Perera
Biographic Data
| ID | 48003 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Perera |
| FAMILY NAME | Perera |
| SIGNATURE | PERERA |
| AFFILIATIONS | Curtin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0507-9905 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 93 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Australianama: The South Asian Odyssey in Australia
Australianama: The South Asian Odyssey in Australia." Australian Historical Studies, 52(1), pp. 127–128
In an Impaired State: Settler Racial Logic and Prosthetic Citizenship in Australia
Lines of sight
This special issue of Social Identities originated in a workshop, held in Sydney in 2016, as part of the research project, Old Atrocities, New Media. Funded by the Australian Research Council, the
At the Limits of Justice: Women of Colour on Terror
See you in the funny pages: Penal sites, teletechnics, counter-artifactualities
A 2016 image by cartoonist Chris Kelly powerfully brings together two regimes of detention in Australia, one ‘domestic’ and directed largely at Indigenous prisoners, the other ‘offshore’, and directed at refugees and asylum seekers. In both cases, it was CCTV footage which provided the means of exposure of violent abuses in these detention systems, although this exposure simultaneously exposes the very failure of CCTV, as a mechanism deigned prec…
Sexual Violence and the Border: Colonial Genealogies of US and Australian Immigration Detention Regimes
This article is concerned with delineating the material manifestations of state violence, with a particular focus on sexual violence in immigration detention prisons in the context of two settler-colonial nation states: Australia and the United States. It draws its impetus from the projected work of the late sociolegal scholar, Penny Pether, and her outline for a large-scale project on comparative regimes of indefinite detention. In our article, …
Impolitical mandate
This chapter takes up the contemporary use of the image in the West Bank in its most ubiquitous media posters, advertising and reads it against the past visual forms it re-stages mainly those of the revolutionary political posters of the 1970s and 1980s. The split marks a closing of a horizon in Palestinian national politics; Hamas eventually settled for a besieged and ostracized fiefdom in Gaza, and a self-disciplining Fatah in the West Bank re-…
Survival Media: The Politics and Poetics of Mobility and the War in Sri Lanka
Through the narratives and movements of survivors of the war in Lanka these interconnected essays develop the concept of 'survival media' as embodied and expressive forms of mobility across borders
The craft of killing: Trophy Bodies and Atrocity Aesthetics
This article locates Joshua Oppenheimer's acclaimed 2012 documentary The Act of Killing against a broader discussion of the visual aesthetics, technologies and geopolitics of atrocity. It focuses in particular on the trophy body in the performance of atrocity acts
Oceanic Corpo-Graphies, Refugee Bodies and the Making and Unmaking of Waters
This essay considers the challenges that the gendered and raced transnational subaltern refugee subject poses to the order of 'the liberal state' and 'the liberal subject', and argues that the latter are bound up in complex ways with entrenched understandings of the ocean as elementally distinct from land. This distinction, constituted by the freedom of the sea-going individualist liberal subject, invariably raced as white and gendered as male, t…
Death in a Dry River: Black Life, White Property, Parched Justice
This essay deals with the sentence handed down in April 2010 on the death of the 33 year-old Kumantaye Ryder in the dry creek bed of the Todd River in Alice Springs, Central Australia. The riverbed, we argue, is a racially marked and politically charged location that plays an historical and continuing role in defining relations between settler and colonized. We situate our analysis of this site in a context where autonomy over and access to land,…
Introduction: Combat Breathing: State Violence and the Body in Question
PDF plus (92K) 18 Big Girls Having Fun: Reflections on a ‘fat accepting space’ Rachel Colls Abstract PDF plus (102K) 38 Control Top Underpants Samantha Murray PDF plus (102K) 38 Control Top Underpants Samantha Murray Citation PDF plus (28K) 42 Live to Tell: Coming Out as Fat Cat Pause Abstract PDF plus (82K) 57 DANGER, Curves Ahead Cleo Gardiner PDF plus (82K) 57 DANGER, Curves Ahead Cleo Gardiner Citation PDF plus (30K) 60 ‘I saw a knock-out’: F…
Reading Suvendrini Perera's Australia and the Insular Imagination
Torturous dialogues: Geographies of trauma and spaces of exception
How are suffering, damage and disaster produced and made visible across different sites, and how are they made to count, to matter? This essay considers certain philosophical, historical and geopolitical coordinates that locate trauma and disaster in the context of the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004. Trauma in its various significations – the banal, the aesthetic, the philosophical, the medicalized, the political, the pathologized – is an essential…
