Odette Mazel
Biographic Data
| ID | 150435 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Odette Mazel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Odette |
| FAMILY NAME | Mazel |
| SIGNATURE | MAZEL O |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9835-4752 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Enabling higher degree pathways for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students
Increasing the numbers of Indigenous people enrolled in research higher degrees in Australia is important for building the Indigenous academic workforce, broadening the scope of knowledge production in academic institutions and ensuring effective research outcomes for Indigenous Australians. While the numbers of Indigenous research higher degree students are increasing, universities still have a lot to do to bring that number up to parity. In thi…
Shifting the terrain, enriching the academy: Indigenous PhD scholars’ experiences of and impact on higher education
In Australia, much like other colonized locations such as Canada, New Zealand, and the USA, the colonial legacies embedded within higher education institutions, including the history of exclusion and the privileging of Western epistemologies, continue to make universities challenging places for Indigenous PhD scholars. Despite this, and while the numbers of Indigenous PhD scholars remain well below population parity, they are carving a space with…
The Texture of 'Lives Lived with Law: Methods for Queering International Law
Queer theory’s obligations to critique and problematise the mechanisms of power and discourse, especially law, remain important for revealing, unsettling and destabilising established sexual and gender norms. However, as Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick argues, the emphasis on paranoid or critical practices in queer theorising must be counterbalanced by recognising the queer methods of repair evident in the way LGBTQIA+ people engage with systems of oppress…
Queer Jurisprudence: Reparative Practice in International Law
Queer theory's commitments are radical and disruptive. They have operated to interrogate the definition and reinforcement of sexuality and gender categories, and to expose and problematize normalized relations of power and privilege in the institutional structures and systems in which we live and operate. Queer's deconstructive and anti-normative (or non-conformist) tendencies, however, can be antithetical to international LGBTQIA+ law reform pro…
Violence in the Name of Equality: The Postal Survey on Same-Sex Marriage, LGBTQIA+ Activism and Legal Redemption
Violence has underpinned many of the laws relating to LGBTQIA+ people in Australia since colonisation, demarcating them as deviant and criminal and denying them access to the same rights as others. Since the 1970s, legal reforms have, as Robert Cover might describe it, demonstrated the redemptive quality of law in its response to LGBTQIA+ peoples’ commitment and activism over time.11 Robert M Cover, ‘Foreword: Nomos and Narrative’ (1983) 97(1) Ha…
Indigenous Health and Human Rights: A Reflection on Law and Culture
In Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples bear a greater burden of disease and have lower life expectancy than their non-Indigenous counterparts. These combined indicators are evidence of an entrenched health crisis in the Indigenous population that is linked to systemic disadvantage over many decades. In an effort to improve life expectancy and lessen the burden of disease, a number of strategies and national frameworks now emb…
The politics of difference: Posting my ‘vote’ on marriage equality
This article provides an insight into the author’s lived experience of the postal survey on same-sex marriage and the passing of the Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Act 2017 (Cth). It is a reflection on the emotional and intellectual tensions the journey provoked – for a member of the queer community, a mother, daughter, feminist and scholar
Self-Determination and the Right to Health: Australian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services
The Aboriginal Community Controlled Health sector in Australia has been described as a best practice example of the implementation of the right to self-determination as enshrined in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. By prioritizing the expression of Indigenous cultural values within a predominantly western health sector, Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services shift the dynamics of power to centre Aborigi…
Development in the ‘First World’: Alleviating Indigenous Disadvantage in Australia — the Dilemma of Difference
The levels of Indigenous disadvantage in Australia are startling compared with those of the rest of the nation. Despite various government initiatives and legal reforms, systemic poverty remains prevalent in Aboriginal communities. In the Northern Territory, this has culminated in the Emergency Intervention initiated by the Howard government in 2007. In this paper, I explore the way in which the dynamic of difference, or the understanding of diff…
The ‘Spirit’ of the Thing: The Boundaries of Aboriginal Economic Relations at Australian Common Law
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…
Self-Determination and the Right to Health: Australian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services
The Aboriginal Community Controlled Health sector in Australia has been described as a best practice example of the implementation of the right to self-determination as enshrined in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. By prioritizing the expression of Indigenous cultural values within a predominantly western health sector, Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services shift the dynamics of power to centre Aborigi…
