Slater, Lisa

Overview

Lisa Slater’s work is committed to broadening and challenging key concepts that inform policies and politics such as ‘reconciliation’, ‘recognition’, ‘wellbeing’, ‘community’, ‘sustainability’ and the ‘environment’.

Such challenges require concepts that help unpack the relationship between people, knowledge, power and governance, to understand the effects of privileging the ideas of particular cultures over others. Place is foregrounded in Lisa’s work because politics and policies always unfold somewhere.

Her recent projects have a strong focus on remote, rural and regional Australia.

Research Areas

2002 - CULTURAL STUDIES

Research Overview

I am a senior lecturer in Cultural Studies, in the School of Humanities and Social Inquiry (LHA). I work primarily in the disciplines of cultural studies and Indigenous studies and settler colonialism, with a research and teaching portfolio that is strongly interdisciplinary. My research seeks to understand the processes of neo-colonialism, the conditions of production of contemporary Indigeneity and settler-colonial belonging, with a particular focus on the ways cultural production – most recently cultural festivals – are sites for the expressions of Indigenous sovereignty and ethical inter- cultural engagement. My recent projects have a strong focus on remote, rural and regional Australia.

Geographic Focus

Australia Country

Available as Research Supervisor

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2017	A Meditation on Discomfort Published In Australian Feminist Studies Volume 32 Pages 335 - 343 ISSN 0816-4649 Altmetric
2016	Saltwater cowboys: life in a time of death and destruction Published In Settler Colonial Studies Volume 6 Pages 77 - 87 ISSN 1838-0743 Altmetric
2013	'Wild rivers, wild ideas': Emerging political ecologies of Cape York Wild Rivers Published In Environment and Planning D: Society and Space Volume 31 Pages 763 - 778 ISSN 0263-7758 Altmetric
2013	Anxious settler belonging: actualising the potential for making resilient postcolonial subjects Published In M/C Journal Volume 16 Pages 1 - 7 ISSN 1441-2616
2013	Introduction: Cultural reorientations and comparative colonialities special issue Published In Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies Volume 27 Pages 1 - 3 ISSN 1030-4312 Altmetric
2011	Don't let the Sport and Rec Officer get hold of it: Indigenous festivals, big aspirations and local knowledge Published In Asia Pacific Journal of Arts and Cultural Management Volume 8 Pages 630 - 644 ISSN 1449-1184
2010	'Calling our Spirits Home': Indigenous cultural festivals and the making of a good life Published In Cultural Studies Review Volume 16 Pages 143 - 154 ISSN 1446-8123
2010	Who do I serve? Published In Cultural Studies Review Volume 16 Pages 10 - 13 ISSN 1446-8123
2008	'Aurukun, we’re happy, strong people’: Aurukun kids projecting life into bad headlines Published In Borderlands E-Journal: new spaces in the humanities Volume 7 Pages 1 - 14 ISSN 1447-0810
2007	Intimate Australia: body/landscape journals & the paradox of belonging Published In Cultural Studies Review Volume 13 Pages 150 - 169 ISSN 1446-8123
2007	My island home: Indigenous festivals and archipelago Australia Published In Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies Volume 21 Pages 571 - 581 ISSN 1030-4312 Altmetric
2007	No place like home: staying well in a too sovereign country Published In M/C Journal Volume 10 Pages 1 - 5 ISSN 1441-2616

Book

Year	Title
2019	Anxieties of Belonging in Settler Colonialism: Australia, Race and Place Publisher United States: Routledge ISBN 9781138359468 Pages 142

