Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles

Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 20 April 2023

Imagined Racial Laboratories: Colonial and National Racialisations in Southeast Asia

2023 •

Volume Editors: Ricardo Roque and Warwick Anderson Imagined Racial Laboratories reveals the watermarks of science in the dynamics of racialisation in Southeast Asia, during and after the colonial period. Bringing together a set of critical histories of race sciences, it illuminates the racialised dimensions of colony and nation in the region. It demonstrates that racialisation took…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 01 April 2023

The Australian Embassy in Tokyo and Australia: Japan Relations

2023 • Kate Darian-Smith and David Lowe

Relations between Australia and Japan have undergone both testing and celebrated times since 1952, when Australia’s ambassadorial representation in Tokyo commenced. Over the years, interactions have deepened beyond mutual trade objectives to encompass economic, defence and strategic interests within the Indo-Pacific region and beyond. This ‘special relationship’ has been characterised by the high volume of…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 22 March 2023

The Internet of Animals: Human-Animal Relationships in the Digital Age

2023 • Deborah Lupton

‘The internet is made of cats’ is a half-jokingly made claim. Today, animals of all shapes and sizes inhabit our digital spaces, including companion animals, wildlife, feral animals and livestock. In this book, Deborah Lupton explores how digital technologies and datafication are changing our relationships with other animals. Playfully building on the concept of ‘The…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 01 March 2023

Everywhen: Australia and the Language of Deep History

2023 •

Everywhen asks how knowledge systems of Aboriginal people can broaden our understanding of the past and of history. Indigenous ways of knowing, narrating, and re-enacting the past in the present blur the distinctions of time, making all history now, with questions of time and language at the heart of Indigenous sovereignty. Edited by Ann McGrath, Laura…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 21 February 2023

Migration and Urban Transitions in Australia

2022 •

This book offers a critical reflection on the ways in which migration has shaped Australia’s cities, especially over the past twenty years. Australian cities are among the world’s most culturally diverse and are home to most of the nation’s population. This edited collection brings together contemporary research carried out by scholars across a range of…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 21 February 2023

Decarbonising the Built Environment: Charting the Transition

2019 •

This book focuses on the challenge that Australia faces in transitioning to renewable energy and regenerating its cities via a transformation of its built environment. Both are necessary conditions for low carbon living in the 21st century. This is a global challenge represented by the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals and the IPCC’s Climate Change…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 19 February 2023

The Invention of Tomorrow: A Natural History of Foresight

2022 • Thomas Suddendorf, Jonathan Redshaw, Adam Bulley

A spellbinding exploration of the human capacity to imagine the future Our ability to think about the future is one of the most powerful tools at our disposal. In The Invention of Tomorrow, cognitive scientists Thomas Suddendorf, Jonathan Redshaw, and Adam Bulley argue that its emergence transformed humans from unremarkable primates to creatures that hold the…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 07 February 2023

Emotions Online: Feelings and Affordances of Digital Media

2023 • Alan Petersen

Digital media have become deeply immersed in our lives, heightening both hopes and fears of their affordances. While the internet, mobile phones, and social media offer their users many options, they also engender concerns about their manipulations and intrusions. Emotions Online explores the visions that shape responses to media and the emotional regimes that govern people’s engagements…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 18 January 2023

Algorithmic Intimacy: The Digital Revolution in Personal Relationships

Artificial intelligence not only powers our cars, hospitals and courtrooms: predictive algorithms are becoming deeply lodged inside us too. Machine intelligence is learning our private preferences and discreetly shaping our personal behaviour, telling us how to live, who to befriend and who to date. In Algorithmic Intimacy, Anthony Elliott examines the power of predictive algorithms in…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 16 January 2023

Technology and Domestic and Family Violence: Victimisation, Perpetration and Responses

2023 •

This book brings together academics and advocates to explore an emerging issue: the use of technology by perpetrators of domestic and family violence. Of interest too is critique of government and non-government activities in this arena and how technology can be harnessed to respond to harm. This book grew out of an Academy-funded workshop on…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 14 December 2022

How to Rule Your Own Country: The weird and wonderful world of micronations

2022 • George Williams and Harry Hobbs

Many people think they can do a better job running a country than politicians – but few actually give it a go. What happens when political disagreement pushes to the point of no return? When a person has a dream of what their ideal country would be, and then tries to create it? A place…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 22 November 2022

The Careless State

2022 • Mark Considine

A powerful statement of how to fix Australia’s failing social services The lives of all Australians are profoundly affected by the quality of social services available, but a long list of royal commissions and public inquiries have revealed them to be failing. In The Careless State Mark Considine shows that the preferred model of reform has failed…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 12 November 2022

