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| Title: Activism and Aid |
| Sub-title: Young Citizens’ Experiences of Development and Democracy in East Timor |
| By (author): Ann Wigglesworth |
| ISBN10-13: 0980510872 : 9780980510874 |
| Timor-Lesteâ s independence was forged at a time when international developmental theory had rejected top down approaches and recognised the importance of participatory approaches. When the United Nations and a multitude of bilateral and multilateral non-government organisations arrived in Timor-Leste in 1999 it was hoped that the international intervention would at last produce a development success story. But independence also brought the realisation that dreams for an independent Timor-Leste varied, often according to the dreamerâ s generation. Three generations of Timorese: the political elite, a younger generation of independence activists (gerasaun foun) and todayâ s youth of independent Timor-Leste, each bring their own experiences and face different challenges in Timor-Leste. Today stark contrasts between the values of customary life and those of the modernising world place both community leaders and young Timorese at a crossroads. The experiences of the Timorese are unique, but this book reflects a broader analysis about how aid-influenced processes of development can work in greater harmony with people to realise their own visions of the future of the nation. |
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An immensely readable and insightful glimpse into the experiences, concerns and aspirations of Timor-Leste's youth, charting their course from student activists to nation builders, from the fight for national liberation to the battle for participation in governance structures and aid and development programs. I strongly recommend this book to anyone wanting a snapshot of the principal challenges facing Timor-Leste today in its quest to build a strong, stable and equitable nation ... for all citizens, young and old. -- Kirsty Sword Gusmão, Chair, Alola Foundation & Goodwill Ambassador for Education of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste
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Pages: 146
Size: 234x153mm
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| Published: Monash University Publishing - March 2016 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Asian history |
| List Price: 26.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 21 |
| Title: 1 of: 329 |
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| Title: Advancing Human Rights |
| By (author): Michael Mintrom |
| ISBN10-13: 1922633275 : 9781922633279 |
| Human rights come into question in times of crisis. But should we wait for crises to arise before we discuss these rights? Advancing human rights should be everyoneâ s business, not just that of a select group of public interest lawyers, conspiracy theorists or those who prefer tinfoil hats. Human rights are routinely debated in the wake of scandals. Think about the quality of care in nursing homes, the treatment of illegal immigrants, and police practices towards Indigenous people in custodyâ all examples of crises that demand remedies and receive less than satisfactory solutions. Our rights certainly became an issue of heated public debate during the COVID-19 pandemic. Michael Mintrom argues that the advancement of human rights is an investment: our efforts today will create ongoing benefits for society. He finds the answers in enhancing the quality and accessibility of early childhood education, shutting down the school-to-prison pipeline, and assisting former prisoners during their re-entry into society. Beyond these powerful examples, he also suggests other candidates for policy change that will lead to the progression of human rights. In a caring society, the question of how to advance human rights should lie at the heart of public policymaking. But does our political class have the will to make the changes needed to ensure a fairer and more just society? |
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Pages: 96
Size: 175x111mm
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| Published: Monash University Publishing - July 2022 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Public administration |
| List Price: 13.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 2 |
| Title: 2 of: 329 |
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| Title: Aftermath |
| Sub-title: Genocide, Memory and History |
| Edited by: Karen Auerbach |
| ISBN10-13: 1922235636 : 9781922235633 |
| Aftermath: Genocide, Memory and History examines how genocide is remembered and represented in both popular and scholarly memory, integrating scholarship on the Holocaust with the study of other genocides through a comparative framework. Scholars from a range of disciplines re-evaluate narratives of past conflict to explore how memory of genocide is mobilised in the aftermath, tracing the development and evolution of memory through the lenses of national identities, colonialism, legal history, film studies, gender, the press, and literary studies. |
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Pages: 204
Size: 235x155mm
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| Published: Monash University Publishing - March 2015 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: The Holocaust |
| List Price: 26.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 2 |
| Title: 3 of: 329 |
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| Title: Antipodean Perspective |
| Sub-title: Selected Writings of Bernard Smith |
| Edited by: Rex Butler, Sheridan Palmer |
| ISBN10-13: 1925495663 : 9781925495669 |
| Bernard Smith (1916â 2011) was undoubtedly Australiaâ s greatest art historian and arguably Australiaâ s most important humanist scholar. His European Vision and the South Pacific, 1768â 1850 (1960) was a foundational text of post-colonialism, and in Australian Painting (1962) he set out the definitive history of Australian art to that time. Antipodean Perspective: The Selected Writings of Bernard Smith presents twenty-six art historians, curators, artists and critics, from Australia and overseas, who have chosen a text from Smithâ s work and sought to explain its personal and broader significance. Their selections reveal Smithâ s extraordinary range as a scholar, his profound grasp of this nationâ s past, and the way his ideas have maintained their relevance as we face our future. |
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Pages: 432
Size: 234x153mm
