Sydney University Press: Recent submissions
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What can the pre-colonial and frontier economies tell us about engagement with the real economy? Indigenous life projects and the conditions for development
Published 2005-01-01Recent writing on development coming from North America makes a distinction between Indigenous life projects and development projects. ‘Indigenous life projects’ refers to the desires of those Indigenous people who seek ...Open AccessConference paper -
Smoke Signals: selected writing [complete]
Published 2016-01-01This is the complete file of 'Smoke Signals', gathering together 71 of Professor Simon Chapman’s authoritative, acerbic and often heretical essays written in newspapers, blogs and research journals across his 40-year career. ...Open AccessBook -
Colonial Australian fiction: preliminary material
Published 2017-04-07Over the course of the nineteenth century a remarkable array of types appeared – and disappeared – in Australian literature: the swagman, the larrikin, the colonial detective, the bushranger, the “currency lass”, the ...Open AccessBook chapter -
On the reach of digital language archives
Published 2015-01-01The aim of this chapter is to extend previous work on archival ‘access and accessibility’ (Nathan 2013) in order to make initial suggestions towards a set of criteria for thinking about archives’ ‘reach’ – their multifaceted ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Shoehorning complex metadata in the Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages
Published 2015-01-01The Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages is making endangered literature in Australian Indigenous languages publicly available online (Bow et al. 2014). Like any other project attempting to package a vastly complex body ...Open AccessBook chapter