Journal of global indigeneity
Journal Data
| Type | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Macquarie University Department of Chemistry & Biomolecular Sciences |
| ISSN | 2651-9585 |
| OpenAlex | S4404673509 |
| MAG | 4404673509 |
| Website | https://ro.uow.edu.au/jgi/vol1/iss1/ |
| Total publications | 98 |
| Coverage period | 2019 - 2026 |
| Country | XNA |
| Language | EN |
| Access | Open Access |
| Indexing | DOAJ indexed |
| Cited by | 2 |
| Impact factor | 0.26 |
| h-index | 1 |
The Journal of Global Indigeneity is explicitly dedicated to indigenous studies, which is a key related area to social anthropology. It frequently publishes work on indigenous peoples, cultures, and politics, making it highly relevant
African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Australian History and Society · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Health, Medicine and Society · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity
Fourth World Theory in the Australian Context of Two Worlds
The Fourth World is a group or ‘World’ that is Indigenous. It is also a World that is cultural, political and economically categorised. It sits under the weight of colonising ideologies, records, systems, institutions, organisations, social structures, and infrastructure, in other words, the governance and institutional tool of a nation-state. Over twenty years after the abolition of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC), d…
Decolonising Criminology? We’re Not Interested
Over recent years, long-standing tensions between criminology and Indigenous scholars in Australasia have intensified. These tensions arise from several sources: the continued support some non-Indigenous criminologists give to the settler-colonial state and its criminalisation of Indigenous peoples; conflicting views about how research methods, ethics, and theory should engage with Indigenous knowledge; and the racism, silencing, and marginalisat…
Envisioning Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander AI Futures Communique
By Rose Barrowcliffe, Ben Hutchinson & 35 more. In January 2025, over forty Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander researchers, community members, and allies, gathered to envisage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander AI futures
Decolonisation as Departure
In this article I critically analyse the recent “decolonial” turn within Australian criminology. Drawing upon critical Indigenous conceptualisations of decolonisation and analysing my personal confrontations with the discipline, I examine how criminologists mobilise decolonisation as a discourse rather than a praxis. By interrogating the discursive effects of recent calls to decolonise Australian criminology, I consider how criminologists mobilis…
“My Poppa, He Was One of My Biggest Role Models
In this article I explore how some young Māori men makes sense of Māori masculinities. In particular, I explore the complications and contradictions young Māori men negotiate within a sociocultural context shaped by colonisation, racialisation and marginality (alongside sexism, ableism and other forms of structural marginalisation). Taking a Kaupapa Māori approach, I constructed data poems as a form of pūrākau (Māori storywork) from interviews wi…
‘Coming In’ as Indigenous, Queer, and Urban – Utilising Indigenous Queer Standpoint Theory as Methodology
This article outlines my positionality, a crucial aspect of Indigenous research, to explore two guiding questions: 1) How do Native American Queer, Trans, and Two-Spirit individuals experience settler-colonial urbanization? and 2) How do their resilience, resistance, agency, and self-determination reshape urban spaces for Native American communities in Phoenix, Arizona? Utilizing Indigenous Queer Standpoint Theory, I draw on theoretical insights …
Sacred Fire Gatherings and Indigenous Men’s Wellness
Relatively little attention has been paid to Indigenous men’s health and wellbeing in the urban landscape and even less attention has been given to urban experiential land-based health and wellbeing activities for Indigenous men as they connect to masculinities. This paper is built out of findings from an experiential land-based research project that the authors developed to address needs pertaining to Indigenous masculinities and men’s wellbeing…
The Quest for Bargallie
By Debbie Bargallie, Awais Hussain. This paper presents early findings from a larger research agenda that combines oral history, written records, and genetic analysis to uncover the origins and migratory paths of Bargallie
Reclaiming Indigenous Cultural Spaces in Sports
Maintaining ties to culture and traditional practices are fundamental values that are often shared and adapted by various Indigenous communities throughout Canada. Often, these cultural rituals and activities have the greatest benefit when practiced within a safe space, where individuals feel comfortable expressing and sharing their cultural identity. In sport settings, culturally safe spaces hold great value for many athletes, while also contrib…
Hemp as a Sustainable Solution for Climate Crisis Action and the Opportunities and Implications for Indigenous Communities
Indigenous youth are disproportionately impacted by the climate crisis. Researchers at the Waakebiness Institute for Indigenous Health engaged with approximately 200 Indigenous youth in Tkaronto, Ontario, Turtle Island through talking circles and surveys about the impacts of the climate crisis on youth mental health and exploring possible solutions; connection to land, sustainability, and taking further action were amongst some of major themes th…
Goanna Walking
By Madi Day, Percy Lezard & 19 more. This rubric is designed for Indigenist and anti-colonial approaches to teaching. It was created in collaboration with more than 20 Indigenous scholars from so-called Australia, Aotearoa and Turtle Island
