2023-2025 NDB Book Project Priorities

In 2021, I set out my book research and writing priorities for the three years 2021-2023. I had started this strategy in 2018, when I set out my book research and writing priorities for the three years 2018-2020. The gap year of 2020 in book planning was a reset from the ethos of the Covid-19 pandemic.

My book composition strategy has been never to be narrow in my thinking, and, as new schemas for book composition emerge, to design a new book project, each with research gathering, notation, and writing folders. Hence, I have 21 book projects in various state of play across range of disciplines and sub-fields of the humanities and social science.

2023-2025 NDB Book Project Priorities, is as followings:

The first two projects are retirement projects with the other book projects in priority order.

Concurrently Active

00.01. Memoir.

1. 1. Project Title – G.03. Book. The Buch in Queensland (Family History).
   2. Working Book Title – Personal History of a Queensland Historian.

00.02. World History.

1. 1. Project Title – E.13. Globalisation, Locality, World History.
   2. Working Book Title – Human Big History Across East-West.

03. Education and Geography.

1. 1. Project Title – B.02. The Educated Society: MBH and the Educated Society: Mapping Education in Brisbane.
   2. Working Book Title – The Educated Society: Mapping Education in the Queensland Capital City.

04. Globalism and Local Studies 1995-2030 (Methodological).

1. 1. Project Title – B.02. The Educated Society: MBH.
   2. Working Book Title – Mapping Brisbane History.

05. Geography and Local History.

1. 1. Project Title – G.02. Local Landscapes Past (MBH): BSHN/MBH and Global Themes in Local Landscapes.
   2. Working Book Title – Local Landscapes Past: How to Re-Imagine Brisbane Communities.

06. Thinking and Queensland History.

1. 1. Project Title – B.02. Emotion, Caring, and Convivial Urban Sociology Between the Academy and Community.
   2. Working Book Title – The Diversity of Thought Between the Academy and Community.

07. Freethought and Queensland History.

1. 1. Project Title – H.10. Teaching – Free Thinker Institute–The Philosophy Café Freethought Curriculum.
   2. Working Book Title – The Whole Concept of Thought Community Education.

08. Freethought and Queensland History (Methodological).

1. 1. Project Title – E.08. Freethought in Queensland: The Compatibility of Belief, Moving through Conflict and Out to the Common Big Picture.
   2. Working Book Title – A 100 Years and More of Freethought.

09. Intellectual History.

1. 1. Project Title – C.06. Intellectual History of Queensland.
   2. Working Book Title – A Short Intellectual History of Queensland.

10. Communication Theory and Queensland History.

1. 1. Project Title – A.03. Horizon Worldviews. 2023 Media, Religion and Culture. Communitive Rationality in the Early 21^st Century ( Conference, Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany. 2-5th August).
   2. Working Book Title – Communitive Rationality in the Early 21^st Century and the Legacy of the 20^th.

11. Philosophical Conception, Policy, and Queensland History.

1. 1. Project Title – A.04. Paper – Understanding the Concepts: BHS/PIQ and Queensland Historical Sociology.
   2. Working Book Title – The Absence Steers the Discourse: The Big Ideas Not Present in Queensland Policy Debates During the 20th.

12. Philosophy of Religion and Secularity and Queensland History.

1. 1. Project Title – A.03. Horizon Worldviews (Broad Society, Thesis): MBH-ABD and Horizon Worldviews in Queensland.
   2. Working Book Title – Horizon Worldviews in Queensland: Re-Imaging the Society Beyond the ‘Queensland Character’.

13. Philosophy in Literature and Queensland History.

1. 1. Project Title – H.01. Literature & History: PIQ and What Queenslanders Read.
   2. Working Book Title – What Queenslanders Read: Book Literary Knowledge on ‘Big Belief’ Worldviews.

14. War-Peace Thought and Queensland History.

1. 1. Project Title – E.01. War & Peace (Conflated Messages): HPQ and War-Peace Thought.
   2. Working Book Title – Conflated Messages: War-Peace Thought in Queensland.

15. Unity, Universality, and Queensland History.

1. 1. Project Title – D.09. Unitarian-Universalism.
   2. Working Book Title – The Evolution of Unitarian-Universalism in Australia.

16. Humanism and Queensland History.

1. 1. Project Title – H.10. Public & Applied History in Community Education. Open Humanity Project.
   2. Working Book Title – Categories and Perspectives of Humanity in the Early 21st Century.

17. Dissenting Histories and Queensland History.

1. 1. Project Title – A.04. Paper – Understanding the Concepts: Orthodoxy and Heresy.
   2. Working Book Title – The 21st Century Meaning of Heresy: Unitarian, Unity, Universality.

18. Sociologies of Philosophies and Queensland History

1. 1. Project Title – E.12. American-Australian Models of Sociology, (intellectual frameworking, populism, worldviews, personalism, challenge to cultural-history wars).
   2. Working Book Title – American Modernism and Sociological Models.

19. Evangelicalism and Queensland History.

1. 1. Project Title – D.04. The American view for Telling the Story of Australian Evangelical History (EHA).
   2. Working Book Title – Belief and Doubt of Australian Evangelicalism.

20. Neo-Pentecostalism and Queensland History.

1. 1. Project Title – D.01. Book – On Pentecostalism in Qld. Critical Review of “Holy Spirit Movements through History Study Guide” by Geoff Waugh and Sam Hey.
   2. Working Book Title – Blessed Queensland.

21. Religious Education in Queensland.

1. 1. Project Title – B.01. Education for Faith & Belief. Historical Sociology of/for Christian/Religious Education in Queensland: Mapping 1859-2022 and Beyond.
   2. Working Book Title – Religious Education. A Plan to Change and Why it is Important.

NDB Project List in the Above Book Priorities

[1] 6. 1. Mapping Brisbane History. 6. Mapping Brisbane Education (MBE)

[2] 3. 1. Mapping Brisbane History. 3. Mapping Brisbane History (MBH) and 31. 6. Brisbane Southside History Network. 1. Managing Local History Projects

[3] 14. 3. History & Philosophy in Queensland. 2. Queensland War and Peace Thinkers 1870-1939

[4] 25. 5. Passion & Intellect in Queensland. 1. Thinking about Worldviews from the Reading Rooms of Queensland 1859-2009

[5] 24. 4. Active Belief & Doubt in Queensland. 6. Horizon Worldviews in Queensland

[6] 42. 7. Buch Historiography & Sociology. 6. Buch’s Historical Sociology Thesis and 25. 5. Passion & Intellect in Queensland. 1. Thinking about Worldviews from the Reading Rooms of Queensland 1859-2009 and 28. 5. Passion & Intellect in Queensland. 4. Political Schemas and Ideologies in Queensland

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Professional Historian at Professional Historians Association (Queensland) Inc.

Neville Buch (Pronounced Book) Ph.D. is a certified member of the Professional Historians Association (Queensland). Since 2010 he has operated a sole trade business in history consultancy. He was a Q ANZAC 100 Fellow 2014-2015 at the State Library of Queensland. Dr Buch was the PHA (Qld) e-Bulletin, the monthly state association’s electronic publication, and was a member of its Management Committee. He is the Managing Director of the Brisbane Southside History Network.

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