Elizabeth Mackinlay
Biographic Data
| ID | 575968 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Mackinlay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Mackinlay |
| SIGNATURE | MACKINLAY E |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8756-4372 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 60 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
‘Hazing, booze and bedrooms’
This autoethnographic essay, ‘Hazing, booze and bedrooms’, explores my personal experience of sexual trauma in a university residential college and its cultural significance. The essay is written at a time of urgency to address gendered violence within Australian universities, with the release of the National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children 2022–2032 and The Commonwealth Consent Policy Framework. I use autoethnography to explore t…
The lived experience of frailty
With population ageing, frailty is an increasingly critical global health matter. Many studies have focused on physical aspects of frailty, but more recently on the psychosocial aspects of frailty. Within western societies frailty is often linked with fear and suffering. This paper outlines a previously understudied perspective; the spiritual dimension in frailty, bringing a holistic view to this complex condition. The paper presents the main fin…
There was a cone of silence as though this was normal’
This essay details research into feminist digital activism in the Australian context through analysing the themes that emerged from the Teach Us Consent website. It provides a preliminary analysis of its contents as a means to continue and deepen the conversation around issues of gender, consent, and the education system. It also examines the difficulties and potentials of this digital type of feminist activism and research while highlighting the…
Ordinary Moments
This autoethnographic piece presents a series of “feminist notes from the academy” collected and fashioned while watching the ordinary moments of life in a contemporary Australian university pass by. The affective and feminist works of Virginia Woolf and Kathleen Stewart locate this article creatively and critically to document the “somethings” that happen day in and day out. The question asked by Virginia Woolf in 1943 in Three Guineas about the…
When Consent is Not Consent
Doing Rebellious Research
The ways in which research and scholarship are co-produced, co-performed and proclaimed as particular kinds of knowledges and truths in and beyond the academy is radically changing. The capacity to write rebelliously, in varying registers and voices, tempos and volumes, as featured across this book, is boundaryless. In this edited volume, we ask new questions which simultaneously trouble and open up what the ‘product’ and ‘performance’ of academi…
Writing Feminist Autoethnography
Writing Feminist Autoethnography explores the personal-is-political relationship between autoethnography and feminist theory and practice. Each chapter introduces the lives and works of a range of feminist thinkers and writers and considers the ways in which their thinking and writing might come to be in relation with our own personal-is-political thinking and writing work as feminist autoethnographers. This positionality has continued to resonat…
Writing Radically as Women With Virginia Woolf
In a short essay titled “Why,” Virginia Woolf daringly questioned the ways in which knowledge is produced, performed, and proclaimed as particular kinds of truths in institutions of power and authority, including academic writing. She subversively suggested, “The little twisted sign that comes at the end of the question has a way of making the rich writhe” and advised that such questions choose their “asking place with care”. In this article, we …
A Narrative of Spirituality and Ageing
Religion, in the context of healing and health, has a long history reaching back through the millennia influencing, and being influenced by cultures and societies. More recently, spirituality has become more widely recognised as a real component of healthcare. This article presents a brief reflection of the development of knowledge and practices in spirituality and ageing from an historical perspective, before considering more recent developments…
Ageing and frailty
Frailty awaits many of us if we live long enough. Frailty may often be seen as a precursor to the process of dying and as such can be a confronting life and death challenge; one that we cannot fully comprehend until or unless we are experiencing it ourselves. It is only through listening to the narrative of those making these final life journeys that we can learn, first what the experience is like, find commonalities and differences in the experi…
A Set of Villanelles in Response To
In this review of (Re)birthing the feminine in academe: Creating spaces of motherhood in patriarchal contexts (2020) edited by L. Henderson, A. L. Black and S.Garvis), I take a poetic-is-personal-is-political approach in the form of a series of villanelles. Villanelle is a highly structured poetic form comprised of five tercets followed by a quatrain, with two repeating rhymes and two refrains. The fixed form of the villanelle is taken in this re…