The politics of difference: Posting my ‘vote’ on marriage equality
This article provides an insight into the author’s lived experience of the postal survey on same-sex marriage and the passing of the Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Act 2017 (Cth). It is a reflection on the emotional and intellectual tensions the journey provoked – for a member of the queer community, a mother, daughter, feminist and scholar
The ‘Spirit’ of the Thing: The Boundaries of Aboriginal Economic Relations at Australian Common Law
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…
Development in the ‘First World’: Alleviating Indigenous Disadvantage in Australia — the Dilemma of Difference
The levels of Indigenous disadvantage in Australia are startling compared with those of the rest of the nation. Despite various government initiatives and legal reforms, systemic poverty remains prevalent in Aboriginal communities. In the Northern Territory, this has culminated in the Emergency Intervention initiated by the Howard government in 2007. In this paper, I explore the way in which the dynamic of difference, or the understanding of diff…
Self-Determination and the Right to Health: Australian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services
The Aboriginal Community Controlled Health sector in Australia has been described as a best practice example of the implementation of the right to self-determination as enshrined in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. By prioritizing the expression of Indigenous cultural values within a predominantly western health sector, Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services shift the dynamics of power to centre Aborigi…
Indigenous Health and Human Rights: A Reflection on Law and Culture
In Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples bear a greater burden of disease and have lower life expectancy than their non-Indigenous counterparts. These combined indicators are evidence of an entrenched health crisis in the Indigenous population that is linked to systemic disadvantage over many decades. In an effort to improve life expectancy and lessen the burden of disease, a number of strategies and national frameworks now emb…
The politics of difference: Posting my ‘vote’ on marriage equality
This article provides an insight into the author’s lived experience of the postal survey on same-sex marriage and the passing of the Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Act 2017 (Cth). It is a reflection on the emotional and intellectual tensions the journey provoked – for a member of the queer community, a mother, daughter, feminist and scholar
Queer Jurisprudence: Reparative Practice in International Law
Queer theory's commitments are radical and disruptive. They have operated to interrogate the definition and reinforcement of sexuality and gender categories, and to expose and problematize normalized relations of power and privilege in the institutional structures and systems in which we live and operate. Queer's deconstructive and anti-normative (or non-conformist) tendencies, however, can be antithetical to international LGBTQIA+ law reform pro…
Violence in the Name of Equality: The Postal Survey on Same-Sex Marriage, LGBTQIA+ Activism and Legal Redemption
Violence has underpinned many of the laws relating to LGBTQIA+ people in Australia since colonisation, demarcating them as deviant and criminal and denying them access to the same rights as others. Since the 1970s, legal reforms have, as Robert Cover might describe it, demonstrated the redemptive quality of law in its response to LGBTQIA+ peoples’ commitment and activism over time.11 Robert M Cover, ‘Foreword: Nomos and Narrative’ (1983) 97(1) Ha…
The Texture of 'Lives Lived with Law: Methods for Queering International Law
Queer theory’s obligations to critique and problematise the mechanisms of power and discourse, especially law, remain important for revealing, unsettling and destabilising established sexual and gender norms. However, as Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick argues, the emphasis on paranoid or critical practices in queer theorising must be counterbalanced by recognising the queer methods of repair evident in the way LGBTQIA+ people engage with systems of oppress…
Enabling higher degree pathways for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students
Increasing the numbers of Indigenous people enrolled in research higher degrees in Australia is important for building the Indigenous academic workforce, broadening the scope of knowledge production in academic institutions and ensuring effective research outcomes for Indigenous Australians. While the numbers of Indigenous research higher degree students are increasing, universities still have a lot to do to bring that number up to parity. In thi…
Shifting the terrain, enriching the academy: Indigenous PhD scholars’ experiences of and impact on higher education
In Australia, much like other colonized locations such as Canada, New Zealand, and the USA, the colonial legacies embedded within higher education institutions, including the history of exclusion and the privileging of Western epistemologies, continue to make universities challenging places for Indigenous PhD scholars. Despite this, and while the numbers of Indigenous PhD scholars remain well below population parity, they are carving a space with…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Indigenous (4 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (4 works) · Law (4 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (4 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (3 works) · Human rights (3 works)