Michael Mcmillan
Biographic Data
| ID | 74954 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Mcmillan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcmillan |
| SIGNATURE | MCMILLAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | RMIT University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6678-8932 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Who feels it knows it: Black bodies and the sensory experience of the dance-hall
Through post-war Caribbean migration sound system culture has creolised the material culture of the dance-hall space in terms of sartorial aesthetics of raver dressing up to go out dancing, the sonic vibrations of bass, and the corporeality of the dance-floor. This began with music played on the radiogram in the front room, where house parties and bluesparties took place in the domestic interior, and eventually the public domain of clubs and danc…
Is a Pedagogy of Indigenous Solidarity Possible in the International Relations Theory Classroom
How should teachers of international relations in settler-colonial states engage with First Nations’ sovereignty claims? While a growing body of recent scholarship explores how teaching might acknowledge and move beyond the discipline's racist and colonial origins, less research investigates how pedagogy might rectify inattention to Indigenous sovereignty. This paper reports on a class activity that sought to highlight how the discipline's founda…
Keeping Hold of Justice: Encounters between Law and Colonialism
Keeping Hold of Justice focuses on a select range of encounters between law and colonialism from the early nineteenth century to the present. It emphasizes the nature of colonialism as a distinctively structural injustice, one which becomes entrenched in the social, political, legal, and discursive structures of societies and thereby continues to affect people's lives in the present. It charts, in particular, the role of law in both enabling and …
Bridging the geospatial gap: Data about space and indigenous knowledge of place
Indigenous knowledge of place is not well-served by today's digital geospatial technologies, such as spatial data, maps, spatial databases, and GIS. This paper aims to identify and explore new connections between Indigenous knowledge of place and digital geospatial technologies. Our analysis is structured around three key gaps in past work: (a) the overrepresentation of digital data about space, rather than knowledge of place; (b) a lack of facil…
Dub in the Front Room: Migrant Aesthetics of the Sacred and the Secular
This article aims to explore, how the struggle over the sacred and the secular is enacted within the material culture of the front room as an index of the double consciousness that takes place in the black every day. The scared is often reduced to the purely religious, but unshackling it, and engaging with the sacred as a spectrum of spiritual experience that illuminates its dialogic relationship with the political, and therefore the secular. Rec…
My Mother’s Best “Set”: Diasporic Threads of Crochet
In an oral history workshop as part of the installation-based exhibition The Front Room ‘Inna Joburg’ at the FADA Gallery, Johannesburg (2016), black women from Soweto shared stories about the crochet doilies they had made and brought with them, which resonated with me on a trans-diasporic level by invoking memories of how my mother acquired crochet ‘sets’ from friends and work colleagues. They often made their crochet doilies as domestic laboure…
The Minutes of Evidence Project: “Doing Structural Justice”
Race, reconciliation, and justice in Australia: From Denial to Acknowledgment
The harm perpetrated by the state of Australia against it Indigenous peoples has been structured, prolonged, and driven by race. In this paper, we conceptualize this harm and how it has been denied (and particularly how race has affected this harm and its denial). Although transitional justice literature has not traditionally been applied to an established democracy like Australia, we demonstrate why it is appropriate to apply transitional justic…
Saga Bwoys, Rude Bwoys, and Saggers: Rebellious Black Masculinities
Recycled in white cultural hegemonic representations of the black male body are colonial fantasies, based on fear and desire. Yet, in the formation of diasporic black masculinities, these tropes have been subverted and resisted. Diaspora, here, is a performative process of “becoming” (S. Hall. “Cultural Identity and Diaspora.” In Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory. London: Harvester, 1993) in a rhizoidal network of aesthetic exchange, tr…
Invisibility and the Politics of Reconciliation in Australia: Keeping Conflict in View
Is reconciliation a process of masking conflict in order for it to be eradicated from the view, consciousness and responsibility of the state? Why do we focus on solutions rather than managing and embracing the issues that generate ‘conflict’? This article draws on the politics of reconciliation debates in Australia to highlight the dangers that emanate from political efforts to bring about reconciliation merely as a mode of conflict resolution. …
Making sense of indigeneity, aboriginality and identity: Race as a Constitutional conundrum since 1983
This article is a conversation and encounter between an Indigenous and a non-Indigenous constitutional law scholar attempting to make sense of ‘race’ as it is written and interpreted in the Australian Constitution through a close re-reading of the Tasmanian Dams Case and the race power in s 51(xxvi). The conversation is intended to perform a conduct of jurisprudence in which the experience of law and the interpretation of law as a matter of doctr…
Koowarta and the rival Indigenous international: Our place as Indigenous peoples in the international
Indigenous Australian nations have been interacting with each other since time immemorial. Ravi de Dosta posits that there was, and still is, an Indigenous transnationalism. This transnationalism is required between the Indigenous nations for our nations' sustainability and maintenance as distinct polities. The relationship between the Indigenous peoples of Australia and the Anglo-Australian legal system has been a difficult one to manage due to …
