Publications
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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, ...
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 ...
The Power of Economic Ideas: The origins of macroeconomic management in Australia 1929?39
(2010)
Economics, Keynes once wrote, can be a ‘very dangerous science’. Sometimes, though, it can be moulded to further the common good though it might need a leap in mental outlook, a whole new zeitgeist to be able do do. This ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Austronesians
(2006)
Anthropology; Archeology; Social life; Customs; History; Asia; Madagascar; Islands of the pacific
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 ...
New Accountabilities, New Challenges
(2015)
This important and challenging volume of essays draws on insights from leading academics and public servants from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Canada and elsewhere. It provides an excellent series of critiques ...
Tides of Innovation in Oceania: Value, materiality and place
(2017)
Tides of Innovation in Oceania is directly inspired by Epeli Hau‘ofa’s vision of the Pacific as a ‘Sea of Islands’; the image of tides recalls the cyclical movement of waves, with its unpredictable consequences. The authors ...
The Military and Democracy in Asia and the Pacific
(2004)
Politics and government; Militarism; Civil supremacy over the military; Democracy; Asia; Pacific area
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 ...
Politics of Preferential Development: Trans-global study of affirmative action and ethnic conflict in Fiji, Malaysia and South Africa
(2013)
The book is a critical examination of affirmative action, a form of preferential development often used to address the situation of disadvantaged groups. It uses a trans-global approach, as opposed to the comparative ...
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 ...
Australian Economic History
(2022)
In a time of pandemics, war and climate change, fostering knowledge that transcends disciplinary boundaries is more important than ever. Economic history is one of the world's oldest interdisciplinary fields, with its ...
Nature, Nurture and Chance
(2006)
Microbiologists; Virologists; Educators; Geographers; Biography; Australia
Globalisation and Governance in the Pacific Islands
(2006)
Politics and government; Globalization; Congresses; Oceania
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 ...
Professionalism in the Information and Communication Technology Industry
(2013)
Professionalism is arguably more important in some occupations than in others. It is vital in some because of the life and death decisions that must be made, for example in medicine. In others the rapidly changing nature ...
Dictionary of World Biography: Third edition
(2016)
Jones, Barry Owen (1932– ). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and ...
Atlas of Butterflies and Diurnal Moths in the Monsoon Tropics of Northern Australia
(2018)
"Northern Australia is one of few tropical places left on Earth in which biodiversity—and the ecological processes underpinning that biodiversity—is still relatively intact. However, scientific knowledge of that biodiversity ...
Phoenix from the Ashes
(2009)
The continued existence of the Russian defence and arms industry (OPK) was called into question following the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991. Industry experts cited the lack of a domestic market, endemic ...
Maudu', A Union with God
(2015)
This volume offers a fascinating case study of the Sayyid community of Cikoang in South Sulawesi – in particular, an examination of the role of the descendants of Sayyid Jalaluddin al-‘Aidid, a Hadhrami merchant-teacher ...
Pacific Exposures
(2018)
"Photography has been a key means by which Australians have sought to define their relationships with Japan. From the fascination with all things Japanese in the late nineteenth century, through the era of ‘White Australia’, ...
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 ...
Something's Gotta Change
(2023)
Indigenous people are pushing back against more than 200 years of colonisation and rejecting being seen by the academy as 'subjects' of research. A quiet revolution is taking place among many Indigenous communities across ...
Radical Spaces
(2010)
Radical Spaces explores the rise of popular radicalism in London between 1790 and 1845 through key sites of radical assembly: the prison, the tavern and the radical theatre. Access to spaces in which to meet, agitate and ...
Dictatorship, Disorder and Decline in Myanmar
(2008)
Mass peaceful protests in Myanmar/Burma in 2007 drew the world’s attention to the ongoing problems faced by this country and its oppressed people. In this publication, experts from around the world analyse the reasons for ...
Pacific Islanders Under German Rule: A Study in the Meaning of Colonial Resistance
(2016)
This is an important book. It is a reprint of the first detailed study of how Pacific Islanders responded politically and economically to their rulers across the German empire of the Pacific. Under one cover, it captures ...
