Books by CSAA members published since 2002 .

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Maja Mikula
Key Concepts in Cultural Studies, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
This is a student friendly resource for the rapidly developing field of cultural studies. Organized alphabetically, it provides a comprehensive selection of accessible definitions of key cultural studies terms, guides readers to critical reference for further reading and places cultural studies in disciplinary and interdisciplinary contexts.

Kim Toffoletti
Cyborgs and Barbie Dolls: Feminism, Popular Culture and the Posthuman Body, London and New York; I.B.Tauris, 2007.
Cyborgs and Barbie Dolls explores the idea of the posthuman and the ways in which it is represented in popular culture. Toffoletti considers images of the posthuman body, from goth-rocker Marilyn Manson's digitally manipulated self-portraits to the famous TDK baby adverts, and from the work of artist Patricia Piccinini to the curiously plastic form of the ubiquitous Barbie doll, controversially rescued here from her negative image. Bringing a lively and accessible style to a complex subject, the book draws on the work of thinkers including Jean Baudrillard, Donna Haraway and Rosi Braidotti to explore the nature of being human - and its ambiguous gender - in an age of biotechnologies and digital worlds.

Claudia Bell and Steve Matthewman (eds)
Cultural Studies in Aotearoa New Zealand: Space, Place and Identity, Melbourne; Oxford University Press, 2004.
This fabulous new text includes chapters by contributing academics on the following: nature, landscape, Lord of the Rings, hybridity, kapa haka, hop hop, youth subcultures, queer culture, pakeha identity, iconography, Maori souvenirs, kiwiana, reality TV and new technologies.

Gerry Bloustien
Girl-Making: A cross-cultural ethnography on the processes of growing up female
Berghahn Books, 2003.
Through the innovative methodology of asking them to record their experiences on videotape, this book offers an evocative and fascinating cross-cultural exploration into the everyday lives of a number of teenage girls from their own broad social, cultural and ethnic perspectives. The use of the video camera by the girls themselves reveals their exploration and experimentation with possible identities, highlighting their awareness that the self is not ready made but rather constituted in the process of continuous performance. The resulting material challenges previous findings in those feminist and youth anthropological studies based on too narrow a concept of class, ethnicity or populist approaches to culture.

Frances Bonner
Ordinary Television: Analysing Popular TV, London; Sage, 2003.
This looks at non-fiction Australian and British television programs to argue that the under-researched game shows, lifestyle programmes, chat shows, morning, afternoon and tonight shows and reality TV, together should be seen as related and constituting 'ordinary television'. The book examines their shared characteristics and looks at the dominant and disguised discourses pervading them.

Melissa Butcher
Transnational Television, Cultural Identity and Change: When STAR Came to India
New Delhi; Sage Publications, 2003.
The process of economic liberalisation in India in the 1990s brought in its wake a rapid influx of transnational satellite television channels. In examining these developments, When STAR Came to India explores television's impact on the mechanisms of cultural change, from the history of TV and the reconstruction of tradition, to the remoulding of cultural boundaries in contemporary popular culture (such as in MTV India and Miss World 1996). Focusing on young people, the research is based on extensive fieldwork in India.

Melissa Butcher and Mandy Thomas (eds)
INGENIOUS: Emerging Youth Cultures in Urban Australia
Melbourne; Pluto Press, 2003.
Everyday in Australia's backyard, young people from culturally diverse backgrounds are finding new ways to express themselves. INGENIOUS documents the contribution they are making today to Sydney life and Australian culture. Editors Melissa Butcher and Mandy Thomas, together with a collection of writers including established academics and young people themselves, investigate this world of cars and suburbs, shopping centres and dance parties, chat rooms and text messages.

