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Daniella Trimboli
I was jointly-awarded a PhD in Cultural Studies in 2016 by The University of Melbourne and the University of British Columbia. My dissertation analysed the intersection of everyday multiculturalism and digital storytelling. Specifically, it asked: what are the ways in which Australian digital storytelling projects engage with concepts of “cultural diversity” & “everyday multiculturalism” to create material possibilities for the ethnic subject?
After completing my dissertation, I worked for the Research Unit in Public Cultures (RUPC) at The University of Melbourne, first as the Special Projects and Research Grants Officer, and then as a Research Fellow. During my time at the RUPC I managed two significant interdisciplinary research projects on the role of art and culture in urban environments. The first, Refuge, was an interdisciplinary project with Melbourne’s Art House that examined the role of art in the discourse of climate change. The second, From Ethnic Enclaves to Cosmopolitan Cultures, was an evaluation project for the Greek Centre for Contemporary Culture. This project investigated the changing nature of the Greek diaspora and associated cultural precincts in the city of Melbourne. While here, I also coordinated the Masters topic MECM90003 Mobility, Culture and Communication. I have been an assistant editor of the Journal of Intercultural Studies since 2014.
In August 2017, I began a two-year postdoctoral project at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation. My research interests include critical cosmopolitanism, multiculturalism, and diaspora studies, and I have an overall interest in exploring how community-based arts practice and digital interactions can be used to disrupt whiteness in neo-colonial contexts.
The path to these postdoctoral positions has not been linear, and I have found myself working in various areas under various “hats” over the years. After my undergraduate degree at Flinders University I worked in Programming for the Queensland Folk Federation’s Woodford Folk Festival and its sister festival The Dreaming. This work heightened my interest in community-based arts and concepts of whiteness and cultural diversity, inevitably seeing me return to Flinders University to begin postgraduate studies. At Flinders University, I fulfilled various RA roles, including for the Yunggorendi First Nations Centre, where I had the privilege to work with the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority on an Indigenous Governance Project. I also moonlighted for a couple of years as a manager of a visual-arts/design business (are/why?), and for the past three years have co-managed an online arts community that explores the topic of refugees and global migration (http://yourfirstmate.org).
These multifarious experiences have given me a better understanding of the complexities at play at the interface of cultural studies and ‘cultural industries.’ In particular, they have helped refine my understanding of the critical role that cultural difference and re-translation plays in ensuring meaningful and rigorous engagement with place and identity in contemporary life.
Supervisors: Postdoctoral Supervisor: A/Prof Melinda Hinkson
Address: Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
Building C, Level 6
Deakin University, Burwood Campus VIC
After completing my dissertation, I worked for the Research Unit in Public Cultures (RUPC) at The University of Melbourne, first as the Special Projects and Research Grants Officer, and then as a Research Fellow. During my time at the RUPC I managed two significant interdisciplinary research projects on the role of art and culture in urban environments. The first, Refuge, was an interdisciplinary project with Melbourne’s Art House that examined the role of art in the discourse of climate change. The second, From Ethnic Enclaves to Cosmopolitan Cultures, was an evaluation project for the Greek Centre for Contemporary Culture. This project investigated the changing nature of the Greek diaspora and associated cultural precincts in the city of Melbourne. While here, I also coordinated the Masters topic MECM90003 Mobility, Culture and Communication. I have been an assistant editor of the Journal of Intercultural Studies since 2014.
In August 2017, I began a two-year postdoctoral project at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation. My research interests include critical cosmopolitanism, multiculturalism, and diaspora studies, and I have an overall interest in exploring how community-based arts practice and digital interactions can be used to disrupt whiteness in neo-colonial contexts.