Chapter

Year	Title
2018	The Anti-Festival: Kimberley Aboriginal Cultural Politics and the Artful Business of Creating Spaces for Kardiya to Hear and Feel Across Difference Published In Ethical Responsiveness and the Politics of Difference Publisher United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan Pages 169 - 186 ISBN 9783319939575 Altmetric
2016	Questioning care Published In The Pedagogies of Cultural Studies Publisher New York: Taylor and Francis Pages 116 - 131 ISBN 9781138916319
2016	The land holds all things: Kim Scott's Benang - a guide to postcolonial spatiality Published In A Companion to the Works of Kim Scott Publisher Rochester, United States: Camden House Pages 37 - 48 ISBN 9781571139498
2014	Sovereign bodies: Australian Indigenous cultural festivals and flourishing lifeworlds Published In The Festivalisation of Culture Publisher London: Ashgate Pages 131 - 146 ISBN 9781409431985
2014	Waiting at the border: white filmmaking on the ground of Aboriginal sovereignty Published In Decolonizing the Landscape: Indigenous Cultures in Australia Publisher New York: Rodopi Pages 129 - 147 ISBN 9789042037946
2014	‘Calling our Spirits home’: Indigenous cultural festivals and the making of a good life Published In History, Power, Text: Cultural Studies and Indigenous Studies Publisher Sydney: CSR Books Pages 354 - 367 ISBN 9780987236913 Altmetric
2011	Our spirit rises from the ashes: Mapoon festival and history's shadow Published In Festival Places Publisher United Kingdom: Channel View Press Pages 123 - 135 ISBN 9781845411671 Edition 1
2010	Enchantment and disenchantment: Indigenous Australian cultural festivals and an ethics of uncertainty Published In Representation and Contestation: Cultural Politics in a Political Century Publisher Amsterdam, NLD: Editions Rodopi Pages 87 - 107 ISBN 9789042031500
2010	They were so unbearably fragile and foolish: apple trees, intimacy and the strangeness of possession Published In Halfway House: The Poetics of Australian Spaces Publisher Western Australia: UWA Publishing Pages 276 - 292 ISBN 9780980296464
2009	Beyond celebration: Australian Indigenous festivals, politics and ethics Published In Culture, Politics, Ethics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Publisher Oxford, UK: InterDisciplinary Press Pages 171 - 179 ISBN 1904710905
2008	Becoming postcolonial: getting lost with Stephen Muecke's No Road and retelling Australia Published In Fact & Fiction: Readings in Australian Literature Publisher New Dehli: AuthorPress Pages 353 - 367 ISBN 9788172734336

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2011	Waiting at the border Published In ReOrienting the World: Decolonial Horizons Conference
2010	Saltwater cowboys: life in a time of death and destruction Published In Rethinking the Postcolonial in the Age of the War on Terror Symposium

Report

Year	Title
2010	Indigenous Cultural Festivals: Evaluating Impact on Community Health and Wellbeing ISBN 9780980553185 Publisher Globalism Research Centrel, RMIT University

Available as Research Supervisor

Potential Supervision Topics

- Postcolonialism and settler colonialism;
- Australian Indigenous cultural studies;
- Issues of belonging and place making;
- Indigenous cultural festivals;
- Cultural production and intercultural engagement

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	Art and Urban Aboriginal Adolescent Identity	Moyle, Catherine
Doctor of Philosophy	An investigation into Indigenous art recognition in the contemporary art world	Bendor, Iris
Doctor of Philosophy	But wait, there's more: deep mapping place to disrupt local histories	Saunders, Jen

Full Name

Lisa Slater

Research Overview

I am a senior lecturer in Cultural Studies, in the School of Humanities and Social Inquiry (LHA). I work primarily in the disciplines of cultural studies and Indigenous studies and settler colonialism, with a research and teaching portfolio that is strongly interdisciplinary. My research seeks to understand the processes of neo-colonialism, the conditions of production of contemporary Indigeneity and settler-colonial belonging, with a particular focus on the ways cultural production – most recently cultural festivals – are sites for the expressions of Indigenous sovereignty and ethical inter- cultural engagement. My recent projects have a strong focus on remote, rural and regional Australia.

Geographic Focus

Australia Country

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2017	A Meditation on Discomfort Published In Australian Feminist Studies Volume 32 Pages 335 - 343 ISSN 0816-4649 Altmetric
2016	Saltwater cowboys: life in a time of death and destruction Published In Settler Colonial Studies Volume 6 Pages 77 - 87 ISSN 1838-0743 Altmetric
2013	'Wild rivers, wild ideas': Emerging political ecologies of Cape York Wild Rivers Published In Environment and Planning D: Society and Space Volume 31 Pages 763 - 778 ISSN 0263-7758 Altmetric
2013	Anxious settler belonging: actualising the potential for making resilient postcolonial subjects Published In M/C Journal Volume 16 Pages 1 - 7 ISSN 1441-2616
2013	Introduction: Cultural reorientations and comparative colonialities special issue Published In Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies Volume 27 Pages 1 - 3 ISSN 1030-4312 Altmetric
2011	Don't let the Sport and Rec Officer get hold of it: Indigenous festivals, big aspirations and local knowledge Published In Asia Pacific Journal of Arts and Cultural Management Volume 8 Pages 630 - 644 ISSN 1449-1184
2010	'Calling our Spirits Home': Indigenous cultural festivals and the making of a good life Published In Cultural Studies Review Volume 16 Pages 143 - 154 ISSN 1446-8123
2010	Who do I serve? Published In Cultural Studies Review Volume 16 Pages 10 - 13 ISSN 1446-8123
2008	'Aurukun, we’re happy, strong people’: Aurukun kids projecting life into bad headlines Published In Borderlands E-Journal: new spaces in the humanities Volume 7 Pages 1 - 14 ISSN 1447-0810
2007	Intimate Australia: body/landscape journals & the paradox of belonging Published In Cultural Studies Review Volume 13 Pages 150 - 169 ISSN 1446-8123
2007	My island home: Indigenous festivals and archipelago Australia Published In Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies Volume 21 Pages 571 - 581 ISSN 1030-4312 Altmetric
2007	No place like home: staying well in a too sovereign country Published In M/C Journal Volume 10 Pages 1 - 5 ISSN 1441-2616

