- +1 443 554 2522
- Indigenous Knowledges development, Aboriginal History in Australia, Cultural Studies, Aboriginal philosophy, Indigenous Epistemologies, Settler Colonialism & Its Legacies, and 58 moreIndigenous Knowledge, Australian Aboriginal History, Gender History, Activist Ethnography, Indigenous Research Methodologies, Decolonisation, Australian History, Social and Emotional Wellbeing, Indigenous Australian Philosophy, Healing, Sustainable Communities, Ego-Histoire, Critical Mixed Race Studies, Race and Racism, History of Sexuality, Australian colonial history, Environmental Humanities, Gender and Cultural Studies, Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Indigenous Politics, Colonialism, Imperialism, Empire, Indigenous Peoples Rights, Indigeneity, Indigenous Religions, Australian Studies, Australian Indigenous Studies, Aboriginal Studies, Aboriginal History, History of Aboriginal peoples, Australian Indigenous History, Aboriginal family history, Aboriginal dreamtime, Aboriginal spirituality, Indigenous Philosophy, Anthropocene, Anthropocene studies, Culture and the Anthropocene, The Anthropocene, Critical Methodologies, Critical Indigenous Methodologies, Critical Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Critical Theory, Food Security and Insecurity, Food Security, Food and Nutrition, Homegardensbiodiversity and Food Security, Australian Aboriginal Philosophy, Food Security and Social Justice, Climate Change, Climate Change and Food Security, Climate Change and Its Impact on Food Security and Agriculture, Food Sovereignty & Food Security, History, Human Rights, and Environmental Sustainabilityedit
- Professor Victoria Grieves (now also Williams) is an Aboriginal person, Warraimaay from the mid north coast of NSW, a... moreProfessor Victoria Grieves (now also Williams) is an Aboriginal person, Warraimaay from the mid north coast of NSW, and and historian. Victoria's research interests include: colonial history particularly the history of the Aboriginal family; race, gender and intersectionality, particularly as played out within Australian society in the colonial period and during WW2; Indigenous wellbeing and mental health as it relates to contemporary psychology; food and water sustainability in Aboriginal communities - and all of this in the context of the Anthropocene.
Victoria has published in Australian Aboriginal history, particularly on the history of the Aboriginal family, in Indigenous knowledges production in Australia, particularly about Aboriginal philosophy and wellbeing and in environmental humanities. She is passionate about Aboriginal activism and the need for a just and proper settlement and to this end has published in Aboriginal politics and the impact of media on Aboriginal activism.
Victoria has published widely in newspapers and online in the Conversation as well as being an invited blogger for the Sydney Environment institute (SEI) the Australian Womens' History Network (AWHN) and the Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association (ACRAWSA). She edits the Maroon Magazine for the Maroon people of Charles Town Jamaica.
Victoria has worked as a consultant to governments, advising and reviewing projects, policy and programs, to do with Aboriginal people and the policies and programs that impact on their lives.edit
Following the success of the international conference Activism @theMargins: Stories of Resistance, Survival and Social Change in Melbourne, Australia in February 2020 and the book from Sitins to #revolutions: Media and the Changing nature... more
Following the success of the international conference Activism @theMargins: Stories of Resistance, Survival and Social Change in Melbourne, Australia in February 2020 and the book from Sitins to #revolutions: Media and the Changing nature of Protests published in November 2019, we propose to develop a volume of papers that further reflects on the range of activist activity over time-and of our time.
Research Interests: Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Media Activism, Social Activism, Feminist activism, History of Political Activism, and 15 moreEnvironmental Activism, Activism, Art and Activism, Advocacy and Activism, Youth activism, LGBTq Activisms, Design activism, Campus activism 1960s, Digital Activism, New Media and Political Activism, Online activism, Cultural Activism, Cultural and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s, Activismo, and Black Women's Activism
From Sit-Ins to #revolutions examines the evolution and growth of digital activism, while at once outlining how scholars theorize and conceptualize the field through new methodologies. As it closely examines the role that social and... more
From Sit-Ins to #revolutions examines the evolution and growth of digital activism, while at once outlining how scholars theorize and conceptualize the field through new methodologies.
As it closely examines the role that social and digital media play in enabling protests, this volume probes the interplay between historical and contemporary protests, emancipation and empowerment, and online and offline protest activities. Drawn from academic and activist communities, the contributors look beyond often-studied mass action events in the USA, UK, and Australia to also incorporate perspectives from overlooked regions such as Iran, Malaysia, Bahrain, Zimbabwe, India, and Romania. From illustrating the allure of political action to a closer look at how digital activists use new technologies to push for toward reform, From Sit-Ins to #revolutions promises to shed new light on key questions within activism, from campaign organization and leadership to messaging and direct action.
As it closely examines the role that social and digital media play in enabling protests, this volume probes the interplay between historical and contemporary protests, emancipation and empowerment, and online and offline protest activities. Drawn from academic and activist communities, the contributors look beyond often-studied mass action events in the USA, UK, and Australia to also incorporate perspectives from overlooked regions such as Iran, Malaysia, Bahrain, Zimbabwe, India, and Romania. From illustrating the allure of political action to a closer look at how digital activists use new technologies to push for toward reform, From Sit-Ins to #revolutions promises to shed new light on key questions within activism, from campaign organization and leadership to messaging and direct action.
Research Interests:
This book (that is called a discussion paper) argues for the centrality of Aboriginal Spirituality in the practice of social and emotional wellbeing and for applications in all areas of Aboriginal development. Although often mentioned... more
This book (that is called a discussion paper) argues for the centrality of Aboriginal Spirituality in the practice of social and emotional wellbeing and for applications in all areas of Aboriginal development.
Although often mentioned in the literature on Aboriginal health and social and emotional wellbeing, Spirituality has been in danger of becoming one of the undefined terms—like wellbeing, community, identity—that are used in various contexts and with various meanings attached, and in ways that obscure the reality of Indigenous Australian knowledges, philosophies and practices. In common with terms such as the Dreaming, it has lost significant meaning when translated into English.
This book importantly defines Aboriginal Spirituality by privileging the voices of Aboriginal people themselves and those of well-respected observers of Aboriginal culture. It demonstrates how those who are well exemplify Spirituality in everyday life and cultural expression. Having commonalities with international Indigenous groups, it is also deeply appreciated by non-Aboriginal people who understand and value the different ontologies (understandings of what it means to be), epistemologies (as ways of knowing) and axiologies (the bases of values and ethics) that Aboriginal philosophy embodies, as potential value to all peoples.
Spirituality includes Indigenous Australian knowledges that have informed ways of being, and thus wellbeing, since before the time of colonisation, ways that have been subsequently demeaned and devalued. Colonial processes have wrought changes to this knowledge base and now Indigenous Australian knowledges stand in a very particular relationship of critical dialogue with those introduced knowledges that have oppressed them.
Spirituality is the philosophical basis of a culturally derived and wholistic concept of personhood, what it means to be a person, the nature of relationships to others and to the natural and material world, and thus represents strengths and difficulties facing those who seek to assist Aboriginal Australians to become well.
This book questions the advisability of approaches that incorporate an Aboriginal perspective or cultural awareness as an overlay to the Western practices of dealing with mental health issues. Western practices have developed out of an entirely different concept of personhood, development of the individual and relationships to the wider world, and further research in this area, particularly incorporating the voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, is critical to ways forward.
Although often mentioned in the literature on Aboriginal health and social and emotional wellbeing, Spirituality has been in danger of becoming one of the undefined terms—like wellbeing, community, identity—that are used in various contexts and with various meanings attached, and in ways that obscure the reality of Indigenous Australian knowledges, philosophies and practices. In common with terms such as the Dreaming, it has lost significant meaning when translated into English.
This book importantly defines Aboriginal Spirituality by privileging the voices of Aboriginal people themselves and those of well-respected observers of Aboriginal culture. It demonstrates how those who are well exemplify Spirituality in everyday life and cultural expression. Having commonalities with international Indigenous groups, it is also deeply appreciated by non-Aboriginal people who understand and value the different ontologies (understandings of what it means to be), epistemologies (as ways of knowing) and axiologies (the bases of values and ethics) that Aboriginal philosophy embodies, as potential value to all peoples.
Spirituality includes Indigenous Australian knowledges that have informed ways of being, and thus wellbeing, since before the time of colonisation, ways that have been subsequently demeaned and devalued. Colonial processes have wrought changes to this knowledge base and now Indigenous Australian knowledges stand in a very particular relationship of critical dialogue with those introduced knowledges that have oppressed them.
