Australia-Asia-Pacific-Institute (AAPI)

Antipodean Traditions: Australian folklore in the 21st century

Sixth in the series: ‘Studies in Australia, Asia and the Pacific’
Edited by: Graham Seal and Jennifer Gall
ISBN: 9780980631371 (pbk.)
Publication date: December 2011

Antipodean Traditions: Australian Folklore in the 21st Century is a selection of papers from the Australian National Folklore Conference, 2005-2010. The scholarly study of Australian folk tradition is relatively recent and this collection provides a guide to the past, present and future of the field. The Introduction traces the development of folklore studies in Australia and provides connections to further resources and information. The contributors are all expert in their respective fields and have been involved in researching, teaching, collecting, archiving and often performing aspects and elements of Australia's rich and diverse folk traditions.

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Biodiversity & Social Justice: Practices for an ecology of peace

Fifth in the series: ‘Studies in Australia, Asia and the Pacific’
Edited by: Angela Wardell-Johnson, Naama Amram, Ratna Malar Selvaratnam & Sundari Ramakrishna
ISBN: 9780980631364 (pbk)
Publication date: March, 2011

Biodiversity fits within a broader landscape, not only of ecological systems, but also of social, cultural and economic systems. Through identifying and understanding different voices, values and practices in biodiversity conservation we improve the potential for effective long-term biodiversity conservation that is peaceful and inclusive. This book draws on the collective knowledge of a linked cycle of theory and practice. The contributors benefit from being grounded by practical biodiversity communities and draw on experience at the global scale. Insights from practice in Indigenous, developing and developed contexts in Asian, Australian and African landscapes are included. The integration of landscape practice theory with technological, socially grounded and philosophical perspectives presents social justice as a rationale for biodiversity conservation with as much power as plant and animal conservation. This collective synthesis of Indigenous, scientific and local knowledge guides practice in effective and sustained biodiversity conservation in a breadth of contexts. This ecology of peace provides a compelling reason for working with compassion in biodiversity conservation.

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Enter at Own Risk? Australia’s population questions for the 21st century

Fourth in the series: ‘Studies in Australia, Asia and the Pacific’
Edited by: Suvendrini Perera, Graham Seal and Sue Summers
ISBN: 9780980631357 (pbk.)
Publication date: October 2010

The shifting and volatile politics of population, border protection and belonging play a key role in twenty-first century Australian politics, as they did in the foundational debates and narratives leading up to federation in 1901. Although population emerged as a defining issue of the 2010 general election, it would be mistaken to assume that this is a first: historically a range of official inquiries, debates and policies of successive governments have directly and indirectly addressed the issue of population as a question of the racial reproduction of the nation. The essays in this volume, although they mostly predate 2010 ‘population debate’, explore the return in contemporary form of many of historical practices and discourses for policing racial-national borders. Focusing on three key groups of outsiders within – temporary workers, international students and refugees and asylum seekers – the contributions address key aspects of border tensions and panics as the boundaries of belonging and of cultural citizenship are continually drawn, patrolled and policed in new and old ways.

• Associate Professor Suvendrini Perera is a senior research fellow at Curtin University and Deputy Director (2011) of he Australia-Asia-Pacific Institute (AAPI).
• Professor Graham Seal is Director of the Australia-Asia-Pacific Institute (AAPI), Faculty of Humanities, Curtin University.
• Dr Sue Summers is Research Project Officer AAPI and Managing Editor, Black Swan Press, Curtin University.

“Enter At Own Risk is everything that scholarship should be – bold, relevant, opinionated, based on real authority; and worth reading.” - Dr Peter Stanley, National Museum of Australia.

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People, Place and Power: Australia and the Asia Pacific

Third in the series: ‘Studies in Australia, Asia and the Pacific’
Edited by: Dawn Bennett, Jaya Earnest and Miyume Tanji
ISBN:9780980631302
Publication date: 2009

• Third in the series: ‘Studies in Australia, Asia and the Pacific’.

