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American West August 10, 2022

Visions of Nature

How Landscape Photography Shaped Settler Colonialism

Jarrod Hore

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
During the early years of photography, settlers around the Pacific World were fascinated with the landscapes of the places they conquered. According to Dr. Jarrod Hore, a postdoctoral researcher and …

Australian and New Zealand Studies

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General History August 5, 2022

Australia in the Age of International Development, 1945–1975

Colonial and Foreign Aid Policy in Papua New Guinea and Southeast Asia

Nicholas Ferns

Hosted by Bernard Keo
In the voluminous literature on the history of modernisation theory and its associated concept of development since the end of World War II, much of the focus lies on the …
Australian and New Zealand Studies July 8, 2022

Root and Branch

Essays on Inheritance

Eda Gunaydin

Hosted by Bede Haines
Eda Gunaydin joins us today to talk about Root and Branch: Essays on Inheritance (NewSouth, 2022). Lots of themes: Turkey, Australia, Sydney, family, friends, media, food, essays. That there is no easy translation …
American West July 4, 2022

The Chinese Question

The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global Politics

Mae Ngai

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
Between 1848 and 1899, miners extracted more gold from the earth than in the previous 3,000 years of human history combined. Each gold rush in this period, from the Sierra …
Sports June 21, 2022

Bondi Beach

Representations of an Iconic Australian

Douglas Booth

Hosted by Keith Rathbone
Today we are joined by Douglas Booth, Dean of Adventure, Culinary Arts and Tourism at Thompson Rivers University in British Columbia, Canada and Professor Emeritus at the University of Otago …
Anthropology June 15, 2022

Coconut Colonialism

Workers and the Globalization of Samoa

Holger Droessler

Hosted by Alex Golub
In Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa (Harvard UP, 2022), Holger Droessler provides a novel history of the impact of globalization on Sāmoa and vice versa. Using a …
Australian and New Zealand Studies June 8, 2022

Who Needs the ABC?

How Digital Disruption and Political Dysfunction Threaten the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Existence

Matthew Ricketson and Patrick Mullins

Hosted by Bede Haines
Hello media fans - The ABC is Australia's public broadcaster, for TV, digital and radio. Think BBC and CBC and NPR.  Who Needs the ABC?: How Digital Disruption and Political Dysfunction …
Geography May 30, 2022

Platypus Matters

The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals

Jack Ashby

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
Think of a platypus: they lay eggs (that hatch into so-called platypups), they produce milk without nipples and venom without fangs and they can detect electricity. Or a wombat: their …
Australian and New Zealand Studies April 29, 2022

Fragments from a Contested Past

Remembrance, Denial and New Zealand History

Joanna Kidman, Vincent O'Malley, Liana MacDonald, Tom Roa, and Keziah Wallis

Hosted by Ed Amon
‘What a nation or society chooses to remember and forget speaks to its contemporary priorities and sense of identity. Understanding how that process works enables us to better imagine a …
Australian and New Zealand Studies April 26, 2022

Girt Nation

The Unauthorised History of Australia (Volume 3)

David Hunt

Hosted by Bede Haines
The saga of Australia continues with... Girt Nation: The Unauthorised History of Australia, Volume 3 (Black Inc., 2021). David Hunt tramples the tall poppies of the past in charting Australia's …
Literature April 21, 2022

Sista, Stanap Strong!

A Vanuatu Women's Anthology

Mikaela Nyman, Rebecca Tobo Olul-Hossen, and Nicole Colmar

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Sista, Stanap Strong!: A Vanuatu Women's Anthology (Te Herenaa Waka UP, 2021) is an anthology of new writing from Vanuatu by three generations of women—and the first of its kind …
Nordic Asia Podcast April 15, 2022

Timor-Leste Elections

José Ramos-Horta in Conversation with Amber Woortman

José Ramos-Horta

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
Jose Ramos-Horta topped the first round of polling in the 2022 Timor-Leste presidential elections, securing 46.56 per cent of the popular vote on 19 March. Here he speaks to Amber …
Anthropology March 29, 2022

In the Shadow of the Palms

More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua

Sophie Chao

Hosted by Alex Golub
This episode we speak with Sophie Chao, author of In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua (Duke University Press, 2022). Her new book examines the lives of Marind …
Geography March 25, 2022

Georges River Blues

Swamps, Mangroves and Resident Action, 1945–1980

Heather Goodall

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
Today I talked toHeather Goodall about her book Georges River Blues: Swamps, Mangroves, and Resident Action, 1945-1980 (ANU Press, 2022).The lower Georges River, on Dharawal and Dharug lands, was a place …
Education March 21, 2022

Waiting for Gonski

How Australia Failed Its Schools

Tom Greenwell and Chris Bonnor

Hosted by Alice Garner
Anyone interested in how education policy is made and unmade, in school funding models, their historical and contemporary development and their effects on equity, will find this book fascinating. The …
Recall This Book March 17, 2022

Polynesia, Sea of Islands

A Discussion with Christina Thompson

Christina Thompson

Hosted by Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz
John and Elizabeth talk cultural renewal with Christina Thompson in this rebroadcast of a 2019 Recall this Book conversation. Her Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia both relates the history …
Catholic Studies March 14, 2022

Forging Identities in the Irish World

Melbourne and Chicago, 1840-1922

Sophie Cooper

Hosted by Allison Isidore
Forging Identities in the Irish World: Melbourne and Chicago, 1840-1922 (Edinburgh UP, 2022,) explores the shifting influences of religious demography, educational provision, and club culture to shed new light on …
Australian and New Zealand Studies March 2, 2022

Invisible

New Zealand's History of Excluding Kiwi-Indians

Jacqueline Leckie

Hosted by Amir Sayadabdi
Despite our mythology of benign race relations, Aotearoa New Zealand has a long history of underlying prejudice and racism. The experiences of Indian migrants and their descendants, either historically or …
Literature January 31, 2022

I Have Seen the Moon

Reflections on Nauru

Bron Williams

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Today I talked to Bron Williams about her book I Have Seen the Moon: Reflections on Nauru (2017).Mary Anne Radmacher wrote, "I am not the same having seen the moon shine on …
Australian and New Zealand Studies January 19, 2022

Stepping Up

COVID-19 Checkpoints and Rangatiratanga

Luke Fitzmaurice and Maria Bargh

Hosted by Ed Amon
Stepping Up: COVID-19 Checkpoints and Rangatiratanga (Huia Publishers, 2021) discusses the roadside checkpoints that were set up by Māori to protect communities during the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. Case …