Spirituality is the philosophical basis of a culturally derived and wholistic concept of personhood, what it means to be a person, the nature of relationships to others and to the natural and material world, and thus represents strengths and difficulties facing those who seek to assist Aboriginal Australians to become well.
This book questions the advisability of approaches that incorporate an Aboriginal perspective or cultural awareness as an overlay to the Western practices of dealing with mental health issues. Western practices have developed out of an entirely different concept of personhood, development of the individual and relationships to the wider world, and further research in this area, particularly incorporating the voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, is critical to ways forward.
Research Interests:
Research Interests: Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Teacher Education, Australian Studies, Australian society, and 14 moreIndigenous Knowledge, Neoliberalism, Australian Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Peoples Rights, Australian Politics, Teachers' professional development, Australian History, Indigenous Peoples, Aboriginal History in Australia, Aboriginal education, Australian Literature, Australian Aboriginal History, Early Childhood Teacher Education, and Neoliberalism and Education
A blog post on the ACRAWSA site about the true costs of war - the impact on civilians
Research Interests: Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Australian Studies, War Studies, Second World War, and 19 moreJust War Theory, First World War, World War II, Australian History, Children and War, Pacific History, World War II Pacific Theatre, ANZAC Day, Anzac, Anzac, Centenary, Education, Australians at War, Pacific War, Anzac, Unaustralian, Aboriginal Wars, Australia, war Anzac, belief, Anzac tradition, commemoration, War In the Pacific, World War II in the Pacific - Cairns Tropical North Queensland, Children in War and Poverty, and ANZAC Myth
A blog post on the ACRAWSA site about how Georgio Agamben's theory of the stste of exception applies to Australian Aboriginal people and refugees
Research Interests: Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Australian Studies, Race and Racism, Indigenous Politics, and 17 moreCritical Race Theory, Politics, Australian society, Australian politics (Australia), Indigenous Knowledge, Australian Indigenous Studies, Critical Race Theory and Whiteness theory, Australian Politics, Australian History, Indigenous Peoples, Aboriginal History in Australia, Critical Mixed Race Studies, Aboriginal Studies, Australian Politics, Australian Studies, Immigration, Intergration of muslim assylum seekers getting involved in Australian Politics after granted citizenship, Australian racial politics, especially Indigeneity and Whiteness, and Australian Federal Politics
This blog post showcases one of the stories from the ARC DI project Children born of War: Australia and the War in the Pacific 1941 - 1945. Dorothy Townsend nee Franks was a divorcee with an eight year old child when she married Reuben... more
This blog post showcases one of the stories from the ARC DI project Children born of War: Australia and the War in the Pacific 1941 - 1945. Dorothy Townsend nee Franks was a divorcee with an eight year old child when she married Reuben Franklin Beatty Jr in Sydney in 1946. However, the life together they planned for was not to be because of the White Australia policy on immigration. Dorothy's life reveals a woman who could be seen as white but who defied the convention of segregation and social ostracism of people of colour.
Research Interests: Critical Race Studies, Race and Racism, Race and Ethnicity, Second World War, African American History, and 24 moreAustralian Indigenous Studies, African American Studies, Australian History, Gender and Race, Critical Mixed Race Studies, Second World War (History), World War II Pacific Theatre, Intermarriages, Twentieth-Century Australian History, Australian Race Relations, Anglo-Indian Ancestry, Intermarriage, Pacific War, Children born of war, Second World War home front, Anglo Indians, WWII Home Front, Anglo-Indian, African American military history, The Second World War, social and cultural history of the Second World War, Anglo Indian History, War In the Pacific, and World War II in the Pacific - Cairns Tropical North Queensland
This is the beginning of more work on the nature of human societies in cities as we move inexorably into the Anthropocene
Research Interests: Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Peoples, Cities (Sociology), Internal migration, and 10 moreAnthropocene studies, Cities, Sustainable Cities, Anthropocene, Effects of internal migration on urbanisation, History of Immigration and Internal Migration, Society in the Anthropocene, Culture and the Anthropocene, The Anthropocene, and Indigenous peoples and the Anthropocene
Review(s) of: Nowhere People: How International Race Thinking Shaped Australia's Identity, Henry Reynolds, Australia's identity, Viking, Camberwell, 2005, ISBN 0670041181, Pb, 304pp, $29.95. Includes footnotes.
Research Interests:
... Journal of Australian Colonial History. Volume 11 (2009). A Higher Authority: Indigenous Transnationalism and Australia [Book Review]. Grieves, Vicki (Reviewed by). Full Text PDF (123kb). To cite this article: Grieves, Vicki. ...... more
... Journal of Australian Colonial History. Volume 11 (2009). A Higher Authority: Indigenous Transnationalism and Australia [Book Review]. Grieves, Vicki (Reviewed by). Full Text PDF (123kb). To cite this article: Grieves, Vicki. ... [cited 24 Oct 10]. Personal Author: Grieves, Vicki. ...
Research Interests:
A short article I wrote back in c.2004 for the University of Newcastle website - AWABA: A database of historical materials relating to the Aboriginal people of the Newcastle - Lake Macquarie Region. Please access online through the link... more
A short article I wrote back in c.2004 for the University of Newcastle website - AWABA: A database of historical materials relating to the Aboriginal people of the Newcastle - Lake Macquarie Region. Please access online through the link icon (click on it).
Research Interests:
Research Interests: History, Sociology, Anthropology, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Media Studies, and 15 moreNew Media, Australian Studies, Political Science, Media Activism, Social Activism, Australian Politics, Australian History, History of Political Activism, Aboriginal History in Australia, Activism, Aboriginal Australia, Aboriginal Studies, Australian Aboriginal Music, Aboriginal Media History, and Aboriginal Australian Activism
Research Interests:
Research Interests: Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Indigenous Politics, Indigenous Knowledge, Giorgio Agamben, and 15 moreAustralian Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Peoples Rights, Australian Politics, Biopolitics, Indigenous Peoples, Aboriginal History in Australia, Mexican Politics, Agamben, Mexico, State of exception, Aboriginal Rights, Indigenous people in Mexico, Aboriginal Studies, Indigenous Tribes of Mexico, and Indigenous Identity
Short article contribution to the Maroon Magazine developed by the people fo Charles Town to accompany their annual conference.
Research Interests: Black Studies Or African American Studies, Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Latin American and Caribbean History, Australian Studies, and 9 moreBlack/African Diaspora, Australian Indigenous Studies, Australian History, Aboriginal History in Australia, Maroons in Jamaica, Aboriginal Studies, Australian Aboriginal History, Jamaican history, and Maroons
Transition, Issue 126, 2018, pp. 43-57 (Article)
Research Interests: Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Australian Studies, Australia, Australian society, and 15 moreIndigenous Knowledge, Australian Indigenous Studies, Australian History, Indigenous Peoples, Australian Music, Aboriginal History in Australia, REGGAE MUSIC, Twentieth-Century Australian History, Aboriginal Studies, Australian Aboriginal History, Reggae, Reggae Culture, Reggae and Rastafari studies, Australian Aboriginal Music, and Australian Aboriginal reggae
Australia along with other settler colonial nation states did not decolonise in the period followingWW2. The imperative is now to decolonise in order to address human rights and social justice issues that are now more than critical. The... more
Australia along with other settler colonial nation states did not decolonise in the period followingWW2. The imperative is now to decolonise in order to address human rights and social justice issues that are now more than critical. The disadvantage of Australia's Aboriginal people has been set in stone by the original doctrine of terra nullius and all that flows from this, whereby Aboriginal people are in a state of exception to the Australian state - making them as refugees in their own country. Grieves argues for a solution that segues neatly with settler colonials' expressed desire for Australia to sever its ties with Britain and to become a republic. She places the Uluru Statement from the Heart, and the call for Truth Telling, as a first step on the process required to bring this about. The call for justice for Aboriginal Australians through acknowledging their sovereignty is not confined to Aboriginal groups: Grieves documents these calls and their implications from settler colonials and migrant groups. She also draws on experiences in other settler colonial jurisdictions to indicate a way forward.
Published as part of the Griffith Review 60: First things First
After more than two hundred years of largely unresolved disputes, Australia needs to hear the voices of Australia's First Nations – and act on them.
First Things First delivers strong contemporary insights from leading First Nations people, complemented by robust non-Indigenous writers. It provides a unique opportunity to share transformative information, structural challenges and personal stories, and aims to be an urgent, nuanced chorus for genuine consideration of Makarrata beyond the symbolic.
