Amanda J Kearney Australian Marine Sciences Association Annual Meeting 2023

Amanda J Kearney

Amanda's career is distinguished by an over 23 year commitment to ethnographic fieldwork and collaborative co-designed research with Indigenous communities and organisations in remote northern and central Australia, urban Melbourne and Sydney. The particularity of her theoretical innovations around conflict and violence, power and modernity, Indigenous lived experiences in Australia, born of collaborative fieldwork, defines her professional standing as a leader of praxis based and applied research aimed at social benefit and better understanding plural knowledges and intercultural ethics. Her research is addressing themes of kincentric ecology, cultural and environmental wounding and healing, Indigenous experience and ways of knowing, land and sea rights in a time of ecological precarity and the role of affirmative action and activism movements to offset racism and environmental harm. Amanda's research has developed with the kind support of Yanyuwa, Garrwa and Mara families, the Indigenous owners of land and sea Country in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia.