Katelyn Barney
Biographic Data
| ID | 96974 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katelyn Barney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katelyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Barney |
| SIGNATURE | BARNEY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5513-5066 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 374 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Indigenising curriculum at The University of Queensland
Re-defining ‘success’ in relation to outreach programs for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students
Most universities run outreach camps that bring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander school students onto university campuses to demystify university and build and sustain student engagement with university. However, there are varying perspectives on how ‘success’ should be defined and measured in relation to these programs. The staff who run outreach camps are often under pressure from university leadership and/or sponsors to set specific targe…
Laos in 2024
In 2024 Laos entered its fourth year under the effects of the COVID and post-COVID economic downturn. However, the roots of Laos’ economic crisis extend back into the 2010s, with heavy borrowing under China’s Belt and Road Initiative. As rotating ASEAN chair, Laos hosted a successfully uncontroversial series of diplomatic meetings. Domestically, the Lao leadership struggled to respond to falling living standards and the urgency of close diplomati…
The importance of Indigenous centres/units for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students
Indigenous student completion rates remain very low relative to non-Indigenous students. Some universities have higher Indigenous student completion rates than the national average but research-based evidence of these universities as ‘success models' is limited. Drawing on findings from interviews with Indigenous university graduates and staff as part of a National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (NCSEHE) funded research project, th…
Clarifying rupture
In our article, ‘Rupture: Towards a Critical, Emplaced, and Experiential View of Nature-Society Crisis’, we advocated for contextually rich and critical understandings of environmental crises and their catalytic effects. This authors’ reply responds to four commentaries whose authors raise helpful questions and insights. We first review the spatial and temporal connections between specific rupture episodes and ongoing processes of extraction and …
Commercial timber plantations and community livelihoods
The social impacts of industrial wood plantations (IWP) in Southeast Asia are extensively contested. Whilst productive, well-managed IWPs can offer a range of benefits to broader societies, they have also been criticised as driving community displacement and economic marginalisation. There is benefit to comparative case studies that identify the conditions whereby IWPs can support improved rural well-being. This paper assesses changes in resource…
Co-authorship, collaboration and contestation in relation to Indigenous research
Co-authorship, collaboration and contestation in relation to Indigenous research." Australian Archaeology, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Rupture
We are currently seeing a global escalation in social and environmental disruption, yet concepts like the Anthropocene do not fully capture the intensity and generative scope of this crisis. ‘Rupture’ is being used as a term for specific and intense episodes of change, such as wildfires or toxic pollution releases. This is a useful addition to our lexicon for nature-society change but needs to be more robustly theorized. Defining rupture as an in…
The Role of “Resources” in Regime Durability in Laos
This article argues the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, or Laos, draws upon three key types of “resources” in consolidating regime durability. Intentionally broad, our conception of resources encompasses not just natural resources managed by the state on behalf of the national community, but also the ideological and institutional resources that underpin the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) program of industrial resourcification and moder…
Credit crunch
Lao PDR's push for large infrastructure‐led economic growth has been delivered through a significant amount of financial leverage and a build‐up of sovereign debt obligations. The government now finds itself in danger of a sovereign default. This article traces the roots of this debt crisis over the past decade, focusing particularly on the role of hydropower. A significant share of infrastructure lending to Laos has been through Chinese policy b…
Local disaster knowledge
Local, traditional, or indigenous knowledge play an important role in disaster risk reduction (DRR), and many policy recommendations now call for the integration of local and expert views. While these attempts at integration are indeed promising, they are often built on assumptions that local knowledge is inherently separate from, or even subordinate to, expert perspectives. This article presents an account of what we call "local disaster knowled…
Economic returns to households participating in different models of commercial tree plantations in Lao PDR
Four tree plantation models implemented in Lao PDR and a hypothetical model were compared in terms of the projected economic benefits and those realised by participating rural households, and households' attitudes to further plantation expansion. Models comprised two forms of land-sharing plantation concessions, and contract and independent tree growing. Benefits and costs over the plantation cycle were used to calculate net present values. Tree …
