Overview
Availability
- Dr Alana Brekelmans is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
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 science, 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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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
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
2021
Other Outputs
Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes
Brekelmans, Alana (2021). Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Queensland Gallery of Modern Art.
2017
Other Outputs
Cloncurry Tales
Alana Brekelmans and James Enchelmaier (2017). Cloncurry Tales. Cloncurry, QLD, Australia: Echoes.
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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