Paying Attention to the Order of Cultural Production Framework in Arts Education
A response to Gaztambide-Fernández's Keynote Address
Before the door
Hélène Cixous delicately reminds us that doors perform a material and affective liminality between what is and what might be, and questions the reason and rhyme of doors as ways in and out of spaces which denote passage and movement; and as structures which separate, connect, and demarcate entanglements of being, becoming and belonging on the inside or out. In this paper, we take up Cixous’ thinking around doors to explore literal and metaphorica…
Critical Writing for Embodied Approaches
Autoethnography is a unique discipline which steps inside and outside the self to experience, embody and express social and cultural meaning. At once a performative, political and poetic genre of research writing, it holds the potential to uncover the 'heart of the world', if only for a moment. The author uses theory as story and story as theory to explore her place in the world through painstaking and intimate self and social narratives to lay b…
Spirituality promotes better health outcomes and lowers anxiety about aging
Baby boomers present unique challenges to aged care service provision. Like previous generations, baby boomers will face challenges of ageing. Spirituality in later life, understood largely as meaning in life, is crucial to well-being. Little has been studied about this dimension of ageing for baby boomers. This mixed methods study used survey and focus groups methods to investigate spirituality in a sample of baby boomers (N = 143). Participants…
“I Am Woman Hear Me Draw”
“I am woman hear me draw,” wrote Australian feminist cartoonist Judy Horacek in 2002, whose work draws attention to the capacity of cartoons to de/story masculinist versions of the world. Taking a critical autoethnographic approach, a series of black-and-white line drawings are explored in this paper as the kind of l'ecriture feminine (feminine writing) work that Hélène Cixous speaks of—writing that aims to release the subject away from the stagn…
Sensational pedagogies
Student capacities to actively listen, sense and feel are often relegated to lower order skills in an education system increasingly governed by measurable outcomes. While most school-based pedagogies focus their approach on cognition, this paper considers how we might make sense of the affective experiences that often resist the deep thinking, independent learning and explanation so often required of students. The guiding aim is to explore how af…
The Wilful Character of Indigenous Educational Research
In her recent work, Sara Ahmed explores wilfulness as a negative charge made by some against others, thinking about the relationship between ill will and good will, the particular and the general, and the embeddedness of will in a political and cultural landscape. In Ahmed's reading, wilfulness is a characteristic often ascribed to those who do 'not will the reproduction of the whole' (2011, p. 246) - those who are deemed wayward, wandering, and/…
The Heart Lines in Your Hand
‘One cannot think well, love well, sleep well’ (Woolf, 1929, 18) if one has not had a decent cup of coffee in the morning. Thus spoke Virginia Woolf in a modern day context through my own body, heart and mind. Happily, I find myself once more in a cafe on the other side of the world, sitting down to write and ‘repair some of the damage’ (Woolf, 1929, 19) wrought by no more or less than knowing, being, and doing. These keywords were added by machi…
A Word From the Guest Editors
Journeys With People Who Have Dementia
This article begins with a reflective journey with one person who was diagnosed with early onset dementia. It then turns to reflect on the subsequent journey of research with other people who have dementia and where they find meaning in life, through the process of spiritual reminiscence. The article views dementia through a theological lens that sees those who have dementia as people made in God’s image and the implications this has for the live…
Reflections on spirituality in later life
Jardiwanpa Yawulya
Jardiwanpa Yawulya: Warlpiri Women's Songs from Yuendumu. 2014. Batchelor Press. Field recordings by Georgia Curran, Yuendumu, 2006. Annotated by Georgia Curran and Barbara Napanangka Martin. 88-page booklet with notes in English and Warlpiri. Colour and b/w photographs, drawings, musical notations, maps, bibliography, discography, filmography, glossary. CD, 3 tracks (67:50). - Volume 48
In danger of writing
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the possibility of doing more with writing and autoethnography as ethical, response-able and decolonizing practice. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is written in a playful, performative and poetic way and engages with the writings and ideas of Helene Cixous and Virginia Woolf as a conversation between them and the author. Findings – This paper suggests that an autoethnographic writing pra…
This is the sound of one voice