Transnational labour migration and livelihoods in rural Asia
Resource-making, materiality and the disruptive geographies of the extractive industries in the Asia-Pacific
Beyond rural routes
Ngiya awungarra / I am Here, Now
Ngiya awungarra / I am Here, Now: Tiwi Voices Past and Present in New Musical Conversations. 2016. Rouseabout Records RRR75. Engineered by Bob Wheatley. Annotated and produced by Genevieve Campbell. 16-page booklet with notes in English. Colour photographs. CD, 20 tracks (73:46). - Volume 50
Conceptualising Party-State Governance and Rule in Laos
This article develops a framework for conceptualising authoritarian governance and rule in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic. After introducing the national and academic context, which go a significant way towards understanding the paucity of comparative political work on Laos, we propose an approach to studying post-socialist authoritarian and single-party rule that highlights the key political-institutional, cultural-historical and spatial-e…
Structural Injustice, Slow Violence? The Political Ecology of a "Best Practice" Hydropower Dam in Lao PDR
Large areas of the rural Lao landscape are being rapidly transformed by infrastructure development projects. Arguably, it is hydraulic development that is contributing most significantly to rural socio-ecological change, due to the profound socio-political ruptures dams precipitate. The nationally iconic Theun-Hinboun Hydropower Project, commissioned in 1998 and expanded in 2012, provides an illustrative case of hydropower’s complex social-ecolog…
Adolescent Summer Camp Volunteers' Attitudes Toward Peers with Disabilities
This study explored the malleability of adolescent attitudes toward their peers with disabilities after volunteering in a summer day-camp. The Contact with Disabled Persons Scale (CDP) and the Multi-Dimensional Attitude Scale (MAS) were used to collect data in order to determine the association between volunteering in a recreation-based summer day camp and adolescent attitudes toward disability. After a covariate-adjusted regression analysis, con…
The political ecology of cross-sectoral cumulative impacts
Environmental and social impact assessment is now a widely accepted tool in the Mekong Region for assessing the impacts of hydropower dams and large-scale industrial tree plantations. However, the cross-sectoral and cumulative effects of such projects have not been sufficiently addressed. Where cumulative impacts have been considered, studies have focused on a single sector, such as multiple hydropower dams. A separation between land and water ma…
Sparking development or consuming the countryside? Lao charcoal commodity networks in the Mekong Region
One of the unexpected outcomes of increased regional integration in southern Laos has been a boom in household production and roadside sale of wood charcoal. This paper develops an ethnographically informed analysis of charcoal as a socially embedded market, providing insights into the sociopolitical relations of access, legal and extra‐legal regulations, and the distribution of rents that characterise this trade. Contrary to some assumptions abo…
Ecological Knowledge and the Making of Plantation Concession Territories in Southern Laos
This paper examines how new forms of ecological knowledge are produced and mobilised through a sustainability-oriented, commercial tree plantation project in Lao PDR. As Gavin Bridge has noted, the establishment of primary resource sector projects are often not simply based upon a discursive emptying and erasure of local social and environmental histories. More nuanced forms of selective re-encoding, and performance can occur, incorporating what …
Pearls, Problems and Politics
This article explores the implementation of PEARL (Political, Embodied, Active, and Reflective Learning) in two courses at The University of Queensland: a first-year introductory Indigenous Studies course and a second year Indigenous Education course. We draw on findings from a 2-year (2010-2011) Office for Learning and Teaching (then ALTC) funded curriculum renewal project and findings from a pilot project (2013) implementing PEARL in a compulso…
Introduction
The Australian Indigenous Studies Learning and Teaching Network was established in 2011 to develop a focused national network of scholars to engage in key discussions about teaching Indigenous Studies at tertiary level. Funded by the Office for Learning and Teaching (2011-14), the Network combines leaders and early career academics and builds relationships between scholars in the discipline, identifies key issues and explores effective teaching a…
An Introduction to Sustainability and Ethnomusicology in the Australasian Context
The notion of sustainability includes many and varied aspects of music making and music research, some of which are now referred to as ‘applied ethnomusicology’. Reflecting an international turn towards ecological studies of music, this Special Issue focuses specifically on the work of Australasian ethnomusicologists, with emphasis on the Asia-Pacific region. This introduction provides context to issues surrounding sustainability and ethnomusicol…
Laos and the making of a 'relational' resource frontier
This paper seeks to reconsider the contemporary relevance of the resource frontier, drawing on examples of nature's commodification and enclosure under way in the peripheral Southeast Asian country of Laos. Frontiers are conceived as relational zones of economy, nature and society; spaces of capitalist transition, where new forms of social property relations and systems of legality are rapidly established in response to market imperatives. Custom…