With this special edition, co-edited by Julianne Schultz and Sandra Phillips, Griffith Review excavates history and re-imagine the future, while not forgetting the urgencies of the present.
RRP: 27.99 / Publication Date: Apr 2018 / ISBN: 9781925 603 316 / Extent: 264pp / Formats: Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook
see https://griffithreview.com/editions/first-things-first/
Published as part of the Griffith Review 60: First things First
After more than two hundred years of largely unresolved disputes, Australia needs to hear the voices of Australia's First Nations – and act on them.
First Things First delivers strong contemporary insights from leading First Nations people, complemented by robust non-Indigenous writers. It provides a unique opportunity to share transformative information, structural challenges and personal stories, and aims to be an urgent, nuanced chorus for genuine consideration of Makarrata beyond the symbolic.
With this special edition, co-edited by Julianne Schultz and Sandra Phillips, Griffith Review excavates history and re-imagine the future, while not forgetting the urgencies of the present.
RRP: 27.99 / Publication Date: Apr 2018 / ISBN: 9781925 603 316 / Extent: 264pp / Formats: Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook
see https://griffithreview.com/editions/first-things-first/
Research Interests: Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Australian Studies, Indigenous education, Indigenous Health, and 23 moreAction Research (Indigenous Health), Indigenous Politics, Australia, Australian society, Indigenous Knowledge, International Migration, Aboriginal Health, Australian Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Peoples Rights, Australian Politics, Australian History, Indigenous Peoples, Aboriginal History in Australia, Aboriginal education, Refugees, Indigenous Psychology, Aboriginal Rights, Twentieth-Century Australian History, Aboriginal Studies, Refugees, migration and immigration, Aboriginal homelessness and housing, Settlement Issues for Migrants and Refugees, and Refugees Issues
Abstract: By tracing aspects of the life story of Kim Burke’s grandfather Alexander (Alec) Nickel Lewis and his father Matthew Lewis, this article aims to unravel the secrets kept in order to blur any reference to the true racial identity... more
Abstract: By tracing aspects of the life story of Kim Burke’s grandfather Alexander (Alec) Nickel Lewis and his father Matthew Lewis, this article aims to unravel the secrets kept in order to blur any reference to the true racial identity of family members.
This was for good reason, in an attempt to avoid the bureaucratic interventions with which Aboriginal lives and movements were regulated by the Australian government.
With this family the White Australia Policy impacted upon their lives and their efforts to retain and reclaim an Australian identity under the shadow of the Boer War. The
many trials that Kim’s great grandfather, as an Aboriginal soldier in South Africa, had to undergo to repatriate to Australia show another aspect of the impact of racial
segregation. It is shocking to realise that the passing of the White Australia policy in 1901 impacted on Australian Aboriginal men and their families who were in South
Africa for the purposes of serving the Empire. This also determined the hardships of my family over time, the later removal of my grandfather’s siblings and secrecy about their
descent. The family was torn apart by government policies for the removal of Aboriginal children. Not only were members of this family actively working around policies that existed to socially ostracise them but others in the Australian community in particular were assisting them to achieve social justice in extremely difficult circumstances. Lastly, through Kim’s grandfather’s reticence about his identity, his lifelong
quest to reunite his family and the disquiet and sorrow in his life, we learn of the long-term consequences of the Australian policy of removing Aboriginal children from their family.
Keywords: Aboriginal family history; Boer War; White Australia policy
This was for good reason, in an attempt to avoid the bureaucratic interventions with which Aboriginal lives and movements were regulated by the Australian government.
With this family the White Australia Policy impacted upon their lives and their efforts to retain and reclaim an Australian identity under the shadow of the Boer War. The
many trials that Kim’s great grandfather, as an Aboriginal soldier in South Africa, had to undergo to repatriate to Australia show another aspect of the impact of racial
segregation. It is shocking to realise that the passing of the White Australia policy in 1901 impacted on Australian Aboriginal men and their families who were in South
Africa for the purposes of serving the Empire. This also determined the hardships of my family over time, the later removal of my grandfather’s siblings and secrecy about their
descent. The family was torn apart by government policies for the removal of Aboriginal children. Not only were members of this family actively working around policies that existed to socially ostracise them but others in the Australian community in particular were assisting them to achieve social justice in extremely difficult circumstances. Lastly, through Kim’s grandfather’s reticence about his identity, his lifelong
quest to reunite his family and the disquiet and sorrow in his life, we learn of the long-term consequences of the Australian policy of removing Aboriginal children from their family.
Keywords: Aboriginal family history; Boer War; White Australia policy
Research Interests:
Published as part of the collection: Baehr, Elisabeth, and Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp, eds. 2017. "And there'll be NO dancing". Perspectives on Policies Impacting Indigenous Australians since 2007. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars... more
Published as part of the collection: Baehr, Elisabeth, and Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp, eds. 2017. "And there'll be NO dancing". Perspectives on Policies Impacting Indigenous Australians since 2007. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
This chapter critically analyses the relationship of Aboriginal Australia to the Australian settler colonial state in the light of Georgio Agamben's theory of the state of exception.
This chapter critically analyses the relationship of Aboriginal Australia to the Australian settler colonial state in the light of Georgio Agamben's theory of the state of exception.
Research Interests: Political Sociology, Political Philosophy, Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Australian Studies, and 21 moreIndigenous Epistemologies, Political Science, Indigenous Politics, Australian society, Indigenous Knowledge, Aboriginal Health, Aboriginal history in Canada, Australian Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Peoples Rights, Australian Politics, Australian History, Indigenous Peoples, Aboriginal History in Australia, Aboriginal education, State of exception, Aboriginal Rights, Aboriginal Studies, Australian Aboriginal History, Sociology of the State, Nomadic/Indigenous People, and Georgio Agamben
Keywords: plough, Serres, Anthropocene, dust bowl, agriculture This chapter has been prepared for inclusion in the Nick Holm and Sy Tassel edited anthology - Ecological Entanglements in the Anthropocene: Working with Nature - as... more
Keywords: plough, Serres, Anthropocene, dust bowl, agriculture
This chapter has been prepared for inclusion in the Nick Holm and Sy Tassel edited anthology -
Ecological Entanglements in the Anthropocene: Working with Nature
- as part of the Ecocritical Theory and Practice Series of Lexington Books.
This collection has been developed following the WORKING WITH NATURE, conference at Massey University in April 2015.
This chapter has been prepared for inclusion in the Nick Holm and Sy Tassel edited anthology -
Ecological Entanglements in the Anthropocene: Working with Nature
- as part of the Ecocritical Theory and Practice Series of Lexington Books.
This collection has been developed following the WORKING WITH NATURE, conference at Massey University in April 2015.
Research Interests: Native American Studies, Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, New Zealand Studies, The industrialization of agriculture: vertical coordination in the US food system., and 19 moreIndigenous Knowledge, Michel Serres, Agriculture, Aboriginal history in Canada, History of New Zealand, Indigenous Peoples, Sustainable Agriculture (Sustainability), Aboriginal History in Australia, History of Indigenous Peoples, Native American (History), Anthropocene studies, Kaupapa Maori Research, Maori history, New Zealand, Anthropocene, Marxism and the Development of the Plough, Culture and the Anthropocene, Nomadic/Indigenous People, and Indigenous peoples and the Anthropocene
Research Interests: Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Commonwealth History, Race and Racism, Race and Ethnicity, and 12 moreAustralia, Indigenous Knowledge, Whiteness Studies, Australian Indigenous Studies, Australian History, Aboriginal History in Australia, Australian Literature, History of Race and Ethnicity, Critical Mixed Race Studies, CommonWealth Literaature, Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literature, and Aboriginal Studies
in the collection, ‘Ngapartji Ngapartji: In Turn, In Turn’— Ego-histoire and Australian Indigenous Studies, ANU Press, 2014.
