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Network Books: Complete Catalogue
To order any of the books listed below, please contact the Network Books office in Perth, Western Australia, with your details by phone 08 9360 2170 (c/- Professor Richard Nile, Director, Institute for Media, Creative Arts & Information Technologies, Murdoch University) or email orders@api-network.com.
ACH 21: To the Islands: Australia and the CaribbeanEdited by Russell McDougall
Historically, the degree of contact between the West Indies and the Antipodes has been considerable, particularly in the colonial period. But the Empire vestiges of the Caribbean in Australia are now quite eclipsed; and the sum present meaning of the Caribbean for most Australians is probably cricket, rum, exotic holidays and a residual childhood mythology of pirate adventure. This volume seeks to salvage something of the history and meaning of the Caribbean in Australia, simultaneously begging the question -- what is the meaning of Australia in the Caribbean? $24.5 |  |
| ACH 23: Futures ExchangeEdited by Jenny McFarlane and Elizabeth Leane
Contributions include: "Unauthorised Knowledges: Engaging with Alternative Knowledge Systems" by Jenny McFarlane; "Rosa Praed and Spiritualism" by Kay Ferres; "A Short History of New Thought in Australia, 1890-1914" by Frank Bongiorno; "Unauthorised Visions" by Jenny McFarlane; "Knowledge beyond Reason: Highly Educated Women and the Continuing Quest for Commensurability" by Alison Mackinnon; "A Shadowy Figure? Bessie Rischbieth,Theosophic Feminist" by Jill Roe; "Space Koala Says Hello" by Micky Allan; "Utopian Writing and the Antipodes" by Elizabeth Leane; "Martian Utopias, Land Rights and Indigenous Desert Painting" by Darren Jorgensen; "The Newest Woman in a New World: Gender Anxiety and New Women in Turn-of-the-Century Australian Fiction" by Susan K Martin; "Utopian Elements in Terry Dowling's Tom Rynosseros Fictions" by Van Ikin; "Romancing the Pole: A Survey of Nineteenth-Century Antarctic Utopias" by Elizabeth Leane; "'Fellowing' Women: Sydney Women Writers and the Organisational Impulse" by Jane E Hunt; "Julie Dowling's Melbin and the Captivity Narrative in Australia" by Jeanette Hoorn. $24.5 |  |
| ACH 24: The Real ThingEdited by Sian Supski
To many West Australians, the sight of sheep and cattle trucks plying the well-worn route to the docks of Fremantle is a disconcertingly familiar, if not mildly distressing sight. Yet despite the cramped conditions, the doleful eyes staring impassively through wooden slats, and of course, the smell, rarely does it warrant more than a raised eyebrow and rapid winding-up of the car window. In July 1998, however, one such truck broke with this monotonous tradition, and overturned. Though thankfully free of human tragedy, it was an incident not without distress. For amongst the high pitched screeching of pneumatic brakes and the sickening groan of twisting impacted steel, was the anguish of stricken beasts fleeing in all directions ... Articles by Cliff Hughes, Mitchell Rolls, Andrew Hassam, Susie Khamis, Kylie Mirmohamadi, Georgina Downey, Ruth Rentschler, Hilda Kean and David Nichols. $24.5 |  |
| ACH 25: Antipodean ModernEdited by Neil Levi and Tim Dolin
Contributions include: "Time, Culture, Nation: Australian Perspectives on Modernism, Modernity and Modernisation" by Neil Levi; "Creators and Catalysts: The Modernisation of Australian Indigenous Art" by Bernard Smith; "Modernism, Indigenism and War: A Comment on The Black Swan of Trespass" by Tim Rowse; "Craftwork: Margaret Preston, Emily Carr and the Welfare Frontier" by Catriona Moore; "'Fancy Work': The Mass Aesthetic" by Humphrey McQueen; "Selling Modernity: Advertising and the Construction of the Culture of Consumption in Australia, 1900-1950" by Robert Crawford; "Two New Britannias: Modernism and Modernity across the Antipodes" by Peter Beilharz; "Popular Modernism and Urban Planning in Australia, 1901-1950" by Robert Freestone; "In ThisWorld and the Next: Political Modernity and Unorthodox Religion in Australia, 1880-1930" by Frank Bongiorno; "Impostures: Nationalism, Modernism and Australian Poetry of the Late Twentieth Century" by Laurie Duggan; "Oscar Asche’s Modernisms: Flesh, Colour and Light" by Veronica Kelly; "White Noise: Jazz and Australian Modernisation" by Bruce Johnson; "Where do Flappers Fit in? The Photography of Modern Fashion in Australia" by Margaret Maynard; "Avant-Garde Attitudes: New Art in Australia" by Redmond Bridgeman. $24.5 |  |
| ACH 26: Australian Television HistoryEdited by Liz Jacka
In 2006, Australia commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of television in Australia. This led to a flurry of celebrations by the various free-to-air networks, but it also provided the occasion for renewed academic attention to the history of television in Australia, an area, it is quickly discovered, that has been almost shamelessly neglected by historians and media scholars, with a few honorable exceptions. In the year leading up to the anniversary a number of media academics and historians joined with the Powerhouse Museum and organised a conference at the museum to coincide with its exhibition commemorating the fifty years of television. This issue of ACH features a selection of papers from this conference. Given the foregoing observations, it is no surprise to find so many of them concerned with television history and memory and to be exploring either the mysterious ways of personal memory in relation to television or the way in which the society itself imagines its television history. It is hoped that this collection helps to further the enterprise of documenting and commenting on Australia's television history. As television as we knew it disappears in the welter of new forms of audiovisual communication and entertainment, this might be a critical time to get serious about Australian television history. Also included in this volume are three new essays examining the stories of white men with Aboriginal families, the representation of contact history and social memory in south-eastern South Australia, and the conflicting cultures of commemoration in the inter-war years in Australia. $24.5 |  |
