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 ...