Publications
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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 ...