| Australia and the United States in the American CenturyRoger Bell
As war raged in Western Europe in early 1941, the influential publisher of Life magazine Henry R. Luce claimed that in this, the great American Century, the United States must abandon isolationism and assume its destiny 'as the dominant power in the world'. The Allies' hard won victories in both Europe and the Asia-Pacific were built on America's newly evident power. The 'American Century', anticipated from the 1890s, was translated from World War II into unprecedented military authority, expansive internationalism, and triumphant claims that the US had become the permanent global hegemon. The unprecedented international reach of America's power and influence fundamentally transformed Australia's place in the world; reshaped its strategic interests, political values, and popular culture; and invited a chorus of nationalist complaint about 'Americanisation' and eclipse of local traditions and identity. This volume explores these complex and changing relationships between two very unequal Pacific nations -- relationships forged by alliances in wartime and sustained by shared interests in peacetime. $34.95 |  |
| Australia--Who Cares?David Callahan
Who, in Australia, is doing the caring, and how encouraging are the examples of caring that Australia gives us? Australia--Who Cares? examines these questions from a variety of perspectives and incorporates discussion of immigration and asylum seekers, Indigenous Australians, multiculturalism and the environment, and the representation of these issues in photography, media, literature, law, and policy. Underpinning these considerations is the question of Australia itself: what makes this country what it is? This collection recasts some of the thorniest debates that the nation is presently faced with in terms of caring or, as a number of the chapters uncover, not caring. Surprising and thought-provoking, this collection will inspire debate and reflection on what it means to be Australian. $34.95 |  |
| Australian Rock: Essays on Popular MusicJon Stratton
"Stratton has been writing authoritatively on aspects of Australian popular music for a number of years. This book brings together for the first time some of his most important work in this under-represented field of popular music studies.An absolutely essential read for all those with an interest in the highly complex interplay between popular music, space and place." (Andy Bennett, Professor of Cultural Sociology at Griffith University. Author of Popular Music and Youth Culture and the co-editor of Music Scenes: Local, Translocal and Virtual.)"Extensively researched, well nuanced and engagingly written. An essential antidote to most existing narratives about Australian rock music which are sketchy, sloppy, populist and biased." (Tony Mitchell, University of Technology, Sydney. Author of Popular Music and Local Identity: Rock, Pop and Rap in Europe and Oceania and editor of Global Noise: Rap and Hip Hop Outside the USA.) $34.95 |  |
| Big StarsJohn Castles, with afterword by John Frow
Why does the crowd scream when the star appears? They can hardly be surprised. Nor can they be registering critical approval for a performance that has not begun. Rather, they are performing the essential task of making themselves into a crowd, which then tumbles down into the star figure who absorbs it and can then give it back or withhold it. The star is like a black hole. His appearance creates a massive object, the crowd, which experiences itself moving, tumbling towards an object that swallows it, stops it, momentarily overcoming it in a brilliant, silent stasis that can be expressed as much in Garrett's strangled scream or dervish dance as Jackson's mute motionlessness. Big Stars offers an insightful, challenging and unique view of stardom through its parallel analysis of the twin phenomena of the fan and the star. The poetical approach to theory of this personal yet highly scholarly work will admit a broad range of readers into the complexity of John Castles's thought. $34.95 |  |
| Comic Commentators: Contemporary Political CartooningEdited by Robert Phiddian and Haydon Manning
Anyone who reads a newspaper reads the political cartoons. Each is an island of condensed visual humour in a sea of print. For more than a century, Australia has had a particularly potent and much-loved cartooning tradition, but we have only a limited understanding of how cartoons work and what they really do. As the response to the Danish Mohammed cartoons and the debate over the 2006 Sedition laws suggest, there is a growing sensitivity to cartoons' potential impact in public debate, and so it is a good time to ask what the role of cartoons is in Australian politics, policy and media. This collection brings together cartoonists, media professionals and researchers all, in their different ways, fascinated by the contribution cartoons make to our public life. There appears to be a growing sensitivity to cartoons potential impact in public debate, and so it is a good time to ask what the role of cartoons is in Australian politics, policy and media. This collection brings together cartoonists, media professionals and researchers all, in their different ways, fascinated by the contribution cartoons make to our public life. $34.95 |  |
| Consent and ConsensusEdited by Denis Cryle and Jean Hillier
Consent and Consensus examines a range of socio-cultural and political scenarios and examples of ‘manufacturing consent’ in Australia, both historically and contemporary. The volume has two main interrelating themes: the role of media in manufacturing consent and/or consensus among the Australian population; aspects of socio-cultural and especially political consent and consensus-making at all levels of governance. $34.95 |  |
| Contesting AssimilationEdited by Tim Rowse