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore their experiences as singers in a community choir called Arrkula (a Yanyuwa word meaning “one voice”) based in the School of Education at the University of Queensland as performance of song, self, social justice and seeing beyond boundaries. Performing at “gigs” inside and outside the university, Arrkula has been singing together since 2011, and despite an environment replete with neo-liberal idea…
Music for dreaming
The lullaby is a type of song sung the world over to calm a crying child and gently lull babies into the arms of sleep. Amongst the Yanyuwa Aboriginal community in the remote town of Borroloola in the Northern Territory of Australia, lullaby songs are broadly referred to by the generic term kurdakurdamanthawu and the content of lullabies is drawn from both restricted and unrestricted forms of Yanyuwa performance. As I have suggested elsewhere (Ma…
Critical Writing for Embodied Approaches
Autoethnography is a unique discipline which steps inside and outside the self to experience, embody and express social and cultural meaning. At once a performative, political and poetic genre of research writing, it holds the potential to uncover the 'heart of the world', if only for a moment. The author uses theory as story and story as theory to explore her place in the world through painstaking and intimate self and social narratives to lay b…
Sensational pedagogies
Student capacities to actively listen, sense and feel are often relegated to lower order skills in an education system increasingly governed by measurable outcomes. While most school-based pedagogies focus their approach on cognition, this paper considers how we might make sense of the affective experiences that often resist the deep thinking, independent learning and explanation so often required of students. The guiding aim is to explore how af…
Blurring Boundaries Between Restricted and Unrestricted Performance
Also with an Australian focus is Elizabeth Mackinlay's analysis of the evolution, performance, and dissemination of Ngadirdji song of the Yanyuwa women from the Aboriginal community of Borroloola. Mackinlay documents how a regenerative 'traditional' music form is being adapted to make a positive contribution to the 'contemporary' culture of lndigenous Australians, a group often depicted negatively by the exponents and entrepreneurs of the 'new ra…
Decolonization and Applied Ethnomusicology
Pearls, not Problems
This article explores the shift in terminology that occurred in a 2-year Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC)-funded curriculum renewal project that set out to broadly explore current teaching and learning practice in Indigenous Australian studies ( www.teaching4change.edu.au). While we started with the term 'Problem-Based Learning', it became clear as the project progressed that the terminology we were using was not politically or ped…
Maintaining grandmothers' law
This article considers processes of Aboriginal women's song performance amongst the Yanyuwa community at Borroloola, Northern Territory. More specifically, it examines how Yanyuwa women's performance and Grandmothers' Law is mediated and maintained through the Yanyuwa phenomena of song partners and related social structures. Yanyuwa culture is first placed within a geographical and social setting followed by a review of relevant literature on Abo…
Friendship as research
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the individual music research projects the authors were working on in Borroloola, Northern Territory of Australia, and the ways in which the lived and inter‐subjective concepts of sisterhood and friendship strengthened the authors’ shared experiences in the field and became the foundations of their method. Design/methodology/approach Through an auto‐ethnographic and inter‐subjective narrative approa…
Moving and Dancing Towards Decolonisation in Education
In this paper I explore the special type of thinking, moving and dancing place which is opened up for decolonisaton when students engage in an embodied pedagogical practice in Indigenous education. I examine what decolonisation means in this context by describing the ways in which the curriculum, the students and me, and more generally the discipline of ethnomusicology itself, undergo a process to question, critique, and move aside the pedagogica…
Diwurruwurru
A project is currently underway at http://arts.deakin.edu.au which is innovative on a number of fronts. It has multiple beginnings: in the proactive, as culture dissemination work of a number of Yanyuwa and Garrwa women, who proclaimed in the white man's world that they were 'bosses themselves' (Gale 1983) and who in various ways have sought to bring their culture to the attention of the wider world. This has been accomplished through a prize-win…
There was a cone of silence as though this was normal’
This essay details research into feminist digital activism in the Australian context through analysing the themes that emerged from the Teach Us Consent website. It provides a preliminary analysis of its contents as a means to continue and deepen the conversation around issues of gender, consent, and the education system. It also examines the difficulties and potentials of this digital type of feminist activism and research while highlighting the…
When Consent is Not Consent
In danger of writing
