This thesis explores a specific trend of reform in contemporary Islamic scholarship by engaging with four accounts of revelation presented by Rahman, Soroush, Shabestari and Abu Zayd. It examines the extent to which the ...

This thesis examines three English-language discourses on the relationship between Buddhism and the state in Burma: its core focus is a postcolonial narrative produced largely by Burmese lay Buddhists writing in English, ...

This research qualitatively explores gendered language and gender identities negotiated by seven tertiary students of (pre-)advanced Japanese as an additional language (JAL) in Australia. Japanese is argued to be a ...

Loanwords (外来語・カタカナ語), which are words ‘borrowed’ from other languages, are an integral part of the Japanese language, and are estimated to account for around 10% of the modern Japanese lexicon. While loanwords are ...

Since 2001, the government of Indonesia had made frequent reference to moderate Islam as a part of the country’s international identity. Indonesia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Deplu) underscored in its various official ...

This thesis examines an Eastern Indonesian Catholic experience of fear by analysing how a New Order-era propaganda text dealing with the political upheavals of 1965-66 triggers and maintains fear in one Eastern Indonesian ...

This research was an archetypal case study of power relations between the Victorian Government, industry and society over 2003—2013, in the specific context of top-down initiatives to integrate information and communication ...

This thesis considers the impact of Bahrain’s 2011 Arab Spring uprising on the political participation of the country’s Shiʿi community, a ‘marginalised majority’ whose engagement has historically shifted in response to ...

The purpose of this thesis is to expand existing literature concerning the hurdy-gurdy as a contemporary musical instrument. Notably, it addresses the lack of hurdy-gurdy literature in the context of contemporary composition ...

Roads, bridges and railways have become prominent technical solutions to a broad range of economic, social and political issues in China and the developing countries of Southeast Asia. In 1992, the Asian Development Bank ...