'Assimilation' was one of the most hopeful social ideals of post-second world war Australia, a rallying cry for those who wanted a 'fair go' for Indigenous peoples. [...] By the 1970s, 'Assimilation' had slipped into disrepute and was a dirty word among people of progressive opinion. [...] In Contesting Assimilation, fifteen historians illuminate moments in twentieth century Australia when the policy of 'assimilation' was being planned, implemented, abandoned and debated. $34.95 |  |
| Creating A Nation 1788-2007Patricia Grimshaw, Marilyn Lake, Ann McGrath, Marian Quartly
"Distinctive and highly successful history of Australia by four of our leading historians Stuart Macintyre, Ernest Scott Professor of History This is not just another feminist challenge to yesterday's orthodoxy, but an effective move to displace it ... Creating a Nation is a power-taking, centralizing exercise in mainstream national history -- one shaped by white feminist prioriites, but designed for general use. This is a splendid achievement." Meaghan Morris, Meanjin. "This is a significant book, signalling a shift from 'women's history' to a general Australian history foregrounding the relations between men and women ... Creating a Nation ... has made Australian history much richer, more complex and more interesting." Ann Curthoys, The Age. $34.95 |  |
| Defying Gravity: A Political LifeDennis Altman
I was filled with a strong desire to recount the interwoven story of the two major changes in consciousness I have lived through during the past thirty years, namely the creation of a ‘gay nation’ and the simultaneous re-imagination of Australia as a multi-cultural society … The great challenge for Australia, as for many other countries, is to find a balance between the recognition of diversity and the need for social cohesion based on more than merely preserving the privileges of a dominant group. $34.95 |  |
| Down the Road: Exploring Backpacker and Independent TravelEdited by Brad West
Increasingly, the tourism industry is using the terms 'backpacking' and 'independent travel' to market more flexible and 'alternative' travel products, but there is an ambiguity over how these terms should be defined, assessed and understood. [...] Down the Road explores the various dimensions of independent travel, highlighting and challenging well-established and more recent traveller stereotypes. $34.95 |  |
| Eureka: Reappraising an Australian LegendEdited by Alan Mayne
Early in the morning of Sunday, 3 December 1854, some 300 British troops and Victorian colonial police stormed a makeshift stockade at the Eureka Lead on the Ballarat goldfields. The stockade had been erected by miners in defiance of the colonial government. Some 120 diggers defended the stockade that morning, a handful compared to the thousand or more who had thronged inside during the previous day. These hard-liners were in turn a fraction of the 10,000 to 12,000 'moral force' protesters who had assembled only days before under the diggers’ Southern Cross flag to demand the reform of the goldfields administration. These events and their sequel have caused Eureka to be called the birthplace of Australian democracy. This commemorative book seeks to reinforce the refreshing trends that have become evident in rethinking the significance of Eureka, and the goldrushes generally, in Australian history. Contributions by Weston Bate, Anne Beggs Sunter, Ralph Birrell, David 'Fred' Cahir, Charles Fahey, Warwick Frost, David Goodman, Heather Holst, Richard Mackay, Sara Martin, Alan Mayne, Tim Murray, Keir Reeves, Tim Sullivan, Bob Walshe, Graham Wilson, Kevin Wong Hoy and Clare Wright. $34.95 |  |
| Governing Change: From Keating to HowardCarol Johnson
A crucial dilemma in contemporary Australian politics is how to govern in a period of transformation and cultural uncertainty. Governing Change (revised edition) examines the challenges posed to government by the rapid social, economic and technological changes of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Drawing on relevant aspects of social and political theory, Carol Johnson provides a detailed analysis of recent governments' policy frameworks. She examines how key issues are conceived and framed in Australian political discourse and how governments attempt to 'sell' the resulting policy to the electorate. 'A welcome and needed book in its dissection of current Australian political culture', Cathy Greenfield, Australian Journal of Political Science. This revised edition contains a substantial new chapter analysing the impact of the Howard Decade on Australian political culture and Rudd Labor's strategic and policy response. $34.95 |  |
| Homing In: Essays on Australian Literature and SelfhoodBruce Bennett
With a population base of some 20 million people in the early years of the twenty-first century, Australia is widely recognised as ‘punching above its weight’ in the field of international literature in English. When questions of literary merit are raised, Patrick White’s Nobel Prize for literature in 1973 is often cited, together with David Malouf’s Impac award, Thomas Keneally’s and Peter Carey’s Booker prizes, Kate Grenville’s Orange prize and the Queen’s gold medal for poetry to Judith Wright, Les Murray and Peter Porter. Although some of these authors are discussed in the present book, readers will also encounter a variety of other Australian writers, living and dead, from colonial to post-colonial times, including Louis Becke, Jack Davis, Yasmine Gooneratne, Ee Tiang Hong, Dorothy Hewett, A D Hope, Clive James, Oodgeroo, John Boyle O’Reilly and Tim Winton. This heterogeneous group includes Indigenous Australians, immigrants, expatriates, long and short term residents and an Irish political prisoner. The main criterion for inclusion in these essays is not the canonical status of authors but their fruitful engagement with themes of alienation and belonging in a changing Australia. $34.95 |  |
| Implicated: Americanising AustraliaPhilip Bell and Roger Bell
