Publications

MONOGRAPHS

Sally K. May, Laura Rademaker, Donna Nadjamerrek and Julie Narndal Gumurdul (2020)
The Bible in Buffalo Country. Oenpelli Mission 1925–1931
Publisher: ANU Press

Arriving in the remote Arnhem Land Aboriginal settlement of Oenpelli (Gunbalanya) in 1925, Alf and Mary Dyer aimed to bring Christ to a former buffalo shooting camp and an Aboriginal population many whites considered difficult to control. The Bible in Buffalo Country: Oenpelli Mission 1925–1931 represents a snapshot of the tumultuous first six years of the Church Missionary Society’s mission at Oenpelli and the superintendency of Alfred Dyer between 1925 and 1931. Drawing together documentary and photographic sources with local community memory, a story emerges of miscommunication, sickness, constant logistical issues, and an Aboriginal community choosing when and how to engage with the newcomers to their land.

Adis Duderija, Alina Isac Alak and Kristin Hissong (2020)
Islam and Gender. Major Issues and Debates
Publisher: Routledge

Given the intense political scrutiny of Islam and Muslims, which often centres on gendered concerns, Islam and Gender: Major Issues and Debates is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the key topics, problems and debates in this engaging subject. Split into three parts, this book places the discussion in its historical context, provides up-to-date case studies and delves into contemporary debate on the subject.

Karen Stollznow (2020)
On the Offensive. Prejudice in Language Past and Present
Publisher: Cambridge Press

I'm not a racist, but… You look good, for your age… She was asking for it… You're crazy… That's so gay… Have you ever wondered why certain language has the power to offend? It is often difficult to recognize the veiled racism, sexism, ageism (and other –isms) that hide in our everyday discourse. This book sheds light on the derogatory phrases, insults, slurs, stereotypes, tropes and more that make up linguistic discrimination. Each chapter addresses a different area of prejudice: race and ethnicity; gender identity; sexuality; religion; health and disability; physical appearance; and age.

Anastasia Dukova (2020)
To Preserve and Protect: Policing Colonial Brisbane
Publisher: University of Queensland Press

Early Australian policing had its roots on the streets of Dublin and London, where many of Australia’s first law and order enforcers hailed from.
Intrigued by this connection, historian Anastasia Dukova has researched and recreated the lives of colonial police officers and criminals in her adopted home city of Brisbane. Through exploring their personal stories, Dukova highlights how biography and history are inextricably linked and reveals the differences between metropolitan aspirations and colonial reality.To Preserve and Protect exposes political power abuse, corruption, mismanagement, professional burnout and gendered justice, issues which continue to challenge police forces.

Andy Bennett (2020)
British Progressive Pop 1970-1980
Publisher: Bloomsbury

This book considers the significance of British progressive pop in the early 1970s as a period during which the boundaries between pop and rock were periodically relaxed, providing a platform for musical creativity less confined by genre and branding.

EDITED COLLECTIONS

Andrea Schalley and Susana Eisenchlas (eds) (2020)  
Handbook of Home Language Maintenance and Development: Social and Affective Factors (Vol. 18). Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Even a cursory look at conference programs and proceedings reveals a burgeoning interest in the field of social and affective factors in home language maintenance and development. To date, however, research on this topic has been published in piecemeal fashion, subsumed under the more general umbrella of ‘bilingualism’. Within bilingualism research, there has been an extensive exploration of linguistic and psycholinguistic perspectives on the one hand, and educational practices and outcomes on the other. In comparison, social and affective factors – which lead people to either maintain or shift the language – have been under-researched.

Kaya Barry, Maria Borovnik and Tim Edensor (eds) (2020)
Weather: Spaces, Mobilities and Affects
Publisher: Routledge

This book delves into the everyday spaces, diverse mobilities and affective potency of weather. It presents cutting-edge research into the multiplicity of weather phenomena and analyses the lived experiences of humans in conjunction with contemporary issues, notably climate change.

Sally Breen, Ravi Shankar, Tim Tomlinson (eds) (2020)
Meridian: the APWT Drunken Boat Anthology of New Writing
Publisher: Drunken Boat Media

MERIDIAN: THE APWT DRUNKEN BOAT ANTHOLOGY OF NEW WRITING is a rousing collection of 37 voices, both established and emerging, from over 14 countries. This rich conversation epitomizes a version of a meridian, a ghost map of connections ranging from Hong Kong to the Gold Coast, Tokyo to Abu Dhabi, Singapore to Kabul, pulsing with story and song. As Pulitzer Prize winner Vijay Seshadri writes about the book, it is "new and fresh and thrilling, suffused with the sense of a beginning but also with the sense of the perennial and the permanent."

Helen Bromhead and Zhengdao Ye (Eds) (2020)
Meaning, Life and Culture. In conversation with Anna Wierzbicka
Publisher: ANU Press

This book is dedicated to Anna Wierzbicka, one of the most influential and innovative linguists of her generation. Her work spans a number of disciplines, including anthropology, cultural psychology, cognitive science, philosophy and religious studies, as well as her home base of linguistics. She is best known for the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach to meaning—a versatile tool for exploring ‘big questions’ concerning the diversity and universals of people’s experience in the world.