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| Published: Monash University Publishing - July 2018 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: History of art / art & design styles |
| List Price: 19.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 8 |
| Title: 4 of: 329 |
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| Title: Antipodes |
| Sub-title: In Search of the Southern Continent |
| By (author): Avan Judd Stallard |
| ISBN10-13: 1925377326 : 9781925377323 |
| Antipodes: In Search of the Southern Continent is a new history of an ancient geography. It reassesses the evidence for why Europeans believed a massive southern continent existed, and why they advocated for its discovery. When ships were equal to ambitions, explorers set out to find and claim Terra Australisâ said to be as large, rich and varied as all the northern lands combined. Antipodes charts these voyagesâ voyages both through the imagination and across the High Seasâ in pursuit of the mythical Terra Australis. In doing so, the question is asked: how could so many fail to see the realities they encountered? And how is it a mythical land held the gaze of an era famed for breaking free the shackles of superstition? That Terra Australis did not exist didnâ t stop explorers pursuing the continent to its Antarctic obsolescence, unwilling to abandon the promise of such a rich and magnificent land till it was stripped of every ounce of value it had ever promised. In the process, the southern continentâ an imaginary landâ became one of the shaping forces of early modern history. |
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"This remarkable book is about an imaginary place: Terra Australis Incognita, the Unknown Southern Land. Avan Judd Stallard tells the story of a geographical obsession and how it developed in the Western imagination. He shows how imagined geography or cosmography and actual geography met and interacted, and just how long it took empirical fact to win out over wishful thinking. People wanted the southern continent to be there so badly that they simply bent and twisted the existing facts until they fitted in with the prevailing cosmography. It was drawn on maps as if it existed and merely needed to be found. Explorers went looking for it as if it were an established fact. This is an informative and entertaining mixture of geography, history and epistemology, at once academically rigorous and approachable. It is also about the history of ideas and how ideas interact with reality. It is lavishly illustrated with numerous wonderful and obscure maps, and will appeal to readers with an interest in geography and old maps, as much as those fascinated by the history of exploration and the great journeys of discovery. This book is a visual and intellectual feast." --
Dave Martus, freelance writer and former bookseller
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A definitive account of a cultural mirage dreamt up by mapmakers over centuries. Like a cartographer of old, Avan Judd Stallard plots in fascinating detail the shifting sands of an imagined geography. Myth and science are intriguingly entangled in this panoramic history of the mapping of the world. Riddled with humour and insight, Antipodes is worthy of the cartographers and explorers whom the author both debunks and admires. -- Martin Thomas, Australian National University
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Pages: 336
Size: 245x170mm
Illustrations: 32 colour illus & maps
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| Published: Monash University Publishing - December 2016 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Geographical discovery & exploration |
| List Price: 26.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Reprint under Consideration
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| Title: 5 of: 329 |
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| Title: Anzac Memories |
| Sub-title: Living with the Legend - New Edition |
| Edition Statement: 2nd Edition |
| By (author): Alistair Thomson |
| ISBN10-13: 1921867582 : 9781921867583 |
| Anzac Memories was first published to acclaim in 1994, and has achieved international renown for its pioneering contribution to the study of war memory and mythology. Michael McKernan wrote that the book gave â as good a picture of the impact of the Great War on individuals and Australia as we are likely to get in this generationâ , and Michael Roper concluded that â an immense achievement of this book is that it so clearly illuminates the historical processes that left men like my grandfather forever struggling to fashion myths which they could live byâ . In this new edition Alistair Thomson explores how the Anzac legend has transformed over the past quarter century, how a â post-memoryâ of the Great War creates new challenges and opportunities for making sense of the national past, and how veteransâ war memories can still challenge and complicate national mythologies. He returns to a family war history that he could not write about twenty years ago because of the stigma of war and mental illness, and he uses newly released Repatriation files to question his own earlier account of veteransâ post-war lives and memories and to think afresh about war and memory. |
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...a masterly study of how Australians remember, forget, invent and imagine their experiences of war. -- Ken Inglis
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Pages: 406
Size: 234x153mm
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| Published: Monash University Publishing - November 2013 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: First World War |
| List Price: 23.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 2 |
| Title: 6 of: 329 |
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| Title: Asia Pacific Education |
| Sub-title: Diversity, Challenges and Changes |
| Edited by: Philip Chan |
| ISBN10-13: 192186740X : 9781921867408 |