Research Interests: History, Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Australian Studies, Australia, and 15 moreAustralian history (Australia), Indigenous Knowledge, Australian Indigenous Studies, Social History, Australian History, Aboriginal History in Australia, Critical Indigenous Methodologies, Australian Indigenous History, Indigenous Australians, Aboriginal Studies, Ego-Histoire, Australian Aboriginal History, Indigenous/Aboriginal Australians, Indigenous Australian, and Critical Indigenous Studies
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
...for the book: In recent years race has fallen out of historiographical fashion, being eclipsed by seemingly more benign terms such as culture, ethnicity and difference. This timely and highly readable collection of essays re-energises... more
...for the book: In recent years race has fallen out of historiographical fashion, being eclipsed by seemingly more benign terms such as culture, ethnicity and difference. This timely and highly readable collection of essays re-energises the debate by carefully focusing our attention on local articulations of race and their intersections with colonialism and its aftermath. In Rethinking the Racial Moment: Essays on the Colonial Encounter Alison Holland and Barbara Brookes have produced a collection of studies that shift our historical understanding of colonialism in significant new directions. Their generous and exciting brief will ensure that the book has immediate appeal for multiple readers engaged in critical theory, as well as those more specifically involved in Australian and New Zealand history. Collectively, they offer new and invigorating approaches to understanding colonialism and cultural encounters in history via the interpretive (not merely temporal) frame of the moment.
Research Interests: Gender Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Sex and Gender, Australian Studies, Gender History, and 25 moreRace and Racism, Reproduction, Class, Race and Ethnicity, Australia, Australian history (Australia), Feminism, Australian Indigenous Studies, Australian History, Race and Gender, Aboriginal History in Australia, Aboriginal family history, History of Race and Ethnicity, Abortion, Critical Mixed Race Studies, Sexuality Studies, Race, Maternity, Queer, Twentieth-Century Australian History, Critical Race and Whiteness Studies, Aboriginal Studies, Lesbian and Gay History, Citrizenship, and Sexualtiy Gender and National Identity
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
The exhibition "A SIGN OF THE CRIMES" that was held at the Mori Gallery in Sydney in May 2006 proved a splendid confrontation of Australian whiteness and the impact of continuing colonial oppression of... more
The exhibition "A SIGN OF THE CRIMES" that was held at the Mori Gallery in Sydney in May 2006 proved a splendid confrontation of Australian whiteness and the impact of continuing colonial oppression of Australia's Indigenous people. The Indigenous artist Adam Hill is an ...
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
The colonial encounter has meant that Indigenous cultures, including the Aboriginal Australian, have been robbed of their integrity and viability by implying that they are not as advanced as that of the colonising power. It has been... more
The colonial encounter has meant that Indigenous cultures, including the Aboriginal Australian, have been robbed of their integrity and viability by implying that they are not as advanced as that of the colonising power. It has been through the colonial encounter that terms such ...
To access the online interview you need to select a link named "file" when you open this entry. Conversation with Professor Victoria Grieve-Williams ahead of the Blak and Bright First Nations Writer’s Festival. The second part of our... more
To access the online interview you need to select a link named "file" when you open this entry.
Conversation with Professor Victoria Grieve-Williams ahead of the Blak and Bright First Nations Writer’s Festival. The second part of our conversation begins with us discussing reactions to colonial settler practices that shocked Indigenous people around the world; practices like felling big trees regardless of their significance to the people.Professor Grieve-Williams also explains the origin of the concept of the Dreamtime.
Conversation with Professor Victoria Grieve-Williams ahead of the Blak and Bright First Nations Writer’s Festival. The second part of our conversation begins with us discussing reactions to colonial settler practices that shocked Indigenous people around the world; practices like felling big trees regardless of their significance to the people.Professor Grieve-Williams also explains the origin of the concept of the Dreamtime.
Research Interests:
To access this online interview you need to select a link named "file" when you open this entry. Interviewed by Bertrand Tungandame Conversation with Professor Victoria Grieve- Williams ahead of the Blak and Bright First Nations... more
To access this online interview you need to select a link named "file" when you open this entry.
Interviewed by Bertrand Tungandame
Conversation with Professor Victoria Grieve- Williams ahead of the Blak and Bright First Nations Writers’ Festival - May 2020
Victoria Grieve-Williams is an Adjunct Professor at RMIT University, Australia who utilizes interdisciplinary approaches to progress transnational Indigenous knowledges. She is engaged with new theoretical approaches to dealing with global inequalities.
In the upcoming Blak and Bright First Nations Writers Festival Professor Grieve-Williams will join by video link from New York two other extraordinary Blak thinkers (Uncle Jim Everett and Dr Gregory Phillips) to reflect on the concept of Makarrata, a peacemaking concept, which begins with truth-telling.
In an exclusive interview with NITV radio, Professor Grieve Williams highlighted that Aboriginal people’s philosophies are not well documented.
“Other Indigenous people around the world have had their philosophies documented for quite some time. In Africa, New Zealand, Canada, the United States… But Aboriginal people’s philosophies have not been documented till recently,” Victoria Grieve-Williams said.
Interviewed by Bertrand Tungandame
Conversation with Professor Victoria Grieve- Williams ahead of the Blak and Bright First Nations Writers’ Festival - May 2020
Victoria Grieve-Williams is an Adjunct Professor at RMIT University, Australia who utilizes interdisciplinary approaches to progress transnational Indigenous knowledges. She is engaged with new theoretical approaches to dealing with global inequalities.
In the upcoming Blak and Bright First Nations Writers Festival Professor Grieve-Williams will join by video link from New York two other extraordinary Blak thinkers (Uncle Jim Everett and Dr Gregory Phillips) to reflect on the concept of Makarrata, a peacemaking concept, which begins with truth-telling.
In an exclusive interview with NITV radio, Professor Grieve Williams highlighted that Aboriginal people’s philosophies are not well documented.
“Other Indigenous people around the world have had their philosophies documented for quite some time. In Africa, New Zealand, Canada, the United States… But Aboriginal people’s philosophies have not been documented till recently,” Victoria Grieve-Williams said.
Research Interests: Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Australian Philosophy, Australian History, and 7 moreIndigenous Peoples, Time Perception, Aboriginal History in Australia, Aboriginal philosophy, Aboriginal Studies, Indigenous Philosophy, and Australian Aboriginal Philosophy
This is an interview on the Philosophers Zone ABC Radio National broadcast on Sunday 7 July 2019. What constitutes a "philosophical" conversation? You might reasonably expect such a conversation to be conceptual, exploring abstract... more
This is an interview on the Philosophers Zone ABC Radio National broadcast on Sunday 7 July 2019.
What constitutes a "philosophical" conversation? You might reasonably expect such a conversation to be conceptual, exploring abstract notions of self, time, being, ethics and so on. For indigenous Australian philosophers, the conversation gets real very fast. Aboriginal knowledge is inseparable from questions of who gets to be educated, how the custodians of knowledge are treated in modern Australia, why such knowing is marginalised, and how it might be vital at a time when civilisation teeters on the edge of a precipice.
What constitutes a "philosophical" conversation? You might reasonably expect such a conversation to be conceptual, exploring abstract notions of self, time, being, ethics and so on. For indigenous Australian philosophers, the conversation gets real very fast. Aboriginal knowledge is inseparable from questions of who gets to be educated, how the custodians of knowledge are treated in modern Australia, why such knowing is marginalised, and how it might be vital at a time when civilisation teeters on the edge of a precipice.
Research Interests: Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Indigenous Knowledge, Australian Indigenous Studies, Australian History, and 8 moreIndigenous Peoples, Global South, Aboriginal philosophy, Australian Aboriginal History, Colonial history, Aboriginal history and cultural studies, Australian history, Critical Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Australian Studies, and Global (North/South) Environmental Politics
An interview following on from an article posted in the Conversation "Traditional Aboriginal healers should work alongside doctors to close the gap"
Research Interests:
An abstract of a paper to be presented at the Sydney Environment Institute event, The Re-(E)mergence of Nature in Culture at the University of Sydney on Thursday 23 February 2017... more
An abstract of a paper to be presented at the Sydney Environment Institute event, The Re-(E)mergence of Nature in Culture at the University of Sydney on Thursday 23 February 2017 http://sydney.edu.au/environment-institute/events/the-ree-mergence-of-nature-in-culture/
"An exploration of the interwoven relationship between culture and nature experienced by indigenous cultures around the world and how this relationship can be used to challenge the large scale degradation of the environment".
