Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE130100999
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$358,588.00
Summary
Gender violence, women's empowerment and human rights in Melanesia: exploring the French connection. This project examines the varied prevalence and acceptance of gender violence in Francophone and Anglophone Melanesian countries. It challenges the predominant view that the promotion of women's human rights ideals, in isolation from broader empowerment strategies, will encourage women to resist their exposure to this violence.
Special Research Initiatives - Grant ID: SR200200711
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$229,108.00
Summary
Reimagining Norfolk Island's Kingston and Arthur's Vale Historic Area. The proposed project aims to explore the role living heritage sites play in resisting or reinforcing cultural injustices faced by colonial subjects. Focusing on the World Heritage Listed Kingston and Arthur’s Vale Historic Area, the project's significance lies in generating new understandings about Pitcairn Settler descendants’ struggles for recognition and self-determination. Expected outcomes of the project include developi ....Reimagining Norfolk Island's Kingston and Arthur's Vale Historic Area. The proposed project aims to explore the role living heritage sites play in resisting or reinforcing cultural injustices faced by colonial subjects. Focusing on the World Heritage Listed Kingston and Arthur’s Vale Historic Area, the project's significance lies in generating new understandings about Pitcairn Settler descendants’ struggles for recognition and self-determination. Expected outcomes of the project include developing the cultural justice approach as a conceptual and methodological tool and co-creating public history outputs with the community. Benefits include raising awareness about cultural injustices against Pitcairn Settler descendants and capacity building for the community to enhance senses of ownership over their heritage.Read moreRead less
New Regional Labour Circuits in the South Pacific: Gender, Culture and Transnationalism. This project aims to produce vital knowledge about transforming Pacific and Pacific Islander migration. Pacific mobility is being shaped by new patterns of international trade, investment and aid adopted by key regional players—China, United States, Australia and New Zealand especially—the effects of which are not yet well understood. Using a multi-sited analysis of regional labour circuits focusing on the C ....New Regional Labour Circuits in the South Pacific: Gender, Culture and Transnationalism. This project aims to produce vital knowledge about transforming Pacific and Pacific Islander migration. Pacific mobility is being shaped by new patterns of international trade, investment and aid adopted by key regional players—China, United States, Australia and New Zealand especially—the effects of which are not yet well understood. Using a multi-sited analysis of regional labour circuits focusing on the Cook Islands, Australia and New Zealand, this project aims to connect these broad geopolitical shifts to the movement of individuals and families, and to their gendered and culturally embedded economic practices.Read moreRead less
Engendering climate change, reframing futures in Oceania. This project aims, through ethnography, textual and visual analysis to research the interaction between indigenous and introduced knowledge and experience of climate change. The project will highlight indigenous knowledge, agency and future visions in everyday lives and politics.
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE180100099
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$381,601.00
Summary
Pitcairn Island Language in the Diaspora. This project aims to expand knowledge of how different social environments affect language structure and use. It will analyse Pitkern, the Pitcairn Island language which is on the brink of extinction. It will supplement existing documentation of the language with that of its diaspora varieties in New Zealand and Australia. The outcomes will reveal the causes, processes and results of language change in Pitkern and create a foundation for comparison with ....Pitcairn Island Language in the Diaspora. This project aims to expand knowledge of how different social environments affect language structure and use. It will analyse Pitkern, the Pitcairn Island language which is on the brink of extinction. It will supplement existing documentation of the language with that of its diaspora varieties in New Zealand and Australia. The outcomes will reveal the causes, processes and results of language change in Pitkern and create a foundation for comparison with other island beach community languages.Read moreRead less
Forced transnationalism: sending migrants' children home. Parents in some migrant groups in Australia send their children to the homeland in response to 'bad' behaviour. This project will entail a case study of Tongan migrants and their Australian born children and publications will address the implications of this practice for young people and their families and for both the home country and Australia.