Australia lies 'between Britain and America', victim of British cultural imperialism and of Coca-colonisation alike. Such claims, from public intellectuals including Donald Horne and Phillip Adams, are typical of the orthodox view of Australia’s place in the ostensibly 'postcolonial' world. Implicated paints a different picture, by analysing not only the formal political and economic patterns of the special relationship with the US (benign or exploitative, depending on one's own politics), but also its ideological dimensions. Australia's various and changing relationships with the United States are embedded in more general processes of modernisation and globalisation—processes that are at the same time substantially American in form and content. Implicated examines the various ways by which Australia negotiated military alliances, economic accommodations, and cultural meanings with the US as both societies travelled the path of modernisation. Despite the 'decline' of America and the 'end' of the Cold War, the implications of American power and example continue to colour Australia’s politics, society, and culture. $34.95 |  |
| JAS 70: Romancing the NationEdited by Richard Nile
Contributions include: "Romanticism, Nationalism and Myth" by Andrew McCann; "Subverting the Empire" by Paul Genoni; "Les Murray’s Fredy Neptune" by Ian J Bickerton; "Unsettled Country" by Perrie Ballantyne; "Historical Collections" by James Gore; "Remembering Eureka" by Anne Beggs Sunter; "Wild Children" by Lynette Russell; "A Cure for all Seasons" by Peter Davies. $24.5 |  |
| JAS 75: CountryEdited by Richard Nile
Contributions include: "History in Black and White: a critical analysis of the Black Armband debate" by Anna Clark; "Why We Need Black Armbands" by Adi Wimmer; "A Poetics of Failure is No Bad Thing: Stephen Muecke and Margaret Somerville's White Writing" by Fiona Probyn; "Aboriginal Affairs: Monologue or Dialogue?" by Vanessa Castejon; "Racial Essentialism: A Mercurial Concept at the 1937 Canberra Conference of Commonwealth and State Aboriginal Authorities" by Alan Charlton; "Assimilationists Contest Assimilation: T G H Strehlow and A P Elkin on Aboriginal Policy" by Russell McGregor; "The Fulcrum of Noonkanbah" by David Ritter; "Dr W E Roth: Flawed Force of the Frontier" by John Whitehall; "The 'Plains of Promise' Revisited: A Reassessment of the Frontier in North Western Queensland" by Michael Slack; "Metamorphosis: Travel Narratives and Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal Relations in the 1930s" by Paul Miller. $24.5 |  |
| JAS 77: Sojourners and StrangersEdited by Richard Nile
Contributions include: "Australia's New Other: Shaping Compassion for Onshore Refugees" by Sonia Magdalena Tascón; "Woomera 2002 Festival of Freedoms: Experiencing community in tragic recognition of the other" by David Monson; "A Fair Queue? Australian Public Discourse on Refugees and Immigration" by Katharine Gelber; "Teaching Democracy and Human Rights: A Curriculum Perspective" by Eva Dobozy; "Rethinking Australian Studies in Japanese Universities: Towards a New Area Studies for a Globalising World" by Allan Patience and Michael Jacques; "New Cultural Scripts: Exploring the Dialogue Between Indigenous and 'Asian' Australians" by Peta Stephenson; "Postwar Anti-Jewish Refugee Hysteria: A Case of Racial or Religious Bigotry?" by Suzanne Rutland; "Olive or White? The Colour of Italians in Australia" by Helen Andreoni; "Negotiating Identity: Ethnicity, Tourism and Chinatown" by Anna-Lisa Mak; "Living with 'Difference': Growing up 'Chinese' in White Australia" by Carole Tan; "Recollection of Identity: The Reassembly of the Migrant" by Eleanor Venables; "Censored Creativity: B Wongar's Original Version of Walg" by Tess Caiter; "David Lowenthal: A Tribute" by George Seddon. $24.5 |  |
| JAS 78: GritEdited by Richard Nile
Contributions include: "The Dole Wars" by Anthony Yeates; "The Housewives' Wages Debate in the 1920s Australian Press" by Louie Traikovski; "The New Face of Police Governance in Australia" by Benoît Dupont; "Youth Workers, Professional Identities and Narratives of Workplace Change: A Preliminary Report" by Judith Bessant and Ruth Webber; "The Age of Transition: Nursing and Caring in the Nineteenth Century" by Wendy Madsen; "Nursing Gallipoli: Identity and the Challenge of Experience" by Janet Butler; "Challenging Masculine Privilege: The Women's Movement and the Victorian Secondary Teachers Association, 1974-1995" by Rosemary Francis; "The End of an Affair: Intellectuals and the Communist Party, 1956-1959" by John McLaren; "The WA Forest Conflict: The Construction of the Political Effectiveness of Advocacy Organisations" by David Worth; "A Century of Political Communication in Australia, 1901-2001" by Sally Young; "In Defence of Australian Youth Studies: A Response to Wyn and White" by Judith Bessant and Richard Hil; "Pictures at an Exhibition: Frank Hurley's In the Grip of the Polar Pack Ice" by Robert Dixon; "Addressing the Nation: In Search of Adrian Deamer" by Denis Cryle; "Idiot Box: Mick Cameron as Yobbo Flâneur" by Rebecca Johinke. $24.5 |  |
| JAS 79: Rezoning AustraliaEdited by Richard Nile
Contributions include: "Cartography and Native Title" by Alexander Reilly; "Localising National Identity: Albany's Anzacs" by Robyn Mayes; "Tourists and Pilgrims: (Re)Visiting the Rocks" by Grace Karskens; "Selling the Snowy: The Snowy Mountains Scheme and National Mythmaking" by Grahame Griffin; "Imaging a Nation: Australia's Representation at the Venice Biennale, 1958" by Sarah Scott; "Queensland Shows the World: Regionalism and Modernity at Brisbane's World Expo '88" by Rachel Sanderson; "Contrary Images: Photographing the New Pacific in Walkabout Magazine" by Max Quanchi; "Reading the People's Stories: Tales of Trial and Toil, and Australia's Federal Republic" by Winsome Roberts; "Homely Stories and the Ideological Work of 'Terra Nullius'" by Margaret Allen; "Becoming Australian in the Global Cultural Economy: Children, Consumption, Citizenship" by Beryl Langer and Estelle Farrar; "Finding a Voice on Indigenous Issues: Midnight Oil's Inappropriate Appropriations" by Laetitia Vellutini; "Speaking the Silence of Whiteness" by Jane Durie; "Gender Blind? Australian Immigration Policy and Practice, 1901-1930" by Michèle Langfield; "'Sexually cursed, mentally weak and socially untouchable': Women and Venereal Diseases in World War Two Adelaide" by Susan Lemar. $24.5 |  |