The West Indian Front Room: Reflections on a Diasporic Phenomenon
West Indian identity was created in the context of Diasporic migration and the West Indian front room as the `special' room designated in the domestic interiors of migrants was reserved for guests with restricted access to children. In response to the trauma of displacement, these migrants brought with them a sense of dignity, `good grooming', aspiration and desires for social respectability as remnants of a `colonial time' as suggested by Richar…
The “West Indian” Front Room in the African Diaspora
The Front Room is an icon of kitsch furniture, consumer fetish and home-made furnishings, that resonates throughout the African Diaspora. Diaspora here, echoes Stuart Hall’s concept of cultural identity as a performative process: dialectically continuous and disruptive. The term ‘West Indian’ is inscribed in the representation of the ‘Front Room’, and refers to a particular juncture, when cultural political shifts mediated by anti-colonialist str…
The Doll Test Studies-from Cabbage Patch to Self-Concept
Mass Communication and Journalism in the Pacific Islands: A Bibliography
"An East-West Center Book from the East-West Communication Institute" For more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org
Invisibility and the Politics of Reconciliation in Australia: Keeping Conflict in View
Is reconciliation a process of masking conflict in order for it to be eradicated from the view, consciousness and responsibility of the state? Why do we focus on solutions rather than managing and embracing the issues that generate ‘conflict’? This article draws on the politics of reconciliation debates in Australia to highlight the dangers that emanate from political efforts to bring about reconciliation merely as a mode of conflict resolution. …
Race, reconciliation, and justice in Australia: From Denial to Acknowledgment
The harm perpetrated by the state of Australia against it Indigenous peoples has been structured, prolonged, and driven by race. In this paper, we conceptualize this harm and how it has been denied (and particularly how race has affected this harm and its denial). Although transitional justice literature has not traditionally been applied to an established democracy like Australia, we demonstrate why it is appropriate to apply transitional justic…
The Doll Test Studies-from Cabbage Patch to Self-Concept
Is a Pedagogy of Indigenous Solidarity Possible in the International Relations Theory Classroom
How should teachers of international relations in settler-colonial states engage with First Nations’ sovereignty claims? While a growing body of recent scholarship explores how teaching might acknowledge and move beyond the discipline's racist and colonial origins, less research investigates how pedagogy might rectify inattention to Indigenous sovereignty. This paper reports on a class activity that sought to highlight how the discipline's founda…
Bridging the geospatial gap: Data about space and indigenous knowledge of place
Indigenous knowledge of place is not well-served by today's digital geospatial technologies, such as spatial data, maps, spatial databases, and GIS. This paper aims to identify and explore new connections between Indigenous knowledge of place and digital geospatial technologies. Our analysis is structured around three key gaps in past work: (a) the overrepresentation of digital data about space, rather than knowledge of place; (b) a lack of facil…
Saga Bwoys, Rude Bwoys, and Saggers: Rebellious Black Masculinities
Recycled in white cultural hegemonic representations of the black male body are colonial fantasies, based on fear and desire. Yet, in the formation of diasporic black masculinities, these tropes have been subverted and resisted. Diaspora, here, is a performative process of “becoming” (S. Hall. “Cultural Identity and Diaspora.” In Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory. London: Harvester, 1993) in a rhizoidal network of aesthetic exchange, tr…
The West Indian Front Room: Reflections on a Diasporic Phenomenon
West Indian identity was created in the context of Diasporic migration and the West Indian front room as the `special' room designated in the domestic interiors of migrants was reserved for guests with restricted access to children. In response to the trauma of displacement, these migrants brought with them a sense of dignity, `good grooming', aspiration and desires for social respectability as remnants of a `colonial time' as suggested by Richar…
The “West Indian” Front Room in the African Diaspora
The Front Room is an icon of kitsch furniture, consumer fetish and home-made furnishings, that resonates throughout the African Diaspora. Diaspora here, echoes Stuart Hall’s concept of cultural identity as a performative process: dialectically continuous and disruptive. The term ‘West Indian’ is inscribed in the representation of the ‘Front Room’, and refers to a particular juncture, when cultural political shifts mediated by anti-colonialist str…
Mass Communication and Journalism in the Pacific Islands: A Bibliography
"An East-West Center Book from the East-West Communication Institute" For more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org
The Doll Test Studies-from Cabbage Patch to Self-Concept
The “West Indian” Front Room in the African Diaspora
The Front Room is an icon of kitsch furniture, consumer fetish and home-made furnishings, that resonates throughout the African Diaspora. Diaspora here, echoes Stuart Hall’s concept of cultural identity as a performative process: dialectically continuous and disruptive. The term ‘West Indian’ is inscribed in the representation of the ‘Front Room’, and refers to a particular juncture, when cultural political shifts mediated by anti-colonialist str…
The West Indian Front Room: Reflections on a Diasporic Phenomenon
West Indian identity was created in the context of Diasporic migration and the West Indian front room as the `special' room designated in the domestic interiors of migrants was reserved for guests with restricted access to children. In response to the trauma of displacement, these migrants brought with them a sense of dignity, `good grooming', aspiration and desires for social respectability as remnants of a `colonial time' as suggested by Richar…