Migration and Transnationalism
(2009)
Pacific Islanders have engaged in transnational practices since their first settlement of the many islands in the region. As they moved beyond the Pacific and settled in nations such as New Zealand, the U.S. and Australia ...
Origins, Ancestry and Alliance
(2006)
Ethnography; Kinship; Social life; Customs; Islands of the pacific; South east asia
Health of People, Places and Planet. Reflections based on Tony McMichael’s four decades of contribution to epidemiological understanding
(2015)
This book has three main goals. The first is to celebrate the work of a great public health figure, the late A.J. (Tony) McMichael (1942–2014). The second is to position contemporary public health issues in an interdisciplinary ...
Songs of the Empty Place: The Memorial Poetry of the Foi of the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea
(2015)
For 31 months between 1979 and 1995, James F. Weiner conducted anthropological research amongst the Foi people in Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. This book contains the transcriptions, translations, and ...
Bayesian Methods for Statistical Analysis
(2015)
Bayesian methods for statistical analysis is a book on statistical methods for analysing a wide variety of data. The book consists of 12 chapters, starting with basic concepts and covering numerous topics, including Bayesian ...
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 ...
The Fijian Colonial Experience: A study of the neotraditional order under British colonial rule prior to World War II
(2016)
Indigenous Fijians were singularly fortunate in having a colonial administration that halted the alienation of communally owned land to foreign settlers and that, almost for a century, administered their affairs in their ...
They Came to Murramarang
(2015)
Bruce Hamon’s They Came to Murramarang, first published in 1994, provides a unique combination of local history and personal recollections from a writer who witnessed the transformation of the Murramarang region from the ...
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, ...
Basin Futures
(2011)
This unique book brings together 27 chapters from some of the world’s leading practitioners and experts on environmental water, communities, law, economics and governance. Its goal is to understand the many dimensions of ...
A Time Bomb Lies Buried
(2008)
A Time Bomb Lies Buried discusses the debates which took place in Suva and London as well as the politics and processes which led Fiji to independence in 1970 after 96 years of colonial rule. It provides an essential ...
In Defence of Country: Life Stories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Servicemen and Women
(2016)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been protecting country since time immemorial. One way they have continued these traditions in recent times is through service in the Australian military, both overseas and ...
Managing Consultants. A practical guide for busy public sector managers
(2016)
Public service cutbacks have increased reliance on consultants. But new legislation and rules governing the procurement of services from consultants are scattered over different legislative instruments. The first edition ...
Australia Under Construction
(2008)
The Australian nation is a work in progress. So conclude the authors whose views are represented in this most recent offering in the ANZSOG monograph series, Australia Under Construction: Nation-building past, present and ...
Telling Pacific Lives: Prisms of Process
(2008)
How are Pacific lives imagined, written and read? How are they refracted through prisms of process? From legends about culture heroes to biographies of national leaders, from tales of ancestors to stories of contemporary ...
Global Allies: Comparing US Alliances in the 21st Century
(2017)
The global system of alliances that the United States built after the Second World War underpinned the stability and prosperity of the postwar order. But during the 20th century, the multilateral NATO alliance system in ...
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 ...
Talking it Through: Responses to Sorcery and Witchcraft Beliefs and Practices in Melanesia
(2015)
Sorcery and witchcraft practices and beliefs are pervasive across Melanesia. They are in part created by, and give rise to, a wide variety of poor social and developmental outcomes. These include uneven economic development, ...
The Rudd Government
(2010)
This edited collection examines Commonwealth administration under the leadership Prime Minister Kevin Rudd from 2007-2010. This was a remarkable period in Australian history: Rudd’s government was elected in 2007 with an ...
A Doctor Across Borders
(2019)
In his day, Raphael Cilento was one of the most prominent and controversial figures in Australian medicine. As a senior medical officer in the Commonwealth and Queensland governments, he was an active participant in public ...
Labour Lines and Colonial Power
(2019)
"Today, increases of so-called ‘low-skilled’ and temporary labour migrations of Pacific Islanders to Australia occur alongside calls for Indigenous people to ‘orbit’ from remote communities in search of employment ...
