Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 27 October 2024

Viral Times: Reflections on the COVID-19 and HIV Pandemics

2024 •

Edited By Jaime García-Iglesias, Maurice Nagington, Peter Aggleton This book explores the relationship between COVID-19 and AIDS. It considers both how the earlier HIV pandemic informed our engagement with COVID-19, as well as the ways in which COVID-19 has changed how we remember and experience AIDS. Individual sections focus on sexual and intimate relationships, inequalities and injustice, the…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 21 October 2024

Let’s Tax Carbon: And Other Ideas for a Better Australia

2024 • Ross Garnaut

Ross Garnaut A new path for Australia, by eminent economist and author of the bestselling Superpower Could Australia become a full-employment, renewable-energy superpower? Ross Garnaut says yes, and it starts with taxing carbon. A levy on the big polluters will help fund Australia to become a carbon-free energy giant, lower the cost of living and…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 02 October 2024

Pandemic societies: A critical public health perspective

2024 • Alan Peterson

Alan Petersen From SARS to Zika, and Ebola to COVID-19, epidemics and pandemics have become increasingly prevalent in recent years. Each outbreak presents new challenges but the responses are often similar. This important book by Academy Fellow Professor Alan Petersen explores the dimensions, dynamics and implications of emerging pandemic societies. Drawing on ideas from sociology…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 24 September 2024

Australia’s Pandemic Exceptionalism How we crushed the curve but lost the race

2024 • Steven Hamilton, Richard Holden

Steven Hamilton, Richard Holden In many ways, Australia handled the COVID-19 pandemic as well as any country in the world – but what did we get wrong? Australia’s economic policy response to the pandemic was as effective as any other country’s – and dramatically better than most. Was this inevitable? Was it luck? Was it the…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 29 July 2024

Algorithms of Anxiety: Fear in the Digital Age

2024 • Anthony Elliott

Algorithms of Anxiety: Fear in the Digital Age Anthony Elliott Machine learning algorithms are widely presumed to herald a world in which the crippling burdens of anxiety can be left behind.  The digital revolution promises a brave new world where individuals, communities and organizations can at last take control of the future – anticipating, designing…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 28 July 2024

The Development of University Teaching Over Time: Pedagogical Approaches from 1800 to the Present

2024 • Tom O'Donoghue

The Development of University Teaching Over Time: Pedagogical Approaches from 1800 to the Present By Tom O’Donoghue Examining two centuries of university education, this book charts the development of pedagogical approaches since the year 1800 and how they have transformed higher education. While institutions for promoting advanced learning in various forms have existed in Asia,…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 28 July 2024

Bina: First Nations Languages, Old and New

2024 • Gari Tudor-Smith, Paul Williams, Felicity Meakins

Bina: First Nations Languages, Old and New Gari Tudor-Smith, Paul Williams, Felicity Meakins The incredible story of the resilience and recovery of Australia’s First Nations languages Australia’s language diversity is truly breathtaking. This continent lays claim to the world’s longest continuous collection of cultures, including over 440 unique languages and many more dialects. Sadly, European…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 04 July 2024

Societal Deception: Global Social Issues in Post-Truth Times

2024 • Geoffrey Lawrence

This book provides a comprehensive overview of ‘societal deception’ – how and why people are deceived and led to believe fake news. Coherently blending critical political economy and sociology, the author provocatively examines how corporations, political parties, the media, think tanks and assorted ‘influencers’ seek to manipulate public opinion to achieve their goals. This book…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 03 July 2024

How to Lose a War

2024 • Amin Saikal

An incisive, authoritative account of the West’s failures in Afghanistan, from 9/11 to the fall of Kabul In 1958, Richard Nixon described Afghanistan as “unconquerable.” On 15 August 2021, he was proven right. After twenty years of intervention, US and NATO forces retreated, enabling the Taliban to return to power. Tens of thousands were killed…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 06 May 2024

A Little History of the Australian Labor Party

2024 • Frank Bongiorno, Nick Dyrenfurth

Acclaimed historians Nick Dyrenfurth and Frank Bongiorno tell the story of the Australian Labor Party’s rich history of more than 130 years and examine its central role in modern Australia. The Australian Labor Party is one of the oldest labour parties in the world and the first to form a government. From the prime ministerships…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 01 May 2024

Hidden Wars: Gendered Political Violence in Asia’s Civil Conflicts

2024 • Sara E. Davies and Jacqui True

Hidden Wars: Gendered Political Violence in Asia’s Civil ConflictsSara E. Davies and Jacqui True Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) has always been a part of warfare. In Asia, testimonies of egregious rape and sexual violence extend back to the Rape of Nanjing, to the experience of the Korean comfort women in World War II, and…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 01 May 2024

