R Kennedy
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 11691 |
|---|---|
| NOME | R Kennedy |
| PRENOMES | R |
| SOBRENOME | Kennedy |
| ASSINATURA | KENNEDY R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5687-272X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 60 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1937 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Collective Testimonial Activism
This article introduces the concept of collective testimonial activism to analyze Teach Us Consent (TUC), a digital archive of survivor testimonies that has been activated for policy interventions and social change. Through engaging survivors, publics, and policymakers, TUC encourages both healing and collective feminist activism aimed at addressing sexual violence
Decolonial memory activism
Around the world, mothers and grandmothers have seeded movements to remember atrocities and demand redress, justice, and accountability. One such movement, Grandmothers Against Removals (GMAR), initiated by First Nations women in Australia, is a paradigm of decolonial memory activism. In their campaigns protesting ongoing removals of Indigenous children from their communities, GMAR strategically mobilizes the memory of the 2008 National Apology t…
Feminism/memory/activism
This special issue enriches the emerging dialogue on feminism, memory, and activism by showcasing activists, movements, and cultural productions that have received little attention, and by developing analytic frameworks that amplify their innovative acts of resistance and repair. It explores the politics and aesthetics of women’s activism, including aesthetic activism, in making visible and responding to the harms flowing from legacies of disposs…
‘Somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change’
In her play Prima Facie, playwright and lawyer Suzie Miller uses theatre to critique legal responses to sexual violence. This article thus offers an analysis of the play as both feminist theatre and feminist advocacy. We examine the rhetorical and performative strategies it deploys, arguing that they are effective because they mobilise long-standing feminist tropes which use a representative figure of the traumatised victim and the repetition of …
Memory, activism and the arts in Asia and the Pacific
The emerging interest in the entanglements between memory, activism and social and political change is an exciting new direction in Memory Studies. This special issue aims to extend the repertoire of histories, cultural practices, and epistemologies from which theorizing about the memory-activism nexus is drawn through a focus on Asia and the Pacific, including diasporic communities in Australia. By centring engagements with memory in Asia as wel…
Mnemonic reciprocity
This article introduces the concept of mnemonic reciprocity to examine the dynamics of exchanges between local memory activists and other community members after a Comfort Women statue was installed in 2016 on the grounds of Sydney’s Ashfield Uniting Church. Contributing to the scholarship on grassroots memory activism and on the global travels of the Comfort Women statue, we take a feminist, decolonial approach that identifies points of connecti…
Beyond presentism
We take up the challenge to extend the ‘archive of mnemonic practices’ beyond recent histories of violence by facilitating a dialogue between scholarship on deep history and the fourth wave of memory studies, both emerging under the sign of the Anthropocene. In so doing, we engage with the problem of transmission as it has emerged in both fields. Works in cultural memory studies provide us with compelling ways of thinking through mediated practic…
Domesticating Humanitarianism
This article introduces the concept of “domestic humanitarianism” as a critical lens to identify the cultural logics and moral economy that inform the production, narrative and reception of Stephanie Land’s memoir, Maid, and “Three Miles”, an episode of This American Life. This analysis provides insight into the humanitarian solutions and ad hoc gestures to economic precarity that come to substitute for the receding promises of the American Dream…
Research is needed to inform environmental management of hydrothermally inactive and extinct polymetallic sulfide (PMS) deposits
Polymetallic sulfide (PMS) deposits produced at hydrothermal vents in the deep sea are of potential interest to miners. Hydrothermally active sulfide ecosystems are valued for the extraordinary chemosynthetic communities that they support. Many countries, including Canada, Portugal, and the United States, protect vent ecosystems in their Exclusive Economic Zones. When hydrothermal activity ceases temporarily (dormancy) or permanently (extinction)…
Echoes and Silences
This special section of Australian Feminist Studies is dedicated to examining the echoes and reverberations of #MeToo beyond its viral epicentre in American celebrity media culture. It focuses on how #MeToo has resonated within institutions, practices and discourses associated with culture, science, and law. It aims to shed light on Australia's unique engagements with #MeToo discourse and charts how discourses of #MeToo have propelled feminist cr…
Splitting from Halley
