B Carlson
Biographic Data
| ID | 28233 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B Carlson |
| GIVEN NAMES | B |
| FAMILY NAME | Carlson |
| SIGNATURE | CARLSON B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3825-743X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 159 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Affective Politics of Cyberbullying: Victim, Perpetrator, and Indigenous Subjectivity
This paper examines the viral 2020 video of Quaden Bayles, a nine-year-old Aboriginal child with a chromosomal disorder, who was filmed by their mother expressing distress over persistent bullying at school. The video, which garnered widespread sympathy and support, soon sparked a counter-response that questioned Quaden’s legitimacy as a victim, accusing them of fraud and even bullying. This public backlash demonstrates the complex dynamics of on…
Indigenous Data Sovereignty and the Governance of Artificial Intelligence: Toward Equitable Benefit for Indigenous Peoples
This article argues that artificial intelligence (AI) will not benefit Indigenous peoples equitably unless grounded in Indigenous data sovereignty and Indigenous governance of AI systems. In Australia and comparable nation-states, data ecosystems have long served as instruments of colonial control, determining what knowledges are valued, how people are categorized, and who benefits. As AI systems are built upon these foundations, they risk deepen…
Robots Behaving Badly: Algorithmic Colonialism and the Consequences of AI
This article examines the political, social, and relational consequences of artificial intelligence through an anti-colonial and Indigenous lens. Challenging claims that AI is neutral or inevitable, we show that it is embedded in settler-colonial, racialised, and gendered power structures. Across predictive policing, facial recognition, automated welfare, deepfake sexual violence, and embodied robotics, AI does not malfunction; it performs exactl…
We Are the Data, but Never the Researchers: Epistemic Violence in the Study of Technology-Facilitated Abuse
This article presents an auto-ethnographic analysis of research on technology-facilitated abuse affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, grounded in the author's experience as an Indigenous scholar working across academic, policy, and funding institutions. Indigenous women experience disproportionate levels of online harassment, image-based abuse, surveillance, and algorithmic profiling, yet are excluded from shaping research agen…
Indigenous(ly) fat, fat(ly) Indigenous
A seen body causes memories to flow, memories to flow.This special issue asks the question: What does Indigenous fat studies look like, particularly when we refuse coloniality? It questions what ha...
Envisioning Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander AI Futures Communique: March 2025
By Rose Barrowcliffe, Ben Hutchinson & 35 more. In January 2025, over forty Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander researchers, community members, and allies, gathered to envisage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander AI futures
Goanna Walking: A Rubric to Measure Transformation in Critical Indigenous Studies Students
By Madi Day, Percy Lezard & 19 more. This rubric is designed for Indigenist and anti-colonial approaches to teaching. It was created in collaboration with more than 20 Indigenous scholars from so-called Australia, Aotearoa and Turtle Island
Restorative Justice or Colonial Compromise? Rethinking Responses to Family Violence in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities
This paper critically examines the application of restorative justice as a response to family violence in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Drawing on national and international literature, it identifies both the promise and the limits of restorative justice within settler-colonial contexts. While community-led, culturally grounded programs—such as those on Mornington Island and in Aurukun—demonstrate significant potential for he…
Ancestors on motorbikes: Cosmic rays bring retribution
Indigenous AI Futures: Uncle Chatty Gee, Aunty Lexi, and Algorithmic Settler Colonialism
This article explores the complex relationship between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Indigenous peoples, framing AI as an extension of colonial systems that continue to extract, distort, and commodify Indigenous knowledges, lands, and bodies. We introduce Uncle Chatty Gee and Aunty Lexi as playful yet critical personifications of ChatGPT and Perplexity AI to explore how Indigenous communities engage with and interrogate AI technologies. This f…
Indigenous fat rebellion: Rejecting settler fatphobia and reclaiming body sovereignty
Performing Equity, Preserving Power: The Double Bind for Aboriginal Australian Women in Public Sector Workplaces
In Australian public institutions, Aboriginal women's visibility is often mobilised as an instrument of containment rather than a marker of structural change. Focusing on the Victorian Public Sector, this article examines how equity regimes incorporate Indigenous presence while preserving settler-colonial authority. Drawing on Make Us Count and interviews with 25 Aboriginal women, we show how they are hypervisible as symbols of diversity and reco…
Total Control: "Black bitch" offending the offenders
Total Control (2019-2024) is a political drama that follows the story of Rachel Griffiths as the prime minister of so-called Australia and Deborah Mailman as her political rival. Available on demand on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) iView, Total Control was initially called "Black Bitch" to draw attention to the historical racial slur but was forced to change its title due to a social media storm. Total Control demonstrates strikin…
Indigenous media and communications
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have always been early adopters of communication technologies. We are also innovators and have sophisticated methods of communication that have provided a means of communication across this vast continent for thousands of years. We recognised the power of all media, and particularly print media, as a force for communicating information quickly to other Indigenous people and groups here and across the w…
