Michaela Spencer
Biographic Data
| ID | 104801 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michaela Spencer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michaela |
| FAMILY NAME | Spencer |
| SIGNATURE | SPENCER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Charles Darwin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2936-7343 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Composing, decomposing, and recomposing engagement in Indigenous-led research for land and sea management, Tiwi Islands, Australia
In this article, we reflect on our methodology, working with a uniquely Indigenous approach to collaborative cross-cultural research and sustainability planning for murrukupuni (Country) and winga (salt water) on the Tiwi Islands, Northern Territory, Australia: the Turtuni Framework, which takes its name from the turtuni (a carved wooden pole) used in Tiwi (the Indigenous Peoples of the Tiwi Islands) ceremonies and governance. We focus on the eme…
Un/common grounds: Tracing politics across worlds
In this paper, we explore possibilities for reconceptualizing cosmopolitics by focusing on sites and situations where the problem of un/commonality plays a central role. Stemming from ethnographic research carried out as part of an ongoing collaboration on ‘Landscapes of Democracy’, we outline a study of democratic politics that extends beyond the politics of a single world and attends to landscapes of political practice that embed, and sometimes…
State-funded services delivery as cosmopolitical work
This chapter grows from a research project being carried out under contract for the Northern Territory Government – a territory government in the north of Australia. It attends to tensions researchers have found themselves entangled in from the start of the project in 2016. Over the course of the project, Northern Territory Government staff remained solidly focused on producing a system for assessing ‘how well are we [the state] doing in engaging…
Cultural Cosmologies of the Internet: Situating Digital Networked Technologies in Diverse Moral Universes
In this panel we consider how social actors situate uses of technologies within systems of moral norms and values while at the same time compelling the creation of new ones. Popular discourse tends to present dualistic thinking of the positive and negative impacts of technologies. Scholars have engaged with the internet and digital media, emphasising emancipatory subcultures (Coleman 2014; Gehl 2016, 2018) or presenting a critical view of the con…
Asymmetries and Climate Futures: Working with Waters in an Indigenous Australian Settlement
This paper focuses on a water management project in the remote Aboriginal community of Milingimbi, Northern Australia. Drawing on materials and experiences from two distinct stages of this project, we revisit a policy report and engage in ethnographic storytelling in order to highlight a series of sensing practices associated with water management. In the former, a working symmetry between Yolngu and Western water knowledges is actively sought th…
Using Multiple Methods to Understand the Nature of Relationships in Social Networks
Effective natural resource management (NRM) often depends on collaboration through formal and informal relationships. Social network analysis (SNA) provides a framework for studying social relationships; however, a deeper understanding of the nature of these relationships is often missing. By integrating multiple analytical methods (including SNA, evidence ratings, and perception matrices), we were able to investigate the nature of relationships …
Pictures at an Exhibition – and Beyond. Review of the ‘Reset Modernity!’ exhibition, 16.04.2016 – 21.08.2016, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
It is the third exhibition that Latour has co-curated in this space, (or perhaps being mindful of Laboratory Life (Latour & Woolgar 1986), we should say 'this place'). The fi rst two were Iconoclash (2002) and Making Things Public (2005), both curated with Peter Weibel. This exhibition is also the fourth product of the 'An Inquiry into Modes of Existence' (AIME) project: in 2012 we saw the publication of the AIME book and the website, 2 then in 2…
Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas
Un/common grounds: Tracing politics across worlds
In this paper, we explore possibilities for reconceptualizing cosmopolitics by focusing on sites and situations where the problem of un/commonality plays a central role. Stemming from ethnographic research carried out as part of an ongoing collaboration on ‘Landscapes of Democracy’, we outline a study of democratic politics that extends beyond the politics of a single world and attends to landscapes of political practice that embed, and sometimes…
Asymmetries and Climate Futures: Working with Waters in an Indigenous Australian Settlement
This paper focuses on a water management project in the remote Aboriginal community of Milingimbi, Northern Australia. Drawing on materials and experiences from two distinct stages of this project, we revisit a policy report and engage in ethnographic storytelling in order to highlight a series of sensing practices associated with water management. In the former, a working symmetry between Yolngu and Western water knowledges is actively sought th…