In this volume, Anna Wierzbicka’s former students, old and current colleagues, ‘kindred spirits’ and ‘sparring partners’ engage with her ideas and diverse body of work. These authors cover topics from the grammar of action verbs to cross-cultural pragmatics, and over 30 languages from around the world are represented.

Jenny Heijun Wills, Tobias Hübinette, and Indigo Willing (eds) (2020)
Adoption and Multiculturalism. Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific
Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Adoption and Multiculturalism features the voices of international scholars reflecting transnational and transracial adoption and its relationship to notions of multiculturalism. The essays trouble common understandings about who is being adopted, who is adopting, and where these acts are taking place, challenging in fascinating ways the tidy master narrative of saviorhood and the concept of a monolithic Western receiving nation. Too often the presumption is that the adoptive and receiving country is one that celebrates racial and ethnic diversity, thus making it superior to the conservative and insular places from which adoptees arrive. The volume’s contributors subvert the often simplistic ways that multiculturalism is linked to transnational and transracial adoption and reveal how troubling multiculturalism in fact can be.

Masaharu Mizumoto, Jonardon Ganeri and Cliff Goddard (eds) (2020)
Ethno-Epistemology. New Directions for Global Epistemology
Publisher: Routledge

This volume features new perspectives on the implications of cross-linguistic and cultural diversity for epistemology. It brings together philosophers, linguists, and scholars working on knowledge traditions to advance work in epistemology that moves beyond the Anglophone sphere.

Asya Draganova, Shane Blackman, Andy Bennett (eds) 2020
The Canterbury Sound in Popular Music: Scene, Identity and Myth
Publisher: Emerald Publishing

The term ‘Canterbury sound’ emerged in the late 60s and early 70s to refer to a signature style within psychedelic and progressive rock. Canterbury Sound in Popular Music:Scene, Identity and Myth explores Canterbury as a metaphor and reality, a symbolic space of music inspiration which has produced its distinctive ‘sound’.

MONOGRAPHS

Sarah Baker, Lauren Istvandity and Raphaël Nowak (2019)
Curating Pop: Exhibiting Popular Music in the Museum. Bloomsbury

Curating Pop speaks to the rapidly growing interest in the study of popular music exhibitions that has occurred alongside the increasing number of popular music museums in operation across the world. Focusing on curatorial practices and processes, this book draws on interviews with museum workers and curators from twenty museums globally, including the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, the Experience Music Project in Seattle and the PopMuseum in Prague.

Zelmarie Cantillon (2019)
Resort Spatiality: Reimagining Sites of Mass Tourism. Routledge

This book theorises resorts as distinct kinds of urban assemblages, capturing the complexity of destinations famous for ‘sun, sand and sex’ mass tourism. Drawing on case studies from six international destinations, the book examines the material and symbolic production of lived spaces in resorts.

Stuart Cooke (2019)
Gianni Siccardi, The Blackbird. Vagabond Press

The Blackbird is a powerful record of a sustained, vital encounter between blackbird and poet, sky and song, poetry and poem, and a memorable introduction to the important Argentinian writer, Gianni Siccardi.

Stuart Cooke (2019)
Lyre. UWA Publishing

Lyre is a sonic, sculptural cornucopia of new and startling forms. Stuart Cooke proposes that all kinds of life—animal, plant and otherwise—have their own modes of expression, each of which can be translated into a different kind of poetry. Ranging across Australasian oceans, coastlines, rainforests, savannahs and deserts. Similarly wide-ranging in its approach to form and lineation, Lyre asks what happens when poems make contact with non-human worlds. In so doing, it welcomes whole new worlds to poetry.

Sidney Dekker (2019)
Foundations of Safety Science. Routledge

This book questions how today’s ‘hearts and minds’ programs are linked to a late-19th century definition of human factors as people’s moral and mental deficits. What do Heinrich’s ‘unsafe acts’ from the 1930s have in common with the Swiss cheese model of the early 1990s? Why was the reinvention of human factors in the 1940s such an important event in the development of safety thinking? What makes many of our current systems so complex and impervious to Tayloristic safety interventions? The book covers the origins of major schools of safety thinking and traces the heritage and interlinkages of the ideas that make up safety science today.

Stephanie Green (2019)
Breathing in Stormy Seasons. Work Press

As a form, prose poetry sets out to capture the force of materiality, the power of memory and the elusive passage of time. The poems in this volume, with their accompanying research statement, reflect Benjamin’s remark in One Way Street that any human effort is ‘impeded in its unfolding by the boundless resistance of the outside world’ (1978, 75). Individually, in different ways, they recall moments, journeys and intimacies, habitations, denial or rescue and the experience of being a woman through the broken intensity of summer and winter storms. This volume explores prose poetry as a way of capturing the momentary experience of being in time and space.

Chris Lee (2018)
Postcolonial Heritage and Settler Well-Being: The Historical Fictions of Roger McDonald. Cambria Australian Authors Series. Cambria Press

This book examines the legacies of colonialism on settler well-being in Australia by looking at how they are reimagined in the historical novels of the Miles Franklin Award winning writer Roger McDonald. McDonald is one of the first of a new generation of Australian writers from the 1970s who reconsidered the Australian social contract in the light of overwhelming new evidence of the ongoing violent dispossession of indigenous Australians. His work explores the ways in which colonialism has played out in the lives of ordinary Australians during the key historical periods that shaped this country's settler mythology.

