Publications
The ISAA Review
This is the biannual Journal published by ISAA and contains a variety of articles that represent the wide range of interests and expertise of ISAA members. It is currently edited by Ian Keese in conjunction with the National Council and external referees.
Articles around 4000 words of high quality and general interest are always welcome and potential contributors are encouraged to contact the editor (review@issa.org.au) to discuss their ideas.
Please click here for ISAA's Notes to Contributors and Style Guide in PDF format. All submissions should follow these guidelines as closely as possible.
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ISAA Papers
Electronic copies of selected papers from ISAA conferences and seminars are available on this web site. These papers can be either read on-line or downloaded to your PC. See the Papers page on this web site for details of the papers available.
Publications for sale
The following ISAA publications are available for sale to non-members. Sample articles are available for perusal in PDF format, with the permission of the authors; these are indicated by links to those files. Please note that ISAA publications are not subject to GST.
ISAA publications are also available for reference in the National Library, some State Libraries and some regional libraries.
Cultural Pacemakers: Art and Scholarship in Australia
2004 seminar proceedings - ISAA NSW Chapter
$20.00 (sans GST)
Contents include:
- Porosity: The Revision of Public Space in the City by Richard Goodwin
- Boxing Angels: Artefacts and the Attempt at Order by Helmut Lueckenhausen
- The Listening Minority by Carl Vine
- Documentary in the Age of Uncertainty by Tom Zubrycki
- Within Earshot of the Barwon River: Vanished Voices and the Midden of Glass by Martin Thomas
- Blowback: Creative Making as a Social Practice by Pamille Berg
- Creative Nation? Some Words to Close by Andrea Stretton
ISAA Review
Volume 3 No. 2 November 2004
$20.00 (sans GST)
Contents include:
- Who was Kurt Offenburg? by Walter Struve
- Lightly Rising by Don Diespecker
- Strangling Scholars by Valerie Yule
- The Supernormal by John Godl
- The Nature and Author Use of Genital Language by Ron Jensz
- Oh, to Freely Pursue the Scholaly Life! by Gary Shapiro
ISAA Review
Volume 3 No. 1 August 2004
$20.00 (sans GST)
Contents include:
- Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Corporatism, Managerialism and Professional Ethics byElspeth Browne and Jill Davidson
- Lord Somers' Camp and Power House by Barry Coldrey
- 'Doctor Knows Best': Changes in the Consulting Room and the Courts by Lesley Vick
- Chance, the Melbourne Cup and Australian Culture by Richard Waterhouse
- Brain Science with a Human Face by Zoltan Torey
Chasing Shadows: The Use and Abuse of History
2003 ISAA annual conference proceedings
$20.00 (sans GST)
Contents include:
- From Mythos to Telos: Living in the Shadows of the Past or in the Penumbra of the Future? by Denis Kenny
- From History to Myth: An Australian Task? by Veronica Brady
- From Shadows into Light: Shedding Some Light on how Women Artists were Written into the Shadows of Australian Art History by Susan Steggall
- Truth and Distortions in the Creation of Gothic History by John James
- Environmental Catastrophes: New Lessons from History? by Mike Austin
- The Art of Using History: Finding Metapatterns in the Chiaroscuro of Events by Virginia Cotterell Kenny
- The Use and Abuse of Shakespeare's History Plays by Julie Bozza
- The Complicity of Historians and Philosophers in the Relativity Fraud by Jim Hodges
- The Abuse of History on the Korean Peninsula by Richard Broinowski
- Catching Shadows: Reconsidering John Wren by James Griffin
- The History Wars by Stuart Macintyre
A Way With Words: The Power of Language
2003 seminar proceedings - ISAA NSW Chapter
$20.00 (sans GST)
Contents include:
- Bad Language by Don Watson
- Talk at Home by Carmel Cloran
- The Resilience of Aussie English by Kel Richards
- A Can of Words by Cathy Wilcox
- Language: Use and Abuse by John Bell
- Torrents, Treatises and Tearaway Tautologies: 150 Years of Australian Sport Writing by David Headon
- Restraint and Liberation: What Poets Have Done With Language by Jamie Grant