Koowarta and the rival Indigenous international: Our place as Indigenous peoples in the international
Indigenous Australian nations have been interacting with each other since time immemorial. Ravi de Dosta posits that there was, and still is, an Indigenous transnationalism. This transnationalism is required between the Indigenous nations for our nations' sustainability and maintenance as distinct polities. The relationship between the Indigenous peoples of Australia and the Anglo-Australian legal system has been a difficult one to manage due to …
Making sense of indigeneity, aboriginality and identity: Race as a Constitutional conundrum since 1983
This article is a conversation and encounter between an Indigenous and a non-Indigenous constitutional law scholar attempting to make sense of ‘race’ as it is written and interpreted in the Australian Constitution through a close re-reading of the Tasmanian Dams Case and the race power in s 51(xxvi). The conversation is intended to perform a conduct of jurisprudence in which the experience of law and the interpretation of law as a matter of doctr…
Invisibility and the Politics of Reconciliation in Australia: Keeping Conflict in View
Is reconciliation a process of masking conflict in order for it to be eradicated from the view, consciousness and responsibility of the state? Why do we focus on solutions rather than managing and embracing the issues that generate ‘conflict’? This article draws on the politics of reconciliation debates in Australia to highlight the dangers that emanate from political efforts to bring about reconciliation merely as a mode of conflict resolution. …
Saga Bwoys, Rude Bwoys, and Saggers: Rebellious Black Masculinities
Recycled in white cultural hegemonic representations of the black male body are colonial fantasies, based on fear and desire. Yet, in the formation of diasporic black masculinities, these tropes have been subverted and resisted. Diaspora, here, is a performative process of “becoming” (S. Hall. “Cultural Identity and Diaspora.” In Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory. London: Harvester, 1993) in a rhizoidal network of aesthetic exchange, tr…
My Mother’s Best “Set”: Diasporic Threads of Crochet
In an oral history workshop as part of the installation-based exhibition The Front Room ‘Inna Joburg’ at the FADA Gallery, Johannesburg (2016), black women from Soweto shared stories about the crochet doilies they had made and brought with them, which resonated with me on a trans-diasporic level by invoking memories of how my mother acquired crochet ‘sets’ from friends and work colleagues. They often made their crochet doilies as domestic laboure…
The Minutes of Evidence Project: “Doing Structural Justice”
Race, reconciliation, and justice in Australia: From Denial to Acknowledgment
The harm perpetrated by the state of Australia against it Indigenous peoples has been structured, prolonged, and driven by race. In this paper, we conceptualize this harm and how it has been denied (and particularly how race has affected this harm and its denial). Although transitional justice literature has not traditionally been applied to an established democracy like Australia, we demonstrate why it is appropriate to apply transitional justic…
Dub in the Front Room: Migrant Aesthetics of the Sacred and the Secular
This article aims to explore, how the struggle over the sacred and the secular is enacted within the material culture of the front room as an index of the double consciousness that takes place in the black every day. The scared is often reduced to the purely religious, but unshackling it, and engaging with the sacred as a spectrum of spiritual experience that illuminates its dialogic relationship with the political, and therefore the secular. Rec…
Keeping Hold of Justice: Encounters between Law and Colonialism
Keeping Hold of Justice focuses on a select range of encounters between law and colonialism from the early nineteenth century to the present. It emphasizes the nature of colonialism as a distinctively structural injustice, one which becomes entrenched in the social, political, legal, and discursive structures of societies and thereby continues to affect people's lives in the present. It charts, in particular, the role of law in both enabling and …
Bridging the geospatial gap: Data about space and indigenous knowledge of place
Indigenous knowledge of place is not well-served by today's digital geospatial technologies, such as spatial data, maps, spatial databases, and GIS. This paper aims to identify and explore new connections between Indigenous knowledge of place and digital geospatial technologies. Our analysis is structured around three key gaps in past work: (a) the overrepresentation of digital data about space, rather than knowledge of place; (b) a lack of facil…
Is a Pedagogy of Indigenous Solidarity Possible in the International Relations Theory Classroom
How should teachers of international relations in settler-colonial states engage with First Nations’ sovereignty claims? While a growing body of recent scholarship explores how teaching might acknowledge and move beyond the discipline's racist and colonial origins, less research investigates how pedagogy might rectify inattention to Indigenous sovereignty. This paper reports on a class activity that sought to highlight how the discipline's founda…
Who feels it knows it: Black bodies and the sensory experience of the dance-hall
Through post-war Caribbean migration sound system culture has creolised the material culture of the dance-hall space in terms of sartorial aesthetics of raver dressing up to go out dancing, the sonic vibrations of bass, and the corporeality of the dance-floor. This began with music played on the radiogram in the front room, where house parties and bluesparties took place in the domestic interior, and eventually the public domain of clubs and danc…
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Colonialism (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · History (6 works) · Indigenous (6 works)