Sorcery and Human Security in Vanuatu: Violence, Health, Governance, and the Implications for Effective Development. Belief in sorcery and violence caused by accusations of sorcery are endemic across the Western Pacific and pose serious challenges for effective healthcare and governance. Using Vanuatu as a case study, this research is the first to systematically analyse the link between sorcery and human security in the region. This includes addressing the current lack of awareness in key develo ....Sorcery and Human Security in Vanuatu: Violence, Health, Governance, and the Implications for Effective Development. Belief in sorcery and violence caused by accusations of sorcery are endemic across the Western Pacific and pose serious challenges for effective healthcare and governance. Using Vanuatu as a case study, this research is the first to systematically analyse the link between sorcery and human security in the region. This includes addressing the current lack of awareness in key development sectors of the social, health and governance implications of sorcery beliefs. The study will provide evidence and a framework for integrating local belief contexts into international development practice. It will also develop innovative theoretical approaches to understanding sorcery beliefs and related practices in terms of transformations of modernity.Read moreRead less
Working through loss from climate change in the Pacific Islands. As global efforts to respond to climate change fail to protect the most vulnerable, its impacts will continue to cause grief and suffering through loss of life, wellbeing, place and culture. In-depth understanding of this loss, particularly its non-economic aspects, is limited. The Fellowship program aims to address this gap. Outcomes include a novel framework and methodology to explore how loss is experienced in three Pacific Isla ....Working through loss from climate change in the Pacific Islands. As global efforts to respond to climate change fail to protect the most vulnerable, its impacts will continue to cause grief and suffering through loss of life, wellbeing, place and culture. In-depth understanding of this loss, particularly its non-economic aspects, is limited. The Fellowship program aims to address this gap. Outcomes include a novel framework and methodology to explore how loss is experienced in three Pacific Island countries, providing new ways of working through loss and grief with communities at the frontline of climate change. The outcomes will inform international and national policy and practice, helping people plan and work through this loss, minimise its harm and have greater hope and agency over their futures.Read moreRead less
Indigenous solutions to global challenges in the Pacific Islands. The global COVID 19 pandemic represents a unique opportunity to understand the nature and potential of Indigenous sustainable development in Pacific Island communities, where Indigenous practices have been central in responses to closed borders and industry downturns. This project proposes to analyse the efficacy and cultural value of new, pandemic-era Indigenous sustainable development initiatives in sustaining island communities ....Indigenous solutions to global challenges in the Pacific Islands. The global COVID 19 pandemic represents a unique opportunity to understand the nature and potential of Indigenous sustainable development in Pacific Island communities, where Indigenous practices have been central in responses to closed borders and industry downturns. This project proposes to analyse the efficacy and cultural value of new, pandemic-era Indigenous sustainable development initiatives in sustaining island communities. It aims to culminate in a novel geographic theory of Indigenous sustainable development, and to identify new opportunities to support the expansion of Indigenous sustainable development. This should better enable the Pacific Islands region to respond to climate change, pandemics and other global challenges.Read moreRead less
Australian Laureate Fellowships - Grant ID: FL100100196
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$2,754,809.00
Summary
Engendering persons, transforming things: Christianities, Commodities and Individualism in Oceania. This project will further Australia's pre-eminence in studies of Oceania by building national and international collaborations, training early career researchers and Islander scholars, thus enhancing high-quality social research in the region. It will contribute to Australia's capacity to deliver successful development assistance in gender justice, health and law. It will raise the Pacific profile ....Engendering persons, transforming things: Christianities, Commodities and Individualism in Oceania. This project will further Australia's pre-eminence in studies of Oceania by building national and international collaborations, training early career researchers and Islander scholars, thus enhancing high-quality social research in the region. It will contribute to Australia's capacity to deliver successful development assistance in gender justice, health and law. It will raise the Pacific profile of cultural institutions within Australia. Public events will contribute to debates and policy making in Australia, Oceania and globally. It will strengthen Australia's capacity to interpret and engage with the regional and global environment through greater understanding of languages, societies, politics and cultures.Read moreRead less