A Kaupapa Māori Review of Māori Food Data Within National Health Surveys in Aotearoa New Zealand
This paper presents a kaupapa Māori analysis of six national health surveys in Aotearoa New Zealand that collect food and nutrition data from Māori. The concepts of Māori Nutrition Data Sovereignty (MNDS) and Māori Nutrition Data Governance (MNDG) are introduced and applied through a novel framework for assessing surveys and Māori food data in line with MNDS and MNDG principles. The methodologies and governance structures of six national health s…
Investigating the Colonial Project of Domestic and Intragroup Violence in the Queer Indigenous Community
Within Indigenous communities, there is often a lack of discussion of the ongoing harmful effects of the practice of colonial gender, sex, and sexuality. Within my paper are three poems I wrote tying together my personal relationships with the politics of settler colonialism. These poems intend to illustrate this violence within Indigenous Queer relationships as a colonial legacy that is sustained by homophobia, heterosexism, transphobia, and mis…
More Than Bodies
The article presents interviews with two Diné men, where they describe how they enact and model masculine identities in their anticolonial community organising. The discussions centre on being a cis-hetero Diné man, kinship roles and responsibilities, Diné masculinity and femininity, and what it means to create healthy masculinity as an anticolonial practice. The article shows how they imagine, enact, and model their masculinity to contest coloni…
Playing the Colony
The colonial project of gender (and everything else) (O’Sullivan, 2021) insists upon an unchanging masculinity signifying domination, control, rigidity, physical force, and violence. In this article, we challenge the reliability of these colonial impositions, and the fixedness of masculinities and femininities, by considering the fluidity and changeability of masculinities expressed in the work of queer Indigenous creative artists from the Lands …
‘Burning Love’, Living Ngurra
‘Burning Love’ is not just the title of a song sung by Elvis Presley. It is a metaphor for the traditional custodial practice of using cool guwiyang (fire) to care for the environment by Indigenous peoples across the continent called ‘Australia’ for more than 65,000 years. As such it is not only a practice for maintaining Ngurra (Country), but it involves intimate relationality with specific presences, places, and people. As such it involves love…
‘Ni Rini’ Ca Beleguí Ca’ the Language of the Stars
As Ayuujk linguist Yasnaya Aguilar notes, languages are at the centre of Indigenous communities, experiences and land ownership struggles; therefore, they are specially targeted by the state as part of its culturally homogenising and controlling endeavours (as cited in Albarran, 2023). Language reclamation projects are a strategy through which Indigenous communities seek to create awareness among learners of the sociocultural meanings associated …
Reclaiming the Threads
This paper explores the translation of Māori (Indigenous peoples of Aotearoa New Zealand) research data into innovative formats and spaces that enhance communication with a broad audience, including Indigenous communities and other key stakeholders. Using the Tō Mātou Kāinga tō Mātou Ūkaipō (Supporting Flourishing Home Environments) research project - a study focused on Māori perspectives of home and wellbeing - as a case study, this paper illust…
Manuhiritanga (in the Manner of Being a Guest)
Indigenous peoples worldwide share experiences of invasion, colonialism, oppression and resistance. They share relational worldviews and are often united in their fight for human rights, Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination. There are many values and principles that are shared amongst global Indigenous communities, however, most global Indigenous communities and collectives remain culturally and linguistically distinct from each other. C…
Restorative Justice or Colonial Compromise? Rethinking Responses to Family Violence in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities
This paper critically examines the application of restorative justice as a response to family violence in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Drawing on national and international literature, it identifies both the promise and the limits of restorative justice within settler-colonial contexts. While community-led, culturally grounded programs—such as those on Mornington Island and in Aurukun—demonstrate significant potential for he…
Mutual Aid as Decolonial Praxis
Mutual aid is a practice of collective care that has been given increasing scholarly attention since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020. However, the decolonial potential of mutual aid has still received limited recognition. Authored by grassroots activists, this paper will argue for the role of mutual aid in “unsettling” (Tuck and Yang, 2012) the material conditions of colonialism, and more broadly disrupting the power of the colonial carceral …
Queer As
As a team working on the ‘Queer As...’ database and audit, we have approached the issue of queer Indigenous representation by pondering the role of all queer representation. The audit focuses first on Indigenous representation, radiating out to include the complexity of identity at large. In doing so, we have discovered systemic similarities, but as is often the case with the colony, we have also discovered ways in which Indigeneity cannot either…
The Colonial Affliction
How to Make a Captain Cook Cupcake With Pink Frosting
The Incantatory Power of Critical Racial and Decolonial Literacies
This Tauiwi House
Exploring the Historical Complexities of Native Identity Formation, Blood Quantum, and Modern Tribal Enrolment Criteria
