Publications
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The Eye of the Crocodile
(2012)
Val Plumwood was an eminent environmental philosopher and activist who was prominent in the development of radical ecophilosophy from the early 1970s
Following the Sun: The pioneering years of solar energy research at The Australian National University 1970—2005
(2012)
In 1970 a small group of physicists at The Australian National University decided to veer away from the accepted and expected directions in energy research and pursued the emerging discipline of solar energy. Over the next ...
TA 30 - Archaeological Science Under a Microscope
(2009)
These highly varied studies, spanning the world, demonstrate how much modern analyses of microscopic traces on artifacts are altering our perceptions of the past. Ranging from early humans to modern kings, from ancient ...
Sung Tales from the Papua New Guinea Highlands
(2011)
The genres of sung tales that are the subject of this volume are one of the most striking aspects of the cultural scene in the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Composed and performed by specialist bards, they are a highly valued ...
Transgressions: critical Australian Indigenous histories
(2007)
This volume brings together an innovative set of readings of complex interactions between Australian Aboriginal people and colonisers. The underlying theme is that of ‘transgression’, and Michel Foucault’s account of the ...
Struggling for the Umma
(2006)
Politics and government; Islam; Community leadership; Ulama; Java; Indonesia
State, Communities and Forests in Contemporary Borneo
(2006)
Forests; Forestry; Policy; Community; Management; Land use; Borneo
Timing is Everything
(2009)
This book identifies the critical factors that shaped and influenced New Zealand’s defence acquisition decision-making processes from the election of the Fourth Labour Government in 1984 and the subsequent ANZUS crisis, ...
Tracking Rural Change
(2009)
A key, intensifying change affecting rural areas in the last few decades has been a decline in the proportion of national populations whose principal livelihood is farming. The corresponding re-distribution of population ...
An Uneasy Relationship
(2010)
The situation of Norfolk Island, as a territory of the Commonwealth of Australia, is one of the historical anomalies in governance, which has persisted since 1914. It reflects the direct historical linkages between the ...
Steady Hands Needed
(2008)
In this monograph, five former secretaries of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) reflect on their experiences and the challenges of their times. A far cry from the pukka fantasies of ‘Yes Minister’, their ...
The Two Rainbow Serpents travelling: Mura track narratives from the 'Corner Country'
(2009)
The ‘Corner Country’, where Queensland, South Australia and New South Wales now converge, was in Aboriginal tradition crisscrossed by the tracks of the mura, ancestral beings, who named the country as they travelled, linking ...
Edward M. Curr and the Tide of History
(2013)
Edward M. Curr (1820-89) was a pastoralist, horse trader, stock inspector, Aboriginal administrator, author and ethnologist. A prominent figure in the history of the Colony of Victoria, he rose to a senior position in the ...
Selling the Sea: A study of conflict over marine tenure in Kei Islands, Eastern Indonesia
(2013)
By analysing various conflicts, this book discusses the social, political, economic and legal attributes that are attached to the practice of traditional (communal) marine tenure. Selling the Sea pushes the discourse beyond ...
Mr Tulsi’s Store
(2013)
Professor Lal has been remarkably successful in combining scholarship with autobiography in Mr Tulsi’s Store. In the essays which cover the author’s childhood
The Governance of Common Property in the Pacific Region
(2013)
In a region where mining, forestry, fish and other primary resources are so basic to income, employment and national prosperity, an understanding of rights to
Protection of intellectual, biological & cultural property in Papua New Guinea
(2013)
Intellectual, biological and cultural property rights are a powerful and debatable topic. They offer the possibility for protection of rights to intangible resources, including the products of knowledge and creativity. The ...
Conquering the Highlands
(2013)
Ecology; Deforestation; Scotland
China: Twenty Years of Economic Reform
(2012)
China: Twenty Years of Reform outlines the experiences of China over the past two decades. It highlights the processes of reform, successes achieved, and problems faced during the economic transition.
“China, and its ...
Australia: Identity, Fear and Governance in the 21st Century
(2012)
The latter years of the first decade of the twenty-first century were characterised by an enormous amount of challenge and change to Australia and Australians. Australia’s part in these challenges and changes is borne of ...
China 2002: WTO entry and world recession
(2012)
In 2002 China enters the WTO. Long awaited by the world’s trading economies, it now comes in a year of global recession. What effect will China’s entry into the WTO have at a difficult time? The rapid expansion of China’s ...
