Paul Carter

Few subjects in European welfare history attract as much attention as the nineteenth-century English and Welsh New Poor Law. Its founding statute was considered the single most important piece of social legislation ever enacted, and at the same time, the coming of its institutions – from penny-pinching Boards of Guardians to the dreaded workhouse – has generally been viewed as a catastrophe for ordinary working people. Until now it has been impossible to know how the poor themselves felt about the New Poor Law and its measures, how they negotiated its terms, and how their interactions with the local and national state shifted and changed across the nineteenth century. In Their Own Write exposes this hidden history. Based on an unparalleled collection of first-hand testimony – pauper letters and witness statements interwoven with letters to newspapers and correspondence from poor law officials and advocates – the book reveals lives marked by hardship, deprivation, bureaucratic intransigence, parsimonious officialdom, and sometimes institutional cruelty, while also challenging the dominant view that the poor were powerless and lacked agency in these interactions. The testimonies collected in these pages clearly demonstrate that both the poor and their advocates were adept at navigating the new bureaucracy, holding local and national officials to account, and influencing the outcomes of relief negotiations for themselves and their communities. Fascinating and compelling, the stories presented in In Their Own Write amount to nothing less than a new history of welfare from below.

Few subjects in European welfare history attract as much attention as the nineteenth-century English and Welsh New Poor Law. Its founding statute was considered the single most important piece of social legislation ever enacted, and at the same time, the coming of its institutions – from penny-pinching Boards of Guardians to the dreaded workhouse – has generally been viewed as a catastrophe for ordinary working people. Until now it has been impossible to know how the poor themselves felt about the New Poor Law and its measures, how they negotiated its terms, and how their interactions with the local and national state shifted and changed across the nineteenth century. In Their Own Write exposes this hidden history. Based on an unparalleled collection of first-hand testimony – pauper letters and witness statements interwoven with letters to newspapers and correspondence from poor law officials and advocates – the book reveals lives marked by hardship, deprivation, bureaucratic intransigence, parsimonious officialdom, and sometimes institutional cruelty, while also challenging the dominant view that the poor were powerless and lacked agency in these interactions. The testimonies collected in these pages clearly demonstrate that both the poor and their advocates were adept at navigating the new bureaucracy, holding local and national officials to account, and influencing the outcomes of relief negotiations for themselves and their communities. Fascinating and compelling, the stories presented in In Their Own Write amount to nothing less than a new history of welfare from below.

A must read for anyone engaged in postcolonial studies, creativity studies, cultural geography, sociolinguistics, historical ethnography, eco-criticism, environmental humanities, (Australian) Aboriginal studies, and related disciplines.

Gold Winner for the 2023 Foreword INDIES Book Award Winner of the 2024 Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award Winner of the 2024 Eric Hoffer Reference Book Award Winner of the 2024 Best Book Award from American Book Fest Shortlisted for the 2024 Eric Hoffer Grand Prize Modern biographies of Richard Nixon have been consumed with Watergate. All have missed arguably the most important perspective on Nixon as California’s native son, the only U.S. president born and raised in California. In addition, Nixon was also a son, brother, friend, husband, father, uncle, and grandfather. By shifting the focus from Watergate and Washington to Nixon’s deep, defining roots in California, Paul Carter boldly challenges common conceptions of the thirty-seventh president of the United States. More biographies have been written on Nixon than any other U.S. politician. Yet the territory traversed by Carter is unexplored, revealing for the first time the people, places, and experiences that shaped Richard Nixon and the qualities that garnered him respect from those who knew him well. Born in Yorba Linda and raised in Whittier, California, Nixon succeeded early in life, excelling in academics while enjoying athletics through high school. At Whittier College he graduated at the top of his class and was voted Best Man on Campus. During his career at Whittier’s oldest law firm, he was respected professionally and became a chief trial attorney. As a military man in the South Pacific during World War II, he was admired by his fellow servicemen. Returning to his Quaker roots after the war, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, the Senate, and the vice presidency, all within six short years. After losing to John Kennedy in the 1960 presidential campaign, Nixon returned to Southern California to practice law. After losing his gubernatorial race he reinvented himself: he moved to New York and was elected president of the United States in 1968. He returned to Southern California after Watergate and his resignation to heal before once again taking a place on the world stage.Richard Nixon: California’s Native Son is the story of Nixon’s Southern California journey from his birth in Yorba Linda to his final resting place just a few yards from the home in which he was born.