Robert Mason (2018)
The Spanish Anarchists of Northern Australia. Revolution in the Sugar Cane Fields. University of Wales Press

In 1901, the year the six Australian colonies federated to become one country, revolution was being plotted across the world. Publicised in the newspapers and carried by migrants along global trade routes, the anarchist movement appeared prepared for a long period of power as one of the world’s dominant historical forces. In few places was this more evident than in Spain, where poverty and population pressure prompted increasing emigration. In anglophone Australia, governments had long been alert to the threat of radicalised migrants, and this book traces the forgotten lives of one particular group of such migrants, the Spanish anarchists of northern Australia, revealing the personal connections between the English-speaking British Empire and the world of Spanish-speaking radicals. The present study demonstrates the vitality of this hidden world, and its importance for the development of Australia.

Fiona Paisley and Pamela Scully (2019)
Writing Transnational History. Bloomsbury

Over the past two decades, transnational history has become an established term describing approaches to the writing of world or global history that emphasise movement, dynamism and diversity. This book investigates the emergence of the 'transnational' as an approach, its limits, and parameters, bringing attention to the contributions of postcolonial and feminist studies to the emergence of critical transnational historiography.

Simone Fullagar, Wendy O’Brien and Adele Pavlidis (2019)
Feminism and a Vital Politics of Depression and Recovery. Palgrave Macmillan

Drawing upon insights from feminist new materialism this book traces the complex material-discursive processes through which women’s recovery from depression is enacted within a gendered biopolitics. Within the biomedical assemblage that connects mental health policy, service provision, research and everyday life, the gendered context of recovery remain little understood despite the recurrence and pervasiveness of depression. Rather than reducing experience to discrete biological, psychological or sociological categories, feminist thinking moves with the biopsychosocialities implicated in both distress and lively modes of becoming well.

Mark Pearson and Mark Polden (2019)
The Journalists Guide to Media Law. Allen and Unwin

This sixth edition of Australia’s leading media law text for journalists is essential reading for anyone who writes or broadcasts professionally, whether in journalism or strategic communication. It offers a mindful approach to assessing media law risks so practitioners can navigate legal and ethical barriers to publishing in mainstream and social media.  

This sixth edition has been substantially revised to reflect recent developments in litigation, and the impact of national security laws and the rising gig economy where graduates might work in the news media, PR, new media start-ups, or as freelancers.

Tanya M. Smith (2018)
The Tales Teeth Tell. Development, Evolution, Behavior. MIT Press

The study of ancient, fossilized teeth sheds light on how our ancestors grew up, how we evolved, and how prehistoric cultural transitions continue to affect humans today. In The Tales Teeth Tell, biological anthropologist Tanya Smith offers an engaging and surprising look at what teeth tell us about the evolution of primates—including our own uniqueness.

EDITED COLLECTIONS

Jock Macleod, William Christie, and Peter Denney (eds) (2019)Politics and Emotions in Romantic Periodicals
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

This book comprises eleven essays by leading scholars of early nineteenth-century British literature and periodical culture. The collection addresses the many and varied links between politics and the emotions in Romantic periodicals, from the revolutionary decade of the 1790s, to the 1832 Reform Bill. In so doing, it deepens our understanding of the often conflicted relations between politics and feelings, and raises questions relevant to contemporary debates on affect studies and their relation to political criticism.

Andy Bennett and Paula Guerra (eds) (2019)  
DIY Cultures and Underground Music Scenes. Routledge

This volume examines the global influence and impact of DIY cultural practice as this informs the production, performance and consumption of underground music in different parts of the world. The book brings together a series of original studies of DIY musical activities in Europe, North and South America, Asia and Oceania. The chapters combine insights from established academic writers with the work of younger scholars, some of whom are directly engaged in contemporary underground music scenes.

Michael T. Davis, Emma Macleod and Gordon Pentland (eds) (2019)
Political Trials in an Age of Revolutions: Britain and the North Atlantic, 1793-1848. Palgrave Macmillan

This book provides new insights into the 'Age of Revolutions', focusing on state trials for treason and sedition, and expands the sophisticated discussion that has marked the historiography of the period by examining political trials in Britain and the north Atlantic world from the 1790s and into the nineteenth century.

Peter Denney, Bruce Buchan, David Ellison and Karen Crawley (eds) (2019)
Sound, Space and Civility in the British World, 1700-1850. Routledge

This edited collection examines the sonic dimensions of civility in the British world in the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth centuries – what might be called the long Enlightenment.  It shows how conflicts over what counted as desirable or undesirable sound were influenced by different kinds of civility and the spaces in which such civility was heard and performed, from arenas of urban sociability and religious enthusiasm to theatres of colonial encounter and political protest.