The Future is Indigenous
The future is Indigenous. Settlers have had their opportunity to be in good relations with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, Country and our more-than-human relatives. They have failed. This chapter outlines colonisers&s; efforts to eliminate us to claim our homelands as their own. This is not only a historical fact but continues into the contemporary world through state-sanctioned violence. Colonial narratives about discovery and pea…
Digital Futures
This chapter seeks to further develop insights into the health implications of the social media platform Facebook, for Indigenous users, by paying attention to the forces that work to shape online health-seeking practices. In seeking help for issues related to health and well-being, I ask whether digital technologies such as Facebook have potential to provide an avenue for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health-seekers. In-depth semi-struct…
Pandemic Politics: The 2021 and 2022 German and Australian Federal Election Campaigns on Social Media
One of the effects of the continuing COVID-19 pandemic has been to further accelerate the incorporation of social media activities into political and electoral campaigning. Especially as a result of lockdowns and other restrictions to offline public life, overall social media use has increased in many countries; health concerns have severely curtailed conventional in-person political campaigning activities, from doorknocking to mass rallies (even…
So-Called Sovereign Settlers: Settler Conspirituality and Nativism in the Australian Anti-Vax Movement
The COVID-19 pandemic, and the social and economic instability that followed, has given new life to conspirituality and far-right ideology in so-called Australia. This article discusses how politico-spiritual communities invested in both conspiracy theories and New Age spirituality have pieced together settler narratives about a New World Order and external threats to Western society from far-right and white supremacist Christian ideology circula…
Global Indigenous futures: A new research agenda
This chapter sets the agenda for the book beginning with the violence of settler colonialism this chapter introduces global Indigenous thinkers, activists, knowledge holders and scholars who identify, reject and respond to epistemic violence with acts of self-determination and sovereignty. This chapter highlights the ways in which Indigenous peoples articulate what it means to be ‘Indigenous’ in an increasingly connected and globalised world. The…
The Routledge Handbook of Australian Indigenous Peoples and Futures
A short history of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy – an indelible reminder of unceded sovereignty
Indigenous articulations of social media and digital assemblages of care
Studies show that, in times of need, Indigenous people across the continent now referred to as ‘Australia’ tend to rely more on the ‘informal’ connections of support, care and trust made with family, friends and community—connections which are increasingly mediated through digital technologies. Australian researchers have recently begun attending to the possibilities social media offers in sustaining networks of support ‘outside’ settler geograph…
I want to video it, so people will respect me: Nauiyu community, digital platforms and trauma
The Edge of Sacred project was conducted with the Nauiyu community in northern Australia and investigated trauma and traditional healing practices. Study participants from the community identified negative social changes and an escalation in anti-social behaviour, such as higher rates of bullying, violence, risky sexual behaviour and children accessing pornography, when mobile phones and social networking sites were used inappropriately. The rese…
Monumental upheavals: Unsettled fates of the Captain Cook statue and other colonial monuments in Australia
Monuments and statues are forms of commemoration. They typically pay tribute to people or events and aim to serve as a permanent marker, a link between present and past generations, committing them to memory and assigning them with importance and meaning. While commemorations can be beneficial in terms of recognising a legacy of the past and helping foster relationships between opposing groups, they can also be divisive and painful, failing to ac…
Identity
The legacy of racism and Indigenous Australian identity within education
It may be argued that the emerging discourses focusing on the social, emotional, educational, and economic disadvantages identified for Australia’s First Peoples (when compared to their non-Indigenous counterparts) are becoming increasingly dissociated with an understanding of the interplay between historical and current trends in racism. Additionally, and if not somewhat related to this critique, it can be suggested that the very construction of…
Love and hate at the Cultural Interface: Indigenous Australians and dating apps
Social media is increasingly entangled in our everyday lives, and it appears inevitable that this trend will continue for the foreseeable future. Although there has been a wellspring of research on social media, very little is known about Indigenous Australians' use of these online communication channels. Similarly, there is a paucity of research that investigates the links between social media and intimacy. This article explores Indigenous use o…
It's like Going to a Cemetery and Lighting a Candle: Aboriginal Australians, Sorry Business and social media
Death and funeral practices are a constant presence in many Aboriginal Australians' lives-research in some communities found they are eight times more likely to have attended a funeral in the previous 2 years than non-Aboriginal people. This can be explained by two major factors: inordinately high rates of Aboriginal mortality and cultural practices around death (broadly referred to as Sorry Business). Research in other contexts has found traditi…