Structural Injustice, Slow Violence? The Political Ecology of a "Best Practice" Hydropower Dam in Lao PDR
Large areas of the rural Lao landscape are being rapidly transformed by infrastructure development projects. Arguably, it is hydraulic development that is contributing most significantly to rural socio-ecological change, due to the profound socio-political ruptures dams precipitate. The nationally iconic Theun-Hinboun Hydropower Project, commissioned in 1998 and expanded in 2012, provides an illustrative case of hydropower’s complex social-ecolog…
The political ecology of cross-sectoral cumulative impacts
Environmental and social impact assessment is now a widely accepted tool in the Mekong Region for assessing the impacts of hydropower dams and large-scale industrial tree plantations. However, the cross-sectoral and cumulative effects of such projects have not been sufficiently addressed. Where cumulative impacts have been considered, studies have focused on a single sector, such as multiple hydropower dams. A separation between land and water ma…
Conceptualising Party-State Governance and Rule in Laos
This article develops a framework for conceptualising authoritarian governance and rule in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic. After introducing the national and academic context, which go a significant way towards understanding the paucity of comparative political work on Laos, we propose an approach to studying post-socialist authoritarian and single-party rule that highlights the key political-institutional, cultural-historical and spatial-e…
Rupture
We are currently seeing a global escalation in social and environmental disruption, yet concepts like the Anthropocene do not fully capture the intensity and generative scope of this crisis. ‘Rupture’ is being used as a term for specific and intense episodes of change, such as wildfires or toxic pollution releases. This is a useful addition to our lexicon for nature-society change but needs to be more robustly theorized. Defining rupture as an in…
Transnational labour migration and livelihoods in rural Asia
Re‐encountering resistance
The emergence of social and environmental movements against plantation forestry in Southeast Asia positions rural development against local displacement and environmental degradation. Multi‐scaled NGO networks have been active in promoting the notion that rural people in Southeast Asia uniformly oppose plantation development. There are potential pitfalls in this heightened attention to resistance however, as it has often lapsed into essentialist …
An Introduction to Sustainability and Ethnomusicology in the Australasian Context
The notion of sustainability includes many and varied aspects of music making and music research, some of which are now referred to as ‘applied ethnomusicology’. Reflecting an international turn towards ecological studies of music, this Special Issue focuses specifically on the work of Australasian ethnomusicologists, with emphasis on the Asia-Pacific region. This introduction provides context to issues surrounding sustainability and ethnomusicol…
Credit crunch
Lao PDR's push for large infrastructure‐led economic growth has been delivered through a significant amount of financial leverage and a build‐up of sovereign debt obligations. The government now finds itself in danger of a sovereign default. This article traces the roots of this debt crisis over the past decade, focusing particularly on the role of hydropower. A significant share of infrastructure lending to Laos has been through Chinese policy b…
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…
The Role of “Resources” in Regime Durability in Laos
This article argues the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, or Laos, draws upon three key types of “resources” in consolidating regime durability. Intentionally broad, our conception of resources encompasses not just natural resources managed by the state on behalf of the national community, but also the ideological and institutional resources that underpin the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) program of industrial resourcification and moder…
Laos in 2024
In 2024 Laos entered its fourth year under the effects of the COVID and post-COVID economic downturn. However, the roots of Laos’ economic crisis extend back into the 2010s, with heavy borrowing under China’s Belt and Road Initiative. As rotating ASEAN chair, Laos hosted a successfully uncontroversial series of diplomatic meetings. Domestically, the Lao leadership struggled to respond to falling living standards and the urgency of close diplomati…
Commercial timber plantations and community livelihoods
The social impacts of industrial wood plantations (IWP) in Southeast Asia are extensively contested. Whilst productive, well-managed IWPs can offer a range of benefits to broader societies, they have also been criticised as driving community displacement and economic marginalisation. There is benefit to comparative case studies that identify the conditions whereby IWPs can support improved rural well-being. This paper assesses changes in resource…
Co-authorship, collaboration and contestation in relation to Indigenous research
Co-authorship, collaboration and contestation in relation to Indigenous research." Australian Archaeology, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Local disaster knowledge