Jill Huntley and George Nash (eds) (2019)
Aesthetics, Applications, Artistry and Anarchy: Essays in Prehistoric and Contemporary Art : A Festschrift in honour of John Kay Clegg, 11 January 1935 - 11 March 2015. Archaeopress

This edited volume is a Festschrift for scholar and artist John Clegg who made a pioneering contribution to the study of rock art. In the book rock art researchers from around the globe traverse topics such as aesthetics, the application of statistical analyses, frontier conflict and layered symbolic meanings, the deliberate use of optical illusion, and the contemporary significance of ancient and street art. They cover rock art assemblages from Columbia, South Africa, Europe and across Clegg’s beloved Australia.

Lauren Istvandity, Sarah Baker and Zelmarie Cantillon (eds) (2019)
Remembering Popular Music’s Past: Memory-Heritage-History. Anthem Press

‘Remembering Popular Music’s Past’ focuses on the transformation of popular music into heritage, and the role of history and memory in this process. The book interrogates diverse examples of the way popular music’s past is remembered, with particular emphasis on precarity in the construction, curation, display, negotiation, and perception of popular music’s past.

Sally K. May, Michelle Langley, Mirani Litster and Duncan Wright (eds) (2018)
The Archaeology of Portable Art: Southeast Asian, Pacific, and Australian Perspectives. Routledge

The development of complex cultural behaviour in our own species is perhaps the most significant research issue in modern archaeology. Until recently, it was believed that our capacity for language and art only developed after some of our ancestors reached Europe around 40,000 years ago. This volume provides the first outline of what this region has to offer to the world of art in archaeology.

SPECIAL ISSUE OF A JOURNAL

Volume 26 – Issue 1 – June 2019
Queensland Review – Harry Gentle Resource Centre special section
Cambridge University Press

Hasti Abbasi

Abbasi, H. (2018). Dislocation, Writing, and Identity in Australian and Persian Literature. Palgrave Macmillan.

This study aims to foreground key literary works in Persian and Australian culture that deal with the representation of exile and dislocation. Through cultural and literary analysis, Dislocation, Writing, and Identity in Australian and Persian Literature investigates the influence of dislocation on self-perception and the remaking of connections both through the act of writing and the attempt to transcend social conventions.

Sarah Baker

Baker, S. (2018). Community Custodians of Popular Music’s Past: A DIY Approach to Heritage. Routledge.

This book examines do-it-yourself (DIY) approaches to the collection, preservation, and display of popular music heritage being undertaken by volunteers in community archives, museums and halls of fame globally. By looking at volunteers’ everyday interventions in the archiving and curating of popular music’s material past, the book highlights how DIY institutions build upon national heritage strategies at the community level and have the capacity to contribute to the democratisation of popular music heritage.

Kaya Barry

Barry, K. (2017). Everyday Practices of Tourism Mobilities. Routledge.

This book expands on the foundational theories of tourist practices through a rich assortment of photographic documentation and interviews with tourists in hostelling accommodation. It presents the intricacies and relations emerging through packing and the connections to an array of actors entwined in both touristic and everyday experiences of movement. The book traces these moments of collective experiences to reflect on the intersections of globalised mobility and everyday tourist practices.

Robert Carr

Generosity and Refugees: The Kosovars in Exile (2018): Brill

Generosity and Refugees: The Kosovars in Exile is a work of history studying the social and political context encountered by Kosovar refugees fleeing their homeland to Australia at the height of the NATO-led war against Serbian forces in 1999. The flight of the Kosovar refugees changed Australia's asylum seeker policy forever, and a new test for international humanitarianism had begun.

Today refugee crises globally beg the international community to embrace a generosity of spirit. A question this book asks is whether there are limits to generosity, inhibited by nationally contextual and historical perspectives. Generosity and Refugees examines the role of the media in framing public understandings of refugees with intriguing parallels for understanding the contemporary political climate internationally.

Sidney Dekker
Dekker, S. (2017). The End of Heaven: Disaster and Suffering in a Scientific Age: Routledge.

Our scientific age has equipped us ever better to explain why things go wrong. But this increasing sophistication actually makes it harder to explain why we suffer. How can we satisfactorily deal with suffering when the disaster that caused it is no more than the dispassionate sum of utterly mundane, imperfect human decisions and technical failures?

Adis Duderija and Halim Rane

Duderija, Adis and Rane, Halim (2018). Islam and Muslims in the West. Major Issues and Debates:  Palgrave Macmillan

This book analyzes the development of Islam and Muslim communities in the West, including influences from abroad, relations with the state and society, and internal community dynamics. The project examines the emergence of Islam in the West in relation to the place of Muslim communities as part of the social fabric of Western societies. It provides an overview of the major issues and debates that have arisen over the last three to four decades surrounding the presence of new Muslim communities residing in Western liberal democracies. As such, the volume is an ideal text for courses focusing on Islam and Muslim communities in the West.

Kerrie Foxwell-Norton
Foxwell-Norton, K. (2017). Environmental Communication and Critical Coastal Policy: Communities, Culture and Nature: Routledge.

In this work, Foxwell-Norton asserts that the inclusion of a range of local meanings and cultural frameworks with which experts could engage would better incite participation in, and awareness of, local environmental issues. The value and possible role of 'geo-community media' (mainstream, alternative and social media) is examined here to illustrate and support the key argument that meaningful local engagement is a powerful tool in coastal management processes.

