2019
Barnwell, Ashley and Cummins, Joseph. Reckoning with the Past: Family Historiographies in Postcolonial Australian Literature. Routledge, 2019.
This is the first book to examine how Australian fiction writers draw on family histories to reckon with the nation’s colonial past. Located at the intersection of literature, history, and sociology, it explores the relationships between family storytelling, memory, and postcolonial identity. With attention to the political potential of family histories, Reckoning with the Past argues that authors’ often autobiographical works enable us to uncover, confront, and revise national mythologies. More information...
Bengtsson, Tea Torbenfeldt and Ravn, Signe. Youth, Risk, Routine: A New Perspective on Risk-Taking in Young Lives. Routledge, 2019.
Youth, Risk, Routine introduces a new approach to risk-taking activities as being an integral and routinised part of young people's everyday life. By applying social theories of practice, this insightful volume presents a framework for understanding the routinised dimensions of young people's engagement in risk-taking and how this is embedded in, intertwined with, and held in place by other everyday practices. More information…
Bowman, Dina; Mallett, Shelley and Cooney-O’Donoghue, Diarmuid. “Diversion Ahead? Change Is Needed but That Doesn’t Mean That Basic Income Is the Answer,” in Klein, Elise; Mays, Jennifer and Dunlop, Tim (eds.,). Implementing a Basic Income in Australia Pathways Forward. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
This book brings together scholars from the fields of politics, philosophy, sociology, anthropology and economics, to explore pathways towards implementing a Basic Income in Australia. It is the first book of its kind to outline avenues for implementation of a basic income specifically for Australia and responds to a gap in the existing basic income literature and published titles to provide a distinct standpoint in the exploration of basic income within the Australian contemporary policy landscape. More information…
Craig, Lyn. "The Composition of Grandparent Childcare: Gendered Patterns in Cross-national Perspective," in Timonen, Virpi (ed.,). Grandparenting practices around the world: Reshaping family. University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Grandparenting Practices Around the World presents an in-depth and up-to-date analysis of the increasing numbers of grandparents worldwide who co-exist and interact for longer periods of time with their grandchildren. The book contains analyses of topics that have so far received relatively little attention, such as transnational grandparenting and gender differences in grandparenting practices. More information...
Douglas, Kate and Barnwell, Ashley (eds.,). Research Methodologies for Auto/biography Studies. Routledge, 2019.
The essays in this collection position auto/biography as a key discipline for modelling interdisciplinary approaches to methodology and ask: what original and important thinking can auto/biography studies bring to discussions of methodology for literary studies and beyond? And how does the diversity of methodological interventions in auto/biography studies build a strong and diverse research discipline? More information...
Essed, P., Farquharson, K., Pillay, K. and White, E.J. (eds.,). Relating Worlds of Racism: Dehumanisation, Belonging, and the Normativity of European Whiteness. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
This international edited collection examines how racism trajectories and manifestations in different locations relate and influence each other. The book unmasks and foregrounds the ways in which notions of European Whiteness have found form in a variety of global contexts that continue to sustain racism as an operational norm resulting in exclusion, violence, human rights violations, isolation and limited full citizenship for individuals who are not racialised as White. More information...
Holleran, Max. “How Gentrifiers Gentrify,” in Marcus, Sharon and Zaloom, Caitlin (eds.,). Think in Public: A Public Books Reader. Columbia University Press, 2019.
Since 2012, Public Books has championed a new kind of community for intellectual engagement, discussion, and action. An online magazine that unites the best of the university with the openness of the internet, Public Books is where new ideas are debuted, old facts revived, and dangerous illusions dismantled. Here, young scholars present fresh thinking to audiences outside the academy, accomplished authors weigh in on timely issues, and a wide range of readers encounter the most vital academic insights and explore what they mean for the world at large. More information...
Ravn, Signe. “Participation, Positionality and Power: Critical Moments in Research with Service-Engaged Youth,” in Billett, Paulina; Hart, Matt and Martin, Dona (eds.,). Complexities of researching with young people. Routledge, 2019.
Cook, Julia and Woodman, Dan. “Digital modes of data collection in mixed-methods longitudinal youth research,” in Billett, Paulina; Hart, Matt and Martin, Dona (eds.,). Complexities of Researching with Young People. Routledge, 2019.
Currently, most books on youth research available on the market focus on ‘how to’ conduct youth research or the research process itself. This edited collection proposes to take this process a step further and discuss the complexities of youth research from a practical and theoretical context. In total, five themes are examined – conceptualising young people, ethics and consent, the digital, voice, participation and unexpected tensions. In this book, authors from six countries explore the complexities of researching with young people across disciplines and national contexts. More information...
Yerkes, M. And Hewitt, B. "Part-time strategies of women and men of childbearing age in the Netherlands and Australia," in Nicolaisen, Heidi; Kavli, Hanne and Jensen, Ragnhild Steen (eds.,). Dualisation of Part-Time Work: The Development of Labour Market Insiders and Outsiders. Policy Press, 2019.
This book brings together leading international authors from a number of fields to provide an up-to-date understanding of part-time work at national, sector, industry and workplace levels. The contributors critically examine part-time employment in different institutional settings across Europe, the USA, Australia and Korea. More information…
Zinn, Jens O. The UK ‘at Risk’ A Corpus Approach to Historical Social Change 1785–2009. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019
This book presents a case study of the proliferation of at risk-language in The Times news coverage from 1785 to 2009, illuminating the changing social experience of risk. Zinn presents an historical examination of the forces which have shaped the language of risk over time, and considers how linguistic developments in recent decades are underpinned by issues such as cultural and structural transformations, the management of infectious and chronic diseases and climate change. He also explores changes in the public sphere, including the production of the news. More information…