ABSTRACT:
This paper utilises Indigenous knowledges to explore the relationship between the city and the natural world. While Indigenous peoples of the earth are widely recognised as sentinels for the Anthropocene, that is, that the initial impact of the future has reached those marginalised peoples who define their main task as protecting the Earth and the species from extinction, city-dwelling peoples are experiencing extreme Anthropogenic impacts. It happens that Indigenous peoples are uniquely fitted to become defenders of the natural world because of a close cultural and intimate personal connection that has their very identity tied to " country ". In this connection, I draw on the work of Wanta Janpijimpa Patrick and Dr Joseph Gumbula amongst other Aboriginal cultural theorists who understand that " country " shapes us, grows us and ensures wellbeing. Moreover, Indigenous precepts such as that of the Wiradjuri people of NSW - yindyamarra – the capacity to live well in a world worth living in – that embody the responsibility of peoples to shape their environment to make it habitable, productive of wellbeing and sustainable – have potential for wide application. Several stays in Harlem, New York City over the past year reveal the stark impact of the future on the urban poor of New York, most of whom are the product of generations of city living and are immigrant populations of African American, (originally from the South) and Hispanic peoples (from Central America and Mexico). On the surface, these people seem to retain very little contact with or concern about the natural world. This has led me to think about the possible future for such peoples – how will they survive the ending of worlds without the wisdom and direction provided by a culture whose basis is intrinsically within the natural world? Moreover, this raises questions about how Indigenous peoples who live in cities (Australia's Indigenous populations are highly urbanised for example) navigate the city terrain in a quest for wellbeing that arguably derives from connectedness to a " natural " environment. The concept of " nature " and how this fits within world views and lifestyles of Indigenous and immigrant peoples promises to allow the teasing out of Anthropogenic impacts and drivers that are inherent in the lives of the urban poor in the west. Cities now house half the world's population and are the key sites for the production and consumption of commodities and transformative technologies that are associated with the Anthropocene. This paper includes a discussion about the nature of cities – can cities be seen as " natural " developments out of the activity of man, who is after all of the natural world, thus demonstrating that cities are not anathema to nature but in reality another product of it, and also importantly, creating a human niche for the Anthropocene?
"An exploration of the interwoven relationship between culture and nature experienced by indigenous cultures around the world and how this relationship can be used to challenge the large scale degradation of the environment".
ABSTRACT:
This paper utilises Indigenous knowledges to explore the relationship between the city and the natural world. While Indigenous peoples of the earth are widely recognised as sentinels for the Anthropocene, that is, that the initial impact of the future has reached those marginalised peoples who define their main task as protecting the Earth and the species from extinction, city-dwelling peoples are experiencing extreme Anthropogenic impacts. It happens that Indigenous peoples are uniquely fitted to become defenders of the natural world because of a close cultural and intimate personal connection that has their very identity tied to " country ". In this connection, I draw on the work of Wanta Janpijimpa Patrick and Dr Joseph Gumbula amongst other Aboriginal cultural theorists who understand that " country " shapes us, grows us and ensures wellbeing. Moreover, Indigenous precepts such as that of the Wiradjuri people of NSW - yindyamarra – the capacity to live well in a world worth living in – that embody the responsibility of peoples to shape their environment to make it habitable, productive of wellbeing and sustainable – have potential for wide application. Several stays in Harlem, New York City over the past year reveal the stark impact of the future on the urban poor of New York, most of whom are the product of generations of city living and are immigrant populations of African American, (originally from the South) and Hispanic peoples (from Central America and Mexico). On the surface, these people seem to retain very little contact with or concern about the natural world. This has led me to think about the possible future for such peoples – how will they survive the ending of worlds without the wisdom and direction provided by a culture whose basis is intrinsically within the natural world? Moreover, this raises questions about how Indigenous peoples who live in cities (Australia's Indigenous populations are highly urbanised for example) navigate the city terrain in a quest for wellbeing that arguably derives from connectedness to a " natural " environment. The concept of " nature " and how this fits within world views and lifestyles of Indigenous and immigrant peoples promises to allow the teasing out of Anthropogenic impacts and drivers that are inherent in the lives of the urban poor in the west. Cities now house half the world's population and are the key sites for the production and consumption of commodities and transformative technologies that are associated with the Anthropocene. This paper includes a discussion about the nature of cities – can cities be seen as " natural " developments out of the activity of man, who is after all of the natural world, thus demonstrating that cities are not anathema to nature but in reality another product of it, and also importantly, creating a human niche for the Anthropocene?
Research Interests: Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Indigenous Knowledge, Aboriginal History in Australia, Anthropocene studies, and 7 moreAboriginal Studies, Anthropocene, Culture and the Anthropocene, The Anthropocene, Nomadic/Indigenous People, Aboriginal People and the Environment, and Indigenous peoples and the Anthropocene
This is an abstract for a paper to be presented at the Global Reggae Conference at UWI, Kingston Jamaica on February 10, 2017
Research Interests: Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Australian Studies, Black/African Diaspora, Australian Indigenous Studies, Black Power, and 10 moreAustralian Politics, Aboriginal History in Australia, Black Power Movement, REGGAE MUSIC, Aboriginal Studies, Reggae, Reggae and Rastafari studies, Australian Aboriginal Music, Black Power Studies, and Australian Aboriginal politics
For the abstract lease see the attached flyer. About the Speaker: Professor Sabine Lee is Professor of Modern History at the University of Birmingham. She has published widely on 20th century history, history of science and on war and... more
For the abstract lease see the attached flyer.
About the Speaker: Professor Sabine Lee is Professor of Modern History at the University of Birmingham. She has published widely on 20th century history, history of science and on war and conflict with focus on gender-based violence and children born of war. She led on the UK Arts and Humanities Council-funded network on children born of war (2011-2014) and currently co-ordinates a European-wide EU-funded doctoral training network Children Born of War.
Respondent Dr Victoria Grieves is the lead investigator on the Australia Research Council Discovery Indigenous grant Children Born of War: Australia and the War in the Pacific 1941 – 1945. She is Warraimay from the mid north coast of NSW and has published in Australian Aboriginal history, particularly on the history of the Aboriginal family, in Indigenous Knowledges production in Australia and forthcoming in environmental humanities.
About the Speaker: Professor Sabine Lee is Professor of Modern History at the University of Birmingham. She has published widely on 20th century history, history of science and on war and conflict with focus on gender-based violence and children born of war. She led on the UK Arts and Humanities Council-funded network on children born of war (2011-2014) and currently co-ordinates a European-wide EU-funded doctoral training network Children Born of War.
Respondent Dr Victoria Grieves is the lead investigator on the Australia Research Council Discovery Indigenous grant Children Born of War: Australia and the War in the Pacific 1941 – 1945. She is Warraimay from the mid north coast of NSW and has published in Australian Aboriginal history, particularly on the history of the Aboriginal family, in Indigenous Knowledges production in Australia and forthcoming in environmental humanities.
Research Interests:
Too often the situation for Aboriginal Australians is analysed from within Australian society, widely understood to be a champion of multiculturism, social justice and the rights of Indigenous people internationally. Within Australia... more
Too often the situation for Aboriginal Australians is analysed from within Australian society, widely understood to be a champion of multiculturism, social justice and the rights of Indigenous people internationally. Within Australia Aboriginal people are overwhelmingly “administrable subjects” of a settler colonial regime and the issues that plague them are glossed as inexplicable given the benign governing context of their lives.
This paper seeks to critically analyse the disadvantage of Aboriginal Australians by utilising concepts developed by international theorists, particuarly Georgio Agamben and Achille Mbembe. It argues that the Australian situation should no longer be treated as an “exception” but be cast into the light of global events and global critical analysis in order to more fully understand the complexity of the context in which Aboriginal people seek to have justice and rights.
In fact, the evidence exists for the Aboriginal people to be seen as existing in a “state of exception” to the modern Australian settler colonial democracy. This paper sets out the case for this by presenting the evidence from the conception fo the NTER and the ways in which it has played out over time.
This paper seeks to critically analyse the disadvantage of Aboriginal Australians by utilising concepts developed by international theorists, particuarly Georgio Agamben and Achille Mbembe. It argues that the Australian situation should no longer be treated as an “exception” but be cast into the light of global events and global critical analysis in order to more fully understand the complexity of the context in which Aboriginal people seek to have justice and rights.
In fact, the evidence exists for the Aboriginal people to be seen as existing in a “state of exception” to the modern Australian settler colonial democracy. This paper sets out the case for this by presenting the evidence from the conception fo the NTER and the ways in which it has played out over time.
