Overview
Availability
- Dr Alana Brekelmans is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Research interests
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Affect and non-representational theory
The role of affect, emotion, the senses, and the imagination in the politics of place and the environment.
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Science and technology studies
The disparate ways people construct knowledge, particularly Indigenous ontologies and post-colonial knowledge practices.
Works
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2024
Journal Article
Imploding fictions: following the object through the ethnographic novel
Brekelmans, Alana (2024). Imploding fictions: following the object through the ethnographic novel. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 25 (4), 1-3. doi: 10.1080/14442213.2024.2378550
2024
Journal Article
Speculative Ethnography in the Multiverse: Caroline E. Schuster’s <i>Forecasts</i> and Chronotopes of Disaster in the Critical Graphic Narrative
Brekelmans, Alana (2024). Speculative Ethnography in the Multiverse: Caroline E. Schuster’s Forecasts and Chronotopes of Disaster in the Critical Graphic Narrative. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 25 (3), 1-4. doi: 10.1080/14442213.2024.2355412
2024
Journal Article
Frontier narratives that take on flesh: tracing legacy, labour, and legitimacy in Outback Queensland, Australia
Brekelmans, Alana and Martin, Richard J. (2024). Frontier narratives that take on flesh: tracing legacy, labour, and legitimacy in Outback Queensland, Australia. Oceania, 94 (1), 18-38. doi: 10.1002/ocea.5393
2024
Journal Article
Multimedia Review Column : TikTok and the New Public Ethnographer
Brekelmans, Alana (2024). Multimedia Review Column : TikTok and the New Public Ethnographer. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 25 (2), 1-4. doi: 10.1080/14442213.2024.2314335
2023
Journal Article
Difference and Care in Lisa Palmer’s Collaborative Engagements with Timor Leste
Brekelmans, Alana (2023). Difference and Care in Lisa Palmer’s Collaborative Engagements with Timor Leste. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 24 (5), 1-3. doi: 10.1080/14442213.2023.2267252
2023
Journal Article
The fall: an affective methodology
Brekelmans, Alana (2023). The fall: an affective methodology. Capacious: Journal of Emerging Affect Inquiry, 143-163. doi: 10.22387/cap2022.72
2022
Journal Article
A mutable space : Identity in the ruins of a polyethnic town camp, Outback Australia
Brekelmans, Alana (2022). A mutable space : Identity in the ruins of a polyethnic town camp, Outback Australia. Focaal, 2024 (99) ARTN 081803, 1-14. doi: 10.3167/fcl.2022.081803
2021
Other Outputs
Out there, back then: chronotopes of presence and absence in Outback Australia
Brekelmans, Alana (2021). Out there, back then: chronotopes of presence and absence in Outback Australia. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/358d292
2021
Journal Article
Legacies of civil wars: a 14-year study of social conflicts and well-being outcomes in farming economies
Igreja, Victor, Colaizzi, Janna and Brekelmans, Alana (2021). Legacies of civil wars: a 14-year study of social conflicts and well-being outcomes in farming economies. British Journal of Sociology, 72 (2), 426-447. doi: 10.1111/1468-4446.12802
2021
Book Chapter
'I want to sleep at night as well': guilt and care in the making of agricultural credit markets
Langford, Alexandra, Brekelmans, Alana and Lawrence, Geoffrey (2021). 'I want to sleep at night as well': guilt and care in the making of agricultural credit markets. Markets in their place: context, culture, finance. (pp. 122-140) edited by Russell Prince, Matthew Henry, Carolyn Morris, Aisling Gallagher and Stephen FitzHerbert. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429296260-7
Supervision
Availability
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- Available for supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Water is life: Contested Water Values and Hydraulic Fracturing in the Beetaloo Basin, Northern Territory
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Kim de Rijke
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