Leah Lui-Chivizhe
Biographic Data
| ID | 1066216 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leah Lui-Chivizhe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leah |
| FAMILY NAME | Lui-Chivizhe |
| SIGNATURE | LUI-CHIVIZHE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5945-6403 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ways of Knowing a Former Insect
What are the benefits of liberating museum objects from their colonial frames of reference to reincorporate them into Indigenous ways of knowing? As curators working together with Torres Strait Islanders to interpret museum objects, the authors focus on collected items relating to centipedes acquired during the experimental era of scientific investigation by a zoologist and an ethnographer in eastern Zenadth Kes, the Torres Strait waters between …
Masked Histories
Yarning with Other Tough Old Women
Yarning with Other Tough Old Women Leah Lui-Chivizhe (bio) A response to Deborah A. Miranda, “‘They were tough, those old women before us’: The Power of Gossip in Isabel Meadows’s Narratives.” Biography 39.3 (Summer 2016): 373–401 As I read Deborah A. Miranda’s essay I searched my mind for parallels and points of connection with the historical experiences of women from my ancestral home, the Torres Strait. There was some resonance. An early encou…
Individuals in Kulkalgal history
This paper explores the lives of three individuals and their impact on the history of the Torres Strait and on world events. While this is an international history, it is centred on travels near Warrior Reef, a large reef system in central Torres Strait used by Kulkalgal and others. The three individuals whose histories are given here come from three different places (Mowata village, Papua New Guinea; Tudu Island, Torres Strait; and Tongatapu Isl…
Working for the railways
In 1995 Ann Curthoys and Clive Moore published “Working for the White People”, a key essay on Indigenous labour historiography. They called for scholars to consider the history of Indigenous people's experience of work in terms of labour and not race relations. In this special issue devoted to celebrating Ann Curthoys' career, we take up the challenge by writing a history of the Torres Strait Islanders who moved to the mainland to work on the con…
Making history
On 8 May 1968, in the red desert of Western Australia's Pilbara region, workers on the Mt Newman railway construction project, contracted to Morrison-Knudsen- Mannix-Oman (MKMO), broke the world record in track laying. In one day they laid, spiked, and anchored 4.35 miles (about 7 kilometres) of track, breaking the previous record of 2.88 miles (4.6 kilometres) set in the United States in 1962. The Hedland Times reported that this historic event …
Scaffolding Academic Reading and Writing at the Koori Centre
This paper describes a "scaffolding" methodology for teaching academic literacy that has achieved outstanding success with Indigenous adults returning to formal study at the Koori Centre, University of Sydney. The paper begins by outlining the background to the Koori Centre program and the literacy needs of Indigenous students. We then describe the methodology, including the approach to teaching academic reading, making notes from reading, and wr…
Scaffolding Academic Reading and Writing at the Koori Centre
This paper describes a "scaffolding" methodology for teaching academic literacy that has achieved outstanding success with Indigenous adults returning to formal study at the Koori Centre, University of Sydney. The paper begins by outlining the background to the Koori Centre program and the literacy needs of Indigenous students. We then describe the methodology, including the approach to teaching academic reading, making notes from reading, and wr…
Individuals in Kulkalgal history
This paper explores the lives of three individuals and their impact on the history of the Torres Strait and on world events. While this is an international history, it is centred on travels near Warrior Reef, a large reef system in central Torres Strait used by Kulkalgal and others. The three individuals whose histories are given here come from three different places (Mowata village, Papua New Guinea; Tudu Island, Torres Strait; and Tongatapu Isl…
Working for the railways
In 1995 Ann Curthoys and Clive Moore published “Working for the White People”, a key essay on Indigenous labour historiography. They called for scholars to consider the history of Indigenous people's experience of work in terms of labour and not race relations. In this special issue devoted to celebrating Ann Curthoys' career, we take up the challenge by writing a history of the Torres Strait Islanders who moved to the mainland to work on the con…
Making history
On 8 May 1968, in the red desert of Western Australia's Pilbara region, workers on the Mt Newman railway construction project, contracted to Morrison-Knudsen- Mannix-Oman (MKMO), broke the world record in track laying. In one day they laid, spiked, and anchored 4.35 miles (about 7 kilometres) of track, breaking the previous record of 2.88 miles (4.6 kilometres) set in the United States in 1962. The Hedland Times reported that this historic event …
Scaffolding Academic Reading and Writing at the Koori Centre
This paper describes a "scaffolding" methodology for teaching academic literacy that has achieved outstanding success with Indigenous adults returning to formal study at the Koori Centre, University of Sydney. The paper begins by outlining the background to the Koori Centre program and the literacy needs of Indigenous students. We then describe the methodology, including the approach to teaching academic reading, making notes from reading, and wr…
Making history
On 8 May 1968, in the red desert of Western Australia's Pilbara region, workers on the Mt Newman railway construction project, contracted to Morrison-Knudsen- Mannix-Oman (MKMO), broke the world record in track laying. In one day they laid, spiked, and anchored 4.35 miles (about 7 kilometres) of track, breaking the previous record of 2.88 miles (4.6 kilometres) set in the United States in 1962. The Hedland Times reported that this historic event …
Working for the railways
In 1995 Ann Curthoys and Clive Moore published “Working for the White People”, a key essay on Indigenous labour historiography. They called for scholars to consider the history of Indigenous people's experience of work in terms of labour and not race relations. In this special issue devoted to celebrating Ann Curthoys' career, we take up the challenge by writing a history of the Torres Strait Islanders who moved to the mainland to work on the con…
Individuals in Kulkalgal history
This paper explores the lives of three individuals and their impact on the history of the Torres Strait and on world events. While this is an international history, it is centred on travels near Warrior Reef, a large reef system in central Torres Strait used by Kulkalgal and others. The three individuals whose histories are given here come from three different places (Mowata village, Papua New Guinea; Tudu Island, Torres Strait; and Tongatapu Isl…
Yarning with Other Tough Old Women
Yarning with Other Tough Old Women Leah Lui-Chivizhe (bio) A response to Deborah A. Miranda, “‘They were tough, those old women before us’: The Power of Gossip in Isabel Meadows’s Narratives.” Biography 39.3 (Summer 2016): 373–401 As I read Deborah A. Miranda’s essay I searched my mind for parallels and points of connection with the historical experiences of women from my ancestral home, the Torres Strait. There was some resonance. An early encou…
Masked Histories
Ways of Knowing a Former Insect
What are the benefits of liberating museum objects from their colonial frames of reference to reincorporate them into Indigenous ways of knowing? As curators working together with Torres Strait Islanders to interpret museum objects, the authors focus on collected items relating to centipedes acquired during the experimental era of scientific investigation by a zoologist and an ethnographer in eastern Zenadth Kes, the Torres Strait waters between …
History (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (3 works) · Indigenous (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Engineering (2 works)