During the Second World War, African American soldiers were stationed all over the world as part of the American war effort. During these deployments, African Americans encountered a number of white societies, such as those in Britain and Australia, which they generally interact…
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The northern Australian rainy season is part of the Asian-Australian monsoon system and occurs during the Austral summer across the northern regions of the continent. The Australian monsoon is responsible for most of the annual rainfall budget for the region, thus having a compr…
Modernism is not typically thought of as a genre that engages with the gothic, in any mode other than dismissal. And yet the gothic abounds in modernist literature, and in particular, modernist literature is filled with ghosts. In this dissertation, I offer readings of James Joy…
Les autres voleuses is a study about écriture : the textual construction of identity through writing, language and voice; more specifically, it is a study about a “feminine language”: a strategic concept used as a trope for writing against hegemonic and mainstream constructions …
Proponents of the Multiregional Hypothesis of modern human origins have consistently stated that the material from Australasia provides one of the most compelling examples of regional continuity in the human fossil record. According to these workers, features found in the earlie…
This dissertation uses systems theory to describe how and why two regional powers, Australia and India, are using their international radio stations, Radio Australia and All India Radio, in the post-Cold War era. In an era of change in the world political system, many countries …
David Malouf's Remembering Babylon (1993), Abdulrazak Gurnah's Pilgrim's Way (1988), Jamal Mahjoub's Navigation of a Rainmaker (1989), Beryl Gilroy's Boy-Sandwich, and J. M. Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K (1983) describe processes of identity reconsideration of characters w…
This work provides a challenging reassessment of the roles of the Australian and Canadian armed forces, using as a benchmark each other's historical experiences with expeditionary land forces from the Boer War to the War on Terror. Australia and Canada, after all, are remarkably…
This study assesses narrative representations of “society in transnationalism” through the framework of globalization theory. The object of the study is to articulate meanings for globalization that both reassert the capitalist-based structures underwriting globalization's new s…
This dissertation examines place, alternative histories, postcolonial identities and contested issues of multiculturalism in Australia through the medium of community-based theatre and other performances. The title, “Dramas in Darwin,” refers both to the coalitional, intercultur…
This research focuses on the differential achievement of students taking advanced mathematics or physics or both versus students taking none of these courses. The target sample, extracted from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study, included secondary school stude…
With the prosecution for obscenity of the British publisher Henry Vizetelly in 1888 for publishing English translations of several of the novels of Emile Zola, the British government initiated what might be termed a ‘moral crusade’ to control the reading matter of its colonial s…
This thesis focuses on the role of agency during political transition processes in divided societies. To be more specific, it examines how the Iraqi political elites view democracy and what type of political institutions they support. The years between 2012 and 2015 are of great…
This thesis provides a theoretical and empirical examination of the contentious “sovereignty” dispute between Taiwan and China, especially following the signing of the Cross-Strait Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) in 2010. Distinctive from many contemporary studie…
This thesis studies the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s capacity to rule in contemporary China by examining (a) its quest for popular legitimacy and (b) its search for party cohesion. In explaining the CCP’s ruling basis, a plethora of political science and economics literature …
This thesis offers a perspective on why majority-poor democracies might fail to pursue pro-poor policies. In particular, it discusses why in Bihar, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) party led by Lalu Prasad Yadav, which claimed to represent the poor and under-privileged, did not cl…
This thesis entails an analysis of the relationship between space and politics in the construction and legitimisation of modern China. The thesis argues that the production of space has since the onset of modernity in China, in itself very much a spatial process, played a substa…
This thesis explores the development of public policy aimed at achieving adult life-long participation in sport in Australia, Finland and New Zealand. Adult life-long participation has frequently been claimed as an aspiration of sport policy in Australia, Finland and New Zealand…
The purpose of this thesis is to look at the motivations behind the life and work of Caroline Chisholm, nee Jones, 1808-1877, and to ascertain why British historians have chosen to ignore her contribution to the nineteenth century emigration movement, while attending closely to …