Vagrant Lives in Colonial Australasia: Regulating Mobility, 1840-1910

2024 • Catharine Coleborne

Vagrant Lives in Colonial Australasia: Regulating Mobility, 1840-1910 Catharine Coleborne (Author) Investigating the history of vagrants in colonial Australia and New Zealand, this book provides insights into the histories and identities of marginalised peoples in the British Pacific Empire. Showing how their experiences were produced, shaped and transformed through laws and institutions, it reveals how the…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 30 April 2024

Dreaming Ecology: Nomadics and Indigenous Ecological Knowledge, Victoria River, Northern Australia

2024 • Deborah Bird Rose

Dreaming EcologyNomadics and Indigenous Ecological Knowledge, Victoria River, Northern AustraliaAuthored by: Deborah Bird RoseEdited by: Darrell Lewis, Margaret Jolly In the author’s own words, Dreaming Ecology ‘explores a holistic understanding of the interconnections of people, country, kinship, creation and the living world within a context of mobility. Implicitly it asks how people lived so sustainably for so…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 25 March 2024

Australian Urban Policy: Prospects and Pathways

2024 •

Edited by: Robert Freestone, Bill Randolph, Wendy Steele. Urban Australia confronts numerous challenges in the 21st century: climate change, housing, transport, greenspace, social inequality, and governance, among them. While state and local governments wrestle with these issues, they are continent wide and require national leadership, direction and participation. As a highly urbanised country without a national…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 04 March 2024

Multicultural arc : Making multicultural Australia: past, present an future

2023 • Professor Andrew Jakubowicz

Multicultural Arc describes and analyses a half-century of multicultural action and policy in Australia, as the country changed from being 99.5% European to one of the most diverse societies in the world. Through examinations of the changes introduced by successive governments, readers follow the twists and turns of ideology and popular attitudes. From the “invention”…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 27 February 2024

Spectacles of Waste

2024 • Warwick Anderson

The modern bathroom is an ingenious compilation of locked doors, smooth porcelain, 4-ply tissue and antibacterial hand soap, but despite this miracle of indoor plumbing, we still can’t bear the thought that anyone else should know that our bodies produce waste. Why must we live by the rules of this intense scatological embarrassment? In Spectacles of…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 21 February 2024

At a Turning Point

2024 • q

Australia is at a much-needed turning point in work, care and family policy. Australian women, families and communities are struggling to manage the complex demands of work and care. Rapid social and demographic change, alongside new workplace, labour market trends and the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, requires a policy revamp that will allow all…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 04 February 2024

The Shortest History of Economics: The Powerful Story of Economic Ideas and Forces that Shape Our World

2024 • Andrew Leigh

The secret of economics is that the most powerful insights come from a handful of big ideas that anyone can follow.’ This small book tells a big story. From ancient times to the modern world, The Shortest History of Economics unearths the hidden economic forces behind war, innovation and social transformation. It traces how capitalism and the…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 30 January 2024

Money in the Twenty-First Century: Cheap, Mobile, and Digital

2024 • Professor Richard Holden

An economist examines three modern forces that have redefined what “money” means, who controls it, and what the future of finance might look like. Money is increasingly cheap, digital, and mobile. In Money in the Twenty-First Century, economist Richard Holden examines the virtues and risks of low interest rates, mobile money, and cryptocurrencies, and explains how…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 14 November 2023

Violence against women: What everyone needs to know

2023 • Jacqui True

Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is a longstanding problem that has shifted very little despite increasing international and national media coverage and attention from governments and in policy debates. But what do we know about it and how to stop it? This book synthesises the latest knowledge about violence against women and girls, what…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 02 October 2023

The Global Politics of Forced Migration: An Australian Perspective

Sep-23 • Fethi Mansouri

Author, Professor Fethi Mansouri examines the consequences of Western states’ policies towards refugees and deterrence. Professor Mansouri is among the world’s leading experts on diversity, migration and social justice, and intercultural studies and is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences Australia.

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 10 September 2023

Watershed: The 2022 Australian Federal Election

Aug-23 • Editors: Anika Gauja, Marian Sawer and Jill Sheppard

The 2022 election overthrew received wisdom about safe seats and how the Australian electorate votes. It resulted in a change of government and also saw the rise of the ‘Teal Independents’ along with the lowest number of primary votes for the major parties since the formation of the Australian party system. In Watershed, leading scholars…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 10 September 2023

Technologies for children

Jul-23 • Professor Marilyn Fleer

Now in its third edition, this is a comprehensive guide for educators on digital technologies and children’s learning during the years from birth to 12 years. With practical ideas and resources Technologies for children offers innovative, engaging and student-centred approaches to classroom learning, that are aligned with Australia’s Early Years Learning Framework and the Australian Curriculum.…

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