Translations is a personal history written at the intersection of colonial anthropology, creative practice and migrant ethnography. Renowned postcolonial scholar, public artist and radio maker, UK-born Paul Carter documents and discusses a prodigiously varied and original trajectory of writing, sound installation and public space dramaturgy produced in Australia to present the phenomenon of contemporary migration in an entirely new light.Migrant space-time, Carter argues, is not linear, but turbulent, vortical and opportunistic. Before-and-after narratives fail to capture the work of self-becoming and serve merely to perpetuate colonialist fantasies. The ‘mirror state’ relationship between England and Australia, its structurally symmetrical histories of land theft and internal colonisation, repress the appearance of new subjects and subject relations. Reflecting on collaborations with Aboriginal artists, Carter argues for a new definition of the stranger-host relationship predicated on recognition of Aboriginal sovereignty. Carter calls the creative practice that breaks the cycle of repeated invasion ‘dirty art’.Translations is a passionately eloquent argument for reframing borders as crossing-places: framing less murderous exchange rates, symbolic literacy, creative courage and, above all, the emergence of a resilient migrant poetics will be essential.

In 1976 Paul migrated from England to Australia with his then-wife in an attempt to rejuvenate their relationship. When that didn't work, and the marriage finally petered out, Paul decided to give up city life altogether and move to the country. There he served the locals of "Dixon's Bridge" and "Rushby" in central Victoria as their medical practitioner for thirty-plus years. In those three decades of service, he met lots of colorful and memorable people, became involved in many difficult and unforgettable cases, and lived his life to the fullest. In the stories in this, his second book about life in the country, readers are introduced to the residents of the local home for the elderly: Doris who danced as a teenager in the Folies Berg re; Marianne, who fought with the resistance in France; and Merv, who shared the smelliest house in Stoney Creek with his best mate, Charlie the ram. Readers will also meet Mario, the patriarch of a local Italian family, whose many cousins seem able to help Paul out with whatever he needs, including making furniture and mending pianos; Rita with her Viking vocabulary and razor-sharp intellect undamaged by ever having received any education; and Roxy, a teenager taken too early in a car crash in the rain.In amongst all of this Paul meets the love of his life: Helen. Unfortunately, Helen leaves for France shortly after they meet, leaving Paul with Chanel, a very pampered poodle, guardianship of which proves to present many challenges. The stories are all full of heartbreak, love, laughter, and inspiration, and will make readers laugh, smile, and cry as they get to know each of the characters. Paul also openly shares the time he was hospitalized, and his road to recovery which was made easier with the support of the whole community who embraced him as their own.

On the way to visit some friends for dinner one evening, stuck in traffic, I saw a sign outside a church that made it clear that if I didn't change my direction, then I would finish up exactly where I was headed. I certainly didn't like where I was currently headed and, by the time the traffic moved on again, I determined that a change had to be made. I gave up my suburban practice and became a country general practitioner in central Victoria where I served the locals of Dixon's Bridge and Rushby and lived on a farm called Woongarra. Over the years since this move, I have been fortunate to meet many wonderful people. In this third book of my adventures, readers will meet Dene, a lady ranger with a heroic past; Zsofia, a woman who had to come to terms with her family's secret ties to Hitler; and Jean-Marie, a doctor who lived the life of his dreams. They will also meet special people like Bonnie, a child with Down syndrome who was a champion daffodil grower, and Lincoln, an alcoholic with a tragic past who understood the power of forgiveness. Life for each of us is a journey over a trackless landscape in which the only signposts are the occasional footsteps left by others. It is those footsteps that have guided me along my own journey. Along the way, there have been a few tears, but there has also been a great deal of laughter. I have thoroughly enjoyed being part of my rural community, and forever bless the life change I made all those years ago.

