Publications
The Centre has a selection of academic journals and monographs available for purchase on a variety of historical and cultural topics. If you have an enquiry, or would like to purchase one of the texts from our collection please contact our events coordinator, Ms Jill Jones at j.jones@griffith.edu.au
The Queensland Review
The Centre for Public Culture and Ideas proudly supports the Queensland Review, a biannual journal of Queensland studies that publishes articles, interviews, commentaries and addresses on Queensland history, politics and culture providing a unique space where academic and public discussion of Queensland's past, present and future are brought together.
Applied Theatre Researcher/IDEA Journal
The Applied Theatre Researcher/IDEA Journal is currently hosted by the Applied Theatre Research Program within the Centre for Public Culture and Ideas. The journal���s main focus is on identifying, and critically reflecting upon, examples of drama and theatre activity from around the world. The best and most exciting work in all continents is represented and featured.
Invasion and After - A Case Study in Curriculum Politics
Ray Land (ed.) 1994, $11.50 including postage within Australia and GST.
'Invasion or Settlement?' or 'Invasion and Settlement?'
Australian history is at the centre of many current public policy debates - in the media, in education, and in the wider cultural environment. The Australian community is clearly divided along various fault lines - black/white, old/young, Liberal/Labor, female/male ... Issues abound. Is there ever such a thing as 'politically correct' history? Whose views matter most, and why? What are the legitimate roles of government, educators, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, pressure groups? How do we reconcile such differences in curriculum materials for young school students? This publication is a case study of curriculum politics still in play. It centres on a controversy over draft curriculum materials written to support the teaching of primary social studies in Queensland. This controversy rapidly escalated to the national arena, and continues to this day. Most of the contributors to this publication were directly involved in the development of material or the public controversy.
Contents
- Ray Land, 'Furore over invasion text': Introduction to the Politics, Players and Process
- Henry Reynolds, Invasion and Settlement: Reflections based on the historical record
- Mark Finnane, Political correctness and the politics of history
- Michael G. Singh, The struggle against curriculum imperialism: Questioning invisibility and stereotypes in Australian history
- Jennifer Craik, 'Was this an invasion?' Framing history in the media
- Kathryn Kelly, The Primary Social Studies Syllabus 1982: Personal reflections
- Ray Land and Richard Dunlop, Hearing other voices: Reworking social studies for inclusivity
Art of Centre - Placing Queensland Art
Glenn Cooke (ed.) 1997, $23.00 including postage within Australia and GST.
The Art Off Centre seminar was held at the Queensland Art Gallery in 1995 as one of a series of events to celebrate the Centenary of the Gallery. The title reflects the attempt on the part of seminar organisers to ignore the Melbourne/Sydney axis in defining the quality and character of the art that has occurred in Queensland. This publication presents papers that were delivered at the seminar.
Contents
- Joan Kerr, Art Begins at Boulia
- Ross Woodrow, Afraid of the Dark: The Images of the Aborigine in the Queensland Popular Press 1860-1900
- Anna Haebich, The Aboriginal portraits of Oscar Fristrom
- Anne Demy-Geroe, The Imaging of Aborigines in Charles Chauvel's Uncivilised
- Lorna McDonald, Visual Documents of the Archer family 1830s-1960s
- Candice Bruce, Ernestine Hill and the Great Australian Loneliness
- Bronwyn Mahoney, Mobsby's Promotion of Isaac Walter Jenner
- Glenn R Cooke, Connections in Queensland Colonial Furniture
- Bettina MacAulay, Richard Godfrey Rivers, Private and Public Art
- Fr Peter Grice, Archbishop James Duhig, a Patron of the Visual Arts
- Louise Dennon, Taste Makers and the Establishment of the Ipswich Art Gallery
- Craig Douglas, Three Directors of the Queensland College of Art and the formation of a collection
- Heather McInnes, The Rainforest Shields of North Queensland
- Dorothy Gibson-Wilde, The Artist of Colonial Townsville
- Ross Searle, Searching for the Exotic: Artists in the Islands
- Pat Prentice, Bill Bustard's Stained Glass
- Sue Smith, Tropic Eden, Paradisiacal and Religios Themes in the Art of Ray Crooke, 1940's-60's
- Keith Bradbury, Landscape Painting, 'Force' in Art and Modernism in Queensland
- Elizabeth O'Neal, The Dynamics of the Wednesday Group
- Simon Elliott and Louise Martin-Chew, The Johnstone Gallery: A Pivotal Influence in Queensland Visual Arts, 1950-72
- Lynne Seear, Strategies for a Collection: The Early Years of the Gold Coast Art Prize 1968-75
- Ray Whitmore, Art By Chance
- Susan Ostling, Mixing Bowls and Cultural Research: Similarity, Use and Surprise
Experimental Art in Queensland 1975-1995
Ursula Szulakowska, 1998, $23.00 including postage within Australia and GST.
Experimental Art in Queensland 1975 to 1995 traces the emergence of a lively and distinctive art culture in Queensland during a period of considerable political turmoil and social unrest. With very limited resources, artists in this period managed to make challenging and thought provoking art, and pushed the boundaries of City ordinances and the more established art communities by exhibiting in a series of unusual buildings often ear-marked for destruction by developers and city councils.
