Colin Perrin
Biographic Data
| ID | 145074 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colin Perrin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colin |
| FAMILY NAME | Perrin |
| SIGNATURE | PERRIN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Sydney University |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-0190-0821 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Interaction between Lockdown-Specific Conditions and Family-Specific Variables Explains the Presence of Child Insomnia during Covid-19: A Key Response to the Current Debate
It is still debated whether lockdown conditions in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) health crisis seriously affected children's sleep. For young children, some studies identified more insomnia, while others only transient disturbances, or even no effect. Based on the premise of mother-child synchrony, a well-known dynamic established in child development research, we hypothesized that principally, the children whose mothers per…
“Removed from Nature”
In the context of current concerns within the environmental humanities to challenge the idea that humans are somehow irreducible to nature, this article takes up the much-neglected history of the idea of human exceptionality itself. According to now familiar accounts, metaphysical assumptions about the unique status of the human are considered to have persisted—including to the present day—despite evolutionary contentions that the human should be…
A life in waiting: Refugees' mental health and narratives of social suffering after European Union border closures in March 2016
Refugees in Greece experience psychosocial distress and social suffering as a consequence of their uncertain and disrupted lives and the loss of social networks. Faster and transparent asylum procedures, the development of meaningful and empowering activities, and fostered social interactions with the surrounding society would contribute to alleviating their psychosocial suffering
Reframing craniometry: Human Exceptionalism and the Production of Racial Knowledge
Focusing on the nineteenth century practice of craniometry, this paper considers how strategies of producing racial ‘knowledge’ played a key role in the development of ideas about the human. Supplementing the familiar claim that nineteenth century racial craniometry was designed to biologise longstanding aesthetic prejudices about variations in human physical appearance, the paper offers a more specific understanding of the role of this practice …
Thinkingwiththe Head: Race, craniometry, humanism
This paper draws upon assemblage theory to challenge the familiar argument that nineteenth century craniometry -- the practice of head measuring -- was simply a racist practice. Approaching this practice as constitutive rather than derivative of racial discourse, we consider how race might be rethought if the head were regarded, not as just another focus for the racialization of the body, but as integral to the elaboration of a ‘biological’ conce…
How race became everything: Australia and polygenism
This paper seeks to explain the shift that took place in the mid-nineteenth century elaboration of a polygenist idea of race. Supplementing existing claims that increasing evidence about the diversity of humankind provided a context for this shift, the focus here is upon British colonial encounters in Australia. It is against the background of what was considered to be a distinctly human separation from, and capacity to rise above, nature that, w…
‘The Miserablest People in the World’: Race, Humanism and the Australian Aborigine
This paper considers how an idea of the Australian Aborigine impacted upon the development of racial thinking throughout the nineteenth century. We distinguish three phases of this development. Against the background of what was considered to be a distinctly human capacity to rise above nature, our central argument however is that the extreme and irremediable savagery attributed to the Aborigine led to the mid‐nineteenth shift to a polygenist, or…
Breath from Nowhere: The Silent ‘Foundation’ of Human Rights
Breath from Nowhere: The Silent ‘Foundation’ of Human Rights
One is ‘with’ another who is dying. What can one do? What can one say? This article considers the claim that in this insurmountable difference, this insurpassable distance, one cannot be just; one could never say the right thing. In a contribution to ongoing debate about the foundation of human rights, what follows draws upon the work of Jacques Derrida and Maurice Blanchot to argue that an obligation to respond, rather than a reason not to respo…
Deposing Sovereignty after Mabo
The promise of reconciliation
Bringing them home, The Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families concludes that "The Australian practice of Indigenous child removal involved both systematic racial discrimination and genocide as defined by international law" (266). This conclusion raises a number of questions that the Report takes up and contextualises with reference to a developing jurisprudence foc…
Approaching anxiety: The insistence of the postcolonial in the declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples
Beyond Savagery: The Limits of Australian 'Aboriginalism
Ideas and representations of the supposedly savage condition of the New World's indigenous peoples have informed a now familiar account of colonialism. These have been understood as the 'constructions' of a discourse concerned to justify its colonisation of indigenous lands, and to legitimate its dispossession of indigenous peoples. There is no doubt that racial stereotypes were invoked to support colonialism. But their instrumentalisation-as sel…
A life in waiting: Refugees' mental health and narratives of social suffering after European Union border closures in March 2016
Refugees in Greece experience psychosocial distress and social suffering as a consequence of their uncertain and disrupted lives and the loss of social networks. Faster and transparent asylum procedures, the development of meaningful and empowering activities, and fostered social interactions with the surrounding society would contribute to alleviating their psychosocial suffering
Approaching anxiety: The insistence of the postcolonial in the declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples
Thinkingwiththe Head: Race, craniometry, humanism
This paper draws upon assemblage theory to challenge the familiar argument that nineteenth century craniometry -- the practice of head measuring -- was simply a racist practice. Approaching this practice as constitutive rather than derivative of racial discourse, we consider how race might be rethought if the head were regarded, not as just another focus for the racialization of the body, but as integral to the elaboration of a ‘biological’ conce…
How race became everything: Australia and polygenism
