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Item Metadata only À la mode In Hunters Hill(Blackmail Press, 2021) Speedy, K.; Carter, M.Item Metadata only An Analysis of Motif Clusters at the Nanguluwurr Rock Art Site, Kakadu National Park, N. T. Australia(Informa UK Limited, 2021) Hayward, J.A.; May, S.K.; Goldhahn, J.; Jalandoni, A.; Taçon, P.S.C.During recent detailed recording of Nanguluwurr, a rock art site that is part of the Burrungkuy (Nourlangie) complex of cultural sites in Kakadu National Park, Australia, the data showed discrete clusters of specific motif types distributed throughout the length of the gallery. This paper focuses on the spatial distribution of the main motif clusters depicting spirit figures, material culture, fish, and painted hand and forearm motifs in order to understand the significance of these clusters within the site and the significance of Nanguluwurr as part of a wider complex of cultural sites. We consider the concept of these motif groupings as “meaning clusters,” as well as their chronological sequence, and discuss the possibility that they are the result of bursts of painting activity that occurred during the long history of the site manifest through depictions of ancient Dynamic Figures to the recent painting of X-ray fish.Item Open Access Anne-Louise Willoughby, Nora Heysen: A Portrait(German Association for Australian Studies. Gesellschaft für Australienstudien, 2020) Body, R.Item Metadata only Beyond the colonial encounter: global approaches to contact rock art studies(Taylor and Francis Group, 2018) Goldhahn, J.; May, S.K.How can rock art signal contact between different social groups and cultures? In this special collection of papers for Australian Archaeology, we find several different answers to this question, based on a number of Australian and International case studies first presented at The Second International Contact Rock Art Conference in Darwin, September 2013 and further developed in the years since. In this introductory paper, we set these important depictions in a global context, and explore some of the information that contact rock art offers in studying past, present and emerging societies.Item Metadata only Constructing Subaltern Silence in the Colonial Archive: An Australian Case Study(University of New England, 2016) Speedy, K.E.On 8 June 1857, the barque Sutton, chartered by Franco-Australian Sydney trader Didier Numa Joubert and Reunionese merchant, 'Monsieur Chateau', and captained by Joseph Wilson, sailed from Sydney harbour. Her mission was to proceed to the Pacific Islands to take on board up to 370 'male and female immigrants'. These were to be sold to sugar planters in Reunion who, post-abolition and in the midst of a sugar boom, were desperate for workers. When the Sutton dropped anchor in St. Denis nearly five months later, however, her South Sea Island 'cargo', the first known group of workers from Micronesia and Melanesia to be introduced into Reunion, comprised only 66 male 'recruits'. These 'natives' were 'carefully examined and interrogated by the - Immigration and Medical Board' before being 'hired for 5 years'. Captain Wilson pocketed 40 per worker. But any plans for a second shipment were scuttled by the two disgruntled white men that Wilson had picked up in the Gilberts (Kiribati). For quite self-serving reasons, they alerted Mauritian authorities to certain irregularities on board. An enquiry was launched by the Mauritian Governor, William Stevenson, for whom this incident had the hallmarks of illegal French slave trading.Item Metadata only Crime and Justice in Australia(Hawkins Press, 1997) Mukherjee, S.K.; Graycar, A.Published with the Australian Institute of Criminology.This book gives a comprehensive picture of crime and the criminal justice system in Australia in the mid-1990s.Item Open Access Developing a Reflexive, Anticipatory, and Deliberative Approach to Unanticipated Discoveries: Ethical Lessons from iBlastoids(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2021) Ankeny, R.; Munsie, M.; Leach, J.In this paper, we explore the recent creation of “iBlastoids,” which are 3-D structures that resemble early human embryos prior to implantation which formed via self-organization of reprogrammed adult skin cells. We explore some of the ethical, philosophical, social, and regulatory issues related to this research, with focus particularly on what it means to “anticipate” research outcomes when using novel methods or when serendipitous discoveries are made. We defend the need for reflexive, anticipatory, and deliberative