Book

Year	Title
2019	Anxieties of Belonging in Settler Colonialism: Australia, Race and Place Publisher United States: Routledge ISBN 9781138359468 Pages 142

Chapter

Year	Title
2018	The Anti-Festival: Kimberley Aboriginal Cultural Politics and the Artful Business of Creating Spaces for Kardiya to Hear and Feel Across Difference Published In Ethical Responsiveness and the Politics of Difference Publisher United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan Pages 169 - 186 ISBN 9783319939575 Altmetric
2016	Questioning care Published In The Pedagogies of Cultural Studies Publisher New York: Taylor and Francis Pages 116 - 131 ISBN 9781138916319
2016	The land holds all things: Kim Scott's Benang - a guide to postcolonial spatiality Published In A Companion to the Works of Kim Scott Publisher Rochester, United States: Camden House Pages 37 - 48 ISBN 9781571139498
2014	Sovereign bodies: Australian Indigenous cultural festivals and flourishing lifeworlds Published In The Festivalisation of Culture Publisher London: Ashgate Pages 131 - 146 ISBN 9781409431985
2014	Waiting at the border: white filmmaking on the ground of Aboriginal sovereignty Published In Decolonizing the Landscape: Indigenous Cultures in Australia Publisher New York: Rodopi Pages 129 - 147 ISBN 9789042037946
2014	‘Calling our Spirits home’: Indigenous cultural festivals and the making of a good life Published In History, Power, Text: Cultural Studies and Indigenous Studies Publisher Sydney: CSR Books Pages 354 - 367 ISBN 9780987236913 Altmetric
2011	Our spirit rises from the ashes: Mapoon festival and history's shadow Published In Festival Places Publisher United Kingdom: Channel View Press Pages 123 - 135 ISBN 9781845411671 Edition 1
2010	Enchantment and disenchantment: Indigenous Australian cultural festivals and an ethics of uncertainty Published In Representation and Contestation: Cultural Politics in a Political Century Publisher Amsterdam, NLD: Editions Rodopi Pages 87 - 107 ISBN 9789042031500
2010	They were so unbearably fragile and foolish: apple trees, intimacy and the strangeness of possession Published In Halfway House: The Poetics of Australian Spaces Publisher Western Australia: UWA Publishing Pages 276 - 292 ISBN 9780980296464
2009	Beyond celebration: Australian Indigenous festivals, politics and ethics Published In Culture, Politics, Ethics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Publisher Oxford, UK: InterDisciplinary Press Pages 171 - 179 ISBN 1904710905
2008	Becoming postcolonial: getting lost with Stephen Muecke's No Road and retelling Australia Published In Fact & Fiction: Readings in Australian Literature Publisher New Dehli: AuthorPress Pages 353 - 367 ISBN 9788172734336

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2011	Waiting at the border Published In ReOrienting the World: Decolonial Horizons Conference
2010	Saltwater cowboys: life in a time of death and destruction Published In Rethinking the Postcolonial in the Age of the War on Terror Symposium

Report

Year	Title
2010	Indigenous Cultural Festivals: Evaluating Impact on Community Health and Wellbeing ISBN 9780980553185 Publisher Globalism Research Centrel, RMIT University

Potential Supervision Topics

- Postcolonialism and settler colonialism;
- Australian Indigenous cultural studies;
- Issues of belonging and place making;
- Indigenous cultural festivals;
- Cultural production and intercultural engagement

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	Art and Urban Aboriginal Adolescent Identity	Moyle, Catherine
Doctor of Philosophy	An investigation into Indigenous art recognition in the contemporary art world	Bendor, Iris
Doctor of Philosophy	But wait, there's more: deep mapping place to disrupt local histories	Saunders, Jen

Full Name

Lisa Slater

Geographic Location

Wollongong Campus

Located In Facility

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts, Building 19, Room 2021

Orcid Id

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9580-659X (confirmed)

Overview

Overview

Research Areas

Research Overview

Geographic Focus

Available as Research Supervisor

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Book

Chapter

Conference Paper

Report

Supervision

Available as Research Supervisor

Potential Supervision Topics

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Contact

Full Name

Geographic Location

Located In Facility

Identity

Orcid Id

Overview

Research Areas

Research Overview

Geographic Focus

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Book

Chapter

Conference Paper

Report

Supervision

Potential Supervision Topics

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Contact

Full Name

Geographic Location

Located In Facility

Identity

Orcid Id

Visualisations

Research Areas

Geographic Focus