Institute of Advanced Studies

As part of the Institute's role in promoting the wider discussion of ideas, many of our forums, symposia and sponsored research result in publications.

Torture and Terrorism: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (2009, Cambridge University Press) edited by Werner G. K. Stritzke, Stephan Lewandowsky, David Denemark, Joseph Clare and Frank Morgan originates from a three-day intensive UWA sponsored symposium that reflected an interdisciplinary international collaboration of experts.

In this thought-provoking volume, scholars from a diverse range of disciplines examine the complex motivational and situational factors contributing to terrorist acts and state-sponsored torture, and the potential linkage between those two heinous human behaviors. With its integrated synthesis of contemporary theories and research on the complex dynamics of the terrorism-torture link, this is an authoritative source for scholars and students of psychology, criminal justice, law, media, communication studies and political science. Torture and Terrorism was launched at the Institute in November 2009.

The Globalisation of School Choice? (2008, Oxford Studies in Comparative Education) edited by Martin Forsey, Scott Davies and Geoffrey Walford is based on the workshop and papers presented at the 2006 IAS sponsored symposium ‘The Globalisation of School Choice: An International Research Symposium,’ convened by Martin Forsey in December 2006.  The book was launched at the Institute in September, 2008.

 

 

Water: Histories, Cultures, Ecologies (UWA Press, 2006), edited by Marnie Leybourne and Andrea Gaynor, provides a multidisciplinary exploration of issues relating to water and its management. The product of a highly successful 2003 international symposium organised by the Institute of Advanced Studies, Water includes contributions from Chief Scientists of Israel and the Chairman of the Western Australian Environmental Protection Authority as well as scholars in ecology, history, anthropology, geography, history, limnology, indigenous studies and political economy.

Disputed territories: Land, culture and identity in settler societies (2003, Hong Kong University Press) edited by David Trigger and Gareth Griffiths investigates the significance of land for contesting cultural identities in comparable settler societies. In the regions of Australasia and southern Africa, European visions of landscape and nature have engaged with southern hemisphere environments and the cultures of indigenous peoples. Amid conflicts over land as a material resource, there has also been an intellectual contest over the aesthetic, iconic and cultural meanings of natural forms and species.

Arising from a programme of seminars, 'Land Place Culture Identity', held by the Institute of Advanced Studies in 2000, this collection of eminent international authors assembles contributions from anthropology, geography, history and literary studies. 

Future Imaginings: Sexualities and Genders in the New Millennium (2003, UWA Press) is edited by Delys Bird, Wendy Were and Terri-Ann White.

At the beginning of the New Millennium, gender-related issues seem less public and more personal than in the past. Yet there are still a myriad of debates to be had and issues to be resolved. In Future Imaginings, leading Australian scholars adopt an interdisciplinary approach to investigating, interrogating and developing new ways of thinking about gender. The results challenge not only established perceptions of gender relations and identities, but also explore diverse cultural interpretations and symbolisations of gender - how these have changed and will continue to change into the future. This publication arose from a seminar series called ‘Gender and Cultures’ held in 2001 by the Institute of Advanced Studies.

Governing Transformative Technological Innovation: Who’s in Charge? (Oxford, Edward  Elgar, 2007) by Peter W.B. Phillips, Professor of Political Studies, University of Saskatchewan, Canada and Professor at Large, Institute of Advanced Studies.

New technologies often appear to be beyond the control of any existing governing systems. This is especially true for transformative technologies such as information technologies, biotechnologies and nanotechnologies. Peter Phillips examines in this book the deep governing structures of transformative technology and innovation in an effort to identify which actors can be expected to act when, under what conditions and to what effect. He analyzes the life cycles of an array of examples where converging technologies have created transformations and supervisory challenges

Peter Phillips completed his book while an Institute of Advanced Studies Professor-at-Large (2006-2008), having written the last four chapters while in residence and having tested many of the ideas in UWA discipline seminars and in his IAS masterclasses.  It is a sole-authored book which was launched at IAS in June, 2007.