Jane Frank
Frank, J. (2018). Regenerating Regional Culture: A Study of the International Book Town Movement: Palgrave Macmillan.

In this consideration of regional cultures, Jane Frank examines how book towns have emerged and how their culture and unique characteristics help to explain a steadily growing phenomenon that has enabled peripheral communities around the world to reclaim their economic futures, and impact on the cultural sphere as increasingly powerful sites and sources of creativity.

Regina Ganter

Ganter, R. (2018). The Contest for Aboriginal Souls - European missionary agendas in Australia: ANU Press

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 the controversies that surround mission history. It means neither to condemn nor praise, but rather to understand the various responses of Indigenous communities, the intentions of missionaries, the agendas of the mission societies and the many tensions besetting the mission endeavour.

Margaret Gibson and Clarissa Carden
Gibson, M., Carden, C. (2018). Living and Dying in a Virtual World: Palgrave Macmillan

This book takes readers into stories of love, loss, grief and mourning and reveals the emotional attachments and digital kinships of the virtual 3D social world of Second Life. At fourteen years old, Second Life can no longer be perceived as the young, cutting-edge environment it once was, and yet it endures as a place of belonging, fun, role-play and social experimentation.  In this volume, the authors argue that far from facing an impending death, Second Life has undergone a transition to maturity and holds a new type of significance. As people increasingly explore and co-create a sense of self and ways of belonging through avatars and computer screens, the question of where and how people live and die becomes increasingly more important to understand.

Cliff Goddard

Goddard, C. (2018) Ten Lectures on Natural Semantic MetaLanguage

Exploring language, thought and culture using simple, translatable words : Brill

This lively lecture series by a leading expert introduces the theory, practice and application of a versatile, rigorous and well-developed approach to cross-linguistic semantics: the NSM approach originated by Anna Wierzbicka. Topics include: history and philosophy of the study of meaning, semantic primes and molecules, emotions, evaluation, verbs and event structure, cultural key words and scripts. Case studies come from English, Chinese, Danish, and other languages.

Abdi Hersi
Hersi, A. (2018) Conceptualisation of Integration. An Australian Muslim Counter-Narrative. Palgrave Macmillan

This book identifies and examines the meanings of integration from the perspective of Australian Muslims, through analysis of focus group discussions and in-depth interviews in the South East Queensland region.  It provides a comprehensive overview of Muslim conceptualisation of integration, and the author explores the various meanings Muslims ascribe to it, such as participation, belonging and contributing to the wider society

By gaining an understanding of how Muslims define integration, this research can help policy makers, academics and settlement service providers to appreciate how culture and faith influence the meanings diverse groups give to certain accepted terms.

Sven Schottmann

Schottmann, S. (2018). Mahathir's Islam: Mahathir Mohamad on Religion and Modernity in Malaysia:  University of Hawai’i Press

Mahathir Mohamad’s legacy as Malaysia’s longest serving prime minister (1981–2003) is deeply controversial. His engagement with Islam, the religion of just over half Malaysia’s population, was often dismissed as partisan maneuvering. Yet his willingness to countenance a more prominent place for Islam in government and society is what distinguished him from other modernist politicians, and his instinct to set Malaysian politics against the backdrop of the wider Muslim world was politically astute.

Kasun Ubayasiri

Downman, S., Ubayasiri, K. (2017). Journalism for Social Change in Asia. Reporting Human Rights : Palgrave MacMillan.

This book explores the role and purpose of journalism to spark and propagate change by investigating human rights journalism and its capacity to inform, educate and activate change. Downman and Ubayasiri maximize this approach by proposing a new paradigm of reporting through the use of human-focussed news values. This approach is a radical departure from the traditional style that typically builds on abstract concepts. The book will explore human rights journalism through the lens of complex issues such as human trafficking and people smuggling in the Asian context.

Edited Collections

Sarah Baker, Lauren Istvandity and Zelmarie Cantillon

Baker, S., Strong, C., Istvandity, L., Cantillon, Z. (Eds) (2018) The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage: Routledge

The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage examines the social, cultural, political and economic value of popular music as history and heritage. Taking a cross-disciplinary approach, the volume explores the relationship between popular music and the past, and how interpretations of the changing nature of the past in post-industrial societies play out in the field of popular music.

David Baker, Stephanie Green and Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska (Eds)
Baker, D., Green S., Stasiewicz-Bienkowska A. (eds) (2017). Hospitality, Rape and Consent in Vampire Popular Culture: Letting the Wrong One In : Palgrave Macmillan.

This unique study explores the vampire as host and guest, captor and hostage: a perfect lover and force of seductive predation. From Dracula and Carmilla, to True Blood and The Originals, the figure of the vampire embodies taboos and desires about hospitality, rape and consent.

Andy Bennett

Hardy, A., Bennett, A. and Robards, B. (eds) (2018)  
Neo-Tribes – Consumption, Leisure, Tourism. Basingstoke: Palgrave.