- Final Words: Language and Power by Bruce Moore
ISAA Review
Volume 2 No. 5 August 2003
$15.00 (sans GST)
Contents include:
- Orthodoxy, Science and Creative Responsibility by Denis Kenny
- Australia's International Human Rights Policies by Anne Kent
- From Observation to Perception: What Goes On? by David Pearcey
- Globalisation, Information Access and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Australia by Colin Steele
- plus Articles in Brief, Work in Progress, Conference Reports, Letters and Reviews
ISAA Review
Volume 2 No. 4 October 2002
$15.00 (sans GST)
Contents include:
- Stages, Trends and Defining Events in World History by Doug Cocks
- The Detective in Literary Biography by Julie Bozza
- Displaced Workers: The Dispersion Of Canberra’s Public Servants - The Experience by Nerelle Poroch
- Tower Of Babel: The National Museum of Australia by Susan Steggall
- Our History and Culture in Art and Photographs: The Use of PictureAustralia as a Research Tool by Debbie Campbell
ISAA Review
Volume 2 No. 3 June 2002
$15.00 (sans GST)
Contents include:
- Living as a Diaspora : The politics of exclusion in relation to refugees and disabled people by Andrew Jacubowicz
- Journey to Another Place : An exploration of identity, belonging and otherness by Kenneth Chan
- From Internment to Integration : A testament of hope by Helga M Griffin
- Dwelling in No-Place : An ethical response to the problem of dis-placement by Ian Mills
- Ancestral Beings are Stories : Dis-memberment and re-membering by Caroline Josephs
- GENERATE : Youth culture and migration heritage in Western Sydney by Melissa Butcher and Mandy Thomas
- 'Please tell us what’s happening out there!': The South Asian diasporic novel by Yasmine Gooneratne
ISAA Review
Volume 2 No. 2 November 2001
$10.00 (sans GST)
Contents include:
- Jules Sebastien Cesar Dumont d'Urville by Ian Cowan
- Belief or Knowledge, Which Drives Welfare Policy? by Margaret McDonald and Audrey Marshall
- On Being Chinese by Adrian Chan
- Child Migrants from Postwar Britain - Myths and Realities by Barry Coldrey
- Age Discrimination and Mandatory Retirement by Sol Encel
- Friedrich Nietzsche: Founding Father of Postmodernism by Alfred Thomas
Relaxed, Comfortable and Stupid: Is Australia Dumbing Down?
2001 seminar proceedings - ISAA NSW Chapter
$10.00 (sans GST)
Contents include:
- The Challenge of the Knowledge Nation by Barry Jones
- Australia - at Ease on the Education Trapeze by Ken Boston
- Face to Face: the Environment of Learning by Morag Fraser
- Computers in Education: Rethinking or Repackaging Education? by Shirley Alexander
- Our National Image - an Immature Obsession by Duncan Campbell
- Writing Down Rights: Australia GoesIt Alone by Elizabeth Evatt
- Australian Newspapers: Bringing Back the Provocation by Margo Kingston
- 'Crocodile Dundee' v 'The Terminator'; 'Blue Heelers' v 'Friends': what the Popular Culture Choices of Australians Say about Them
by David Dale
Rocking the Boat
2000 ISAA annual conference proceedings
$10.00 (sans GST)
Contents include:
- Australian foreign policymaking: running on empty by Tony Kevin
- Here's looking at you: Asian Australian fiction by Alison Broinowski
- Rocking the boat by yourself in the Southern Ocean by Bernadette Hince
- Kosovo women: rocking the cradle or rocking the boat? by Elaine McKay
- Using information in criminal detection by Robert Clark
- Mortal puzzles by Lesley Vick
- 'The scars have healed fast': health problems for Australian POWs by Michael McKernan
- Disturbing the past: an historian confronts the 'Stolen Generation' by Ann-Mari Jordens
- A contradiction in terms? managerialism, ethics and freedom of the professional press by Elspeth Browne
- Landscape with figures: gendered processes by Gretchen Poiner
- Breaking the permafrost on dissent by Mark O'Connor
ISAA Review
Volume 2 No. 1 February 2001
$10.00 (sans GST)
Contents include:
- Citius, Altius, Fortius by Susan Stegall
- James Freeman - a One Day's Wonder by Lois Carrington
- Through a Different Lens: Some Basic Parameters of Aboriginal Culture and Values by Jill Byrnes
- The Landscape of the Aboriginal Imagination and its Heritage Significance by D J Mulvaney
- plus the President's Column, Letters and Comments, Reviews, Reports from ISAA Chapters, and more.