Shane Homan
The Mayor's a Square: Live Music and Law and Order in Sydney
Local Consumption Publications, Newtown NSW; 2003.
The Mayor's a Square is a history of Sydney's live rock music venues from the 1950s to the present. Drawing on interviews with musicians, promoters and venue owners, it incorporates a Foucauldian analysis of clashes between moralising governments and music (sub)cultures. It offers detailed insight into popular music's relationship to urban planning, arts, youth and law and order policies.

Fran Martin
Situating Sexualities: Queer Representation in Taiwanese Fiction, Film and Public Culture.
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2003.
Angelwings: Contemporary Queer Fiction From Taiwan. Honolulu: University of Hawaiši
Press, 2003. Translation Anthology
Interpreting Everyday Culture.
London: Hodder Arnold, 2003. (Edited collection, sole editor)
Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia,
co-edited with Chris Berry and Audrey Yue. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2003.

Belinda Morrissey
When Women Kill: Questions of Agency and Subjectivity
London; Routledge, 2003
The book considers legal and media discourse surrounding cases where women have killed. It argues that neither mainstream nor feminist legal and media discourses give adequate recognition of female agency in such cases, thus perpetuating an impoverished concept of femininity in society more generally.

Greg Noble and Scott Poynting
Bin Laden in the Suburbs: Criminalising the Arab Other
Institute of Criminology, Sydney, 2004

Penny O'Connor and Jane Scott. (eds)
Undisciplined Thoughts: New Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Perth, WA; Black Swan Press, 2002
The papers collected in Undisciplined Thoughts demonstrate the diversity of postgraduate research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Drawing on presentations from the Fifth Annual Humanities Postgraduate Research Conference at Curtin University, the papers challenge ideologies and speak to each other across disciplinary boundaries.

Baden Offord
Homosexual Rights as Human Rights: Activism in Indonesia, Singapore and Australia
Peter Lang AG European Academic Publishing, Berne and Oxford, 2003
This book examines homosexual rights as human rights in the light of recent insights of cultural theory into identity, cultural values, rights discourse and homosexuality. The focus of the study is on the activist who is regarded as both the representative of perspectives, actions and attitudes as well as the embodiment of tensions and broader struggles that reflect and rupture dominant discourses of power. The book interrogates the homosexual activist and the theory and practice of human rights in three distinct nations: Indonesia, Singapore and Australia. It discusses and analyses the ways in which activists in these three polities devise strategies of survival and negotiate the limits of justice. The interface between Australia and Southeast Asia is a poignant context, which highlights different and overlapping (Western and Asian) perspectives on notions of rights, law, identity, activism, culture and sexuality.

Annie Potts
The Science/Fiction of Sex: Feminist Deconstruction and the Vocabularies of Heterosex
Routledge, UK and USA 2002.
Annie Potts employs deconstructive theory in an exploration of the ways in which western cultural constructs influence our ideas and experiences of the body, sex and gender. Combining material from interviews with women and men, excerpts from sexological and medical texts, and features from film and television, she analyses topics such as orgasmic experience for men and women, 'erectile dysfunction', common understandings of the penis as an entity 'with a mind of its own', and safer sex practice. Potts also examines how the radical postmodern theories of the body and sexuality proposed by Lyotard, Deleuze and Guattari disrupt dualistic modes of understanding and experiencing sexualized bodies.

Graham St John (ed)
Rave Culture and Religion, London Routledge, 2004.
Vast numbers of western youth have attached primary significance to raving and post-rave experiences. This collection of essays explores the socio-cultural and religious dimensions of the rave, 'raving' and rave-derived phenomena.

Jen Webb and Tony Schirato
Understanding Globalization, London; Sage Publications, 2003.
While most analysts accept the importance of the technological, economic, cultural and political changes associated with the term globalisation, very few agree as to what these changes mean, or if, taken together, they add up to something that really exists for 'everyone'. This book reviews, historicises and contextualises contemporary discussions and debates about globalisation, articulating the discourses, texts, practices, technologies and politics that have been grouped together under that term, and theorising its effects in a lively and accessible style.