This collection brings together perspectives drawn from a range of international scholars who have conducted research into the applications of neo-tribal theory. The concept of the neo-tribe was first introduced by the French sociologist Michel Mafessoli (1996) to describe new forms of social bonds in the context of late modernity. This book critically explores the concepts that underpin neo-tribal theory, using perspectives from different disciplines, through a series of theoretically informed and empirically rich chapters.  This innovative approach draws together a recently emergent body of work in cultural consumption, tourism and recreation studies. In doing so, the book critically progresses the concept of neo-tribe and highlights the strengths, weaknesses and the opportunities for the application of neo-tribal theory in an interdisciplinary way.

Andy Bennett

Bennett, A. and Guerra, P. (eds) (2019)  
DIY Cultures and Underground Music Scenes. Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge.

The concept of DIY ‘do-it-yourself’ cultural production gained critical momentum during the late 1970s with the emergence of punk. This proved to be a catalyst for the creation of a broader DIY aesthetic that has underpinned a succession of punk and post-punk music styles since the late 1970s. Indeed, to talk about DIY music scenes and cultures in a contemporary context is to talk about a phenomenon that is truly global; an alternative realm of cultural and artistic production, mediation and consumption which has a creative and inventive vitality that has endeavoured to assert itself in response to the economic and social crisis of the western world. The purpose of this book is to critically consider how the concept of DIY can be used as a means of studying contemporary underground music scenes with reference to themes such as local and trans-local connections, technological change, cultural policy, memory and heritage.

Cliff Goddard (Ed)
Goddard, C. (ed) (2018). Minimal English for a Global World: Improved Communication Using Fewer Words: Palgrave Macmillan.

This book introduces a new tool for improving communication and promoting clearer thinking in a world where the use of Global English can create numerous comprehension and communication issues. Based on research findings from cross-linguistic semantics, it contains essays and studies by leading experts exploring the value and application of ‘Minimal English’ in various fields.

Cassandra Loeser, Vicki Crowley, Barbara Pini (Eds)
Loeser, C., Crowley, V., Pini, B. (eds) (2017). Disability and Masculinities: Corporeality, Pedagogy and the Critique of Otherness :Palgrave Macmillan.

In recent years, attending to diversity in the cultivation of embodied identity has been given additional impetus as a result of intersectionality theory. Despite this, a key gap remains in terms of knowledge about masculinity and disability. This book addresses this lacuna through ten empirical chapters organised through the inter-related themes of corporeality, pedagogy and the critique of otherness.

Bruno David, Paul Tacon, Jean-Jacques Delannoy, Jean-Michel Geneste (Eds)
David, B., Tacon, P., Delannoy, J., Geneste, J. (eds) (2017). The Archaeology of Rock Art in Western Arnhem Land Australia : ANU Press.

This book focuses on the nature and antiquity of the region’s rock art as revealed by archaeological surveys and excavations, and the application of novel analytical methods. This volume also presents new findings by which to rethink how Aboriginal peoples have socially engaged in and with places across western Arnhem Land, from the north to the south, from the plains to the spectacular rocky landscapes of the plateau.

Robert A. Hackett, Susan Forde, Shane Gunster & Kerrie Foxwell-Norton (Routledge, 2017)

Journalism and Climate Crisis: Public Engagement, Media Alternatives

This book recognizes that climate change is more than an environmental crisis. It is also a question of political and communicative capacity. It enquires into which approaches to journalism, as a particularly important form of public communication, can best enable humanity to productively address climate
crisis. The book combines selective overviews of previous research, normative enquiry and original empirical case studies of environmental communication and media coverage in Australia and Canada.

Sidney Dekker (Routledge, 2017)

The End of Heaven: Disaster and Suffering in a Scientific Age

In this unique book, Sidney Dekker tackles a largely unexplored dilemma. Our scientific age has equipped us ever better to explain why things go wrong. But this increasing sophistication actually makes it harder to explain why we suffer. Accidents and disasters have become technical problems without
inherent purpose. When told of a disaster, we easily feel lost in the steely emptiness of technical languages of engineering or medicine. Or, in our drive to pinpoint the source of suffering, we succumb to the hunt for a scapegoat, possibly inflicting even greater suffering on others around us. How can
we satisfactorily deal with suffering when the disaster that caused it is no more than the dispassionate sum of utterly mundane, imperfect human decisions and technical failures? Broad in its historical sweep and ambition, The End of Heaven is also Dekker's most personal book to date.

Kerrie Foxwell-Norton (Routledge, 2017)

Environmental Communication and Critical Coastal Policy: Communities, Culture and Nature

The vast majority of the world’s population lives on or near the coast. These communities are an extraordinary and largely untapped resource that can be used to mitigate planetary disaster and foster environmental stewardship. Repeated waves of scientific fact and information are not inciting action,
nor apparently producing enough momentum to change voting behaviour towards a progressive environmental politics. A critical coastal policy, underpinned by a deeper understanding of environmental communication, can offer something new to this status quo.

David Ellison, Andrew Leach (eds) (Routledge, 2017)

On Discomfort: Moments in a Modern History of Architectural Culture

‘On Discomfort’ offers a fresh reading of the negotiations that define architecture’s position in modern culture. The essays do not chart comfort’s triumph so much as discomfort’s curious dispersal into practices that form ‘modern life’ – and what that dispersion reveals of both architecture and culture.
The essays presented in this volume illuminate the material culture of discomfort as it accrues to architecture and its history.

