Cultural Studies

After A Fashion [PB] Available
Joanne Finkelstein
Considers the phenomenon of fashion as a social, economic and aesthetic force.
Interpretations

Arab-Australians Today: Citizenship and Belonging [PB] Available
Ghassan Hage (ed.)
Arab-Australians Today raises important questions about immigration, settlement, marginalisation and participation in Western societies.

Cultural Materialism [PB] Available
Andrew Milner
Examines cultural materialism in relation to earlier paradigms such as literary humanism and Marxism.
Interpretations

Cultural Studies Review: Art and Ecology, Vol. 12, No. 1 [PB] Available
Chris Healy and Stephen Muecke (eds)
A special section on Indigenous Art includes essays by Jennifer Biddle, Kathleen Petyarre's images and an interview with the artist by Christine Nicholls.

Cultural Studies Review: Engagements, Vol. 12, No. 2 [PB] Available
John Frow and Katrina Schlunke (eds)
September 2006 issue on cultural research edited by John Frow and Katrina Schlunke with Fiona Allon and Meaghan Morris as guest editors.

Cultural Studies Review: Recalling Modernity, Vol. 13, No. 1 [PB] Available
John Frow and Katrina Schlunke (eds)
Formerly the UTS Review, the Cultural Studies Review is Australia's leading journal in cultural studies.

Cultural Studies Review: slight anthropologies, Vol. 13, No. 2 [PB] Available
John Frow and Katrina Schlunke (eds)
Formerly the UTS Review, the Cultural Studies Review is Australia's leading journal in cultural studies.

Cultural Studies Review: History Experiments, Vol. 14, No. 1 [PB] Available
John Frow and Katrina Schlunke (eds)
Thinking and writing about the past, challenging what 'history' might be and how it could appear is an ongoing interest of this journal and an ongoing (sometimes contentious) point of connection between cultural studies and history.

Cultural Studies Review: Panic, Vol. 14, No. 2 [PB] Available
John Frow & Katrina Schlunke (eds.)
Cultural Studies Review 14.2 is a special issue focusing on cultures of panic, particularly recent examples of moral panic arising from issues of race, gender and sexuality.

Cultural Studies Review: Homefronts, Vol. 15, No. 1 [PB] Available
John Frow & Katrina Schlunke (eds.)
A diverse set of essays and new writing that identify particular national tendencies, notions of family, epistemological worries about postmodernity's represented purpose and queries about cultural studies as it is taught and as it could be understood.

Cultural Studies Review: Critical Indigenous Theory, Vol. 15, No. 2 [PB] Available
John Frow & Katrina Schlunke (eds.)
The September 2009 issue of Cultural Studies Review, co-edited by Aileen Moreton-Robinson, grew out of the Indigenous Studies Research Network, which is located at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia.

Departures: How Australia Reinvents Itself [PB] Available
Xavier Pons (ed.)
Departures of every kind have shaped Australian culture. This stimulating and energetic collection of essays investigates how Australia reinvents itself.

Edward Said: The Legacy of a Public Intellectual, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Debjani Ganguly and Ned Curthoys (eds)
This collection is an enterprise of discovery and critical inquiry into the legacy of one of late modernity's greatest public intellectuals, Edward Said.
Academic Monograph

Edward Said: The Legacy of a Public Intellectual, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Debjani Ganguly and Ned Curthoys (eds)
This collection is an enterprise of discovery and critical inquiry into the legacy of one of late modernity's greatest public intellectuals, Edward Said.
Academic Monograph

From Camp to Queer: Remaking the Australian Homosexual [PB] Available
Robert Reynolds
A subtle and complex study of how a generation of activists came to reinvent themselves, and an outstanding contribution to the history of the gay movement in Australia.

The Ideas Market: An Alternative Take on Australia's Intellectual Life [PB] Available
David Carter (ed.)
This book brings together some of Australia's brightest, best-known and controversial writers in a fresh discussion about the nature of public debate in this country.

Kidspeak: A Dictionary of Australian Children's Words, Expressions and Games [HB] Reissued
June Factor
Kidspeak is the first book to offer a rich sampling of the linguistic range, variety and complexity of Australian children's colloquial vernacular speech.

Material Thinking: The Theory and Practice of Creative Research [PB] Available
Paul Carter
Material Thinking is an intimate, first-hand account of how ideas are turned into artworks.

Performances [PB] Available
Greg Dening
Awards: Shortlisted for the National Book Council 'Banjo' Awards 1997
Master historian Greg Dening invites readers to reflect upon their own participation in the 'performance' of history.

Postmodern Socialism: Romanticism, City and State [PB] Available
Peter Beilharz
Traces and critiques the perspectives generated by juxtaposing postmodernity and socialism.
Interpretations

The Power of Speech: Australian Prime Ministers Defining the National Image [PB] Available
James Curran
Foreword by Paul Kelly
Awards: Shortlisted for the 2004 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, Prize for a First Book of History.
A highly original study of prime ministerial rhetoric that exposes the sources of our most powerful leaders' beliefs about Australia.

The Power of Speech: Australian Prime Ministers Defining the National Image [PB] Available
James Curran
Foreword by Paul Kelly
Awards: Shortlisted for the 2004 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, Prize for a First Book of History.
A highly original study of prime ministerial rhetoric that exposes the sources of our most powerful leaders' beliefs about Australia.

Reading Race: Aboriginality in Australian Children's Literature [PB] Available
Clare Bradford
Awards: Winner of Children's Literature Association Book Award, US
International Research Society of Children's Literature (IRSCL) Award 2003

Reading Race looks at the changing ways in which Australia's indigenous peoples have been--and continue to be--represented in books for children.

This Restless Life: Churning through Love, Work and Travel, formerly Crack Babies of Consumerism [PB] Available
Brigid Delaney
This Restless Life asks if we are sacrificing depth for breadth, or if it's possible to have both?

Uncanny Australia: Sacredness and Identity in a Postcolonial Nation [PB] Available
Ken Gelder & Jane M. Jacobs
This challenging book examines how the sacred haunts the modern in Australian society through the effect of the uncanny.

Waiting, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Edited by Ghassan Hage
Ghassan Hage is Future Generation Professor of Anthropology and Social Theory at the University of Melbourne.
Academic Monograph

Waiting, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Edited by Ghassan Hage
In this rich and insightful collection of essays, leading anthropologist Ghassan Hage brings together academics across political science, philosophy, anthropology and sociology for an examination into the experience of waiting.
Academic Monograph