Cressida Fforde
Biographic Data
| ID | 312159 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cressida Fforde |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cressida |
| FAMILY NAME | Fforde |
| SIGNATURE | FFORDE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5095-5444 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Collection Ecologies for Repatriation Practice
From the 1850s to the 1970s, Australian collecting institutions supplied international organisations with thousands of Australian Indigenous objects, often through exchanges, other times through do
Disarming the Resistance
The history, legality and modern implications of police collecting of Indigenous Ancestral Remains and cultural property and the role of museums and governments in directing this activity. It is increasingly well known that police perpetrated violence against First Nations throughout the colonial period. But their role in supplying human remains and cultural objects to domestic and overseas museums is little understood, nor whether they exceeded …
The 'dead' as agents of truth-telling
Truth-telling, as it is understood within the liberal discourse and practice of transitional justice, centres around the idea of an individual human subject telling a narrative of harms that occurred in a past that is assumed now to be 'past'. The 'dead' are important insofar as they provide 'evidence' of the suffering experienced by the living: the objects rather than subjects of truth-telling. This article draws on the cases of Timor-Leste and …
An Informed Neural Network for Discovering Historical Documentation Assisting the Repatriation of Indigenous Ancestral Human Remains
Among the pressing issues facing Australian and other First Nations peoples is the repatriation of the bodily remains of their ancestors, which are currently held in Western scientific institutions. The success of securing the return of these remains to their communities for reburial depends largely on locating information within scientific and other literature published between 1790 and 1970 documenting their theft, donation, sale, or exchange b…
Emotion and the return of ancestors
More effective and informed professional practices associated with repatriation can only, this chapter argues, be achieved by acknowledging and engaging with the emotional registers and repertoires of collecting, retention, and repatriation of Indigenous Ancestral Remains. Drawing on Wetherell’s (2012) concept of affective practices the chapter identifies and considers the differing emotions and their expressions that underlie demands for repatri…
Contested Holdings
Chapter 6. Ancestors or Artefacts
The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Repatriation
Many museums and other scientific institutions still possessing the bodily remains of Indigenous people no longer resist considering their repatriation to the care of descendant communities. Whereas unconditional repatriation is now the norm in Australasia, North America and southern Africa, European museums and government cultural agencies hold to the view that releasing remains to the care of Indigenous claimants should only occur when there is…
Human Remains in Museums
Australia
Vermillion Accord on Human Remains (1989) (Indigenous Archaeology)
Tamaki Makau-Rau Accord on the Display of Human Remains and Sacred Objects (2005)
Routledge Companion to Indigenous Repatriation
Profit and loss
This chapter is the first substantial examination of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century commercial trade in Indigenous Ancestral Remains. Previous scholarly research has focused on networks of donation, gift and patronage. Although noting its presence, such scholarship has failed to realise the prevalence of commercial dealings or explore its nature and extent. This chapter focuses on the various mechanisms involved in this arena of comm…
Missionaries and the removal, illegal export, and return of Ancestral Remains
This chapter considers the role of missionaries in the removal of Indigenous Ancestral Remains. Missionaries acquired Ancestral Remains, but their involvement in this global activity has received little scholarship. The chapter provides the case study of Father Ernst Worms, a Pallottine missionary in the Kimberley region of Australia, who took remains and sent them to Germany in the mid-1930s, aware that this was an illegal act in contravention o…
Discourse, Deficit and Identity
Deficit discourse is expressed in a mode of language that consistently frames Aboriginal identity in a narrative of deficiency. It is interwoven with notions of 'authenticity', which in turn adhere to models of identity still embedded within the race paradigm, suffering from all of its constraints but perniciously benefiting from all of its tenacity. Recent work shows that deficit discourse surrounding Aboriginality is intricately entwined within…
Collection, repatriation and identity
Yagan
From edinburgh university to the ngarrindjeri nation, south australia
European institutions collected indigenous Australian human remains from the late eighteenth century onwards, forming part of collections that contained the physical remains of people from all around the world, including Europe. Obtained for the purposes of studying so‐called ‘racial’ difference, their removal was deeply embedded within a racist scientific paradigm that has long been abandoned but which played a large part in the oppressive treat…
Dead and Their Possessions
The Dead and their Possessions
Dead and Their Possessions
Discourse, Deficit and Identity
Deficit discourse is expressed in a mode of language that consistently frames Aboriginal identity in a narrative of deficiency. It is interwoven with notions of 'authenticity', which in turn adhere to models of identity still embedded within the race paradigm, suffering from all of its constraints but perniciously benefiting from all of its tenacity. Recent work shows that deficit discourse surrounding Aboriginality is intricately entwined within…
From edinburgh university to the ngarrindjeri nation, south australia