Regulatory Theory: Foundations and applications
(2017)
This volume introduces readers to regulatory theory. Aimed at practitioners, postgraduate students and those interested in regulation as a cross-cutting theme in the social sciences, Regulatory Theory includes chapters on ...
Introducing China
(2010)
China’s transformation has been patiently, methodically and very deliberately constructed by a leadership group that has equally carefully protected its monopoly on power. Today’s China is proceeding with great seriousness ...
Islands of Inquiry: Colonisation, seafaring and the archaeology of maritime landscapes (TA29)
(2008)
This collection makes a substantial contribution to several highly topical areas of archaeological inquiry. Many of the papers present new and innovative research into the processes of maritime colonisation, processes that ...
The First Fleet Piano: Volume One and Two
(2015)
During the late eighteenth century, a musical–cultural phenomenon swept the globe. The English square piano—invented in the early 1760s by an entrepreneurial German guitar maker in London—not only became an indispensable ...
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 ...
On Taungurung Land
(2020)
On Taungurung Land: Sharing History and Culture is the first monograph to examine how the Taungurung Nation of central Victoria negotiated with protectors and pastoralists to retain possession of their own country for as ...
The Seven Dwarfs and the Age of the Mandarins: Australian Government Administration in the Post-War Reconstruction Era
(2015)
In the history and folklore of Australia’s Commonwealth Public Service, the idea of the ‘Seven Dwarfs’ has been remarkably persistent. Originally a witty epithet applied to a powerful group of senior public servants, the ...
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 ...
Delivering Policy Reform
(2011)
Predictable and unpredictable challenges continually confront the policy settings and policy frameworks of governments. They provide a constantly changing dynamic within which policy-making operates. Governments at all ...
Confronting Fiji Futures
(2016)
Fiji, post-independence, has seen several governments, two military coups and, amidst sweeping social, economic and political changes, the presence of divisive identity politics in its journey towards a united, collective ...
Engendering Violence in Papua New Guinea
(2012)
This collection builds on previous works on gender violence in the Pacific, but goes beyond some previous approaches to ‘domestic violence’ or ‘violence
Viet Nam - a transition tiger?
(2004)
Economic conditions; Economic policy; Vietnam
Inside Austronesian Houses
(2006)
Dwellings; Social life; Customs; Southeast asia; Oceania
Ethnography and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge
(2011)
Professor Nicolas Peterson is a central figure in the anthropology of Aboriginal Australia. This volume honours his anthropological body of work, his commitment to ethnographic fieldwork as a source of knowledge, his ...
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 ...
The Bionarrative: The story of life and hope for the future
(2016)
This book is for the general reader interested in the human place in nature and the future of civilisation. It is based on the biohistorical approach to the study of human situations. This approach recognises human culture ...
Innamincka Talk: A grammar of the Innamincka dialect of Yandruwandha with notes on other dialects
(2015)
Innamincka Talk: A grammar of the Innamincka dialect of Yandruwandha with notes on other dialects is one of a pair of companion volumes on Yandruwandha, a dialect of the language formerly spoken on the Cooper and Strzelecki ...
The Australian Embassy in Tokyo and Australia–Japan Relations
(2023)
Relations between Australia and Japan have undergone both testing and celebrated times since 1952, when Australia's ambassadorial representation in Tokyo commenced. Over the years, interactions have deepened beyond mutual ...
Performance Measurement, Reporting, Obstacles and Accountability
(2006)
Philosophy; History
The First Ten K R Narayanan Orations
(2006)
Politics and government; Economic conditions; Economic policy; India
The Court as Archive
(2019)
"Until the late 20th century, ‘an archive’ generally meant a repository for documents, as well as the generic name for the wide range of documents the repository might hold. An archive could be visited, and then also ...
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 ...
Minding the Gap: Appraising the promise and performance of regulatory reform in Australia
(2008)
‘Mind the Gap!’ is an almost iconic exhortation, originating in the London Underground, warning travellers to be careful when navigating the ‘gap’ between the platform and train. In this volume, Peter Carroll, Rex ...
Niche Wars
(2020)
Australia invoked the ANZUS Alliance following the Al Qaeda attacks in the United States on 11 September 2001. But unlike the calls to arms at the onset of the world wars, Australia decided to make only carefully calibrated ...
