About
Dr Timothy Neale
Timothy Neale is Research Fellow in the Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University - Melbourne.
As a cultural geographer, his research addresses questions of how knowledge practices – Indigenous, non-indigenous and otherwise – are mobilised and transformed in relation to environments in peri-urban, rural and remote Australia. His doctoral project focused on the Wild Rivers Act 2005 (Qld), examining how questions of belonging, sustainability and development were articulated through the controversial law in far north Queensland.
He is the co-editor (with Stephen Turner) of a forthcoming special issue of Settler Colonial Studies on the topic of ‘Law, Water, Entitlement’.
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Project leadership
This project considered the challenges and opportunities arising out of engagements between Indigenous peoples and natural hazard and land management government agencies in southern Australia. The majority of this activity has focused on cultural burning. The research team undertook qualitative research, primarily through forming partnerships with key practitioners working in this space and undertaking research activities that iteratively learnt from these partnerships. The shared motivations held by some Indigenous and non-Indigenous individuals to form collaborative partnerships are challenged by their operating context, including a lack of trust, bureaucratic constraints, tokenism, racism, and a lack of resources. This project finds that the sector needs to move beyond statements of support to develop specific policies and programs that demonstrably grow opportunities for Indigenous engagement and partnership, and provides suggestions as to what these policies may be.
This project is part of the Black Summer research program funded by the Commonwealth Government through the 10-year extension of funding into natural hazard research in Australia.
Research team
| Type | Project | Research team |
|---|---|---|
| CRC Core Project | Scientific diversity and uncertainty in risk mitigation policy and planning | meburn, sdovers, tneale, jwodak, jhandmer, chansen, tmcgee, lclarke |
| Commissioned Research | Cultural land management | gjames, dburton, ocampion, bhunter, tgondarra, jbayung, tneale, ocostello, tjansen |
