CAPSTRANS RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

Dr Barry Morris

Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Science, Education and Arts, University of Newcastle

Qualifications

1986 PhD Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia

1979 BA (Hons) Department of Anthropology and Comparative Sociology, Macquarie University, NSW, Australia

Research Programs

Culture and Representation

Research Specialisation

Dr Barry Morris has contributed years of research into indigenous issues and race relations in
Australia. His approach has developed out of the insight that it is necessary to explore the cultural logic that has informed exclusionary practices in Australia rather than liberal approaches couched in more universal expressions of social or civil rights and, more recently, human rights. Dr Morris has contributed to an increased international and theoretical interest in localised as well as national expressions and practices of social exclusion and inclusion. 

Current Research Projects

ANZAC Nationalism and secular pilgrimages

Recent Publications

• (2006) with B. Kapferer, ‘Nationalism and Neo-Populism in Australia: Hansonism and the Politics of the New Right in Australia’, in A. Gingrich and M. Banks (eds) Neo-Nationalism in Europe and Beyond, Oxford: Berghahn Books.
• (2005) with J. Moseley, (c. 1850-1938), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Supplementary Volume, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
• (2005) ‘A Crisis in Identity: Aborigines, Media, the Law and Politics - Civil Disturbance in an Australian Town’, Critique of Anthropology, 25, 1, 59-85.
• (2004) ‘Anthropology and the State: the Ties that Bind’, Expert Knowledge First World Peoples, Consultancy and Anthropology, Berghahn Books, Canada, 102-115.
• (2004) with R. Bastin, ‘Introduction’, Expert Knowledge First World Peoples, Consultancy and Anthropology, Berghahn Books, Canada, 1-11.
• (2004) with R. Baston, (eds) Expert Knowledge: First World Peoples, Consultancy, and Anthropology Critical Interventions, vol. 4. Oxford: Berghahn Books.
• (2004) ‘Abolishing ATSIC in the Enabling State’, The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 324-328.
• (2003) with B. Kapferer, (2003) ‘The Australian Society of the State: Egalitarian Ideologies and New Directions in Exclusionary Practice’, Social Analysis, 47, 2.
• (2003) with R. Bastin, (eds) Expert Knowledge: First World Peoples, Consultancy, and Anthropology, Social Analysis, Forum Series, 47, 1.
• (2003) with R. Bastin, ‘Introduction’, Social Analysis, Expert Knowledge: First World Peoples, Consultancy, and Anthropology, Forum Series, 46, 1.
• (2003) ‘Anthropology and the State: the Ties that Bind’, Social Analysis, 47, 1.
• (2001) ‘Policing Racial Fantasy in the Far West of New South Wales’, Oceania, 71, 3, 242-262.

Current Research Students

• Caroline Holmstrom Hoban, PhD, “Gallery Display: Aboriginal Art And The Construction Of Aboriginalility”. (Co-supervisor) Expected submission 2007.
• Kathleen Julie Butler, PhD, “Decolonising Pedagogy”. (Co-supervisor). Expected submission 2008.

Past Research Students

• Deirdre Howard, PhD, “Post Indigenous Rights - the political rationalities and technologies governing Federal Indigenous affairs in Australia in the contemporary period”. Completed studies September 2006.

Organisational Affiliations

• 2003 – 2006 Vice-President of the Australian Anthropology Society.