Australia and the Insular Imagination: Beaches, Borders, Boats, and Bodies
Our Patch: Racial Horizons and the War on Terror
The speaker is Sir Samuel Griffith, Premier of Queensland, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, and "one of the major participants in the story of Federation."2 Griffith's description of the process that successfully annexed the Torres Strait Islands, though falling just short of acquiring Papua for Queensland, is terse and to the point. It lays bare the sweep of a colonial voracity. How does this appetite to take in the horizon shape th…
White shores of longing: ‘Impossible subjects’ and the frontiers of citizenship
This essay begins with an incident that occurred in 2001, the arrival of a group of asylum seekers from Sri Lanka who arrived off the coast of Coral Bay, Western Australia. It follows these castaway figures through a sequence of discursive histories and representational contexts, situating their stories against practices of embodied citizenship at the intersection of law, land (as territorialized geo-body) and nation, in the United Kingdom, Sri L…
Introduction: Heterochronotopes of exception and the frontiers and faultlines of citizenship
Anyone who had imagined that the demise of the Howard government would put an end to the public preoccupation with boat arrivals that characterised its period in office was proven wrong in early 2009 when the arrival of unauthorised asylum seekers once again become a topic of national prominence.In 2008 fourteen boats carrying people seeking
JAS review of books
David Carter ed, The Ideas Market, Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 2004, pp 298 pages, pb $32.95, ISBN 0522851126. Joan Eveline, Ivory Basement Leadership: Power and Invisibility in the Changing University, Nedlands, UWA Press, 2004, pp 260, pb $39.95, ISBN 1920694218. Graham Seal, Inventing Anzac: The Digger and National Mythology, St Lucia, API Network and UQP, 2004, pp 232, ISBN 0702234478. Anna Shnukal Guy Ramsay and Yuriko Nagata eds, N…
They Give Evidence: Bodies, Borders and the Disappeared
In this essay I explore certain relations between bodies and borders as threshold spaces marking both separation and connection, and functioning as the bearers of political meanings. My title refers to Dadang Christanto's installation ‘They Give Evidence’, a series of standing, naked figures, bearing in their outstretched arms the remnants of burnings, drownings, beatings and other mutilations that leave their subjects stripped of any markers of …
Cricket, with a plot’: Nationalism, cricket and diasporic identities
(2000). ‘Cricket, with a plot’: Nationalism, cricket and diasporic identities. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 24, Diaspora Negotiating Asian‐Australia, pp. 13-26
Commentary
Whiteness and its discontents: Notes on politics, gender, sex and food in the year of Hanson 1
The aim of this essay is to begin to unpack whiteness in the context of the current ‘race debate’, to suggest some of the historical dimensions of this racial formation in Australia, and to point to the fissures that both underlie and structure the seemingly unified category of whiteness. Drawing on media commentary, popular culture and theoretical discussions of whiteness that have appeared in US and European contexts, whiteness is discussed her…
Wogface, Anglo-Drag, Contested Aboriginalities… Making and Unmaking Identities in Australia
(1998). Wogface, Anglo-Drag, Contested Aboriginalities... Making and Unmaking Identities in Australia. Social Identities: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 39-72
If Native Title Is Us, It's Inside Us: Jabiluka and the Politics of Intercultural Negotiation
(1998). ‘If Native Title Is Us, It's Inside Us’: Jabiluka and the Politics of Intercultural Negotiation. Australian Feminist Law Journal: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 1-31
Introduction: Combat Breathing: State Violence and the Body in Question
PDF plus (92K) 18 Big Girls Having Fun: Reflections on a ‘fat accepting space’ Rachel Colls Abstract PDF plus (102K) 38 Control Top Underpants Samantha Murray PDF plus (102K) 38 Control Top Underpants Samantha Murray Citation PDF plus (28K) 42 Live to Tell: Coming Out as Fat Cat Pause Abstract PDF plus (82K) 57 DANGER, Curves Ahead Cleo Gardiner PDF plus (82K) 57 DANGER, Curves Ahead Cleo Gardiner Citation PDF plus (30K) 60 ‘I saw a knock-out’: F…
They Give Evidence: Bodies, Borders and the Disappeared
In this essay I explore certain relations between bodies and borders as threshold spaces marking both separation and connection, and functioning as the bearers of political meanings. My title refers to Dadang Christanto's installation ‘They Give Evidence’, a series of standing, naked figures, bearing in their outstretched arms the remnants of burnings, drownings, beatings and other mutilations that leave their subjects stripped of any markers of …
