Edited by
Dale Bagshaw and
Elisabeth Porter
Routledge, New York, 2009
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This book examines mediation in connection with peacebuilding in the Asia-Pacific region, providing practical examples that either highlight the weaknesses within certain mediation approaches or demonstrate best-practice. The authors explore the extent to which current ideas and practices of mediation in the Asia-Pacific region are dominated by western understandings and critically challenge the appropriateness of such thinking. Featuring a range of case studies on Fiji, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Vietnam, China, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand, this book has three main aims:
Making a unique contribution to peace and conflict studies literature by explicitly linking mediation and peacebuilding practices, this book is a vital text for students and scholars in these fields.
Edited by D Gopal and
Alan Mayne
Shipra Publications, New Delhi, 2009
In recent years issues pertaining to cultural diversity and ethnic identity have become important sites of academic concern and intense policy debate. However, current discourses purported to devise appropriate policy measures for the co-existence of plurality of ethnic and culture diversities are yet to result in concerted action. Towards building a consensus on the vital importance of cultural diverstiy, the volume offers illuminating commentaries and incisive critiques by distinguished scholars and specialists from India and Australia.
Feminist movements in contemporary Japan
Laura Dales
Routledge, 2009
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In contemporary Japan there is much ambivalence about women's roles, and the term 'feminism' is not widely recognised or considered relevant. Nonetheless, as this book shows, there is a flourishing feminist movement in contemporary Japan. The book investigates the features and effects of feminism in contemporary Japan, in non-government (NGO) women's groups, government-run women's centres and the individual activities of feminists Haruka Yoko and Kitahara Minori. Based on two years of fieldwork conducted in Japan and drawing on extensive interviews and ethnographic data, it argues that the work of individual activists and women's organisations in Japan promotes real and potential change to gender roles and expectations among Japanese women. It explores the ways that feminism is created, promoted and limited among Japanese women, and advocates a broader construction of what the feminist movement is understood to be and a rethinking of the boundaries of feminist identification. It also addresses the impact of legislation, government bureaucracy, literature and the internet as avenues of feminist development, and details the ways which these promote agency the ability to act among Japanese women.
Knowing
our place: children talking about power, identity and citizenship
Judith Gill and Sue Howard
ACER Press, 2009
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In Knowing our place over 400 young Australians respond to ideas about belonging, identity and social and political power. The book explores the complex mindsets of young people in their search for identity within the broader society.
While the fundamental aim of the book is to identify and describe aspects
of children's thinking as they grapple with their developing sense of being
in the world, there are evident implications for the project of citizenship
education.
Rethinking work and learning: adult and vocational education for social
sustainability
Edited by
Peter
Willis,
Stephen McKenzie and
Roger Harris
Springer, 2009
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This volume brings together an international group of contributors to
explore ways in which social sustainability can be integrated into adult and
vocational education (AVE) practices. While it is clear that, given the rapid
change of work, job-specific training for adults is vital the world
over, it is argued here that job-specific training needs re-orientation to
include life-specific learning as well. This can come about when the
learning opportunities to which citizens have access prepare them for
participation in work that is economically productive and at the same time
engages them in related civic activities that promote environmental and
social sustainability. The re-orientation of current AVE systems can be
achieved in two ways: by broadening the educational agenda to include
elements of environmental science, politics and the arts, and by including
more dialogic and collaborative teaching and learning styles.
Beyond the black stump: histories of outback Australia
Edited by
Alan Mayne
Wakefield Press, Kent Town, SA, 2008
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Historians have had little to say about the lands that stretch 'beyond the black stump'. These essays from around the country build inland Australia into our national history, crisscrossing both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Building
the village: a history of Bendigo Bank
Alan Mayne
Wakefield Press, Kent Town, SA, 2008
Living low paid: the dark side of prosperous Australia
Helen Masterman-Smith and
Barbara Pocock
Allen & Unwin, 2008
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Why are so many Australians working more yet struggling to meet their basic needs? This account of the plight of low-paid workers is a stinging indictment of our society and a threat to our social fabric.
