Steve Hemming
Biographic Data
| ID | 132884 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steve Hemming |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steve |
| FAMILY NAME | Hemming |
| SIGNATURE | HEMMING S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Flinders University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3284-1264 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 109 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Indigenous nation building and native title: Strategic uses of a fraught settler-colonial regime
Despite the ongoing and destructive nature of invasion and settler-colonial institutions, laws and policies in Australia, many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nations continue to assert their sovereignty; exercise their inherent rights to self-determination as self-defined, autonomous peoples; and pursue collective aspirations in highly constrained and contested environments. Many nations are engaged in Indigenous nation (re)building (INB).…
The 'dead' as agents of truth-telling: Lessons from Timor-Leste and the Indigenous repatriation movement
Truth-telling, as it is understood within the liberal discourse and practice of transitional justice, centres around the idea of an individual human subject telling a narrative of harms that occurred in a past that is assumed now to be 'past'. The 'dead' are important insofar as they provide 'evidence' of the suffering experienced by the living: the objects rather than subjects of truth-telling. This article draws on the cases of Timor-Leste and …
The Long Way Home: The Meaning and Values of Repatriation
Indigenous peoples have long sought the return of ancestral human remains and associated artifacts from western museums and scientific institutions. Since the late 1970s their efforts have led museum curators and researchers to re-evaluate their practices and policies in respect to the scientific uses of human remains. New partnerships have been established between cultural and scientific institutions and indigenous communities. Human remains and…
Indigenous Governance
Chapters 9.1 (by Tim Rowse and Jennifer Green) and 9.2 (by Daryle Rigney, Denis Rose, Alison Vivian, Miriam Jorgensen, Steve Hemming and Shaun Berg) present case studies of past and present of Indigenous governance. In 9.1 Rowse and Green show that Arrernte jurisdiction has persisted in certain ways in Alice Springs/Mparntwe since the 1870s, notwithstanding the colonists’ expectation – at least until the reforms of ‘welfare colonialism’ in the 19…
Contested Holdings: Museum Collections in Political, Epistemic and Artistic Processes of Return
Chapter 6. Ancestors or Artefacts: Contention in the Definition, Retention and Return of Ngarrindjeri Old People
Ngarrindjeri Nation Building: Securing a Future as Ngarrindjeri Ruwe/Ruwar (Lands, Waters, and All Living Things)
Pursuing Social Justice Through Collaborative Archaeologies in Aboriginal Australia
Indigenous sovereignties: Relational Ontologies and Environmental Management
Indigenous nations have always and continue to assert their sovereignties to resist colonialism. This paper makes explicit the ways in which environmental management has been and continues to act as a tool of colonialism, particularly by privileging Western science, institutions, and administrative procedures. We argue that to decolonise environmental management, it is crucial to understand and challenge the power relations that underlie it-askin…
Natural History of the Coorong, Lower Lakes, and Murray Mouth region (Yarluwar-Ruwe). Royal Society of South Australia
A new direction for water management? Indigenous nation building as a strategy for river health
Hemming, S., D. Rigney, S. L. Muller, G. Rigney, and I. Campbell. 2017. A new direction for water management? Indigenous nation building as a strategy for river health. Ecology and Society 22(2):13. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-08982-220213
Three Ecosophies for the Anthropocene: Environmental Governance, Continental Posthumanism and Indigenous Expressivism
To facilitate engagement across diverse philosophical cultures, this paper expands points of alliance between the ‘ecosophical’ perspectives shared by Deleuzo-Guattarian posthumanism and by Indigenous thought, here exemplified by the expressivist philosophy of Ngarrindjeri Yannarumi or ‘Speaking as Country’. Indigenous philosophies of existential interconnectivity resist simple incorporation into the Western ‘post’-humanism that they in fact prec…
Negotiating Indigenous Modernity: Kungun Ngarrindjeri Yunnan-Listen to Ngarrindjeri speak
The objective of this article is to compare Indigenous and Western modernities by examining how contemporary Indigenous polities are finding inventive ways to assert their sovereignty. Our discussion presents an innovation in Indigenous governance introduced recently by the Ngarrindjeri people in Southern Australia. We explain the conditions in which Ngarrindjeri initiated their process of political reformation; we link our analysis to critiques …
Radiocarbon dates for coastal midden sites at Long Point in the Coorong, South Australia
This paper presents 29 radiocarbon dates from eight surface concentrations of shell and 10 test-pits across four shell middens at Long Point in the Coorong, South Australia. Results indicate that occupation of these sites was confined to the late Holocene period, post-2500 cal. BP. With the exception of one midden, which appears not to have been used after 500–300 cal. BP, all other sites suggest continued use until the recent past. This pattern …
Is ‘Closing the Gap’ Enough? Ngarrindjeri ontologies, reconciliation and caring for country
