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Forthcoming publicationsNew books for 2009
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Australians in Britain: The Twentieth-Century ExperienceEdited by Carl Bridge, Robert Crawford and David Dunstan Much is known about British migration to Australia and something is known of British communities in Australia, but knowledge, particularly quantitative, of the reverse process is very sketchy. The phenomenon has been acknowledged but little explored. There are a number of important studies of significant Australians in the UK, and there has been recent research on the current Australian diaspora, but there is no study of the overall Australian presence, its constituents or its characteristics. Developments in this field of research offer an important window on how Australians related to the 'British world' historically and on the dynamism of the contemporary relationship. Australians in Britain is an edited collection of papers of international research on the character and experience of overseas Australians and Australian communities in Britain since c.1901. It offers a comprehensive overview of current scholarship in this exciting, new and developing field of inquiry. This book has a contemporary focus, drawing on both recent and historical experiences with a view to understanding continuing trends, such as the consistent preponderance of women and the recent surge in young professionals, and issues such as expatriatism, imperialism, globalisation, national identity and overseas citizenship. This book will appeal to scholars of Australian Studies (within Australia and Britain especially), History, Demography, Literary and Cultural studies and Tourism. The topics of this book range from Australians in Britain (especially London), including artists, literary intellectuals, students, women, tourists and travellers, servicemen, nurses, teachers and journalists, global professionals; the changing community; demographic trends; migration; links between the two countries; Australian newspapers in London; and Australia in the 'British world'. ISBN (paperback): 978-0-9804648-6-3 Publication: August 2009 About the editorsCarl Bridge is Professor and Head of the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies. He was one of the organisers of the 2005 Symposium on Australians in Britain jointly organised by the Menzies Centre and the National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash. His recent publications include, with Kent Fedorowich, The British World. Diaspora, Culture and Identity (Cass, 2003),with Ian Henderson, Australia's Britain (Meanjin, 3, 2004), and A Delicate Mission: R.G. Casey's Washington Diaries, 1940-2 (National Library of Australia, 2008) Robert Crawford is a Senior Lecturer in Public Communication at the University of Technology, Sydney. He is the author of But Wait There's More ...: A History of Australian Advertising, 1900–2000 (2008). As the MSA Research Fellow at Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King's College London, and Monash University, he recently completed a study of South Africans in contemporary Britain. David Dunstan is Deputy Director and Senior Lecturer with the National Centre for Australian Studies at Monash University. He was one of the organisers of the 2005 Symposium on Australians in Britain jointly organised by the National Centre and the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King's College London. One of his recent publications includes the Encyclopedia of Melbourne (2005) of which he was an Associate editor.
Complicated Currents: Media Flows and Soft Power in East AsiaEdited by Daniel Black, Stephen Epstein and Alison Tokita East Asia is a powerhouse of economic and social development, with cultural industries that have burgeoned as countries in the region have generated consumer economies and a middle class. Despite ongoing security tensions, growing evidence suggests that a vigorous cultural trade in such commodities as comics, cinema and TV drama is creating a shared regional popular culture. The widespread diffusion of the Internet, and the concomitant rise of non-professional online publishing and social networking, is creating new communities among the consumers of these cultural commodities. Rivalry for leadership in the sphere of the culture industries provides a fertile field for the study of soft market power versus hard political power. The competing national discourses of the 'Korean Wave' (hallyu) and Japan's 'Gross National Cool' indicate a struggle for new forms of influence in the East Asian region, a struggle that is becoming more intense as China, too, starts to exert soft power influence on a global scale in the form of cultural industries and foreign aid. The volume addresses transnational production and consumption of media products such as cinema, television dramas, popular music, comics and animation in Japan, South Korea and China. Its multidisciplinary approaches include cultural studies, gender studies, media studies, and a content analysis of popular discourses of otherness in the East Asian context. While suggesting the emergence of a shared East Asian popular consumer culture, it critically examines the proposition that such a shared popular culture can resolve tensions between nation-states, and highlights the the appropriation of popular culture by nation-states in an attempt to exercise soft power. