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Performing the “good” feminist in the online era

Akane Kanai’s The New Politics of Online Feminism draws on interviews with young women in Australia to explore how they navigate performative feminism, intersectionality and the pressures of scrutiny...

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Monuments to survival – anti-nuclear resistance through art

80 years after the catastrophic atom bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Resisting the Nuclear: Art and Activism Across the Pacific edited by Elyssa Faison and Alison Fields explores anti-nuclear...

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Too much screen time? How digital media impacts children under six

Digital Media Use in Early Childhood by Lelia Green, Leslie Haddon, Sonia Livingstone, Brian O’Neill, Kylie J. Stevenson and Donell Halloway examines how children under six interact with digital media,...

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The changing geopolitics of the Indian Ocean

Darshana M. Baruah’s Contest for the Indian Ocean and the Making of a New World Order explores 21st-century Indian Ocean geopolitics, focusing on trade, political power shifts and maritime security....

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The state of Australia’s democracy

Australia’s Evolving Democracy edited by Mark Evans, Patrick Dunleavy and John Phillimore is a comprehensive audit of Australian democracy, unpacking its stable political system and the challenges it...

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E-cigarettes and the Comparative Politics of Harm Reduction: History,...

In E-cigarettes and the Comparative Politics of Harm Reduction: History, Evidence and Policy, Virginia Berridge, Ronald Bayer, Amy L. Fairchild and Wayne Hall scrutinise the history underlying the...

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Book Review | Stopping Oil Climate Justice and Hope by Sophie Bond et al.

In Stopping Oil: Climate Justice and Hope, Sophie Bond, Amanda Thomas and Gradon Diprose examine Aotearoa New Zealand’s deep-sea oil development agenda in recent decades and the climate justice...

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6 Recommended Reads on Epidemics and Religious Change

Photo by Jeremy Bezanger on Unsplash Epidemics can turn the world upside down. They kill millions, isolate us and wreak havoc on international trade. But what is their impact on religion? During my...

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Changing the gender narrative with open access

Academic success is regularly framed in terms of a particular set of publishing activities that disadvantages women. Katie Wilson and Lucy Montgomery discuss their recent research into how women...

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Book Review: Cities in the Anthropocene: New Ecology and Urban Politics by...

In Cities in the Anthropocene: New Ecology and Urban Politics, Ihnji Jon explores how researchers, city planners and the public can develop a bottom-up approach to environmentalism in urban areas,...

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Book Review: The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement...

In The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago, Alison Mountz explores how the proliferation and normalisation of the island as a site of enforcement and detention is...

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Book Review: Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia edited by Anita Heiss

With the edited collection Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia, Anita Heiss brings together a range of multivocal, heterogeneous and deeply compelling contributions from 51 Aboriginal writers reflecting...

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Book Review: Grappling with the Bomb: Britain’s Pacific H-Bomb Tests by Nic...

In Grappling with the Bomb: Britain’s Pacific H-Bomb Tests, Nic Maclellan gathers together oral history and archival materials to bring forth a more democratic history of the British hydrogen bomb test...

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Author Interview: Q&A with Sharon Crozier-De Rosa on her book, Shame and the...

In this author interview, we speak to Sharon Crozier-De Rosa about her new book, Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash: Britain, Ireland and Australia, 1890-1920, which examines the use of shame as an...

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Book Review: Meta-Regulation in Practice: Beyond Normative Views of Morality...

In Meta-Regulation in Practice: Beyond Normative Views of Morality and Rationality, F.C. Simon offers a critique of the theory of meta-regulation, drawing upon the twenty-first-century experience of...

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Book Review: The Toxic University: Zombie Leadership, Academic Rock Stars and...

In The Toxic University: Zombie Leadership, Academic Rock Stars and Neoliberal Ideology, John Smyth offers a critical reading of the pathological state of higher education today, diagnosing this as the...

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Reading List: 8 Books on Indigenous Research Methods recommended by Helen Kara

Image Credit: Indigenous Graduate Reception, February 2017, University of the Fraser Valley (University of the Fraser Valley CC BY 2.0) In this reading list, Helen Kara recommends 8 books for those...

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Book Review: Refugees in Higher Education: Debate, Discourse and Practice by...

20 June is World Refugee Day. In their new book Refugees in Higher Education: Debate, Discourse and Practice, Jacqueline Stevenson and Sally Baker offer a comprehensive discussion of the policies and...

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Book Review: Rusted Off: Why Country Australia is Fed Up by Gabrielle Chan

In Rusted Off: Why Country Australia is Fed Up, Gabrielle Chan delves deep into the experiences of the inhabitants of her home, the small rural town of Harden-Murrumburrah, to gain insight into the...

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Book Review: Unruly Visions: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora by...

In Unruly Visions: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora, Gayatri Gopinath offers an interwoven exploration of diaspora, visuality and queer studies, drawing on film, poetry, photography, memoirs...

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