F Probyn-Rapsey
Biographic Data
| ID | 57615 |
|---|---|
| NAME | F Probyn-Rapsey |
| GIVEN NAMES | F |
| FAMILY NAME | Probyn-Rapsey |
| SIGNATURE | PROBYN-RAPSEY F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wollongong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3908-0816 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Tools, Troops or Escapees? Cattle Trafficking in the Early Years of the Colony of New South Wales, Australia
The colonisation of ‘Australia’ by the British began in earnest with the arrival of the First Fleet in January 1788 in Warrane (Sydney Cove), to establish a penal colony on the lands of the Gadigal. The Fleet consisted of eleven ships, over 1,000 Europeans (mostly convicts) and many hundreds of animals collectively referred to as ‘cattle’: pigs, goats, sheep, horses, poultry, and cows, calves and bulls. Many of the ‘cattle’ were purchased at the …
Feral violence
In early July 2016, two male dingoes were brought by ferry to a small island called Pelorus in the Great Barrier Reef, off the coast of north Queensland, Australia, as part of an experimental 'feral' goat eradication project. What was remarkable about this project was that the two dingoes released on the island had been implanted with a slow-release capsule containing sodium fluoroacetate, commonly known as '1080'. These so-called 'Tik Toks', pro…
Colonialism and Conservation
This article describes and analyses the Pelorus experiment, a recent restoration project in which dingoes were used to eradicate goats on a Great Barrier Reef Island. Before they were taken to the island, the dingoes were implanted with a poison capsule that was intended to kill them after they had killed the goats; they were both pest and ‘pesticide’ (Mavhunga 2011). Subsequently, freehold land on the island was marketed as a tourism development…
Feminist Protest and the Anthropocene
Preamble: Thanks to Deirdre, Amanda and Azille for inviting me to this conference – Gender and the Anthropocene. This is my first time in South Africa, a country that has always loomed large in my political imagination. Like a lot of Australians, when I was young, I spent a lot of time thinking about race relations in South Africa, rather than looking at race relations in my own country! (I was obsessed by campaigns to secure Nelson Mandela’s rel…
Where species don't meet
A growing body of literature is concerned with 'healing' our cities, fostering an ethic of care for urban nature and creating more socially and environmentally just cities. At the same time, urban biodiversity is the focus of an increasing number of projects at multiple scales. However, in contrast to the ethos of multispecies 'entanglement' and 'becoming with' that typically animates this research, large numbers of animals 'entangled' in the mac…
Tainted Love
Developing an academic career can be exciting, rewarding and stimulating. It can also be challenging, disheartening, and highly insecure. Results from a survey of Animal Studies (AS) scholars identifies reasons why pursuing a career in AS might generate additional challenges, over and above those experienced by academics generally. For example, 44 percent of respondents stated that in their view, undertaking research in AS “creates challenges for…
The Animals Call it
Stunning Australia
This article focuses on the Australian campaign to ban live exports of cattle to Indonesia in the wake of media exposure of cruel slaughterhouse practices there. It examines Australian reactions to this footage and how Australian pride in the use of stunning technology (where cattle are stunned prior to bleeding) circulates as a point of national pride. What frames ‘our’ national pride is also a discourse of racialized shaming of Indonesian pract…
The White Father
I argue that one of the reasons why the federal government did not listen is that to listen to these stories necessitates coming to an appreciation of how much the concept of 'whiteness' was/ is linked to the genocidal effects and paternalistic rhetoric of government policies regarding Aboriginal people. As I will go on to argue, in its refusal to apologise and in its casting of 'mistakes' into a dissociable past, the federal government seeks to …
Furries and the Limits of Species Identity Disorder
This is a response to an article published inSociety & Animals in 2008 that argued for the existence of a “species identity disorder” in some furries. Species identity disorder is modeled on gender identity disorder, itself a highly controversial diagnosis that has been criticized for pathologizing homosexuality and transgendered people. This response examines the claims of the article (and the design of the study itself) and suggests that the ty…
White Closets, Jangling Nerves and the Biopolitics of the Public Secret
â This essay attempts to outline the relationship between the â raw nervesâ that Denis Byrne describes in the epigraph above, and the cultivation of â indifferenceâ that Stanner identifies as being characteristic of â European lifeâ in Australia. Here I situate indifference as numbing the â janglingâ of â raw nervesâ and as cultivated, disseminated and feeding specific forms of public secrecy. How did the white men who enforces segregation by day…