ethical and conceptual work by researchers working in emerging and contentious research domains, in collaboration with interdisciplinary scholars, as well as regulators, funders, and publics.Item Metadata only Djimongurr (c. 1910-1969)(National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, 2022) Gumbuwa Maralngurra, J.; May, S.; Goldhahn, J.; Nolan, M.Item Open Access Exposing the colonial routes of Island connectedness beneath the apparent French roots of Hunters Hill (Sydney, Australia)(MACQUARIE UNIV, DIV HUMANITIES, 2020) Speedy, K.The #BlackLivesMatter (BLM) movement, which has seen the felling of statues of white invaders, colonisers and slave traders, has highlighted the racist legacy of slavery and the inequities, racism and ongoing impact of colonialism throughout the world. The toppling of statues sits within an ongoing historical push to remove visible tributes to colonial violence from the land. The colonial project, however, in its consumption and transformation of the colonised space, has seen the settler narrative firmly imprinted on the landscape. While knocking down statues is a powerful demonstration of resistance, the layers of embedded colonial presence in and on the landscape and in the national narrative remain. In this article, in the spirit of the BLM movement and through both decolonial/activist historiography and a creative/poetic interpretative approach to history writing, I challenge and topple the colonial narrative surrounding Didier-Numa Joubert, 19th Century Franco-Australian trans-imperial entrepreneur and slave trader with interests in and across islands in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. A man of routes but also of roots, Joubert’s legacy is embodied not in a statue but in the topography and European architecture of Hunters Hill, the Sydney suburb he ‘founded’. I reveal how the ostensible Frenchness of Hunters Hill, ‘islanded’ between two rivers, conceals a complex history of island connection to far-flung sites of colonial exploitation and forced labour in the French and British empires.Item Open Access Extraordinary Back-to-Back Human and Animal Figures in the Art of Western Arnhem Land, Australia: One of the World's Largest Assemblages(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2022) Taçon, P.S.C.; May, S.K.; Goldhahn, J.; Taylor, L.; Brady, L.M.; Ressel, A.; Jalandoni, A.; Wesley, D.; Maralngurra, G.Depictions of mythical beings appear in many different forms of art world-wide, including rock art of various ages. In this paper we explore a particular type of imagery, back-to-back figures, consisting of two human-like figures or animals of the same species next to each other and facing in opposite directions. Some human-like doubles were joined at the back rather than side-by-side, but also face opposite directions. In this paper, we report on new research on rock art, bark paintings and recent paintings on paper and chart a 9000-year history of making aesthetically, symbolically and spiritually powerful back-to-back figures in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia.Item Open Access From Humanitarianism to Humane Governance: Aboriginal Slavery and White Australia(Manchester University Press, 2022) Nettelbeck, A.; Damousi, J.; Burnard, T.; Lester, A.Humanitarianism and violence have traditionally been understood as polarised states, one serving as a mitigating response to the other. It is only recently that scholars have begun to align the two terms to consider how state-directed humanitarian interventions can be imbricated with conditions of violence. Similarly, recent work on humanitarianism’s imperial underpinnings has drawn out the ways that its appeals to values of universal humanity have been interwoven with the cultural, political or military violence of colonial state-building. This chapter builds on these themes to consider how humanitarian orientations in British imperial policy adapted to evolving expressions of colonial violence over the course of the nineteenth century as the key period of almost unbridled global expansion. Around the British world, the nineteenth century was notable for the range of humanitarian policy initiatives that were triggered by calls to protect those left most at risk of colonial violence or exploitation. But while the long-term objective of humanitarian policy was to check abuses and misuses of colonial power, the process of generating a culture of humane rule was often directly entangled with the enlistment and justification of violence.Item Open Access Histories of Australian Rock Art