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Jo Weston’s netball career, leadership and advocacy

In this episode, Jo Weston takes us through her netball journey and unpacks how she balances a thriving sports career with study. Read more about Jo's story.Click here to watch a video of this episode. Click here to view the episode transcript. Chapters00:00 – Introduction00:57 – The Vixens’ Fairytale Run03:34 – Handling Setbacks05:15 – Sending Off Coach Simone McKinnis07:05 – Jo’s Country Upbringing09:11 – Starting Netball11:54 – Netball as a Career14:52 – Becoming a Professional Athlete18:00 – Working While Playing for Australia20:55 – Growing with the Sport22:52 – Managing the Pressures24:52 – Advice for Younger Athletes25:53 – Studying a Master of Communication29:00 – Study Shaping Leadership31:41 – Storytelling and the Power of Sport34:10 – Netball Besties37:01 – Podcasting39:34 – Turbulence and Transformation in Netball40:00 – Negotiating Player Pay & Conditions44:50 – Leadership Under Pressure47:04 – The Rise of Women’s Sport49:50 – Advice for Girls in Sport50:55 – Looking Ahead to Brisbane 203252:00 – Life Beyond Netball53:57 – Quickfire Round57:01 – Closing Please note: The individual views and opinions expressed in this video do not necessarily reflect those of Deakin as an organisation. Deakin is committed to fostering a safe, inclusive, and supportive environment where both freedom of speech and academic freedom are vigorously upheld. Our community thrives on diverse opinions and perspectives, with open-minded inquiry and respectful disagreement essential to our university culture.

5 days ago

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57 min
13 JAN

Al Fricker on why decolonising education matters

Al Fricker talks about the power of a great education, why we need to decolonise Australia’s education system, and the importance of Indigenous Australian representation in academia. Read more here.Click here to watch a video of this episode. Click here to view the episode transcript. Content WarningThis podcast includes discussion of colonisation, systemic racism, genocide and intergenerational trauma. People who have experienced these may find some of this content difficult. People who have not been exposed to this content before, may find the information confronting and challenging. We encourage you to prioritise your wellbeing. You can pause, skip chapters and stop the episode at any time. A list of support services is available here: https://www.deakin.edu.au/students/student-life-and-services/health-wellbeing-and-safety/safety-security/emergency-and-crisis. For support outside of Australia, please visit http://spotify.com/resources. Chapters00:00 – Introduction01:54 – Al’s Journey into Education04:45 – Teaching Prep to Year 1207:00 – Schooling vs Education07:49 – Colonial Systems in Classrooms10:22 – Rethinking ‘Learning Needs’12:54 – What Does Decolonising Education Mean?14:30 – Productivity, Compliance, and Capitalism16:00 – Flipping the Model of Education18:34 – Indigenous Knowledges as an Alternative21:16 – Learning at the Right Time23:05 – Asking Better Questions of Young People24:52 – Curriculum Reform and Textbook Publishing27:12 – Five Ways to Decolonise Classrooms29:35 – Changing the System from Inside33:03 – Why Mandating Change Matters36:44 – Discomfort as Part of the Process39:08 – Intersectionality and Decolonisation42:58 – Moving Beyond Guilt to Action45:02 – Work, Identity, and Colonial Mindsets48:51 – Teaching with Integrity49:31 – Being an Indigenous Educator in Colonised Spaces53:45 – Authenticity and Resilience57:27 – The Long-Term Mission01:00:01 – Quick Fire Questions01:04:59 – Closing Reflections Please note: The individual views and opinions expressed in this podcast do not necessarily reflect those of Deakin as an organisation. Deakin is committed to fostering a safe, inclusive, and supportive environment where both freedom of speech and academic freedom are vigorously upheld. Our community thrives on diverse opinions and perspectives, with open-minded inquiry and respectful disagreement essential to our university culture.