Even in an international downturn, Australia is a prosperous country. Yet
many Australians are working more for less and struggling to meet their
basic needs, despite being employed. Living low paid investigates the Orwellian vision unfolding, often behind
closed doors, in Australia's working heartland. The book challenges the low
wage path to national prosperity by exposing the hard realities of living
low paid for Australian workers today.
In their own words, workers tell the costs of low pay for individuals,
families and communities and the social fabric at large. Workers are
increasingly being undermined by casualisation, hours of work and
exploitative pay-setting methods, while enormous tax breaks are given to the
rich, jobs are outsourced, unions are muzzled, and job entitlements such as
sick pay, holiday pay and penalty rates are scrapped. Living low paid offers a biting account of Australia's growing underbelly.
It is vital reading for anyone who cares about where Australia is heading.
Pedagogies of the imagination: mythopoetic curriculum in educational
practice
Edited by Timothy
Leonard and
Peter Willis
Springer, 2008
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This book is about the practice of imaginal knowing in education. Imaginal knowing is not fantasy, but is linked to the way humans imagine the real world. Imaginal knowing moves the heart, holds the imagination, and finds the fit between self-stories, public myths and the content of cultural knowledge. It is deeply personal, yet open to the universe. The curriculum, as conceptualised here, is the medium through which imaginal knowing is evoked in both teachers and students.
Educators from United States, Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada offer
a vision of educational practice seasoned in years of reflective pedagogic
engagement. They speak here of a genuine and practical alternative to overly
bureaucratic educational processes that can crush learners through a closed
system of arbitrary standards and mindless testing. There is hope that
education at all levels from elementary to professional, graduate and post-compulsory education has the capacity to break out of these artificial
constraints. These authors show us ways to make this possible.
The
counselling interview: a guide for the helping professions
Helen Cameron
Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2008
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Effective interviewing skills are crucial for those working within the human
service industries. This book outlines essential advice and strategies, and
offers helpful leaning aids, thus providing developing professionals
throughout counselling, social work and psychotherapy with a valuable
resource for conducting a successful interview.
Sonic synergies: music, technology, community,
identity
Edited by
Gerry Bloustien,
Margaret Peters and
Susan Luckman
Ashgate, Hampshire, UK, 2007
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Sonic synergies focuses on the new and emerging synergies of music and digital technology within the new knowledge economies. Eighteen scholars representing six international perspectives explore the global and local ramifications of rapidly changing new technologies on creative industries, local communities, music practitioners and consumers. Diverse areas are considered, such as production, consumption, historical and cultural context, legislation, globalisation and the impact upon the individual. Drawing on a range of musical genres from jazz, heavy metal, hip hop and trance, and through several detailed case studies reflecting on the work of professional and local amateur artists, this book offers an important discussion of the ways in which the face of music is changing. Approaching these areas from a cultural studies perspective, this text will be a valuable tool for anyone engaged in the study of popular culture, music or digital technologies.
From
the other side: how it feels to be young and dyingAmber Turk, edited by
Margaret Brown
Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies, Magill, SA, 2007
Amber Turk lived with an inoperable brain tumour for 12 months before dying in November 2003 at the age of 27. During this year she wrote a journal documenting her emotional journey: her hopes, her despair, and finally her desire to leave the pain behind and embrace death. She wanted her writing to be available to health professionals after her death so that they would know what a terminal illness is like 'from the other side'.
From the other side is absorbing, thought provoking and inspirational. It is a unique window into the private world of a dying person. It is compelling reading for students of medicine and other health professionals as well as those interested in the broader questions of meaning, spirituality and suffering, especially young people facing their own mortality.
I feel that I am truly ready to die. ... I have had a fantastic life and have been so lucky to have so many wonderful people in my life that I have had the privilege of loving and who have loved me back. So I want you all to celebrate all the good times and remember me when I was gorgeous. Because that is truly who I am. Not this sick, icky person who can't do anything. Remember me through warts and all. I wasn't perfect, but I know now that I didn't have to be.
Amber Turk, Journal, 21 July 2003
Elisabeth Porter
Routledge, London, 2007
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This book clarifies some key ideas and practices underlying peacebuilding; understood broadly as formal and informal peace processes that occur during pre-conflict, conflict and post-conflict transformation.