In the United States, blood quantum (BQ) based enrolment criteria find their roots in settler-colonial policies to erase, assimilate, and subjugate Indigenous Peoples and individuals. As a result, Native Nations throughout the United States continue to debate such practices. Current research on Native individuals’ identities does not fully account for the impact of BQ laws. Native people’s self-identity includes their identity as an enrolled or u…
Love in Choleric Times
The need to de-colonise many areas of knowledge is becoming more evident by the hour. More often than not, academics of every background - although often female academics and/or academics of colour (AOCs?) – raise their voices in individual or collective efforts to remove the veil of colonialism, including racism, misogyny and other forms of oppression from the social sciences and humanities. Dr Rolando Ochoa discusses the potential of Analytical…
What the ? Reflections on Decolonising Nomophilitis with the Discourse of Love
Francesca Dominello reveals that her work from within the discipline of law makes her ‘very conscious (and critical) of the dominant paradigm that views law as objective and neutral – and thus beyond question’ as this disconnects decision makers from the judgements made and reduces accountability for them. While Dominello agrees with Agozino that ‘achieving greater solidarity among oppressed peoples is a worthwhile cause, especially considering t…
Introduction
This special issue of the Journal of Global Indigeneity builds upon the interdisciplinary, international dialogues arising from the travels and provocations of Professor Onwubiko (Biko) Agozino to Australia and Aotearoa, New Zealand in June 2018. We say provocations deliberately- the expression ‘fuck the law’ was flashed up on screens by Agozino in Australia asking why such critical views of the law had been neglected by criminologists when milli…
Critical Conversations on Decolonising Criminology in Aotearoa New Zealand
This article explores some of the themes and ideas that arose with Biko Agozino’s visit to the University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand in June of 2018. The visit was marked with research workshops that brought together academics, postgraduates and community members for discussions and critical conversations on his work and the theme of ‘Decolonising criminology and the law’
Strawmen and the Decolonisation of the Academy
In this article Dr Juan Tauri responds to a claim made by a audience member that the new journal, Decolonisation of Criminology and Justice, launched at AUT University, Auckland in June 2018, was part of the ‘white space’ we are supposed to be critiquing. The argument was that because it is part of a ‘white space’ that those affected by a rapacious academic criminology and criminal justice system, are unlikely to access it, or for their voices to…
Expletive Tactics of Unmasking the Infrastructural Limits of Settler Law
In this article Professor Joseph Pugliese discusses the inquest into David Dungay’s death and the Dungay family’s use of expletives in the course of the inquest, and how the validity of settler law to uncover the truth of how their loved one died and to identify who was responsible for this death was placed under interrogation
Nomophilia and Academic Work in the Austerity University
This short paper seeks to bring themes into dialogue to begin to think through the possibilities for decolonial and critical scholarship in the neo-liberal, austerity university where nomophilia is rife- from the federal legislative level empowering university management strategies but also, somewhat paradoxically, at the level of resistance to those institutional moves
Decolonising Property Justifications
In this article Professor Margaret Davies presents a decolonised account of property. She asks: What if, instead of going along with a character we know to be false, we consider how the truths of history and of interconnection with the nonhuman world might change our entrenched ideas about proprietorship
The Necessity of Decarceration
Racial penal governance has been a forceful constitutive part of the settler colonial order - that has worked to assert the sovereignty of the settler state, its criminal justice system and capitalism. Decarceration plays a significant part in a decolonial project
Reflections on Presenting ‘Fuck the Law’ in Aotearoa & Australia
Nwa mkpi shi la njefuga du mma melu ya ji jee ibe nne ye lolu muta isolu olu elu – Igbo proverb. Young billy goat said that travel is good and that that was why he went to his mother’s kindred and learned how to pout
The ‘Nadir’ of Empire or the Apex of Crime
In this opinion piece I will take as the point of departure two points made by Biko Agozino regarding criminality and criminology. The first is that imperialism is the basic form of all criminality and that “the rapist, the pickpocket, the robber, the murderer, the arsonist, the bank fraudster, the dictator, all share the qualities of the criminal state that commits violence against the people.” The second is that criminology is a technology desi…
Interrelated Struggles and the Role of the Academic in the Fight for Freedom
In this article Dr Adele N. Norris argues that an essential component of decolonisation involves identifying interdependent struggles in order to form coalitions of consciousness. As academics and anti-racist activists, we must engage in new ways of thinking about culturally grounded disruptive approaches to achieving racial and economic equity
Student support during a pandemic
Indigenous leadership is critical in enabling the success of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander university students. Supporting students to navigate the complex space of the cultural interface (Nakata, 2007) in the context of higher education is vital in improving outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, their families, and communities. In times of crisis, this specialist support becomes more crucial as the usual factors th…
Online Corroboree in Covid-19
