Richard Maddox
Biographic Data
| ID | 89119 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Maddox |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Maddox |
| SIGNATURE | MADDOX R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2770-0686 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Indigenous excellence: Confronting racism and complicity in peer review
Racism in peer review is a common, structurally embedded, and systemic problem. However, it is often framed as isolated acts of individual-level bias. Racism in peer review manifests across interconnected societal, system, and process levels, shaping who participates in knowledge production, what is deemed credible evidence, and whose work is published. This Indigenous-led Perspective examines racism in peer review through a three-layer framework…
Framing nico-colonialism and nico-genocide: A critical public health review of the tobacco industry’s role as a commercial determinant of health
Background: Commercial tobacco and nicotine harms are often framed as issues of individual behaviour, product risk, or disease burden. Such framings can obscure the settler colonial and corporate structures that produce and sustain structural inequities and disproportionate harms among Indigenous peoples. Aim: This critical essay (re)frames the commercial tobacco and nicotine industry as a structural mechanism of settler colonial violence, contri…
Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children: Adolescent never smoking and associations with individual, social, and environmental factors
Fuelled by the tobacco industry, commercial tobacco use is a major cause of preventable morbidity and mortality among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Preventing adolescent smoking initiation is critical to reducing uptake. Understanding individual, social, and environmental factors that are protective against smoking can inform prevention strategies. We analysed data from adolescents 12–15 years and their caregivers from Wave 11 (2…
The Ottawa Charter: Indigenous sovereignty, resistance, and health promotion at 40
Contribution to Health Promotion The Ottawa Charter is a powerful guide for fair and healthy societies, but inequities and industrygenerated harms persist. Tobacco and nicotine industries continue to exploit colonial systems, targeting Indigenous peoples and undermining sovereignty and the right to health. Indigenous communities demonstrate strong leadership, including youth leadership, through truthtelling, art, and community action that resist …
Colonial harm in new packaging: Indigenous critiques of the tobacco industry's ‘harm reduction’ rhetoric
Over the last 75 years, we have learned that commercial tobacco use causes widespread disease and death. However, the commercial Tobacco and Nicotine Industry continues to promote, market, and sell tobacco and nicotine products to protect and expand profit. This reflects their legal obligation to act in shareholders’ best interests. While the Tobacco and Nicotine Industry heavily promotes alternative products such as electronic cigarettes and nic…
Footprints in time: Individual, social, and environmental factors and never-use of e-cigarettes among Indigenous adolescents
Electronic cigarette (e-cigarettes or vapes) use is becoming increasingly common, including among adolescents aged 12–15 years, who are often targeted through marketing and flavoured products. We aimed to investigate associations between individual, social, and environmental factors and e-cigarette never-use (hereafter referred to as never-use) among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adolescents in 2018. This was a cross-sectional analysis of…
Building love and justice, ending harms: A framework for abolishing the tobacco and nicotine industry
The tobacco and nicotine industry, embedded in colonial exploitation and racialised harm, remains a leading cause of preventable disease, death, and intergenerational trauma. This article presents a transformative abolitionist public health framework, grounded in Indigenous-led principles of sovereignty, truth-telling, love, and justice. It aims to dismantle the structural drivers of harm perpetuated by the industry. We centre abolition as a mora…
Tobacco and nicotine population health planning for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population growth
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population growth has important implications for tobacco and nicotine health planning. Using the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) DataLab, we examined weighted estimates of the absolute number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples aged 18 years and over, drawing on the 2012–13 and 2018-19 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Surveys. We compared the absolute number of people w…
Trends in the prevalence and factors associated with indoor smoking in 24 countries Party to the WHO FCTC: Implications for equitable policy implementation
INTRODUCTION: The health consequences of secondhand smoke (SHS) are a long-standing concern. The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is an evidence-based treaty that aims to protect people from health and environmental harms of commercial tobacco use and exposure to SHS. This study quantified the prevalence of daily smoking inside the house (indoor smoking) and change over time and examined the determinants of indoor smoking in 24 …
Winds of change: A stocktake on progressing the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in Indigenous contexts
Across the three countries, there was a focus on increasing Indigenous leadership in the development and implementation of tobacco control programmes. For example, in Australia, the Tackling Indigenous Smoking programme focuses on codesigning culturally tailored interventions to address high smoking rates and overcome challenges, particularly in remote communities, while addressing gaps in providing culturally safe supports. Indigenous leadership…
