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.
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CONTEMPORARY LINGUISTICS: AN INTRODUCTION
Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction is a comprehensive introduction to linguistics. All the core topics of linguistics are covered, including...
View full detailsFOUR CIRCLES
Told in the words of Wardaman Senior Elder, Bill Harney, this book records the spiritual Imulun Law of the Northern Australian Wardaman people. Sec...
View full detailsA HANDFUL OF SAND : THE GURINDJI STRUGGLE AFTER THE WALKOFF
Fifty years ago, a group of striking Aboriginal stockmen in the remote Northern Territory of Australia heralded a revolution in the cattle industry...
View full detailsHEALING FROM THE DILLY BAG
HEALING FROM THE DILLY BAG
UNDERSTANDING INDONESIAN GRAMMAR A STUDENT REFERENCE & WORKBOOK
PRINT ON DEMAND 6-8 WEEKS TO ARRIVE Understanding Indonesian Grammar is a reference and workbook designed primarily for intermediate and advanced s...
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It isn't called the TOP END for nothing! With witty editing, masterful puns, searing social insight and - when all that fails - the use of the word...
View full detailsNEW PRACTICAL CHINESE READER MANDARIN LEVEL 3 WORKBOOK HARDCOPY FORMAT WITH 4 CDROM ON MP3 FORMAT
NEW PRACTICAL CHINESE READER MANDARIN LEVEL THREE WORKBOOK HARDCOPY FORMAT WITH 4 CDROM ON MP3 FORMAT
POLITIES AND POETICS RACE RELATIONS AND RECONCILIATION IN AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE
A reconciliation movement spread across Australia during the 1990s, bringing significant marches, speeches, and policies across the country. Indige...
View full detailsDARK EMU: BLACK SEEDS: AGRICULTURE OR ACCIDENT?
Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for precolonial Aboriginal Australians. The evidence insists tha...
View full detailsVOYAGES IN WORLD HISTORY
The authors of VOYAGES IN WORLD HISTORY never forget that history is made up of the stories of people. Each chapter of the text centers on a story ...
View full detailsAN INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE 10TH EDITION
An Introduction to Language introduces you to the fascinating study of human language from an Australian perspective. Chapters explore the nature o...
View full detailsNEW PRACTICAL CHINESE READER MANDARIN LEVEL 3 TEXTBOOK HARDCOPY FORMAT WITH 4 CDROM ON MP3 FORMAT
NEW PRACTICAL CHINESE READER MANDARIN LEVEL THREE TEXTBOOK HARDCOPY FORMAT WITH 4 CDROM ON MP3 FORMAT
GAMU – THE DREAMTIME STORIES, LIFE & FEELINGS OF BIG BILL NEIDJIE
This book is mesmerising.One of the stunning things about this book is how the narration by Big Bill reveals his Dreaming and how it is real, alive...
View full detailsBUREAUCRATS & BLEEDING HEARTS INDIGENOUS HEALTH IN NORTH AUSTRALIA
Why do Aboriginal people die up to twenty years younger than their white counterparts? What will it take to 'close the gap'? Tess Lea takes a fresh...
View full detailsHILLBILLY ELEGY: A MEMOIR OF A FAMILY AND CULTURE IN CRISIS
The Vance family story begins hopefully in post-war America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s App...
View full detailsSONG SPIRALS
We want you to come with us on our journey, our journey of songspirals. Songspirals are the essence of people in this land, the essence of every cl...
View full detailsA HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA
This vivid, multi-dimensional history considers the key cultural, social, political and economic events of Australia's history. Deftly weaving t...
View full detailsA SHORTER HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA
After a lifetime of research and debate on Australian and international history, Geoffrey Blainey is well-placed to introduce us to the people w...
View full detailsDARWIN: ORIGIN OF A CITY
A crocodile pulls a sleeping man into the river by one leg. Another breaks the neck of a swimming policeman. An out-of-luck miner drowns himself in...
View full detailsTHE DYSTOPIA IN THE DESERT: THE SILENT CULTURE OF AUSTRALIA’S REMOTEST ABORIGINAL COMMUNITIES
The Ngaanyatjarra Lands, deep in Western Australia, are home to the country’s most remote Aboriginal communities. Beset by social problems, the com...
View full detailsPEOPLE ON COUNTRY VITAL LANDSCAPES INDIGENOUS FUTURES
Over the past four decades Aboriginal people living in remote and regional Australia have been empowered by land rights and native title laws to cl...
View full detailsTALKIN UP TO THE WHITE WOMAN INDIGENOUS WOMEN & FEMINISM
In this accessible and provocative analysis of the whiteness of Australian feminism the author applies academic training and cultural knowledge in ...
View full detailsCROCS IN THE CABINET
In the Northern Territory, politics isn't a numbers game, it's a blood sport. The recent goings-on in Top End politics make the Rudd, Gillard, Abbo...
View full detailsAN INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLINGUISTICS
 Thoroughly updated and revised, An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, 7th Edition presents a comprehensive and fully updated introduction to the...
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