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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
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 324.2092.COR
Exploring 'Unseen' Social Capital in Community Participation : Everyday Lives…
This book argues that using social capital to eradicate poverty is less likely to succeed because the mainstream neoinstitutional approach mistakenly assumes that social capital necessarily benefits poor people. This inadequacy calls for a re-assessment of human motivations, institutional dynamics and structural complexity in social capital building. Using ethnographic and participatory methods…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789053560341
- Collation
- 220p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 306.095125 WON
Science & Technology Studies Elsewhere : A Postcolonial Programme
In April 2017, scientists took to the streets in a historically unprecedented Global March for Science. The event was seen as symbolic of a crisis in the relationship of science and society. This book considers the Global March for Science from a postcolonial perspective to inquire into the toolkit that the academic field of Science & Technology Studies (STS) has to offer. It argues that new co…
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- 6
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783757400347
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 900 HOF s
Gerontechnology : understanding older adult information and communication tec…
This book presents a typology that explains the diversity of ICT usage seen in older adults. It examines older adult use of everyday Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) across multiple life contexts (work, family, leisure, and community) allowing readers to understand how the growing aging population will use ICTs in their daily lives. The author offers a useful framework to pract…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781787432925
- Collation
- xv, 203 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 305.26 BIR g
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…
- Edition
- 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…
- Edition
- 13
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781925022315
- Collation
- 202
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 362.709597.HUY
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…
- Edition
- 11
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781760461065
- Collation
- 434
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 333.73130995.MCD
Maverick mathematician: the life and science of J.E. Moyal
J.E. Moyal has been pronounced ‘one of Australia’s most remarkable thinkers’. Yet, he was, essentially, a scientific maverick. Educated in a modest high school in Tel Aviv, he took himself to France to train as an engineer, statistician and mathematician and escaped to England as France fell. It was from outside academia that he entered into communication with the ‘high priest’ of …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781920942595
- Collation
- 212 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 510.92 MOY m
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 …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781760461621
- Collation
- xxiiii, 499p.; ill.
- Series Title
- Terra Australis
- Call Number
- 919.429 DAV t
The Contest for Aboriginal Souls : European missionary agendas in Australia
This book covers the missionary activity in Australia conducted by non-English speaking missionaries from Catholic and Protestant mission societies from its beginnings to the end of the mission era. It looks through the eyes of the missionaries and their helpers, as well as incorporating Indigenous perspectives and offering a balanced assessment of missionary endeavour in Australia, attuned to …
- Edition
- 15
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781760462055
- Collation
- 280
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 266.00899915.GAN
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