Research(ANU Press, 2022) Tacon, P.S.C.; May, S.; Frederick, U.K.; McDonald, J.Item Metadata only Home Alone: Solitary Pleasures(Dr Georgina Downey, 2017) Downey, G.Item Metadata only How 3D models (photogrammetry) of rock art can improve recording veracity: a case study from Kakadu National Park, Australia(Taylor and Francis Group, 2020) Jalandoni, A.; May, S.K.Creating an inventory of a rock art site in the field can be time-consuming and expensive, but Structure-from-Motion (SfM) photogrammetry has the potential to alleviate these issues. Using SfM, rock art sites can be recorded rapidly, with a 3D model created to allow a digital inventory to be compiled. However, the veracity of a digital inventory can be questioned. At the Blue Paintings site in Kakadu National Park, Australia, we tested two field inventories against a digitally-derived inventory and ground-truthed the results. The results demonstrated that the digitally-derived inventory was slightly less comprehensive than the field recordings, but only unidentified lines and blotches were lacking; this would not necessarily adversely influence interpretation. Furthermore, the field inventories conducted by different people also had variations, demonstrating that whether the inventory is done on a 3D model or in the field, an inventory is still a human interpretation.Item Metadata only How Australians Live: Social Policy in Theory and Practice(Macmillan Australia, 1989)Item Metadata only How Australians Live: Social Policy in Theory and Practice(Macmillan Education, 1993) Graycar, A.; Jamrozik, A.The new edition of this title brings the examination of the theory and practice of the welfare state in Australia up to date with documentation of changes since the first edition in 1989.Item Open Access Introduction(ANU Press, 2022) Tacon, P.S.C.; May, S.; Frederick, U.K.; McDonald, J.; Blyth, M.; Tacon, P.S.C.; May, S.; Frederick, U.K.; McDonald, J.Item Metadata only Karrikadjurren : Art, Community, and Identity in Western Arnhem Land(Routledge, 2022) MAY, S.K.Presenting a story of art and artists in Gunbalanya, western Arnhem Land between the years 2001 and 2005, this book explores the artistic community surrounding the primary place of art creation and sale in the region, Injalak Arts, an art centre established in the remote Aboriginal community of Gunbalanya. Using a variety of disciplinary approaches including archaeological analysis and material culture studies, anthropology, historical research, oral histories, and reflexive ethnography, the social context of art creation is explored. May argues that Injalak Arts as a place activates and draws together particular social groupings to form a sense of identity and community. It is the nature of this community, or "Karrikadjurren" in the local dialect, that is the primary focus of this book, with the artworks painted during this period providing unique insights into art, identity, community, and innovation. This book will be of most interest to those working in or studying archaeology, material culture studies, museum studies, anthropology, sociology, Aboriginal studies, art history, Australian studies, rock art, and development studies. More specifically, this book will appeal to scholars with an interest in the archaeology or anthropology of art, ethnoarchaeology, and the nature and politics of community archaeology.Item Metadata only Le tayo de Nouvelle-Calédonie : un cas d’étude pour repenser les histoires des origines des langues creoles(L'Harmattan, 2021) Speedy, K.; Fillol, V.; Vandeputte, L.Item Open Access L’Ordre et la Morale: Looking Beyond the Transnational in a Non-indigenous Film About Recent Pacific History(University of Otago, 2017) Speedy, K.E.Most films about the Pacific may be described as transnational in terms of production (and often content), but is it ever possible, within a Postcolonial or Indigenous critique, to move beyond conversations about appropriation? And is the transnational aspect of the film the most useful way to categorise it? Specifically engaging with the Mathieu Kassovitz film L’Ordre et la morale, a retelling of the 1988 French military assault on Kanak hostage-takers in Ouvéa, New Caledonia, this article explores whether we can reconcile the twin dangers of Pacific narratives going untold (and the consequent erasure felt by Indigenous people) versus the peril of Pasifika people seeing only shallow, erroneous, or negative stereotypes of themselves on screen. What role, if any, can non-Indigenous filmmakers play in the cinematic reproduction of Indigenous Pacific histories?