Dr Barry Morris
Honorary Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci (Sociology and Anthropology)
- Email:barry.morris@newcastle.edu.au
- Phone:(02) 4921 5961
Career Summary
Biography
Research Expertise
I have made a significant contribution to the field of social and cultural anthropology through fieldwork based research. This research has involved both academic research projects and consultancy research that have both involved fieldwork research. My PhD research, involved 15 months ethnographic fieldwork in Kempsey, N.S.W., and 12 months archival research at the Mitchell Library, State Archives, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies and Museum Library (NSW). A number of articles were published through out the 1980s and the research was finally published as a book, Domesticating Resistance (Berg Press). In 1991 I conducted courtroom ethnographic research on the Brewarrina riot trial with Dr Thomas Ernst and Dr Kerry Zubrinich. The research has produced a number of publications in both national and international journals. I co-edited the successful book, Race Matters (1997) (Aboriginal Studies Press) with Dr Gillian Cowlishaw. Much of my consultancy research has involved producing connection reports and summary reports for native title claims (1995- 2002). I was invited to co-edit a book with Dr Rohan Bastin, Expert Knowledges: First World Peoples, Consultancy, and Anthropology (Berghahn Press), which included critical analyses of anthropology and consultancy from a global perspective in Brazil, USA, Canada, South Africa and the former Yugoslavia. My consultancy research has involved ethnographic fieldwork in a consideration of indigenous peoples mythologised meanings of landscape. I have published connection reports, including the first successful mainland decision regarding the Dhan-gadi Native Title claim at Crescent Head (1995). The research was commissioned by the NSW Aboriginal Land Council Native Title Unit and, more recently, the NSW Native Title Services Ltd. This was followed by a connection report of the Gumbaingirr people at Gumma in Nambucca Heads, NSW and a number of summary reports in the region between 1977 and 2004. I have become familiar with fieldwork-based interview research especially in relation to landscapes and their meaning. I am a Research Associate of the Wollongong-Newcastle Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies (CAPSTRANS). In recent years I have worked to widen CAPSTRANS research foci to include projects that analyse regional Australian issues in the context of wider Asia-Pacific social transformations. I also enjoyed making a contribution to the discipline of Anthropology at a national level as Vice-President of the Australian Anthropology Society (2003-2006). I was invited to participate in a panel session at the American Anthropological Society Conference, New Orleans (2002) [I am a Research Associate of the Wollongong-Newcastle Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies (CAPSTRANS). In recent years I have worked to widen CAPSTRANS research foci to include projects that analyse regional Australian issues in the context of wider Asia-Pacific social transformations. I also enjoyed making a contribution to the discipline of Anthropology at a national level as Vice-President of the Australian Anthropology Society (2003-2006). I was invited to participate in a panel session at the American Anthropological Society Conference, New Orleans (2002) on race relations in Australia.
Teaching Expertise
Since 1983, I have tutored and lectured in anthropology in Departments and Schools at Adelaide University, Charles Sturt University and Newcastle University. I was employed as a tutor at Adelaide University (1983-1986) before moving to a full-time lectureship in the School of Social Science and Welfare Studies at Charles Sturt University (1987-1991) and then to Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Newcastle University (1992-2004). I was promoted to a Senior Lecturer in 1995. Whilst at Newcastle, I took up a position as senior staff member on newly established Ourimbah Campus, School of Humanities, in 1997 before transferring back to Callaghan Campus, School of Social Sciences, in 2002. At Callaghan, IAndrew Lattas and myself have established new offerings in anthropology in the School to be jointly taught. The new course electives have been a significant success, attracting significant student numbers. I have taught in a number of courses teaching in social and cultural anthropology. I have demonstrated a capacity to teach and co-ordinate courses with large student numbers and delivering mass lectures as well as to smaller groups associated with more specialised teaching in electives. At Charles Sturt University and Newcastle University, I co-lectured in the large first year courses. At Newcastle, I co-lectured and co-ordinated SOCA1020 Introduction to Social & Cultural Anthropology at the Callaghan Campus and then at Ourimbah Campus every year, except one, since I was appointed there. I also was in charge of establishing, organising and co-ordinating the new multi-disciplinary strand at Ourimbah, Societies and Cultures, and co-ordinating and lecturing in the introductory course, HUMA1160 Foundations of Society and Culture.
Administrative Expertise
My administrative expertise has been directed towards research and teaching. After the major structural changes iundertaken by the university, much of my administrative duties have been directed towards new course development and co-ordination of electives and major first year courses. In research, I have continued with my interest in post graduate programs, with my involvement in the now defunct School Research Committee and as Post-Graduate Seminar co-ordinator. I have set up and run, with Professor Lyndall Ryan, the Double Edged Coference at Ourimbah Campus. I have also developed my administrative research skills in running, co-ordinating and completing four major consultancy research projects involved in the development of Summary and Connection Reports associated with Native Title Claims in New South Wales.