| JAS 81: Colonial PostEdited by Richard Nile
Contributions include: "Myths and Non-Myths: Frontier 'Massacres' in Australian History -- The Woppaburra of the Keppel Islands" by Michael Rowland; "The 'little empire of Wybalenna': Becoming Colonial in Australia" by Anna Johnston; "Develop the North: Aborigines, Environment and Australian Nationhood in the 1930s" by Russell McGregor; "'Their Ultimate Absorption': Assimilation in 1930s Australia" by John Chesterman and Heather Douglas; "Beyond Orality and Literacy: Textuality, Modernity and Representation in Gularabulu: Stories from the West Kimberley" by Michele Grossman; "Innocent Convicts and Respectable Bushrangers: History and the Nation in Melbourne Melodrama, 1890–1914" by Gabrielle Wolf; "From the Strand to Boorooloola: M H Ellis as Pioneer Motorist" by Andrew Moore; "'War with America': The Trent Affair and the Experience of News in Colonial Australia" by Peter Putnis; "Last Post for the Gold Coast: Heart of a Nation and the Japanese 'Colonisation' of Queensland" by Narrelle Morris; "Contemporary Anti-Memorials and National Identity in the Victorian Landscape" by Sue-Anne Ware; "The Probe-Head and the Faces of Australia: From Australia Post to Pluto" by Patricia MacCormack. $24.5 |  |
| JAS 82: ColourEdited by Richard Nile with Denise Tallis
Contributions include: "Dark Tourism and the Celebrity Prisoner: Front and Back Regions in Representations of an Australian Historical Prison" by Jacqueline Zara Wilson; "The Tempest: Creating dialogue from points of difference" by Angela Campbell; "'It pulsates with dramatic power': White Slavery, Popular Culture and Modernity in Australia in 1913" by Jeannette Delamoir; "Understanding History as a Rhetorical Strategy: Constructions of Truth and Objectivity in Debates over Windschuttle's Fabrication" by Damien W Riggs; "Embodying Ambivalence: Muslim Australians as 'Other'" by Arthur Saniotis; "'White Woman Lives as a Lubra in Native Camp': Representations of 'Shared Space" by Tracy Spencer; "Indigenous Youth and Ambivalence in some Australian Films" by Dave Palmer and Garry Gillard; "Giving the Indigenous a Voice -- further thoughts on the poetry of Eliza Hamilton Dunlop" by John O'Leary. $24.5 |  |
| JAS 83: Construction WorkEdited by Richard Nile with Denise Tallis
Contributions include: "Howard's Methodism: How convenient?" by Marion Maddox; "To Bank or Not to Bank: Edward Smith Hall on Free Trade and the Commodification of Money in Early New South Wales" by Erin Ihde; "An Australian Ohio: Fighting for Mildura, 1919–1921" by David Nichols; "'O Brave New Social Order': The Controversy over Planning in Australia and Britain in the 1940s" by Jo-Anne Pemberton; "Locating Adelaide Eugenics:Venereal Diseases and the South Australian Branch of the British Science Guild 1911–1914" by Susan Lemar; "Celebrity, Nation, and the New Australian Woman: Tania Verstak, Miss Australia 1961" by Julie Ustinoff and Kay Saunders; "Readers Writing The First Stone Media Event: Letters to the Editor, Australian Feminisms and Mediated Citizenship" by Anthea Taylor; "Manufacturing the Canon: Australia in the Chinese Literary Imagination" by Peter C Pugsley; "Garden without a Destiny: Untangling Landscape Narratives at the National Museum of Australia" by Jillian Walliss. $24.5 |  |
| JAS 84: Backburning (New Talents)Edited by Helen Addison-Smith, An Nguyen and Denise Tallis
In the last few decades, 'firebreaks' have begun to be carved into the academy; narrow, defined spaces where 'others' and 'otherness' were first allowed to criss-cross a once-conservative landscape. Often, universities worked to include this difference, but they also sought to keep it in its place, hoping to thus keep the 'centre' intact. However, these 'firebreaks' have in fact become the sites from which 'backburning' in the academy could properly begin. $24.5 |  |
| JAS 85: BenevolenceEdited by Christy Collis and Maggie Nolan
On the television show Backyard Blitz, Australians judged as deserving by their families and friends receive the gift of surprise makeovers to their gardens; in Australian public hospitals, trainee surgeons hone their skills on willing patients; in literary travel narratives, non-Indigenous Australian writers attempt to forge a relationship with the land and its traditional owners; and in inner-city Brisbane, the City Council builds lockers and sleeping areas for the park's homeless occupants. In Australian courts, legislators create copyright laws in an attempt to protect Indigenous ownership of traditional narratives; the South Australian Museum mounts a new Aboriginal Cultures Gallery; Indigenous actors face impact of the normativity of whiteness as they practice their craft; and the Queensland government of the early twentieth century enacts policies of 'Aboriginal Protection'. $24.95 |  |
| JAS 86: Terra Incognita: New Essays in Australian StudiesEdited by Leigh Dale and Margaret Henderson
Since first contact and invasion, Europeans have imagined Australia in two related ways: as terra nullius, and as terra incognita. While Indigenous Australians have always known the fictiveness of these two modes of imagining this country, it took until the 1992 Mabo decision and legislation in 1993 for there to be legal recognition that Australia was not terra nullius; arguably, the allure of Australia as a mystery, as an unknown, still has a place in the white imagination. Foucault's analysis of the power/knowledge nexus makes explicit the connections between these two conceptions of Australia, and their role in justifying what could be done to Indigenous peoples. The land's supposed emptiness signals its mystery, which in turn allows free rei(g)n in the ways in which it may be known, and in the types of knowledges that can become authoritative. Thus the way in which 'Australia' was known by the colonisers, and the ways in which this set of knowledges became dominant, have been crucial in securing control of the land and its people. While it is no longer so easy to see Australia as tabula rasa, debate over the meaning of 'country' remains critical for reactionary and for progressive forces alike ... $24.5 |  |
