New Books Network
Australian and New Zealand Studies
Law November 25, 2020

From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage

How Australia Got Compulsory Voting

Judith Brett

Hosted by Jane Richards
In this fascinating history of Australia’s electoral system, Judith Brett makes a timely case in favour of compulsory voting. Her analysis is entertaining and enlightening, and makes a significant contribution …

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Australian and New Zealand Studies November 17, 2020

Distant Sisters

Australasian Women and the International Struggle for the Vote, 1880-1914

James Keating

Hosted by Bede Haines
In the 1890s Australian and New Zealand women became the first in the world to win the vote. Buoyed by their victories, they promised to lead a global struggle for …
Popular Culture November 13, 2020

Graphic Indigeneity

Comics in the Americas and Australasia

Frederick Luis Aldama

Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
In Graphic Indigeneity: Comics in the Americas and Australasia (UP of Mississippi, 2020), Frederick Luis Aldama brings together comics scholars Joshua T. Anderson, Chad A. Barbour, Susan Bernardin, Mike Borkent …
Asian American Studies August 13, 2020

Possessing Polynesians

The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai‘i and Oceania

Maile Arvin

Hosted by Alex Golub
From their earliest encounters with Indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans saw Polynesians as almost racially white, and speculated that they were of Mediterranean or Aryan descent. In Possessing …
Australian and New Zealand Studies June 23, 2020

God is Samoan

Dialogues Between Culture and Theology in the Pacific

Matt Tomlinson

Hosted by Alex Golub
Christian theologians in the Pacific Islands see culture as the grounds on which one understands God. In God is Samoan: Dialogues Between Culture and Theology in the Pacific (University of …
Australian and New Zealand Studies June 16, 2020

The Hilton Bombing

Evan Pederick and the Ananda Marga

Imre Salusinszky

Hosted by Matthew Thompson
"Every morning of my life in the past few years I would wake with the thought, I’m a murderer. I have no right to enjoy life.” Evan Pederick speaking to …
Australian and New Zealand Studies June 3, 2020

Self, Others and the State

Relations of Criminal Responsibility

Arlie Loughnan

Hosted by Jane Richards
Criminal responsibility is a key-organizing concept of the criminal law, but Arlie Loughnan argues that it needs re-examination. Focusing on the Australian experience, Self, Others and the State: Relations of …
Literature May 14, 2020

On Drugs

Chris Fleming

Hosted by Matthew Thompson
"After I’d finished my rapid-fire history of self-justification he paused and then said, deadpan and rural-Australian-slow: 'Right. Ok. So how is that all working out for you?'" On Drugs (Giramondo …
Australian and New Zealand Studies April 9, 2020

A Grammar of Belep

Chelsea McCracken

Hosted by Carrie Gillon
Chelsea McCracken talks about her new book A Grammar of Belep (Walter de Gruyter, 2019). McCracken is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at Dixie State University and Senior …
Australian and New Zealand Studies April 3, 2020

Human Rights in Twentieth-Century Australia

Jon Piccini

Hosted by Dexter Fergie
After the Second World War, an Australian diplomat was one of eight people to draft the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. And in the years that followed, Australians of many …
Australian and New Zealand Studies November 25, 2019

The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

When Total Empire Met Total War

Jeremy Yellen

Hosted by Nathan Hopson
Jeremy Yellen’s The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War (Cornell University Press, 2019) is a challenging transnational exploration of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere …
Australian and New Zealand Studies November 7, 2019

Playing for Australia

The First Socceroos, Asia, and World Football

Trevor Thompson

Hosted by Keith Rathbone
Today we are joined by Trevor Thompson, a journalist who has reported on association football in Australia and around the world since the 1980s. He is also the author of …
Art October 24, 2019

Coral Empire

Underwater Oceans, Colonial Tropics, Visual Modernity

Ann Elias

Hosted by Lance Thurner
With the threats of sea water warming and ocean acidification, coral reefs have become both a fire alarm and a barometer for the dangers of human induced climate change. We …
Literary Studies October 15, 2019

Allegories of the Anthropocene

Elizabeth DeLoughrey

Hosted by Lance Thurner
While the mainstream discourses on global warming characterize it as an unprecedented catastrophe that unites the globe in a common challenge, Elizabeth DeLoughrey argues that this apparently cosmopolitan position is …
Australian and New Zealand Studies October 11, 2019

Captain Cook Was Here

Maria Nugent

Hosted by Michael F. Robinson
Maria Nugent talks about Aboriginal Australians' first encounter with Captain Cook at Botany Bay, a violent meeting that has come to represent the origin story of Australia’s colonization by Europeans …
Australian and New Zealand Studies October 7, 2019

A Death in the Rainforest

How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea

Don Kulick

Hosted by Alex Golub
Called "perhaps the finest and most profound account of ethnographic fieldwork and discovery that has ever entered the anthropological literature" by the Wall Street Journal, A Death in the Rainforest …
Australian and New Zealand Studies September 13, 2019

Wild Sea

A History of the Southern Ocean

Joy McCann

Hosted by Michael F. Robinson
Joy McCann discusses the great circumpolar ocean that surrounds Antarctica. McCann is the author of Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean (University of New South Wales Press, 2018) …
Australian and New Zealand Studies August 9, 2019

Ludwig Leichhardt’s Ghosts

The Strange Career of a Traveling Myth

Andrew Wright Hurley

Hosted by Michael F. Robinson
Andrew Wright Hurley talks about the life and afterlife of the Prussian explorer Ludwig Leichhardt, a man whose reputation has shifted to reflect the changing cultures of Australia and Germany …
Australian and New Zealand Studies July 29, 2019

Aboriginal People and Australian Football in the 19th Century

They Did Not Come From Nowhere

Roy Hay

Hosted by Keith Rathbone
Today we are joined by Roy Hay, Honorary Fellow at Deakin University, and the author of Aboriginal People and Australian Football in the 19th Century: They Did Not Come From …
Australian and New Zealand Studies July 25, 2019

Sea People

The Puzzle of Polynesia

Christina Thompson

Hosted by Alex Golub
It's rare for a book of non-fiction to catch the interest of the reading public in the United States, much less a book on the history of science in the …