Applicable to all peacebuilders, Elisabeth Porter highlights positive examples of women's peacebuilding in comparative international contexts. She critically interrogates accepted and entrenched dualisms that prevent meaningful reconciliation, while also examining the harm of othering and the importance of recognition, inclusion and tolerance. Drawing on feminist ethics, the book develops a politics of compassion that defends justice, equality and rights and the need to restore victims' dignity. Complex issues of memory, truth, silence and redress are explored while new ideas on reconciliation and embracing difference emerge.
Many ideas challenge orthodox understandings of peace. The arguments developed here demonstrate how peacebuilding can be understood more broadly than current United Nations and orthodox usages so that women's activities in conflict and transitional societies can be valued as participating in building sustainable peace with justice. Theoretically integrating peace and conflict studies, international relations, political theory and feminist ethics, this book focuses on the lessons to be learned from best practices of peacebuilding situated around the UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security.
Peacebuilding will be of particular interest to peace practitioners
and to students and researchers of peace and conflict studies, international
relations and gender politics.
Kids count: better early childhood education and care in AustraliaEdited by Elizabeth Hill,
Barbara Pocock and Alison Elliott
Sydney University Press, Sydney, 2007
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Demand for child care has soared over the past decade as Australian families seek to reconcile work and care responsibilities. But the cost of care keeps rising, waiting lists in many metropolitan centres are long, and high quality services are not always available.
Australia's system of early childhood education and care is fragmented, and the major political parties have failed to take a comprehensive approach to policy development. So what would a good system of early childhood education and care in Australia look like?
In this book, a selection of Australia's leading early childhood researchers, teachers, advocates and social policy experts consider:
The authors offer a comprehensive set of policy principles that would
deliver a better early childhood education and care regime for Australian
children and their families.
Literacies
in place: teaching environmental communicationsEdited by
Barbara Comber,
Helen Nixon and JoAnne Reid
Primary English Teaching Association, 2007
This book is a product of the Special Forever project, which aimed to
influence the attitudes of those living and working in the Murray-Darling Basin
towards the need for sustainable environmental practice, by encouraging school
children in the region to contribute poems and stories to an annual anthology
(see the Special Forever website).
The book reports on one aspect of that research. It provides accounts of the
work of a group of primary school teachers, all of whom live and work in the
Murray-Darling Basin, share a commitment to the Special Forever project, and
have made a commitment to rethink and extend the repertoires of multimodal
literacy they have available to use with their students. The chapters explore
sustainability in their own particular, local, place in its relation to larger
concerns for the Murray-Darling basin as a whole, and for national and global
concerns for the environment.
Edited by
Emily Potter,
Alison Mackinnon,
Stephen McKenzie and
Jennifer McKay
Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2007
221pp, e-book ($39.95) and d-book (49.95). Order through
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Is water a resource or is it the source? Is it something to be consumed or does it have a life of its own? Recent histories of environmental misunderstanding and exploitation shadow our current regime of water management and use. While governments grapple with how to respond to widespread drought, the situation worsens.
There is something amiss in current approaches to water. This timely collection of essays addresses the critical and contentious issue of water in Australia today and suggests a need to radically rethink our relationship with this fundamental substance. Contributors from a range of fields, from anthropology to visual arts, discuss the various ways in which we are caught up with water, and challenge us to take up the cultural transformations that underpin a sustainable ecological future.
The
labour market ate my babies: work, children and a sustainable future
Barbara Pocock
Federation Press, Annandale, NSW, 2006
In The labour market ate my babies Barbara Pocock, acclaimed author of The worklife collision, examines the impact of modern working life on our children. In this book, young Australians from all over the country, city and the bush, rich and poor, talk about the good and bad of parental work: the trade off between money and time, consumer riches versus time for each other.
Pocock argues that the modern labour market is having a huge impact on today's youth and eating into our capacity to care. Children have become a 'market'. Caring for kids and selling to kids is big business, as stressed, time-poor parents struggle to care for their children and salve their guilt with presents and pocket money.