Uszula Szulakowska has researched artistic development in this period in all parts of the state. The South-East corner of Queensland receives considerable attention, but regional debates are not overlooked, with Central and Northern Queensland receiving separate treatment. The funding policies of state and federal governments during the period in question are also examined, as is the emergence of various organisations and collectives to assist with art funding and publicity.
This indexed study should prove informative and enjoyable for both art enthusiasts and casual readers alike.
Stradbroke Island - Facilitating Change
Proceedings of a public seminar held by the Queensland Studies Centre with Quandamooka Land Council, May 1997.
Griffith University Logan Campus Site History
Harry Spratt, 1997, $11.50 including postage within Australia and GST.
In 1998 Griffith University's Logan Campus opened to an inaugural intake of five hundred undergraduate students. Situated in the Logan City suburb of Meadowbrook, the campus lies only four kilometres from the administrative hub of the city, Logan Central. The Logan area constitutes a highly significant residential, commercial and services corridor, and the inclusion of Griffith University enhances Logan City's vibrant growth, expanding service provision and promising future.
However, this publication is concerned primarily with the past: the Aboriginal presence in the region surrounding the campus; the origins of white settlement in Queensland; mid-nineteenth century immigration to the new colony; and the opening up of the Logan district to pastoral, plantation and farming activity. The prior use of the University site is investigated, together with the history of the families who farmed the site and its immediate surroundings.
Arts and Soul - A History of the Gold Coast's Cultural Pioneers
Pamela Murray, 1998, $11.50 including postage within Australia and GST.
It is commonly believed that the Gold Coast is, or was, a 'cultural desert' ��� easy to assert, and very little has ever been documented to disprove it. This is the story of the people who came to the Coast and made their own cultural activities, from musical soir��es to risqu�� drag shows, from painting and potting to full-scale theatrical productions. It is the story of the will and drive and sheer determination of small groups of people who wanted to be able to see high-standard touring art exhibitions, concerts, ballets and live theatre, and who wanted to be able to mount their own productions and display the City's own art collection. It is also the story of the politicians, journalists and bureaucrats who helped to make the Gold Coast Arts Centre happen.
Unmasking Whiteness - Race Relations and Reconciliations
Belinda McKay (ed.), 1999, $23.00 including postage within Australia and GST.
The Queensland Studies Centre's 1998 conference, 'Unmasking Whiteness: Race Relations and Reconciliation', provided a national forum for the presentation and discussion of provocative new research findings and methodologies, and promoted a dialogue on the future directions of race relations and reconciliation in Australia. A selection of the conference papers is collected in this volume.
In debates around native title, reconciliation and immigration the category 'race' is reserved for those deemed to be 'Other'; whites as a racial group remain invisible. Although whiteness is a complex and fragmented identity, all white people in Australia benefit from racial privilege. Not all whites share equally in these benefits ��� some are disadvantaged by their class, gender or sexuality ��� but all receive unearned social benefits as the inheritors of a racially based system of wealth and privilege. This volume provides critical and analytical understandings of how whiteness is socially constructed and how it underpins racial division and inequality in Australian society. Perspectives from the United States and Aotearoa/ New Zealand provide a comparative dimension.
Contents
- Karen Brodkin, Studying whiteness: what's the point and where do we go from here?
- Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Unmasking whiteness: a Goori Jondal's look at some duggai business
- Lillian Holt, Pssst! I wannabe white
- Jane Haggis and Susanne Schech, Incoherence and whiteness: reflections on a study of settler life histories
- Francesca Bartlett, Clean, white girls: assimilation and women's work
- Carole Ferrier, White blindfolds and black armbands: the uses of whiteness theory for reading Australian cultural production
- Geoffrey Gray, To render Australia white: of course, we've had blemishes
- Michael Meadows, A 10-point plan and a treaty: images of Indigenous people in the press in Australia and Canada
- Fiona Nicoll, Pseudo-hyphens and barbaric/binaries: Anglo-Celticity and the cultural politics of tolerance
- Patricia Reid, Constructions of whiteness: Pauline Hanson and her neighbours
- Jane Durie, Naming whiteness in different locations
- Shushann Movsessian, The many colours of white: dismantling whiteness in a cultural context
- Katrina Schlunke, Unsettling whiteness
- Mereana Taki, Indigenous language survival: a site of resistance
- Neil Lunt, Academic (re)presentations of bicultural social policy
- Susan Young, Not because it's a bloody black issue! Problematics of Cross-Cultural Training
- Jon Austin and John McMaster, Resisting racism, confronting self: whiteness, bafflement and trauma in pre-service teacher education
- Dyann Ross, The human connection ��� beyond colour: reflections on my participation in the Unmasking Whiteness conference
- Jane Durie, Comments on the 'Unmasking Whiteness' conference
- Pamela Croft, land home place belong
The Australian Photojournalist
This is the official journal of the Australian Photojournalists Association and is published through Griffith University���s Queensland College of Art. First published in 1994, the journal seeks to address issues affecting journalists but more specifically photojournalists. For more information please visit the Australian Photojournalist homepage.
Australian Journalism Monographs
This is an annual publication supported by the Journalism Education Association designed to highlight new research into Australian journalism and media institutions.