This 2009 publication represents interdisciplinary work from the Centre for Advanced Studies in Australia, Asia and Pacific (CASAAP) at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia. It is edited by three Curtin University academics: Dawn Bennett is a Senior Research Fellow with the Faculty of Humanities, where she conducts research into creativity in its many guises. Jaya Earnest is an Associate Professor with the Centre of International Health, and is involved with research projects in Australia, India and East Timor. Miyume Tanji is a Research Fellow with the Centre for Human Rights Education. Her research focuses on communities living with US military bases in Okinawa and Guam.

This publication first focuses on cultural identities and reflects investigations on the historical and contemporary bases and consequences of identity formation in relation to, inter alia, ethnicity, gender, nation and class. The second section of the book probes the depths of radical and regional transformation resulting from reform, innovation or policy across nations, societies and cultures of Asia and the Pacific. Finally, the book explores different trajectories of international relations, which are manifested through issues of regional security, terrorism, refugees, and immigration, social and political movements.

CONTENTS

• People, place and power, Dawn Bennett, Jaya Earnest and Miyume Tanji.
• Changing landscapes of war commemoration in Western Australia, John Stephens.
• Remembering and forgetting ANZAC Cottage: Interpreting the community significance of Australian War Memorials since World War One, Graham Seal.
  
• Creativity and ‘new’ careers: What can we learn from the creative industries? Dawn Bennett.
• The dynamics of wakon y?sai (Japanese spirit, Western technology): The paradoxes and challenges of financial policy in an industrializing Japan, 1854-1939. Simon Bytheway and Michael Schiltz.
• Intersecting Islamic and ethnic identities in Kalimantan, Indonesia, Ian Chalmers.
• India: In search of a nation and its other histories, Sekhar Bandyopadhyay.
• India: In search of a nation and its other histories, Sekhar Bandyopadhyay.
  
• Community resilience and sustainable development in Okinawa: Yomitan village’s traumatic trajectory of war and military occupation, Miyume Tanji.
  
• Local resilience: Living with risk in vulnerable internally displaced communities in Timor-Leste, Jaya Earnest and Pat Faulkner.
  
• The empire strikes back: Refugees, race and the reinvention of empire, Lucy Fiske and Linda Briskman.
  
• Academic activism for political change: Opposing mandatory detention of asylum seekers, Linda Briskman.
• Working through trauma in post-dictatorial Chilean documentary: Lorena Giachino’s Reinalda del Carmen, Antonio Traverso.

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Place and People: New dimensions in regional research

Second in the series: ‘Studies in Australia, Asia and the Pacific’
Authors: Stephen Smith and Graham Seal.
ISBN: 9780975751930
Publication date: 2007

Drawing on history, heritage, regional community traditions and sense of place, Place and People presents a number of new approaches to regional research. The book provides an overview, guide and case studies that will be of value to researchers and practitioners in regional development, cultural tourism and heritage studies in Australia and beyond.

At the time of publication, Stephen Smith was a teacher and researcher in the Faculty of Built Environment and Design and Director of the Australian Regional Research Unit at Curtin University

Graham Seal is Director of the Australia-Asia-Pacific Institute (AAPI), Faculty of Humanities, Curtin University.

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Farming or Foraging? Household labour and livelihood strategies amongst smallholder cocoa growers in Papua New Guinea

First in the series: ‘Studies in Australia, Asia and the Pacific’
Authors: George Curry, Gina Koczberski, Eric Omuru and Robert Nailina.  
Publication date: 2007
ISBN: 9780975751947

Drawing on household level studies of cocoa production amongst village communities in Papua New Guinea's Gazelle Peninsula, Farming or Foraging presents a socio-economic and cultural model of smallholder productivity. The book discusses how commercial sector organisations can be drawn upon to provide smallholder extension strategies that are better integrated with the livelihoods of village producers. This book will be of value to researchers and agricultural extension organisations working with smallholders in developing countries across a range of different cash crops.

George Curry is a teacher and researcher in Geography in the Faculty of Media, Society and Culture at Curtin University.

Gina Koczberski is an Adjunct Research Fellow in Geography in the Faculty of Media, Society and Culture at Curtin University.

Eric Omuru is Senior Economist in the Kokonas Indastri Koporesen, Papua New Guinea. He teaches part-time at the University of Papua New Guinea.

Robert Nailina is Research Officer in the Economics Section of the Cocoa Coconut Institute PNG.

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