Camellia Webb-Gannon
Biographic Data
| ID | 195099 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Camellia Webb-Gannon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Camellia |
| FAMILY NAME | Webb-Gannon |
| SIGNATURE | WEBB-GANNON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wollongong |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8756-7584 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Singers, sisters, soldiers, seekers
Not having connection to land means [singing is] the only way to keep our culture alive' reflects West Papuan-Australian singer and songwriter Lea Firth (ne Rumwaropen) as she considers what ignites her passion for music (see Figure 1). 1 Lea, 42 years old, is one of three Rumwaropen sisters who, until recently, performed together as the Black Sistaz trio-a band that has earned a place in Australian music history for women, Pacific artists and de…
Papuanlivesmatter
The ongoing conflict in West Papua has at various times been attributed to a contestation of Indonesian versus West Papuan nationalisms, Indonesia's economic exploitation of West Papua, and Indonesia's geopolitical interest in colonising West Papua. Recently, a new framing has been brought to bear on the occupation that highlights the role of Indonesian racism in West Papuans' ongoing pursuit of independence from its coloniser. While West Papuans…
Sovereignty and the limits of Indigenous rights in West Papua
This article examines an apparent political paradox facing Indigenous West Papuans as they grapple with the issue of how to represent themselves to the outside world in order to ensure their survival and protect their dignity: that is, they must simultaneously present as one body and as many—as a unified nation deprived of and legitimately entitled to a state, and as a multiplicity of diverse Indigenous peoples requiring the protection of Indigen…
Morning Star Rising
What Can Australia Do To Prevent Human Rights Abuses in West Papua
West Papua, Australia's near northern neighbour, has for nearly six decades experienced widespread human rights abuses by the Indonesian state and military. In this article we argue that Australia has the responsibility and the expertise to do more to ensure that West Papuans' human rights are being upheld. First, in a situation as serious as that of West Papua, Australia, as a member of the United Nations, we contend, has a political duty to int…
Decolonization, popular song and Black-Pacific identity in Melanesia
Melanesians were pejoratively labelled the dark-skinned islanders by European explorers in the 1830s, an act that has shaped understandings of the region and its peoples down to the present day. In this brief essay, we attempt to demonstrate that since the new millennium, aided by digital tools and the Internet, young Melanesians have localized Black Atlantic music forms in order to assert agency, no matter how limited, in relation to their exper…
Civilian Resistance and the Failure of the Indonesian Counterinsurgency Campaign in Nduga, West Papua
Attained SCOPUS CiteScore of 1.4 in 2019.Attained Journal Citation Report (JCR) Journal Impact Factor of 0.717 in 2019.SCImago Journal and Country Rank (SJR) 2019 for the Asiatic Region: Ranked 1st in Political Science and International Relations; 1st in History; and 3rd in Arts and Humanities.Ranked 19th by Google Scholar Metrics 2020 in the category of “Asian Studies and History”
The "Black Pacific" and decolonisation in Melanesia
In the 19th century Melanesians were pejoratively labelled black by European maritime explorers (mela = black; nesia = islands). Emerging scholarship on the Black Pacific focuses on historical and contemporary identifications and articulations between Oceanian and African diasporic peoples, cultures and politics based upon shared Otherness to colonial occupiers. This essay contributes to such scholarship by presenting a perspective from Melanesia…
Melanesians and Music on the Move
Taking a historical ethnomusicological approach, this article argues that shipboard and plantation music and dance practices cast new light on the ways South Sea Islanders (SSI) acted out agency and asserted new identities as they became tangled up in the dynamics of colonial encounters. Trading ships started to operate in Melanesia in the 1840s and island men were quickly attracted to the nautical life. Contact with the West brought opportunity …
Effecting Change through Peace Research in a Methodological 'No-Man's Land
This article reflects upon the disciplinary and ethical challenges I have navigated as an ethnographer in the academic ‘no-man’s land’ of West Papua-related research. I contend that the peace and conflict studies concept of conflict transformation articulates productively with a critical ethnographic methodology, assisting me in charting a research path. Using examples from my own research relating to West Papua’s independence movement I argue th…
MSG Headache, West Papuan Heartache? Indonesia's Melanesian Foray
Asia and the Pacific-these two geographic, political and cultural regions encompass entire life-worlds, cosmologies and cultures. Yet Indonesia's recent enthusiastic outreach to Melanesia indicates an attempt to bridge both the constructed and actual distinctions between them. While the label 'Asia-Pacific' may accurately capture Indonesia's aspirational sphere of influence, it is simultaneously one that many Pacific scholars have resisted, feari…
The "Black Pacific" and decolonisation in Melanesia
In the 19th century Melanesians were pejoratively labelled black by European maritime explorers (mela = black; nesia = islands). Emerging scholarship on the Black Pacific focuses on historical and contemporary identifications and articulations between Oceanian and African diasporic peoples, cultures and politics based upon shared Otherness to colonial occupiers. This essay contributes to such scholarship by presenting a perspective from Melanesia…
Decolonization, popular song and Black-Pacific identity in Melanesia
Melanesians were pejoratively labelled the dark-skinned islanders by European explorers in the 1830s, an act that has shaped understandings of the region and its peoples down to the present day. In this brief essay, we attempt to demonstrate that since the new millennium, aided by digital tools and the Internet, young Melanesians have localized Black Atlantic music forms in order to assert agency, no matter how limited, in relation to their exper…
