Mr Steve Kinnane
Visiting Research Fellow, Social Organisation and Expressive Culture
Contact Details
GPO Box 553,
AIATSIS,
Canberra
ACT 2601
Telephone: +61 2 6246 1111
Facsimile: +61 2 6249 7714
Steve Kinnane is a writer and researcher, who has worked on a variety of community-based cultural heritage projects and has published on history, social justice and sustainability. He has worked as a producer, heritage officer and policy officer for independent research centres and Aboriginal community organisations. Products of his research include documentary film, manuscripts, papers, policy and planning documents, archival collections, lectures and documentary photography. He is a descendent of the Miriwoong people of the East Kimberley. His work has centred on investigations of Aboriginal history, removal of children and the surveillance and control of Aboriginal community members by various state regimes.
Other areas of interest include growing Indigenous international movements and international resource conflict. His research at AIATSIS examines the incorporation of Indigenous approaches to 'country' in future resource management of our natural and cultural world. Steve Kinnane has also lectured at Murdoch University in Australian Indigenous Studies and Sustainability.
Recent Publications
Kinnane, Steve. 2005.Indigenous Sustainability: Rights, Obligations and a Collective Commitment to Country, in J.Castellino and N.Walsh: International Law and Indigenous Peoples. Leiden/Boston: The Raoul Wallenberg Institute Human Rights Library, Vol. 20, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.
Kinnane, Steve. 2003.Shadow Lines. Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press.
Kinnane, Steve. and L. Marsh. 2003. Ghost Files: The missing files of the Department of Indigenous Affairs (DIA) archive, in C. Choo, (ed.): History and Native Title: Studies in Western Australian History. Perth:Centre for Western Australian History, University of Western Australia.
Kinnane, Steve. 2003. Recurring Visions of Australindia, in Trinca,M., A. Haebich and A. Gaynor (eds): Country: Visions of Land and People in Western Australia. Perth: Museum of Western Australia and the Centre for Western Australian History, UWA.
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