Research Interests:
On September 12 – 13, One World Rising will bring together over thirty spiritual leaders, visionaries, and activists from every continental region of the globe with thousands of concerned individuals to: CONFRONT THE EFFECTS OF... more
On September 12 – 13, One World Rising
will bring together over thirty spiritual leaders, visionaries, and activists from every continental region of the globe with thousands of concerned individuals to:
CONFRONT THE EFFECTS OF GLOBALIZING MODERNITY,
CELEBRATE THE RICHNESS, WISDOM, AND BEAUTY OF HUMANITY’S DIVERSE CULTURES,
DIALOGUE ABOUT NEW SOLUTIONS AND CREATIVE WAYS TO REALIZE A LIVING GLOBAL WHOLE.
will bring together over thirty spiritual leaders, visionaries, and activists from every continental region of the globe with thousands of concerned individuals to:
CONFRONT THE EFFECTS OF GLOBALIZING MODERNITY,
CELEBRATE THE RICHNESS, WISDOM, AND BEAUTY OF HUMANITY’S DIVERSE CULTURES,
DIALOGUE ABOUT NEW SOLUTIONS AND CREATIVE WAYS TO REALIZE A LIVING GLOBAL WHOLE.
Research Interests:
Research Interests: Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Aboriginal Art, Aboriginal Health, Australian Indigenous Studies, Aboriginal History in Australia, and 7 moreAboriginal education, Australian Aboriginal art, Aboriginal Studies, Australian Aboriginal History, Indigenous/Aboriginal Australians, Australian Aboriginal Languages, and Colonial history, Aboriginal history and cultural studies, Australian history
Research Interests: Pacific Island Studies, Children and Families, Women and War Studies, Anthropology of Children and Childhood, Second World War, and 16 moreWorld War II, Children and War, Children's Rights, Pacific History, Second World War (History), World War Two, World War II history, Children, Pacific Islands, Pacific Studies, Children and War, Peace Studies, Conflict Resolution, Women and warfare, Children born of war, Children In War, War In the Pacific, and Babies Born of War
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests: History, Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Australian Studies, Australian Indigenous Studies, and 8 moreAustralian History, Indigenous Peoples, Aboriginal History in Australia, Aboriginal Australia, Aboriginal Studies, Australian Aboriginal History, Aboriginal History, and History of Aboriginal peoples
Research Interests: History, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Film Studies, Oral history, Postcolonial Literature, and 14 moreAustralian History, Aboriginal History in Australia, Aboriginal education, Australian Literature, Film, Film and Media Studies, Aboriginal Issues, Aboriginal Literature, Aboriginal Australia, Aboriginal Rights, Canadian and Australian Literature, Aboriginal Studies, Australian Aboriginal History, and History of Aboriginal peoples
Research Interests: Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Australian Studies, Post-conflict Reconstruction and Development, Indigenous Politics, and 15 moreIndigenous Knowledge, Australian Indigenous Studies, Australian History, Indigenous Peoples, Aboriginal History in Australia, Reconciliation, Forgiveness and Reconciliation, Aboriginal Rights, Transitional justice and reconciliation processes, Post-Conflict Reconciliation, Aboriginal Studies, Australian Aboriginal History, Aboriginal/Indigenous Politics, Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, and Truth in history
This article in the Conversation foreshadows the ARC Discovery Indigenous funded research into the children born to US servicemen who were station ed Australia during the War in the Pacific 1941-1945.
Research Interests: Black Studies Or African American Studies, African American History, African American Studies, Australian History, Children's Rights, and 15 moreBlack Studies, US History, US Military History, African Americans, Australian military history, Children born of war, Us Military, WWII in the Pacific, African American military history, Children In War, US Military Bases, US Military Bases In the Pacific, War In the Pacific, World War II in the Pacific - Cairns Tropical North Queensland, and WWII South Pacific
This is the introduction ot the articles in the magazine
Research Interests: Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Environmental Studies, Indigenous Politics, Caribbean History, and 29 moreCaribbean Studies, Indigenous Knowledge, Jamaica, Indigenous Peoples Rights, Environmental Sustainability, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous ecological knowledges and practices, Indigenous Environmental Worldviews, Maroons in Jamaica, Jamaican Political Culture, land rights amongst the Maroon communities in Jamaica and throughout the diaspora, Nanny of the Maroons, Indigenous and Local Environmental Knowledge, Environmental justice, global sustainability, Environmental Politics and Governance, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Education for Sustainable Development, Environmental Sustainability. Global Development and Environmental Protection, Jamaican history, Environmental Justice, Indigenous Rights, Water Rights, Indigenous environmental conflict resolution, Indigenous Communities, Indigneous Studies, Maroon Societies, Maroons, Indigenous Environmental Studies, Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention, Environmental Management Programs That Incorporate Indigenous Knowledge System Strategies and Scientific Approach. Research Methodology Involving Impact of Indigenous Knowledge Systems In Conservation., Environmental Conservation Using Indigenous Knowledge Systems., Indigenous Perceptions and Valuations of Environmental Resources, Indigenous peoples and the environment, Conflict Prevention and Management Environmental Security and Indigenous Knowledge Systems Human Rights Concepts Research Methodology, and Indigenous Environmental Justice
This magazine is developed to accompany the conference and festival and features a wide range of topics from Indigenous and ally writers.
Research Interests: Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Indigenous Politics, Indigenous Knowledge, Jamaica, and 27 moreIndigenous Peoples Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Environmental Worldviews, Maroons in Jamaica, Jamaican Political Culture, land rights amongst the Maroon communities in Jamaica and throughout the diaspora, Nanny of the Maroons, Stolen generations, Stolen/abused Children, Aboriginal Studies, Indigenous and Local Environmental Knowledge, Environmental justice, global sustainability, Environmental Politics and Governance, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Education for Sustainable Development, Environmental Sustainability. Global Development and Environmental Protection, Jamaican history, Environmental Justice, Indigenous Rights, Water Rights, Indigenous environmental conflict resolution, The Stolen Generations, Maroon Societies, Maroons, Indigenous Peoples and human rights, Indigenous Environmental Studies, Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change, Environmental Management Programs That Incorporate Indigenous Knowledge System Strategies and Scientific Approach. Research Methodology Involving Impact of Indigenous Knowledge Systems In Conservation., Environmental Conservation Using Indigenous Knowledge Systems., Indigenous Perceptions and Valuations of Environmental Resources, Indigenous peoples and the environment, Conflict Prevention and Management Environmental Security and Indigenous Knowledge Systems Human Rights Concepts Research Methodology, and Indigenous Environmental Justice
Research Interests: Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Indigenous education, Indigenous Health, Action Research (Indigenous Health), and 12 moreIndigenous Politics, Indigenous Knowledge, Aboriginal Health, Australian Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Peoples Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous knowledge systems, Indigenous Psychology, Aboriginal philosophy, Aboriginal Studies, Indigenous Psychologies, and Australian Aboriginal Philosophy
Research Interests:
This article is written to commemorate the contribution made by the centenarian Sylvia McNeill, now living in Jamaica. She was responsible for a survey and report into the phenomenon of babies born of liaisons of African American military... more
This article is written to commemorate the contribution made by the centenarian Sylvia McNeill, now living in Jamaica. She was responsible for a survey and report into the phenomenon of babies born of liaisons of African American military personnel and English women. The paper goes some way to illuminating the underlying raced and gendered societies of the time that prevented mixed-race marriages.
This short article was published in the Charles Town International Maroon Conference Magazine - see a separate entry on this page for the link to this online magazine - for citation - or to read other very engaging articles
This short article was published in the Charles Town International Maroon Conference Magazine - see a separate entry on this page for the link to this online magazine - for citation - or to read other very engaging articles
Research Interests: War Studies, Gender and Sexuality, Women and War Studies, Second World War, World War II, and 10 moreChildren's Rights, World War and Comparative Home Fronts, Children born of war, Second World War home front, Home Front, WWII Home Front, British Home Front, History of Black People In Britain, Brown babies, and sex and war
This is the third edition of the magazine that I have edited. It is designed to accompany the conference and the main aim as iterated by the late Colonel of the Charles Town Maroons, Frank Lumsden, is to contribute to a global community... more
This is the third edition of the magazine that I have edited. It is designed to accompany the conference and the main aim as iterated by the late Colonel of the Charles Town Maroons, Frank Lumsden, is to contribute to a global community of Indigenous peoples "without borders". The aim is to develop articles that are accessible to community based people; the magazine is not scholarly but provides articles that inform and entertain the readers.
This edition contains articles by Taino, Caribbean, Jamaican and Australian Aboriginal writers.
This edition contains articles by Taino, Caribbean, Jamaican and Australian Aboriginal writers.
