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Popular Entertainment Studies is a peer-reviewed, inter-disciplinary eJournal dedicated to the exploration of all aspects of popular entertainment. Its aim is to stimulate international debate and the exchange of ideas in a field whose meaning and definition remain widely contested. Indeed, the field still retains pejorative connotations that are at odds with its transnational significance. It has suffered from scholarly neglect, possibly because the field's very ephemerality makes documentation and analysis extremely difficult. The journal is set up to address these issues and invites contributions from scholars and practitioners with interests in the history of popular theatre forms, performance studies, the moving image, fine arts, music, health, psychology, economics and cultural studies.

'Hope carries her heavy backpack to school every day. What does she have in there? What makes her strong? What will she do now that Jetpack Day has arrived? (Source: Publisher's site)

Run by post-graduate students for post-graduate students, 'SWAMP is here to circulate the best and the brightest of post graduate creative writing.' -- from SWAMP Issue 1.

'SWAMP is to discover what lurks in the murky waters of postgraduate Creative Writing workshops the world over, and share the words with one and all.' -- Libraries Australia

Includes works by both Australian and overseas postgraduate writers.

'This study examines the origins and early development of organised Aboriginal political activism of the twentieth century. The importance of the study has two aspects; it reveals a significant but missing chapter in the history of this continent and it is fundamental in understanding the flaws in the imperial metaphor of historical discourse. The historical evaluation of the Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association contained in this thesis is of critical importance to the revision of Australian Aboriginal history. Within that construct, it is intended to critique the nature of history. Why and how is it constructed? History in the Western sense is fundamentally about power and control. The research process of this study will examine the constructed Aboriginal place in history. Throughout the course of this study the methods used for the research process will be under continual review. The questions will be raised: Is there a tangible Aboriginal research methodology? If so, what are the guidelines in such an approach?'

Source: Thesis synopsis.