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Victoria L. Grieves Victoria L. Grieves i(A104664 works by) (a.k.a. Vicki Grieves)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Worimi / Gadang / Kattang
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Dr Victoria Grieves is an historian from the Warraimay people of the midnorth coast of NSW. She works in interdisciplinary ways to progress Indigenous knowledge production in the academy and has published a baseline for Indigenous knowledge production in Australia in the book Aboriginal Spirituality: Aboriginal Philosophy, in which the history of Aboriginal people since colonisation is critically analysed in the framework of ongoing Aboriginal cultural values, ethics, and knowledge of their own responses to colonisation. She has published a history of her Warraimay family, The McClymonts of Nabiac, in which she critically analyses the interplays of race and gender as within the transnational ambition of white men to create a new slavery society wherever they colonised, including in Australia.

As a conscious academic activist, she is also increasingly engaging with the historical development of Aboriginal activism, its connection to transnational Indigenous activism, including in the academy, and contemporary actions to defend country and to organise through social media. She has argued for the historical and contemporary positioning of Aboriginal people in a state of exception to the Australian settler colonial state. In this, she is increasingly engaging with the role of history and the cultures of Indigenous peoples in approaches to deal with the Anthropocene: her recent publication, 'The Plough as Settler Colonial Cultural Icon: Voices from the Other Side of the Blade', interrogates settler colonial colonisation through ploughing as an overwhelming destructive influence on the natural world and the lives of Indigenous peoples internationally.

Her engagement with Aboriginal family histories has led her to consider the interplays of race and gender in international colonial contexts and the impact of settler colonial ideologies on the lives of individual people. Her recent work involves conceptualising the importance of the children born of war as a means to frame the common and divergent characteristics of the settler colonial regimes of the USA and Australia when they came together on the Australian mainland between 1941 and 1945 in the raw circumstances of war. This is the crux of the ARC-funded project she is now working on, Children Born of War: Australia and the War in The Pacific 1941 – 1945 (2015 – 2018).

Source: Provided by author, May 2017.

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  • Other works not individually indexed on AustLit include:

    – 'The McClymonts of Nabiac: Interracial Marriage, Inheritance and Dispossession in C19th New South Wales Colonial Society" in Alison Holland and Barbara Brookes (Eds) Rethinking the Racial Moment: Essays on the Colonial Encounter, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2011.

    – The "Battlefields": Identity, Authenticity and Aboriginal Knowledges development in Henry Minde (ed.) Australia in Indigenous Peoples : Self-Determination Knowledge Indigeneity (2008)

    – Aboriginal Philosophy (https://downloads.newcastle.edu.au/library/cultural%20collections/awaba//index.html)

    –Nature in the culture of cities: Indigenous peoples, immigrants and reflections on Harlem NYC as the pointy end of the Anthropocene (Academia.edu)

    – "We have survived the whiteman's world": Reggae in Aboriginal Australia, the African Diaspora and Black Power (Academia.edu)

    – Schattenkinder: Children Born of War in the 20th and 21st Centuries

    – Aboriginal Australians and the state of exception: camps, refugees, biopolitics and the Northern Territory Emergency Response (Academia.edu)

    – One World Rising

    – The Goodlife and Australian Indigenous Spirituality (Radio Interview)

    – 'Review of James Galloway's White People, Indians and Highlanders: Tribal people and colonial encounters in Scotland and America', Australian Journal of Politics & History Special Issue: Expansions and Contractions: The Internal and External Frontiers of Europe Volume 56, Issue 3, 2010

    – Review of Ravi de Costa's A Higher Authority: Indigenous Transnationalism and Australia, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2006 in the Journal of Australian Colonial History Vol 11 2009

    – Review of Annette Gordon Reed's The Hemingses of Monticello: an American Family, published in the Australian Journal of Politics and History Sept 2009

    – Review of The Archaeology of Contact in Settler Societies, Tim Murray Ed, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005 in the January 2006 issue of the API Review of Books

    – Review of The Aboriginal Man in the Enlightenment World in Aboriginal History Vol 37 (2013)

    – Asserting Indigenous Knowledges: Building Sustainable Futures in National Indigenous Times 3 February, 2011 [28]

    – No River, No People in National Indigenous Times 26 May, 2011 [32]

    – Aboriginal cultural heritage must be managed by our mob in National Indigenous Times 20 January 2011 [24]

    – Closing the Gap: addressing the disregard for Aboriginal cultural values and knowledges in Australia in National Indigenous Times 31 March 2011 [36]

    – Aboriginal lifestyles could fix the hole in the heart of Australia in The Conversation 17 March 2015

    – 'Indigenous wellbeing - a framework for governments' Aboriginal cultural heritage activities' (www.environment.nsw.gov.au/conservation/IndigenousWellbeingFramework.htm )

    – Indigenous Knowledges in Latin America and Australia: Locating Epistemologies, Difference and Dissent (Conference paper)

    – 'Defence of Country: Aboriginal people dealing with the impacts of globalisation in Australia' (Presentation)

    – 'Into the academy: Indigenous knowledges, protocols, ethics, philosophies and methodologies in higher education' (Conference paper)

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