Collaborations
Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies - ANZAC Nationalism and secular pilgrimages The principal focus of this project is a revitalised ANZAC nationalism, its historical values and meanings. The ethnography focuses on the contemporary meanings expressed by those who participate in the organised tours to a number of war memorial sites in the Asia-Pacific region and Europe. The force of nationalist sensibility requires a cultural understanding of the relationship between nationalist beginnings, commemorative rites, and the role of war in Australia's relationship with Asia-Pacific and Europe. This project seeks to understand this important dimension of Australian nationalism. The project will strengthen the understanding of Australias historical connections with its Asia-Pacific region and Europe. Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies - Indigenous Affairs in the Enabling State In this research, I am concerned with the broader process of major change in forms of state governance. These changes in polity reveal new forms of governance that redefine the social and regulatory functions of the state and the relations of citizens to the state. The abolition of ATSIC, the removal of CDEP and more recently, the Northen Territory intervention, signals more than punitive forms of state intervention. Such shifts would appear to reveal major changes from the Keynesian styled welfare state to market driven neo-liberal forms of governance. The research I am interested in would be in carrying out fieldwoprk research to consider the impacts of these new policies and there implementation in one or more regional communities.
Qualifications
- PhD (Anthropology), University of Sydney
- Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Macquarie University
- Bachelor of Arts (Anthropology and Sociology), Macquarie University
Keywords
- Anthropological research
- Australian nationalist myths and symbols
- Comparative politics of Indigenous rights and race relations
- Contemporary Australian Society
- Indigenous rights and race relations
- Social and Cultural Anthropology
- Social and cultural change in Indigenous Australian society
- Social change
- Social theory
- Urban studies
Professional Experience
Academic appointment
Dates | Title | Organisation / Department |
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1/9/2004 - 1/1/2007 | Vice President | Australian Anthropology Society Australia |
1/6/1983 - 1/6/1986 | Lecturer | The University of Adelaide Anthropology Australia |
1/1/1982 - 1/1/1987 | Lecturer | Charles Sturt University Anthropology and Sociology |
Membership
Dates | Title | Organisation / Department |
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Member - Australian Anthropology Society | Australian Anthropology Society Australia |
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Member - International Working Group for Indigenous Affairs | International Working Group for Indigenous Affairs Australia |
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Member - Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies | Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) Australia |
Awards
Recognition
Year | Award |
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2004 |
Native Title Research NSW Native Title Services Ltd |
Invitations
Participant
Year | Title / Rationale |
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2005 |
Australian Dictionary of Biography Organisation: Melbourne University Press. Description: I was invited by the Australian Dictionary of Biography (Supplementary Volume), on significant Indigenous identity John Moseley (c. 1850-1938) Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. |
2002 |
Visiting Researcher Organisation: Bergen University Description: 2002 and 2005 A research visitor, in the Anthropology Department at Bergen University, Norway, at the invitation of Professor Bruce Kapferer. The project aimed to develop an analysis of the contemporary manifestations of egalitarianism in Australian politics, and provides a foundation for the current ethnographic research proposal. |
Publications
For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.
Book (5 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link | ||
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2014 | Morris B, Protests, Land Rights, and Riots Postcolonial Struggles in Australia in the 1980s, Berghahn Books, 216 (2014) | ||||
2004 |
Morris BJ, Bastin R, Expert Knowledge First world peoples, consultancy and anthropology, Berghahn Books, Canada, 130 (2004) [A3]
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2004 |
Morris B, Bastin R, Expert Knowledge: First World Peoples, Consultancy and Anthropology (2004) The professionalization of anthropology through practical engagement is a major force underpinning the reformulations of the nature of the anthropological project. It is therefore... [more] The professionalization of anthropology through practical engagement is a major force underpinning the reformulations of the nature of the anthropological project. It is therefore imperative that anthropologists critically explore the conditions of their practices, to determine the difficulties and limitations to their ethical practice. These essays examine the application of expert knowledge in fields where there is the expectation of considerable cultural, social, and political consequence for human populations as a result of state, corporate, or non-governmental re-organization.