13 Jan

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1h 5m
10/11/2019

Episode #26: Catherine Trundle and Eli Elinoff

Episode 26 takes us back to Aotearoa New Zealand and our ongoing interest in how anthropology reaches its established and emerging audiences. In this episode, Tim speaks to Dr Catherine Trundle and Dr Eli Elinoff, both Senior Lecturers in the School of Social and Cultural Studies at Victoria University of Wellington and both members of the Senior Editorial Collective of the new anthropology journal ‘Commoning Ethnography’. The journal is self-described as ‘an off-centre, annual, international, peer-engaged, open access, online journal dedicated to examining, criticizing, and redrawing the boundaries of ethnographic research, teaching, knowledge, and praxis’. So, understandably the conversation not only goes to Eli and Catherine’s respective interests in environmental and medical anthropology, but also the state of journal publishing today? Why start a journal now? How might we think of the purpose of journals a little differently? Conversations in Anthropology at Deakin is produced by David Giles and Timothy Neale with support from the Faculty of Arts and Education at Deakin University and in partnership with the American Anthropological Association.

10/11/2019

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53 min
18/08/2022

Episode #49: Anne Galloway and Laura McLauchlan

In this episode, Mythily talks to Anne Galloway and Laura McLauchlan. Anne is a former academic and current farm witch who, in both roles, has spent a weird amount of time getting to know sheep. Laura is a multispecies anthropologist at the Social Policy Research Centre at UNSW and lectures with the UNSW Environment and Society group. Anne and Laura are also, it must be said, dear friends. As they speak of friendship, policy, care, death, and killing, anthropology emerges as a way into practices and relations that could maybe (we hope) inform a ‘better world’. Anne and Laura are both deeply invested—through their entanglements with sheep and farmers (Anne), hedgehogs and ecological conservation workers (Laura)—in understanding what sophisticated practices of love, kindness and friendship look like. So we talk through the sticky and unruly nature of lived ethics; of what it means to dislike with respect. Or, to kill with love. And also, of choosing to walk away from academia. This episode was produced by Mythily Meher, with editing and production support from Tim Neale and Matt Barlow. Mythily lives and works in Aotearoa New Zealand, and we recognise Māori in Aotearoa as tangata whenua (people born of the whenua [land/placenta]), whose right to sovereignty here is inalienable. Conversations in Anthropology is made in partnership with the American Anthropological Association and with support from the Australian Anthropological Society. Works mentioned: ‘Lively Collaborations: Feminist Reading Group Erotics for Liveable Futures’ by Laura McLauchlan (in Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy) ‘The Mushroom at the End of the World’ by Anna Tsing ‘Power in the Helping Professions’ by Adolf Guggenbühl-Craig Also, more generally, the expansive works of Deb Bird Rose, and Maria La Puig Bellacasa

18/08/2022

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1h 8m
25/11/2025

Dystopia, Populism and the Future of America

Can a dystopian novel help us predict America’s future? And what can we learn from an Italian ere shaped by an attention-seeking populist? Clare and Zim sit down with Adriano Tedde, Lecturer in Strategic and American Studies at Deakin’s Centre for Future Defence and National Security, to explore how Italy’s past mirrors modern America and how popular culture may act as a crystal ball for what lies ahead.

25/11/2025

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43 min
12/08/2024

Episode 10: Deleuze, Digital Media & Thought: A Conversation with Tim Deane-Freeman

Tim Deane-Freeman talks to Meg McCamley and Tim Neal about his new book Deleuze, Digital Media & Thought, which places Deleuze’s philosophy in dialogue with both cinema and the concept of information. In this context, they discuss philosophy, film, TV and social control, and the broader challenge of embracing a kind of thought which eschews recognition in order to confront the radically new. Tim Deane-Freeman is a sessional lecturer in philosophy at Deakin, and Meg McCamley and Tim Neal are both Deakin PhD candidates.