| JAS 87: Culinary DistinctionEdited by Emma Costantino and Sian Supski
This collection brings together a diverse range of writings on food and drink in Australia. Food studies is a burgeoning area of enquiry in Australia, and some of Australia's leading food scholars are included in this collection, as well as newer scholars whose work intersects with food in some way. Culinary Distinction aims to showcase the distinctive nature of food and drink in Australia. Importantly, the articles highlight the ways in which food and drink have impacted on Australia as a settler-society. Many would argue that Australia does not have a distinctive cuisine, but we suggest that, by exploring and interrogating the importance of food and drink in Australia, as the authors do here, we might begin to outline a distinct culinary heritage. The cuisines of Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders are outlined by Laurel Dyson in her article 'Indigenous Australian cookery, past and present'. In addition to her explanations of the cookery techniques and the enormous variety of seasonal fruits, nuts and vegetables used by Indigenous cooks, Dyson describes the tastes and qualities of foods valued in the different cuisines. Her recipe for ginger-leaf fish demonstrates a straightforward cooking style that highlights the robust flavours of fresh ingredients. Both Dyson's article and her recipe show how traditional methods have been adapted to newer ingredients, utensils and tastes ... $24.5 |  |
| JAS 88: Discordant NotesEdited by Martin Crotty
Contributions include: "Who Owns Gallipoli? Australia's Gallipoli Anxieties 1915–2005" by Bart Ziino; "'Dew to the Soul': One Australian Artist's Response to War" by Sue Lovell; "Hunting the Wild Reciter: Elocution and the Art of Recitation" by Peter Kirkpatrick; "'You Make Me a Dot in the Nowhere': Textual Encounters in the Australian Immigration Story (the Fourth Chapter)" by Felicity Plunkett; "From the Murrumbidgee to Mamma Lena: Foreign Language Broadcasting on Australian Commercial Radio, Part I" by Bridget Griffen-Foley; "Writing the 'Long-Haired Frustrates' Back into the History of the 'Wiener Schnitzel Society': Musica Viva, 1945-52" by Emily Pollnitz; "The Populist Message of Australian Country Music" by Rae Wear; "Vue de Sydney 1840" by John Ramsland and Valerie Djenidi; "Bitumen Films in Postcolonial Australia" by Fiona Probyn-Rapsey; "'Walking the Wire of Prejudice': The Flying Fruit Fly Circus's 2004 production of Skipping on Stars" by Loretta de Plevitz; "No Flowers, or Trustees, by Request: Bernard Hall and the Felton Bequest" by Gwenyth Rankin; "A Bishop's Wife in Torres Strait: Joan Davies 1930-49" by David Wetherell; "'Feathered Foes': Soldier Settlers and Western Australia's 'Emu War' of 1932" by Murray Johnson. $24.5 |  |
| JAS 89: Parading OurselvesEdited by Maryrose Casey, Martin Crotty and Delyse Ryan
Since colonial times, Australians have used public spaces for a wide variety of demonstrative purposes, sometimes in affirmation of the existing social order, and sometimes in displays of dissent. The middle classes have promenaded in parks and elsewhere, the boy scouts have held street parades, veterans have marched on Anzac Days, and schoolboys and pleasure-boaters have rowed up rivers and across lakes. In more challenging fashion, streets have been used for protest marches against wars, for the riding of Harley Davidsons by discontented Vietnam veterans, for Mardi Gras, for S11 demonstrations, and for the Reconciliation marches. These are public events: public performances loaded with meaning both for those who take part and for those who watch. Whether to advance political agendas, to display allegiance to a group or cause, or to celebrate sporting and other successes, ordinary and extraordinary Australians have claimed street space and other public space as their own. Parading Ourselves is a special issue of articles offering an examination of the different meanings and roles that public marches, demonstrations and processions have played in Australia. The issue focuses on the performance of identity within and through Australian protests, marches, parades and processions over the last century and more. Each article documents and analyses the performative aspects of a different protest, march or public gathering that claimed Australian urban landscapes. $24.5 |  |
| JAS 90: Who Am I? Perspectives on Australian Cultural IdentityEdited by Dawn Bennett
For more than 200 years, Australian identity has been continuously and creatively mutating. Characterised by Hudson and Bolton as a 'fabulous beast' and described by White as 'entirely mythical', it is -- like other mythical beasts -- intangible, impossible to capture, and wide open to interpretation. From the first 'civilising' performance of orchestral music only 33 years after colonisation to the belated recognition of the multifarious nature of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian society, culture has been much-debated and hotly disputed, and cannot be contained within the notion of 'nation'. However, in the same way that multiple factors have coerced and influenced Australia's identity, culture and its expression are subject to politicisation, subvention, exoticism, perceptions of elitism, and measurement against economic indices. This issue of JAS draws together an eclectic range of papers which touch upon Australian culture from a number of different perspectives. $24.5 |  |
| JAS 91: Open to InterpretationEdited by Dawn Bennett
