Dr Mary O'Dowd
Senior Lecturer, Cultural Awareness: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
PhD, MEnviron.Sci., MEd.,
Contact Details
| Contact Campus |
Newnham Campus |
| Building |
A |
| Room Reference |
229b |
| Telephone |
+61 3 6324 3345 |
| Email |
mfodowd@utas.edu.au |
General Responsibilities
Research and teaching.
Teaching Responsibilities
- ESH 390 Cultural Awareness/Aboriginal Studies
- EMT 690 Cultural Awareness/Aboriginal Studies
Publications
- O’Dowd, M (2012) ‘Imagining a Nation and the Silencing of Nations’ Arena Journal, Special Issue: Stolen Lands, Broken Cultures: The Settler-Colonial Present’, no.37/38, pp. 88- 104.
- O’Dowd, M. (2012) ‘Engaging Non-Indigenous Students in Indigenous History and 'Un-history': an approach for Non-Indigenous teachers and a politics for the 21st Century’, History of Education Review, Vol. 41, Issue 2, pp. 104 -118.
- O’Dowd, M (2011) ‘Australian Identity, History and Belonging: The Influence of White Australian Identity on Racism and the Non-acceptance of the History of Colonisation of Indigenous Australians’ International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations, Vol 10, Issue 8, pp.29-44.
- O’Dowd, M (2010) ‘Re-Claiming Un-History (Non-Indigenous Indigenous history): an approach for non-Indigenous teachers and a politics for the 21st Century’ Paper presented at the Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society Conference (ANZHES) Centre and Periphery in Histories of Education, 6- 9 Dec, 2010.
- O’Dowd, M (2010) ‘The Good, The Bad and Ugly of the non-Indigenous 'Hidden Curriculum' in Indigenous Studies: what it is, how it arises, and its implications for pedagogy and nationhood’ Paper presented at AARE International Education Research Conference, 2010, Melbourne Nov 28th- Dec 2nd.
- O’Dowd, M (2010) ‘Australian Identity, History and Belonging: The Influence of White Australian Identity on Racism and the Non-Acceptance of the History of Colonisation of Indigenous Australians’, Paper presented at The 10th International Conference on Diversity in Organisations, Queens University Belfast July 19-21.
- O’Dowd, M (2010) ‘Cultures of control and sites of resistance: a theoretical reflection on Performance Review...’, Conference Presentation Discourse, Power and Resistance, University of Greenwich March 30- April 1.
- O’Dowd, M (2010) ‘Ethical Positioning’ a strategy in overcoming student resistance and fostering engagement in Teaching Aboriginal History as a compulsory subject to Pre service Primary Education Students’. Education in Rural Australia, Vol 20, Issue 1 pp. 29-42.
- O’Dowd, M (2009) ‘Place, Identity and nationhood: The Northern Territory intervention as the final act of a dying nation’ Continuum, 6, Dec. pp.803-825
- O’Dowd, M (2008) ‘The Northern Territory Intervention: the final act of a dying nation” refereed paper presented at the Cultural Studies Conference, Kalgoorlie, 2008.
- O’Dowd, M (2007) ‘The Value of Keith Windschuttle in promoting a sustainable culture and environment: a benevolent analysis’ Refereed paper presented at Australian Association of Cultural Studies (AACS); Online Proceedings of ‘Sustaining Culture’ (2008) Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Association of Australia (CSAA) UniSA, Adelaide December 6-8, 2007.
- O’Dowd, M (2006) ‘White Supremacy and the Land: the need to become un-Australian’ refereed paper presented at the Cultural Studies Conference, Canberra, Dec. 2006
- O’Dowd, M (2006) ‘Constructions of Australian national self and the land: the need to move from tough bushmen to gentle lovers’, Paper presented at the International Landcare Conference Melbourne, Oct 9-11th.
- O'Dowd, M. (2002) 'The Impact of Forgetting Indigenous Resistance: injuries to the land', Paper presented at Frontlines: Gender, Identity and War a multi-disciplinary conference, School of Historical Studies, Monash University, Victoria 12th-13th July
- O'Dowd, M. (2001) ‘A Holistic Perspective on the Environment: Recognising People and the Land’, Master of Environ Science Thesis, Monash University, Melbourne.
- O'Dowd, M., Ryan, M. & Broadbent, R. (2001) ‘Building Scaffolds of Support: case management in schools’, A Report for the Victorian Full Service Schools Program, DEET, August. http://education.vu.edu.au/suc_learn/sl/scaffold.pdf
- O'Dowd, M. (1996) `Young People At-risk and empowerment', PhD Thesis, Monash University, Melbourne.
- O'Dowd, M. (1996) `The Ten Steps: effective programs for at-risk young people'. Keynote Address presented at Juvenile Justice, held at, Kangan TAFE.
- O'Dowd, M. (1993) `The Social Construction of the "At Risk"' in Angus, L. (Ed.) Education and Inequality in Australian Society, pp.21- 56, London, Falmer Press.
- O'Dowd, M. (1986) ‘The Sociological Use and Functions of Graffiti’, Unpub. MEd. thesis, UWA.
Achievements
I use a trans-disciplinary approach that recognises the inter-relationships between disciplines. I draw on this approach to promote new ways of understanding and addressing the complexity embedded in socio-cultural, educational, historical and environmental interfaces.
My research interest focus on strategies for preventing the creation of ‘at-risk’ groups by an assumed ‘not at-risk’; and overcoming the diseases of greed and primitive self-ethics.
My research includes studies in:
- interface of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians and non-Indigenous Australians;
- the implications of educational justice and classroom practice for non-Indigenous teachers;
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education and cultural justice;
- Australian (non-Indigenous) identity in Aboriginal Australian presence inc civics and citizenship in post-colonial contexts;
- Understanding and over-coming racism in post-colonial and multi-cultural contexts;
- ‘Reconciliation’ as praxis;
- Reducing the risk of creating young people at-risk;
- The inference of ‘sustainable’ education in the face of unsustainable economic growth models.
- Australian literature (1880 -1920) and Australian art (1800- 1960s) as tools of textual analysis in Indigenous-non-Indigenous relations.
I have supervised students at PhD and Masters level. Student topics include: closing the gap.