12/08/2024

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43 min
03/11/2021

Episode #46: Malini Sur

This month we bring to you a wonderful conversation between Matt and Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Western Sydney University, Dr. Malini Sur. Malini is a socio-cultural anthropologist with research interests in India, Bangladesh and Australia on the themes of agrarian borderlands, cities and the environment. This conversation orbits around Malini's recently book 'Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border' (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021), which recasts established notions of citizenship and mobility along the violent--yet generative--borderlands between India and Bangladesh. Equal parts ecology, infrastructure, surveillance, and bureaucracy, this conversation will resonate for many well beyond the eastern Himalaya. Show Credits Lead Production: Matt Barlow Editing: Mythily Meher and Matt Barlow This conversation was recorded on the unceded lands of Kaurna and Dharag First Nations People. Check us out on Twitter @ anthroconvo

03/11/2021

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59 min
06/10/2020

Episode #36: Nick Seaver and Thao Phan

Algorithms and artificial intelligence are on the menu for our 36th adventure in anthropology! In this episode, we present two conversations with two great Science and Technology Studies scholars: Dr Nick Seaver and Dr Thao Phan. Dr Seaver, an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University, examines themes of taste and attention in his research, drawing on his ethnographic research with US-based developers of algorithmic music recommender systems. Dr Phan is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Deakin University, where her research who focuses on gender, AI, and algorithmic cultures. -- For more on our sparkling guests, see: https://twitter.com/npseaver Seaver, Nick. "What should an anthropology of algorithms do?." Cultural anthropology 33.3 (2018): 375-385. https://journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/article/download/ca33.3.04/90 https://twitter.com/thao_pow Phan, Thao. "Amazon Echo and the aesthetics of whiteness." Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 5.1 (2019): 1-38. https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/article/download/29586/24800 -- Conversations in Anthropology is a podcast about life, the universe, and anthropology produced by David Boarder Giles, Timothy Neale, Cameo Dalley, Mythily Meher and Matt Barlow. This podcast is made in partnership with the American Anthropological Association and supported by the Faculty of Arts & Education at Deakin University. Find us at conversationsinanthropology.wordpress.com or on Twitter at @AnthroConvo

06/10/2020

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1h 12m
09/08/2018

Episode #14: Niko Besnier and Ghassan Hage

In our 14th episode, we are lucky enough to get in a room with both Niko Besnier and Ghassan Hage. In this episode, our guests cover a raft of topics befitted of their wide interests, including discussions of ‘the global’, the political economy of sport, public anthropology, activism in academia and… knowing your enemies! Niko is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam and, this year and last year Research Professor in the Department of Social Inquiry at La Trobe University here in Melbourne. He has an extraordinary list of achievements to mention, including that he is the author of books such as On the Edge of the Global: Modern Anxieties in a Pacific Island Nation and Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics, has written prolifically on the topics of gender, sexuality and sport in the Pacific, and is editor-in-chief of the journal American Ethnologist. Ghassan is Future Generation Professor of Anthropology at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of four books, including White Nation: Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Society and, most recently, Is Racism an Environmental Threat? Conversations in Anthropology@Deakin is produced by Timothy Neale and David Boarder Giles with support from the Faculty of Arts and Education at Deakin University. http://pacific.socsci.uva.nl/besnier/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghassan_Hage

09/08/2018

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1h 7m
12/05/2022

Episode #48: Ceridwen Dovey

We return with a conversation recorded, this past summer, between Ceridwen Dovey and our own Timothy Neale and David Boarder Giles. Dovey is a Sydney-based writer of fiction, creative non-fiction, and in-depth essays and profiles, as well as a filmmaker. Born in South Africa, she grew up between South Africa and Australia, studied as an undergraduate at Harvard University and as a postgraduate in anthropology at New York University. But, as we learn in this episode, Dovey did not become an anthropologist, and instead moved to a different but related set of analytical and representational problems as a fiction writer. Is fiction ethnographic? How do the commitments of creative non-fiction and anthropology differ? And, what does the moon think about all this? Tune in to find out. Interested in learning more? Check out https://www.ceridwendovey.com/ Show Credits Lead Production: Timothy Neale Deputy Production: David Boarder Giles and Mythily Meher Editing: Timothy Neale and Mythily Meher This conversation was produced by Timothy Neale on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. Check us out on Twitter @ anthroconvo and our website anthroconvo.com

12/05/2022

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55 min

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