Research Interests:
Research Interests: Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Indigenous education, Environmental Studies, Indigenous Research Methodologies, and 8 moreIndigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Peoples Rights, Environmental Sustainability, Indigenous ecological knowledges and practices, Environmental Humanities, Aboriginal History in Australia, Aboriginal education, and Aboriginal Cultures
Research Interests:
In this article published in a newspaper, the National Indigenous Times, Dr Vicki Grieves explores the importance of Aboriginal philosophy, its connection to cultural heritage, knowledge development and wellbeing. This means that... more
In this article published in a newspaper, the National Indigenous Times, Dr Vicki Grieves explores the importance of Aboriginal philosophy, its connection to cultural heritage, knowledge development and wellbeing. This means that Aboriginal engagement with our cultural heritage will secure a pathway for Aboriginal economic development.
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
This article published in The Conversation aims to set the record straight in terms of Aboriginal contributions to the management of remote lands in the face of the Anthropocene - and as a response to the Australian Prime Minister's take... more
This article published in The Conversation aims to set the record straight in terms of Aboriginal contributions to the management of remote lands in the face of the Anthropocene - and as a response to the Australian Prime Minister's take on Aboriginal people living on their lands as a #lifestylechoice
Research Interests: Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Climate Change, Australian Studies, Climate Change Adaptation, Climate change policy, and 23 moreAustralia, Australian society, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Peoples Rights, Australian Politics, Climate Change Adaptation And Mitigation Strategies, Australian History, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous ecological knowledges and practices, Aboriginal History in Australia, Climate Change Impacts, Anthropocene studies, Indigenous Psychology, Aboriginal Studies, Australian Aboriginal Studies, Anthropocene, Australian Aboriginals, Australian Aboriginal History, Indigenous/Aboriginal Australians, Colonial history, Aboriginal history and cultural studies, Australian history, The Anthropocene, Nomadic/Indigenous People, and Australian Aboriginal Landscape
Research Interests:
"This project involved several components: a review of the national and international literature in regard to the transition to school; an analysis of quantitative data, and consultations with a range of key stakeholders including a... more
"This project involved several components: a review of the national and international literature in regard to the transition to school; an analysis of quantitative data, and consultations with a range of key stakeholders including a series of case study visits to different kinds of prior-to-school education settings. The objective of these research elements was to ensure the reports and guidelines developed through the project are well grounded in practice".
The project also involved visits to a range of settings where Aboriginal children were transitioning into school that were recommended as best practice by the state and territory based education departments. These are written up as case studies within the report.
The project also involved visits to a range of settings where Aboriginal children were transitioning into school that were recommended as best practice by the state and territory based education departments. These are written up as case studies within the report.
Research Interests:
Research Interests: Business Ethics, Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Indigenous Health, Service Design, and 13 moreIndigenous Research Methodologies, Social Media, Culture, health and well being, Aboriginal History in Australia, Aboriginal family history, Aboriginal education, Wellbeing, Stakeholder Theory, Health and Wellbeing, Wisdom In Organizations, Indigenous Business, Maori Business, and Community Collective Intelligence (Geographical and Virtual)
The voices and lived experiences of those directly affected by oppression are now front and centre in protest movements. Women of colour, migrants, refugees, Indigenous and LGBTQAx communities as well as climate change activists are... more
The voices and lived experiences of those directly affected by oppression are now front and centre in protest movements. Women of colour, migrants, refugees, Indigenous and LGBTQAx communities as well as climate change activists are powerfully and unapologetically affecting change through a broad range of actions. These protest actions are now occurring at unprecedented scale and speed – from speaking up and out, to educating and organising others in their communities, to urging elected political and community leaders to support efforts to mobilise for and with the most marginalised, disadvantaged and vulnerable in society.
Research Interests: Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Indigenous Politics, Media Activism, Social Activism, and 13 moreIndigenous Peoples Rights, Feminist activism, Environmental Activism, Activism, Art and Activism, Youth activism, LGBTq Activisms, Digital Activism, New Media and Political Activism, Human Rights Defenders, Cultural and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s, Black Women's Activism, and Aboriginal Australian Activism
This one day symposium was developed in conjunction with the Sydney environment institute (SEI), the International Indigenous Research Network (IIRN) of the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) and the Faculty of Arts. As the lead... more
This one day symposium was developed in conjunction with the Sydney environment institute (SEI), the International Indigenous Research Network (IIRN) of the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) and the Faculty of Arts. As the lead coordinator I was able to invite Aboriginal leaders of important initiatives in defence of country from NSW, QLD, WA and the NT. Audio of their presentations is available on the website, the link to this is available here. The keynote address for this event was presented by Victoria Tauli-Corpus, the Special Rapporteur for the Rights of Indigenous peoples at the United Nations. There is also a link to her presentation on the website.
Research Interests: Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Environmental Studies, Indigenous Politics, Indigenous Knowledge, and 11 moreIndigenous Peoples Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Aboriginal History in Australia, Anthropocene studies, Aboriginal Rights, Aboriginal Studies, Anthropocene, Environmental justice, global sustainability, Environmental Politics and Governance, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Education for Sustainable Development, Environmental Sustainability. Global Development and Environmental Protection, Aboriginal organizing, Anthropocene Age and Environment Security, and The Anthropocene
Indigenous Knowledges in Latin America and Australia: Locating Epistemologies, Difference and Dissent | December 8-10, 2011 The symposium and planned workshop will bring together Indigenous educators and intellectuals from Latin America... more
Indigenous Knowledges in Latin America and Australia: Locating Epistemologies, Difference and Dissent | December 8-10, 2011
The symposium and planned workshop will bring together Indigenous educators and intellectuals from Latin America to Sydney to meet with interested Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander educators, scholars and activists, as well as non-Indigenous practitioners and allies, to discuss different models and approaches of Indigenous KnowledgeS and Education in the tertiary sector and beyond.
This project aims at helping educators and researchers in the Higher Education sector of Australia and Latin America to identify opportunities for integrating in their research and teaching and learning relevant aspects of Indigenous Knowledges in the areas of culture, education and sustainability.
Apart from the symposium itself, academic publications, public lectures by distinguished visitors and the creation of a website, the project will stimulate debate on Indigenous Knowledge and film production in Latin America and Australia by hosting a documentary screening on the topic. The selection of documentaries will be done in collaboration with the Sydney Latin American Film Festival, and this event will be targeted to the student population and the wider community.
The symposium and planned workshop will bring together Indigenous educators and intellectuals from Latin America to Sydney to meet with interested Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander educators, scholars and activists, as well as non-Indigenous practitioners and allies, to discuss different models and approaches of Indigenous KnowledgeS and Education in the tertiary sector and beyond.
This project aims at helping educators and researchers in the Higher Education sector of Australia and Latin America to identify opportunities for integrating in their research and teaching and learning relevant aspects of Indigenous Knowledges in the areas of culture, education and sustainability.
Apart from the symposium itself, academic publications, public lectures by distinguished visitors and the creation of a website, the project will stimulate debate on Indigenous Knowledge and film production in Latin America and Australia by hosting a documentary screening on the topic. The selection of documentaries will be done in collaboration with the Sydney Latin American Film Festival, and this event will be targeted to the student population and the wider community.
Australian academic life has come to a crossroads whereby the momentum for Indigenous knowledges development has reached a critical mass and universities are increasingly expected to respond with appropriate initiatives. Events on the... more
Australian academic life has come to a crossroads whereby the momentum for Indigenous knowledges development has reached a critical mass and universities are increasingly expected to respond with appropriate initiatives. Events on the national stage, notably the Prime Minister’s apology to the Aboriginal people for the Stolen Generations on 13 February 2008 are an important part of this momentum. Witness too the granting of the Sydney Peace Prize to Patrick Dodson in 2008 and the Australian of the Year to Michael Dodson in 2009, both of whom have championed the value of Indigenous Knowledges for all people. In the academy, key Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander academics are pushing beyond established epistemological boundaries into territories that promise to deliver more in terms of social justice outcomes. In this they are joined by Indigenous academics of other settler colonial nation states notably New Zealand, North America, Brazil and Canada in developing a transnational dialogue.
Accompanying these developments is a significant paradigm shift in teaching and research. The affirmative action approaches originating in the 1980s that saw the development of segregated ‘enclaves’ and the teaching of Aboriginal perspectives to the existing curriculums are now under challenge. Success in the participation and graduation of Indigenous students occurs in contexts where the responsibility is taken on by the whole university. This occurs in part by the embedding of Indigenous Knowledges across the curriculum, recently underlined in the recommendations of the Bradley Review of Australian Higher Education, as follows:
Indigenous knowledge
Higher Education providers should ensure that the institutional culture, the cultural competence of staff and the nature of the curriculum recognises and supports the participation of Indigenous students. (Chapter 3.2)
Indigenous knowledge should be embedded into the curriculum to ensure that all students have an understanding of Indigenous culture. (Chapter 3.2)
Further to this, there are expanding opportunities for Indigenous academics in research. The Australian Research Commission (ARC) for example, has allocated significant financial support for the development of an Indigenous research base through Discovery Indigenous Research Development Grants (IRDS) and has also increased their commitment by the development of the Australian Research Fellowship Indigenous (ARF Indigenous) for funding in 2010. (For further information click here).