The articles presented in JAS 91 were chosen because they stimulate a rethinking of Australian history, the interpretation of which so often legitimises the present by adopting a particular reading of the past. This interpretation creates an optimistic image of Australian history and identity as the inevitable and preferred outcome of what went before. Moreover, the image focuses on achievements and events that have been interpreted (or constructed) as key defining moments: Australian identity as the result of, and defined by, progressive historical experiences and achievements. The optimistic interpretation of Australian history has much in common with the philosophy of many nineteenth-century historians who believed in the natural progress of Western societies, culminating in parliamentary democracy, constitutional government and, in more modern terms, less state control. Inevitably, the optimistic interpretation has largely ignored negative historical events and conflicting dual narratives. It is hardly surprising, then, that much of the current rethinking of Australia's history centres on the consideration of multiple accounts of the past ... $24.5 |  |
| Media Law Handbook (Fifth Edition: Digital Download)Joseph M Fernandez
This fifth edition of Joseph Fernandez's popular and accessible study considers the laws that impact on freedom of speech in Australia. It is an indispensable guide for journalism and publishing students and professionals. This text incorporates discussion of recent amendments including the law pertaining to journalists' confidential sources. (ISBN 978-1-920-84545-2, pb 260 pp).
Please note that you are NOT purchasing a hard-copy of this text but a downloadable PDF version. Once your purchase has been completed, please check your My Account page to see your last order. Click the View button to bring up more details: this book can be downloaded from the order's details page. If you have any problems, please email orders@api-network.com with your order number. $11 |  |
| Mortgage Nation: The 2004 Australian ElectionEdited by Marian Simms and John Warhurst
This comprehensive study of the historic win by the Howard Coalition Government is the fourth collaborative venture between Marian Simms and John Warhurst. In their introduction and overview Simms and Warhurst provide a comprehensive account of politics between the 2001 and 2004 elections, including the delicate balancing act in the Senate, the impact of external factors, like the US Alliance, and internal factors like the troubled state of the Labor Party; and conclude with an analysis of the surprising aftermath of the election. $29.95 |  |
| NT21C 7: Other Contact Zones (New Talents)Edited by Jason Ensor, Iva Polak and Peter Van Der Merwe
In the construction and acknowledgment of responsibility towards the Other, this edition of New Talents challenges the contradiction of a lucky country sustained by processes of forgetting and, more critically, the processes of silencing. Beginning with Levinasian ethics applied to a scenario where the immediate physical presence of another human asks us to account for our enjoyment of life, Other Contact Zones explores mechanisms of responsibility and avoidance, including: the politics of gender representation, signs of sexual deviances written on the convict body, the invention of the white woman as an object of fantasy in captivity narratives of early colonial Australia, the creation of multicultural senses of belonging, and the complexities of identity construction in the face of mechanisms of silence and misrecognition. This issue introduces Nicole Asquith, Marita Bullock, Louise Curtis, Jane Davis, Kate Foord, Elisabeth Gigler, Catie Gilhurst, Elissa Goodrich, Nina Hall, Kirsten Henderson, Andrew Herd, Angela Hirst, Kathryn James, Amanda Kearney, Jessie Mitchell, Hamish Morgan, Geraldine Neal, John Power, Elaine Rabbitt, Eugene Sebastian, Cassandra Star and Susannah Thompson. $30 |  |
| On the Western EdgeEdited by Masayo Tada and Leigh Dale
Australia and Japan are geographically on the western edge of the much talked-of 'Pacific Rim'; psychologically they are often seen as occupying similar positions on the edge of Western cultures. Both have significant indigenous populations: Aborigines in Australia, and the Ainu of northern Japan, who have a history of sometimes savage oppression. Both countries have chosen, at various times in their histories, to claim or to accentuate their racial and cultural homogeneity. And both are seen—by themselves and by others--as having ambivalent desires to be colonial powers, and to be affiliated with the neo-colonial power of the United States. Contributors to this important and theoretically innovative collection of essays explore issues of transnational concern from the geo-political positions of Australia and Japan, countries and cultures that seem to be located 'on the Western edge'. $34.95 |  |
| Our PatchEdited by Suvendrini Perera
How is Australian sovereignty being acted out at home and abroad in the second century of federation? In this agenda setting book, Suvendrini Perera brings together leading thinkers to map the imaginative and political space claimed as 'Our Patch'. Contributions by Tim Anderson, Ruth Balint, Anthony Burke, Maxine Chi, Maria Giannacopoulos, Suvendrini Perera, Henry Reynolds, Jon Stratton, Dinesh Wadiwel and Irene Watson. $34.95 |  |
| Preoccupations in Australian PoetryJudith Wright
In Preoccupations in Australian Poetry, Judith Wright explores and reinterprets the work of early Australian poets in the context of a developing national identity and their relationship to the land. $29.95 |  |
| Reading 'Madness'Catharine Coleborne
Reading 'Madness': Gender and Difference in the Colonial Asylum in Victoria, Australia, 1848-1888 scrutinises and analyses the archive of texts produced in and around the asylum in Victoria, from the establishment of the Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum in 1848 to the Zox Commission of 1888. Coleborne reveals how the discourse on the lunatic in nineteenth-century Victoria named, described and 'captured' the insane person. This powerful, institutionalised medical language reflected and reproduced socially dominant understandings of mental illness. $34.95 |  |
| ReconciliationsAgnes Toth and Bernard Hickey
