Publications
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Diversity in Leadership: Australian women, past and present
(2014)
Diversity in Leadership: Australian women, past and present provides a new understanding of the historical and contemporary aspects of Indigenous and non-Indigenous women’s leadership in a range of local, national and ...
Through a Glass Darkly: The Social Sciences Look at the Neoliberal University
(2014)
This collection of essays arose from a workshop held in Canberra in 2013 under the auspices of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia to consider the impact of the encroachment of the market on public universities.
Contextualising the Neolithic Occupation of Southern Vietnam (Terra Australis 42)
(2014)
Contextualising the neolithic in southern Vietnam is conducted through a comparative study of material culture between An Son and the sites of Bến Ðò, Bình Đa, Cù Lao Rùa, Cái Vạn, Cầu Sắt, Đa Kai, Đình Ông, Lộc Giang, ...
Ngapartji Ngapartji: In turn, in turn: Ego-histoire, Europe and Indigenous Australia
(2014)
In this innovative collection, Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars from Australia and Europe reflect on how their life histories have impacted on their research in Indigenous Australian Studies. Drawing on Pierre Nora’s ...
Global Warming and Climate Change: What Australia knew and buried...then framed a new reality for the public
(2014)
Relevant to both Australian and overseas audiences, here is the untold story of how Australia buried its knowledge on climate change science and response options during the 1990s — going from clarity to confusion and doubt ...
A Political Memoir of the Anglo-French Condominium of the New Hebrides
(2014)
Keith Woodward has produced an inside account of the intricacies of official politics in the latter stages of the history of the Anglo-French Condominium of the New Hebrides, which will be essential reading for anyone ...
Contemporary Asian Art and Exhibitions
(2014)
This volume draws together essays by leading art experts observing the dramatic developments in Asian art and exhibitions in the last two decades. The authors explore new regional and global connections and new ways of ...
Circulating Cultures
(2014)
Circulating Cultures is an edited book about the transformation of cultural materials through the Australian landscape.
Wives and Wanderers in a New Guinea Highlands Society
(2014)
Wives and Wanderers in a New Guinea Highlands Society brings to the reader anthropologist Marie Reay’s field research from the 1950s and 1960s on women’s lives in the Wahgi Valley, Central Highlands of Papua New Guinea.
Fiji: A Place called home
(2014)
Daryl Tarte writes emotively, in great detail, about his personal experience of growing up on a remote island during the colonial era, when races were segregated, and white people lived an elite existence.
In the Eye of the Beholder: What Six Nineteenth-century Women Tell Us About Indigenous Authority and Identity
(2014)
This book offers a fresh perspective in the debate on settler perceptions of Indigenous Australians.
Law and Democracy: Contemporary Questions
(2014)
Law and Democracy: Contemporary Questions provides a fresh understanding of law’s regulation of Australian democracy.
The Tools of Owatatsumi: Japan's Ocean Surveillance and Coastal Defence Capabilities
(2015)
Japan is quintessentially by geography a maritime country. Maritime surveillance capabilities – underwater, shore-based and airborne – are critical to its national defence posture. This book describes and assesses these ...
Power and International relations: Essays in Honour of Coral Bell
(2014)
Coral Mary Bell AO, who died in 2012, was one of the world’s foremost academic experts on international relations, crisis management and alliance diplomacy. This collection of essays by more than a dozen of her friends and ...
Indigenous Australians and the National Disability Insurance Scheme
(2014)
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is one of the major policy innovations of the early 21st century in Australia, representing a new way of delivering services to people with a disability and those who care for them.
Australia, the European Union and the New Trade Agenda
(2017)
"Australia (together with New Zealand) is one of the few Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries with which the EU does not have a comprehensive trade agreement. Australia and the EU are ...
The Histories of Raphael Samuel
(2017)
In the first integrated biographical study of his work, this book situates British historian Raphael Samuel (1934–1996) in relation to his distinctive form of activist politics as they developed from youthful Cold War ...
New Perspectives in Southeast Asian and Pacific Prehistory: Terra Australis 45
(2017)
‘This volume brings together a diversity of international scholars, unified in the theme of expanding scientific knowledge about humanity’s past in the Asia-Pacific region. The contents in total encompass a deep time range, ...
The personality cult of Stalin in Soviet posters, 1929–1953: Archetypes, inventions and fabrications
(2016)
From 1929 until 1953, Iosif Stalin’s image became a central symbol in Soviet propaganda. Touched up images of an omniscient Stalin appeared everywhere: emblazoned across buildings and lining the streets; carried in parades ...
Family Experiments: Middle-class, professional families in Australia and New Zealand c. 1880–1920
(2016)
Family Experiments explores the forms and undertakings of ‘family’ that prevailed among British professionals who migrated to Australia and New Zealand in the late nineteenth century. Their attempts to establish and define ...