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Craft + design enquiry: issue 4, 2012 relational craft and design
craft + design enquiry is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal promoting and disseminating research excellence generated by and about the craft and design sector. craft + design enquiry investigates the contribution that contemporary craft and design makes to society, establishing a dialogue between craft and design practice and cultural, social and environmental concerns. It includes submissi…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 1837-445X
- Collation
- 150 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 745.099405 HAW c
Contemporary Asian art and exhibitions: connectivities and world-making
“… a diverse and stimulating group of essays that together represents a significant contribution to thinking about the nascent field of contemporary Asian art studies … Contemporary Asian Art and Exhibitions: Connectivities and World-making … brings together essays by significant academics, curators and artist working in Australia, Asia and the United Kingdom that reflect on contemporar…
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- -
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- 9781925022001
- Collation
- 278 p
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- -
- Call Number
- 709.5 ANT c
A Vision for Change: AD Patel and the Politics of Fiji
‘Dr Lal’s book is more than an eloquent account of the political struggle of one of Fiji’s outstanding leaders. It is a timely reminder that the process of constitutional change hangs in the balance, as it did at the time of Mr Patel’s death. I hope his example will inspire future generations in Fiji to realise the vision articulated by a brilliant and courageous advocate of democracy, …
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- 23
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781921666599
- Collation
- 308
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 320.099611.LAL
Politics of preferential development : Trans-global study of affirmative acti…
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 approach, to examine the relationship between affirmative action, ethnic conflict and the role of the state in Fiji, Malaysia and South Africa. While affirmative action has noble g…
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- 12
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781925021035
- Collation
- 282
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 305.8.RAT
Political Life Writing in the Pacific : Reflections on Practice
This book aims to reflect on the experiential side of writing political lives in the Pacific region. The collection touches on aspects of the life writing art that are particularly pertinent to political figures: public perception and ideology; identifying important political successes and policy initiatives; grappling with issues like corruption and age-old political science questions about le…
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- 20
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781925022612
- Collation
- 180
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- -
- Call Number
- 324.2092.COR
Making Change Happen : Black and White Activists talk to Kevin Cook about Abo…
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 were struggles, triumphs and defeats around land rights, community control of organisations, national coalitions and the international movement for Indigenous rights. The cha…
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- 11
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781921666742
- Collation
- 448
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 303.484.COO
Vietnam as if… : Tales of youth, love and destiny
Vietnam as if… follows five young people who have moved from the countryside to the city. Their dramatic everyday lives illuminate some of the most pressing issues in Vietnam today: ‘The Sticky Rice Seller’ explores gender roles; ‘The Ball Boy’ is all about the struggles of sexual and ethnic minorities; ‘The Professional’ examines relations between rich and poor; ‘The Goalkeeper…
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- 13
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781925022315
- Collation
- 202
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 362.709597.HUY
Indigenous peoples' innovation: intellectual property pathways to development
Traditional knowledge systems are also innovation systems. This book analyses the relationship between intellectual property and indigenous innovation. The contributors come from different disciplinary backgrounds including law, ethnobotany and science. Drawing on examples from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, each of the contributors explores the possibilities and limits of inte…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781921862786
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- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 346.048 DRA i
Kastom, property and ideology : Land transformations in Melanesia
The relationship between customary land tenure and ‘modern’ forms of landed property has been a major political issue in the ‘Spearhead’ states of Melanesia since the late colonial period, and is even more pressing today, as the region is subject to its own version of what is described in the international literature as a new ‘land rush’ or ‘land grab’ in developing countries. T…
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- 11
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781760461065
- Collation
- 434
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 333.73130995.MCD
The archaeology of rock art in Western Arnhem Land, Australia
Western Arnhem Land, in the Top End of Australia’s Northern Territory, has a rich archaeological landscape, ethnographic record and body of rock art that displays an astonishing array of imagery on shelter walls and ceilings. While the archaeology goes back to the earliest period of Aboriginal occupation of the continent, the rock art represents some of the richest, most diverse and visually …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781760461621
- Collation
- xxiiii, 499p.; ill.
- Series Title
- Terra Australis
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- 919.429 DAV t
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