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Australian Studies scholars in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences research a wide variety of fields. These are some of their recent publications. These scholars are available for honours and postgraduate supervision.
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Captain Cook: Voyager between Worlds, Hambeldown Continuum, London, New York, 2007.John Gascoigne (School of History and Philosophy) Captain Cook: Voyager Between Worlds explores the meeting of two hugely different systems of thought and culture: the late 18th Britain of which Captain Cook and his crew were products, and the world of the peoples of the South Pacific. It provides a rereading of how each side interpreted the other in terms of their own beliefs and experiences. |
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God’s Willing Workers: Women and Religion in Australia, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2005.Anne O’Brien (School of History and Philosophy) God’s Willing Workers examines the ways religious values, beliefs and institutions have shaped and been shaped by the lives of women in Australia over 200 years. It explores the various and contradictory ways laywomen, nuns, missionaries and deaconesses grappled with church teachings on sexuality, marriage and family, gender roles, work and education. |
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Hate speech and freedom of speech in Australia, Federation Press, Sydney, 2007.Katharine Gelber (School of Social Sciences and International Studies) and Adrienne Stone How should the regulation of hate speech be balanced against Australia's political and cultural commitment to freedom of speech? Who are the hate speakers and how does their speech manifest? What types of hate speech are targeted by existing laws? How are these enforced and how can the laws be improved? Drawing on a broad range of academic and practical experts, this new book addresses these important questions. |
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Troubled Waters: Borders, Boundaries and Possession in the Timor Sea, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2005.Ruth Balint (School of History and Philosophy) Winner of the 2005 Vogel Prize, Troubled Waters explores the history of Australia's northern waters, as one of dramatic change and confrontation in the twentieth century. Once a bridge between two coastlines and two cultures, the Timor and Arafura Seas became, in the final years of the century, the nation's frontline against the threat of invasion. Troubled Waters argues for a theory of 'mare nullius', the myth of the empty sea, which justified Australia's political and economic occupation of these waters, and the eviction of the traditional fishermen of eastern Indonesia from the region |
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Larter Family Values: Catalogue fo Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre travelling exhibition.Joanna Mendelssohn (College of Fine Arts) The paintings, films, performances and mail art of Richard and Pat Larter redefine the concept of family. Their art is as radical as the 1960s, and this exhibition evokes the energy and the freedoms of that decade. When the Larters came to Australia they were the classic nuclear family, but over the years there gathered around them an extended family, bound by art rather than a genetic connection. Larter family values therefore traces the relationship between the artists and the intermingling of art and life. |
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Singing the Land: The power of performance in Aboriginal Life. Foreword by Raymattja Marika. Sydney: Currency House, 2007.Jill Stubington (School of English, Media and Performing Arts) Singing the Land is the most comprehensive account yet published for the general reader of the tradition and importance of music among the Indigenous people of Australia. It describes in readable terms the sounds of the music and the place of music in Indigenous society and its contribution to civic and spiritual life. The crucial historical recordings and analyses carried out in the 1960s and 1970s, which provide the evidence for the discussion, are summarised, contextualized and interpreted. Continuities are found between the traditional music investigated in that period and recent Indigenous music using western styles. |
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The Bondi Lifesaver: a History of an Australian Icon, ABC Books, Sydney, 2006.Sean Brawley (School of History and Philosophy) The Bondi Lifesaver is the story of one of Australia's most enduring social institutions and the men and women who have been its members for over 100 summers. Examining the oldest surf lifesaving club in Australia, the book not only explores the origins of surf lifesaving and the rise of the lifesaver as a national masculine type, but also the rise of Bondi Beach from humble seaside village to its iconic status as a symbol of Australia and the Australian way of life. |
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The Rocks, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1997.Grace Karskens (School of History and Philosophy) Winner of the NSW Premier’s Community and Regional History Prize, The Rocks paints a vivid picture of the earliest European inhabitants. It shows the Rocks as a place very different from the ususal images of a brutal 'gaol colony'. It was, rather, a preindustrial town, a face-to-face society, marked more by movement and opportunity dialogue and negotiation than by coercion, discipline and punishment. |
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Those who remain will also remember: an anthology of Aboriginal writing, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, 2001.Anne Brewster (School of English, Media and Performing Arts) Angeline O'Neill and Rosemary van den Berg This major collection of indigenous writing includes a range of work - poetry, essays, testimonials, songs and legends -by established and emerging writers, including Doris Pilkington Garimara, Pat Mamajun Torres, Kim Scott, Glenyse Ward, Richard Wilkes, Jennifer Sabbioni, Alf Taylor, Rosemary van den Berg and Pat Dudgeon. Its substantial Introduction examines how these writers use various literary and non-literary genres and also the central function of memory in indigenous and white Australia. |
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Writing Woman, Writing Place: contemporary Australian and South African Fiction,
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