A Passion for Scholarship
1999 ISAA annual conference proceedings
$10.00 (sans GST)
Contents include:
- Researching One's Life: The Perils and Pleasures of Autobiography by Anne Summers
- Marxism in China: An Enduring Victim of the Cold War by Adrian Chan
- The Role of History in Future-Gazing by Doug Cocks
- 'A Strange Mixture of Caring and Corruption': Residential Care in Traditional Church Orphanages and Industrial Schools During Their Last Phase, 1940s to 1960s by Barry Coldrey
- Scholars and Scholarship: Whither in a Postmodern World? by Carolyn Emden and Sally Borbasi
- Harold Holt and the Publication of Australian Political Biography by Tom Frame
- Indonesia's Unpredictability: Some Analytical Issues by Jamie Mackie
- The Noel Butlin Archives of Business and Labour by John Merritt
- The German-Australian Connection: Realpolitik versus Cosmopolitanism by John Moses
- A Passion for Scholarship: A Case Study in Propaganda: An Argument in Defence of References in Scholarly Writing by Auriol Weigold
ISAA Review
Volume 1 No. 1 March 1999
$10.00 (sans GST)
Contents include:
- Little Things Mean a Lot by Dick Gilling
- An Intellectual Event in Australia's History by Mary Maxwell
- Saving Westernport Bay, Victoria: The Importance of a New Universe Story by Brian Cuming
- The Preamble by Babette Smith
- Australia and New Zealand and the World Crisis 1870-1919: A Conference Overview by John A Moses
- Australia and Asia: An Uncommon Canvas by Neil Manton
- The Emperor's See-Through Clothes by Julian Wood
- Male Homosexuality and Australian English Language Poetry by Paul Knobel
- A Scholars' Publishing Co-operative? by Robin Gaskell
Australia Observed
1998 ISAA annual conference proceedings
published in Eureka Street Volume 9 No. 1 January-February 1999
$10.00 (sans GST)
Contents include:
- A Good Society by Martin Krygier
- A Class Balancing Act by Humphrey McQueen
- Observing the Other by Wendy Brady
- Strange and Contradictory Ways: The Involution of Multiculturalism in Australia by Paolo Totaro
- Why Women Invented and Must Reinvent the Idea of a Welfare State by Marilyn Lake
- Insider, Outsider by Adrian Chan
How Free is Speech?
1996 ISAA annual conference proceedings
$10.00 (sans GST)
Contents include:
- From Voltaire to Rushdie: Free Speech in a Multi-culture Society by Max Charlesworth
- Political Correctness and Freedom of Speech by Marlene Goldsmith MLC
- Media Ownership and the National Conversation by Paul Chadwick
- Dissent and the Institution: Useless, World-Shattering or Zen? by Nicholas Jose
- A Culture of Challenge by Paul Collins
- Truth and the Public Interest: Personal Misadventures and a Philosophical Approach by Richard Walsh
- Reviewing: The Perils of Independence by Andrew Riemer
- Book Publishing in the 1990s by Rhonda Black
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