Overview
Availability
- Dr Alana Brekelmans is:
- Available for supervision
Research interests
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Affect and non-representational theory
Examining how emotions, vibes, embodied experiences, and the senses shape everyday politics and relationships between people and the more than human world.
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Science and technology studies
Exploring the disparate ways people construct knowledge. I am particularly interested in feminist and postcolonial approaches to Indigenous ontologies, diverse forms of environmental knowledge, and the role of affect and the senses in scientific understandings.
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Political ecology and environmental humanities
Analysing how power structures influence a range of environmental interactions.
Works
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2025
Journal Article
Lessons from the field
Brekelmans, Alana (2025). Lessons from the field. Slow Journal, 16, 97-98.
2025
Journal Article
Composing, decomposing, and recomposing engagement in Indigenous-led research for land and sea management, Tiwi Islands, Australia
Kerinaiua, Mavis, Brekelmans, Alana, Spencer, Michaela, Ayre, Margaret, Jones, Mitch, Young, Alys Rhiannon, Kerinaiua, Fiona, Kurrupuwu, Ancilla, Kantilla, Callista, Alimankinni, Jacinta, Orsto, Francis, Puruntatameri, Francilla, Puantulura, James Darren and Nicholson, Emily (2025). Composing, decomposing, and recomposing engagement in Indigenous-led research for land and sea management, Tiwi Islands, Australia. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 21 (2), 274-284. doi: 10.1177/11771801251334917
2025
Other Outputs
Awake in the Golden Age (Capacities to dream other-wise at the end of the world)
Brekelmans, Alana (2025). Awake in the Golden Age (Capacities to dream other-wise at the end of the world). Capacities to: affect up against Fascism. (pp. 91-102) edited by Gregory J. Seigworth, Mathew Arthur, Wendy J. Truran and Chad Shomura. Lancaster, PA, United States: Imbricate Press. doi: 10.22387/CTAUAF
2025
Journal Article
Attuning to Anthropologies Otherwise: The Curatorium Collective's Epistemic Experiments in Ethnography
Brekelmans, Alana (2025). Attuning to Anthropologies Otherwise: The Curatorium Collective's Epistemic Experiments in Ethnography. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 26 (1), 1-4. doi: 10.1080/14442213.2024.2446042
2024
Journal Article
Exploring the mental health of young people in households and schools in Gorongosa District, Center of Mozambique
Igreja, Victor, Axelsen, Taryn and Brekelmans, Alana (2024). Exploring the mental health of young people in households and schools in Gorongosa District, Center of Mozambique. Scientific Reports, 14 (1) 28057, 1-15. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-79257-7
2024
Conference Publication
All that we make (together we compose and decompose).
Brekelmans, Alana (2024). All that we make (together we compose and decompose).. Society for the Study of Affect Conference, Lancaster, PA, United States, 12-14 October 2024.
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), 208-211. doi: 10.1080/14442213.2024.2314335
2024
Other Outputs
The Turtuni framework
Kerinauia, Mavis, Brekelmans, Alana, Ayre, Margaret, Spencer, Michaela, Young, Alys and Nicholson, Emily (2024). The Turtuni framework. Casuarina, NT Australia: Tiwi Resources.
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
Conference Publication
Walking together: negotiating knowledge in research
Kerinaiua, Mavis and Brekelmans, Alana (2023). Walking together: negotiating knowledge in research. People, Plants, and the Law, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 26 October 2023.
2023
Conference Publication
The Turtuni Framework: guiding collaborative research for Tiwi Murrukupuni (Country)
Kerinaiua, Mavis and Brekelmans, Alana (2023). The Turtuni Framework: guiding collaborative research for Tiwi Murrukupuni (Country). Ecological Society of Australia, Darwin, NT, Australia, 3-7 July 2023.
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) 081803, 1-14. doi: 10.3167/fcl.2022.081803
2022
Conference Publication
Excessive affects: improvisation as a feminist methodology in anthropologies of settler colonialism
Brekelmans, Alana (2022). Excessive affects: improvisation as a feminist methodology in anthropologies of settler colonialism. Australian Anthropological Society Conference ‘Life Support’, Geelong, VIC, Australia, 23-26 November 2022.
2022
Conference Publication
Strange gaze: four glances at the poetics and politics of looking in art and anthropology
Brekelmans, Alana (2022). Strange gaze: four glances at the poetics and politics of looking in art and anthropology. Strange Intimacies, Tartu, Estonia, 23-24 September 2022.
2022
Book Chapter
Mitakoodi housing
Brekelmans, Alana, Kum Sing, Tanya, Major, Ronald, Kum Sing, Graham, Lucas, Brenda and Wildermuth, Deborah (2022). Mitakoodi housing. Camps, cottages and homes: a brief history of Indigenous housing in Queensland. (pp. 1-8) edited by Timothy O'Rourke and Mandana Mapar. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland Anthropology Museum.
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
Supervision
Availability
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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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