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Chapter (9 outputs)
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2022 | Morris B, 'The Great Divide: Property Relations and the Foundational Dynamics of Settler-Colonial Society', Class in Australia, Monash University Publishing, Clayton, Victoria 40-57 (2022) [B1] | Nova | |||
2016 |
Morris BJ, 'The Cultural Politics of Indigenous Struggles and Aboriginal Riots', The Oxford Handbook of the History of Crime and Criminal Justice, Oxford University Press, New York (2016) [B1]
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2012 | Morris BJ, 'The social genesis of Anzac nationalism', Legends of People Myths of State: Violence, Intolerance, and Political Culture in Sri Lanka, Berghahn Books, Washington, DC 339-362 (2012) [B1] | Nova | |||
2012 | Kapferer B, Morris BJ, 'The Australian society of the state: Egalitarian ideologies and new directions in exclusionary practice', Legends of People Myths of State: Violence, Intolerance, and Political Culture in Sri Lanka, Berghahn Books, Washington, DC 363-393 (2012) [B2] | ||||
2010 | Lattas A, Morris BJ, 'The politics of suffering and the politics of anthropology', Culture Crisis: Anthropology and Politics in Aboriginal Australia, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney 61-87 (2010) [B1] | Nova | |||
2006 |
Kapferer B, Morris BJ, 'Nationalism and Neo-populism in Australia : Hansonism and the politics of the New Right in Australia', Neo-Nationalism in Europe and Beyond: Perspectives from Social Anthropology, Berghahn Books, New York 248-270 (2006) [B1]
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2004 |
Morris BJ, 'Anthropology and the state: the ties that bind', Expert knowledge First world peoples, consultancy and anthropology, Berghahn Books, Canada 102-115 (2004) [B1]
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2004 | Bastin R, Morris BJ, 'Introduction', Expert Knowledge First world peoples, consultancy and anthropology, Berghahn Books, Canada 1-11 (2004) [B1] | ||||
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Journal article (20 outputs)
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2019 | Morris B, 'Indigenous Institutional Exclusion', Arena Magazine, 162 13-14 (2019) | |||||||
2019 | Morris B, 'ANZAC's Shadow March: 'this is not a day for you', Arena', Arena magazine, 159 13-15 (2019) | |||||||
2018 |
Morris B, '"Against native title': Conflict and creativity in outback Australia', ANTHROPOLOGICAL FORUM, 28 313-315 (2018)
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2015 |
Morris B, 'Contesting the state: the dynamics of resistance and control', ANTHROPOLOGICAL FORUM, 25 208-210 (2015)
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2013 | Morris B, 'National Day and the Politics of Indigenous and Local Identities in Australia and New Zealand', NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF HISTORY, 47 272-274 (2013) | |||||||
2012 |
Morris BJ, 'Borderwork in Indigenous South-Eastern Australia', Oceania, 82 15-27 (2012) [C1]
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2012 |
Austin-Broos D, Bastin R, Kapferer B, Merlan F, Morris BJ, Peterson N, et al., 'Responses to David Trigger's article 'Anthropology pure and profane: The politics of applied research in Aboriginal Australia'', Anthropological Forum, 22 67-93 (2012) [C3]
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2010 | Morris BJ, Lattas A, 'Embedded anthropology and the intervention: Cultural determinism and neo-liberal forms of racial governance', Arena Magazine, 107 15-20 (2010) [C2] | |||||||
2008 |
Morris BJ, 'A cautious silence: The politics of Australian anthropology', Historical Records of Australian Science, 19 218-220 (2008) [C3]
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2005 |
Morris BJ, 'A crisis in identity - Aborigines, media, the law and politics - Civil disturbance in an Australian town', Critique of Anthropology, 25 59-85 (2005) [C1]
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2004 | Morris BJ, 'Abolishing ATSIC in the Enabling State', The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 15 324-328 (2004) [C2] | |||||||
2003 |
Morris B, 'Anthropology and the state: The ties that bind', Social Analysis, 47 137-144 (2003)
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2003 |
Kapferer B, Morris BJ, 'The Australian society of the state: Egalitarian ideologies and new directions in exclusionary practice', Social Analysis, 47 80-107 (2003) [C1]
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2001 |
Morris BJ, 'Policing Racial Fantasy in the Far West of New South Wales', Oceania, 71:3 242-262 (2001) [C1]
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Review (5 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link | ||
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2016 | Morris BJ, 'On the Run: Fugitive life in an American City, Alice Goffman, New York: Picador, xvi, pp.279, March, The Australian Journal of Anthropology (2016) | ||||
2015 | Morris BJ, 'Contesting the State: the dynamics of resistance and control, edited by Angela Hobart and Bruce Kapferer, Sean Kingston, Vantage 297pp. (2015) | ||||
2013 | Morris BJ, 'National Day and the Politics of Indigenous and Local Identities in Australia and New Zealand, Patrick McAllister, Durham: Carolina University Press. (2013) | ||||
2011 |
Morris B, 'Decolonizing Indigenous Rights', DIALECTICAL ANTHROPOLOGY (2011) [C3]
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2005 | Morris BJ, 'Moseley, John (c. 1850-1938)', Australian dictionary of biography (2005) [D2] | ||||
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Grants and Funding
Summary
Number of grants | 7 |