This article takes the documentary film The Hunting Ground, and the controversy it provoked, as a starting point for interrogating approaches to the representation and regulation of sexual assault on campus. We focus on the work of critical legal theorist Janet Halley, who has been a leading and contentious figure in advocating against the film and for a reconsideration of how Title IX is implemented on university campuses. In 2015, nineteen Harv…
Full Issue #11.2 on Collaborative Learning
describe the Nonprofit Sustainability Initiative, a multiyear collaboration of 17 funders in Los Angeles County, California, that supports nonprofit organizations to collaborate and restructure in a variety of forms. As the initiative evolved, its evaluation and learning system had to have the ability to evolve with it. This article presents key design aspects of the system, describes how it evolved over time, and shares insights and learnings
Rev. of Tainted Witness
In Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives, \nLeigh Gilmore extends her commanding knowledge of testimony, trauma, \nand women’s life narrative in vital new directions that have a broad public as \nwell as scholarly appeal and applicability. With its perceptive tracking of how \nwomen’s testimony circulates and is received in the public sphere, Tainted \nWitness is perfectly timed to provide essential guidance for making se…
From the Transnational to the Intimate
Reparative transnationalism
Analysis of the “productive frictions” that emerge when cosmopolitan paradigms are implemented in local contexts may nuance accounts of how and when memory travels, and when and why it stalls, thereby contributing to a better understanding of the cross-border travels of memory. I explore the frictions of truth-telling in Sierra Leone as articulated in ethnographic analyses of local engagement with the normative paradigm of public remembering and …
Memory studies and the Anthropocene
The essays gathered here are slightly revised versions of the position papers presented as part of the roundtable on “Memory Studies and the Anthropocene” at the MLA Convention in Philadelphia in January 2017. What sparked this roundtable is the increasing currency of the Anthropocene, on the one hand, and the observation that the field of memory studies has lately begun to grapple with its implications in earnest, on the other. The participants,…
Reading Prosthetic Memory through a New Materialist Lens
‘Memory after humanism’ invites a wide range of responses, given that all three keywords – ‘memory’, ‘humanism’, and ‘after’ – are open to interpretation. As Kari Driscoll and Susanne Knittel conte
T&S Magazine Wins STC Award [News and Notes]
Landsat-8
Landsat 8, a NASA and USGS collaboration, acquires global moderate-resolution measurements of the Earth's terrestrial and polar regions in the visible, near-infrared, short wave, and thermal infrared. Landsat 8 extends the remarkable 40 year Landsat record and has enhanced capabilities including new spectral bands in the blue and cirrus cloud-detection portion of the spectrum, two thermal bands, improved sensor signal-to-noise performance and ass…
Moving Testimony
The affects of not reading
This article brings recent debates in literary studies regarding the practice of close reading into conversation with Derek Attridge’s idea of ‘readerly hospitality’ (2004) to diagnose the problem of students in undergraduate literary studies programme not completing set reading. We argue that the method of close reading depends on encouraging students to foster positive affective responses towards difficulty – semiotic, emotional and intellectua…
Affecting Evidence
In December 1922, London was enthralled by a sensational murder trial at the Old Bailey. The 28-year-old woman at the centre of the scandal, Edith Thompson, came to notoriety when her lover, 20-year-old Freddy Bywaters, a merchant seaman, murdered her husband, Percy Thompson, when the couple was returning home from the theatre late one evening. When 62 of her letters were found on his ship, he confessed, but insisted that she had no part in the c…
Soul music dreaming
In memory studies, concepts of cosmopolitan, transnational and transcultural memory have been identified as a means of studying mnemonic symbols, cultural forms and cultural practices that cross national, ethnic and territorial borders. However, what do these concepts deliver for memory work that originates in an ‘off-centre’ location such as Australia, where outsiders often lack an understanding of the history and cultural codes? A recent Indige…
Memory up close
This special issue was first conceived of over dinner in a New Zealand cafe in London, on a warm summer night in July 2010. During that evening, it emerged that we’d both already been thinking about the issues we raise here for some time. Rosanne, a US citizen, and now Australian citizen, who has lived and worked in Australia since the 1990s, had co-edited a book on World Memory (Bennett and Kennedy, 2003). Susannah, at that point a UK citizen wo…
Humanity's Footprint
Through readings of two "walking memoirs"-W. G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn and Raja Shehadeh's Palestinian Walks -this article considers the implications of the geological concept of the Anthropocene era for the field of life writing studies and its understanding of the human. It considers the ways these and other authors imagine the human, and the costs of the human pursuit of freedom for other species and things, from a planetary perspective