Local, traditional, or indigenous knowledge play an important role in disaster risk reduction (DRR), and many policy recommendations now call for the integration of local and expert views. While these attempts at integration are indeed promising, they are often built on assumptions that local knowledge is inherently separate from, or even subordinate to, expert perspectives. This article presents an account of what we call "local disaster knowled…
Adolescent Summer Camp Volunteers' Attitudes Toward Peers with Disabilities
This study explored the malleability of adolescent attitudes toward their peers with disabilities after volunteering in a summer day-camp. The Contact with Disabled Persons Scale (CDP) and the Multi-Dimensional Attitude Scale (MAS) were used to collect data in order to determine the association between volunteering in a recreation-based summer day camp and adolescent attitudes toward disability. After a covariate-adjusted regression analysis, con…
Sparking development or consuming the countryside? Lao charcoal commodity networks in the Mekong Region
One of the unexpected outcomes of increased regional integration in southern Laos has been a boom in household production and roadside sale of wood charcoal. This paper develops an ethnographically informed analysis of charcoal as a socially embedded market, providing insights into the sociopolitical relations of access, legal and extra‐legal regulations, and the distribution of rents that characterise this trade. Contrary to some assumptions abo…
Introduction
The Australian Indigenous Studies Learning and Teaching Network was established in 2011 to develop a focused national network of scholars to engage in key discussions about teaching Indigenous Studies at tertiary level. Funded by the Office for Learning and Teaching (2011-14), the Network combines leaders and early career academics and builds relationships between scholars in the discipline, identifies key issues and explores effective teaching a…
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 …
Gendering Aboriginalism
One of the most common Aboriginalist representations of Indigenous Australian people is, as Indigenous female performer Lou Bennett points out, 'basically a man, out in the desert, black skin, flat nose with a lap-lap on, standing on one leg, resting against a spear'. Her comment raises many issues. In what ways are discourses of Aboriginalism gendered? How does Aboriginalism affect performance and specifically Aboriginal women performers? In exp…
Re‐encountering resistance
The emergence of social and environmental movements against plantation forestry in Southeast Asia positions rural development against local displacement and environmental degradation. Multi‐scaled NGO networks have been active in promoting the notion that rural people in Southeast Asia uniformly oppose plantation development. There are potential pitfalls in this heightened attention to resistance however, as it has often lapsed into essentialist …
Landscapes of Indigenous Performance
Landscapes of Indigenous Performance: Music, Song and Dance of the Torres Strait and Arnhem Land, Fiona Magowan & Karl Neuenfeldt (Eds.), Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2005, vii+177pp, ISBN 0-85575-4931 - Volume 35
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 …
Laos and the making of a 'relational' resource frontier
This paper seeks to reconsider the contemporary relevance of the resource frontier, drawing on examples of nature's commodification and enclosure under way in the peripheral Southeast Asian country of Laos. Frontiers are conceived as relational zones of economy, nature and society; spaces of capitalist transition, where new forms of social property relations and systems of legality are rapidly established in response to market imperatives. Custom…
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 ties that bind - By Jim Glassman
Sing loud, break through the silence’
On 13 February 2008 the Australian Parliament formally apologized to the members of the Stolen Generations. This was a historic moment for reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Jackie Huggins believes that the Apology ‘generated a sense of hope, healing, forgiveness and unity’ and was the ‘first important steps towards a new national approach to reconciliation’. Music has the potential to capture this hope for reconcil…
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…
An Introduction to Sustainability and Ethnomusicology in the Australasian Context
The notion of sustainability includes many and varied aspects of music making and music research, some of which are now referred to as ‘applied ethnomusicology’. Reflecting an international turn towards ecological studies of music, this Special Issue focuses specifically on the work of Australasian ethnomusicologists, with emphasis on the Asia-Pacific region. This introduction provides context to issues surrounding sustainability and ethnomusicol…
Ecological Knowledge and the Making of Plantation Concession Territories in Southern Laos
This paper examines how new forms of ecological knowledge are produced and mobilised through a sustainability-oriented, commercial tree plantation project in Lao PDR. As Gavin Bridge has noted, the establishment of primary resource sector projects are often not simply based upon a discursive emptying and erasure of local social and environmental histories. More nuanced forms of selective re-encoding, and performance can occur, incorporating what …
Pearls, Problems and Politics