The Routledge Handbook of Australian Indigenous Peoples and Futures
Indigenous Memes and the Invention of a People
Scholars have become increasingly interested in the political work of Internet memes. While this research has delivered critical insights into how memes are implicated in both progressive and reactionary politics, there endures a lack of critical work on the ways in which Indigenous people engage with memes to deconstruct colonial power relations and produce alternative political arrangements. This article offers a reading of a set of memes produ…
Four Scholars Speak to Navigating the Complexities of Naming in Indigenous Studies
Universities in Australia are expanding their Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies programs to include Indigenous populations from around the globe. This is also the case for the Indigenous Studies Unit at the University of Wollongong (UOW). Although systems of nomenclature in Indigenous Studies seek to be respectful of difference, the politics of naming in the global context raises some complexities worthy of discussion. In this article…
They Got Filters: Indigenous Social Media, the Settler Gaze, and a Politics of Hope
Social media technologies have had ambivalent political implications for Indigenous peoples and communities. On one hand, they constitute new horizons toward which settler colonial forces of marginalization, disenfranchisement, and elimination can extend and strengthen their power. On the other hand, social media have also offered opportunities to resist and reject the violence of colonization and its ideological counterparts of domination and ra…
Indigenous articulations of social media and digital assemblages of care
Studies show that, in times of need, Indigenous people across the continent now referred to as ‘Australia’ tend to rely more on the ‘informal’ connections of support, care and trust made with family, friends and community—connections which are increasingly mediated through digital technologies. Australian researchers have recently begun attending to the possibilities social media offers in sustaining networks of support ‘outside’ settler geograph…
Introduction: Indigenous innovation in social media
Yarning circles and social media activism
The practices of 'yarning' and 'yarning circles' are relatively common across groups of Indigenous Australians. This practice broadly consists of storytelling within a respectful and deeply democratic space, where each participant takes turns in speaking, and in which the direction of discussion may meander, fixate, or take divergent and creative lines of flight. The existing literature has explored the use of 'yarning circles' in promoting both …
Monumental upheavals: Unsettled fates of the Captain Cook statue and other colonial monuments in Australia
Monuments and statues are forms of commemoration. They typically pay tribute to people or events and aim to serve as a permanent marker, a link between present and past generations, committing them to memory and assigning them with importance and meaning. While commemorations can be beneficial in terms of recognising a legacy of the past and helping foster relationships between opposing groups, they can also be divisive and painful, failing to ac…
Indigenous fat rebellion: Rejecting settler fatphobia and reclaiming body sovereignty
Us Mob Online: The Perils of Identifying as Indigenous on Social Media
Social media is a highly valuable site for Indigenous people to express their identities and to engage with other Indigenous people, events, conversations, and debates. While the role of social media for Indigenous peoples is highly valued for public articulations of identity, it is not without peril. Drawing on the authors’ recent mixed-methods research in Australian Indigenous communities, this paper presents an insight into Indigenous peoples’…
Crisis Intervention by Social Workers in Fire Departments: An Innovative Role for Social Workers
This article describes a unique use of social workers as crisis response team (CRT) members in a nontraditional host setting, municipal fire departments in Arizona. The role of modern-day firefighters has changed dramatically and now includes responding to a wide variety of crises and emergencies other than fires, such as motor vehicle accidents, family abuse, suicides, mental health incidents, accidents, and shootings. These traumatic events can…
Performing Equity, Preserving Power: The Double Bind for Aboriginal Australian Women in Public Sector Workplaces
In Australian public institutions, Aboriginal women's visibility is often mobilised as an instrument of containment rather than a marker of structural change. Focusing on the Victorian Public Sector, this article examines how equity regimes incorporate Indigenous presence while preserving settler-colonial authority. Drawing on Make Us Count and interviews with 25 Aboriginal women, we show how they are hypervisible as symbols of diversity and reco…
A short history of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy – an indelible reminder of unceded sovereignty
Crisis Intervention by Social Workers in Fire Departments: An Innovative Role for Social Workers
This article describes a unique use of social workers as crisis response team (CRT) members in a nontraditional host setting, municipal fire departments in Arizona. The role of modern-day firefighters has changed dramatically and now includes responding to a wide variety of crises and emergencies other than fires, such as motor vehicle accidents, family abuse, suicides, mental health incidents, accidents, and shootings. These traumatic events can…
Indigenous Identities and the Politics of Authenticity
UTS ePRESS is the open access publishing arm of the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Our aim is to remove barriers to knowledge by freely disseminating high quality scholarly works. Through this commitment to open knowledge, we contribute to scholarship that seeks to solve global challenges.