Kirsty Reid, Fiona Paisley (eds) (Routledge, 2017)

Sources and Methods in Histories of Colonialism: Approaching the Imperial Archive

This book provides an in-depth study of the relationships between archives, knowledge and power. Exploring a diverse range of examples and surveying the now substantial scholarly literatures on the functions and scope of the ‘imperial archive’, it facilitates a deeper understanding of the challenges
of working with a range of specific source genres within imperial and colonial archives.

Jane Haggis, Clare Midgley, Margaret Allen, Fiona Paisley (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)

Cosmopolitan Lives on the Cusp of Empire: Interfaith, Cross-Cultural and Transnational Networks, 1860-1950

This book looks back to the period 1860 to 1950 in order to grasp how alternative visions of amity and co-existence were forged between people of faith, both within and resistant to imperial contact zones. It argues that networks of faith and friendship played a vital role in forging new vocabularies
of cosmopolitanism that presaged the post-imperial world of the 1950s.

Adis Duderija (Routledge, 2017)

The Imperatives of Progressive Islam

This book brings together issues pertaining to politics, jurisprudence, ethics, theology, epistemology, gender and hermeneutics in the Islamic tradition. It provides a comprehensive discussion of the normative imperatives behind a progressive Muslim thought, as well as outlining its various values and
aims. This is essential reading for any academic interested in contemporary religious thought and the development of modern Islam.

Liam M. Brady, Paul Tacon (eds) (University Press of Colorado, 2016)

Relating to Rock Art in the Contemporary World: Navigating Symbolism, Meaning, and Significance

This book challenges traditional ways of thinking about this highly recognisable form of visual heritage and provides insight into its contemporary significance. In this volume, leading scholars from around the globe shift the discourse from a primarily archaeological basis to one that examines
the myriad ways that symbolism, meaning, and significance in rock art are being renegotiated in various geographical and cultural settings, from Australia to the British Isles.

Raphaël Nowak, Andrew Whelan (eds) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)

Networked Music Cultures: Contemporary Approaches, Emerging Issues

This collection presents a range of essays on contemporary music distribution and consumption patterns and practices. The contributors to the collection use a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, discussing the consequences and effects of the digital distribution of music as it is manifested
in specific cultural contexts.

Stuart Cooke (Five Islands Press, 2016)

Opera

‘Opera’ is the accumulation of close to a decade of thinking about the relationship between voice, land and line in Australian and Latin American poetics. The book imagines a kind of trans-Pacific synthesis of geographies and histories, and of animal, human and inorganic potency. It’s also a book about
love, and the all-consuming, though often ephemeral, nature of it.

Andy Bennett, Ian Rogers (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)

Popular Music Scenes and Cultural Memory

This volume explores the ways in which music scenes are not merely physical spaces for the practice of collective musical life but are also inscribed with and enacted through the articulation of cultural memory and emotional geography. This book is a study of the conceptual formation and use of music
scenes by participants. It is also an investigation of the structures underpinning music scenes more generally.

Sidney Dekker

Patient Safety: A Human Factors Approach 2016

By Sidney Dekker

ISBN 9781439852262

Increased concern for patient safety has put the issue at the top of the agenda of practitioners, hospitals, and even governments. The risks to patients are many and diverse, and the complexity of the healthcare system that delivers them is huge. Yet the discourse is often oversimplified and underdeveloped.
Written from a scientific, human factors perspective, Patient Safety: A Human Factors Approach delineates a method that can enlighten and clarify this discourse as well as put us on a better path to correcting the issues.

Barbara Pini

Visual Research Methods in Educational Research, Palgrave Macmillan: UK

Moss, J & Pini, B (Eds) 2016

ISBN: 978-1-137-44734-0

This book explores visual research methods in education across four themes: images of schooling, performing pedagogy, power and representation and ethical issues in educational research, written by leading researchers from Australia, the UK and Canada.

Kerry Taylor-Leech

Doing Research Within Communities: Stories and Lessons from Language and Education Field Research, 2016 Routledge

Kerry Taylor-Leech, Donna Starks (Eds)

ISBN 1317242343, 9781317242345

Doing Research within Communities provides real-life examples of field research projects in language and education, offering an overview of research processes and solutions to the common challenges faced by researchers in the field. This unique book contains personal research narratives from sixteen
different and varied fieldwork projects, providing advice and guidance to the reader through example rather than instruction and enabling the reader to discover connections with the storyteller and gain insights into their own research journey.

Sarah Baker

Youth Cultures and Subcultures: Australian Perspectives, Surrey, England and Burlington, USA: Ashgate.

Baker, S., Robards, B., & Buttigieg, B. (2015). . (S. B., Brady Robards & Bob Buttigieg, Ed.)