All students who undertake postgraduate study can experience feelings of isolation. However, First Nations students bear additional burdens due to the limited number of fellow Indigenous HDR students. These feelings have been compounded by strict isolations rules and university campus closures during the Coronavirus pandemic, with First Nations students also carrying the concern of our families being of greater risk of more serious illness with t…
The Importance of Settler/Invader Responsibilities to Decolonisation and The Collective Future as Highlighted in Ngoi Pēwhairangi’s “Whakarongo”
By Hemopereki Simon. We need a truthful and honest conversation about settler/invader presence on Indigenous lands and the nature of settler colonialism, particularly in relation to Te Tiriti o Waitangi
Longing for Home During Covid-19
I want to go home but I do not know where home is anymore. Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, I have been isolated from both the academic and reservation community, and (dis)placed with family that questions everything I do. With them, I experience self-doubt. They add to the imposter syndrome that I already experience in academia. Growing up on a reservation with my grandparents, I did not imagine graduate degrees were in my future. Now I find mys…
Navigating the digital va-vā
Core Moana/Pacific cultural values and practices are usually considered as unimportant, irrelevant or ineffectual in academic practice or tertiary teaching and learning spaces. While Moana/Pacific ways of knowing and being have flourished for thousands of years, in recent times they have been constantly dismissed and devalued by mainstream or dominant cultures. Nonetheless, those educators who hold Moana/Pacific values as central to their lives, …
Walanga Muru Reflection - Covid-19 and a Community Approach to Indigenous Higher Education Success at Macquarie University
On the 21 March 2020, Walanga Muru, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander space at Macquarie University, transitioned to a fully digital community as a result of the Covid-19 outbreak. Walanga Muru’s success is grounded by our ability to form relationships and connections, guided by Aboriginal values, perspectives, shared experiences, and aspirations. These connections allow us to share journeys with our community members contributing to over…
After ‘Iso’
In 2018 I commenced a full-time academic position in Sydney, New South Wales. Dharug Country, a 1,400-kilometre drive from my home, my family, and my community on Kaurna Country. I chose to embark upon a FIFO (fly-in, fly-out) arrangement for the foreseeable future. Flexibility from my family and my colleagues made this not-ideal arrangement workable. Three years later I have made many new friends, learned a lot about Dharug Nura, started buildin…
“Can I just share my story?” Experiences of technology-facilitated abuse among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in regional and remote Australia
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are disproportionately affected by violence against women, in all its forms, and are overrepresented as domestic, family, and sexual violence victims. Access to technology is vital to ensuring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women can safely report and access support services. Whilst technology can be helpful and life-saving for women experiencing violence, technology can also be misused by perpet…
Lifelines
Please note that there is a discussion of suicidal ideation in this article. Take care with reading this if you are feeling vulnerable. If you need support, please contact a helpline (like Lifeline) or a healthcare professional. I was finally getting my work on an even keel when the pandemic hit. Last year had been difficult across my work and personal life, serving as a reminder that these two realms are, for many Aboriginal people in the academ…
Addressing the roadblocks of constitutional change through mobilising Indigenous voices online
Indigenous Australians are increasingly turning to social media as a form of political activism. While “white” voices and colonial power structures dominate public, political, and media discourses, social media provides a space where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples can amplify their voices and the issues most pertinent to them. In this article, we discuss how social media and online forums are being used to advocate and build public…
Creativity in reactivity
University Indigenous Education Units (IEU) support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students’ success, via providing academic, social, and cultural support and a sense of community on campus. As a result of the social distancing guidelines imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic, however, Australian universities have transitioned to online learning and campuses have closed. These rapid changes pose challenges for IEUs who have had to quickly i…
Negotiating the relational vā in the University
The Covid-19 global phenomenon has significantly disrupted economic, political and social systems at all levels. For Pasifika peoples, the impact of Covid-19 has exacerbated inequities that have long existed within the order of capitalist and neo-liberal ideologies. Higher education has been a home for such discourse, privileging western knowledge systems that inform the nature of teaching and learning, and the so-called image of the ‘individual’…
The Impacts of Covid-19 on Tangihanga
The influenza pandemic of 1918, which killed 50 million people, has been acknowledged as the most significant disease event in human history. In response to the pandemic, the ways in which tangihanga (Māori funeral practices) were carried out changed. Bodies were immediately taken to the urupā (burial ground) without the customary extended ceremonies. Similarly, the impacts of the burgeoning COVID-19 situation has meant uncomfortable, albeit temp…