This paper seeks to explain the shift that took place in the mid-nineteenth century elaboration of a polygenist idea of race. Supplementing existing claims that increasing evidence about the diversity of humankind provided a context for this shift, the focus here is upon British colonial encounters in Australia. It is against the background of what was considered to be a distinctly human separation from, and capacity to rise above, nature that, w…
Reframing craniometry: Human Exceptionalism and the Production of Racial Knowledge
Focusing on the nineteenth century practice of craniometry, this paper considers how strategies of producing racial ‘knowledge’ played a key role in the development of ideas about the human. Supplementing the familiar claim that nineteenth century racial craniometry was designed to biologise longstanding aesthetic prejudices about variations in human physical appearance, the paper offers a more specific understanding of the role of this practice …
Breath from Nowhere: The Silent ‘Foundation’ of Human Rights
One is ‘with’ another who is dying. What can one do? What can one say? This article considers the claim that in this insurmountable difference, this insurpassable distance, one cannot be just; one could never say the right thing. In a contribution to ongoing debate about the foundation of human rights, what follows draws upon the work of Jacques Derrida and Maurice Blanchot to argue that an obligation to respond, rather than a reason not to respo…
Deposing Sovereignty after Mabo
Beyond Savagery: The Limits of Australian 'Aboriginalism
Ideas and representations of the supposedly savage condition of the New World's indigenous peoples have informed a now familiar account of colonialism. These have been understood as the 'constructions' of a discourse concerned to justify its colonisation of indigenous lands, and to legitimate its dispossession of indigenous peoples. There is no doubt that racial stereotypes were invoked to support colonialism. But their instrumentalisation-as sel…
Approaching anxiety: The insistence of the postcolonial in the declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples
The promise of reconciliation
Bringing them home, The Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families concludes that "The Australian practice of Indigenous child removal involved both systematic racial discrimination and genocide as defined by international law" (266). This conclusion raises a number of questions that the Report takes up and contextualises with reference to a developing jurisprudence foc…
Deposing Sovereignty after Mabo
Breath from Nowhere: The Silent ‘Foundation’ of Human Rights
Breath from Nowhere: The Silent ‘Foundation’ of Human Rights
One is ‘with’ another who is dying. What can one do? What can one say? This article considers the claim that in this insurmountable difference, this insurpassable distance, one cannot be just; one could never say the right thing. In a contribution to ongoing debate about the foundation of human rights, what follows draws upon the work of Jacques Derrida and Maurice Blanchot to argue that an obligation to respond, rather than a reason not to respo…
‘The Miserablest People in the World’: Race, Humanism and the Australian Aborigine
This paper considers how an idea of the Australian Aborigine impacted upon the development of racial thinking throughout the nineteenth century. We distinguish three phases of this development. Against the background of what was considered to be a distinctly human capacity to rise above nature, our central argument however is that the extreme and irremediable savagery attributed to the Aborigine led to the mid‐nineteenth shift to a polygenist, or…
How race became everything: Australia and polygenism
This paper seeks to explain the shift that took place in the mid-nineteenth century elaboration of a polygenist idea of race. Supplementing existing claims that increasing evidence about the diversity of humankind provided a context for this shift, the focus here is upon British colonial encounters in Australia. It is against the background of what was considered to be a distinctly human separation from, and capacity to rise above, nature that, w…
Thinkingwiththe Head: Race, craniometry, humanism
This paper draws upon assemblage theory to challenge the familiar argument that nineteenth century craniometry -- the practice of head measuring -- was simply a racist practice. Approaching this practice as constitutive rather than derivative of racial discourse, we consider how race might be rethought if the head were regarded, not as just another focus for the racialization of the body, but as integral to the elaboration of a ‘biological’ conce…
Reframing craniometry: Human Exceptionalism and the Production of Racial Knowledge
Focusing on the nineteenth century practice of craniometry, this paper considers how strategies of producing racial ‘knowledge’ played a key role in the development of ideas about the human. Supplementing the familiar claim that nineteenth century racial craniometry was designed to biologise longstanding aesthetic prejudices about variations in human physical appearance, the paper offers a more specific understanding of the role of this practice …
“Removed from Nature”
In the context of current concerns within the environmental humanities to challenge the idea that humans are somehow irreducible to nature, this article takes up the much-neglected history of the idea of human exceptionality itself. According to now familiar accounts, metaphysical assumptions about the unique status of the human are considered to have persisted—including to the present day—despite evolutionary contentions that the human should be…
A life in waiting: Refugees' mental health and narratives of social suffering after European Union border closures in March 2016
Refugees in Greece experience psychosocial distress and social suffering as a consequence of their uncertain and disrupted lives and the loss of social networks. Faster and transparent asylum procedures, the development of meaningful and empowering activities, and fostered social interactions with the surrounding society would contribute to alleviating their psychosocial suffering
The Interaction between Lockdown-Specific Conditions and Family-Specific Variables Explains the Presence of Child Insomnia during Covid-19: A Key Response to the Current Debate
It is still debated whether lockdown conditions in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) health crisis seriously affected children's sleep. For young children, some studies identified more insomnia, while others only transient disturbances, or even no effect. Based on the premise of mother-child synchrony, a well-known dynamic established in child development research, we hypothesized that principally, the children whose mothers per…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works)