How will this future generation of workers weigh up the labour market and organise their lives? The labour market ate my babies argues that a sustainable future requires new policy approaches to work that incorporate the perspectives of children. We should:
Activating
human rightsEdited by
Elisabeth Porter and Baden Offord
Peter Lang, Oxford, 2006
This book is based on papers originally presented at the international
conference 'Activating Human Rights and Diversity' held in Australia in
2003. It advances a powerful and convincing affirmation of the importance of
human rights in the twenty-first century and explores the vital connections
between the theory and practice of human rights. It asks what kind of vision
for humanity is necessary, given the harsh realities and challenges of the
twenty-first century. Through a range of perspectives reconciliation,
refugees, women, indigenous issues, same-sex sexualities, conflict
resolution, environmental degradation, political freedoms and disability
this collection highlights the fact that the survival of humanity depends on
our ability to connect a vision with the reality of activating human rights.

Brenton Prosser
Finch Publishing, 2006
ADHD: who's failing who? draws on extensive experience in school, political and community environments to provide the first comprehensive guide to ADHD in Australia. Dr Prosser argues that if you only ask medical questions about ADHD you only get medical answers; and more drug use. We should not only be asking how our kids with ADHD are failing society, but also how our society is failing these kids. For instance, kids with ADHD are not struggling in school because they don't understand school work; they struggle because schools don't understand how they work. And this struggle has lifelong consequences. Yet in Australia and the United States the social side of ADHD has been largely ignored. By looking at the social aspects of ADHD, Dr Prosser hopes that this book will enable parents to develop a more balanced understanding of ADHD and help the community to provide more effective support in the future.
Dr Brenton Prosser
has an honours degree in English Literature, is an ex-middle schoolteacher
and for several years ran a respite program for children with challenging
behaviours. Now a research fellow at the University of South Australia, he
works with teachers to redesign pedagogy for schools in Adelaide's northern
urban fringe.

Brenton Prosser
PostPressed, Flaxton, Queensland, 2006.
Seeing red explores the role of narrative in education and sociological research. Based on Brenton Prosser's doctoral dissertation, the book outlines the challenges and findings of research with teenagers diagnosed with ADHD.
Dr Prosser draws on qualitative research traditions within narrative inquiry and critical theory to produce a book that is truly creative, not only in its use of narrative methodology, but in its use of story and poetry to unravel its discoveries. This book will be invaluable to students interested in narrative inquiry because it models the implementation of a critical narrative approach and locates this methodology in broader research discourses. It eloquently reveals the potential of narrative for sociological, educational and socially just research with marginalised youth.
Jim Ife and Frank Tesoriero
3rd ed, Pearson Education Australia, NSW, 2006
This book presents important principles of community development and
empowers students to understand the ways in which community development
practitioners can work in different contexts. With case studies and in-depth
discussion questions, this text provides opportunities to relate the
discussions in chapters to real life situations, and uses the content to
build skills in reflective practice. The applied nature of the book ensures
the relevance of concepts and ideas to the activities of communities and
community development. The third edition of Community development
contains two new chapters, questions for discussion and reflection,
up-to-date information, and a stronger human rights focus.

Edited by
Tom Stehlik and Pam Carden
Post Pressed, Flaxton, Queensland, 2005
Communities of practice are groups of people who informally share, develop and process learning, knowledge and practice in whatever situation they are in. They form when like-minded people come together to achieve a goal or find that they have common interests, and often develop into learning communities with transformative consequences for individuals.
In this collection authors from around Australia and from Finland
investigate communities of practice in a range of diverse situations,
including new school teachers, offshore university students, probationary
police constables working with mentors, collaboration between scientists,
and funeral industry workers learning on the job. In doing so they develop
and go beyond the original theory of communities of practice, adding new
dimensions of experience such as the importance of power relations, emotions
and social identities.
Adam Jamrozik
Pearson Education Australia, 2005
The second edition of Social policy in the post-welfare state
presents an up-to-date discussion of recent developments in social policy in
Australia. Additions include an examination of the new legislation and
policies around terrorism, as well as critical analysis of the implications
of last year's federal government election on the future of social policy in
Australia. Assoc Prof Adam Jamrozik examines social policy in Australia and
gives examples of international approaches to provide students with a global
perspective. Analysis is based on a variety of sources including academic
research literature and opinions in the daily press. Students are presented
with the most recent data and statistics. Topics in the text include income
security, employment and health. There is also a new chapter on housing,
urban environment and community services. The book has been structured to be
suitable as a text for a semester course on social policy.
