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View article: Towards an interdisciplinary agenda for teaching in the climate crisis: reflections from the humanities and social sciences
Towards an interdisciplinary agenda for teaching in the climate crisis: reflections from the humanities and social sciences Open
The current anthropogenic climate crisis presents unique challenges to the higher education classroom. Pedagogy in the context of climate change must be attuned to complex and varied student experiences that can contend with feelings of an…
View article: Muscle, wood, coal, oil: what earlier energy transitions tell us about renewables
Muscle, wood, coal, oil: what earlier energy transitions tell us about renewables Open
View article: Skin deep: settler impressions of Aboriginal women
Skin deep: settler impressions of Aboriginal women Open
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View article: [Book Review] : Decolonizing Research: Indigenous Storywork as Methodology
[Book Review] : Decolonizing Research: Indigenous Storywork as Methodology Open
In this volume, Charlotte Ward’s narration of re-enactments of the Endeavour’s landing in Cooktown traces local processes of engaging with and producing histories that bring together stories of that landing with the much longer story of Gu…
View article: The Sydney Wars: Conflict in the Early Colony 1788–1817 by Stephen Gapps
The Sydney Wars: Conflict in the Early Colony 1788–1817 by Stephen Gapps Open
Volume 43 opens with an unexpectedly timely essay. Tom Gara’s study of the influenza epidemic that reached Australia in 1919 expands consideration of its global effects to include the poorly documented impacts on Aboriginal people in South…
View article: Indigenous Archives: The Making and Unmaking of Aboriginal Art
Indigenous Archives: The Making and Unmaking of Aboriginal Art Open
National reconciliation remains a work in progress. Under the federal Turnbull
\nGovernment, it faltered and stalled. Turnbull’s cavalier and graceless rejection of
\nthe Uluru Statement from the Heart has been widely condemned. Mark McKen…
View article: Xavier Herbert: Forgotten or Repressed?
Xavier Herbert: Forgotten or Repressed? Open
Xavier Herbert is one of Australia’s outstanding novelists and one of the more controversial. In his time, he was also an outspoken public figure. Yet many young Australians today have not heard of the man or his novels. His key works Capr…
View article: Blood Call and ‘Natural Flutters’: Xavier Herbert’s Racialised Quartet of Heteronormativity
Blood Call and ‘Natural Flutters’: Xavier Herbert’s Racialised Quartet of Heteronormativity Open
National belonging for Xavier Herbert was intimately tied to interracial sexuality. ‘Euraustralians’ (‘half-castes’) were for Herbert a redemptive motif that could assuage the ‘awful loneliness of the colonial born’ by which he hinted at t…
View article: [Book Review] I See Something Better Soon: How a Remote Community Was Transformed through Empowerment by Jim Heslop, Hesperian Press, Perth, 2016
[Book Review] I See Something Better Soon: How a Remote Community Was Transformed through Empowerment by Jim Heslop, Hesperian Press, Perth, 2016 Open
In this volume, Katharine Booth and Lisa Ford present the details of a watershed Northern Territory legal decision. Angela Lapham challenges our understanding of the term ‘assimilation’ in her study of Stanley Middleton. Charmaine Robson l…
View article: In memoriam Patrick Wolfe
In memoriam Patrick Wolfe Open
View article: Illicit love: Interracial sex and marriage in the United States and Australia [Book Review]
Illicit love: Interracial sex and marriage in the United States and Australia [Book Review] Open
Review(s) of: Illicit love: Interracial sex and marriage in the United States and Australia, by Ann McGrath, xxxi + 503 pp., illus, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2015, ISBN 9780803238251 (hbk), US$45.00.