Subject: Socialization (Keywords)

"Welcome to be:longing -- an online publication exploring personal experiences of migration, cross-culture, nostalgia and divided (or shared) belonging. We (Dunja and Jasmine) created this space to gather written and visual pieces on anything that touches on those difficult-to-articulate feelings...

Jean Liedloff, an American writer, spent two and a half years in the South American jungle living with Stone Age Indians. The experience demolished her Western preconceptions of how we should live and led her to a radically different view of what human nature really is.

"Starting with the assumption that play is to children as hanging out is to adults, Liming makes a brilliant case for the necessity of unstructured social time as a key element of our cultural vitality. The book asks questions like: What is hanging out? Why is it important? Why do we do it? How d...

A watershed book that masterfully integrates insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and more to explore the development and workings of human societies. "There is no good reason why human societies should not be described and explained with the same precision and suc...

OFF COUNTRY follows the lives of seven Indigenous students as they leave home to spend a year boarding at one of the oldest and most elite boarding schools in the country, Geelong Grammar. From inside the boarding house, on the sports field and in the classroom we follow the 2020 school year as t...

Journalist Phil Barker unpacks the myth of the 'Man Box' and Australian masculinity. The performance of being a man, from the moment we open our eyes, until we gasp our last breath, is damaging us, and those around us. Phil Barker has written thousands of words about being a man in these strange ...

Eimear McBride unpicks the contradictory forces of disgust and objectification that control and shame women. From playground taunts of 'only sluts do it' but 'virgins are frigid', to ladette culture, and the arrival of 'ironic' porn, she looks at how this prejudicial messaging has played out in t...

In a remote Aboriginal community, Daniel, a sensitive, troubled 10 year old boy from a broken home dreams of being a gangster. He is kicked out of school and befriends a local gang leader, until a rival gangster arrives back from jail to reclaim his turf. A showdown ensues and Daniel is caught in...