Doing Social Sustainability: the utopian imagination of youth on the margins. Sustainability is an issue of global urgency, and is recognised as a national research priority in Australia. However, the 'social' is often underestimated or subsumed within economic or environmental discourses. The project will add significantly to Australian and international knowledge about sustainability, marginalized youth, and social inclusion policies. It will develop new conceptual tools, foster public debate, ....Doing Social Sustainability: the utopian imagination of youth on the margins. Sustainability is an issue of global urgency, and is recognised as a national research priority in Australia. However, the 'social' is often underestimated or subsumed within economic or environmental discourses. The project will add significantly to Australian and international knowledge about sustainability, marginalized youth, and social inclusion policies. It will develop new conceptual tools, foster public debate, and offer young people new possibilities for vocational outcomes that complement their desired futures.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE210101721
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$428,865.00
Summary
Skulls for the Tsar: Indigenous human remains in Russian collections. This project aims to produce the first detailed investigation of the acquisition of Indigenous human remains from Australia, New Zealand and the broader Pacific by the Russian Empire during the long 19th century. It expects to generate new knowledge about Imperial Russia's scientific networks, anthropological collections and underlying intellectual traditions. Expected outcomes include a better understanding of Russian percept ....Skulls for the Tsar: Indigenous human remains in Russian collections. This project aims to produce the first detailed investigation of the acquisition of Indigenous human remains from Australia, New Zealand and the broader Pacific by the Russian Empire during the long 19th century. It expects to generate new knowledge about Imperial Russia's scientific networks, anthropological collections and underlying intellectual traditions. Expected outcomes include a better understanding of Russian perceptions of Indigenous peoples and the development of a new way of writing histories about the collecting of Indigenous human remains. Working directly with affected communities, this project should provide significant benefits to Indigenous peoples seeking the return of their ancestors' remains from overseas institutions.Read moreRead less