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 New Publications

New Publications from The Australian Studies Centre, Barcelona University

Encyclopaedia of the Australian People
 James Jupp
Australian national University

The second edition of the Encyclopaedia of The Australian People is now completed and will be published by Cambridge University Press in October.

The second edition was endorsed by the Kirner committee planning the centenary of federation in 1994. It has been funded by the Commonwealth and State ministers for immigration and ethnic affairs but also contains a substantial section on the Indigenous people. However, under its contract, it does not represent the views of any Australian government and has been protected from any intervention or influence from them. Editorial work has been completed through the Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies at the Australian National University and the majority of authors hold university posts.

The one-million word encyclopaedia details the origins of the Australian people. The bulk of material concerns the ethnic background of Australians and covers over one hundred different ethnicities, including major sections on those from the British Isles. An introductory section traces the settlement of Australia from its Aboriginal origins, through the mass immigration of the past two centuries.

All statistical data is upgraded to the 1996 Census — fifteen years later than the information available for the first edition. Over one-third of material is quite new or written by new authors. The fourth section — Building a Nation — is predominantly new and addresses issues arising from the varied character of the Australian population such as multiculturalism, reconciliation, citizenship and national identity.

The single volume has about four hundred black and white and coloured illustrations, many of them taken specifically for this edition. There are also maps, charts and diagrams. Much of the information contained is not available elsewhere and is of central importance for understanding Australian settlement and ethnic history as well as the controversies which have broken out since the first edition was published in 1988.

Culture in Australia

 Policies, Publics and Programs
Edited by Tony Bennett and David Carter

Culture in Australia offers an incisive and up-to-date examination of the forces that are reshaping Australian cultural priorities, policies and practices at the start of the twenty-first century. Drawing on the work of some of Australia's leading cultural analysts, its concerns range broadly across the cultural sector encompassing art and heritage institutions, publishing, broadcasting, sport, tourism, museums, the music industry, film and youth cultures. These are placed in the context of the major national and international forces — globalisation, the increasing commercialisation of cultural production, the changing fortunes of multiculturalism, the increasing cultural presence of indigenous Australia, the changing policy and regulatory environment — that are redrawing the cultural landscape in contemporary Australia. Engagingly and accessibly written, Culture in Australia offers a challenging introduction to current debates and dialogues focused on the need to imagine new cultural futures for Australia and for its increasingly diverse and mobile peoples. Contents:

Section 1: Policy And Industry Contexts Introduction — 1 Knowing the Processes but not the Outcomes: Australian Cinema Faces the Millennium; Tom O'Regan; 2 Globalisation, Regionalism and Australianisation in Music: Lessons From the Parallel Importing Debate; David Rowe; 3 Reshaping Australian Art Institutions; Terry Smith; 4 Tourism: Leisure, Culture, Industry; Jennifer Craik; 5 Coombs: Cultural Policies and Continuities; Tim Rowse;

Section 2: Australian Culture And Its Publics — Introduction; 6 The Public Life of Literature; David Carter and Kay Ferres; 7 Reshaping Public Institutions: Popular Culture, the Market and the Public Sphere; Graeme Turner; 8 Public Service Broadcasting: Multiple Publics, Values and the Popular; Gay Hawkins; 9 Men, Women, Class and Culture; Tony Bennett, Michael Emmison and John Frow; 10 Lost Horizons: Searching for Youth Culture in the Postmodern Public Sphere; Catharine Lumby; 11 Gender and the Governmentalisation of Australian Amateur Sport; Jim McKay, Geoffrey Lawrence, Toby Miller and David Rowe;

Section 3: Programs Of Cultural Diversity — lntroduction; 12 Multiculturalism: Contested Agendas; James Jupp; 13 'Race' Portraits and Vernacular Possibilities: Pluralism, Heritage and Cultural Institutions; Chris Healy; 14 indigenous Presences and National Narratives in Australian Museums; Nicholas Thomas; 15 Electronic Networking: Indigenous Media and Communications in Australia; Helen Molnar; 16 Regional Cultures; Robin Trotter.