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the possibility of doing more with writing and autoethnography as ethical, response-able and decolonizing practice. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is written in a playful, performative and poetic way and engages with the writings and ideas of Helene Cixous and Virginia Woolf as a conversation between them and the author. Findings – This paper suggests that an autoethnographic writing pra…
Pearl
In this article, I take a creative and autoethnographic approach to reflect upon processes of decolonisation in Indigenous Australian studies classrooms. Positioning myself as a non-Indigenous educator, I take the reader on a journey through my search for pedagogy which makes space for the colonial, difficult and messy politics of race, whiteness and knowledge to be actively challenged, deconstructed and reimagined in this context as PEARL
Singing Trauma Trails
In 1997 the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families found that Indigenous children have been forcibly removed from their families and communities throughout the history of colonization in Australia (Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, 1997). Known as the “Stolen Generations,” it is estimated that a third of the Indigenous population are affected. Despite the wide reachi…
Move over and make room for Meeka
Play school is an icon of Australian children's television and an important part of Australian life – this programme, perhaps more than any other, has taken and continues to take centre stage in our living rooms and social worlds as young children. Play school is invested with an enormous amount of cultural capital and hence plays a significant role in the way that children engage and learn about social interaction, life and values in Australian …
Memories in the landscape’
Yanyuwa people of the remote community of Borroloola in the southwest Gulf region of the Northern Territory traditionally identify themselves as island or saltwater people. In their culture, there is an important category of public unrestricted song performance that concerns the actions of human ancestors, relationships between people and relationships between people and their environment
Many Songs, Many Voices, and Many Dialogues
Reflecting on our combined twenty years fieldwork experience in the Yanyuwa community, this paper speaks to the range of performance practices enacted by Aboriginal people in the remote town of Borroloola, in the southwest Gulf of Carpentaria of the Northern Territory. Broadly, this paper positions Yanyuwa song, dance and ceremony as performative dialogues in both intracultural and inter-cultural contexts that enact agency to negotiate and sustai…
Disturbances and Dislocations
One of the biggest debates in Australian Indigenous education today revolves around the many contested and competing ways of knowing by and about Indigenous cultures and the representation of Indigenous knowledges. Using Bakhtin's theories of dialogue and voice, my concern in this paper is to explore the polyphonic nature of power relations, performance roles and pedagogical texts in the context of teaching and learning Indigenous Australian wome…
Towards Reconciliation
This paper addresses issues related to the conflicting paradigms of Western systems of knowledge and Indigenous systems of knowledge within the context of teaching about gender and music in Indigenous Australian women's performance practice. I will first describe the subject which I am currently teaching at the University of Queensland. I will then discuss the theoretical concerns related to teaching about gender and music in terms of the differe…
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Towards Reconciliation
This paper addresses issues related to the conflicting paradigms of Western systems of knowledge and Indigenous systems of knowledge within the context of teaching about gender and music in Indigenous Australian women's performance practice. I will first describe the subject which I am currently teaching at the University of Queensland. I will then discuss the theoretical concerns related to teaching about gender and music in terms of the differe…
Music for dreaming
The lullaby is a type of song sung the world over to calm a crying child and gently lull babies into the arms of sleep. Amongst the Yanyuwa Aboriginal community in the remote town of Borroloola in the Northern Territory of Australia, lullaby songs are broadly referred to by the generic term kurdakurdamanthawu and the content of lullabies is drawn from both restricted and unrestricted forms of Yanyuwa performance. As I have suggested elsewhere (Ma…
Diwurruwurru
A project is currently underway at http://arts.deakin.edu.au which is innovative on a number of fronts. It has multiple beginnings: in the proactive, as culture dissemination work of a number of Yanyuwa and Garrwa women, who proclaimed in the white man's world that they were 'bosses themselves' (Gale 1983) and who in various ways have sought to bring their culture to the attention of the wider world. This has been accomplished through a prize-win…
Maintaining grandmothers' law
