Publications
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Signs of Wali: Narratives at the Sacred Sites in Pamijahan, West Java
(2008)
In Signs of the Wali, Dr Tommy Christomy focuses on the one of the early founders of Islam on Java, Shakyh Abdul Muhyi, whose burial site at Pamijahan in Tasikmalaya is a place of contemporary ziarah. This study initially ...
Sounds in translation
(2009)
Sounds in Translation: Intersections of music, technology and society joins a growing number of publications taking up R. Murray Schafer’s challenge to examine and to re-focus attention on the sound dimensions of our human ...
Social Indicators for Aboriginal Governance
(2004)
Government policy; Social conditions; Aboriginal australians
TA31: The Early Prehistory of Fiji
(2009)
I enjoyed reading this volume. It is rare to see such a comprehensive report on hard data published these days, especially one so insightfully contextualised by the editors’ introductory and concluding chapters. These ...
Chalo Jahaji: On a journey through indenture in Fiji
(2012)
“It is a milestone in subaltern studies, a biographical journey penned by a living relic of the indentured experience and a scholar whose thoroughly interdisciplinary approach is a good example for the anthropologist, the ...
Telling Pacific Lives: Prisms of Process
(2008)
How are Pacific lives imagined, written and read? How are they refracted through prisms of process? From legends about culture heroes to biographies of national leaders, from tales of ancestors to stories of contemporary ...
State and Society in Papua New Guinea
(2004)
Politics and government; Social conditions; Papua new guinea
The Turning Point in China's Economic Development
(2006)
Economic policy; Economic conditions; Industrialization; China
Struggling for Self-Reliance: Four case studies of Australian Regional Force Projection in the late 1980s and the 1990s
(2008)
Military force projection is the self-reliant capacity to strike from mainland ports, bases and airfields to protect Australia’s sovereignty as well as more distant national interests. Force projection is not just a flex ...
Steep Slopes
(2010)
The Duna live in a physical environment of steep slopes that are sometimes difficult to traverse. A stick of bamboo used as a prop goes a long way in assisting a struggling traveller. Similarly, the Duna live in a social ...
A Time Bomb Lies Buried
(2008)
A Time Bomb Lies Buried discusses the debates which took place in Suva and London as well as the politics and processes which led Fiji to independence in 1970 after 96 years of colonial rule. It provides an essential ...
Statistical Mechanics of Nonequilbrium Liquids
(2007)
During the 1980’s there were many developments regarding the nonequilibrium statistical mechanics of dense classical atomic fluids. These developments have had a major impact on the computer simulation methods used to model ...
Dilemmas of China's Growth in the 21st Century
(2012)
Since economic reforms began in 1978, China has been a focal point for observing the effects of market liberalisation. China has not only truly become one of
Rebalancing and Sustaining Growth in China
(2012)
The idea that China’s economy needs to rebalance is no longer controversial inside or outside the country. Whether it be the increasing recognition of income
A Vision for Change
(2011)
“Dr Lal’s book is more than an eloquent account of the political struggle of one of Fiji’s outstanding leaders. It is a timely reminder that the process of constitutional change hangs in the balance, as it did at the time ...
Engendering Violence in Papua New Guinea
(2012)
This collection builds on previous works on gender violence in the Pacific, but goes beyond some previous approaches to ‘domestic violence’ or ‘violence
Whistleblowing in the Australian Public Sector: Enhancing the theory and practice of internal witness management in public sector organisations
(2008)
Of the many challenges in public sector management, few are as complex as the management of whistleblowing. Because it can lead to the discovery and rectification of wrongdoing, public interest whistleblowing is widely ...
Working Together in Vanuatu
(2011)
This collection is derived from a conference held at the Vanuatu National Museum and Cultural Centre (VCC) that brought together a large gathering of foreign and indigenous researchers to discuss diverse perspectives ...
With the benefit of hindsight: Valedictory reflections from departmental secretaries, 2004-11
(2012)
Secretaries of government departments in Australia are the bureaucratic leaders of their generation. They are ambitious, highly-talented executives who have risen to the very pinnacle of their chosen vocation – public ...
Whatever Happened to Frank and Fearless?
(2008)
In this evidence-based and closely argued work, Kathy MacDermott plots the changes in the culture of the Australian Public Service that have led many contemporary commentators to lament the purported loss of traditional ...