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students in Asian studies, cultural studies and media studies, and will be particularly useful to researchers in the emerging area of Inter-Asian cultural studies. Publication: November 2009 ISBN (paperback): 978-0-9804648-8-7 About the editorsDaniel Black is a lecturer in Communications and Media Studies at Monash University. His area of expertise is Japanese popular culture. His work has appeared in journals such as Continuum, Journal of Popular Culture, and Metro. Stephen Epstein is Director of the Asian Studies Institute and the Asian Studies Program at the University of Wellington. His research interests are contemporary Korean popular culture and literature, as well as translation of Korean and Indonesian fiction. He co-translated (with Kim Mi Young), and wrote a critical introduction to, Contradictions, by Yang Gui-ja (Cornell East Asia Series: 2000), and has published widely in books and journals, including in the edited collection Korean Pop Music: Riding the Wave and the Journal of Korean Cultural Studies. Alison Tokita is Associate Professor of Japanese Studies in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University and has been Director of the Japanese Studies Centre at Monash University. She has published widely in Japanese studies, including as editor-in-chief of six refereed volumes of papers under the general title Japanese Studies: Communities, Cultures, Critiques. Her areas of expertise include Japanese performing arts, international marriage, Japanese popular culture, and Japanese diaspora. Her co-edited The Ashgate Research Companion to Japanese Music has just been released from Ashgate. Contributors
Drawing the Line: Using Cartoons as Historical EvidenceEdited by Richard Scully and Marian Quartly Special discount offer - save 20%Purchase a print copy of Drawing the Line before 2 July 2009, and save 20%. About Drawing the LineDrawing the Line: Using Cartoons as Historical Evidence brings together essays from international scholars working with cartoons in their research and teaching. It is a showcase for some of the best recent scholarship in this field, with articles exploring racial and ethnic stereotypes, as well as representations of youth, gender and class across a number of key historical epochs. Cartoons are among the most vivid and familiar images of past politics and opinion, but tend to be used merely as 'illustrations' for historical works. Drawing the Line, however, provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of cartoons as sources in their own right. The British Regency Crisis, post-Civil War US politics, Anglo-Iraqi interaction in the Second World War, and Yugoslav Communist propaganda are just some of the themes through which the effective use of cartoons in historical writing is explored. Readers will also find guidance and suggestions for further research on cartoons in the extensive introductory and concluding sections. The book includes more than one hundred examples of the most brilliant cartoon art of the past, from eighteenth-century satirical prints, to the formalised satire of Punch, to the new and ever-evolving medium of webcomics. It will be an essential resource for students and teachers wanting to explore visual representations of the past, and will appeal to all readers interested in innovative ways of writing history. Pages: 272 ISBN (paperback): 978-0-9804648-4-9 Publication: 29 June 2009 About the editorsRichard Scully has been active in the writing and teaching of history at tertiary level since 2004, when he commenced at Monash University as a PhD candidate and sessional tutor. His research interests centre on representations of Germany and the Germans in Britain, 1860–1914, of which those presented in cartoons are only one aspect – albeit the most interesting. After receiving his PhD from Monash in 2008, Richard was appointed Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of New England, Armidale, in 2009. Marian Quartly has taught and researched Australian history at Monash University for longer than she cares to remember. Her publications include the co-authored Creating a Nation, a feminist history of Australia. She is currently writing about gendered citizenship (male and female), about museums and virtual communities, and about the history of adoption in Australia. Her interest in visual representations of gendered citizens – in this case of workers and capitalists – arises out of the need to relate to a visually oriented generation of students. Contributors