European institutions collected indigenous Australian human remains from the late eighteenth century onwards, forming part of collections that contained the physical remains of people from all around the world, including Europe. Obtained for the purposes of studying so‐called ‘racial’ difference, their removal was deeply embedded within a racist scientific paradigm that has long been abandoned but which played a large part in the oppressive treat…
The 'dead' as agents of truth-telling
Truth-telling, as it is understood within the liberal discourse and practice of transitional justice, centres around the idea of an individual human subject telling a narrative of harms that occurred in a past that is assumed now to be 'past'. The 'dead' are important insofar as they provide 'evidence' of the suffering experienced by the living: the objects rather than subjects of truth-telling. This article draws on the cases of Timor-Leste and …
Dead and Their Possessions
The Dead and their Possessions
Dead and Their Possessions
From edinburgh university to the ngarrindjeri nation, south australia
European institutions collected indigenous Australian human remains from the late eighteenth century onwards, forming part of collections that contained the physical remains of people from all around the world, including Europe. Obtained for the purposes of studying so‐called ‘racial’ difference, their removal was deeply embedded within a racist scientific paradigm that has long been abandoned but which played a large part in the oppressive treat…
Collection, repatriation and identity
Yagan
Discourse, Deficit and Identity
Deficit discourse is expressed in a mode of language that consistently frames Aboriginal identity in a narrative of deficiency. It is interwoven with notions of 'authenticity', which in turn adhere to models of identity still embedded within the race paradigm, suffering from all of its constraints but perniciously benefiting from all of its tenacity. Recent work shows that deficit discourse surrounding Aboriginality is intricately entwined within…
The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Repatriation
Many museums and other scientific institutions still possessing the bodily remains of Indigenous people no longer resist considering their repatriation to the care of descendant communities. Whereas unconditional repatriation is now the norm in Australasia, North America and southern Africa, European museums and government cultural agencies hold to the view that releasing remains to the care of Indigenous claimants should only occur when there is…
Human Remains in Museums
Australia
Vermillion Accord on Human Remains (1989) (Indigenous Archaeology)
Tamaki Makau-Rau Accord on the Display of Human Remains and Sacred Objects (2005)
Routledge Companion to Indigenous Repatriation
Profit and loss
This chapter is the first substantial examination of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century commercial trade in Indigenous Ancestral Remains. Previous scholarly research has focused on networks of donation, gift and patronage. Although noting its presence, such scholarship has failed to realise the prevalence of commercial dealings or explore its nature and extent. This chapter focuses on the various mechanisms involved in this arena of comm…
Missionaries and the removal, illegal export, and return of Ancestral Remains
This chapter considers the role of missionaries in the removal of Indigenous Ancestral Remains. Missionaries acquired Ancestral Remains, but their involvement in this global activity has received little scholarship. The chapter provides the case study of Father Ernst Worms, a Pallottine missionary in the Kimberley region of Australia, who took remains and sent them to Germany in the mid-1930s, aware that this was an illegal act in contravention o…
Emotion and the return of ancestors
More effective and informed professional practices associated with repatriation can only, this chapter argues, be achieved by acknowledging and engaging with the emotional registers and repertoires of collecting, retention, and repatriation of Indigenous Ancestral Remains. Drawing on Wetherell’s (2012) concept of affective practices the chapter identifies and considers the differing emotions and their expressions that underlie demands for repatri…
Contested Holdings
Chapter 6. Ancestors or Artefacts
An Informed Neural Network for Discovering Historical Documentation Assisting the Repatriation of Indigenous Ancestral Human Remains
Among the pressing issues facing Australian and other First Nations peoples is the repatriation of the bodily remains of their ancestors, which are currently held in Western scientific institutions. The success of securing the return of these remains to their communities for reburial depends largely on locating information within scientific and other literature published between 1790 and 1970 documenting their theft, donation, sale, or exchange b…
The 'dead' as agents of truth-telling
Truth-telling, as it is understood within the liberal discourse and practice of transitional justice, centres around the idea of an individual human subject telling a narrative of harms that occurred in a past that is assumed now to be 'past'. The 'dead' are important insofar as they provide 'evidence' of the suffering experienced by the living: the objects rather than subjects of truth-telling. This article draws on the cases of Timor-Leste and …
Collection Ecologies for Repatriation Practice
From the 1850s to the 1970s, Australian collecting institutions supplied international organisations with thousands of Australian Indigenous objects, often through exchanges, other times through do
Disarming the Resistance
The history, legality and modern implications of police collecting of Indigenous Ancestral Remains and cultural property and the role of museums and governments in directing this activity. It is increasingly well known that police perpetrated violence against First Nations throughout the colonial period. But their role in supplying human remains and cultural objects to domestic and overseas museums is little understood, nor whether they exceeded …
Indigenous (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Repatriation (7 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Biology (4 works) · Ecology (4 works)