This article is concerned with Ngarrindjeri nation building in the ‘contact zone’ with the Australian settler state by decentring the colonizer within a range of bureaucratic regimes. Ngarrindjeri engagement with natural resource and cultural heritage management will be used to illustrate the relationship between globalization, community governance, education, sustaining ‘culture’, Indigenous well-being, and reconciliation and its links to the Au…
Decentring the new protectors: Transforming Aboriginal heritage in South Australia
Disciplines such as archaeology, anthropology and history exercise a seemingly disproportionate influence on race relations in settler democracies. In South Australia, this influence has complex and unbroken genealogies linked to the beginnings of British settlement and the Protectors of Aborigines. This colonising character survives, and we argue that researchers working in Aboriginal heritage can be positioned as the new Protectors of Aborigine…
Whose Bureaucracy? Impediments to Indigenous Self-determination in Cultural Resource Management, and Some Antidotes
Ngarrindjeri Cultural Heritage Management, Colonial Misuse of Water, Climate Change, and Planning for a Future
Unsettling sustainability: Ngarrindjeri political literacies, strategies of engagement and transformation
Not the slightest shred of evidence’: A reply to Philip Clarke's ‘response to “secret women's business“’
Inventing ethnography
Indigenous sovereignties: Relational Ontologies and Environmental Management
Indigenous nations have always and continue to assert their sovereignties to resist colonialism. This paper makes explicit the ways in which environmental management has been and continues to act as a tool of colonialism, particularly by privileging Western science, institutions, and administrative procedures. We argue that to decolonise environmental management, it is crucial to understand and challenge the power relations that underlie it-askin…
Pursuing Social Justice Through Collaborative Archaeologies in Aboriginal Australia
Unsettling sustainability: Ngarrindjeri political literacies, strategies of engagement and transformation
Decentring the new protectors: Transforming Aboriginal heritage in South Australia
Disciplines such as archaeology, anthropology and history exercise a seemingly disproportionate influence on race relations in settler democracies. In South Australia, this influence has complex and unbroken genealogies linked to the beginnings of British settlement and the Protectors of Aborigines. This colonising character survives, and we argue that researchers working in Aboriginal heritage can be positioned as the new Protectors of Aborigine…
Is ‘Closing the Gap’ Enough? Ngarrindjeri ontologies, reconciliation and caring for country
This article is concerned with Ngarrindjeri nation building in the ‘contact zone’ with the Australian settler state by decentring the colonizer within a range of bureaucratic regimes. Ngarrindjeri engagement with natural resource and cultural heritage management will be used to illustrate the relationship between globalization, community governance, education, sustaining ‘culture’, Indigenous well-being, and reconciliation and its links to the Au…
Negotiating Indigenous Modernity: Kungun Ngarrindjeri Yunnan-Listen to Ngarrindjeri speak
The objective of this article is to compare Indigenous and Western modernities by examining how contemporary Indigenous polities are finding inventive ways to assert their sovereignty. Our discussion presents an innovation in Indigenous governance introduced recently by the Ngarrindjeri people in Southern Australia. We explain the conditions in which Ngarrindjeri initiated their process of political reformation; we link our analysis to critiques …
A new direction for water management? Indigenous nation building as a strategy for river health
Hemming, S., D. Rigney, S. L. Muller, G. Rigney, and I. Campbell. 2017. A new direction for water management? Indigenous nation building as a strategy for river health. Ecology and Society 22(2):13. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-08982-220213
The 'dead' as agents of truth-telling: Lessons from Timor-Leste and the Indigenous repatriation movement
Truth-telling, as it is understood within the liberal discourse and practice of transitional justice, centres around the idea of an individual human subject telling a narrative of harms that occurred in a past that is assumed now to be 'past'. The 'dead' are important insofar as they provide 'evidence' of the suffering experienced by the living: the objects rather than subjects of truth-telling. This article draws on the cases of Timor-Leste and …
Inventing ethnography
Inventing ethnography
Not the slightest shred of evidence’: A reply to Philip Clarke's ‘response to “secret women's business“’
Unsettling sustainability: Ngarrindjeri political literacies, strategies of engagement and transformation
Whose Bureaucracy? Impediments to Indigenous Self-determination in Cultural Resource Management, and Some Antidotes
Ngarrindjeri Cultural Heritage Management, Colonial Misuse of Water, Climate Change, and Planning for a Future
Decentring the new protectors: Transforming Aboriginal heritage in South Australia
Disciplines such as archaeology, anthropology and history exercise a seemingly disproportionate influence on race relations in settler democracies. In South Australia, this influence has complex and unbroken genealogies linked to the beginnings of British settlement and the Protectors of Aborigines. This colonising character survives, and we argue that researchers working in Aboriginal heritage can be positioned as the new Protectors of Aborigine…
Radiocarbon dates for coastal midden sites at Long Point in the Coorong, South Australia
