A selection of texts arising from North Australian STS
TopEndSTS sees itself as beholden to a rich history of collaborative research which situates, and continues to be expressed within, our current activities and epistemic orientations.
The following is a selection of texts that might be read as participating in a particular intervention in the Australian academy. These are texts that TopEndSTS continues to draw inspiration from as we engage in situated, collaborative knowledge work as practices-in-practice.
Texts are organised chronologically.
Watson Verran, Helen, with the Yolngu Community, and David Wade Chambers (1989). Singing the Land, Signing the Land, Deakin University Press.
Watson, Helen (1990). “The Politics of Knowing and Being Known”, Arena, Vol 92, pp. 125-134.
Watson-Verran, Helen, (1992). We’ve Heard You Teach Mathematics Through Kinship? Mathematics Curriculum development in the Laynhapuy Schools”, Kauna, Vol 1, Univ of South Aust, pp. 53-76.
Watson-Verran, Helen and Leon White (1993). “Issues of Knowledge in the Policy of Self-Determination for Aboriginal Australian Communities” in Knowledge and Policy, Vol 6, pp. 67-78.
Verran-Watson, Helen and David Turnbull (1995). “Science and Other Indigenous Knowledge Systems“, Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Sheila Jasanoff, Gerald Markle, James Petersen, and Trevor Pinch (eds), pp. 115-139.
Verran, Helen, (1998). “Re-Imagining Land Title in Australia“, Postcolonial Studies, Vol 1, pp. 237-254.
Pyne Addelson, Kathryn and Helen Watson-Verran (1998). “Inquiry into a Feminist Way of Life”, in Daring to be Good: Essays in Feminist Ethico-Politics, Bat-Ami Bar Om and Anne Ferguson (eds), Routledge, NY and London, pp.168-182.
Verran, Helen (2002).“A Postcolonial Moment in Science Studies: Alternative Firing Regimes of Environmental Scientists and Aboriginal Landowners” Social Studies of Science 32, 5–6, pp. 729-762.
Verran, Helen (2002). “Transferring Strategies of Land Management: Indigenous Land Owners and Environmental Scientists”, in Marianne de Laet (ed.), Research in Science and Technology Studies’, Knowledge and Society (Oxford: Elsevier & JAI Press) 13, pp. 155–81.
Verran, Helen (2004). “A Story about Doing the Dreaming” Postcolonial Studies, Vol 7, pp. 149-164.
Verran, Helen and Michael Christie (2007). “Using/Designing Digital Technologies of Representation in Aboriginal Australian Knowledge practices“, Human Technology, Vol 3(2), May, pp. 214-227.
Verran, Helen (2008). “The educational value of explicit non-coherence: Software for helping Aboriginal children learn about place.” Education and Technology: Critical Perspectives and Possible Futures. David W. Kritt & Lucien T. Winegar, (eds). Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, 2007, pp. 101-124.
Verran, Helen (2008). “Science and the Dreaming” Issues vol 82, March pp. 21-24.
Verran, Helen (2010). “On Being a Language and Culture Learner in a Yolngu World”, Learning Communities: International Journal of Learning in Social Contexts, Issue 2, pp. 84-89
Verran, Helen and Michael Christie (2011). “Doing Difference Together” Culture and Dialogue, Vol 1, No 2, pp. 21-36.
Verran, Helen (2013) “Engagements between disparate knowledge traditions: Toward doing difference generatively and in good faith” in Contested Ecologies (ed.) Lesley Green. HSRC Press, South Africa, pp. 141-161.
Verran, Helen and Michael Christie (2013). “The generative role of narrative in ethnographies of disconcertment: social scientists participating in the public problems of North Australia.” Learning Communities: International Journal of Learning in Social Contexts Issue 13 pp. 52-58.
Verran, Helen (2015). “Comparative Philosophy and ‘I’” Confluence. Online Journal of World Philosophies, Vol 3, pp. 171-188.
Verran, Helen (2017). “Silenced Issues 2: Stumbling upon a History of STS Concepts in Aboriginal Australia” 4S BackChannels.
Verran, Helen (2018). “Imagining an epistemic decolonizing”, Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society. Vol 1, no. 1, pp. 6-8.
Verran, Helen (2018). “Politics of Working Cosmologies Together While Keeping Them Separate.” in A World of Many Worlds, Marisol de la Cadena and Mario Blaser (eds). Duke University Press.
Verran, Helen (2022). “Cosmological isolationism might be necessary counter-colonising—but what next and how?” Journal of World Philosophies, Vol 7, No 1, pp. 124-129.
Verran, Helen (2024). “Indigenous Knowledge Traditions and Science”. In Ulrike Felt & Alan Irwin (eds), Encyclopaedia of Science & Technology Studies, Edward Elgar.