Transcending the Culture–Nature Divide in Cultural Heritage
(2013)
While considerable research and on-ground project work focuses on the interface between Indigenous/local people and nature conservation in the Asia-Pacific region, the interface between these people and cultural heritage ...
Anomie and Violence
(2010)
Indonesia suffered an explosion of religious violence, ethnic violence, separatist violence, terrorism, and violence by criminal gangs, the security forces and militias in the late 1990s and early 2000s. By 2002 Indonesia ...
Making Change Happen: Black and White Activists talk to Kevin Cook about Aboriginal, Union and Liberation Politics
(2013)
This book is a unique window into a dynamic time in the politics and history of Australia. The two decades from 1970 to the Bicentennial in 1988 saw the emergence of a new landscape in Australian Indigenous politics. There ...
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, ...
The Indigenous Welfare Economy and the CDEP Scheme
(2004)
Community development; Employment; Government policy; Aboriginal australians; Australia
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 ...
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 ...
Making Mala: Malaita in Solomon Islands, 1870s–1930s
(2017)
Malaita is one of the major islands in the Solomons Archipelago and has the largest population in the Solomon Islands nation. Its people have an undeserved reputation for conservatism and aggression. Making Mala argues ...
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 ...
Dealing with Uncertainties in Policing Serious Crime
(2010)
Grappling with uncertainties is at the heart of investigating serious crime. At a time when such crime is becoming more complex and resources are increasingly stretched, this book draws together research and practice ...
Asia-Pacific Security
(2013)
Since September 11, 2001, our newspapers have been filled with the ‘war on terror’; our governments have mobilised their resources for ‘homeland security’; and people everywhere are braced for more terrorist attacks. Yet ...
The Spanish Lake
(2004)
Discovery; Exploration; Civilization; Economic conditions; European influences; History; Spain; Latin america; Pacific area
Wehali: The Female Land
(2023)
Wehali defines itself as the ritual centre of the island of Timor. As a ritual centre, Wehali continues to be the residence of a figure of traditional authority on whom, in the 18th century, the Dutch conferred the title ...
Turnings Fiji Factions
(2013)
Through Dr Lal’s refreshingly clear and powerful prose and sharply observed stories, we enter the inner world of Indo-Fijian feeling and aspiration. One universal that emerges with particular clarity in the Indo-Fijian ...
The Tools of Owatatsumi: Japan's Ocean Surveillance and Coastal Defence Capabilities
(2015)
Japan is quintessentially by geography a maritime country. Maritime surveillance capabilities – underwater, shore-based and airborne – are critical to its national defence posture. This book describes and assesses these ...
Breaking Japanese Diplomatic Codes: David Sissons and D Special Section during the Second World War
(2013)
During the Second World War, Australia maintained a super-secret organisation, the Diplomatic (or `D’) Special Section, dedicated to breaking Japanese diplomatic codes. The Section has remained officially secret as successive ...
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 ...
Afterlives of Chinese Communism
(2019)
Afterlives of Chinese Communism comprises essays from over fifty world- renowned scholars in the China field, from various disciplines and continents. It provides an indispensable guide for understanding how the Mao era ...
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 ...
Food and Agriculture in PNG
(2009)
Agriculture dominates the rural economy of Papua New Guinea (PNG). More than five million rural dwellers (80% of the population) earn a living from subsistence agriculture and selling crops in domestic and international ...
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 ...
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, ...
Tropical Forests Of Oceania. Anthropological Perspectives
(2015)
The tropical forests of Oceania are an enduring source of concern for indigenous communities, for the migrants who move to them, for the states that encompass them within their borders, for the multilateral institutions ...
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. ...
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 ...
Meaning, Life and Culture
(2020)
This book is dedicated to Anna Wierzbicka, one of the most influential and innovative linguists of her generation. Her work spans a number of disciplines, including anthropology, cultural psychology, cognitive science, ...
Movement, Knowledge, Emotion
(2011)
This book is about community activism around HIV/AIDS in Australia. It looks at the role that the gay community played in the social, medical and political response to the virus. Drawing conclusions about the cultural ...