Publications
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Touring Pacific Cultures
(2016)
"Tourism is vital to the economies of most Pacific nations and as such is an important site for the meaningful production of shared and disputed cultural values and practices. This is especially the case when tourism ...
Gender Violence & Human Rights: Seeking Justice in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu
(2016)
The postcolonial states of Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu operate today in a global arena in which human rights are widely accepted. As ratifiers of UN treaties such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms ...
Australia goes to Washington: 75 years of Australian representation in the United States, 1940–2015
(2016)
Since 1940, when an Australian legation was established in Washington DC, Australian governments have expected much from their representatives in the American capital. This book brings together expert analyses of those who ...
Indigenous Data Sovereignty
(2016)
"As the global ‘data revolution’ accelerates, how can the data rights and interests of indigenous peoples be secured? Premised on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, this book argues that ...
Harnessing the Bohemian: Artists as innovation partners in rural and remote communities
(2016)
Harnessing the Bohemian takes a fresh and interdisciplinary perspective on the intractable problem of shrinking populations and resources in remote/rural communities. It challenges the conventional wisdom of community ...
An Archaeology of Early Christianity in Vanuatu (Terra Australis 44)
(2016)
Religious change is at its core a material as much as a spiritual process. Beliefs related to intangible spirits, ghosts, or gods were enacted through material relationships between people, places, and objects. The archaeology ...
Bridging Australia and Japan: Volume 1. The writings of David Sissons, historian and political scientist
(2016)
This book represents volume one of the writings of David Sissons, who for most of his career pioneered research on the history of relations between Australia and Japan. Much of what he wrote remained unpublished at the ...
Measuring and Promoting Wellbeing
(2014)
"Australia continues to be at the forefront of international work on measuring and promoting wellbeing, Ian Castles being a significant contributor over the last forty years as an official and academic. This book combines ...
Dharmalan Dana
(2014)
A Yorta Yorta man’s seventy-three-year search for the story of his Aboriginal and Indian ancestors including his Indian Grampa who, as a real mystery man, came to Yorta Yorta country in Australia, from Mauritius, in 1881 ...
Planning and Managing Scientific Research
(2014)
Although there are many books on project management, few address the issues associated with scientific research. This work is based on extensive scientific research and management experiences and is designed to provide an ...
Deepening Reform for China’s Long-term Growth and Development
(2014)
The Chinese economy has entered a new phase of development in which sources of growth are not so much dependent upon pure increases in labour, investment and credit expansion, but from productivity improvement, structural ...
Explorations in Semantic Parallelism
(2014)
This collection of eighteen papers explores issues in the study of semantic parallelism — a world-wide tradition in the composition of oral poetry. It is concerned with both comparative issues and the intensive study of a ...
Losing Control. Freedom of the Press in Asia
(2014)
'A free press is not a luxury. A free press is at the absolute core of equitable development' according to World Bank President James Wolfensohn. A free press is also the key to transparency and good governance and is an ...
Power and Responsibility in Chinese Foreign Policy
(2014)
The People’s Republic of China is now over fifty years old. Long considered an outsider, or a club of one, in international relations, China has recently become more active in international institutions. Is China becoming ...
Pursuing Livelihoods, Imagining Development Smallholders in Highland Lampung, Indonesia
(2014)
This monograph explores the ways in which people experience ‘development’ and how development shapes and maintains their lives. The discussion begins with Lampung Province, moves to one of the province’s highland regions, ...
Developing Asian Bondmarkets
(2014)
The absence of vibrant bondmarkets in East Asia was a significant contributor to the 1997–98 financial crisis. Ever since, the development of local bondmarkets has been a major objective of financial reforms in many East ...
The People Have Spoken: The 2014 Elections in Fiji
(2016)
The September 2014 elections in Fiji was one of the most anticipated in the history of the country, coming after eight years of military rule and under a radically new constitution that introduced a system of proportional ...
The Rahui: Legal pluralism in Polynesian traditional management of resources and territories
(2016)
This collection deals with an ancient institution in Eastern Polynesia called the rahui, a form of restricting access to resources and/or territories. While tapu had been extensively discussed in the scientific literature ...
Shared Destiny: China Story Yearbook 2014
(2015)
Humanity as never before shares a common destiny, whether it be in terms of the resources of the planet, the global environment, economic integration, or the movement of peoples, ideas, cultures. For better or worse humankind ...