| Education in Asia Pacific countries is being transformed by globalisation and the market economy. Most economies within the region have flourished due to increased regional capital flow, trade and other forms of economic and political interaction. The Asia Pacific also has rich and unique traditions, which create cultural diversity as well as common challenges, including obstacles of language and geographical separation. While these countries are well documented in Western scholarship, there is a growing reaction to the predominance of Western social theories. This response is fuelling recognition of and movement towards theories that reference the wide range of contextual and cultural perspectives available in the East. The contributors to this volume are currently researching contemporary education in Asia Pacific countries. They offer Eastern-oriented perspectives on teacher education, parent participation, government withdrawal, textbook content, uses of modern technology, the challenges of the migrating families and tertiary students who travel from overseas for study. These commentaries highlight the issues of equity, identity and social justice and also open up dialogue between social theories that reference East as well as West. |
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Pages: 280
Size: 234x153mm
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| Published: Monash University Publishing - August 2012 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Philosophy & theory of education |
| List Price: 33.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 5 |
| Title: 7 of: 329 |
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| Title: Asian Horizons |
| Sub-title: Giuseppe Tucci's Buddhist, Indian, Himalayan and Central Asian Studies |
| Edited by: Angelo Andrea Castro, David Templeman |
| ISBN10-13: 1922235334 : 9781922235336 |
| Asian Horizons is published in honour of the great scholar of Asia, Professor Giuseppe Tucci (1894â 1984). Through the work of present-day scholars, both senior and emerging, this volume represents their efforts to maintain the impetus of the profound legacy Tucci left. Renowned to this day as a founding scholar in an extraordinarily wide variety of disciplines, as well as being an explorer of hitherto largely unknown lands, such as Tibet, Tucci gained a deep knowledge of Asia through a familiarity with its people, places and literature. His contribution to modern scholarship is nothing less than remarkable. The volume reflects the broad variety of topics in which Tucci himself displayed deep interest and serves as an homage to his work. |
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Pages: 622
Size: 245x170mm
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| Published: Monash University Publishing - April 2015 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Asian history |
| List Price: 66.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon |
| Title: 8 of: 329 |
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| Title: Australia |
| Sub-title: A Cultural History (Third Edition) |
| Edition Statement: Third Edition |
| By (author): John Rickard |
| ISBN10-13: 1921867604 : 9781921867606 |
| John Rickardâ s Australia: A Cultural History, first published in 1988, is still the only short history of Australia from a cultural perspective. It has also acquired a unique reputation as an introduction to the development of Australian society and was listed by the historian and public intellectual John Hirst in his â First XI: The best Australian history booksâ . Although arranged chronologically, this book is not a chronicle, still less a laborious detailing of governors and governments: rather, it focuses on the transmission of values, beliefs and customs amongst the diverse mix of peoples who are todayâ s Australians. The story begins with the sixty thousand years of the Aboriginal presence and their continuing material and spiritual relationship with the land, and takes the reader through the turbulent years of British colonisation and the emergence, through prosperity, war and depression, of the cultural accommodations which have been distinctively Australian. This Third Edition concludes with a critical review of the challenges facing contemporary Australia and warns that â we may get the future we deserveâ . |
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‘A perceptive, balanced, wide-ranging interpretation of the evolution of modern Australia which is both erudite and well-written’. -- Duncan Bythell
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Pages: 320
Size: 234x153mm
Illustrations: 25 illus
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| Published: Monash University Publishing - November 2017 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: History |
| List Price: 26.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Reprint under Consideration
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| Title: 9 of: 329 |
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| Title: Australia on the Brink |
| Sub-title: Avoiding Environmental Ruin |
| By (author): Ian Lowe |
| ISBN10-13: 1922633976 : 9781922633972 |
| In 1996, the first independent national report on the state of Australiaâ s environment found that we faced serious problems. With increasing urgency, five subsequent reports declared those problems were all getting worse, each calling for immediate action to protect our future. The 2021 report determined that, â Overall, the state and trend of the environment of Australia are poor and deteriorating as a result of increasing pressures from climate change, habitat loss, invasive species, pollution and resource extraction,â and warned of the dramatic impact on our health and living standards. It is now clearer than ever that the consequences of long-term inaction are upon us. Accelerating climate change and the loss of our unique biodiversity are the most obvious signs of the grim outlook for future generations of Australians. But the international trends are equally worrying, with quixotic economic systems casting doubt on the wisdom of running down our domestic production of essential goods and services in favour of a dependence on trade. It is no exaggeration to conclude that Australian society itself is at risk. In Australia on the Brink, Ian Lowe argues that the essential first steps in addressing these threats are stabilising the global climate and protecting our local biota. We must also change the emphasis of resource extraction from a damaging reliance on trade to improving our capacity to meet our own needs. This is our best â perhaps our only â chance of restoring a sense of social stability, and the equality of opportunity that was once a hallmark of this country. |
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Pages: 96
Size: 175x111mm
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| Published: Monash University Publishing - May 2023 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Climate change |
| List Price: 13.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon |
| Title: 10 of: 329 |
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