Staff profile

Dr Tracey Banivanua Mar

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Historical and European Studies

DMB E121, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA (Hons-Melbourne), PhD (Melbourne).

Area of study

Australian Studies
History

Brief profile

Tracey’s teaching and research interests include colonial and transnational Indigenous histories with a concentration on Australia and the western Pacific. She has published on race relations and the dynamics of violence in Queensland’s sugar districts during the era of the Queensland-Pacific indentured labour trade, and nineteenth-century histories of Australian South Sea Islanders. She is currently Chief Investigator on an ARC funded Discovery Project entitled: ‘Land and Colonial Cultures: tracing Indigenous and settler transformation in the Pacific, 1850-1900’, which is examining the legal and ritual methods of land possession and dispossession in Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii and Fiji. She also completing a book on the transnational history of decolonization to be titled Decolonization and the Pacific, to be completed in 2012. Some of Tracey's other areas of study include Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies as well as Australian and Pacific History.

Research interests

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History

- Indigenous studies

Australian History

- Australian and Pacific Colonialism

Post Colonial Studies

- Race relations

Teaching units

  • HIS2/3CCP - Charting the Colonial Pacific.
  • HIS2/3CRE - Consumption Race and Empire
  • HIS3RHB - Reflective and Narrative History (honours prep subject)

 

Recent publications

Books

  • Banivanua Mar, T and Edmonds, P, (eds), 2010, Making Space: Settler-Colonial Perspectives on Land, Place and Identity, London, Palgrave.
  • Banivanua Mar, T 2007, Violence and Colonial Dialogue: The Australia-Pacific Labor Trade, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.
  • Banivanua Mar, T. and Evans, J, (eds.) 2002, Writing Colonial History: Comparative Perspectives, Melbourne: RMIT Publishers.

Journal Articles

  • Banivanua Mar, T., ‘Cannibalism and Colonialism: charting colonies, resistance and legal frontiers in nineteenth-century Fiji’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 52:2, (2010): 255-81.
  • Banivanua Mar, T., ‘Frontier Space and the Reification of the Rule of Law: Colonial Negotiation in the Western Pacific, 1870-74’, Australian Feminist Law Journal, 30 (2009): 23-39.
  • Banivanua Mar, T., ‘“A Thousand Miles of Cannibal Lands”: Imagining Away Genocide in the Re-Colonization of West Papua’, The Journal of Genocide Research, 10:4 (2008): 570-598.
  • Banivanua Mar, T., “Human Rights through the Lens of Critical Race Theory”, Just Policy, 43 (2007): 55-67.
  • Banivanua Mar, T., “Consolidating Violence and Colonial Rule: Discipline and Protection in Colonial Queensland”, Postcolonial Studies, 8:3, (2005): 303-320.

Book Chapters

  • Banivanua Mar, T., ‘Sowing and Dignity: women’s work, race and the civilizing mission in Queensland, 1850-1900’, Williams, C. (ed), Indigenous Women and Work: transnational perspectives, (Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2012).
  • Banivanua Mar, T. and Edmonds, P., ‘Introduction: Making Space in the Settler Colony’, in Banivanua Mar, T. and Edmonds P., (eds), Making Settler Colonial Space: perspectives on race, place and identity, (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010): 1-24.
  • Banivanua Mar, T., ‘Carving Wilderness: national parks and the unsettling of emptied lands’ in Banivanua Mar, T. and Edmonds P., (eds), Making Settler Colonial Space: perspectives on race, place and identity, (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010): 73-94.
  • Banivanua Mar, T., ‘Reading the Shadows of Whiteness: a case of racial clarity on Queensland’s colonial borderlands, 1880-1900’ in Boucher, L. et. al. (eds), Re-Orienting Whiteness, (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009): 149-164.
  • Banivanua Mar, T., “Cannibalism in Fiji: A Study in Colonialism’s Discursive Atavism’, Grimshaw, P. and R. McGregor, (eds.), Collisions of Cultures and Identities: Settlers and Indigenous Peoples, (Melbourne: RMIT Publishing, 2006): 155-75.

Refereed Conference Papers

  • Banivanua Mar, T., ‘The Bunya Black’: Fear and Loathing on Queensland’s Racial Borderlands’, Historicising Whiteness: Transnational Perspectives on the Construction of an Identity, (Melbourne: RMIT Publishing, 2007): 328-337.

Other

  • Banivanua Mar, T., Alexeyeff, K., Warner, X., The International Slave Trade and Slavery in the Pacific Region, Slave Route Project, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2011.
  • Banivanua Mar, T., “Sugar and Labor: Tracking Empires”, Benjamin, T., (ed.), Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism Since 1450, (Detroit: McMillan Reference, USA 2007): 1064-67.

Research projects

  • ARC Discovery Project, 2012-2014: ‘Land and Colonial Cultures: tracing Indigenous and settler transformation in the Pacific, 1850-1900’.
  • La Trobe University Central Grant Scheme, 2008: Sailing the Winds of Change: transnational histories of decolonization in the Pacific
  • United Nations Educational Social and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 2011. Slave Route Project: International Slave Trade and the Pacific Region.

Research Supervisions

  • Gabrielle Haynes (PhD), Histories of Place in Mackay
  • Crystal McKinnon (PhD), Indigenous resistance narratives
  • Nadia Rhook (PhD), Race and Language in colonial Victoria
  • Ben Silverstein (PhD), Indirect Rule in a Settler Colony.