Recent MCCALL books

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Our latest publications

Learn more about the books written recently by our researchers in the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language, and Literature.

Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human by Joseph Pugliese

Professor of Cultural Studies at MCCALL Joseph Pugliese’s new book was recently published by the distinguished academic publisher Duke University Press.

In Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human Joseph Pugliese examines the concept of the biopolitical through a nonanthropocentric lens, arguing that more-than-human entities – including soil, orchards, animals and water – are actors and agents in their own right with legitimate claims to justice.

Examining occupied Palestine, Guantánamo, and sites of US drone strikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen, Pugliese challenges notions of human exceptionalism by arguing that more-than-human victims of war and colonialism are entangled with and subject to the same violent biopolitical regimes as humans.

He also draws on Indigenous epistemologies that invest more-than-human entities with judicial standing to argue for an ethico-legal framework that will enable the realization of ecological justice. Bringing the more-than-human world into the purview of justice, Pugliese makes visible the ecological effects of human war that would otherwise remain outside the domains of biopolitics and law.

Nominated for the American Studies Association John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, for “the most outstanding book published in American studies.”

Nominated for the UK's Hart Socio-Legal Studies Association Book Prize for "the most outstanding piece of socio-legal scholarship published in 2020-21."

Read more about Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human on the Duke University Press publisher’s website.

Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers by Bridget Griffen-Foley

Professor of Media Bridget Griffen-Foley’s new book Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers - Historical Perspectives has been published by Palgrave as part of their Studies in the History of Media series.

This lively and accessible book charts how Australian audiences have engaged with radio and television since the 1920s. Ranging across both the commercial and public service broadcasting sectors, it recovers and explores the lived experiences of a wide cross-section of Australian listeners and viewers.

Offering new perspectives on how audiences have responded to broadcast content, and how radio and television stations have been part of the lives of Australians over the past one hundred years, this book:

• invites us into the dynamic world created for children by the radio industry
• traces the operations of radio and television clubs across Australia
• uncovers the workings of the Australian Broadcasting Commission’s viewers’ advisory committees.

It also opens up the fan mail received by Australian broadcasting stations and personalities, delves into the complaints files of regulators, and teases out the role of participants and studio audiences in popular matchmaking programs.

Read more about Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers on the Palgrave publisher’s website.