M Langton
Biographic Data
| ID | 1485 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Langton |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Langton |
| SIGNATURE | LANGTON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1398-7524 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Replanting the Birthing Trees to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents and babies
Background: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experience intergenerational trauma as a legacy of the impacts of colonisation. Replanting the Birthing Trees (RBT) aims to transform compounding cycles of intergenerational trauma and harm to positively reinforcing cycles of intergenerational nurturing and recovery for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents and babies. This paper describes the protocol for developmental evaluation o…
Replanting the Birthing Trees
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing have fostered physical, social, and emotional wellbeing for millenia, forming a foundation of strength and resilience. However, colonisation, systemic violence and discrimination—including the forced removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, which continues today—have disrupted this foundation, leading to compounding cycles of intergenerational and complex tra…
Almost full circle
In appropriating the book, Smith not only denied Unaipon's authorship, he also systematically removed his interpretations and narrative voice from the text.Smith's plagiarism and selective editing speaks volumes for the way Indigenous people
The New Protectionism
This article discusses the problems encountered in accessing archival Indigenous language records, both by Indigenous people looking for information on their own languages and by non-Indigenous researchers supporting language work. It is motivated by Indigenous people not being able to access materials in archives, libraries, and museums that they need for heritage reasons, for personal reasons, or for revitalisation of language or cultural perfo…
Reflections on sustaining Trade and Kinship Traditions between Makassans and Yolŋu
Reflections on Representation, Remembrance and the Memorial
Indigenous Data Governance in Australia
Australia's distinctive colonial administrative history has resulted in the generation and capture of large quantities of personal data about Indigenous Peoples in Australia, which is currently controlled and processed by government agencies and departments without coherent regulation. From an Indigenous standpoint, these data constitute stranded assets. Established legal frameworks for pursuing recovery of other classes of asset alienated by gov…
Ontological Collisions in the Northern Territory's Aboriginal Water Rights Policy
Amid a renewed push to extract water for agriculture and mining, Indigenous advocacy in northern Australia has resulted in the introduction of a new water allocation mechanism: a reserve of water to be retained for the use and benefit of Indigenous communities. Our socio-legal analysis of the Oolloo Water Allocation Plan shows that the Strategic Aboriginal Water Reserves carry essential hallmarks of neoliberal property relations and are founded i…
Supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Families to Stay Together from the Start (SAFeST Start)
Reducing the rate of over‐representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) is a key Closing the Gap target committed to by all Australian governments. Current strategies are failing. The “gap” is widening, with the rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in OOHC at 30 June 2020 being 11 times that of non‐Indigenous children. Approximately, one in five Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander …
A Post-mortem of a Pulped Book
When new books are reviewed, they are normally in circulation and available for purchase. This is not true, however, of Deadly Woman Blues: Black Women & Australian Music by Clinton Walker, which w
Botanists, Aborigines and native plants on the Queensland frontier
By the 1920s, it was well understood by missionaries, scientists and botanists that the spread of grazing and agriculture into the interior posed the final threat to the remaining Aboriginal populations. Botanists were also aware that Aboriginal economies were collapsing with the increasing competition for the plants which formed the staples of Aboriginal diet, and that the cattle herds were in large part responsible for this economic disaster. T…
Koowarta
The Koowarta case was one of several that began in the 1970s when indigenous people took action against racial discrimination and denial of rights to land by the Queensland government. The granting of mining leases over Aboriginal reserves instigated further litigation, including the Peinkinna and Wik cases. To understand the decision by the Queensland cabinet to deprive Koowarta of the land transfer of the pastoral lease purchased by the Aborigi…
A listing of Aboriginal periodicals
This bibliography of journals, new spapers and new sletters issued by Aboriginal and w hite interest groups will prove an invaluable resource to students o f A boriginal history
Anthropology, Politics and the Changing World of Aboriginal Australians
Essentialism has become a fundament of Aboriginal activism in modern Australia, with the result that informed, first-hand empirical observations of anthropologists who chronicle the deterioration of life in many Australian Aboriginal communities tend not to be taken seriously simply because their authors are not ethnically ‘Aboriginal’. This problem has contributed to a relative absence of analysis of the economic history of Aboriginal Australian…
The ‘Spirit’ of the Thing
Aboriginal economic relations have been misconstrued as a type of primitive exchange in at least one native title case discussed in this paper. The pursuit by Aboriginal native title claimants of recognition at law of customary economic rights as inherent in, or an adjunct of, native title rights failed in Yarmirr and Others v. Northern Territory of Australia and Others (1998) 156 ALR 370 (the ‘Croker Island case’) for several reasons. The applic…
Community-Oriented Protected Areas for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
Across the globe, community-oriented protected areas are increasingly recognised as an effective way to support the preservation and maintenance of the traditional biodiversity related knowledge of indigenous peoples and local communities. We argue that guaranteed land security and the ability of indigenous and local peoples to exercise their own governance structures is central to the success of community-oriented protected area programs. In par…
William Ricketts Sanctuary, Victoria (Australia)
William Ricketts Sanctuary presents itself as a peaceful refuge in the forest-clad hills of the Dandenong Ranges, on the outskirts of Melbourne (Australia). Intertwined among the winding paths, 92 major and numerous minor clay sculptures of Aboriginal people and wildlife themes animate a vision of civil life with essential human spirituality, here captured as Aboriginal being. We explore in this article William Ricketts' imaginary Aboriginality -…
Dominion and dishonour
(2001). Dominion and dishonour: A treaty between our nations? Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 13-26
Aboriginal art and film
Le domaine de l'art (visuel, musical, theâtrale, etc.) aborigene connait un developpement culturel florissant. A travers leur production artistique les Aborigenes s'efforcent d'integrer la vision du monde non-aborigene dans leur cosmologie et leur propre vision du monde tout en ayant enormement recours aux technologies japonaises et occidentales : moyens de production video et de transmission, technologies interactives, instruments de musiques el…
Rum, seduction and death
Racism is here examined in relation to its origins in the colonial culture and in the motivations and intents of the colonisers. It is contained in the metaphors and icons, onto which the stereotypical information is projected, which express fear and attempt to tame the native and turn him into a mendicant. Bennelong is shown as the first instance of the British constructing the image of the ‘degenerate native’ the ‘drunken Aborigine’ the ‘urban …
Aboriginal art and film
Le domaine de l'art (visuel, musical, theâtrale, etc.) aborigene connait un developpement culturel florissant. A travers leur production artistique les Aborigenes s'efforcent d'integrer la vision du monde non-aborigene dans leur cosmologie et leur propre vision du monde tout en ayant enormement recours aux technologies japonaises et occidentales : moyens de production video et de transmission, technologies interactives, instruments de musiques el…
Anthropology, Politics and the Changing World of Aboriginal Australians
Essentialism has become a fundament of Aboriginal activism in modern Australia, with the result that informed, first-hand empirical observations of anthropologists who chronicle the deterioration of life in many Australian Aboriginal communities tend not to be taken seriously simply because their authors are not ethnically ‘Aboriginal’. This problem has contributed to a relative absence of analysis of the economic history of Aboriginal Australian…
Community-Oriented Protected Areas for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
Across the globe, community-oriented protected areas are increasingly recognised as an effective way to support the preservation and maintenance of the traditional biodiversity related knowledge of indigenous peoples and local communities. We argue that guaranteed land security and the ability of indigenous and local peoples to exercise their own governance structures is central to the success of community-oriented protected area programs. In par…
Dominion and dishonour
(2001). Dominion and dishonour: A treaty between our nations? Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 13-26
Supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Families to Stay Together from the Start (SAFeST Start)
Reducing the rate of over‐representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) is a key Closing the Gap target committed to by all Australian governments. Current strategies are failing. The “gap” is widening, with the rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in OOHC at 30 June 2020 being 11 times that of non‐Indigenous children. Approximately, one in five Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander …
Indigenous Data Governance in Australia
Australia's distinctive colonial administrative history has resulted in the generation and capture of large quantities of personal data about Indigenous Peoples in Australia, which is currently controlled and processed by government agencies and departments without coherent regulation. From an Indigenous standpoint, these data constitute stranded assets. Established legal frameworks for pursuing recovery of other classes of asset alienated by gov…
Replanting the Birthing Trees
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing have fostered physical, social, and emotional wellbeing for millenia, forming a foundation of strength and resilience. However, colonisation, systemic violence and discrimination—including the forced removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, which continues today—have disrupted this foundation, leading to compounding cycles of intergenerational and complex tra…
Ontological Collisions in the Northern Territory's Aboriginal Water Rights Policy
Amid a renewed push to extract water for agriculture and mining, Indigenous advocacy in northern Australia has resulted in the introduction of a new water allocation mechanism: a reserve of water to be retained for the use and benefit of Indigenous communities. Our socio-legal analysis of the Oolloo Water Allocation Plan shows that the Strategic Aboriginal Water Reserves carry essential hallmarks of neoliberal property relations and are founded i…
A listing of Aboriginal periodicals
This bibliography of journals, new spapers and new sletters issued by Aboriginal and w hite interest groups will prove an invaluable resource to students o f A boriginal history
William Ricketts Sanctuary, Victoria (Australia)
William Ricketts Sanctuary presents itself as a peaceful refuge in the forest-clad hills of the Dandenong Ranges, on the outskirts of Melbourne (Australia). Intertwined among the winding paths, 92 major and numerous minor clay sculptures of Aboriginal people and wildlife themes animate a vision of civil life with essential human spirituality, here captured as Aboriginal being. We explore in this article William Ricketts' imaginary Aboriginality -…
Rum, seduction and death
Racism is here examined in relation to its origins in the colonial culture and in the motivations and intents of the colonisers. It is contained in the metaphors and icons, onto which the stereotypical information is projected, which express fear and attempt to tame the native and turn him into a mendicant. Bennelong is shown as the first instance of the British constructing the image of the ‘degenerate native’ the ‘drunken Aborigine’ the ‘urban …
Aboriginal art and film
Le domaine de l'art (visuel, musical, theâtrale, etc.) aborigene connait un developpement culturel florissant. A travers leur production artistique les Aborigenes s'efforcent d'integrer la vision du monde non-aborigene dans leur cosmologie et leur propre vision du monde tout en ayant enormement recours aux technologies japonaises et occidentales : moyens de production video et de transmission, technologies interactives, instruments de musiques el…
Dominion and dishonour
(2001). Dominion and dishonour: A treaty between our nations? Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 13-26
William Ricketts Sanctuary, Victoria (Australia)
William Ricketts Sanctuary presents itself as a peaceful refuge in the forest-clad hills of the Dandenong Ranges, on the outskirts of Melbourne (Australia). Intertwined among the winding paths, 92 major and numerous minor clay sculptures of Aboriginal people and wildlife themes animate a vision of civil life with essential human spirituality, here captured as Aboriginal being. We explore in this article William Ricketts' imaginary Aboriginality -…
Community-Oriented Protected Areas for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
Across the globe, community-oriented protected areas are increasingly recognised as an effective way to support the preservation and maintenance of the traditional biodiversity related knowledge of indigenous peoples and local communities. We argue that guaranteed land security and the ability of indigenous and local peoples to exercise their own governance structures is central to the success of community-oriented protected area programs. In par…
The ‘Spirit’ of the Thing
Aboriginal economic relations have been misconstrued as a type of primitive exchange in at least one native title case discussed in this paper. The pursuit by Aboriginal native title claimants of recognition at law of customary economic rights as inherent in, or an adjunct of, native title rights failed in Yarmirr and Others v. Northern Territory of Australia and Others (1998) 156 ALR 370 (the ‘Croker Island case’) for several reasons. The applic…
A listing of Aboriginal periodicals
This bibliography of journals, new spapers and new sletters issued by Aboriginal and w hite interest groups will prove an invaluable resource to students o f A boriginal history
Anthropology, Politics and the Changing World of Aboriginal Australians