Electoral Systems in Divided Societies
(2012)
Elections can increase tension in ethnically divided societies, like Fiji. The way constituencies are drawn and votes counted can also affect the result. First-past-the post can deliver lopsided results, while proportional ...
Scholars at War
(2012)
Scholars at War is the first scholarly publication to examine the effect World War II had on the careers of Australasian social scientists. It links a group of scholars through geography, transnational, national and personal ...
Rising China
(2011)
Where the last three decades of the 20th century witnessed a China rising on to the global economic stage, the first three decades of the 21st century are almost certain to bring with them the completion of that rise, not ...
Degei's Descendants (Terra Australis 41)
(2014)
Dr Parke’s monograph examines how Fijians, especially in western areas of Fiji, currently understand and explain the origins and development of the social and political divisions of late pre-colonial traditional Fijian ...
Indigenous and Minority Placenames
(2014)
This book showcases current research into Indigenous and minority placenames in Australia and internationally. Many of the chapters in this volume originated as papers at a Trends in Toponymy conference hosted by the ...
Australia and Latin America
(2014)
This is a good time to reflect on opportunities and challenges for Australia in Latin America. Impressive economic growth and opportunities for trade and investment have made Latin America a dynamic area for Australia and ...
Henry Prinsep's Empire
(2014)
Henry Prinsep is known as Western Australia’s first Chief Protector of Aborigines in the colonial government of Sir John Forrest, a period which saw the introduction of oppressive laws that dominated the lives of Aboriginal ...
The Coombs
(2014)
The Coombs Building at The Australian National University is a Canberra icon. Named after one of Australia’s greatest administrators and public intellectuals—‘Nugget’ Herbert Cole Coombs—for more than forty years the ...
Hesychasm and Art
(2014)
“Although many of the iconographic traditions in Byzantine art formed in the early centuries of Christianity, they were not petrified within a time warp. Subtle changes and refinements in Byzantine theology did find ...
No Truck with the Chilean Junta!
(2014)
When lorry drivers in Northampton slapped stickers on their cabs declaring ‘No truck with the Chilean Junta!’ they were doing more than threatening to boycott. They were asserting their own identity as proud unionists and ...
Studies in Australian Political Rhetoric
(2014)
This edited collection includes eleven major case studies and one general review of rhetorical contest in Australian politics. The volume showcases the variety of methods available for studying political speech, including ...
Looking for Love in the Legal Discourse of Marriage
(2014)
This book examines the (in)visibility of romantic love in the legal discourse surrounding modern Australian marriage. It looks at how romantic love has become a core part of modernity, and a dominant part of the Western ...
Election 2007: The Shift to Limited Preferential Voting in Papua New Guinea
(2013)
Papua New Guinea’s general election in 2007 attracted particular interest for several reasons. Not only did it follow what was widely acknowledged as the country’s worst election ever, in 2002 (in which elections in six ...
A New Idea Each Morning
(2013)
In the years between the two world wars of the twentieth century leaders in Western countries worried about a food surplus. The hardships of the Great Depression were intensified by a glut of wheat and consequent low prices ...
Pacific Missionary George Brown: 1835-1917 Wesleyan Methodist Church
(2013)
George Brown (1835-1917) was many things during his long life; leader in the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Australasia, explorer, linguist, political activist, apologist for the missionary enterprise, amateur anthropologist, ...
A Good Life
(2013)
This book is a story. It’s a story about ordinary people in very different parts of the world dealing with rapid change in the late twentieth and early twenty-first
Securing Village Life: Development in Late Colonial Papua New Guinea
(2013)
Securing Village Life: Development in Late Colonial Papua New Guinea examines the significance for post-World War II Australian colonial policy of the modern
Japan’s Failed Revolution: Koizumi and the Politics of Economic Reform
(2013)
Japan’s Failed Revolution: Koizumi and the Politics of Economic Reform asks why, despite all the high expectations, the Japanese public’s desire for economic reform, and leadership of a majority coalition in a parliamentary ...
My Country, Mine Country: Indigenous people, mining and development contestation in remote Australia (CAEPR Monograph 33)
(2013)
Agreements between the mining industry and Indigenous people are not creating sustainable economic futures for Indigenous people, and this demands consideration of alternate forms of economic engagement in order to realise ...