ISBN 9781472426659

This volume critically examines ’subculture’ in a variety of Australian contexts, exploring the ways in which the terrain of youth cultures and subcultures has changed over the past two decades and considering whether ’subculture’ still works as a viable conceptual framework for studying youth culture. Richly illustrated with concrete case studies, the book is thematically organised into four sections addressing i) theoretical concerns and global debates over the continued usefulness of subculture as a concept; ii) the important place of ’belonging’ in subcultural experience and the ways in which belonging is played out across an array of youth cultures; iii) the gendered experiences of young men and women and their ways of navigating subcultural participation; and iv) the ethical and methodological considerations that arise in relation to researching and teaching youth culture and subculture. Bringing together the latest interdisciplinary research to combine theoretical considerations with recent empirical studies of subcultural experience, Youth Cultures and Subcultures will appeal to scholars and students across the social sciences.

Sarah Baker

Preserving Popular Music Heritage: Do-it-Yourself, Do-it-Together, 2015 – Routledge

Edited by Sarah Baker

There is a growing awareness around the world of the pressing need to archive the material remnants of popular music so as to safeguard the national and local histories of this cultural form. Current research suggests that in the past 20 or so years there has been an expansion of DIY heritage practice, with the founding of numerous DIY popular music institutions, archives and museums around the world.

Michael Balfour

Applied Theatre: Resettlement Drama, Refugees and Resilience. Michael Balfour, Penny Bundy, Bruce Burton, Julie Dunn, Nina Woodrow

ISBN 9781472524645

This book offers a compelling combination of analysis and detailed description of aesthetic projects with young refugee arrivals in Australia. In it the authors present a framework that contextualises the intersections of refugee studies, resilience and trauma, and theatre and arts-based practice, setting out a context for understanding and valuing the complexity of drama in this growing area of applied theatre.

Christine Feldman-Barrett

Lost histories of youth culture 1^st Edition , New York: Peter Lang.

Feldman-Barrett, C. (Ed.). (2015)

ISBN 978-1433123443

Young people and their activities always have been a part of history - yet such narratives have remained mostly untold and often lost in the sands of time. This unprecedented and international collection sheds light on youth’s hidden histories from the nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century: whether from the American Civil War, Maoist China, post-colonial Greenland, or contemporary Iran. These tales of leisure, identity, and belonging take readers into the heart of youth history and uncover heretofore unrecognised cultural contributions that young people have made across time and throughout the world.

Michael Davis

Crowd Actions in Britain and France from the Middle Ages to the Modern World

ISBN 978-0-230-20398-3

Crowd Actions in Britain and France from the Middle Ages to the Modern World explores the lively and often violent world of the crowd, examining some of the key flashpoints in the history of popular action. From the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 to the Paris riots in 2005 and 2006, this volume reveals what happens when people gather together in protest.

Liberty, Property and Popular Politics: England and Scotland, 1688-1815. Essays in Honour of H. T. Dickinson 1st Edition

by Gordon Pentland (Editor), Michael "Davis (Editor)

ISBN 978-1474405676

"Few scholars can claim to have shaped the historical study of the long eighteenth century more profoundly than Professor H. T. Dickinson, who, until his retirement in 2006, held the Sir Richard Lodge Chair of British History at the University of Edinburgh. This volume, based on contributions from Professor Dickinson's students, friends and colleagues from around the world, offers a range of perspectives on eighteenth-century Britain and provides a tribute to a remarkable scholarly career. Professor Dickinson's work and career provides the ideal lens through which to take a detailed snapshot of current research in a number of areas. The volume includes contributions from scholars working in intellectual history, political and parliamentary history, ecclesiastical and naval history; discussions of major themes such as Jacobitism, the French Revolution, popular radicalism and conservatism; and essays on prominent individuals in English and Scottish history, including Edmund Burke, Thomas Muir, Thomas Paine and Thomas Spence. The result is a uniquely rich and detailed collection with an impressive breadth of coverage."

Mark Pearson

The Journalist's Guide to Media Law: A handbook for communicators in a digital world 5th edition, Allen & Unwin.

by Mark Pearson & Polden, M. (2015)

ISBN9781743316382

A practical guide for journalists, public relations and marketing professionals, bloggers and social media experts to staying on the right side of the law.

Paul Tacon

Rock Art: A Cultural Treasure at Risk

Agnew, Neville, Janette Deacon, Nicholas Hall, Terry Little, Sharon Sullivan, and Paul S. C. Taçon. 2015. Rock Art: A Cultural Treasure at Risk. Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute.

“Between 2005 and 2011 the Getty Conservation Institute organised a series of rock art management courses and workshops as part of the Southern African Rock Art Project (SARAP) in collaboration with various southern African organisations. From 2012—2014 the project was extended to include an exchange program between rock art specialists, managers, and custodian communities from southern Africa and Australia. In 2014, a Forum was held in Kakadu National Park between African and Australian rock art colleagues as a culmination of the learning from the SARAP and the African-Australian exchange. This report is the result of the deliberations from this work, including significant input from traditional owners of rock art sites and the participation of the Trust for African Rock Art. While the document in its present form focuses on experience of examples from Africa and Australia, it sets out a vision for the future conservation of rock art, which will be relevant to rock art conservation in many regions of the world. The issues it identifies and the foundation principles and actions it proposes are based on internationally recognised and well-founded conservation management principles.”