Taken together this momentum indicates significant change that can possibly be taken on by all academics in established disciplines in Australia. They, and their disciplinary base, will be challenged by the priority of social justice for dispossessed Indigenous people and the ways of working, teaching and research methodologies, ethics and protocols that arise from this consideration. Academics are increasingly being asked to consider Indigenous knowledges approaches as an integral, daily part of their working lives. While many individual scholars are now understanding the philosophical basis for the complexity of Aboriginal epistemologies, uncertainty about ways of moving forward and the comfort of established ways of dealing with Aboriginal issues remains. This symposium is designed to identify the major issues these new developments will raise for academics and the disciplines and to move toward ways of addressing them.
Accompanying these developments is a significant paradigm shift in teaching and research. The affirmative action approaches originating in the 1980s that saw the development of segregated ‘enclaves’ and the teaching of Aboriginal perspectives to the existing curriculums are now under challenge. Success in the participation and graduation of Indigenous students occurs in contexts where the responsibility is taken on by the whole university. This occurs in part by the embedding of Indigenous Knowledges across the curriculum, recently underlined in the recommendations of the Bradley Review of Australian Higher Education, as follows:
Indigenous knowledge
Higher Education providers should ensure that the institutional culture, the cultural competence of staff and the nature of the curriculum recognises and supports the participation of Indigenous students. (Chapter 3.2)
Indigenous knowledge should be embedded into the curriculum to ensure that all students have an understanding of Indigenous culture. (Chapter 3.2)
Further to this, there are expanding opportunities for Indigenous academics in research. The Australian Research Commission (ARC) for example, has allocated significant financial support for the development of an Indigenous research base through Discovery Indigenous Research Development Grants (IRDS) and has also increased their commitment by the development of the Australian Research Fellowship Indigenous (ARF Indigenous) for funding in 2010. (For further information click here).
Taken together this momentum indicates significant change that can possibly be taken on by all academics in established disciplines in Australia. They, and their disciplinary base, will be challenged by the priority of social justice for dispossessed Indigenous people and the ways of working, teaching and research methodologies, ethics and protocols that arise from this consideration. Academics are increasingly being asked to consider Indigenous knowledges approaches as an integral, daily part of their working lives. While many individual scholars are now understanding the philosophical basis for the complexity of Aboriginal epistemologies, uncertainty about ways of moving forward and the comfort of established ways of dealing with Aboriginal issues remains. This symposium is designed to identify the major issues these new developments will raise for academics and the disciplines and to move toward ways of addressing them.
This two day symposium and one day film festival will bring together Indigenous educators and intellectuals from Latin America to Sydney to meet with interested Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander educators, scholars and activists, as... more
This two day symposium and one day film festival will bring together Indigenous educators and intellectuals from Latin America to Sydney to meet with interested Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander educators, scholars and activists, as well as non-Indigenous practitioners and allies, to discuss different models and approaches of Indigenous KnowledgeS and Education in the tertiary sector and beyond.
This project aims at helping educators and researchers in the Higher Education sector of Australia and Latin America to identify opportunities for integrating in their research and teaching and learning relevant aspects of Indigenous Knowledges in the areas of culture, education and sustainability.
Apart from the symposium itself, academic publications, public lectures by distinguished visitors and the creation of a website, the project will stimulate debate on Indigenous Knowledge and film production in Latin America and Australia by hosting a documentary screening on the topic. The selection of documentaries will be done in collaboration with the Sydney Latin American Film Festival, and this event will be targeted to the student population and the wider community.
This project aims at helping educators and researchers in the Higher Education sector of Australia and Latin America to identify opportunities for integrating in their research and teaching and learning relevant aspects of Indigenous Knowledges in the areas of culture, education and sustainability.
Apart from the symposium itself, academic publications, public lectures by distinguished visitors and the creation of a website, the project will stimulate debate on Indigenous Knowledge and film production in Latin America and Australia by hosting a documentary screening on the topic. The selection of documentaries will be done in collaboration with the Sydney Latin American Film Festival, and this event will be targeted to the student population and the wider community.
Research Interests: Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Indigenous Media, Indigenous Languages, Indigenous education, and 33 moreIndigenous Health, Indigenous Research Methodologies, Indigenous Epistemologies, Indigenous Film, Indigenous Religions, Indigenous Politics, Australian Indigenous Archaeology, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Literature, Indigeneity, Indigenous Movements, Indigenous Film Making, Aboriginal Health, Australian Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Australian Philosophy, Indigenous Governance, Indigenous Peoples Rights, African Indigenous Cultures, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Environmental Worldviews, Aboriginal History in Australia, Aboriginal family history, Indigenous Women & Human Rights, Sociology of Indigenous Peoples, Contemporary Indigenous Arts, Critical Indigenous Methodologies, Aboriginal education, Aboriginal Cultures, Australian Aboriginal art, Postcolonialism and Indigenous peoples, History of Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous knowledge systems, and Aboriginal Studies
https://activism2020.eventcreate.com/
This is the welcome to the conference Activism @theMargins in Melbourne in February 2020. Olivia Guntarik and Victoria Grieve Williams set the parameters of the conference discussion to follow.
This is the welcome to the conference Activism @theMargins in Melbourne in February 2020. Olivia Guntarik and Victoria Grieve Williams set the parameters of the conference discussion to follow.
Research Interests: Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Cultural Heritage, Indigenous Politics, Media Activism, Indigenous Knowledge, and 15 moreSocial Activism, Feminist activism, History of Political Activism, Environmental Activism, 'Decolonization' and the politics of settler state/Indigenous relations, Activism, Art and Activism, Anthropocene studies, Youth activism, Indigenous activism, Anthropocene, Cultural and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s, Scholar Activism, Collective Scholar Activism, and Frameworks for Scholar Activism within Higher Education
Research Interests: Indigenous Studies, Australian Studies, Trauma Studies, Australian History, Incarcerated Adolescents, and 20 moreTrauma, History of prisons, Punishment and Prisons, Prisons, History of Women, History of Girlhood, Delinquent Girls, Historical and Intergenerational Trauma, Incarcerated Women, History of Modern Prisons, Womens and Gender Studies, Historical Memory of Trauma and Violence, Researching Prisons, Formerly Incarcerated People, Womenstudies, Womens Studies, Womens History, Womens Rights, Womens Health, and Trauma and history
Following the success of the international conference Activism @theMargins: Stories of Resistance, Survival and Social Change in Melbourne, Australia in February 2020 and the book from Sitins to #revolutions: Media and the Changing nature... more
Following the success of the international conference Activism @theMargins: Stories of Resistance, Survival and Social Change in Melbourne, Australia in February 2020 and the book from Sitins to #revolutions: Media and the Changing nature of Protests published in November 2019, we propose to develop a volume of papers that further reflects on the range of activist activity over time-and of our time. As with the first edited volume we propose to stay at the margins, concentrating on the local and regional campaigns from the global South and from marginalised minorities in the metropole and settler colonial contexts. We encourage submissions from those who gave papers at the conference (the program is hyperlinked above) and we are also spreading the net further to seek papers from other interested writers. We also encourage you to engage with the issues of our times: climate change, decolonisation, anti-racism, refugees, LGBTIQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual, intersex and queer/questioning peoples) rights, police/state brutality against minorities, feminist critiques and campaigns, Indigenous activism, youth and activism, COVID 19, dealing with worldwide exceptionalism, borders, the carceral state and the neoliberal turn, for example. We seek critical and/or historicised analysis of themes, personalities and genres of activism. You may reflect on how some campaigns become movements as well as how the aims of different campaigns intersect. What if any, is their common ground? The framework presented by Professor Patricia Hill Collins at the conference #activism 2020, in which she outlined the strategic possibilities of activism as Cultural, Survival, Institutional and Protest Politics, advocated a flexible solidarity and coalition building-explained how solidarity arises from the intersections of activist campaigns-is pertinent to this volume. We are seeking abstract proposals for chapters of some 5,000 words to be developed within a relatively short lead time.