This paper presents 29 radiocarbon dates from eight surface concentrations of shell and 10 test-pits across four shell middens at Long Point in the Coorong, South Australia. Results indicate that occupation of these sites was confined to the late Holocene period, post-2500 cal. BP. With the exception of one midden, which appears not to have been used after 500–300 cal. BP, all other sites suggest continued use until the recent past. This pattern …
Is ‘Closing the Gap’ Enough? Ngarrindjeri ontologies, reconciliation and caring for country
This article is concerned with Ngarrindjeri nation building in the ‘contact zone’ with the Australian settler state by decentring the colonizer within a range of bureaucratic regimes. Ngarrindjeri engagement with natural resource and cultural heritage management will be used to illustrate the relationship between globalization, community governance, education, sustaining ‘culture’, Indigenous well-being, and reconciliation and its links to the Au…
Negotiating Indigenous Modernity: Kungun Ngarrindjeri Yunnan-Listen to Ngarrindjeri speak
The objective of this article is to compare Indigenous and Western modernities by examining how contemporary Indigenous polities are finding inventive ways to assert their sovereignty. Our discussion presents an innovation in Indigenous governance introduced recently by the Ngarrindjeri people in Southern Australia. We explain the conditions in which Ngarrindjeri initiated their process of political reformation; we link our analysis to critiques …
Three Ecosophies for the Anthropocene: Environmental Governance, Continental Posthumanism and Indigenous Expressivism
To facilitate engagement across diverse philosophical cultures, this paper expands points of alliance between the ‘ecosophical’ perspectives shared by Deleuzo-Guattarian posthumanism and by Indigenous thought, here exemplified by the expressivist philosophy of Ngarrindjeri Yannarumi or ‘Speaking as Country’. Indigenous philosophies of existential interconnectivity resist simple incorporation into the Western ‘post’-humanism that they in fact prec…
A new direction for water management? Indigenous nation building as a strategy for river health
Hemming, S., D. Rigney, S. L. Muller, G. Rigney, and I. Campbell. 2017. A new direction for water management? Indigenous nation building as a strategy for river health. Ecology and Society 22(2):13. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-08982-220213
Natural History of the Coorong, Lower Lakes, and Murray Mouth region (Yarluwar-Ruwe). Royal Society of South Australia
Ngarrindjeri Nation Building: Securing a Future as Ngarrindjeri Ruwe/Ruwar (Lands, Waters, and All Living Things)
Pursuing Social Justice Through Collaborative Archaeologies in Aboriginal Australia
Indigenous sovereignties: Relational Ontologies and Environmental Management
Indigenous nations have always and continue to assert their sovereignties to resist colonialism. This paper makes explicit the ways in which environmental management has been and continues to act as a tool of colonialism, particularly by privileging Western science, institutions, and administrative procedures. We argue that to decolonise environmental management, it is crucial to understand and challenge the power relations that underlie it-askin…
The Long Way Home: The Meaning and Values of Repatriation
Indigenous peoples have long sought the return of ancestral human remains and associated artifacts from western museums and scientific institutions. Since the late 1970s their efforts have led museum curators and researchers to re-evaluate their practices and policies in respect to the scientific uses of human remains. New partnerships have been established between cultural and scientific institutions and indigenous communities. Human remains and…
Indigenous Governance
Chapters 9.1 (by Tim Rowse and Jennifer Green) and 9.2 (by Daryle Rigney, Denis Rose, Alison Vivian, Miriam Jorgensen, Steve Hemming and Shaun Berg) present case studies of past and present of Indigenous governance. In 9.1 Rowse and Green show that Arrernte jurisdiction has persisted in certain ways in Alice Springs/Mparntwe since the 1870s, notwithstanding the colonists’ expectation – at least until the reforms of ‘welfare colonialism’ in the 19…
Contested Holdings: Museum Collections in Political, Epistemic and Artistic Processes of Return
Chapter 6. Ancestors or Artefacts: Contention in the Definition, Retention and Return of Ngarrindjeri Old People
Indigenous nation building and native title: Strategic uses of a fraught settler-colonial regime
Despite the ongoing and destructive nature of invasion and settler-colonial institutions, laws and policies in Australia, many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nations continue to assert their sovereignty; exercise their inherent rights to self-determination as self-defined, autonomous peoples; and pursue collective aspirations in highly constrained and contested environments. Many nations are engaged in Indigenous nation (re)building (INB).…
The 'dead' as agents of truth-telling: Lessons from Timor-Leste and the Indigenous repatriation movement
Truth-telling, as it is understood within the liberal discourse and practice of transitional justice, centres around the idea of an individual human subject telling a narrative of harms that occurred in a past that is assumed now to be 'past'. The 'dead' are important insofar as they provide 'evidence' of the suffering experienced by the living: the objects rather than subjects of truth-telling. This article draws on the cases of Timor-Leste and …
Political science (13 works) · Indigenous (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Politics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (6 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Environmental ethics (6 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (6 works)