M Hinkson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 8269 |
|---|---|
| NOME | M Hinkson |
| PRENOMES | M |
| SOBRENOME | Hinkson |
| ASSINATURA | HINKSON M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9259-0401 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Remaking the World
Afterword
Among the most compelling phrases in Australian anthropologist W.E.H. Stanner's long catalogue of quotable lines is his appeal that in respect of Aboriginal people and Aboriginal cultural worlds, Australians should open their heads and hearts and go ‘more than halfway to meet them’ (1979, 340). This gesture of stepping beyond one's sedimented expectations may have a trace of paternal connotation, but it has always struck me as a vivid invocation …
Lurching Between Consensus and Chaos
Afterword
This afterword reflects upon the not guilty verdict and the media reportage that followed the conclusion of the murder trial of Constable Zachary Rolfe. After the lifting of media embargoes, a plethora of new material was delivered into the public domain. Much of this material was forensic and voyeuristic in approach, dedicated to expanding the narrative of endemic physical violence in Kumunjayi Walker's background while humanizing and heroising …
Contesting rural Australia in the time of accelerating climate change
See How We Roll
In See How We Roll Melinda Hinkson follows the experiences of Nungarrayi, a Warlpiri woman from the Central Australian desert, as she struggles to establish a new life for herself in the city of Adelaide. Banished from her hometown, Nungarrayi energetically navigates promises of transformation as well as sedimented racialized expectations on the urban streets. Drawing on a decades-long friendship, Hinkson explores these circumstances through Nung…
Afterword
Melinda Hinkson [MH]:The Global Digital Publics Network (GDPN) was formed at Deakin University in mid-2017 to bring together people who were broadly working on digital mediation. As its founding co
Refiguring the postcolonial for precarious times
This special issue of Postcolonial Studies has its origins in two days of presentations and lively dialogue hosted by the Institute of Postcolonial Studies in North Melbourne in conjunction with th
Lurching Between Consensus and Chaos
Imaging crisis in Indigenous Australia and Canada
The last decade has witnessed a significant shift in the terms through which Indigenous people are rendered visible in public debate in Australia and Canada. In observing the long and recursive history of colonial visual regimes, this paper argues that contemporary politics of Indigenous representation are nevertheless distinctively marked by a regime of neoliberal primitivism. Tracing the features and operations of this regime across a selection…
Conversation with the Karrabing Film Collective
This piece is a lightly edited transcript of a conversation with members of the Karrabing Film Collective – Lorraine Lane, Linda Yarrowin, Cecilia Lewis, Sandra Yarrowin, and anthropologist Elizabeth Povinelli – interviewed by anthropologists Melinda Hinkson and David Boarder Giles. The Karrabing Film Collective are a community of Indigenous Australians and their whitefella collaborators who make films that analyse and represent their contemporar…
Locating a zeitgeist
As displacement and dislocation become increasingly widespread human experiences, the future-focused analytic of becoming is gaining considerable traction in anthropological theorising. This article explores what an emphasis on becoming precludes from view. As anthropologists chase fine-grained understandings of human life on the move, while also attempting to account for the discipline's colonial legacy, it is increasingly common to find place-b…
Indigenous Media
Indigenous media refers to diverse audiovisual production activities involving indigenous people. Indigenous people's experience of media technologies date to their earliest contacts with European explorers and scientists. Since the 1970s a growing number of indigenous communities have adopted recording and broadcast technologies for their own purposes. Throughout the closing decades of the twentieth century, indigenous media activity evolved to …
In and Out of Place
This paper explores the case of an Aboriginal woman from Central Australia who has in recent years experienced a radical shift in her life circumstances. It pursues a writerly approach that makes the variety of forces and relationships legible that she now navigates, including that of the anthropologist‐friend. ‘Journeying with’ is proposed as an ethnographic method as well as an ethical stance well attuned to the turbulent circumstances of the p…
Shifting Indigenous Australian Realities