White shores of longing: ‘Impossible subjects’ and the frontiers of citizenship
This essay begins with an incident that occurred in 2001, the arrival of a group of asylum seekers from Sri Lanka who arrived off the coast of Coral Bay, Western Australia. It follows these castaway figures through a sequence of discursive histories and representational contexts, situating their stories against practices of embodied citizenship at the intersection of law, land (as territorialized geo-body) and nation, in the United Kingdom, Sri L…
Claiming Truganini: Australian national narratives in the year of indigenous peoples
In this article I consider some representations of the figure of the indigene in contemporary Australia, and their implications for a range of issues and debates in cultural theory. In particular, I examine the positioning of the indigenous body within two related discourses that I term ‘multiculturalism’ and ‘hybridity’, or the discourses of happy hyphenation and happy hybridization, respectively. These discourses, I want to suggest, raise speci…
Sexual Violence and the Border: Colonial Genealogies of US and Australian Immigration Detention Regimes
This article is concerned with delineating the material manifestations of state violence, with a particular focus on sexual violence in immigration detention prisons in the context of two settler-colonial nation states: Australia and the United States. It draws its impetus from the projected work of the late sociolegal scholar, Penny Pether, and her outline for a large-scale project on comparative regimes of indefinite detention. In our article, …
Reading Suvendrini Perera's Australia and the Insular Imagination
Torturous dialogues: Geographies of trauma and spaces of exception
How are suffering, damage and disaster produced and made visible across different sites, and how are they made to count, to matter? This essay considers certain philosophical, historical and geopolitical coordinates that locate trauma and disaster in the context of the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004. Trauma in its various significations – the banal, the aesthetic, the philosophical, the medicalized, the political, the pathologized – is an essential…
If Native Title Is Us, It's Inside Us: Jabiluka and the Politics of Intercultural Negotiation
(1998). ‘If Native Title Is Us, It's Inside Us’: Jabiluka and the Politics of Intercultural Negotiation. Australian Feminist Law Journal: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 1-31
Oceanic Corpo-Graphies, Refugee Bodies and the Making and Unmaking of Waters
This essay considers the challenges that the gendered and raced transnational subaltern refugee subject poses to the order of 'the liberal state' and 'the liberal subject', and argues that the latter are bound up in complex ways with entrenched understandings of the ocean as elementally distinct from land. This distinction, constituted by the freedom of the sea-going individualist liberal subject, invariably raced as white and gendered as male, t…
Death in a Dry River: Black Life, White Property, Parched Justice
This essay deals with the sentence handed down in April 2010 on the death of the 33 year-old Kumantaye Ryder in the dry creek bed of the Todd River in Alice Springs, Central Australia. The riverbed, we argue, is a racially marked and politically charged location that plays an historical and continuing role in defining relations between settler and colonized. We situate our analysis of this site in a context where autonomy over and access to land,…
Whiteness and its discontents: Notes on politics, gender, sex and food in the year of Hanson 1
The aim of this essay is to begin to unpack whiteness in the context of the current ‘race debate’, to suggest some of the historical dimensions of this racial formation in Australia, and to point to the fissures that both underlie and structure the seemingly unified category of whiteness. Drawing on media commentary, popular culture and theoretical discussions of whiteness that have appeared in US and European contexts, whiteness is discussed her…
In an Impaired State: Settler Racial Logic and Prosthetic Citizenship in Australia
Introduction: Heterochronotopes of exception and the frontiers and faultlines of citizenship
Anyone who had imagined that the demise of the Howard government would put an end to the public preoccupation with boat arrivals that characterised its period in office was proven wrong in early 2009 when the arrival of unauthorised asylum seekers once again become a topic of national prominence.In 2008 fourteen boats carrying people seeking
Survival Media: The Politics and Poetics of Mobility and the War in Sri Lanka