The legacy of racism and Indigenous Australian identity within education
It may be argued that the emerging discourses focusing on the social, emotional, educational, and economic disadvantages identified for Australia’s First Peoples (when compared to their non-Indigenous counterparts) are becoming increasingly dissociated with an understanding of the interplay between historical and current trends in racism. Additionally, and if not somewhat related to this critique, it can be suggested that the very construction of…
Four Scholars Speak to Navigating the Complexities of Naming in Indigenous Studies
Universities in Australia are expanding their Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies programs to include Indigenous populations from around the globe. This is also the case for the Indigenous Studies Unit at the University of Wollongong (UOW). Although systems of nomenclature in Indigenous Studies seek to be respectful of difference, the politics of naming in the global context raises some complexities worthy of discussion. In this article…
It's like Going to a Cemetery and Lighting a Candle: Aboriginal Australians, Sorry Business and social media
Death and funeral practices are a constant presence in many Aboriginal Australians' lives-research in some communities found they are eight times more likely to have attended a funeral in the previous 2 years than non-Aboriginal people. This can be explained by two major factors: inordinately high rates of Aboriginal mortality and cultural practices around death (broadly referred to as Sorry Business). Research in other contexts has found traditi…
Negotiating Global and Interdisciplinary Imperatives for Indigenous Education Scholarship and Pedagogy
Indigenous Studies is a rapidly growing field of enquiry both nationally and internationally. The internationalisation of the discipline is dependent on its interdiciplinarity and on the collaborative efforts of interdisciplinary scholars. Colonised Indigenous people globally share similar experiences despite differences in histories and contexts. In collaborative situations, dedicated scholarship brings together Indigenous people and allies who …
Striking the Right Chord: Indigenous people and the love of country
Many Aboriginal Australians have participated in, and take pleasure from, country music. Country music has provided a vehicle for Aboriginal people to tell our stories and assert our connection to “Country”—a term used to describe our ancestral lands. Country music is often associated with such terms as “redneck” and “hillbilly” (Malone, 2006) and is often associated with White working class. However, Indigenous participation in the country music…
Indigenous Memes and the Invention of a People
Scholars have become increasingly interested in the political work of Internet memes. While this research has delivered critical insights into how memes are implicated in both progressive and reactionary politics, there endures a lack of critical work on the ways in which Indigenous people engage with memes to deconstruct colonial power relations and produce alternative political arrangements. This article offers a reading of a set of memes produ…
Yarning circles and social media activism
The practices of 'yarning' and 'yarning circles' are relatively common across groups of Indigenous Australians. This practice broadly consists of storytelling within a respectful and deeply democratic space, where each participant takes turns in speaking, and in which the direction of discussion may meander, fixate, or take divergent and creative lines of flight. The existing literature has explored the use of 'yarning circles' in promoting both …
Introduction: Indigenous innovation in social media
They Got Filters: Indigenous Social Media, the Settler Gaze, and a Politics of Hope
Social media technologies have had ambivalent political implications for Indigenous peoples and communities. On one hand, they constitute new horizons toward which settler colonial forces of marginalization, disenfranchisement, and elimination can extend and strengthen their power. On the other hand, social media have also offered opportunities to resist and reject the violence of colonization and its ideological counterparts of domination and ra…
Love and hate at the Cultural Interface: Indigenous Australians and dating apps
Social media is increasingly entangled in our everyday lives, and it appears inevitable that this trend will continue for the foreseeable future. Although there has been a wellspring of research on social media, very little is known about Indigenous Australians' use of these online communication channels. Similarly, there is a paucity of research that investigates the links between social media and intimacy. This article explores Indigenous use o…
Identity
Openings: The Social Life of Indigenous Social Media
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Introducing the Covid-19 Special Issue: Indigenous academics’ resilience during the coronavirus pandemic
The current pandemic reignites painful memories of Indigenous peoples’ encounters with infectiousdisease brought by colonization and the resultant legacy of devastation. We are not strangers to theimpacts on economic, governance, education, welfare, and cultural fronts. Despite the magnitude ofthis challenge, Indigenous academics are rising to the call in innovative ways – proving once again the creativity, strength, and resilience of Indigenous …
Us Mob Online: The Perils of Identifying as Indigenous on Social Media
Social media is a highly valuable site for Indigenous people to express their identities and to engage with other Indigenous people, events, conversations, and debates. While the role of social media for Indigenous peoples is highly valued for public articulations of identity, it is not without peril. Drawing on the authors’ recent mixed-methods research in Australian Indigenous communities, this paper presents an insight into Indigenous peoples’…
Indigenous (39 works) · Political science (31 works) · Sociology (30 works) · Law (25 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (21 works) · Gender Studies (18 works) · Media studies (18 works) · Politics (18 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (11 works) · Colonialism (11 works)