Comprehensive review of Pacific Island countries’ reports on the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (2007–2023): Progress, challenges and opportunities
While the PICs have ratified the FCTC and made strides to fight tobacco use and its consequences, they still face significant challenges to fully implement the FCTC. Building local and regional capacity and capability to implement and monitor progress with tobacco control policies is essential to reducing tobacco-related death and disease in the PICs
Cultural commodities alongside commercial tobacco targeting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Australia
Peer-reviewed
Shaping the end of the Australian commercial tobacco epidemic: Insights from Indigenous and non-Indigenous tobacco control policy actor interviews
The tobacco control playbook will remain important in promoting policy innovation, as will resisting the influence of the commercial sector. Indigenous leadership is essential for all Australians and may open additional policy windows and drive reforms that are equitable, effective, community-driven and commensurate with the scale of harms
Resisting industry narratives: Guidance to avoid tobacco and nicotine industry framing
The tobacco and nicotine industry has a long history of endangering the health and wellbeing of individuals, populations and society, including Indigenous peoples, via dubious practices and tactics that continue today. These tactics include generating opposition, fracturing consensus, dehumanizing groups and minimizing the perception of harms from tobacco use. This article offers guidance for people working in health promotion and tobacco control…
Indigenous sovereignty in research and epistemic justice: Truth telling through research
Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing are based on embodied sovereignty, relationality and countless generations of knowledge sharing. We call for epistemic justice in which Indigenous knowledge systems are recognised and valued in research-related contexts. We draw attention to how colonial knowledge systems silence, delegitimise and devalue specific knowers and ways of knowing, being and doing - through truth telling. This includes (1) th…
How Indigenous Knowledges and Knowledge Systems Are Centered in Research: An Indigenous-informed Realist Review Protocol
Our intention is to synthesize and amplify how IK have been centered in research, across multiple disciplines and geographies, to benefit Indigenous Peoples. We focus on nurturing and fostering ways of doing Indigenous research and including IK in a way that supports the well-being of Indigenous Peoples
Our Health Counts: Nothing about us without us in our right to be counted
We call upon the federal government, in consultation with Aboriginal peoples, to establish measurable goals to identify and close the gaps in health outcomes between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities, and to publish annual progress reports and assess long-term trends.Such efforts would focus on indicators such as: infant mortality, maternal health, suicide, mental health, addictions, life expectancy, birth rates, infant and child health i…
Design and implementation of the Our Health Counts (OHC) methodology for First Nations, Inuit, and Metis (FNIM) health assessment and response in urban and related homelands
The OHC methodology has been demonstrated as effective, culturally relevant, and scalable across diverse Ontario cities
Our Health Counts Toronto: Commercial tobacco use among Indigenous peoples in Toronto
The Indigenous population in Toronto continues to experience smoking prevalence nearly four times greater than that in the general population. This highlights the need for accurate population data to inform programs and policies and address the social determinants of health
Transformative learning at the community-university-land interface: A political ecology of knowledge, education and health
As awareness grows of the catastrophic implications of global environmental change, multiple scholarly fields addressing health-environment relationships have advocated 'transformative' educational strategies. Holistic Indigenous health-environment models inspire and inform many such efforts, but related land-based learning initiatives involving universities are often impeded by the competitive processes of academia. In this article we report on …
Australia: Reclaiming tobacco and e-cigarette control leadership
Public health advocacy is not for the impatient. Policy change is often frustratingly slow and requires walking that fine line between guiding and pushing governments and others to do the right thing. Push too hard, too publicly and you risk alienating otherwise supportive political champions. Equally, gentle or non-committal advice can lead to inaction and confusion on what policy solution is needed. Finding new and compelling ways to restate bo…
Commercial tobacco endgame themes in the Australian media from 2000 to 2021
Media articles on the tobacco endgame in Australia generally contained positive sentiment about endgame policies. When engaging with the media, endgame advocates should be aware of, and ready to counter, opposing themes such as the purported failures of 'prohibition', 'nanny state' rhetoric or a growth in illicit tobacco trade
Tobacco endgame intervention impacts on health gains and Māori: Non-Māori health inequity: a simulation study of the Aotearoa/New Zealand Tobacco Action Plan
A tobacco endgame strategy, especially denicotinisation, could deliver large health benefits and dramatically reduce health inequities between Māori and non-Māori in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Ethical publishing in ‘Indigenous’ contexts