Through the narratives and movements of survivors of the war in Lanka these interconnected essays develop the concept of 'survival media' as embodied and expressive forms of mobility across borders
The craft of killing: Trophy Bodies and Atrocity Aesthetics
This article locates Joshua Oppenheimer's acclaimed 2012 documentary The Act of Killing against a broader discussion of the visual aesthetics, technologies and geopolitics of atrocity. It focuses in particular on the trophy body in the performance of atrocity acts
Multicultural histories and paternal genealogies: Babes and bastards at the Global Cultural Diversity Conference
As an institutional, legal and cultural construct the family unit functions to demarcate limits: to legitimate, include, authorise and enfold, even as it outlaws, excludes, prohibits, disowns and disallows. Representations of the nation as a multicultural family, as a diverse-but-united collectivity in pursuit of corporate aims, enact identical manoeuvres of inclusion and exclusion; simultaneously they endorse the hierarchies and the asymmetrical…
Claiming Truganini: Australian national narratives in the year of indigenous peoples
In this article I consider some representations of the figure of the indigene in contemporary Australia, and their implications for a range of issues and debates in cultural theory. In particular, I examine the positioning of the indigenous body within two related discourses that I term ‘multiculturalism’ and ‘hybridity’, or the discourses of happy hyphenation and happy hybridization, respectively. These discourses, I want to suggest, raise speci…
Wogface, Anglo-Drag, Contested Aboriginalities… Making and Unmaking Identities in Australia
(1998). Wogface, Anglo-Drag, Contested Aboriginalities... Making and Unmaking Identities in Australia. Social Identities: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 39-72
If Native Title Is Us, It's Inside Us: Jabiluka and the Politics of Intercultural Negotiation
(1998). ‘If Native Title Is Us, It's Inside Us’: Jabiluka and the Politics of Intercultural Negotiation. Australian Feminist Law Journal: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 1-31
Parks, mines and tidy towns: Enviro-panopticism, 'post' colonialism, and the politics of heritage in Australia
A School For Racism: Pedagogy in the Face of Ethnicity
(1998). A School For Racism: pedagogy in the face of ethnicity. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 157-170
Whiteness and its discontents: Notes on politics, gender, sex and food in the year of Hanson 1
The aim of this essay is to begin to unpack whiteness in the context of the current ‘race debate’, to suggest some of the historical dimensions of this racial formation in Australia, and to point to the fissures that both underlie and structure the seemingly unified category of whiteness. Drawing on media commentary, popular culture and theoretical discussions of whiteness that have appeared in US and European contexts, whiteness is discussed her…
Cricket, with a plot’: Nationalism, cricket and diasporic identities
(2000). ‘Cricket, with a plot’: Nationalism, cricket and diasporic identities. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 24, Diaspora Negotiating Asian‐Australia, pp. 13-26
Commentary
JAS review of books
David Carter ed, The Ideas Market, Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 2004, pp 298 pages, pb $32.95, ISBN 0522851126. Joan Eveline, Ivory Basement Leadership: Power and Invisibility in the Changing University, Nedlands, UWA Press, 2004, pp 260, pb $39.95, ISBN 1920694218. Graham Seal, Inventing Anzac: The Digger and National Mythology, St Lucia, API Network and UQP, 2004, pp 232, ISBN 0702234478. Anna Shnukal Guy Ramsay and Yuriko Nagata eds, N…
They Give Evidence: Bodies, Borders and the Disappeared
In this essay I explore certain relations between bodies and borders as threshold spaces marking both separation and connection, and functioning as the bearers of political meanings. My title refers to Dadang Christanto's installation ‘They Give Evidence’, a series of standing, naked figures, bearing in their outstretched arms the remnants of burnings, drownings, beatings and other mutilations that leave their subjects stripped of any markers of …
Australia and the Insular Imagination: Beaches, Borders, Boats, and Bodies
Our Patch: Racial Horizons and the War on Terror
The speaker is Sir Samuel Griffith, Premier of Queensland, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, and "one of the major participants in the story of Federation."2 Griffith's description of the process that successfully annexed the Torres Strait Islands, though falling just short of acquiring Papua for Queensland, is terse and to the point. It lays bare the sweep of a colonial voracity. How does this appetite to take in the horizon shape th…
White shores of longing: ‘Impossible subjects’ and the frontiers of citizenship