This article considers processes of Aboriginal women's song performance amongst the Yanyuwa community at Borroloola, Northern Territory. More specifically, it examines how Yanyuwa women's performance and Grandmothers' Law is mediated and maintained through the Yanyuwa phenomena of song partners and related social structures. Yanyuwa culture is first placed within a geographical and social setting followed by a review of relevant literature on Abo…
Performative Pedagogy in Teaching and Learning Indigenous Women's Music and Dance
Using hooks' understandings of engagement as an underlying theme, in this paper I will focus on the effectiveness of performance in pedagogy, performative pedagogy and the pedagogical as performative practice (Giroux, 1997:3) in teaching Indigenous women's music and dance
Disturbances and Dislocations
One of the biggest debates in Australian Indigenous education today revolves around the many contested and competing ways of knowing by and about Indigenous cultures and the representation of Indigenous knowledges. Using Bakhtin's theories of dialogue and voice, my concern in this paper is to explore the polyphonic nature of power relations, performance roles and pedagogical texts in the context of teaching and learning Indigenous Australian wome…
Many Songs, Many Voices, and Many Dialogues
Reflecting on our combined twenty years fieldwork experience in the Yanyuwa community, this paper speaks to the range of performance practices enacted by Aboriginal people in the remote town of Borroloola, in the southwest Gulf of Carpentaria of the Northern Territory. Broadly, this paper positions Yanyuwa song, dance and ceremony as performative dialogues in both intracultural and inter-cultural contexts that enact agency to negotiate and sustai…
Of mermaids and spirit men
A late afternoon and two elderly people sit on an old, steel, wire-sprung camp stretcher bed. They sit back-to-back, engaging in commentary on the vehicles and people that pass them by. One of them, the old man, says suddenly, 'Me! I'm number one singer myself!' Without hesitation the old woman says, simply and bluntly, 'Bullshit!' For the next half an hour the dialogue between the two never varies though the utterances increase both in auditory …
Historical and Dialectical Perspectives on the Teaching of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Musics in the Australian Education System
Indigenous studies (also referred to as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies) has a double identity in the Australian education system, consisting of the education of Indigenous students and education of all students about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and histories. Through explanations of the history of the inclusion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander musics in Australian music education, this article critiques w…
Understanding Social and Legal Justice Issues for Aboriginal Women within the Context of an Indigenous Australian Studies Classroom
Problem-based learning (PBL) is a pedagogical approach in which students encounter a problem and systematically set about finding ways to understand the problem through dialogue and research. PBL is an active process where students take responsibility for their learning by asking their own questions about the problem and in this paper we explore the potential of PBL as a "location of possibility" (hooks, 1994, p. 207) for an engaged, dialogic, re…
Memories in the landscape’
Yanyuwa people of the remote community of Borroloola in the southwest Gulf region of the Northern Territory traditionally identify themselves as island or saltwater people. In their culture, there is an important category of public unrestricted song performance that concerns the actions of human ancestors, relationships between people and relationships between people and their environment
Aesthetics and Experience in Music Performance
Drawing upon a wide range of scholarly enquiry into early music, queer musicology, ethnomusicology, performance practice, music education and technology, Aesthetics and Experience in Music Performance provides a lively forum for the articulation of varied perspectives on the role of music, its interpretation and function in contexts supported by those who practice or experience it. The formal and shorter discussion papers included in this scholar…
Moving and Dancing Towards Decolonisation in Education
In this paper I explore the special type of thinking, moving and dancing place which is opened up for decolonisaton when students engage in an embodied pedagogical practice in Indigenous education. I examine what decolonisation means in this context by describing the ways in which the curriculum, the students and me, and more generally the discipline of ethnomusicology itself, undergo a process to question, critique, and move aside the pedagogica…
Spiritual Care
This paper explores aspects of spiritual needs and assessment, while emphasizing the importance of aged care providers being spiritually self-aware. The context of this exploration is meaning in life, spirituality and quality of life as experienced by older adults. Depression and dementia are frequently seen among older adults in residential aged care with resultant lowered quality of life. Pastoral and spiritual care may be used effectively to h…
“I Am Just an Ordinary Person ...”
