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Understand all the key aspects of employment relations and how they apply in practice with this comprehensive textbook.
Celebrating the Nation offers the first major critical retrospective on Australia''s Bicentenary. The editors have collected a series of essays focusing on the different ways in which 1988 was celebrated. From the soccer Gold Cup to literary commissions, from Expo 88 to the Travelling Exhibition and the Stockman''s Hall of Fame, it examines the cultural and ideological frameworks which shaped the discourses and rhetoric of those celebrations.The contributors also put the Australian Bicentenary of 1988 in historical and international perspective, comparing the celebrations of 1988 with earlier Australian anniversary celebrations, and with recent national celebrations in France, Canada and the United States.Drawing on the findings of a major research project organised by the Institute for Cultural Policy Studies at Griffith University, Celebrating the Nation provides a provocative and insightful analysis of the cultural and political processes through which modern nations organise and symbolise their histories and identities.
In Collecting, Ordering, Governing a diverse team of international scholars explore the relationships between anthropological fieldwork, museum collecting and display, and practices of social governance of metropolitan, settler, and colonized populations in the early twentieth-century in Australia, Britain, France, New Zealand, and the United States.
Critical Trajectories: Culture, Society, Intellectuals brings together for the first time writings from one of the leading figures in cultural studies -- Tony Bennett.
Offers a contribution to international debates regarding the role of cultural capital in relation to modern forms of inequality. Drawing on a national study of the organisation of cultural practices in contemporary Britain, this work reviews Bourdieu's classic study of the relationships between culture and class in the light of subsequent debates.
Placing the work of key figures in context and addressing such issues as aesthetics, linguistics and the category of literature, form and function or literary evolution, this work argues that the Formalists' concerns provided the basis for a radically historical approach to the study of literature.
On its publication in 1999, Accounting for Tastes was the most systematic and substantial study of Australian cultural tastes, preferences and activities ever. It is a book that makes a substantial contribution to the empirical and policy-oriented social inquiry into questions of cultural practices and preferences.
This important new work explores how evolutionary museums developed in the USA, UK, and Australia in the late 19th century.
In a series of richly detailed studies from Britain, Australia and North America, Bennett investigates how 19th and 20th century museums, fairs and exhibitions have organised their collections and their visitors.
This major work, by one of the key figures in cultural studies, critically examines the theory, history and practice of culture. It is a comprehensive review of the main debates in cultural studies that is grounded in an historical account of the modern relations between culture and government.
Charting a course between literary aesthetics and their associated politics, Bennett engages with the central concerns of Marxist critics such as Lukacs, Jameson, Eagleton and Lentricchia.
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