The new millennium has seen the landscape of Australian Indigenous politics and policy rapidly transformed. This overview essay explores these transformations, highlighting the rise of incorporation and intervention as preferred modes of governance in this period. The essay argues for a need for anthropological attention to grapple with settler colonial legacies as well as higher level processes at work in the contemporary circumstances of Aborig…
Turbulent dislocations in central Australia
A Warlpiri woman is exiled from her community in Australia's Central Desert and pursues a new life in metropolitan Adelaide. The state promises that Aboriginal people will have better life prospects beyond their remote territories, but the grueling disruptions of their relationships to place shows otherwise. To be caught between alternate and transforming subjectivities associated with the desert and the city is to inhabit a particular kind of ex…
Precarious Placemaking
This review brings anthropological accounts of place and placemaking into dialogue with the concepts of precarity and precariousness. In recent years, precarity has become a widespread empirical and theoretical concern across the humanities. The article traces the simultaneous rise alongside precarity of network and ontology as post-place-based frameworks for anthropological analysis. Although these new frames facilitate anthropological explorati…
At the Edges of the Visual Culture of Exile
Unsettling Encounters
Unsettling encounters
Beyond assimilation and refusal
This paper takes up the concept of recognition as an ever-present structuring arrangement in relations between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. Recognition, in both positive and negative guises, is understood here to foreclose the terms of those relations. For Warlpiri people of Central Australia who have achieved positive recognition and the attendant confirmation of legal rights in land and native title, the contradictions and frustrations…
Pictures from My Memory
‘That photo in my heart’
What was self-determination? As debates about the future of small Aboriginal communities continue to rage in the public domain, the era in which Aboriginal people \nwere encouraged to leave centralised missions and settlements to pursue relatively autonomous futures on their ancestral lands appears as a distant past. Self-determination as a bipartisan policy approach can arguably be temporally located between 1972 and 1996, a period in which anth…
Joan Meggitt, 19 January 1925 – 27 January 2015
Back from the Field
‘Back from the Field: Visualizing Ethnographic Practice’: A Photographic Exhibition
Exploring ‘Aboriginal’ sites in Sydney
In 2000 I was employed by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) to write a monograph about Aboriginal sites in Sydney.The brief for the project was very broad: what might constitute 'a site' was not pre-determined, nor was any other aspect of the content, although it was stipulated that the book be developed in consultation with Sydney's peak Aboriginal organisations, most particularly land councils.T…
New Media Projects at Yuendumu
New media projects at Yuendumu: inter-cultural engagement and self-determination in an era of accelerated globalization
Mobility and Modernity in Arnhem Land
This article explores the central role played by vehicles in a contradictory set of social processes that have unfolded in western Arnhem Land, north Australia, over the last five decades. Motor vehicles have mediated much of humanity's experience of the world over the past century. Kuninjku people's interaction with motor vehicles, we argue, provides one revealing lens through which to explore a distinctive and ambiguous experience of modernity.…
Contesting rural Australia in the time of accelerating climate change
Turbulent dislocations in central Australia
A Warlpiri woman is exiled from her community in Australia's Central Desert and pursues a new life in metropolitan Adelaide. The state promises that Aboriginal people will have better life prospects beyond their remote territories, but the grueling disruptions of their relationships to place shows otherwise. To be caught between alternate and transforming subjectivities associated with the desert and the city is to inhabit a particular kind of ex…
Beyond assimilation and refusal
This paper takes up the concept of recognition as an ever-present structuring arrangement in relations between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. Recognition, in both positive and negative guises, is understood here to foreclose the terms of those relations. For Warlpiri people of Central Australia who have achieved positive recognition and the attendant confirmation of legal rights in land and native title, the contradictions and frustrations…
Australia's Bill Henson scandal
In May 2008 police removed a series of artworks by internationally renowned photomedia artist Bill Henson from the walls of a Sydney gallery just hours before his exhibition was due to open. They did so in response to an allegation that the invitation to the opening carried an image of child pornography. This article explores some of the events and public debate that followed. The author suggests that rather than simply replicating an age-old deb…