Does this Australian form of Reconciliation involve a genuine attempt at equality or is it simply a new means of perpetuating age-old oppressions? Reconciliations brings together leading European and Australian scholars to investigate the myriad possibilities. Essays by Stephen Alomes, Carmen Arzua, Bruce Bennett, Delys Bird, Barbara Bloch, Gabriella Espak, Garth Nettheim, Mitchell Rolls, Xavier Pons, Eleanore Wildburger. $24.95 |  |
| Rehearsals for ChangeDennis Altman
Many of today’s political commentators seem inclined to the view that the debate about globalisation and its discontents is a recent one. They should read Rehearsals for Change. [...] The republication of Rehearsals for Change is a very timely reminder that there are alternatives, and that our very survival as a civilised society may depend upon embracing them. $34.95 |  |
| Rethinking WellbeingEdited by Lenore Manderson
Rethinking Wellbeing was inspired by debates about measurements of health, happiness and wellbeing that pay inadequate attention to social structural factors and the economic and cultural contexts in which people live. The critique is as timely now as ever. $29.95 |  |
| Senor Pilich the Monastery CatFather Anscar McPhee
My name is Pilich--Señor Pilich to be exact, and I like being exact even if I am not always precise. I am a cat. Not an ordinary cat. I am a monastery cat, with the distinction of having total responsibility for policing the monastery underworld--that is, under chairs, tables, church pews and abbot's cupboards. The monastery, which is my home, is situated next to a river, and the monastery's name is a very celebrated one--something to do with that holy man Benedict, born some place far away many years ago. Holy Benedict is the one who wrote the Rule the monks have always followed, following it even to that landmass registered as Australia in my book about places where cats live ... $27.5 |  |
| Sharing SpacesGus Worby and Lester-Irabinna Rigney
This broad-ranging, interrelated collection of conversations and essays by Elders, Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars addresses a range of contemporary issues including the politics of sharing space derived from a colonial history of non-sharing, the relationship between the stories Australians tell themselves about their place in the world as peoples and nation, the differing concepts of country and knowledge that give stories their context and meaning and the way this combination of grounded narratives animates and informs rights discourse – in Australia and beyond. $24.95 |  |
| Teaching English Language in AustraliaEdited by Chris Conlan
The essential guide for teachers of English as a second language. Teaching English Language in Australia offers invaluable advice from Australia’s foremost linguistic scholars and teachers of English as a second language. The insights collected in these pages represent decades of active teaching and linguistic research. $34.95 |  |
| Textual SpacesEdited by Stephen Muecke
Colonial violence was based on problems of communication and culture. For instance, Aborigines were seen as having no written language and therefore no culture worth respecting. But although they didn’t have alphabetical writing, they did have complex forms of iconography. So what appears to be mere dots and lines to a non-Aborigine could in fact be spatial signs containing layers of meaning which can be ‘read’ by Western Desert people. $24.95 |  |
| The Cry for the DeadJudith Wright
The Cry for the Dead is an ethical history written at a time when few texts dealt with Indigenous dispossession or the damage to the Australian environment caused by farming methods and introduced species. $34.95 |  |
| The Sea Coast of BohemiaPeter Kirkpatrick
'Peter Kirkpatrick's book is as celebratory an account of the life of one generation in an Australian city as Tim Winton's Cloudstreet and David Malouf's Johnno, and achieves for Sydney what these other writers achieve for Perth and Brisbane.' Robert Holden, Australian Book Review. 'The Sea Coast of Bohemia offers a thorough, convincing and intricate discussion of the emergence of 'the new' in many forms after the War -- It is an elegant, affectionate and scholarly book.' Ken Stewart, Australian Literary Studies $34.95 |  |
| Two For the Price of One: The Lives of Mining WivesLinda Rhodes
A mixture of poignant biography, social history and critical analysis, Two for the Price of One offers a fascinating and eminently readable account of the lives of ‘mining wives’ across Australian history. As ordinary women, they face extraordinary circumstances, challenging the male-centred story of mining and presenting the industry as never before. $29.95 |  |
| Unity is StrengthBobbie Oliver
In this Centenary History of the Australian Labor Party (WA), interwoven with the stories of Premiers, Party and Union Leaders, Bobbie Oliver includes the contributions of bush organisers and party workers. Drawing on a vast body of archival material, Dr Oliver relates the slow and often unseen progress of women and minority groups in achieving influence in the Party or the industrial organisation. $39.95 |  |
| Us and Them: Anti-Elitism in AustraliaMarian Sawer and Barry Hindess
'For anyone wanting to know more about the key to Howard's success, and the dominance of conservative politics more generally in this country and elsewhere, this book is a must read. Highly recommended'. Lloyd Cox, Latrobe. 'The detail in the book is wonderful but what else can we do but laugh when the sages of New Ltd and the lords of talk back tell us that in this day and age only snobs worry about equity'. David Marr. No longer is anti-elitism the province of political outsiders -- it has been taken up by Australia's leaders. [...] It suggests that university-educated elites are contemptuous of the values of ordinary people and of the national interest. It has been used to rally opposition to these elites (them) and to justify claims to speak for ordinary people (us). $34.95 |  |
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