Uplifting' white men
The Apology to the Stolen Generations in the Australian Federal Parliament on 13 February 20082 called on non-indigenous Australians to imagine and understand the pain experienced by Aboriginal children forcibly removed from their families between 1910 and 1970. The Apology prompts the need for a deeper understanding of the roles of whites and of whiteness3 in this history. The fact that the majority of indigenous children stolen had white father…
Country Matters
This essay analyses how Australian postcolonial discourses, influenced by both Republicanism and Reconciliation, deploy the trope of woman to signify political change in both feminist and cultural debates about belonging, national legitimacy and sovereignty. I point out that white feminist rejection of the Queen in favour of embracing indigeneity is itself complicit with a history of 'incorporating' and assimilating indigeneity - a complicity tha…
Paternalism and Complicity
The cultural politics of Australian colonialism revolve around discourses of paternalism and the ' protection' of Aboriginal people. Understanding how paternalism reproduces itself transgenerationally, and between whites and Aboriginal people, between subordinated groups, between women, is one way to approach its limits. Starting with this premise, I examine the ways in which paternalism reproduces itself, such that even today white paternalistic…
Bitumen films in postcolonial Australia
Films produced and featured in post-colonial Australia highlight the threat from Aboriginal mobility to whites, in particular to the state which was represented by a white police force that takes excessive interest in Aboriginal people and their movements. These films engaged in the critique of whiteness and white people by drawing attention to the privileges of white mobility and white fears of Aboriginal mobility
Ivan Sen and the art of the road
This paper considers the work of critically acclaimed Australian director Ivan Sen. It does this primarily through a consideration of the role of the road-space within three of Sen's short films – Vanish (1998) , Tears (1998) and Dust (2000) – and his feature-film, Beneath Clouds (2001). In the first section, a close reading of the short films is undertaken focusing on the compositional importance of the road, and introducing and examining key th…
JAS review of books
Don Watson, Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language, Knopf, 2003, hb $29.95, ISBN 1740512065. Spencer Zifcak, Mr Ruddock Goes to Geneva, UNSW Press, 2003, pp 92, pb $16.95, ISBN 0868404551. Frank Brennan, Tampering with Asylum: A Universal Humanitarian Problem, University of Queensland Press, 2003, pp 234, pb $30.00, ISBN 0702234168. Geoffrey Barker, Sexing it Up: Iraq, Intelligence and Australia, UNSW Press, 2003, pp 112, pb $16.95, ISBN 08…
A poetics of failure is no bad thing
That Woman
Where species don't meet
A growing body of literature is concerned with 'healing' our cities, fostering an ethic of care for urban nature and creating more socially and environmentally just cities. At the same time, urban biodiversity is the focus of an increasing number of projects at multiple scales. However, in contrast to the ethos of multispecies 'entanglement' and 'becoming with' that typically animates this research, large numbers of animals 'entangled' in the mac…
The White Father
I argue that one of the reasons why the federal government did not listen is that to listen to these stories necessitates coming to an appreciation of how much the concept of 'whiteness' was/ is linked to the genocidal effects and paternalistic rhetoric of government policies regarding Aboriginal people. As I will go on to argue, in its refusal to apologise and in its casting of 'mistakes' into a dissociable past, the federal government seeks to …
Furries and the Limits of Species Identity Disorder
This is a response to an article published inSociety & Animals in 2008 that argued for the existence of a “species identity disorder” in some furries. Species identity disorder is modeled on gender identity disorder, itself a highly controversial diagnosis that has been criticized for pathologizing homosexuality and transgendered people. This response examines the claims of the article (and the design of the study itself) and suggests that the ty…
That Woman
Feral violence
In early July 2016, two male dingoes were brought by ferry to a small island called Pelorus in the Great Barrier Reef, off the coast of north Queensland, Australia, as part of an experimental 'feral' goat eradication project. What was remarkable about this project was that the two dingoes released on the island had been implanted with a slow-release capsule containing sodium fluoroacetate, commonly known as '1080'. These so-called 'Tik Toks', pro…
Tainted Love