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Total funding | $70,870 |
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20061 grants / $1,059
Australian Anthropology Society Conference 2006, AAS Panel: Haunting Images, 27-29/9/2006$1,059
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Doctor Barry Morris |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2006 |
Funding Finish | 2006 |
GNo | G0186972 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20042 grants / $28,405
Contract to perform anthropological services for NSW Native Title Services Ltd$28,000
Funding body: NSW Native Title Services Ltd
Funding body | NSW Native Title Services Ltd |
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Project Team | Doctor Barry Morris |
Scheme | Consultancy |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2004 |
Funding Finish | 2004 |
GNo | G0184269 |
Type Of Funding | Not Known |
Category | UNKN |
UON | Y |
Australian Anthropological Society, 29 Sept - 1 Oct 2004$405
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Doctor Barry Morris |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2004 |
Funding Finish | 2004 |
GNo | G0184818 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20021 grants / $906
Annual Anthropology Association Conference, New Orleans 20-24 November 2002$906
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Doctor Barry Morris |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2002 |
Funding Finish | 2002 |
GNo | G0182585 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
19951 grants / $28,000
95APP. Policing the margins: Social justice, criminal jusctice & citizenship.$28,000
Funding body: ARC (Australian Research Council)
Funding body | ARC (Australian Research Council) |
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Project Team | Assoc. Prof Kerry Carrington, Doctor Barry Morris |
Scheme | Large Grant |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 1995 |
Funding Finish | 1995 |
GNo | G0174481 |
Type Of Funding | Aust Competitive - Commonwealth |
Category | 1CS |
UON | Y |
19941 grants / $7,500
Crime and Policing in Newcastle$7,500
Funding body: ARC (Australian Research Council)
Funding body | ARC (Australian Research Council) |
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Project Team | Assoc. Prof Kerry Carrington, Doctor Barry Morris |
Scheme | Small Grant |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 1994 |
Funding Finish | 1994 |
GNo | G0174796 |
Type Of Funding | Scheme excluded from IGS |
Category | EXCL |
UON | Y |
19931 grants / $5,000
The Brewarrina Riot: Race Relations and Public Disorder.$5,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Doctor Barry Morris |
Scheme | New Staff Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 1993 |
Funding Finish | 1993 |
GNo | G0173214 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
Research Supervision
Number of supervisions
Past Supervision
Year | Level of Study | Research Title | Program | Supervisor Type |
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2023 | PhD | The Everyday Experiences of Poverty and Marginality: An Exploration of Shame, Stigma and Dignity in Welfare Services | PhD (Sociology & Anthropology), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2019 | PhD | A Theatre of Post/Colonial Redaction: Mapping the Terrains of an Aboriginal Self | PhD (Aboriginal Studies), The Wollotuka Institute, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2016 | PhD | Beyond Resettlement as Refugee: Enduring and Emerging Dimensions of 'Displacement' as Cosmological Rupture for Central African Refugee Women | PhD (Sociology & Anthropology), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2016 | PhD | Dissolving the Solid Body: An Ethnography of Birthing in an Australian Public Hospital | PhD (Sociology & Anthropology), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2015 | PhD | In the Echoes of Mountains: Embodying Climbing Practice | PhD (Sociology & Anthropology), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2010 | PhD | East Timorese in Melbourne: Community and Identity in a Time of Political Unrest in Timor-Leste | PhD (Sociology & Anthropology), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2010 | PhD | Health, Healing and the Quest for Wellbeing in Ponorogo Regency, East Java | PhD (Sociology & Anthropology), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2010 | Honours | Epic Hunters: Adventure Climbing in Reflexive Modernity | Sociology, University of Newcastle | Sole Supervisor |
2009 | PhD | Teaching an Indigenous Sociology: A Response to Current Debate Within Australian Sociology | PhD (Aboriginal Studies), The Wollotuka Institute, The University of Newcastle | Sole Supervisor |
2006 | PhD | Post Indigenous Rights - the political rationalities and technologies governing Federal Indigenous affairs in Australia in the contemporary period | PhD (Sociology & Anthropology), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Sole Supervisor |
2000 | Masters | Recovery and Restoration: changing identities of Aboriginal Women in Australia | Anthropology, University of Newcastle | Sole Supervisor |
1997 | PhD | Cultivating Connections: kinship, land and labour strategies in Minangkabau village | Anthropology, University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
Dr Barry Morris
Position
Honorary Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
College of Human and Social Futures
Focus area
Sociology and Anthropology
Contact Details
barry.morris@newcastle.edu.au | |
Phone | (02) 4921 5961 |
Fax | (02) 4921 6902 |
Office
Room | W348 |
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Building | Behavioural Sciences |
Location | Callaghan University Drive Callaghan, NSW 2308 Australia |