An Australian Archive of Feelings
The Sorry Books campaign, held in 1998, was a popular reconciliation event that created conditions for the Australian public to apologise to the 'Stolen Generations' when the Howard government refused to offer a parliamentary apology. Feminist and queer approaches, with their complex analyses of emotion in the public sphere and their attention to the formation of counter-public archives of memory, are particularly productive for analysing the Sor…
Memory studies and the Anthropocene
The essays gathered here are slightly revised versions of the position papers presented as part of the roundtable on “Memory Studies and the Anthropocene” at the MLA Convention in Philadelphia in January 2017. What sparked this roundtable is the increasing currency of the Anthropocene, on the one hand, and the observation that the field of memory studies has lately begun to grapple with its implications in earnest, on the other. The participants,…
Vulnerable Children, Disposable Mothers
In recent years, historians have pioneered comparative research on the Holocaust and colonisation in Australia. This article seeks to demonstrate that a comparative reading of Stolen Generations and Holocaust memoirs can generate unique and challenging insights into the affective, material and psychological legacies of the assimilation of children across racial and ethnic divides. By placing Sarah Kofman's memoir, Rue Ordener, Rue Labat, into dia…
From the Transnational to the Intimate
Memory up close
This special issue was first conceived of over dinner in a New Zealand cafe in London, on a warm summer night in July 2010. During that evening, it emerged that we’d both already been thinking about the issues we raise here for some time. Rosanne, a US citizen, and now Australian citizen, who has lived and worked in Australia since the 1990s, had co-edited a book on World Memory (Bennett and Kennedy, 2003). Susannah, at that point a UK citizen wo…
Splitting from Halley
This article takes the documentary film The Hunting Ground, and the controversy it provoked, as a starting point for interrogating approaches to the representation and regulation of sexual assault on campus. We focus on the work of critical legal theorist Janet Halley, who has been a leading and contentious figure in advocating against the film and for a reconsideration of how Title IX is implemented on university campuses. In 2015, nineteen Harv…
Memory, activism and the arts in Asia and the Pacific
The emerging interest in the entanglements between memory, activism and social and political change is an exciting new direction in Memory Studies. This special issue aims to extend the repertoire of histories, cultural practices, and epistemologies from which theorizing about the memory-activism nexus is drawn through a focus on Asia and the Pacific, including diasporic communities in Australia. By centring engagements with memory in Asia as wel…
Beyond presentism
We take up the challenge to extend the ‘archive of mnemonic practices’ beyond recent histories of violence by facilitating a dialogue between scholarship on deep history and the fourth wave of memory studies, both emerging under the sign of the Anthropocene. In so doing, we engage with the problem of transmission as it has emerged in both fields. Works in cultural memory studies provide us with compelling ways of thinking through mediated practic…
Reparative transnationalism
Analysis of the “productive frictions” that emerge when cosmopolitan paradigms are implemented in local contexts may nuance accounts of how and when memory travels, and when and why it stalls, thereby contributing to a better understanding of the cross-border travels of memory. I explore the frictions of truth-telling in Sierra Leone as articulated in ethnographic analyses of local engagement with the normative paradigm of public remembering and …
The Affective Work of Stolen Generations Testimony
Stolen Generations testimonies offer insights into the history, effects, and legacies of colonization in Australia-a history that is currently being contested in the public domain. In this essay, I analyze the ways in which these testimonies address audiences, and the ways in which listeners respond, taking my classroom as a particular site of reception. Based on an analysis of some of my students' responses, I suggest that Stolen Generations tes…
The lack of services to the retarded through community mental health program
Mnemonic reciprocity
This article introduces the concept of mnemonic reciprocity to examine the dynamics of exchanges between local memory activists and other community members after a Comfort Women statue was installed in 2016 on the grounds of Sydney’s Ashfield Uniting Church. Contributing to the scholarship on grassroots memory activism and on the global travels of the Comfort Women statue, we take a feminist, decolonial approach that identifies points of connecti…
Echoes and Silences