Developing an academic career can be exciting, rewarding and stimulating. It can also be challenging, disheartening, and highly insecure. Results from a survey of Animal Studies (AS) scholars identifies reasons why pursuing a career in AS might generate additional challenges, over and above those experienced by academics generally. For example, 44 percent of respondents stated that in their view, undertaking research in AS “creates challenges for…
Stunning Australia
This article focuses on the Australian campaign to ban live exports of cattle to Indonesia in the wake of media exposure of cruel slaughterhouse practices there. It examines Australian reactions to this footage and how Australian pride in the use of stunning technology (where cattle are stunned prior to bleeding) circulates as a point of national pride. What frames ‘our’ national pride is also a discourse of racialized shaming of Indonesian pract…
Uplifting' white men
The Apology to the Stolen Generations in the Australian Federal Parliament on 13 February 20082 called on non-indigenous Australians to imagine and understand the pain experienced by Aboriginal children forcibly removed from their families between 1910 and 1970. The Apology prompts the need for a deeper understanding of the roles of whites and of whiteness3 in this history. The fact that the majority of indigenous children stolen had white father…
Country Matters
This essay analyses how Australian postcolonial discourses, influenced by both Republicanism and Reconciliation, deploy the trope of woman to signify political change in both feminist and cultural debates about belonging, national legitimacy and sovereignty. I point out that white feminist rejection of the Queen in favour of embracing indigeneity is itself complicit with a history of 'incorporating' and assimilating indigeneity - a complicity tha…
Bitumen films in postcolonial Australia
Films produced and featured in post-colonial Australia highlight the threat from Aboriginal mobility to whites, in particular to the state which was represented by a white police force that takes excessive interest in Aboriginal people and their movements. These films engaged in the critique of whiteness and white people by drawing attention to the privileges of white mobility and white fears of Aboriginal mobility
That Woman
A poetics of failure is no bad thing
JAS review of books
Don Watson, Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language, Knopf, 2003, hb $29.95, ISBN 1740512065. Spencer Zifcak, Mr Ruddock Goes to Geneva, UNSW Press, 2003, pp 92, pb $16.95, ISBN 0868404551. Frank Brennan, Tampering with Asylum: A Universal Humanitarian Problem, University of Queensland Press, 2003, pp 234, pb $30.00, ISBN 0702234168. Geoffrey Barker, Sexing it Up: Iraq, Intelligence and Australia, UNSW Press, 2003, pp 112, pb $16.95, ISBN 08…
Bitumen films in postcolonial Australia
Films produced and featured in post-colonial Australia highlight the threat from Aboriginal mobility to whites, in particular to the state which was represented by a white police force that takes excessive interest in Aboriginal people and their movements. These films engaged in the critique of whiteness and white people by drawing attention to the privileges of white mobility and white fears of Aboriginal mobility
Ivan Sen and the art of the road
This paper considers the work of critically acclaimed Australian director Ivan Sen. It does this primarily through a consideration of the role of the road-space within three of Sen's short films – Vanish (1998) , Tears (1998) and Dust (2000) – and his feature-film, Beneath Clouds (2001). In the first section, a close reading of the short films is undertaken focusing on the compositional importance of the road, and introducing and examining key th…
Paternalism and Complicity
The cultural politics of Australian colonialism revolve around discourses of paternalism and the ' protection' of Aboriginal people. Understanding how paternalism reproduces itself transgenerationally, and between whites and Aboriginal people, between subordinated groups, between women, is one way to approach its limits. Starting with this premise, I examine the ways in which paternalism reproduces itself, such that even today white paternalistic…
Country Matters
This essay analyses how Australian postcolonial discourses, influenced by both Republicanism and Reconciliation, deploy the trope of woman to signify political change in both feminist and cultural debates about belonging, national legitimacy and sovereignty. I point out that white feminist rejection of the Queen in favour of embracing indigeneity is itself complicit with a history of 'incorporating' and assimilating indigeneity - a complicity tha…
Uplifting' white men
The Apology to the Stolen Generations in the Australian Federal Parliament on 13 February 20082 called on non-indigenous Australians to imagine and understand the pain experienced by Aboriginal children forcibly removed from their families between 1910 and 1970. The Apology prompts the need for a deeper understanding of the roles of whites and of whiteness3 in this history. The fact that the majority of indigenous children stolen had white father…