Edited by
Barbara Comber and Barbara Kamler
Primary English Teachers Association, 2005
In this practical text teachers share their experiences of helping those students at risk of falling behind with their literacy. Full of practical ideas and case studies, teachers tell how they were able to change their students' performance by redesigning their literacy curriculum. Case studies show how technology can be used to engage disenchanted readers and writers. The book also explores how to re-engage high school students as readers through their interaction with the internet, computers and television.

Ian Richards
UNSW Press, Sydney, 2005
Despite best intentions, various codes of ethics and extensive public attention, journalists are repeatedly seen to behave in ways that are less than edifying. With refreshing candour and scholarly rigour, Ian Richards, journalist and academic, examines the reasons why this particular profession is, apparently, so ethically challenged.
Quagmires and Quandaries was reviewed in the Higher Education Supplement in The Australian newspaper on 7 September 2005. The reviewer concluded: 'Ian Richards provides a succinct, readable, introductory survey of the issues relating to ethics and his book should be compulsory reading for all practising and aspiring journalists.'
Ian Richards is Associate Professor of Journalism at UniSA,
teaching in the areas of print journalism, journalism ethics and
journalism theory. He also chairs the university's Human Research Ethics
Committee. His research interest is journalism ethics. Ian is a former
newspaper journalist, with a wide range of journalistic experience
extending from general reporting to leader-writing and covering
Aboriginal Affairs for a metropolitan daily newspaper.

Edited by Jane Kenway, Elizabeth Bullen and
Simon Robb
Peter Lang, New York, 2004
Knowledge economy policies typically seek to harness higher education
to economic outcomes. Tensions between the arts and humanities and the
commercial imperatives of the knowledge economy are growing. This book
explores how these tensions are played out within international and
national higher education policies, within university arts and
humanities departments and within the process of writing itself. Essays
in this collection investigate the impact of the knowledge economy
phenomenon on the arts and humanities and suggest both practical and
creative ways of responding to this global policy environment. This book
is relevant to scholars who are re-thinking the theory and practice of
the arts and humanities within the context of globalization, information
technology and entrepreneurship. It will interest students and academics
whose courses engage with notions of 'the commodity', 'knowledge' and
'creativity' within the fields of cultural and media studies, education
and sociology.
Chris Provis
Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 2004
Organisational politics raises important theoretical and practical questions: what obligations of loyalty do I have to my organisation, or to friends and colleagues? How honest should I be in what I say and in the impressions I give? This path-breaking book confronts these and other such questions. In doing so, it examines dilemmas that many people face daily. The book suggests that there is no routine or automatic way to approach such issues, but that widely accepted ethical principles can often help us deal with them, if we bear in mind some basic points about people's behaviour in organisations.
The book avoids undue technicality. Although informed by philosophical discussions of abstract ethics, its argument is based on detailed and systematic analysis of examples in organisational settings. The focus is on addressing ethical issues of practical importance for people who work in organisations.
The book will especially interest scholars involved with research and
teaching in business ethics, and other areas of applied ethics.
Practitioners in management will also find that the book addresses many
real concerns. Academics in a number of other areas ranging from general
management to moral philosophy and social theory may also find points to
consider.

Edited by
Peter Willis and Pam Carden
Post Pressed, Flaxton, Qld, 2004
This book is a collection of 27 essays that explore the lifelong learning involved in constantly renewing the democratic imagination how it can be fostered and what barriers can impede it.
This book claims or reclaims the goals of inclusively, social justice and democratic participation in ways that may not always be the most efficient or meet the bottom lines of the audit culture. It speaks openly the language of the heart. It uses words rarely heard in our curricula: 'hope', 'empathy', 'Utopian imaginings' and coins new ones: 'earth citizenship', 'eco-imagination'. It reminds us of our connectedness to the earth, to other species, of our need for engagement and communication with each other, for spiritual and ethical experiences. In so doing it lifts the spirits as it points the way ahead.
(Alison Mackinnon, Foundation Director, Hawke Research Institute)
Peter Willis lectures in adult and vocational education at the University of South Australia and is a member of the Centre for Research in Education, Equity and Work. He has a special interest in transformative learning among adults and the relationship between culture, spirituality and political action. His most recent publication is Inviting learning: an exhibition of risk and enrichment in adult education practice (NIACE, London, 2002).