This special section of Australian Feminist Studies is dedicated to examining the echoes and reverberations of #MeToo beyond its viral epicentre in American celebrity media culture. It focuses on how #MeToo has resonated within institutions, practices and discourses associated with culture, science, and law. It aims to shed light on Australia's unique engagements with #MeToo discourse and charts how discourses of #MeToo have propelled feminist cr…
Humanity's Footprint
Through readings of two "walking memoirs"-W. G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn and Raja Shehadeh's Palestinian Walks -this article considers the implications of the geological concept of the Anthropocene era for the field of life writing studies and its understanding of the human. It considers the ways these and other authors imagine the human, and the costs of the human pursuit of freedom for other species and things, from a planetary perspective
Stolen Generation testimony
In recent Australian Aboriginal history, testimonies have played a significant role in bringing into the public domain knowledge about the practices and effects of the removal of Aboriginal children from their families and communities. Broadly defined
Spectacular evidence discourses of subjectivity in the trial of John Hinckley
Soul music dreaming
In memory studies, concepts of cosmopolitan, transnational and transcultural memory have been identified as a means of studying mnemonic symbols, cultural forms and cultural practices that cross national, ethnic and territorial borders. However, what do these concepts deliver for memory work that originates in an ‘off-centre’ location such as Australia, where outsiders often lack an understanding of the history and cultural codes? A recent Indige…
Subversive Witnessing
Like many other nations, Australia has been engaged in a painful reckoning with a shameful past. In the past fifteen years, questions concerning the removal of Indigenous children from their families, known as the “stolen generations,” the extent of frontier violence, and whether genocide occurred in Australia have been central to the public controversy over how the story of “settlement” or “invasion” should be narrated. Testimony has played a cr…
Wheat Among the Cockle
Perhaps the most deceptive aspect of this new unrest among the European people is the superficial newness of it. Men are not prepared to recognize the age-old undefeated forces of good and evil, God and the devil, in the new complexity of twentieth century life. They will not realize that the new paganism is saying to-day what intellectual fools have said in all the ages, and that the new Christianity is stealing its very essence from the old, th…
The Indian Middle Classes
The lack of services to the retarded through community mental health program
Spectacular evidence discourses of subjectivity in the trial of John Hinckley
Fishing deaths in Alaska vary by fishery
Fishing deaths in Alaska vary by fishery. R Kennedy, M Veazie, G Conway, and H AmandusCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.84.3.496 Published Online: October 07, 2011
The Affective Work of Stolen Generations Testimony
Stolen Generations testimonies offer insights into the history, effects, and legacies of colonization in Australia-a history that is currently being contested in the public domain. In this essay, I analyze the ways in which these testimonies address audiences, and the ways in which listeners respond, taking my classroom as a particular site of reception. Based on an analysis of some of my students' responses, I suggest that Stolen Generations tes…
Advancing science for water resources management
The Media and the Death Penalty
In late 2005, the imminent execution in \nSingapore of a 25-year-old Vietnamese- \nAustralian man, Van Nguyen Tuong, \ndominated the Australian media. He was \narrested at Singapore’s Changi Airport in \nDecember 2002, for carrying 396 grams of \nheroin, while in transit from Cambodia to \nAustralia. Singapore has a mandatory \ndeath sentence for anyone arrested carrying \nover 15 grams of heroin
Books
Taking Assimilation to Heart Marriages of White Women and Indigenous Men in the United States and Australia, 1887–1937. By Katherine Ellinghaus. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. Pp. 276. $US49.95 cloth. The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy and Carnality. By Elizabeth A. Povinelli. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. 285. $41.95 paper. A Higher Authority: Indigenous Transnationalism and Australia. …
Vulnerable Children, Disposable Mothers
In recent years, historians have pioneered comparative research on the Holocaust and colonisation in Australia. This article seeks to demonstrate that a comparative reading of Stolen Generations and Holocaust memoirs can generate unique and challenging insights into the affective, material and psychological legacies of the assimilation of children across racial and ethnic divides. By placing Sarah Kofman's memoir, Rue Ordener, Rue Labat, into dia…
Constructing and Contesting the Human
Subversive Witnessing
Like many other nations, Australia has been engaged in a painful reckoning with a shameful past. In the past fifteen years, questions concerning the removal of Indigenous children from their families, known as the “stolen generations,” the extent of frontier violence, and whether genocide occurred in Australia have been central to the public controversy over how the story of “settlement” or “invasion” should be narrated. Testimony has played a cr…
