Publications
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Strings of Connectedness. Essays in honour of Ian Keen
(2015)
For nearly four decades, Ian Keen has been an important, challenging, and engaging presence in Australian anthropology. Beginning with his PhD research in the mid-1970s and through to the present, he has been a leading ...
The 2006 Military Takeover in Fiji
(2009)
This book explores the factors behind – and the implications of – the 2006 coup. It brings together contributions from leading scholars, local personalities, civil society activists, union leaders, journalists, lawyers, ...
Aboriginal Placenames
(2009)
Aboriginal approaches to the naming of places across Australia differ radically from the official introduced Anglo-Australian system. However, many of these earlier names have been incorporated into contemporary nomenclature, ...
Assessing the evidence on Indigenous socioeconomic outcomes
(2006)
Aboriginal australian; Social conditions; Economic conditions
An Atlas on Global Water Cycle
(2009)
What do climate models predict for the rainfall where you live? What about evaporation or runoff? Should your local community consider constructing new dams or do the existing water storages appear adequate? What about the ...
From Election to Coup The 2006 Campaign and its Aftermath
(2007)
In May 2006 Fiji held its tenth general election since independence in 1970. In a country with an unenviable history of electoral trauma, the mood was apprehensive if not tense – not least because of controversial public ...
Fresh Perspectives on the 'War on Terror'
(2008)
On 20 September 2001, in an address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American people, President George W Bush declared a ‘war on terror’. The concept of the ‘war on terror’ has proven to be both an attractive and a ...
Globalisation and Governance in the Pacific Islands
(2006)
Politics and government; Globalization; Congresses; Oceania
Foreign Bodies: Oceania and the Science of Race 1750-1940
(2008)
From the 18th century, Oceania became the principal laboratory of raciology for scholars, voyagers, and colonisers alike. By juxtaposing encounters and theory, this magisterial book explores the semantics of human difference ...
First Contacts in Polynesia
(2008)
This book explores the first encounters between Samoans and Europeans up to the arrival of the missionaries, using all available sources for the years 1722 to the 1830s, paying special attention to the first encounter on ...
Facing Asia: A History of the Colombo Plan
(2010)
‘No nation can escape its geography’, warned Percy Spender, Australia’s Minister for External Affairs, in 1950. With the immediate turmoil of World War II over, communism and decolonisation had ended any possibility that ...
Federalism and Regionalism in Australia: New Approaches, New Institutions?
(2007)
Australia’s federal system is in a state of flux and its relevance is being challenged. Dramatic shifts are occurring in the ways in which power and responsibility are shared between governments. Pressure for reform is ...
Fishing for Fairness
(2012)
Fishing for Fairness develops an explicitly cultural perspective on environmental politics in the Philippines by analysing the responses of fishers to marine resource regulations. In the resource frontier of the Calamianes ...
Financing Higher Education and Economic Development in East Asia
(2011)
This volume addresses important issues to do with access to higher education and different models of its financing in the East Asia region. It is enriched by diverse perspectives from vastly different starting points and ...
The First Ten K R Narayanan Orations
(2006)
Politics and government; Economic conditions; Economic policy; India
China's New Place in a World in Crisis
(2009)
The world and China’s place in it have been transformed over the past year. The pressures for change have come from the most severe global financial crisis ever. The crisis has accelerated China’s emergence as a great ...
China: The Next Twenty Years of Reform and Development
(2010)
China has made some remarkable achievements during the first three decades of economic reform and opening up, rising to become one of the world’s most dynamic and globally-integrated market economies. Yet there remains ...
Dreamtime Superhighway (TA27)
(2008)
Dreamtime Superhighway presents a thorough and original contextualization of the rock art and archaeology of the Sydney Basin. By combining excavation results with rock art analysis it demonstrates that a true archaeology ...
Ethics and Auditing
(2005)
Auditing; Moral; Ethics
The Cult of the Market
(2007)
The Cult of the Market: Economic Fundamentalism and its Discontents disputes the practical value of the shallow, all-encompassing, dogmatic, economic fundamentalism espoused by policy elites in recent public policy debates, ...