This essay begins with an incident that occurred in 2001, the arrival of a group of asylum seekers from Sri Lanka who arrived off the coast of Coral Bay, Western Australia. It follows these castaway figures through a sequence of discursive histories and representational contexts, situating their stories against practices of embodied citizenship at the intersection of law, land (as territorialized geo-body) and nation, in the United Kingdom, Sri L…
Introduction: Heterochronotopes of exception and the frontiers and faultlines of citizenship
Anyone who had imagined that the demise of the Howard government would put an end to the public preoccupation with boat arrivals that characterised its period in office was proven wrong in early 2009 when the arrival of unauthorised asylum seekers once again become a topic of national prominence.In 2008 fourteen boats carrying people seeking
Torturous dialogues: Geographies of trauma and spaces of exception
How are suffering, damage and disaster produced and made visible across different sites, and how are they made to count, to matter? This essay considers certain philosophical, historical and geopolitical coordinates that locate trauma and disaster in the context of the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004. Trauma in its various significations – the banal, the aesthetic, the philosophical, the medicalized, the political, the pathologized – is an essential…
Death in a Dry River: Black Life, White Property, Parched Justice
This essay deals with the sentence handed down in April 2010 on the death of the 33 year-old Kumantaye Ryder in the dry creek bed of the Todd River in Alice Springs, Central Australia. The riverbed, we argue, is a racially marked and politically charged location that plays an historical and continuing role in defining relations between settler and colonized. We situate our analysis of this site in a context where autonomy over and access to land,…
Introduction: Combat Breathing: State Violence and the Body in Question
PDF plus (92K) 18 Big Girls Having Fun: Reflections on a ‘fat accepting space’ Rachel Colls Abstract PDF plus (102K) 38 Control Top Underpants Samantha Murray PDF plus (102K) 38 Control Top Underpants Samantha Murray Citation PDF plus (28K) 42 Live to Tell: Coming Out as Fat Cat Pause Abstract PDF plus (82K) 57 DANGER, Curves Ahead Cleo Gardiner PDF plus (82K) 57 DANGER, Curves Ahead Cleo Gardiner Citation PDF plus (30K) 60 ‘I saw a knock-out’: F…
Reading Suvendrini Perera's Australia and the Insular Imagination
Oceanic Corpo-Graphies, Refugee Bodies and the Making and Unmaking of Waters
This essay considers the challenges that the gendered and raced transnational subaltern refugee subject poses to the order of 'the liberal state' and 'the liberal subject', and argues that the latter are bound up in complex ways with entrenched understandings of the ocean as elementally distinct from land. This distinction, constituted by the freedom of the sea-going individualist liberal subject, invariably raced as white and gendered as male, t…
The craft of killing: Trophy Bodies and Atrocity Aesthetics
This article locates Joshua Oppenheimer's acclaimed 2012 documentary The Act of Killing against a broader discussion of the visual aesthetics, technologies and geopolitics of atrocity. It focuses in particular on the trophy body in the performance of atrocity acts
Impolitical mandate
This chapter takes up the contemporary use of the image in the West Bank in its most ubiquitous media posters, advertising and reads it against the past visual forms it re-stages mainly those of the revolutionary political posters of the 1970s and 1980s. The split marks a closing of a horizon in Palestinian national politics; Hamas eventually settled for a besieged and ostracized fiefdom in Gaza, and a self-disciplining Fatah in the West Bank re-…
Survival Media: The Politics and Poetics of Mobility and the War in Sri Lanka
Through the narratives and movements of survivors of the war in Lanka these interconnected essays develop the concept of 'survival media' as embodied and expressive forms of mobility across borders
At the Limits of Justice: Women of Colour on Terror
See you in the funny pages: Penal sites, teletechnics, counter-artifactualities
A 2016 image by cartoonist Chris Kelly powerfully brings together two regimes of detention in Australia, one ‘domestic’ and directed largely at Indigenous prisoners, the other ‘offshore’, and directed at refugees and asylum seekers. In both cases, it was CCTV footage which provided the means of exposure of violent abuses in these detention systems, although this exposure simultaneously exposes the very failure of CCTV, as a mechanism deigned prec…
Sociology (23 works) · Political science (21 works) · Law (17 works) · Gender Studies (14 works) · History (14 works) · Politics (14 works) · Law (11 works) · History (9 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (8 works) · Gender Studies (8 works)