Preface —Decolonising testimony
Testimony: Crises of witnessing in literature, psychoanalysis and history, in 1992, they claimed that the twentieth century was 'the era of the witness'. 2 They focused specifically on the Holocaust and the 'crises in witnessing' to emerge in its aftermath. In the past 20 years, witnessing has achieved broad international relevance for truth and reconciliation commissions and national inquiries-notably in contexts in which nations are reckoning w…
In an era of stalled reconciliation
Australian film Jindabyne is a powerful national allegory about the denial of historical responsibility and the politics of post-colonial apology across a 'traumatic contact zone' of historical injustice. 1 Released in 2006, Jindabyne was produced during a period of stalled reconciliation in Australia. Like many nations in the past 20 years, Australia has been engaged in a painful and uneven process of coming to terms with historical injustice-a …
Stolen Generation testimony
In recent Australian Aboriginal history, testimonies have played a significant role in bringing into the public domain knowledge about the practices and effects of the removal of Aboriginal children from their families and communities. Broadly defined
Australian Trials of Trauma
A literary criticism of the novel Sorry by Gail Jones, in light of the psychic trauma inflicted by Australia's legal and social policies to remove indigenous children, termed Stolen Generations, from their indigenous families in the 19th and 20th centuries to assimilate them into white Australian culture is presented. In particular, an analysis is presented of the traumatic impact of the 2000 court case Cubillo v. Commonwealth that addressed the …
An Australian Archive of Feelings
The Sorry Books campaign, held in 1998, was a popular reconciliation event that created conditions for the Australian public to apologise to the 'Stolen Generations' when the Howard government refused to offer a parliamentary apology. Feminist and queer approaches, with their complex analyses of emotion in the public sphere and their attention to the formation of counter-public archives of memory, are particularly productive for analysing the Sor…
Humanity's Footprint
Through readings of two "walking memoirs"-W. G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn and Raja Shehadeh's Palestinian Walks -this article considers the implications of the geological concept of the Anthropocene era for the field of life writing studies and its understanding of the human. It considers the ways these and other authors imagine the human, and the costs of the human pursuit of freedom for other species and things, from a planetary perspective
Soul music dreaming
In memory studies, concepts of cosmopolitan, transnational and transcultural memory have been identified as a means of studying mnemonic symbols, cultural forms and cultural practices that cross national, ethnic and territorial borders. However, what do these concepts deliver for memory work that originates in an ‘off-centre’ location such as Australia, where outsiders often lack an understanding of the history and cultural codes? A recent Indige…
Memory up close
This special issue was first conceived of over dinner in a New Zealand cafe in London, on a warm summer night in July 2010. During that evening, it emerged that we’d both already been thinking about the issues we raise here for some time. Rosanne, a US citizen, and now Australian citizen, who has lived and worked in Australia since the 1990s, had co-edited a book on World Memory (Bennett and Kennedy, 2003). Susannah, at that point a UK citizen wo…
Landsat-8
Landsat 8, a NASA and USGS collaboration, acquires global moderate-resolution measurements of the Earth's terrestrial and polar regions in the visible, near-infrared, short wave, and thermal infrared. Landsat 8 extends the remarkable 40 year Landsat record and has enhanced capabilities including new spectral bands in the blue and cirrus cloud-detection portion of the spectrum, two thermal bands, improved sensor signal-to-noise performance and ass…
Moving Testimony
The affects of not reading
This article brings recent debates in literary studies regarding the practice of close reading into conversation with Derek Attridge’s idea of ‘readerly hospitality’ (2004) to diagnose the problem of students in undergraduate literary studies programme not completing set reading. We argue that the method of close reading depends on encouraging students to foster positive affective responses towards difficulty – semiotic, emotional and intellectua…
Affecting Evidence
In December 1922, London was enthralled by a sensational murder trial at the Old Bailey. The 28-year-old woman at the centre of the scandal, Edith Thompson, came to notoriety when her lover, 20-year-old Freddy Bywaters, a merchant seaman, murdered her husband, Percy Thompson, when the couple was returning home from the theatre late one evening. When 62 of her letters were found on his ship, he confessed, but insisted that she had no part in the c…
T&S Magazine Wins STC Award [News and Notes]
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