Eyewitness to Early Reform in Myanmar
(2016)
By 2000, a ruthless military regime had ruled Myanmar for more than a decade, polarising opinion inside and outside Burma/Myanmar — with Western countries locked into non-UN sanctions and Asian countries and the rest of ...
Strings of Connectedness. Essays in honour of Ian Keen
(2015)
For nearly four decades, Ian Keen has been an important, challenging, and engaging presence in Australian anthropology. Beginning with his PhD research in the mid-1970s and through to the present, he has been a leading ...
The 2006 Military Takeover in Fiji
(2009)
This book explores the factors behind – and the implications of – the 2006 coup. It brings together contributions from leading scholars, local personalities, civil society activists, union leaders, journalists, lawyers, ...
Aboriginal Placenames
(2009)
Aboriginal approaches to the naming of places across Australia differ radically from the official introduced Anglo-Australian system. However, many of these earlier names have been incorporated into contemporary nomenclature, ...
Assessing the evidence on Indigenous socioeconomic outcomes
(2006)
Aboriginal australian; Social conditions; Economic conditions
An Atlas on Global Water Cycle
(2009)
What do climate models predict for the rainfall where you live? What about evaporation or runoff? Should your local community consider constructing new dams or do the existing water storages appear adequate? What about the ...
From Election to Coup The 2006 Campaign and its Aftermath
(2007)
In May 2006 Fiji held its tenth general election since independence in 1970. In a country with an unenviable history of electoral trauma, the mood was apprehensive if not tense – not least because of controversial public ...
Fresh Perspectives on the 'War on Terror'
(2008)
On 20 September 2001, in an address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American people, President George W Bush declared a ‘war on terror’. The concept of the ‘war on terror’ has proven to be both an attractive and a ...
Globalisation and Governance in the Pacific Islands
(2006)
Politics and government; Globalization; Congresses; Oceania
Foreign Bodies: Oceania and the Science of Race 1750-1940
(2008)
From the 18th century, Oceania became the principal laboratory of raciology for scholars, voyagers, and colonisers alike. By juxtaposing encounters and theory, this magisterial book explores the semantics of human difference ...
First Contacts in Polynesia
(2008)
This book explores the first encounters between Samoans and Europeans up to the arrival of the missionaries, using all available sources for the years 1722 to the 1830s, paying special attention to the first encounter on ...
Facing Asia: A History of the Colombo Plan
(2010)
‘No nation can escape its geography’, warned Percy Spender, Australia’s Minister for External Affairs, in 1950. With the immediate turmoil of World War II over, communism and decolonisation had ended any possibility that ...
Federalism and Regionalism in Australia: New Approaches, New Institutions?
(2007)
Australia’s federal system is in a state of flux and its relevance is being challenged. Dramatic shifts are occurring in the ways in which power and responsibility are shared between governments. Pressure for reform is ...
Fishing for Fairness
(2012)
Fishing for Fairness develops an explicitly cultural perspective on environmental politics in the Philippines by analysing the responses of fishers to marine resource regulations. In the resource frontier of the Calamianes ...
Financing Higher Education and Economic Development in East Asia
(2011)
This volume addresses important issues to do with access to higher education and different models of its financing in the East Asia region. It is enriched by diverse perspectives from vastly different starting points and ...
The First Ten K R Narayanan Orations
(2006)
Politics and government; Economic conditions; Economic policy; India
China's New Place in a World in Crisis
(2009)
The world and China’s place in it have been transformed over the past year. The pressures for change have come from the most severe global financial crisis ever. The crisis has accelerated China’s emergence as a great ...
China: The Next Twenty Years of Reform and Development
(2010)
China has made some remarkable achievements during the first three decades of economic reform and opening up, rising to become one of the world’s most dynamic and globally-integrated market economies. Yet there remains ...
Dreamtime Superhighway (TA27)
(2008)
Dreamtime Superhighway presents a thorough and original contextualization of the rock art and archaeology of the Sydney Basin. By combining excavation results with rock art analysis it demonstrates that a true archaeology ...
