Indigenous Futurity: Milpirri as Experimental Ceremony. This project aims to develop a long-term research partnership between Warlpiri Indigenous knowledge holders, anthropologists, and community arts industry partner Tracks Dance Company. It will investigate Milpirri Festival as arts innovation, engaging community-members in collective responsibility for Indigenous heritage and futurity. The project will generate new knowledge of Milpirri song, dance, art and story through practice-based rese ....Indigenous Futurity: Milpirri as Experimental Ceremony. This project aims to develop a long-term research partnership between Warlpiri Indigenous knowledge holders, anthropologists, and community arts industry partner Tracks Dance Company. It will investigate Milpirri Festival as arts innovation, engaging community-members in collective responsibility for Indigenous heritage and futurity. The project will generate new knowledge of Milpirri song, dance, art and story through practice-based research with benefits for industry partners and Lajamanu community of increased community participation, outreach and impact.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE140100918
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$395,220.00
Summary
The Amphibian Ark: hope in an era of extinction . A fungal disease is driving hundreds of frog species to extinction. Conservationists are saving species in The Amphibian Ark, a transnational network of biosecure holding tanks and cryogenic banks of frozen tissue. This project will explore the political, economic and cultural forces driving the selection of certain endangered species to live in this twenty-first century Ark. The methods of multispecies ethnography will be used to follow frogs an ....The Amphibian Ark: hope in an era of extinction . A fungal disease is driving hundreds of frog species to extinction. Conservationists are saving species in The Amphibian Ark, a transnational network of biosecure holding tanks and cryogenic banks of frozen tissue. This project will explore the political, economic and cultural forces driving the selection of certain endangered species to live in this twenty-first century Ark. The methods of multispecies ethnography will be used to follow frogs and their fungal pathogens through the Ark, from scientific laboratories and zoos to recreated semi-wild ecosystems. Findings from this research will advance interdisciplinary scholarship in the humanities about extinction, redemption and survival.Read moreRead less
Seeking the state: Incorporating the state on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. This study will provide significant theoretical insight into the functioning of the state both regionally and internationally by providing a local perspective on how Cocos Malays bring the state into their daily lives. Because they lie between Indonesia and Northwest Australia, the Cocos Islands play an important role in Australia's defence, security, and quarantine interests. The Malays residing there constitute an impor ....Seeking the state: Incorporating the state on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. This study will provide significant theoretical insight into the functioning of the state both regionally and internationally by providing a local perspective on how Cocos Malays bring the state into their daily lives. Because they lie between Indonesia and Northwest Australia, the Cocos Islands play an important role in Australia's defence, security, and quarantine interests. The Malays residing there constitute an important minority and one of Australia's oldest Islamic communities. This project is a fieldwork-based analysis of the way community members negotiate their identity as Australian citizens and Malay Muslims in relation to the state.Read moreRead less
Outside-Domestication: towards an anthropology of the spaces of negotiated being. All institutions today encourage innovation. Yet the word is not mentioned anywhere in the world when it comes to ethnic relations policy. This project looks at spaces of social relations that fall outside state rule. Rather than seeing them as a threat we examine if they offer material for a much-needed innovative inter-cultural politics.