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Name, Shame and Blame: Criminalising Consensual Sex in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea is one of the many former British Commonwealth colonies which maintain the criminalisation of the sexual activities of two groups, despite the fact that the sex takes place between consenting adults in private: sellers of sex and males who have sex with males. The English common law system was imposed on the colonies with little regard for the social regulation and belief syste…
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- 9781925021226
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My Country, Mine Country: Indigenous people, mining and development contestat…
Agreements between the mining industry and Indigenous people are not creating sustainable economic futures for Indigenous people, and this demands consideration of alternate forms of economic engagement in order to realise such ‘futures’. Within the context of three mining agreements in north Australia this study considers Indigenous livelihood aspirations and their intersection with sustai…
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- 9781922144720
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- 340.115 SCA m
Multiculturalism and Integration: A Harmonious Relationship
Multiculturalism has been the official policy of all Australian governments (Commonwealth and State) since the 1970s. It has recently been criticised, both in Australia and elsewhere. Integration has been suggested as a better term and policy. Critics suggest it is a reversion to assimilation. However integration has not been rigorously defined and may simply be another form of multiculturalism…
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- 9781921862151
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- 300 CLY m
Mobilites of Return: Pacific Perspectives
In recent decades, the term ‘mobility’ has emerged as a defining paradigm within the humanities. For scholars engaged in the multidisciplinary topics and perspectives now often embraced by the term Pacific Studies, it has been a much more longstanding and persistent concern. Even so, specific questions regarding ‘mobilities of return’—that is, the movement of people ‘back’ to plac…
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- 9781760461676
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- 351.81 MOB m
Labour and Employment in a Globalising World : Autonomy, Collectives and Poli…
This collection of essays provides new insight into the complex realities of labour and employment market globalisation. The pluridisciplinary and multi-faced understanding of globalisation is based upon ground research in ten countries from South to North. Its contextualisation of globalising labour and employment market, perceived as process, constitutes the originality of the book. Globalisa…
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- 978-90-5201-658-0
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- 331.1 LAB
Migration and Transnationalism: Pacific Perspectives
Pacific Islanders have engaged in transnational practices since their first settlement of the many islands in the region. As they moved beyond the Pacific and settled in nations such as New Zealand, the U.S. and Australia these practices intensified and over time have profoundly shaped both home and diasporic communities. This edited volume begins with a detailed account of this history and the…
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- 9781921536915
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- 351.81 LEE p
Man Bac: The Excavation of a Neolithic Site in Northern Vietnam
The site of Man Bac in the Red River Delta of Vietnam, one of the most meticulously excavated and carefully analysed of Southeast Asian archaeological sites in the past few years, is emerging as a key site in the region. This book carefully analyses the human and animal remains and puts them into context. The authors describe in detail the health status, the unusual demographic profile and the …
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- 9781921862236
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Labor versus empire : race, gender, and migration
The essays in this collection address issues significant to labor within regional, national and international contexts. Themes of the chapters will focus on managed labor migration; organizing in multi-ethnic and multi-national contexts; global economics and labor; global economics and inequality; gender and labor; racism and globalization; regional trade agreements and labor.
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- 0-415-94815-0
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Making Sense of the Census: Observations of the 2001 Enumeration in Remote Ab…
Enumeration; Census; Methodology; Population; Statistics; Aboriginal australians; Australia
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- 9781920942021
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Labor and Capital on the African Copperbeit
Labor and Capital on the African Copperbelt is an admirable introduction to social formation and class struggle in a historic phase of central African history and a history of labor on the Copperbelt. Beginning with their experiences in the Northern Rhodesian copper mines in the 1920s, black miners and their families gradually developed a sense of themselves as a class of workers. Their class c…
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- 9781439917985
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