Pam Carden is a research associate in the Centre for Research in Education, Equity and Work and works for Relationships Australia in the Australian Institute of Social Relations. She has a background in adult education and urban anthropology and has researched the learning cultures of the funeral industry in South Australia.
Available from the Centre for Research in Education, Equity and Work, $60.

Judith Gill
UNSW Press, Sydney, 2004
Coeducation or single-sex schooling? This is a fundamental question that many Australian parents have grappled with in their desire to achieve the best educational outcomes for their children both boys and girls mainly at secondary school, though sometimes at primary level as well. There are many opinions on either side of the debate, as well as straight-out myths and mistruths. In Beyond the great divide, author and educator Judith Gill addresses the ongoing debate head-on. She starts by giving a brief overview of schooling in Australia and its various school systems. Understanding the history is fundamental to knowing why things are now as they are. She then follows with an examination of the rationale for single-sex schooling, and leads readers through the evidence for and against the case for girls-only schooling. Gill then considers the recent push for reform to boys' education, and considers the argument for single-sex schools as a fitting response to boys' unmet needs. These arguments are compared with the ones presented earlier for girls-only schooling. Key points of difference are identified, along with some areas of common ground. The book offers a unique combination of insights derived from history, sociology and educational psychology. Research from overseas is included to add weight to the argument that educational practice varies according to the cultural context.
Beyond the great divide will allow readers to:
Judith Gill is a former Director of the Research Centre for
Gender Studies at the University of South Australia and a former Hawke
Fellow, and in 2003 was President of the Australian Association for
Research in Education (AARE), Australia's peak body on educational
research. Gill trained as a high-school teacher and worked in schools in
Australia and the USA before returning to university in Adelaide.

Edited by
Martin Shanahan and
Gerry Treuren
Wakefield Press, Kent Town, SA, 2004
Globalisation is impacting on Australians like never before. At the local level, individual citizens, like their counterparts of countless other regions throughout the globe, are confronting the new challenges and opportunities created by the rapid advance of technology and integration into increasingly competitive markets. Introduced by the Hon Bob Hawke, a key figure in Australia's most recent increased involvement with the rest of the world, Globalisation presents a range of perspectives on the nature of the effect of globalisation at the regional level. Written by researchers and graduate students at the University of South Australia, it tackles such challenging questions as:
This book represents a new wave of globalisation research; agnostic on the merits and desirability or otherwise of globalisation, Globalisation seeks to identify the key issues and processes shaping the possibilities of regional communities during this period of transition.
Dr Martin Shanahan is Associate Professor in Economics in the School of International Business at the University of South Australia. He completed his PhD at Flinders University and researches in a variety of fields including economic history, wealth and income distribution, applied cost-benefit analysis and economic education.
Dr Gerry Treuren is a Senior Lecturer in the School of
International Business at the University of South Australia. Dr Treuren
has written on the role of the state in the theory of industrial
relations, and is currently working on a study applying the methodology
of the French Regulationists to the establishment of Australia's 'new
protection' in the early twentieth century.

Rob Hattam
Post Pressed, Queensland, 2004.
'This ground-breaking book offers the first extensive comparison of critical theory with socially engaged Buddhism. Both traditions are concerned with the same thing liberating/awakening society but their contexts are so different that the relationship between them has not received the attention it deserves.
Awakening-struggle culminates in an attempt to outline a Buddhist-inspired critical theory, focusing on how personal transformation understood from a Buddhist perspective might be the basis for social change. Against the tendency of so much social critique to lose sight of personal agency, Hattam shows us how to think more deeply about the dialectic of self and social delusion.
(Professor David Loy, Bunkyo University, Japan)
Dr Rob Hattam is a lecturer in the School of Education. He was a Hawke Fellow in 2003.
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Centre for Research in Education, Equity and Work, $45.
Catherine Speck
Craftsman House, 2004
Dr Cathy Speck worked on this book while she was a Hawke Research
Fellow. She is now the coordinator of the Art History Program in the
History Department at Adelaide University.