One of the greatest challenges to people diagnosed with dementia is their search for meaning leading to the development of effective coping strategies as their memory loss and confusion progresses. The challenge for carers is to learn ways of entering the world of people who have difficulties communicating and have behaviour problems, assisting them to communicate more effectively by responding to their interests and needs, and listening to their…
A Perspective on the Development of Knowledge of Spirituality and Aging in Nursing and Pastoral Care
This paper presents a perspective on the development of knowledge in the spiritual dimension of aging, with particular emphasis on nursing and pastoral studies. Research that provides important understandings for these two disciplines but conducted by other disciplines will also be included. Issues of definitions of spirituality and the reasons for choosing to use the term “spirituality” rather than “religion” in the practice settings of nursing …
Crossing and negotiating borders of identity, knowledge and tradition
When Indigenous performance traditions make the journey into the Western academy and other educational sites, they act and enact a direct challenge to largely colonial constructions and representations of Indigenous Australian peoples and cultures. In this article I explore the way Aboriginal women's performance traditions and knowledge from the Yanyuwa community in the remote town of Borroloola in the southwest Gulf of Carpentaria of the Norther…
Move over and make room for Meeka
Play school is an icon of Australian children's television and an important part of Australian life – this programme, perhaps more than any other, has taken and continues to take centre stage in our living rooms and social worlds as young children. Play school is invested with an enormous amount of cultural capital and hence plays a significant role in the way that children engage and learn about social interaction, life and values in Australian …
Using Spiritual Reminiscence with a Small Group of Latvian Residents with Dementia in a Nursing Home
Post-World War II immigration to Australia included many from Eastern Europe. These older ethnic groups now challenge aged-care providers with cultural, language, and religious issues not always understood. This article examines spirituality and meaning in the experience of dementia of older Latvian residents, using in-depth interviews and small group work, based on a model of spiritual tasks of ageing. Data were analyzed using grounded theory an…
Singing Trauma Trails
In 1997 the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families found that Indigenous children have been forcibly removed from their families and communities throughout the history of colonization in Australia (Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, 1997). Known as the “Stolen Generations,” it is estimated that a third of the Indigenous population are affected. Despite the wide reachi…
The Musical Worlds of Aboriginal Children at Burrulula and Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia
This article examines the musical lives and experiences of Aboriginal children in Australia. It focuses on the Yanyuwa and Garrwa children living in the remote community at Burrulula in the south-west Gulf of Carpentaria, and urban Aboriginal children in Darwin. One of the biggest challenges faced by the children is the conflict of trying to be Aboriginal in a non-Aboriginal mainstream society. This tension is reflected in their musical choices, …
Seeking Meaning
How do people find meaning in the experience of dementia? Can people living with dementia be supported in meaningful activities that may alleviate depression and increase their sense of well-being? Many programs are offered for people in residential aged care, but little is known about the effectiveness of these programs. This article reports on the qualitative component of a study engaging 15 older adults with dementia and depression in a progra…
A Word From the Guest Editor
Resistance, Resilience, and Change
The focus of this article is the person in the experience of dementia. Narrative is highlighted in the context of narrative theology, and upholding the identity of the person with dementia through spiritual reminiscence and programs of art, music, pastoral care, and prayer and meditation. These provide the basis for critique of current practices and challenges of providing person-centred care. This article addresses issues of resistance to seeing…
Sociology (45 works) · Art (28 works) · Political science (26 works) · Psychology (24 works) · Aesthetics (22 works) · Gender Studies (22 works) · History (20 works) · Medicine (18 works) · Indigenous (16 works) · Law (15 works)