Papuanlivesmatter
The ongoing conflict in West Papua has at various times been attributed to a contestation of Indonesian versus West Papuan nationalisms, Indonesia's economic exploitation of West Papua, and Indonesia's geopolitical interest in colonising West Papua. Recently, a new framing has been brought to bear on the occupation that highlights the role of Indonesian racism in West Papuans' ongoing pursuit of independence from its coloniser. While West Papuans…
Civilian Resistance and the Failure of the Indonesian Counterinsurgency Campaign in Nduga, West Papua
Attained SCOPUS CiteScore of 1.4 in 2019.Attained Journal Citation Report (JCR) Journal Impact Factor of 0.717 in 2019.SCImago Journal and Country Rank (SJR) 2019 for the Asiatic Region: Ranked 1st in Political Science and International Relations; 1st in History; and 3rd in Arts and Humanities.Ranked 19th by Google Scholar Metrics 2020 in the category of “Asian Studies and History”
MSG Headache, West Papuan Heartache? Indonesia's Melanesian Foray
Asia and the Pacific-these two geographic, political and cultural regions encompass entire life-worlds, cosmologies and cultures. Yet Indonesia's recent enthusiastic outreach to Melanesia indicates an attempt to bridge both the constructed and actual distinctions between them. While the label 'Asia-Pacific' may accurately capture Indonesia's aspirational sphere of influence, it is simultaneously one that many Pacific scholars have resisted, feari…
Melanesians and Music on the Move
Taking a historical ethnomusicological approach, this article argues that shipboard and plantation music and dance practices cast new light on the ways South Sea Islanders (SSI) acted out agency and asserted new identities as they became tangled up in the dynamics of colonial encounters. Trading ships started to operate in Melanesia in the 1840s and island men were quickly attracted to the nautical life. Contact with the West brought opportunity …
Effecting Change through Peace Research in a Methodological 'No-Man's Land
This article reflects upon the disciplinary and ethical challenges I have navigated as an ethnographer in the academic ‘no-man’s land’ of West Papua-related research. I contend that the peace and conflict studies concept of conflict transformation articulates productively with a critical ethnographic methodology, assisting me in charting a research path. Using examples from my own research relating to West Papua’s independence movement I argue th…
The "Black Pacific" and decolonisation in Melanesia
In the 19th century Melanesians were pejoratively labelled black by European maritime explorers (mela = black; nesia = islands). Emerging scholarship on the Black Pacific focuses on historical and contemporary identifications and articulations between Oceanian and African diasporic peoples, cultures and politics based upon shared Otherness to colonial occupiers. This essay contributes to such scholarship by presenting a perspective from Melanesia…
Decolonization, popular song and Black-Pacific identity in Melanesia
Melanesians were pejoratively labelled the dark-skinned islanders by European explorers in the 1830s, an act that has shaped understandings of the region and its peoples down to the present day. In this brief essay, we attempt to demonstrate that since the new millennium, aided by digital tools and the Internet, young Melanesians have localized Black Atlantic music forms in order to assert agency, no matter how limited, in relation to their exper…
Civilian Resistance and the Failure of the Indonesian Counterinsurgency Campaign in Nduga, West Papua
Attained SCOPUS CiteScore of 1.4 in 2019.Attained Journal Citation Report (JCR) Journal Impact Factor of 0.717 in 2019.SCImago Journal and Country Rank (SJR) 2019 for the Asiatic Region: Ranked 1st in Political Science and International Relations; 1st in History; and 3rd in Arts and Humanities.Ranked 19th by Google Scholar Metrics 2020 in the category of “Asian Studies and History”
Morning Star Rising
What Can Australia Do To Prevent Human Rights Abuses in West Papua
West Papua, Australia's near northern neighbour, has for nearly six decades experienced widespread human rights abuses by the Indonesian state and military. In this article we argue that Australia has the responsibility and the expertise to do more to ensure that West Papuans' human rights are being upheld. First, in a situation as serious as that of West Papua, Australia, as a member of the United Nations, we contend, has a political duty to int…
Papuanlivesmatter
The ongoing conflict in West Papua has at various times been attributed to a contestation of Indonesian versus West Papuan nationalisms, Indonesia's economic exploitation of West Papua, and Indonesia's geopolitical interest in colonising West Papua. Recently, a new framing has been brought to bear on the occupation that highlights the role of Indonesian racism in West Papuans' ongoing pursuit of independence from its coloniser. While West Papuans…
Sovereignty and the limits of Indigenous rights in West Papua
This article examines an apparent political paradox facing Indigenous West Papuans as they grapple with the issue of how to represent themselves to the outside world in order to ensure their survival and protect their dignity: that is, they must simultaneously present as one body and as many—as a unified nation deprived of and legitimately entitled to a state, and as a multiplicity of diverse Indigenous peoples requiring the protection of Indigen…
Singers, sisters, soldiers, seekers
Not having connection to land means [singing is] the only way to keep our culture alive' reflects West Papuan-Australian singer and songwriter Lea Firth (ne Rumwaropen) as she considers what ignites her passion for music (see Figure 1). 1 Lea, 42 years old, is one of three Rumwaropen sisters who, until recently, performed together as the Black Sistaz trio-a band that has earned a place in Australian music history for women, Pacific artists and de…
Political science (9 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Asian Studies and History (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · History (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Decolonization (4 works)