A Brekelmans
Biographic Data
| ID | 66972 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Brekelmans |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Brekelmans |
| SIGNATURE | BREKELMANS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3724-9312 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Relating Through Rhythm and Rhyme
Artistic Methods for Sustaining Meaning and Community in Troubled Times
The Bondi shootings in December 2025 shook Australia in a particular kind of way. As an act of violence, it was and always should remain shocking. But as an event within a series of other atrocitie...
Composing, decomposing, and recomposing engagement in Indigenous-led research for land and sea management, Tiwi Islands, Australia
In this article, we reflect on our methodology, working with a uniquely Indigenous approach to collaborative cross-cultural research and sustainability planning for murrukupuni (Country) and winga (salt water) on the Tiwi Islands, Northern Territory, Australia: the Turtuni Framework, which takes its name from the turtuni (a carved wooden pole) used in Tiwi (the Indigenous Peoples of the Tiwi Islands) ceremonies and governance. We focus on the eme…
Dreaming Ecology
Attuning to Anthropologies Otherwise
At least once a week I have some kind of crisis about the concept of academic writing in anthropology. At best, it is absurd: we spend sometimes years in the Sisyphean act of developing papers on i
A mutable space
As that which troubles simplistic binaries, ruins provide an entry point for scholars to conceptualize time, space, and identity as multiple, fragmented, and mutable. This article contributes to these studies by interrogating Australian settler-colonial time-space narratives (chronotopes) of White dominance through engagement with counter-narratives of mutable materialities and identities. Through ethnography of a commemorative event in a rural A…
Imploding Fictions
Speculative Ethnography in the Multiverse
In 1937 the Russian philosopher and literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin popularised the notion of ‘chronotope’ in the analysis of narratives. From the Greek χρόνος ‘time’ and τόπος ‘space’, the term ch
TikTok and the New Public Ethnographer
The camera is focused on a young man in a red shirt and bandana. Text overlaying the footage reads: ‘Hi I have a question’. An emoji of a person with their hand raised punctuates the sentence. The ...
Frontier Narratives That Take on Flesh
In this article, we explore the notion of legacy through the ways graziers in Outback Queensland, Australia, draw on material, narrative, and embodied traces of past 'events' to emplot their lives during times of uncertainty. Through an ethnography of pastoral work and storytelling on stations, or ranches, we show how settler-colonial narratives of the frontier and legacy circulate as affective forces in pastoralists' daily lives and become embod…
Difference and Care in Lisa Palmer's Collaborative Engagements with Timor Leste
Lisa Palmer’s collaborative multimedia engagements with Timor Leste—spanning two major films and an extensive online digital oral history archive—reveal much about difference and care in a more-tha
Legacies of civil wars
Community processes to address fractured social relationships and well-being remain the least examined dimensions in studies of legacies of civil wars. This article addresses these limitations by analyzing how the wartime and postwar generations have negotiated the legacies of the civil war (1976-1992) in a farming economy region in Mozambique. Based on a 14-year (2002-2015) study of community courts in Mozambique, we analyzed the types of social…
Legacies of civil wars
Community processes to address fractured social relationships and well-being remain the least examined dimensions in studies of legacies of civil wars. This article addresses these limitations by analyzing how the wartime and postwar generations have negotiated the legacies of the civil war (1976-1992) in a farming economy region in Mozambique. Based on a 14-year (2002-2015) study of community courts in Mozambique, we analyzed the types of social…
Imploding Fictions
TikTok and the New Public Ethnographer
The camera is focused on a young man in a red shirt and bandana. Text overlaying the footage reads: ‘Hi I have a question’. An emoji of a person with their hand raised punctuates the sentence. The ...
Frontier Narratives That Take on Flesh
In this article, we explore the notion of legacy through the ways graziers in Outback Queensland, Australia, draw on material, narrative, and embodied traces of past 'events' to emplot their lives during times of uncertainty. Through an ethnography of pastoral work and storytelling on stations, or ranches, we show how settler-colonial narratives of the frontier and legacy circulate as affective forces in pastoralists' daily lives and become embod…
Legacies of civil wars
Community processes to address fractured social relationships and well-being remain the least examined dimensions in studies of legacies of civil wars. This article addresses these limitations by analyzing how the wartime and postwar generations have negotiated the legacies of the civil war (1976-1992) in a farming economy region in Mozambique. Based on a 14-year (2002-2015) study of community courts in Mozambique, we analyzed the types of social…
Difference and Care in Lisa Palmer's Collaborative Engagements with Timor Leste
Lisa Palmer’s collaborative multimedia engagements with Timor Leste—spanning two major films and an extensive online digital oral history archive—reveal much about difference and care in a more-tha
A mutable space
As that which troubles simplistic binaries, ruins provide an entry point for scholars to conceptualize time, space, and identity as multiple, fragmented, and mutable. This article contributes to these studies by interrogating Australian settler-colonial time-space narratives (chronotopes) of White dominance through engagement with counter-narratives of mutable materialities and identities. Through ethnography of a commemorative event in a rural A…
Imploding Fictions
Speculative Ethnography in the Multiverse
In 1937 the Russian philosopher and literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin popularised the notion of ‘chronotope’ in the analysis of narratives. From the Greek χρόνος ‘time’ and τόπος ‘space’, the term ch
TikTok and the New Public Ethnographer
The camera is focused on a young man in a red shirt and bandana. Text overlaying the footage reads: ‘Hi I have a question’. An emoji of a person with their hand raised punctuates the sentence. The ...
Frontier Narratives That Take on Flesh
In this article, we explore the notion of legacy through the ways graziers in Outback Queensland, Australia, draw on material, narrative, and embodied traces of past 'events' to emplot their lives during times of uncertainty. Through an ethnography of pastoral work and storytelling on stations, or ranches, we show how settler-colonial narratives of the frontier and legacy circulate as affective forces in pastoralists' daily lives and become embod…
Composing, decomposing, and recomposing engagement in Indigenous-led research for land and sea management, Tiwi Islands, Australia
In this article, we reflect on our methodology, working with a uniquely Indigenous approach to collaborative cross-cultural research and sustainability planning for murrukupuni (Country) and winga (salt water) on the Tiwi Islands, Northern Territory, Australia: the Turtuni Framework, which takes its name from the turtuni (a carved wooden pole) used in Tiwi (the Indigenous Peoples of the Tiwi Islands) ceremonies and governance. We focus on the eme…
Dreaming Ecology
Attuning to Anthropologies Otherwise
At least once a week I have some kind of crisis about the concept of academic writing in anthropology. At best, it is absurd: we spend sometimes years in the Sisyphean act of developing papers on i
Relating Through Rhythm and Rhyme
Artistic Methods for Sustaining Meaning and Community in Troubled Times
The Bondi shootings in December 2025 shook Australia in a particular kind of way. As an act of violence, it was and always should remain shocking. But as an event within a series of other atrocitie...
Sociology (7 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 works) · History (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Ethnography (4 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (3 works)