A timely intervention in national debates about what constitutes original or plagiarized writing
This open access book examines the educational conditions that support cultures of exploration in kindergartens. It conceptualises cultures of exploration, whether those cultures are created through children’s own engagement or are demanded of them through undertaking specific tasks within different institutional settings. It shows how the conditions for children’s exploration form a web of…
An Archaeology of Art and Writing offers an in-depth treatment of the image as material culture. Centring on early Egyptian bone, ivory, and wooden labels—one of the earliest inscribed and decorated object groups from burials in the lower Nile Valley—the research is anchored in the image as the site of material action. A key aim of this book is to outline a contextual and reflexive approach…
This study was suggested by Dr H. R. C. Wright's artic1e "Muntinghe's Advice to Raffles on the Land Question in Java".1 It does not pretend to be exhaustive. I have not examined the working of the land rent system during the British administration/~ nor, in deed, have I carried the story further than the early months of 1814. I hope that at some future date it may be possible to analyse t…
Parallel to the abolition of Atlantic slavery, new forms of indentured labour stilled global capitalisms need for cheap, disposable labour. The famous coolie trade – mainly Asian labourers transferred to French and British islands in the Indian Ocean, Australia, Indonesia, South Africa, the Caribbean, the Americas, as well as to Portuguese colonies in Africa – was one of the largest migrati…
This is the first book to consider the experiences of women survivors of the 1965 anti-communist violence in the majority Christian region of Eastern Indonesia. So far, most studies of the 1965 violence have focused on the Muslim majority population of Java and the Hindu majority population of Bali. Forbidden Memories presents stories from across the regions of Sumba, Sabu, Alor, Kupang and oth…
An exploration of ongoing efforts to rebuild scholarly infrastructure
A born-digital project that asks how recent technologies have changed the ways that historians think, teach, author, and publish
A dynamic examination of the media industry in the Nordic countries during the transition to today's digital environment
A comparative literary perspective on emerging digital cultures and how the systems-thinking of Post-World War II information and dynamic systems theory have entered into everyday life and lived space, prompting tactical (re)understandings of the human