Paul Carter was born in Warwickshire, England, and trained at Guy's Hospital, London. In 1976, he migrated to Melbourne, Australia, where he practiced pathology. In 1986, looking for a new start and deciding that he wanted to see real patients rather than spend the rest his life looking down a microscope, Paul left the city and moved to the Macedon Ranges in central Victoria. He bought a farm and has been a local GP there for the last thirty-plus years. Tales of a Country Doctor is a collection of stories of the last three decades in the country. The twenty-four chapters of the book tell the stories of some of the most colorful characters that the author has encountered and some of the most exciting-and bizarre-experiences in his life. The stories feature some of the patients who have left a special mark, some locals who are too unique to forget, and even some animals who have made farm life the adventure that it is. Readers will get to meet the locals of Woongarra and see into their lives. Some unique characters are the following: Es, an old lady who is always cold so she wears several layers of clothing that envelope her from head to toe. You will also get to meet Phill, a colorful personality who rocks a Carmen Miranda outfit and who can brighten up any room. Digby is an alcoholic with an impressive tie collection; and Peter, a brushman, who have walked across Victoria for forty days and forty nights. There are also stories of special people in the book. One such story is about Isobel, a patient who reminded the author of his daughter who passed away. She had such a bright presence and a ready smile. Her passing was one of the hardest things he had to go through; but it helped him let go of his daughter, Amy, who passed away when she was young.Readers will also get to know Hardy, his dog, and learn why the walnuts in the farm will always have a special meaning for him. There is also Prince Rupert, a stubborn deer who now graces his wall with pride. And Helen, a special lady, who made him believe that blind dates don't always end in disaster. These are just a few of the wonderful characters that appear in the stories, and hopefully, as readers meet each one, they will either smile, laugh, or cry-but all leaving a bit of love and warmth in their lives.

Power may be globalized, but Westphalian notions of sovereignty continue to determine political and legal arrangements domestically and internationally: global issues - the legacy of colonialism expressed in continuing human displacement and environmental destruction - are thus treated ‘parochially’ and ineffectually. Not designed for dealing with situations of interdependence, democratic institutions find themselves in crisis. Reform in this case is not simply operational but conceptual: political relationships need to be drawn differently; the cultural illiteracy that prevents the local knowledge invested in places made after their stories needs to be recognised as a major obstacle to decolonising governance.Archipelagic thinking refers to neglected dimensions of the earth’s human geography but also to a geo-politics of relationality, where governance is understood performatively as the continuous establishment of exchange rates. Insisting on the poetic literacy that must inform a decolonising politics, Carter suggests a way out of the incommensurability impasse that dogs assertions of indigenous sovereignty. Discussing bicultural areal management strategies located in south-west Victoria, Maluco (Indonesia) and inter-regionally across the Arafura and Timor Seas, Carter argues for the existence of creative regions constituted archipelagically that can intervene to rewrite the theory and practice of decolonisation.A book of great stylistic elegance and deftness of analysis, Decolonising Governance is an important intervention in the related fields of ecological, ecocritical and environmental humanities. Methodologically innovative in its foregrounding of relationality as the nexus between poetics and politics, it will also be of great interest to scholars in a range of areas, including communicational praxis, land/sea biodiversity design, bicultural resource management, and the constitution of post-Westphalian regional jurisdictions.

Waves of Change is a unique book created by a SoCal native Surfer-Shaper-Artist Paul Carter. Paul started surfing at 4 and a half years old in Southern California. Shaping surfboards started in 1993 shaping for Infinty surfboards, Hobie surfboards and some of the local shops in Southern California. The inspiration to start painting began is 2000 combining custom surfboard murals for homes and businesses around the world. this book is the first edition of a 3 year journey of self discovery and learning to know thyself with healthy waves of change. There are many positive words and reminders that will take you away to a tropical island and enjoy staying present with some room for journaling your journey.

Written by one of the most prominent thinkers in sound studies, Amplifications presents a perspective on sound narrated through the experiences of a sound artist and writer. A work of reflective philosophy, Amplifications sits at the intersection of history, creative practice, and sound studies, recounting this narrative through a series of themes (rattles, echoes, recordings, etc.). Carter offers a unique perspective on migratory poetics, bringing together his own compositions and life’s works while using his personal narrative to frame larger theoretical questions about sound and migration.

Written by one of the most prominent thinkers in sound studies, Amplifications presents a perspective on sound narrated through the experiences of a sound artist and writer. A work of reflective philosophy, Amplifications sits at the intersection of history, creative practice, and sound studies, recounting this narrative through a series of themes (rattles, echoes, recordings, etc.). Carter offers a unique perspective on migratory poetics, bringing together his own compositions and life’s works while using his personal narrative to frame larger theoretical questions about sound and migration.