Ethics and Auditing
(2005)
Auditing; Moral; Ethics
The Cult of the Market
(2007)
The Cult of the Market: Economic Fundamentalism and its Discontents disputes the practical value of the shallow, all-encompassing, dogmatic, economic fundamentalism espoused by policy elites in recent public policy debates, ...
Civic Insecurity: Law, Order and HIV in Papua New Guinea
(2010)
Papua New Guinea has a complex ‘law and order’ problem and an entrenched epidemic of HIV. This book explores their interaction. It also probes their joint challenges and opportunities—most fundamentally for civic security, ...
Contested Governance: Culture, power and institutions in Indigenous Australia
(2008)
It is gradually being recognised by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians that getting contemporary Indigenous governance right is fundamental to improving Indigenous well-being and generating sustained socioeconomic ...
The China Boom and its Discontents
(2005)
Economic policy; Commercial policy; Industrialization; Economic conditions; China
Collaborative Governance
(2008)
Collaboration has emerged as a central concept in public policy circles in Australia and a panacea to the complex challenges facing Australia. But is this really the cure-all it seems to be? In this edited collection we ...
Coup: Reflections on the Political Crisis in Fiji
(2008)
May 19, 2000. Fiji’s democratically elected multiracial government is hijacked by a group of armed gunmen led by George Speight, and held hostage for fifty days. Suva, the capital, is torched and looted as Speight’s ...
China's Dilemma: Economic Growth, the Environment and Climate Change
(2008)
China’s Dilemma—Economic Growth, the Environment and Climate Change examines the challenges China will have to confront in order to maintain rapid growth while coping with the global financial turbulence, some rising ...
Coastal Themes: An Archaeology of the Southern Curtis Coast, Queensland
(2006)
Archeology; Aboriginal australians; Antiquities; Queensland; Australia
A Bird that flies with two wings
(2009)
This book investigates the problems and possibilities of plural legal orders through an in-depth study of the relationship between the state and customary justice systems in Vanuatu. It argues that there is a need to move ...
Black Words White Page
(2004)
Australian literature; Aboriginals; 20th century history; History; Australia
Capturing the Wealth From Tuna: case stude's from the Pacific
(2008)
The Western and Central Pacific Ocean is home to the largest tuna fishery in the world – around half of the world’s tuna supply – and is a vital economic resource for Pacific island countries. The potential of the Pacific ...
Calvin for the Third Millennium
(2008)
This work is a series of sermons produced by Emeritus Professor Hans Mol, and based on Biblical texts, the Commentaries of John Calvin on these texts, and on Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion. Mol is Australia’s ...
Business and the Risk of Crime in China
(2011)
The book analyses the results of a large scale victimisation survey that was conducted in 2005-06 with businesses in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Xi’an. It also provides comprehensive background materials on crime and ...
Boats to Burn: Bajo Fishing Activity in the Australian Fishing Zone
(2007)
Under a Memorandum of Understanding between Indonesia and Australia, traditional Indonesian fishermen are permitted access to fish in a designated area inside the 200 nautical mile Australian Fishing Zone (AFZ). However, ...
The Centrelink Experiment
(2008)
Centrelink was established in 1997 as part of the Howard government’s bold experiment in re-framing social policy and re-shaping service delivery. Centrelink was the embodiment of a key tenet of the Howard vision for public ...
Bridging the 'Know-Do' Gap
(2010)
Today’s children are tomorrow’s citizens. Good health and well-being in the early years are the foundations for well-adjusted and productive adult lives and a thriving society. But children are being let down in Australia ...
Echoes of the Tambaran
(2011)
In the Sepik Basin of Papua New Guinea, ritual culture was dominated by the Tambaran —a male tutelary spirit that acted as a social and intellectual guardian or patron to those under its aegis as they made their way through ...
Dance of the Nomad
(2010)
The notebooks of A. D. Hope are a portrait of the contradictory essence of the poet’s intellect and character. Shot through with threads of self-awareness and revelation, Hope imbued his notebooks with irony and humour, ...
Connected Worlds
(2006)
Transnational history; Australia
Customary Land Tenure and Registration in Australia
(2007)
The main theme of this volume is a discussion of the ways in which legal mechanisms, such as the Land Groups Incorporation Act (1974) in PNG, and the Native Title Act (1993) in Australia, do not, as they purport, serve ...
Complex Science for a Complex World
(2006)
Human ecology; Australia