Ethical publishing practices are vital to tobacco control research practice, particularly research involving Indigenous ( Indigenous peoples : For the purposes of this Special Communication, we use the term Indigenous people(s) to include self-identified individuals and communities who frequently have historical continuity with precolonial/presettler societies; are strongly linked to the land on which they or their societies reside; and often mai…
Our Health Counts: Examining associations between colonialism and ever being incarcerated among First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people in London, Thunder Bay, and Toronto, Canada
This research highlights disproportionately high prevalence of ever being incarcerated among FNIM living in three Ontario cities. Experiencing racism, family disruption, and victimization are associated with incarceration. Decreasing the rates of family disruption, experiences of racism, and victimization should inform future policy and services to reduce the disproportionately high prevalence of incarceration for FNIM people living in urban sett…
Unmet health needs and discrimination by healthcare providers among an Indigenous population in Toronto, Canada
This analysis provides new evidence linking discrimination in healthcare settings to disparities in healthcare access among urban Indigenous people, reinforcing existing recommendations regarding Indigenous cultural safety training for healthcare providers. Our study further demonstrates Our Health Counts methodologies, which employ robust community partnerships and RDS to address gaps in health information for urban Indigenous populations
Revolutionary anticlericalism and hegemonic processes in an Andalusian town, August 1936
Anthropologists and social historians have debated whether the participants in violent attacks on the church and clergy in Spain during the Civil War period were "millenarian" protestants whose actions sprang from a premodern sociopolitical mentality or were pragmatic radicals whose actions simply represented a series of well-calculated attacks on a key ideological institution. In analyzing the events leading to anticlerical violence in an Andalu…
Design and implementation of the Our Health Counts (OHC) methodology for First Nations, Inuit, and Metis (FNIM) health assessment and response in urban and related homelands
The OHC methodology has been demonstrated as effective, culturally relevant, and scalable across diverse Ontario cities
El Castillo: The Politics of Tradition in an Andalusian Town
Modelling prevalent cardiovascular disease in an urban Indigenous population
Our modelling identified hypertension, diabetes and exposure to discrimination as factors associated with cardiovascular disease. Discrimination is a modifiable exposure that must be addressed to improve cardiovascular health among Indigenous populations
Identifying how to Engage Men in Domestic Violence Research: A Concept Mapping Study
Spatium and Intervallum: The development of technical terms for “Interval” in medieval treatises
In the Middle Ages, the development of a technical language for the discussion of music involved a number of experimental usages. An example of this process is the use of the words spatium and intervallum, at first with specific meanings, but then later in the period interchangeably to mean “interval.” Two distinct uses of the word intervallum occur in early treatises, one to indicate an interval, the other to indicate a step, that is, adjacent n…
Religious Pluralism and Unbelief: Studies Critical and Comparative
Journal Article Religious Pluralism and Unbelief: Studies Critical and Comparative, edited by Ian Hamnett. London: Routledge, 1990, viii + 279 pp. $59.95 Get access Richard Maddox Richard Maddox Augustana College, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 52, Issue 3, Fall 1991, Pages 301–302, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711364 Published: 01 October 1991
Invisible Factories: The Informal Economy and Industrial Development in Spain. Lauren Benton
Unwrapping Christmas
Journal Article Unwrapping Christmas, edited by Daniel Miller. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993, ix + 239 pp. $29.95 Get access Richard Maddox Richard Maddox Carnegie Mellon University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 55, Issue 4, Winter 1994, Page 496, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711993 Published: 01 December 1994
El Castillo: The Politics of Tradition in an Andalusian Town
Other Histories. Kirsten Hastrup
Revolutionary anticlericalism and hegemonic processes in an Andalusian town, August 1936
Anthropologists and social historians have debated whether the participants in violent attacks on the church and clergy in Spain during the Civil War period were "millenarian" protestants whose actions sprang from a premodern sociopolitical mentality or were pragmatic radicals whose actions simply represented a series of well-calculated attacks on a key ideological institution. In analyzing the events leading to anticlerical violence in an Andalu…
El Castillo: The Politics of Tradition in an Andalusian Town
Founding a Convent in Early Modern Spain: Cultural history, hegemonic processes, and the plurality of the historical subject
Carnival Song and Society: Gossip, Sexuality, and Creativity in Andalusia
Study protocol - Indigenous Australian social networks and the impact on smoking policy and programs in Australia: Protocol for a mixed-method prospective study
Our study will explore the key factors, including the influence of social networks, that impact on tobacco use and the extent to which smoking behaviours transcend networks within the Indigenous Australian community in the ACT. This will add to the evidence-base, identifying influential factors to tobacco use and the effectiveness and influence of a multi-component tobacco control strategy
Identifying how to Engage Men in Domestic Violence Research: A Concept Mapping Study
Foundation for a Smoke-Free World and healthy Indigenous futures: An oxymoron