Essentialism has become a fundament of Aboriginal activism in modern Australia, with the result that informed, first-hand empirical observations of anthropologists who chronicle the deterioration of life in many Australian Aboriginal communities tend not to be taken seriously simply because their authors are not ethnically ‘Aboriginal’. This problem has contributed to a relative absence of analysis of the economic history of Aboriginal Australian…
Koowarta
The Koowarta case was one of several that began in the 1970s when indigenous people took action against racial discrimination and denial of rights to land by the Queensland government. The granting of mining leases over Aboriginal reserves instigated further litigation, including the Peinkinna and Wik cases. To understand the decision by the Queensland cabinet to deprive Koowarta of the land transfer of the pastoral lease purchased by the Aborigi…
Botanists, Aborigines and native plants on the Queensland frontier
By the 1920s, it was well understood by missionaries, scientists and botanists that the spread of grazing and agriculture into the interior posed the final threat to the remaining Aboriginal populations. Botanists were also aware that Aboriginal economies were collapsing with the increasing competition for the plants which formed the staples of Aboriginal diet, and that the cattle herds were in large part responsible for this economic disaster. T…
A Post-mortem of a Pulped Book
When new books are reviewed, they are normally in circulation and available for purchase. This is not true, however, of Deadly Woman Blues: Black Women & Australian Music by Clinton Walker, which w
Supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Families to Stay Together from the Start (SAFeST Start)
Reducing the rate of over‐representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) is a key Closing the Gap target committed to by all Australian governments. Current strategies are failing. The “gap” is widening, with the rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in OOHC at 30 June 2020 being 11 times that of non‐Indigenous children. Approximately, one in five Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander …
Reflections on sustaining Trade and Kinship Traditions between Makassans and Yolŋu
Reflections on Representation, Remembrance and the Memorial
Indigenous Data Governance in Australia
Australia's distinctive colonial administrative history has resulted in the generation and capture of large quantities of personal data about Indigenous Peoples in Australia, which is currently controlled and processed by government agencies and departments without coherent regulation. From an Indigenous standpoint, these data constitute stranded assets. Established legal frameworks for pursuing recovery of other classes of asset alienated by gov…
Ontological Collisions in the Northern Territory's Aboriginal Water Rights Policy
Amid a renewed push to extract water for agriculture and mining, Indigenous advocacy in northern Australia has resulted in the introduction of a new water allocation mechanism: a reserve of water to be retained for the use and benefit of Indigenous communities. Our socio-legal analysis of the Oolloo Water Allocation Plan shows that the Strategic Aboriginal Water Reserves carry essential hallmarks of neoliberal property relations and are founded i…
The New Protectionism
This article discusses the problems encountered in accessing archival Indigenous language records, both by Indigenous people looking for information on their own languages and by non-Indigenous researchers supporting language work. It is motivated by Indigenous people not being able to access materials in archives, libraries, and museums that they need for heritage reasons, for personal reasons, or for revitalisation of language or cultural perfo…
Replanting the Birthing Trees
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing have fostered physical, social, and emotional wellbeing for millenia, forming a foundation of strength and resilience. However, colonisation, systemic violence and discrimination—including the forced removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, which continues today—have disrupted this foundation, leading to compounding cycles of intergenerational and complex tra…
Almost full circle
In appropriating the book, Smith not only denied Unaipon's authorship, he also systematically removed his interpretations and narrative voice from the text.Smith's plagiarism and selective editing speaks volumes for the way Indigenous people
Replanting the Birthing Trees to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents and babies
Background: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experience intergenerational trauma as a legacy of the impacts of colonisation. Replanting the Birthing Trees (RBT) aims to transform compounding cycles of intergenerational trauma and harm to positively reinforcing cycles of intergenerational nurturing and recovery for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents and babies. This paper describes the protocol for developmental evaluation o…
Political science (13 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Indigenous (8 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (8 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Business (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · History (5 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works)