The path to these postdoctoral positions has not been linear, and I have found myself working in various areas under various “hats” over the years. After my undergraduate degree at Flinders University I worked in Programming for the Queensland Folk Federation’s Woodford Folk Festival and its sister festival The Dreaming. This work heightened my interest in community-based arts and concepts of whiteness and cultural diversity, inevitably seeing me return to Flinders University to begin postgraduate studies. At Flinders University, I fulfilled various RA roles, including for the Yunggorendi First Nations Centre, where I had the privilege to work with the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority on an Indigenous Governance Project. I also moonlighted for a couple of years as a manager of a visual-arts/design business (are/why?), and for the past three years have co-managed an online arts community that explores the topic of refugees and global migration (http://yourfirstmate.org).
These multifarious experiences have given me a better understanding of the complexities at play at the interface of cultural studies and ‘cultural industries.’ In particular, they have helped refine my understanding of the critical role that cultural difference and re-translation plays in ensuring meaningful and rigorous engagement with place and identity in contemporary life.
Supervisors: Postdoctoral Supervisor: A/Prof Melinda Hinkson
Address: Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
Building C, Level 6
Deakin University, Burwood Campus VIC
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This international ensemble of scholars discuss Thomas Nail’s The Figure of the Migrant (Stanford UP, 2015). These scholars represent various disciplines within the academy and divergent methodologies. One thing we share in common, though, is the opinion that the migrant needs to occupy a more significant place within our political theory and policy. Nail’s book is one of kinopolitics, that is, a politics of movement. It provides a kind of theory of social motion. According to Nail, the book offers a remedy to problems in how the migrant is typically theorized, namely that (a) the migrant is understood as a derivative figure in contrast to the stable denizen and (b) the migrant is discussed through the lens of the state. His remedial maneuver mobilizes the potential to understand the figure of the migrant by placing the migrant in the primary position, by offering a political philosophy of the migrant.
Joining us today are Robin Celikates, Daniella Trimboli, Sandro Mezzadra, Todd May, Ladelle McWhorter, Andrew Dilts, and Adriana Novoa. Welcome and thank you all for participating in this discussion about Thomas Nail’s The Figure of the Migrant. We have here a diverse set of scholars representing various disciplines within the academy and divergent methodologies. One thing we share in common, though, is the opinion that the migrant needs to occupy a more significant place within our political theory and policy. Thomas’s book is one of kinopolitics, that is, a politics of movement. It offers a kind of theory of social motion. Thomas, do you want to offer a few words to get us started?
1. how arts organisations can contribute to the planning and creation of Emergency Relief Centres;
2. how arts pedagogy can communicate resilience, and;
3. how arts participation can foster community
resilience.
This international ensemble of scholars discuss Thomas Nail’s The Figure of the Migrant (Stanford UP, 2015). These scholars represent various disciplines within the academy and divergent methodologies. One thing we share in common, though, is the opinion that the migrant needs to occupy a more significant place within our political theory and policy. Nail’s book is one of kinopolitics, that is, a politics of movement. It provides a kind of theory of social motion. According to Nail, the book offers a remedy to problems in how the migrant is typically theorized, namely that (a) the migrant is understood as a derivative figure in contrast to the stable denizen and (b) the migrant is discussed through the lens of the state. His remedial maneuver mobilizes the potential to understand the figure of the migrant by placing the migrant in the primary position, by offering a political philosophy of the migrant.
Joining us today are Robin Celikates, Daniella Trimboli, Sandro Mezzadra, Todd May, Ladelle McWhorter, Andrew Dilts, and Adriana Novoa. Welcome and thank you all for participating in this discussion about Thomas Nail’s The Figure of the Migrant. We have here a diverse set of scholars representing various disciplines within the academy and divergent methodologies. One thing we share in common, though, is the opinion that the migrant needs to occupy a more significant place within our political theory and policy. Thomas’s book is one of kinopolitics, that is, a politics of movement. It offers a kind of theory of social motion. Thomas, do you want to offer a few words to get us started?
1. how arts organisations can contribute to the planning and creation of Emergency Relief Centres;
2. how arts pedagogy can communicate resilience, and;
3. how arts participation can foster community
resilience.