Tony Bennett is Professor of Sociology at the Open University and was previously Professor of Cultural Studies and Director of the Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy at Griffith University, Brisbane. His previous books include (with Michael Emmison and John Frow) Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures (Cambridge University Press, 1999); Culture: A Reformer's Science (1998); The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics (1995); and Outside Literature (1991). He has published extensively in various journals including Critical Inquiry, Economy and Society, Cultural Studies and New Formations.

David Carter is Director of the Australian Studies Centre at the University of Queensland and President of the International Australian Studies Association. His publications include A Career in Writing: Judah Waten and the Cultural Politics of a Literary Career (1997), Outside the Book: Contemporary Essays on Literary Periodicals (1991) and (with Wayne Hudson) The Republicanism Debate (1993).

Reshaping Australian Institutions
Publication: August 2001 248 x 176 mm 384 pages 5 halftones 5 line diagrams
1 0521004039 Paperback $39-95 0521802903 Hardback $99.00

States of Imagination:
 Nationalism and Multiculturalism in Australian and Southern Asian Literature
John McLaren

The nation states of Asia and the South Pacific that were formerly ruled by Britain or the United States have in common their colonial past and the civil institutions inherited from it, the widespread use of the English language, and the problem of building new nations amid cultural, ethnic, religious and linguistic diversity. This study examines the ways writers in English have dealt with these problems in India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines and Australia, where nationalism remains a potent force, alternatively responsible for savage bloodletting and for supporting a frame of order within which citizens can go freely about their business. Constitutions designed on the Westminster model attempt to preserve between individual and communal rights a balance that is challenged by the presence of competing ethnic, linguistic or religious groups. Governments in these societies can impose order by power, but they can achieve authority only by developing open forms of nationality that give legitimacy to variety. This nationality may be based on an appeal to a common tradition in the past or to a vision of openness in the future. The works of fiction examined here are all characterised by attempts to locate the time of varying pasts in particular locations in the present and to imagine viable nations for the future. The book concludes with a suggestion of an open form of nationalism as an alternative to exclusive nationalisms that serve only to exclude much of the populations they call to solidarity.

John McLaren is Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Arts at the Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia, and Consulting Editor of the literary quarterly Overland. He has published widely in the fields of Australian, Asian and Pacific literature, culture and politics. His most recent publications include New Pacific Literatures — Culture and Environment in the European Pacific (New York and London, 1993), and Writing in Hope and Fear: Postwar Australian Literature as Politics (Melbourne, 1996).

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The Literature of Travel, Exploration and Empire
 General Editors: Iain mcCalman and Nicholas Thomas
Australian National University

There is now an unprecedented level of interest in travel, cross-cultural relations and colonial histories. Scholars in cultural history, literary studies, art history, anthropology and related fields have become increasingly interested in the history of encounters between Europeans and other peoples, in the intellectual and scientific dimensions of exploration and travel, and in the development of travel writing.

Despite this bugeoning scholarly interest, many important texts are unavailable or available only in expensive facsimiles that lack up-to-date commentary. This new series makes key texts more widely available. It includes previously unpublished or poorly known texts, as well as new editions of well-known works. Accessible introductions situate the works in the light of recent historical and anthropological research, and theoretical developments in the understanding of travel and colonial representation. Annotations provide contextual information and emphasize questions of interpretation.

Eucalypt, The Australian Studies Centre Journal, General Editor: Susan Ballyn, Guest Editor: Bill Phillips. No. 1, PPU, Barcelona 2001 This is a fully refereed Journal. This number is illustrated.

