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This book, based on an empirical form of narration, outlines a short-medium term analysis of the social impact of austerity politics on urban life.. Set in Exarchia, a radical and anti-authoritarian...

This book takes up the problems of social policy, state intervention and support in the hard times of austerity introduced by the Coalition government 2010-15, and continued under the Conservative...

This timely book debates the economic and political logic of the austerity policies that have been implemented in the UK and in the Eurozone since 2010 and asks whether there is any alternative for...

This book offers analysis of Australia?s engagement with Africa, as well as the country?s rather unique status as a ?new? actor and emerging country in Africa. With its empirical originality and...

This book focuses on the making and implication of AUKUS for Australians in their relations with their own state and governance, the Asia-Pacific region and the rest of the world. AUKUS is an...

The book is a study on planetary realism in a critical analysis of Australia in the age of the Anthropocene. It contextualises Australia in the degradation of the biosphere deeply harmful to...

This book argues that Australia is vital to the US imperial project for global hegemony in the struggle among great powers, and why Australia's deep dependency on the US is incompatible with...

This book explores an Australian regional community's reaction to, and involvement with, the Boer War. It argues that after the initial year the war became an 'occasional war' in that it was assumed...

This book explores how Australia managed the prisoner of war issue throughout the Second World War and the immediate post-war period. It examines how the Australian government responded to the...

This book provides the most comprehensive history and analysis of Australian animation published to date. Spanning from the 1910s to the present day, it explores a wide-range both of independent...

Reconceptualises Australia's 'middle power' statusDiscusses the history of the 'middle power' conceptProposes a future for Australia's relations with the Asia-PacificAuthor: Allan PatiencePublisher:...

This book claims a discursive space in academic scholarship for knowledges and ways of knowing that capture the diversity, complexity and full humanness of Australian Muslim women?s subjectivities...

This book examines the impact of Australian public opinion towards defence and foreign policy from the mid-twentieth century to the present day. For most of this period, the public showed little...

Australian Rules Football During the First World WarAuthor: Dale BlairPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Oct 27, 2017Number of Pages: 143 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

This book provides coverage of the diversity of Australian film and television production between 2000 and 2015. In this period, Australian film and television have been transformed by new...

Australian Western in the Fifties: Kangaroo, Hopalong Cassidy on Tour, and Whiplash looks at Australian Westerns from three points of view--film, personal appearance, and television at the beginning,...

Australians and the First World War: Local-Global Connections and ContextsAuthor: Kate AriottiPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Aug 23, 2017Number of Pages: 254 pagesBinding: Hardback or...

This book analyzes the conduct of press policy in Bohemia from the Revolutions of 1848 through the period of the T?bory, 1867-71. In the aftermath of the revolutions, the Habsburg state, far from...

Authentic Leadership and Followership: International PerspectivesAuthor: Dorianne Cotter-LockardPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Jan 18, 2018Number of Pages: 306 pagesBinding: Hardback...

​Authenticity is a highly-prized concept on social media, but given the history of the term, has it been adequately scrutinised? This book provides an alternative definition of authentic social...

Interdisciplinary approach, combining historical insight with political theory to offer a more rounded understanding of this conceptHighlights the importance and uses of authenticity in a variety of...

This book offers new clarity on three important political concepts: authoritarianism, neoliberalism, and resistance. While debates on authoritarian resurgence have been limited to the examination of...

Offers in-depth case studies and analyses of the tensions, ruptures, and reciprocal mediations between culture and politics throughout Paraguay's historical evolutionReconsiders the crucial...

This book investigates Turkey?s departure from a ?flawed democracy? under Kemalist secularism, and its transitioning into Islamist authoritarian Erdoganism, through the lenses of informal law, legal...

This book comments on growing authoritarianism in democracy and suggests how it ought to be instead. It asks if some degree of authoritarianism is the need of the hour to address potentially...

This book studies British literary writers? engagement with adaptations of their work across literary, theatrical, and film media in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It considers their...

​Authors, Factions, and Courts in Angevin England: A Literature of Personal Ambition (12th-13th Century) advances a model for historical study of courtly literature by foregrounding the...

Autism is a complex phenomenon that is both individual and social. Showing both robust similarities and intriguing differences across cultural contexts, the autism spectrum raises innumerable...

This open access book marks the first historical overview of the autism rights branch of the neurodiversity movement, describing the activities and rationales of key leaders in their own words since...

Presents autoethnographic research on the environment and global healthFeatures a firsthand account of exploring a particular environmental issue or risk factor, such as foodborne diseases, in each...