SSGM Publications

Publications: Books

Publications highlighted here feature the work of Fellows of SSGM and of authors associated with the Program, reflecting their complementary areas of expertise and interest. These publications are of continuing relevance to issues and problems of governance in Melanesia and the Pacific - often with implications for policy change and reform.

Further publications by the SSGM Fellows are available under 'Program Fellows and Staff' in this website and in the annual RSPAS Directory of Research 2002 and the RSPAS Annual Reports, which can be found on the RSPAS publications page.

Worlds Turned Upside Down. Stories of Migrant Children in Contemporary Australia: the Canberra Community Experience

Ginninderra Press, Canberra (2008) by Rochelle E. Ball

A Time Bomb Lies Buried: Fiji’s Road to Independence 1960-1970

ANU e-Press, by Brij V. Lal, ISBN 9781921313608 $19.95 (GST inclusive) ISBN 9781921313615 (Online)

Politics and State Building in Solomon Islands

ANU e-Press and Asia Pacific Press, edited by Sinclair Dinnen and Stewart Firth, ISBN 9780731538188 $32 (GST inclusive)
ISBN 9781921313660 (Online)

Making Sense of AIDS: Culture, Sexuality, and Power in Melanesia

edited by Leslie Butt and Richard Eves
ISBN 978-0-8248-3249-0, $27.00 cloth, ISBN 978-0-8248-3193-6, $60.00

Conflict and Resource Development in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea

Editors: Nicole Haley and R. J. May
ISBN 9781921313455 $29.95 (GST inclusive), ISBN 9781921313462 (Online)

Globalisation and Governance in the Pacific Islands

E Press, co-published by ANU, Asia Pacific Press and IPS Publications, edited by Stewart Firth. ISBN 1 920942 97 1, ISBN 1 920942 98 X (Online).

From Election to Coup in Fiji – The 2006 Campaign and its Aftermath

Co-published by ANU E Press, Asia Pacific Press and IPS Publications, edited by Jon Fraenkel and Stewart Firth, 483pp. Asia Pacific Press ISBN 978-0-7315-3812-6, IPS Publications ISBN 978-982-01-0808-0.

Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 43, (3), 2005

Special Issue on Pacific Electoral Systems (joint editors Jon Fraenkel & Professor Bernard Grofman, University of California - Irvine).

Bougainville: before the conflict

Pandanus Press and the State Society and Governance Project in Melanesia, The Australian National University, Canberra, 2005, edited by Anthony J Regan and Helga M Griffin, ISBN 1-74076-138-3.

Effective Development in Papua New Guinea, Development Bulletin, No. 67 April 2005

Positive stories on development in Papua New Guinea
Community-level agricultural developoment
Self-reliance in rural development and health
Community approaches to law and order
Empowering local communities
Successful entrepreneurs
Institutions and governance

The Manipulation of Custom; From Uprising to Intervention in the Solomon Islands

Victoria University Press & Pandanus Books, Wellington & Canberra, 2004

Governance Challenges for PNG and the Pacific Islands

Co-published by DWU Press and State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Project, RSPAS, ANU, 2004, edited by Nancy Sullivan, 186pp. ISBN 9980-9976-7-2 .

State and Society in PNG: the first twenty-five years

E Press, ANU, 2004, by Dr R May, pp.458, ISBN: 1 9209420 5 X (Online document) ISBN: 1 9209420 6 8 (Print version).

A Kind of Mending - Restorative Justice in the Pacific Islands

Pandanus Books, RSPAS, ANU, 2003, pp.308. Edited by Sinclair Dinnen with Anita Jowett and Tess Newton. ISBN 1 74076 015 8

Elections and Constitution Making in East Timor

Dionisio da Costa Babo Soares, Michael Maley, James J Fox and Anthony J Regan. Pandanus Books, RSPAS, ANU, 2003, pp. 43. Edited by Dr Ron May. ISBN 0 7315 3349 6

Passage of Change: Law, Society and Governance in the Pacific

Pandanus Books, RSPAS, ANU, 2003, pp 373. Edited by Anita Jowitt and Tess Newton Cain. ISBN 1 74076 025 5

Building a Nation in Papua New Guinea: views of the post-independence generation

Pandanus Books, RSPAS, ANU, 2003, pp 357. Edited by David Kavanamur, Charles Yala and Quinton Clements. ISBN 1 74076 028 X. ISBN 1 74076 025 5

'Arc of Instability'? - Melanesia in the Early 2000s

RJ May, Anthony Regan, Sinclair Dinnen, Michael Morgan, Brij Lal, Benjamin Reilly. Co-published by the SSGM Project, RSPAS, ANU, and MacMillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, University of Canterbury, New Zealand (Occasional Paper No. 4), 2003. ISBN 1-877175-13-7.

Women's Groups and Everyday Modernity in Melanesia

Guest edited by Bronwen Douglas, Oceania, Volume 74, Numbers 1 & 2, September/December, 2003.

Law and order in a weak state: crime and politics in Papua New Guinea

University of Hawaii Press, 2002
By Dr Sinclair Dinnen

Maintaining Democracy: The 1997 Elections in Papua New Guinea

published by UPNG, Port Moresby and SSGM Project, RSPAS. ANU, Canberra. Edited by Dr RJ May and R Anere, 2002, pp, 239. ISBN 9980 84 507 4

Breaking spears and mending hearts: Peace makers and restorative justice in Bougainville

The Federation Press 2002. By Br Pat Howley

Political Participation in the Pacific: Issues of Gender, Race and Religion, No 59 October 2002

Querying the relevance of democracy in Pacific Island states
Religious denominations and political devisions
Using religion for political gain in PNG and Fiji
Race and identity in post coup Fiji
Getting women elected in Solomon Islands, PNG and Vanuatu
Law, governance and civil society
Protecting the political rights of the indigenous people of Papua

Without a gun: Australians' experiences monitoring peace in Bougainville, 1997-2001

Pandanus Books, 2001, edited by Monica Wehner and Donald Dennon

Reflections on violence in Melanesia

Hawkins Press and Asia Pacific Press, Sydney and Canberra, 2000. Edited by Dr Sinclair Dinnen and Alison Ley

Across the great divide: journeys in history and anthropology

Harwood Academic Publishers, Amsterdam, 1998, by Dr Bronwen Douglas

Challenging the State: the Sandline Affair

National Centre for Development Studies and Department of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, 1997
Dr R May, Anthony Regan and Sinclair Dinnen (joint editors)

The Military and Democracy in Asia and the Pacific

E Press, ANU, 2004. Edited by R.J. May & Viberto Selochan, pp.209, ISBN 1 9209420 0 9 (Online document) ISBN 1 9209420 1 7 (Print version) $24.95 (GST Inclusive)

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