The Superpower Transformation: Making Australia’s Zero-Carbon Future

2022 •

How Australia can become a leader in a world of zero net emissions In his bestselling Superpower, renowned economist Ross Garnaut showed that Australia – rich in resources for renewable energy and for capturing carbon in the landscape – could become an economic superpower of the post-carbon world. Now, in The Superpower Transformation, he turns that idea into a…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 30 October 2022

Dreamers and Schemers: A Political History of Australia

2022 • Frank Bongiorno

A landmark book – the first full political history of Australia. In this compelling and comprehensive work, renowned historian Frank Bongiorno presents a social and cultural history of Australia’s political life, from pre-settlement Indigenous systems to the present day. Depicting a wonderful parade of dreamers and schemers, Bongiorno surveys moments of political renewal and sheds…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 17 October 2022

Minding Your Mind

2022 • Professor Ian Hickie and James O'Loghlin

Written with compassion and curiosity, warmth and humour, Minding Your Mind is for anyone who wants the best for their mental well-being but might not know the best way to get there. It’s a check-up for everything happening between the ears and through the body, flagging the warning signs when things get wobbly and offering a pathway…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 08 October 2022

How and Why to Regulate False Political Advertising in Australia

2022 • Lisa Hill (Fellow), Max Douglass, Ravi Baltutis

This open access book provides political, legal and public interest justifications for truth in election advertising legislation and examines the history and state of play of legal experiments with such legislation in Australia.

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 31 August 2022

Temporal Politics: Contested Pasts, Uncertain Futures

2022 • Adrian Little

Develops a new theory of political temporality to demonstrate how to conduct political analysis in times of conflict and uncertainty Offers an important differentiation between a political theory of temporality and philosophies of time Examines contemporary debates on migration and border control to demonstrate the myopia in the understanding of historical contexts that give rise…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 31 August 2022

Fair Game: Lessons from Sport for a Fairer Society & a Stronger Economy

2022 • Andrew Leigh

Every year, Australians break sporting world records through a combination of ingenuity, grit and teamwork. Sport is a source of personal and national pride for millions. In this book, economist, politician and triathlete Andrew Leigh argues that sport can embody both achievement and egalitarianism. On the starting line, what matters isn’t athletes’ wealth or connections…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 22 August 2022

Crowdsourced politics: The Rise of Online Petitions & Micro-Donations

2022 • Ariadne Vromen, Darren Halpin, Michael Vaughan

This book focuses on online petitioning and crowdfunding platforms to demonstrate the everyday impact that digital communications have had on contemporary citizen participation. It argues that crowdsourced participation has become normalised and institutionalised into the repertoires of citizens and their organisations. To illustrate their arguments the authors use an original survey on acts of political engagement, undertaken…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 16 August 2022

Happy Together: Bridging the Australia-China divide

2022 • David Walker and Li Yao with Karen Walker

A fresh perspective on the Australia-China relationship told through the lens of memoir, culture and friendship. By Australian historian and Academy Fellow Professor David Walker and Li Yao, with Karen Walker. Happy Together tells the story of two families – one from Inner Mongolia and the other from outback South Australia. The book begins with…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 07 August 2022

Greening the Greyfields: New Models for Regenerating the Middle Suburbs of Low-Density Cities

2022 • Peter W. Newton, Peter W.G. Newman, Stephen Glackin, Giles Thomson

Draws on a 10-year research program that created a new model of urban redevelopment Brings together allied areas of urban study into one comprehensive text Offers valuable potential for application beyond the Australian context This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 01 August 2022

The Penalty is Death – Barry Jones

2022 •

An updated edition of the classic study of capital punishment originally published 50 years ago, with a new introduction by Academy Fellow Barry Jones. The Penalty Is Death was first published in 1968, in the aftermath of the hanging of Ronald Ryan in Victoria — the last man executed in Australia. At the time, capital punishment…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 20 July 2022

Configured by Consumption

2022 • Emeritus Professor Peter J. Rimmer

With the paradigm shift in consumption habits during the COVID-19 pandemic accelerating the digital transformation of supply-chain operations, Configured by Consumption is a timely reflection on the technological evolution of production-consumption cycles since the genesis of industrialization. Forward-thinking, it contemplates the digital future of logistics and supply chain operations in the face of evolving consumer…

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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 17 July 2022

The Work of History: Writing for Stuart Macintyre

2022 •

An exploration of the work and legacy of one of Australia’s most distinguished historians. Stuart Macintyre was an eminent figure within the world of Australian history scholarship for 45 years. This collection of essays and responses revisits and extends this extraordinary life of achievement and engagement. Leading scholars write here of Macintyre’s contribution to understanding…

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