Publications
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Pioneers, Settlers, Aliens, Exiles: The decolonisation of white identity in Zimbabwe
(2010)
What did the future hold for Rhodesia’s white population at the end of a bloody armed conflict fought against settler colonialism? Would there be a place for them in newly independent Zimbabwe? Pioneers, Settlers, Aliens, ...
Pedigree and Panache
(2008)
Art auctions have long captured the public imagination. They regularly make news headlines and have become synonymous with glamour, money and social distinction. The marketing of auction houses and the works they sell has ...
The Poetic Power of Place
(2006)
This collection of papers is the fourth in a series of volumes on the work of the Comparative Austronesian Project. Each paper describes a specific Austronesian locality and offers an ethnographic account of the way in ...
Pillars and Shadows: Statebuilding as peacebuilding in Solomon Islands
(2010)
This volume of the Peacebuilding Compared Project examines the sources of the armed conflict and coup in the Solomon Islands before and after the turn of the millennium. The Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands ...
Permissive Residents: West Papuan refugees living in Papua New Guinea
(2008)
This book offers another frame through which to view the event of the outrigger landing of 43 West Papuans in Australia in 2006. West Papuans have crossed boundaries to seek asylum since 1962, usually eastward into Papua ...
I Succeeded Once
(2011)
In ‘I Succeeded Once’ – The Aboriginal Protectorate on the Mornington Peninsula, 1839-1840, Marie Fels makes the work of William Thomas accessible to anthropologists, archaeologists, historians and the descendants of the ...
Ardnt's Story
(2007)
‘H.W. Arndt has been Australia’s leading scholar of Asian economic development for over thirty years’ - Former World Bank President James D Wolfensohn.
The year of Heinz Wolfgang Arndt’s birth, 1915, was not a good time ...
Interpreting Chekhov
(2006)
Chekhov; Criticism; Interpretation
Framing the Global Economic downturn
(2009)
The global economic downturn that followed the collapse of major US financial institutions is no doubt the most significant crisis of our times. Its effects on corporate and governmental balance sheets have been devastating, ...
Humanities Research Centre
(2004)
Humanities; Research; History
The Information Systems Academic Discipline in Australia
(2008)
This book represents the second phase of a multi-method, multi-study of the ‘Information Systems Academic Discipline in Australia’. Drawing on Whitley’s Theory of Scientific Change, the study analysed the degree of ...
Giblin's Platoon
(2006)
Economists; Australia
Geology at ANU (1959-2009)
(2010)
This history was undertaken to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Geology Department at ANU, and to honour its founding professor David A. Brown. It includes contributions from some 100 former students outlining their ...
Gendering the Field
(2011)
The chapters in this book offer concrete examples from all over the world to show how community livelihoods in mineral-rich tracts can be more sustainable by fully integrating gender concerns into all aspects of the ...
Green Carbon
(2008)
The colour of carbon matters. Green carbon is the carbon stored in the plants and soil of natural ecosystems and is a vital part of the global carbon cycle. This report is the first in a series that examines the role of ...
Policy Making Implementation
(2009)
There is a vast literature on the principles of public administration and good governance, and no shortage of theoreticians, practitioners and donors eager to push for public sector reform, especially in less-developed ...
Passage of Change
(2010)
Numerous issues face Pacific states trying to find their way in the early 21st century. Countries are striving to secure the benefits of modernisation. Governance, law and order are needed to reach such a goal, but development ...
Passionate Histories
(2010)
This book examines the emotional engagements of both Indigenous and Non-Indigenous people with Indigenous history. The contributors are a mix of Indigenous and Non-Indigenous scholars, who in different ways examine how the ...
Origins, Ancestry and Alliance
(2006)
Ethnography; Kinship; Social life; Customs; Islands of the pacific; South east asia
Pacific Regional Order
(2005)
National security; Economic aspects; Economic policy; Economic integration; Foreign relations; Pacific area