 Contents
'Introduction', Bill Phillips
'An Expedition to the Antipodes: Presentation of the scientific field work Made by the Research group HOMINID in the Territory of the Yolngu', Jordi Serrallonga, Victoria Medina, Marcos Carrasco
'The Yolngu Diet: Comments on the Dietry Habits of the Aboriginal Communities in Arnhem Land', Victoria Medina, Jordi Serrallonga, Marcos Carrasco
'An Approach to the Traditional Material Culture of the Aboriginal Community of Gapuwiyak', Jordi Serrallonga, Victoria Medina, Marcos Carrasco
'The Material Culture and Australian Aboriginal art Collection in Barcelona s Museu Etnològic, Ma. Dolores Soriano

Changing Geographies: Essays on Australia, PPU, Barcelona 2001, Editors: Susan Ballyn, Geoff Belligoi, Kathy Firth, Elisa Morera, Bill Phillips, Technical Editor: Jordi Olivar

 Contents
Introduction, Susan Ballyn,
'Changing Geographies' and other poems Silvia Cuevas,
Unsettling The Colonial Imaginary: Possibilities For A Post-Colonial Constitution In Australia', Robert Grant
'The Vanishing Iberian Connection', Lucy Frost
'Lost Horizon: Australian Reflections On The Global Village', John Barnes
'Six Theses On Contemporary Australia', David Carter
'The Unchanged Landscape', Elisa Morera De La Vall
'Changing Forms, Changing Voices: The Geography Of 'Eliza Fraser', Maureen Lynch Percopo
'The Topography Of Decoration', Paul Zika
'Australian Or Else: The Ludic Performance Of Hermes', Ilinca Stroe
'Tasmania: Island Or Archipelago; Trinket Or Chain', Elizabeth Mcmahon
'The Human Face Of Settlement', Geoff Belligoi
'But You Don't Look Like A Metaphor: Migaloo Thinking about Aboriginal People', Melissa Lucashenko
'One Hundred Millenniums Plus Two-Maintaining Traditional Indigenous Geographies Minus Two Centuries of Lost Life in the Geography of Australian Ignorance', Alexis Wright
'Changing Geographies, Unchanging Earth: The Clash of Two Cultures in Women of the Sun', Dolors Collellmir
'The Collection of the Material Culture and Art of Australian Aborigines in the Museu Etnológic de Barcelona', Dolores Soriano
'An Approach to the Material Culture of the Aboriginal Community of Gapuwiyak (Northem Territory, Australia)', Jordi Serrallonga, Victoria Medina & Marcos Carrasco
'The Yolngu Diet: Notes on the Dietary Habits of the Aboriginal Communities in Arnhem Land (Australia)', Victoria Medina, Jordi Serrallonga & Marcos Carrasco
'Celebrity Heads', Adam Shoemaker
'The Three Laws of Consumption', Bernard Cohen
'Ania Walwicz: Mapping Australia's Changing Geography on the Page', Paloma Fresno Calleja
'The Shape of Inderterminancy in Patrick White's Fringe of Leaves and David Malouf's Remembering Babylon', Stella Borgh Barthet
'The Search for Identity, the Search for Place in The Rooms in My Mother's House by Olga Lorenzo', Lilit Zeuklin Thwaites
'Changing Places: Character and Landscape in D.H. Lawrence's Kangaroo', Maria Panarello
'Urban Geographies on the Threshold of the New Millennium: Representations of the City in Janine Burke, Beverley Farmer and Drusilla Modjeska's Narratives', Roberta Buffi
'Gerald Mumane's Changing Geographies', Karin Hansson
'No Place Like Home: Living on the Edge of Oceania', Carol Merli
'Erotic Writing In Australia - Then And Now', Xaver Pons
''Determined on Farther Mischief Portrayals of Australia in Contemporary Non-Australian Fiction', Bill Phillips
'The Olympic Games: Past, Present and Future of Australian History', Juan Carlos Calvo Flores
'Aileen Pahner: An Australian in the Spanish Civil War', Eva Campama
'An excerpt from Finding Iheodore and Brina', Terri-Ann White

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Eucalypt, No l

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Changing Geographies: Essays on Australia

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