This article explores the implementation of PEARL (Political, Embodied, Active, and Reflective Learning) in two courses at The University of Queensland: a first-year introductory Indigenous Studies course and a second year Indigenous Education course. We draw on findings from a 2-year (2010-2011) Office for Learning and Teaching (then ALTC) funded curriculum renewal project and findings from a pilot project (2013) implementing PEARL in a compulso…
Introduction
The Australian Indigenous Studies Learning and Teaching Network was established in 2011 to develop a focused national network of scholars to engage in key discussions about teaching Indigenous Studies at tertiary level. Funded by the Office for Learning and Teaching (2011-14), the Network combines leaders and early career academics and builds relationships between scholars in the discipline, identifies key issues and explores effective teaching a…
Sparking development or consuming the countryside? Lao charcoal commodity networks in the Mekong Region
One of the unexpected outcomes of increased regional integration in southern Laos has been a boom in household production and roadside sale of wood charcoal. This paper develops an ethnographically informed analysis of charcoal as a socially embedded market, providing insights into the sociopolitical relations of access, legal and extra‐legal regulations, and the distribution of rents that characterise this trade. Contrary to some assumptions abo…
Adolescent Summer Camp Volunteers' Attitudes Toward Peers with Disabilities
This study explored the malleability of adolescent attitudes toward their peers with disabilities after volunteering in a summer day-camp. The Contact with Disabled Persons Scale (CDP) and the Multi-Dimensional Attitude Scale (MAS) were used to collect data in order to determine the association between volunteering in a recreation-based summer day camp and adolescent attitudes toward disability. After a covariate-adjusted regression analysis, con…
The political ecology of cross-sectoral cumulative impacts
Environmental and social impact assessment is now a widely accepted tool in the Mekong Region for assessing the impacts of hydropower dams and large-scale industrial tree plantations. However, the cross-sectoral and cumulative effects of such projects have not been sufficiently addressed. Where cumulative impacts have been considered, studies have focused on a single sector, such as multiple hydropower dams. A separation between land and water ma…
Beyond rural routes
Ngiya awungarra / I am Here, Now
Ngiya awungarra / I am Here, Now: Tiwi Voices Past and Present in New Musical Conversations. 2016. Rouseabout Records RRR75. Engineered by Bob Wheatley. Annotated and produced by Genevieve Campbell. 16-page booklet with notes in English. Colour photographs. CD, 20 tracks (73:46). - Volume 50
Conceptualising Party-State Governance and Rule in Laos
This article develops a framework for conceptualising authoritarian governance and rule in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic. After introducing the national and academic context, which go a significant way towards understanding the paucity of comparative political work on Laos, we propose an approach to studying post-socialist authoritarian and single-party rule that highlights the key political-institutional, cultural-historical and spatial-e…
Structural Injustice, Slow Violence? The Political Ecology of a "Best Practice" Hydropower Dam in Lao PDR
Large areas of the rural Lao landscape are being rapidly transformed by infrastructure development projects. Arguably, it is hydraulic development that is contributing most significantly to rural socio-ecological change, due to the profound socio-political ruptures dams precipitate. The nationally iconic Theun-Hinboun Hydropower Project, commissioned in 1998 and expanded in 2012, provides an illustrative case of hydropower’s complex social-ecolog…
Resource-making, materiality and the disruptive geographies of the extractive industries in the Asia-Pacific
Economic returns to households participating in different models of commercial tree plantations in Lao PDR
Four tree plantation models implemented in Lao PDR and a hypothetical model were compared in terms of the projected economic benefits and those realised by participating rural households, and households' attitudes to further plantation expansion. Models comprised two forms of land-sharing plantation concessions, and contract and independent tree growing. Benefits and costs over the plantation cycle were used to calculate net present values. Tree …
Transnational labour migration and livelihoods in rural Asia
Credit crunch
Lao PDR's push for large infrastructure‐led economic growth has been delivered through a significant amount of financial leverage and a build‐up of sovereign debt obligations. The government now finds itself in danger of a sovereign default. This article traces the roots of this debt crisis over the past decade, focusing particularly on the role of hydropower. A significant share of infrastructure lending to Laos has been through Chinese policy b…
Local disaster knowledge
Local, traditional, or indigenous knowledge play an important role in disaster risk reduction (DRR), and many policy recommendations now call for the integration of local and expert views. While these attempts at integration are indeed promising, they are often built on assumptions that local knowledge is inherently separate from, or even subordinate to, expert perspectives. This article presents an account of what we call "local disaster knowled…
Sociology (23 works) · Political science (19 works) · Geography (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (12 works) · Indigenous (11 works) · Ecology (10 works) · Cambodian History and Society (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (8 works)