C. and Rush, E. (2018) Musical genius and/or nasty piece of work? ''Dealing with violence and sexual assault in accounts of popular music’s past,'' Continuum, https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2018.1483009.
* Short, M., Dempsey, K., Ackland, J., Rush, E., Heller, E. & Dwyer, H. (2018). What is a person? Deepening students’ and colleagues’ understanding of person-centredness, ''Advances in Social Work & Welfare Education,'' vol. 20, no.1, pp. 139–156. ISSN 1329-0584
References
External links
Profile page: Dr Emma RushSchool of Humanities and Social Sciences, Charles Sturt University
Emma RushOCLC WorldCat Identities
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Anti-pornography activists
Anti-prostitution activists
Date of birth missing (living people)
Scholars of feminist philosophy
Living people
21st-century Australian philosophers
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Academic staff of Charles Sturt University
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Environmental ethicists