Publications
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Touring Pacific Cultures
(2016)
"Tourism is vital to the economies of most Pacific nations and as such is an important site for the meaningful production of shared and disputed cultural values and practices. This is especially the case when tourism ...
Gender Violence & Human Rights: Seeking Justice in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu
(2016)
The postcolonial states of Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu operate today in a global arena in which human rights are widely accepted. As ratifiers of UN treaties such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms ...
Australia goes to Washington: 75 years of Australian representation in the United States, 1940–2015
(2016)
Since 1940, when an Australian legation was established in Washington DC, Australian governments have expected much from their representatives in the American capital. This book brings together expert analyses of those who ...
Indigenous Data Sovereignty
(2016)
"As the global ‘data revolution’ accelerates, how can the data rights and interests of indigenous peoples be secured? Premised on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, this book argues that ...
Harnessing the Bohemian: Artists as innovation partners in rural and remote communities
(2016)
Harnessing the Bohemian takes a fresh and interdisciplinary perspective on the intractable problem of shrinking populations and resources in remote/rural communities. It challenges the conventional wisdom of community ...
An Archaeology of Early Christianity in Vanuatu (Terra Australis 44)
(2016)
Religious change is at its core a material as much as a spiritual process. Beliefs related to intangible spirits, ghosts, or gods were enacted through material relationships between people, places, and objects. The archaeology ...
Bridging Australia and Japan: Volume 1. The writings of David Sissons, historian and political scientist
(2016)
This book represents volume one of the writings of David Sissons, who for most of his career pioneered research on the history of relations between Australia and Japan. Much of what he wrote remained unpublished at the ...
Measuring and Promoting Wellbeing
(2014)
"Australia continues to be at the forefront of international work on measuring and promoting wellbeing, Ian Castles being a significant contributor over the last forty years as an official and academic. This book combines ...
Dharmalan Dana
(2014)
A Yorta Yorta man’s seventy-three-year search for the story of his Aboriginal and Indian ancestors including his Indian Grampa who, as a real mystery man, came to Yorta Yorta country in Australia, from Mauritius, in 1881 ...
Planning and Managing Scientific Research
(2014)
Although there are many books on project management, few address the issues associated with scientific research. This work is based on extensive scientific research and management experiences and is designed to provide an ...
Deepening Reform for China’s Long-term Growth and Development
(2014)
The Chinese economy has entered a new phase of development in which sources of growth are not so much dependent upon pure increases in labour, investment and credit expansion, but from productivity improvement, structural ...
Explorations in Semantic Parallelism
(2014)
This collection of eighteen papers explores issues in the study of semantic parallelism — a world-wide tradition in the composition of oral poetry. It is concerned with both comparative issues and the intensive study of a ...
Losing Control. Freedom of the Press in Asia
(2014)
'A free press is not a luxury. A free press is at the absolute core of equitable development' according to World Bank President James Wolfensohn. A free press is also the key to transparency and good governance and is an ...
Power and Responsibility in Chinese Foreign Policy
(2014)
The People’s Republic of China is now over fifty years old. Long considered an outsider, or a club of one, in international relations, China has recently become more active in international institutions. Is China becoming ...
Pursuing Livelihoods, Imagining Development Smallholders in Highland Lampung, Indonesia
(2014)
This monograph explores the ways in which people experience ‘development’ and how development shapes and maintains their lives. The discussion begins with Lampung Province, moves to one of the province’s highland regions, ...
Developing Asian Bondmarkets
(2014)
The absence of vibrant bondmarkets in East Asia was a significant contributor to the 1997–98 financial crisis. Ever since, the development of local bondmarkets has been a major objective of financial reforms in many East ...
The People Have Spoken: The 2014 Elections in Fiji
(2016)
The September 2014 elections in Fiji was one of the most anticipated in the history of the country, coming after eight years of military rule and under a radically new constitution that introduced a system of proportional ...
The Rahui: Legal pluralism in Polynesian traditional management of resources and territories
(2016)
This collection deals with an ancient institution in Eastern Polynesia called the rahui, a form of restricting access to resources and/or territories. While tapu had been extensively discussed in the scientific literature ...
Shared Destiny: China Story Yearbook 2014
(2015)
Humanity as never before shares a common destiny, whether it be in terms of the resources of the planet, the global environment, economic integration, or the movement of peoples, ideas, cultures. For better or worse humankind ...
Eyewitness to Early Reform in Myanmar
(2016)
By 2000, a ruthless military regime had ruled Myanmar for more than a decade, polarising opinion inside and outside Burma/Myanmar — with Western countries locked into non-UN sanctions and Asian countries and the rest of ...