Using Multiple Methods to Understand the Nature of Relationships in Social Networks
Effective natural resource management (NRM) often depends on collaboration through formal and informal relationships. Social network analysis (SNA) provides a framework for studying social relationships; however, a deeper understanding of the nature of these relationships is often missing. By integrating multiple analytical methods (including SNA, evidence ratings, and perception matrices), we were able to investigate the nature of relationships …
Cultural Cosmologies of the Internet: Situating Digital Networked Technologies in Diverse Moral Universes
In this panel we consider how social actors situate uses of technologies within systems of moral norms and values while at the same time compelling the creation of new ones. Popular discourse tends to present dualistic thinking of the positive and negative impacts of technologies. Scholars have engaged with the internet and digital media, emphasising emancipatory subcultures (Coleman 2014; Gehl 2016, 2018) or presenting a critical view of the con…
Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas
Pictures at an Exhibition – and Beyond. Review of the ‘Reset Modernity!’ exhibition, 16.04.2016 – 21.08.2016, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
It is the third exhibition that Latour has co-curated in this space, (or perhaps being mindful of Laboratory Life (Latour & Woolgar 1986), we should say 'this place'). The fi rst two were Iconoclash (2002) and Making Things Public (2005), both curated with Peter Weibel. This exhibition is also the fourth product of the 'An Inquiry into Modes of Existence' (AIME) project: in 2012 we saw the publication of the AIME book and the website, 2 then in 2…
Using Multiple Methods to Understand the Nature of Relationships in Social Networks
Effective natural resource management (NRM) often depends on collaboration through formal and informal relationships. Social network analysis (SNA) provides a framework for studying social relationships; however, a deeper understanding of the nature of these relationships is often missing. By integrating multiple analytical methods (including SNA, evidence ratings, and perception matrices), we were able to investigate the nature of relationships …
State-funded services delivery as cosmopolitical work
This chapter grows from a research project being carried out under contract for the Northern Territory Government – a territory government in the north of Australia. It attends to tensions researchers have found themselves entangled in from the start of the project in 2016. Over the course of the project, Northern Territory Government staff remained solidly focused on producing a system for assessing ‘how well are we [the state] doing in engaging…
Cultural Cosmologies of the Internet: Situating Digital Networked Technologies in Diverse Moral Universes
In this panel we consider how social actors situate uses of technologies within systems of moral norms and values while at the same time compelling the creation of new ones. Popular discourse tends to present dualistic thinking of the positive and negative impacts of technologies. Scholars have engaged with the internet and digital media, emphasising emancipatory subcultures (Coleman 2014; Gehl 2016, 2018) or presenting a critical view of the con…
Asymmetries and Climate Futures: Working with Waters in an Indigenous Australian Settlement
This paper focuses on a water management project in the remote Aboriginal community of Milingimbi, Northern Australia. Drawing on materials and experiences from two distinct stages of this project, we revisit a policy report and engage in ethnographic storytelling in order to highlight a series of sensing practices associated with water management. In the former, a working symmetry between Yolngu and Western water knowledges is actively sought th…
Un/common grounds: Tracing politics across worlds
In this paper, we explore possibilities for reconceptualizing cosmopolitics by focusing on sites and situations where the problem of un/commonality plays a central role. Stemming from ethnographic research carried out as part of an ongoing collaboration on ‘Landscapes of Democracy’, we outline a study of democratic politics that extends beyond the politics of a single world and attends to landscapes of political practice that embed, and sometimes…
Composing, decomposing, and recomposing engagement in Indigenous-led research for land and sea management, Tiwi Islands, Australia
In this article, we reflect on our methodology, working with a uniquely Indigenous approach to collaborative cross-cultural research and sustainability planning for murrukupuni (Country) and winga (salt water) on the Tiwi Islands, Northern Territory, Australia: the Turtuni Framework, which takes its name from the turtuni (a carved wooden pole) used in Tiwi (the Indigenous Peoples of the Tiwi Islands) ceremonies and governance. We focus on the eme…
Business (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Indigenous (2 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (2 works) · Law (2 works)