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Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 05 July 2021

Indigenous Legal Judgements: Bringing Indigenous Voices into Judicial Decision Making

2021 •

This book is a collection of key legal decisions affecting Indigenous Australians, which have been re-imagined so as to be inclusive of Indigenous people’s stories, historical experience, perspectives and worldviews. In this groundbreaking work, Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars have collaborated to rewrite 16 key decisions. Spanning from 1889 to 2017, the judgments reflect the trajectory of…

Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 05 July 2021

Crossroads of Rural Crime: Representations and Realities of Transgression in the Australian Countryside

2021 • Rob White, Alistair Harkness

Rural-oriented scholarship in criminology is growing, in part motivated by governmental, community and academic recognition that, despite stereotypes of the ‘rural idyll’, crime and justice are significant issues in the rural landscape. Using the notion of ‘crossroads’ to provide a unique lens through which to examine realities of rural crime, Crossroads of Rural Crime: Representations and…

Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 17 May 2021

The Spectre of Afghanistan | Security in Central Asia

2021 • Amin Saikal, Kirill Nourzhanov

By Amin Saikal and Kirill Nourzhanov Bloomsbury Aiming to connect a number of divergent perspectives on the current state of Afghanistan, this book outlines the country’s past and present instability and how this impacts and is conceptualised by its neighbours as well as by international heavyweights such as Russia, China and the United States. Given…

Fellows’ Featured Books & Articles • 25 February 2021

Judging and emotion: A socio-legal analysis

2021 • Sharyn Roach Anleu and Kathy Mack

By Sharyn Roach Anleu and Kathy Mack Routledge This book investigates the place of emotion in judicial work. Grounded in empirical data—interviews, observations and surveys—it shows how judicial officers understand, experience, display, manage and deploy emotions in their everyday work, in light of their fundamental commitment to impartiality. A key insight is that emotion, emotional…