Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences: Recent submissions
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The Illegal as Mundane: Researching Border-crossing Practices in Indonesia's Riau Islands
Published 2020Ways of studying illegal behaviour are important in the context of Indonesia, a country well known for its failure to deal adequately with the corruption that permeates every level of society. They are perhaps even more ...Article -
‘A Rustling Sound’: Voices of WWII Italian Detainees from The Multilingual Archive of Australia
Published 2024National archives, libraries, and museums both expose and, directly or indirectly, collude with the military, legal, political, and rhetorical processes of exclusion that tend to obfuscate people’s subjectivities. In this ...Article -
Power resources and supranational mechanisms: The global unions and the OECD Guidelines
Published 2021This article uses the power resources approach to analyse the Global Union Federations’ (GUFs) use of the specific instances mechanism associated with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. While this mechanism ...Article -
THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOK NEVER WRITTEN A Media History of Saul Kripke’s Scholarly Samizdat
Published 2025This article considers the significance of informal publication and circulation in the work of the philosopher Saul Kripke (1940-2022). It argues that everyday copying technologies (e.g. tape recording, photocopying) ...Open AccessArticle -
Politicizing the Minimum Wage: Wage Councils, Worker Mobilization, and Local Elections in Indonesia
Published 2019Indonesia’s weak labor movement transformed local wage councils from institutions of wage restraint into institutions that delivered generous wage increases. This article argues that the arrival of direct elections created ...Article