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Books
Talking and Listening in the Age of Modernity: Essays on the history of sound
Professor Desley Deacon, Head of RSSS History, and Professor Joy Damousi, Melbourne University
Historians have, until recently, been silent about sound. This collection of essays on talking and listening in the age of modernity brings together major Australian scholars who have followed Alain Corbin’s injunction that historians ‘can no longer afford to neglect materials pertaining to auditory perception’.
Ranging from the sound of gunfire on the Australian gold-fields to Alfred Deakin’s virile oratory, these essays argue for the influence of the auditory in forming individual and collective subjectivities; the place of speech in understanding individual and collective endeavours; the centrality of speech in marking and negating difference and in struggles for power; and the significance of the technologies of radio and film in forming modern cultural identities.
The online version can be accessed on E Press http://epress.anu.edu.au/tal_citation.html |
Governing after Crisis
The Politics of Investigation, Accountability and Learning
Edited by Arjen Boin
Louisiana State University
Allan McConnell
University of Sydney
Paul 't Hart
Australian National University, Canberra
The constant threat of crises such as disasters, riots and terrorist attacks poses a frightening challenge to Western societies and governments. While the causes and dynamics of these events have been widely studied, we know little about what happens following their containment and the restoration of stability. This volume explores ‘post-crisis politics,’ examining how crises give birth to longer term dynamic processes of accountability and learning which are characterised by official investigations, blame games, political manoeuvring, media scrutiny and crisis exploitation.
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Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture
Professor Barry Higman, History Program, RSSS
Published by the University of the West Indies Press.
Formal publication date is February. 580 pages, with 40 colour plates. Price is US$70. ISBN 978-976-640-205-1 |
Managing Diversity
Practices of Citizenship
edited by Nicholas Brown and Linda Cardinal
Published in the University of Ottawa Press’ Governance series, this collection arises from a workshop held at University College Dublin (where Nicholas Brown was professor of Australian history) and reflects on current debates over citizenship and diversity in Australia, Ireland and Canada. With both a comparative and public policy focus, each essay seeks to adapt broad concerns with ‘democracy and difference’ to specific issues arising in three nations that have often surprising levels of commonality in the challenges they face. Questions of globalisation and economic regionalism, immigration and multiculturalism, constitutional reform and civic governance set the context for seven perspectives on current debates, and prompt consideration of a perhaps unusual combination of societies and states. |
Divided Nation?
Murray Goot & Tim Rowse
There have been two moments, in the last forty years, of apparent national consensus in support of Indigenous Australians. In May 1967, more than ninety per cent of voters approved changes to the Constitution widely understood to be helpful to Indigenous Australians. And in June 1991 the Australian Parliament gave bipartisan approval to setting up the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation.
However, a closer look at both moments reveals cracks in the consensus. At the time of the referendum a large minority of respondents in opinion surveys supported the racial segregation of public spaces, and most said they would not like an Aboriginal person to marry into their family. In 1991, the Coalition expressed its own dissenting view about the limits of ‘reconciliation’, and in 1992-3 the High Court's finding that Indigenous Australians could claim parts of Australia as their 'native title' exacerbated disagreement about what ‘reconciliation’ required. |
Civil Society, Religion and Global Governance:
Paradigms of Power and Persuasion
Helen James
Helen James, (2007) Civil Society, Religion and Global Goverance: Paradigms of Power and Persuasion' (London and New York: Routledge) Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics Series.
This is one of the first books to explore the nexus between civil society, religion and global governance, their impact on human security and well-being, and significance for current debates in international politics. |
New ANZSOG monograph
A Passion for Policy
Essays in Public Sector Reform
Editor : John Wanna
This series of ANZSOG monographs addresses a diverse range of topics from both practical and theoretical perspectives. The contributors are drawn from academic, government and the private sector. The monographs contain much that will be of interest to researchers and public sector practitioners.
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