Faculty of Arts and Society
The faculty brings people and places to life, and from that, our desire to think, examine, express and create grows. This drives us to act collectively for positive social change and advance inquisitive, harmonious and equitable society, particularly for those who are most vulnerable.
We strive to prepare students to be teachers, creative thinkers and innovators in a complex changing world. We bring together expertise in education, business, law, Indigenous knowledge practices, human geography, disaster preparedness and management, languages, humanities and the creative industries.
Our reputation is based on extensive partnerships with government, industry and community stakeholders to address social, cultural and economic issues in:
- sparsely populated regional areas, including Northern Australia
- developing regions, including South-East Asia - particularly China, Indonesia and Timor-Leste
- Indigenous knowledge, social, cultural and economic futures.
The faculty’s research and teaching will draw on the strength of the Northern Institute, centres of excellence and multidisciplinary teams primarily engaged in teaching, research, networking and business development. Together, academics, research students and industry professionals examine and drive solutions for emerging social, cultural and economic issues in challenging contexts.
AMAZING GRACE: STORIES OF FAITH AND FRIENDSHIP FROM OUTBACK AUSTRALIA
Great Australian stories of faith and friendship in outback Australia, gathered by the inimitable Bill 'Swampy' Marsh - bestselling author of Grea...
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Alexis Wright is one of Australia's finest Aboriginal writers. Carpentaria is her second novel, a soaring epic set in the Gulf country of north-...
View full detailsA PIECE OF RED CLOTH
A powerful, unique novel based on the oral history of the Yolngu people from north-east Arnhem Land that tells the story of a grandmother who st...
View full detailsTHE WHITE POSSESSIVE PROPERTY, POWER, AND INDIGENOUS SOVEREIGNTY
The White Possessive explores the links between race, sovereignty, and possession through themes of property: owning property, being property, an...
View full detailsRECLAIMING INDIGENOUS VOICE AND VISION
This book seeks to clarify postcolonial Indigenous thought beginning at the new millennium. It represents the voices of the first generation of glo...
View full detailsRESEARCH AS RESISTANCE: REVISITING CRITICAL, INDIGENOUS, AND ANTI-OPPRESSIVE APPROACHES
UNABLE TO SUPPLY AT THIS MOMENT This second edition of Research as Resistance builds upon the resistance-based methods featured in the first editio...
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Master Your Theory is a series of books each of which is an instruction book and workbook combined. It follows a comprehensive course which is plan...
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This is a comic book for grey nomads, fishos and Territorians - and those kids who can't sit still on the back seat during a road trip. A book fu...
View full detailsDARWIN UPDATED EDITION
The main purpose of this book is to give Australian and other readers an unflinching sense of the geo-strategic significance of Darwin and what it ...
View full detailsOXFORD BEGINNERS CHINESE DICTIONARY
The Oxford Beginner's Chinese Dictionary is an innovative guide to learning Chinese. Designed specifically for English-speaking adult learners who ...
View full detailsALICE SPRINGS: FROM SINGING WIRE TO ICONIC OUTBACK TOWN
In 1870 a colonial government, on the brink of collapse, made an audacious move. South Australia's squabbling politicians briefly put aside their d...
View full detailsTHE POLITICS OF SUFFERING
PRINT ON DEMAND 6-8 WEEKS TO ARRIVE Combining original observation with deep emotional engagement, this provocative book argues that, despite claim...
View full detailsLOVING COUNTRY: A GUIDE TO SACRED AUSTRALIA
Loving Country is a powerful and essential guidebook that offers a new way to travel and discover Australia through an Indigenous narrative. In thi...
View full detailsVOICES OF THE FIRST DAY
AWAKENING IN THE ABORIGINAL DREAMTIME Australian aboriginal people have lived in harmony with the earth for perhaps as long as 100,000 years; in ...
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An exemplar of Indigenous Studies writing, epistemologically, theoretically and methodologically A collection of writings on women and Aboriginal i...
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FORGOTTEN COUNTRY A SHORT HISTORY OF CENTRAL AUSTRALIA
Central Australia has, with reason, been seen as the last frontier of Australia and, politically, the forgotten country. This book distils the conc...
View full detailsAUSTRALIAS ANCIENT ABORIGINAL PAST
This book places the Aboriginal occupation of Australia within a broad framework of human evolution and habitation. The author discusses the pionee...
View full detailsEXPERIMENTS IN SELF DETERMINATION:HISTORIES OF THE OUTSTATION MOVEMENT IN AUSTRALIA
Outstations, which dramatically increased in numbers in the 1970s, are small, decentralised and relatively permanent communities of kin established...
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BELONGING TOGETHER: DEALING WITH THE POLITICS OF DISENCHANTMENT IN AUSTRALIAN INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS POLICY - Comprehensive and optimistic, this examin...
View full detailsIN THE ABSENCE OF TREATY
This book explores the current inadequacy of the process used in engaging with Aboriginal people, which results in control slipping away from them....
View full detailsA LEVEL MEDIA STUDIES: THE ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTION
PRINT ON DEMAND 6-8 WEEKS TO ARRIVE A Level Media Studies is a comprehensive guide to the subject content of AS and A Level Media Studies, across ...
View full detailsHOW TO BE A TRAVEL WRITER
Bursting with invaluable advice, this inspiring and practical guide, fully revised and updated in this new edition, is a must for anyone who yearns...
View full detailsIN THE NAME OF THE LAW WILLIAM WILLSHIRE AND THE POLICING OF THE AUSTRALIAN FRONTIER
Mounted Constable William Willshire commanded a corps of Native Police in Central Australia during the 1880s. Notorious for the violence of his pat...
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