Power may be globalized, but Westphalian notions of sovereignty continue to determine political and legal arrangements domestically and internationally: global issues - the legacy of colonialism expressed in continuing human displacement and environmental destruction - are thus treated ‘parochially’ and ineffectually. Not designed for dealing with situations of interdependence, democratic institutions find themselves in crisis. Reform in this case is not simply operational but conceptual: political relationships need to be drawn differently; the cultural illiteracy that prevents the local knowledge invested in places made after their stories needs to be recognised as a major obstacle to decolonising governance.Archipelagic thinking refers to neglected dimensions of the earth’s human geography but also to a geo-politics of relationality, where governance is understood performatively as the continuous establishment of exchange rates. Insisting on the poetic literacy that must inform a decolonising politics, Carter suggests a way out of the incommensurability impasse that dogs assertions of indigenous sovereignty. Discussing bicultural areal management strategies located in south-west Victoria, Maluco (Indonesia) and inter-regionally across the Arafura and Timor Seas, Carter argues for the existence of creative regions constituted archipelagically that can intervene to rewrite the theory and practice of decolonisation.A book of great stylistic elegance and deftness of analysis, Decolonising Governance is an important intervention in the related fields of ecological, ecocritical and environmental humanities. Methodologically innovative in its foregrounding of relationality as the nexus between poetics and politics, it will also be of great interest to scholars in a range of areas, including communicational praxis, land/sea biodiversity design, bicultural resource management, and the constitution of post-Westphalian regional jurisdictions.

Driven by his strong Aryan beliefs and upbringing, and after decades of frustrating failure, world renown geneticist Freidrik Mauser finally breaks the code and develops a deadly virus that genetically targets all non-white skinned persons. 60 vials of the lethal virus are released simultaneously worldwide, reaping pandemonium with the rapid pandemic spread and monumental death toll that follows in the days after the wake.In the infancy of the viral outbreak, the sudden confirmation and mounting deaths of persons of white skin uncovers a crucial oversight in Mauser's calculations and testing of the virus. No one is immune.Situated near the foot of Hood Mountain in Oregon and watching events unfold, Dr Rhys Ainsley, lead scientist of Jemmasson-Cheyenne Industries and the world's number one human cloning organ centre, places the premises in lockdown and he and several staff survive along with an estimated half a billion others from remoter areas around the globe. To maximise survival outcome for the years to follow, in an untested procedure, Ainsley clones 5 multiple of several highly skilled security employees with a view of strengthening their community. But the process is flawed and although physically identical in every way, traits and dispositions differ vastly in all of the clones, causing added unrest in the rebirth.In addition to trying to resettle, and as dominant human nature would have it, Ainsley's community comes under assault from an enslaved force of persons whose leader is hellbent on leading the new world order, no matter what the cost.

Learn system operations of interconnected renewable energy resources. This book explores all topics surrounding the generator on the grid. Readers will explore how a solar plant is built and learn about all of the components in the field. Plant networking and configurations are discussed. SCADA control is analyzed and readers see standard practices. Remote functionality of our solar resource is achieved and interconnection and operation with the grid is needed. Grid transmission and distribution is discussed. The roles and positions of different entities and authorities in grid operation is looked at. The generator operator of a power plant needs to know these entities and their own role in coordinating and operating the grid with them. Standard incident cases are given and appropriate actions are divulged. Industry standard voice procedure is taught and sample voice scripts are given. All these aspects go hand in hand with reliable system operation. Readers are given all the aspects that come into an operator's job. This book is a great introduction into the industry, with enough information to learn to master solar PV system operations. Anyone with an interest can follow and develop career insight and ability.

Oi, mate, is that monstrosity diesel? From the author of the bestsellers Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse and This Is Not a Drill, this is the eagerly awaited next installment of Paul Carter's rollicking life.Take one mad adventurer and a motorbike that runs on bio fuel (cooking oil i.e. chip fat to you and me) and send them with one filmmaker on a road trip around Australia just to see what happens. What you get is a story full of outback characters, implausible (but true) situations, unlikely events and unfortunate breakdowns, all at a break neck pace. Never one to sit still for long, this is what Paul Carter did next.Whether you've been shocked, delighted, entertained, horrified - or all of the above - by Paul's stories whether from oil rigs or the road one thing is for sure, they are always high octane adventures.