Writing Histories: Imagination and NarrationUpdated edition Special pre-publication discount offer - save 20%Purchase a print copy of Writing Histories before publication in July 2009, and save 20%. About Writing HistoriesIn a new and updated edition, Writing Histories: Imagination and Narration is a book for anyone wanting to write histories that capture the imagination and challenge the intellect. It aims to show that historical narrative and imagination can work together to produce works of history that are a pleasure to read. Nine historians reflect on their work as writers, exploring some of the most difficult and interesting questions any history-writer faces: how to get started, how to find a 'voice', how to enliven a description or a narration, and how to find a worthwhile structure. Contributors also suggest how historians can convey multiple perspectives, 'show' rather than tell, foreground the research process, find inspiration from music, painting and landscape, and use literary techniques such as metaphor. The book will be a useful text for teachers and students in history-writing classes and informal groups. There are suggestions for group exercises, and advice on how to conduct writing workshops. Many historians, however, both students and established writers, will continue to write in relative isolation. This book is also intended for them.This updated edition of Writing Histories has a new introduction written by Ann Curthoys, and an updated bibliography. ISBN (paperback): 978-0-9804648-2-5 Publication: July 2009
New journal issuesAustralian Review of Applied LinguisticsVolume 31, Number 3 Volume 31, Number 3 of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics has been unavoidably delayed and is still forthcoming. Volume 32, Number 2 Volume 32, Number 2 of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics will be published in August 2009. Details will be announced here shortly.
The Bible and Critical TheoryVolume 5, Number 2 This special issue focuses on Roland Boer's Rescuing the Bible. Anne Elvey, George Aichele, David Jobling offer critical and occasionally provocative responses to Rescuing the Bible, with Roland Boer submitting a closing response. This issue also features 12 book reviews.
History AustraliaVolume 6, Number 2
Monash Bioethics ReviewVolume 28, Number 1 2009 Published by the Centre for Human Bioethics, Monash Bioethics Review (MBeR) is Australia's oldest peer reviewed bioethics journal. Monash University ePress is delighted to announce that from 2009 MBeR will be published online as well as in print. Each issue of MBeR contains several original articles by leading commentators on bioethics. Also included is an Ethics Committee Supplement, featuring original articles and news items on issues of particular interest to members of human research ethics committees. In addition, there are book reviews, news on scientific and legal developments relevant to bioethics, and an Ethics Committee Reflection. Symposia on current bioethical issues are also a regular feature of the journal. The next issue of MBeR will be available in July 2009. Details of forthcoming themed issues and deadlines for submissions will be listed shortly. ISSN (print): 1321-2753
Telecommunications Journal of AustraliaVolume 59 Number 2 The major theme of the July 2009 issue of TJA is the hot policy topic of Network Neutrality, and features articles by Vint Cerf (Google), Katrina Johnson (eBay), James Endres (Telstra), Geoff Huston, Ross Kelso, David Vaile & Renee Watt (on Internet Filtering), Murray Milner (on NZ), Jeremy de Beer (on Canada), Izumi Aizu & Judit Bayer (on Japan) and Bob Larribeau (on the USA). In addition John Ellershaw and colleagues from the University of Melbourne and NEC demonstrate how Fibre to the Home (FTTH) can be implemented as a cost-effective solution in rural applications.
Applied GISFrom 2007 (Volume 3), Applied GIS is being published independently as an open access journal by its editors, Jim Peterson and Ray Wyatt. For all articles in volume 3 and onward, please see the new Applied GIS website.
Monash Business ReviewAs of the end of 2008, Monash University ePress ceased publication of Monash Business Review (MBR). The impetus for this decision was that MBR would be published as an open access journal directly by the Faculty of Business and Economics through their Industry Engagement Portal. However the Executive Editorial Team have since decided to discontinue publication of the journal entirely. Queries about the journal should be directed to the Faculty of Business and Economics. The full length versions of articles published in 2008 can be found at http://www.buseco.monash.edu.au/research/mbr/2008//index.html.
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