Locating a zeitgeist
As displacement and dislocation become increasingly widespread human experiences, the future-focused analytic of becoming is gaining considerable traction in anthropological theorising. This article explores what an emphasis on becoming precludes from view. As anthropologists chase fine-grained understandings of human life on the move, while also attempting to account for the discipline's colonial legacy, it is increasingly common to find place-b…
Unsettling Encounters
Unsettling encounters
Refiguring the postcolonial for precarious times
This special issue of Postcolonial Studies has its origins in two days of presentations and lively dialogue hosted by the Institute of Postcolonial Studies in North Melbourne in conjunction with th
Image-Encounters with the Techno-Mediated Other
The 2009 post-election violence on the streets of Tehran was brought to world attention by the image production and distribution activities of Iranian citizens. This paper considers the communicative potential of these images as they are encountered by distant observers. Beginning with George Herbert Mead's concept of a generalised other that establishes the ground for intersubjective person formation and the moral basis of self–other relations, …
New Media Projects at Yuendumu
New media projects at Yuendumu: inter-cultural engagement and self-determination in an era of accelerated globalization
What's in a Dedication? On Being a Warlpiri DJ
This article reports on the operation of the Pintupi Anmatyerre Warlpiri radio network, established by the Warlpiri Media Association in the north‐west of Central Australia in late 2001. It traces the history out of which the network emerged and considers the distinctive approach taken to broadcasting by a group of young Warlpiri women. In exploring the on‐air invocation of particular forms of social relations, I argue that radio has come to play…
Introduction
The Intercultural Challenge of Stanner's First Fieldwork
W.E.H. Stanner is a key figure in the history of Australian anthropology and Aboriginal affairs. A student of both Radcliffe-Brown and Malinowski, Stanner undertook anthropological work from the 1930s in north Australia, Africa and briefly in the Pacific. This paper traces Stanner's attempt to wrestle with the conceptual framework he inherited as a student of structural-functionalism, on the ground, during his first field research in north Austra…
Mobility and Modernity in Arnhem Land
This article explores the central role played by vehicles in a contradictory set of social processes that have unfolded in western Arnhem Land, north Australia, over the last five decades. Motor vehicles have mediated much of humanity's experience of the world over the past century. Kuninjku people's interaction with motor vehicles, we argue, provides one revealing lens through which to explore a distinctive and ambiguous experience of modernity.…
Australia's Bill Henson scandal
In May 2008 police removed a series of artworks by internationally renowned photomedia artist Bill Henson from the walls of a Sydney gallery just hours before his exhibition was due to open. They did so in response to an allegation that the invitation to the opening carried an image of child pornography. This article explores some of the events and public debate that followed. The author suggests that rather than simply replicating an age-old deb…
Seeing More than Black and White
In December 2008 Australia’s National Portrait Gallery opened to the public in a new building prominently positioned in the parliamentary triangle in the nation’s capital. In this essay I explore depictions of Aboriginality in the Gallery’s opening hang
Thinking with Stanner in the present
Keith Windschuttle in Quadrant 7 all turned their attention variously to Stanner's work. And in their recent books
Exploring ‘Aboriginal’ sites in Sydney
In 2000 I was employed by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) to write a monograph about Aboriginal sites in Sydney.The brief for the project was very broad: what might constitute 'a site' was not pre-determined, nor was any other aspect of the content, although it was stipulated that the book be developed in consultation with Sydney's peak Aboriginal organisations, most particularly land councils.T…
Image-Encounters with the Techno-Mediated Other
The 2009 post-election violence on the streets of Tehran was brought to world attention by the image production and distribution activities of Iranian citizens. This paper considers the communicative potential of these images as they are encountered by distant observers. Beginning with George Herbert Mead's concept of a generalised other that establishes the ground for intersubjective person formation and the moral basis of self–other relations, …