Furries and the Limits of Species Identity Disorder
This is a response to an article published inSociety & Animals in 2008 that argued for the existence of a “species identity disorder” in some furries. Species identity disorder is modeled on gender identity disorder, itself a highly controversial diagnosis that has been criticized for pathologizing homosexuality and transgendered people. This response examines the claims of the article (and the design of the study itself) and suggests that the ty…
White Closets, Jangling Nerves and the Biopolitics of the Public Secret
â This essay attempts to outline the relationship between the â raw nervesâ that Denis Byrne describes in the epigraph above, and the cultivation of â indifferenceâ that Stanner identifies as being characteristic of â European lifeâ in Australia. Here I situate indifference as numbing the â janglingâ of â raw nervesâ and as cultivated, disseminated and feeding specific forms of public secrecy. How did the white men who enforces segregation by day…
Stunning Australia
This article focuses on the Australian campaign to ban live exports of cattle to Indonesia in the wake of media exposure of cruel slaughterhouse practices there. It examines Australian reactions to this footage and how Australian pride in the use of stunning technology (where cattle are stunned prior to bleeding) circulates as a point of national pride. What frames ‘our’ national pride is also a discourse of racialized shaming of Indonesian pract…
The White Father
I argue that one of the reasons why the federal government did not listen is that to listen to these stories necessitates coming to an appreciation of how much the concept of 'whiteness' was/ is linked to the genocidal effects and paternalistic rhetoric of government policies regarding Aboriginal people. As I will go on to argue, in its refusal to apologise and in its casting of 'mistakes' into a dissociable past, the federal government seeks to …
The Animals Call it
Tainted Love
Developing an academic career can be exciting, rewarding and stimulating. It can also be challenging, disheartening, and highly insecure. Results from a survey of Animal Studies (AS) scholars identifies reasons why pursuing a career in AS might generate additional challenges, over and above those experienced by academics generally. For example, 44 percent of respondents stated that in their view, undertaking research in AS “creates challenges for…
Colonialism and Conservation
This article describes and analyses the Pelorus experiment, a recent restoration project in which dingoes were used to eradicate goats on a Great Barrier Reef Island. Before they were taken to the island, the dingoes were implanted with a poison capsule that was intended to kill them after they had killed the goats; they were both pest and ‘pesticide’ (Mavhunga 2011). Subsequently, freehold land on the island was marketed as a tourism development…
Feminist Protest and the Anthropocene
Preamble: Thanks to Deirdre, Amanda and Azille for inviting me to this conference – Gender and the Anthropocene. This is my first time in South Africa, a country that has always loomed large in my political imagination. Like a lot of Australians, when I was young, I spent a lot of time thinking about race relations in South Africa, rather than looking at race relations in my own country! (I was obsessed by campaigns to secure Nelson Mandela’s rel…
Where species don't meet
A growing body of literature is concerned with 'healing' our cities, fostering an ethic of care for urban nature and creating more socially and environmentally just cities. At the same time, urban biodiversity is the focus of an increasing number of projects at multiple scales. However, in contrast to the ethos of multispecies 'entanglement' and 'becoming with' that typically animates this research, large numbers of animals 'entangled' in the mac…
Feral violence
In early July 2016, two male dingoes were brought by ferry to a small island called Pelorus in the Great Barrier Reef, off the coast of north Queensland, Australia, as part of an experimental 'feral' goat eradication project. What was remarkable about this project was that the two dingoes released on the island had been implanted with a slow-release capsule containing sodium fluoroacetate, commonly known as '1080'. These so-called 'Tik Toks', pro…
Tools, Troops or Escapees? Cattle Trafficking in the Early Years of the Colony of New South Wales, Australia
The colonisation of ‘Australia’ by the British began in earnest with the arrival of the First Fleet in January 1788 in Warrane (Sydney Cove), to establish a penal colony on the lands of the Gadigal. The Fleet consisted of eleven ships, over 1,000 Europeans (mostly convicts) and many hundreds of animals collectively referred to as ‘cattle’: pigs, goats, sheep, horses, poultry, and cows, calves and bulls. Many of the ‘cattle’ were purchased at the …
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Australian History and Society (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works)