The Workshop Morality: The Islamic Creativity of Pesantren Daarut Tauhid in Bandung, Java
(2008)
This volume is a remarkable study of a most unusual pesantren. Officially known as Pesantren Daarut Tauhid, this pesantren was located in Bandung and flourished at the beginning of a period of Islamic resurgence in Indonesia. ...
Whistling While They Work
(2011)
This guide sets out results from four years of research into how public sector organisations can better fulfil their missions, maintain their integrity and value their employees by adopting a current best-practice approach ...
Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies II: Historical engagements and current enterprises
(2012)
This is the second volume to emerge from a project on Indigenous participation in the Australian economy, funded by an Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Grant, and involving the cooperation of the School of Archaeology ...
Taking the High Ground: The archaeology of Rapa, a fortified island in remote East Polynesia (Terra Australis 37)
(2012)
This volume brings the remote and little known island of Rapa firmly to the forefront of Polynesian archaeology. Thirteen authors contribute 14 chapters, covering not only the basic archaeology of coastal sites, rock ...
Indigenous Peoples' Innovation: Intellectual Property Pathways to Development
(2012)
Traditional knowledge systems are also innovation systems. This book analyses the relationship between intellectual property and indigenous innovation. The
Australian Politics in a Digital Age
(2013)
Information and communications technologies are increasingly important in the Australian political landscape. From the adoption of new forms of electoral campaigning to the use of networking technology to organise social ...
Past Law, Present Histories
(2012)
This collection brings methods and questions from humanities, law and social sciences disciplines to examine different instances of lawmaking. Contributors explore the problematic of past law in present historical analysis ...
Public Sector Governance in Australia
(2012)
Australia lacks a scholarly book that covers recent developments in public sector governance in Australia and blends cross-disciplinary perspectives from law, management, public administration and public policy. The primary ...
Fiji before the storm: Elections and the politics of development
(2012)
A racially-weighted Constitution, promulgated by decree in 1990, divided the country and invited international condemnation, and the economy suffered from the collapse of institutions of good governance. In 1995, an ...
Black Gold: Aboriginal People on the Goldfields of Victoria, 1850-1870
(2012)
Fred Cahir tells the story about the magnitude of Aboriginal involvement on the Victorian goldfields in the middle of the nineteenth century. The first history of Aboriginal–white interaction on the Victorian goldfields, ...
Learning Spaces: Youth, Literacy and New Media in Remote Indigenous Australia
(2012)
“This work offers us the rare opportunity to step inside innovative uses of technologies, mergers of global technologies into local knowledge, and community advocacy of local history and ideology…The young people who move ...
An Otago Storeman in Solomon Islands
(2012)
An Otago Storeman in Solomon Islands reaches from inland South Island of New Zealand across to the Solomon Islands during the 1880s. William Crossan’s Otago experience as a versatile storeman with a solid work ethic helped ...
Dilemmas of Development
(2012)
The Porgera gold mine in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea is technically one of the most sophisticated and successful mines of recent times. In its second year of operations (1992) it was the third largest gold producing ...
Situating Women: Gender Politics and Circumstance in Fiji
(2012)
Since the time of decolonisation in Fiji, women’s organisations have navigated a complex political terrain. While they have stayed true to the aim of advancing
APEC and liberalisation of the Chinese economy
(2012)
“China is so large that its trading interests and influence are global. But its interests are disproportionately powerful in its immediate Western Pacific and Asia Pacific partners. The evolution of China’s economic ...
Survey Analysis for Indigenous Policy in Australia: Social Sciences Perspectives (CAEPR Monograph 32)
(2012)
Indigenous policy is a complex domain motivated by a range of social, cultural, political and economic issues. The Council of Australian Governments ‘closing
Corruption and Anti-Corruption
(2013)
There is new international attention being given to the old problem of corruption. It has been taken up by international organisations, and driven by economic analysis. It is impatient of cultural justifications, and ...
Information Systems Foundations: Theory Building in Information Systems
(2012)
This volume presents the papers from the fifth biennial Information Systems Foundations Workshop, held at The Australian National University in Canberra from 30 September to 1 October 2010. The focus of the workshop was, ...
Corruption: Expanding the Focus
(2012)
Recent years have seen an unprecedented rise in interest in the topic of corruption, resulting in a rising demand for suitable teaching materials. This edited collection brings together two different approaches to the study ...
Ministerial Careers and Accountability in the Australian Commonwealth Government
(2012)
This book examines the roles, responsibilities and accountabilities of Australian cabinet ministers. It examines the sorts of jobs ministers do, what is expected of them, what they expect of the job and how they (are ...