Joan Meggitt, 19 January 1925 – 27 January 2015
Back from the Field
‘Back from the Field: Visualizing Ethnographic Practice’: A Photographic Exhibition
‘That photo in my heart’
What was self-determination? As debates about the future of small Aboriginal communities continue to rage in the public domain, the era in which Aboriginal people \nwere encouraged to leave centralised missions and settlements to pursue relatively autonomous futures on their ancestral lands appears as a distant past. Self-determination as a bipartisan policy approach can arguably be temporally located between 1972 and 1996, a period in which anth…
Precarious Placemaking
This review brings anthropological accounts of place and placemaking into dialogue with the concepts of precarity and precariousness. In recent years, precarity has become a widespread empirical and theoretical concern across the humanities. The article traces the simultaneous rise alongside precarity of network and ontology as post-place-based frameworks for anthropological analysis. Although these new frames facilitate anthropological explorati…
At the Edges of the Visual Culture of Exile
Unsettling Encounters
Unsettling encounters
Beyond assimilation and refusal
This paper takes up the concept of recognition as an ever-present structuring arrangement in relations between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. Recognition, in both positive and negative guises, is understood here to foreclose the terms of those relations. For Warlpiri people of Central Australia who have achieved positive recognition and the attendant confirmation of legal rights in land and native title, the contradictions and frustrations…
Pictures from My Memory
Indigenous Media
Indigenous media refers to diverse audiovisual production activities involving indigenous people. Indigenous people's experience of media technologies date to their earliest contacts with European explorers and scientists. Since the 1970s a growing number of indigenous communities have adopted recording and broadcast technologies for their own purposes. Throughout the closing decades of the twentieth century, indigenous media activity evolved to …
In and Out of Place
This paper explores the case of an Aboriginal woman from Central Australia who has in recent years experienced a radical shift in her life circumstances. It pursues a writerly approach that makes the variety of forces and relationships legible that she now navigates, including that of the anthropologist‐friend. ‘Journeying with’ is proposed as an ethnographic method as well as an ethical stance well attuned to the turbulent circumstances of the p…
Shifting Indigenous Australian Realities
The new millennium has seen the landscape of Australian Indigenous politics and policy rapidly transformed. This overview essay explores these transformations, highlighting the rise of incorporation and intervention as preferred modes of governance in this period. The essay argues for a need for anthropological attention to grapple with settler colonial legacies as well as higher level processes at work in the contemporary circumstances of Aborig…
Turbulent dislocations in central Australia
A Warlpiri woman is exiled from her community in Australia's Central Desert and pursues a new life in metropolitan Adelaide. The state promises that Aboriginal people will have better life prospects beyond their remote territories, but the grueling disruptions of their relationships to place shows otherwise. To be caught between alternate and transforming subjectivities associated with the desert and the city is to inhabit a particular kind of ex…
Lurching Between Consensus and Chaos
Imaging crisis in Indigenous Australia and Canada
The last decade has witnessed a significant shift in the terms through which Indigenous people are rendered visible in public debate in Australia and Canada. In observing the long and recursive history of colonial visual regimes, this paper argues that contemporary politics of Indigenous representation are nevertheless distinctively marked by a regime of neoliberal primitivism. Tracing the features and operations of this regime across a selection…
Conversation with the Karrabing Film Collective
This piece is a lightly edited transcript of a conversation with members of the Karrabing Film Collective – Lorraine Lane, Linda Yarrowin, Cecilia Lewis, Sandra Yarrowin, and anthropologist Elizabeth Povinelli – interviewed by anthropologists Melinda Hinkson and David Boarder Giles. The Karrabing Film Collective are a community of Indigenous Australians and their whitefella collaborators who make films that analyse and represent their contemporar…
Sociology (23 obras) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (15 obras) · Political science (15 obras) · Art (14 obras) · Law (13 obras) · History (11 obras) · Aesthetics (8 obras) · Epistemology (8 obras) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (8 obras) · Media studies (8 obras)