Indigenous peoples represent a diversity of cultures, perspectives and experiences that brings tremendous vibrancy to our world. Within this diversity, many Indigenous peoples share a common history of colonisation that continues today
Unmet health needs and discrimination by healthcare providers among an Indigenous population in Toronto, Canada
This analysis provides new evidence linking discrimination in healthcare settings to disparities in healthcare access among urban Indigenous people, reinforcing existing recommendations regarding Indigenous cultural safety training for healthcare providers. Our study further demonstrates Our Health Counts methodologies, which employ robust community partnerships and RDS to address gaps in health information for urban Indigenous populations
Still Looking for Mechanisms: A Realist Review of Batterer Intervention Programs
Introduction: Complex interventions, including batterer intervention or treatment programs (BIPs), require that program strategies interact with contextual factors to trigger often unseen mechanisms in individuals or communities. Although hundreds of evaluations of BIPs have been published, few identify mechanisms or explain for whom, under what conditions, and why programs are effective. The goal of this realist review is to identify evidence of…
Big tobacco using Trojan horse tactics to exploit Indigenous peoples
The tobacco industry has a long history of exploiting Indigenous peoples and their culture. During the 1980s, tobacco company WD & HO Wills ran racist advertising in Australia carrying the slogan ‘Get your own black’. In the late 1990s, Winfield advertisements depicted an Aboriginal man playing a didgeridoo with the slogan ‘Australians’ answer to the peace pipe’.1 2 More recently, Philip Morris International (PMI) has sold cigarettes in Israel la…
Indigenous Health Service Evaluation: Principles and Guidelines from a Provincial “Three Ribbon” Expert Panel
A group of Indigenous health and social service evaluators called the “Three Ribbon” panel came together in Toronto in 2015/16 with the goal of informing a set of evidence-based guidelines for urban Indigenous health and social service and program evaluation. The collective knowledge and experiences of the Three Ribbon panel was gathered through discussion circles and synthesized around the following areas: barriers to conducting Indigenous healt…
Tobacco Related Attitudes and Behaviours in Relation to Exposure to the Tackling Indigenous Smoking Program: Evidence from the Mayi Kuwayu Study
Smoking is the leading contributor to the burden of disease and mortality for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, with an estimated 37% of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths attributed to smoking. The Tackling Indigenous Smoking (TIS) program was implemented to support people to quit smoking, prevent initiation, and reduce exposure to second-hand smoke. Analysis of baseline (2018-2020) data from a large-scale cohort study…
Under the influence
The tobacco industry has a long and well-documented history of influencing, exploiting and misleading public health and research communities.1–4 Starting with the 1953 ‘Tobacco Industry Research Committee’5, stakeholders affiliated with the tobacco industry have strategically promoted industry interests through the funding of research programmes and public health initiatives, in order to influence research agendas, manipulate the design, methods …
Decolonising qualitative research with respectful, reciprocal, and responsible research practice: A narrative review of the application of Yarning method in qualitative Aboriginal and Torres Strait Is…
Decolonization of Tobacco in Indigenous Communities of Turtle Island (North America)
Indigenous peoples represent a diversity of cultures, perspectives, languages, experiences, and protocols that bring tremendous vibrancy across Turtle Island, commonly known as North America. We acknowledge the diversity of practices among these peoples, especially in their relationship with tobacco. The colonization of Turtle Island, which escalated after Christopher Columbus accidentally came unto the lands of the Arawakan people of the Caribbe…
It Needs a Full-Time Dedicated Person to Do This Job in Our Local Communities with Our Aboriginal Health Services”—Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers and Practitioners Perspectives o…
This study highlights the need to enhance SCC offered to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander pregnant women. A targeted workforce dedicated to smoking cessation should be resourced, including funding, standardised training, and ongoing SCC support tailored to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander pregnant women
Getting there together: Highlights, challenges and opportunities for tobacco control in the Oceania region
We conclude that achieving a smoke-free Oceania is possible through already existing bold country and regional smoke-free goals, excellent tobacco control leadership, experience and resources, and an understanding of how to work collectively. However, a commitment to focus tobacco control efforts regionally is required to achieve a smoke-free Oceania together
Knowledge translation approaches and practices in Indigenous health research: A systematic review
Modelling prevalent cardiovascular disease in an urban Indigenous population
Our modelling identified hypertension, diabetes and exposure to discrimination as factors associated with cardiovascular disease. Discrimination is a modifiable exposure that must be addressed to improve cardiovascular health among Indigenous populations
Medicine (25 works) · Political science (25 works) · Indigenous (23 works) · Sociology (22 works) · Environmental health (20 works) · Public health (18 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (16 works) · Smoking Behavior and Cessation (16 works) · Law (15 works) · Tobacco control (15 works)