Book Chapters by Dr. Rachel Joy
Law, Surveillance and the Humanities, 2023
The growing sophistication of surveillance practices has given rise to concerns and discussions i... more The growing sophistication of surveillance practices has given rise to concerns and discussions in the public sphere, but has also provided a popular theme in literature, film and the arts. Bringing together contributors across literary studies, law, philosophy, sociology, and politics, this book examines the use, evolution, legitimacy, and implications of surveillance.
Drawing on a range of resources including literary texts, chapters explore key issues such as the use and legitimacy of surveillance to address a global health crisis, the role of surveillance in the experience of indigenous peoples in post-colonial societies, how surveillance interacts with gender race, ethnicity, and social class, and the interaction between technology, surveillance, and changing attitudes to expression. It shows how literature contributes innovative ways of thinking about the challenges posed by surveillance, how philosophy and sociology can help to correct biases and law and politics can offer new approaches to the legitimacy, use and implications of surveillance.
Testimony and Trauma: Engaging Common Ground, 2019
In Australia, the ontological position of the Occupier has rendered the collective memory of inva... more In Australia, the ontological position of the Occupier has rendered the collective memory of invasion and occupation faulty or forgotten. Today it manifests in a lack of will by Settler Australians to engage with the devastating effects of our denial of Indigenous sovereignty upon Indigenous communities. In rethinking a way to be non-Indigenous Australians that has integrity and rejects an Occupier subject position unconditionally, questions of ontology must be addressed. We must ask ourselves about the very nature of our Being, in relation to the land we claim as ours and we must wonder that we have few troubling thoughts or memories nor memorials to tweak our consciences. What strategies can we employ to open up such questions? As an artist of white Settler origins, I suggest that the sensory and emotional experience rendered through visual art can create a space to bring into existence new ways of thinking and of being in Australia. Critically engaged non-Indigenous artists have the opportunity to make a cultural space, through their art practices, for robust public discourse acknowledging Indigenous sovereignty and the promise it holds for all of us.
ISBN: 978-90-04-37674-8
In this catalogue essay produced for a major retrospective of German printmaker Barbara Beisingho... more In this catalogue essay produced for a major retrospective of German printmaker Barbara Beisinghoff, the author reflects on the artist's practice and especially the production of the work Tau Blau, Dew Blue.
Beisinghoff, Barbara, Birgit Kümmel, and Udo Reuter. 2014. Barbara Beisinghoff - das Gesetz des Sterns und die Formel der Blume: Wasserzeichen, Radierungen, Künstlerbücher und Installationen; Ausstellungen im Schloss Museum Bad Arolsen, Museumsverein. Bad Arolsen: Museum. ISBN: 978-3-930930-32-6
Papers by Dr. Rachel Joy
The growing sophistication of surveillance practices has given rise to concerns and discussions i... more The growing sophistication of surveillance practices has given rise to concerns and discussions in the public sphere, but has also provided a popular theme in literature, film and the arts. Bringing together contributors across literary studies, law, philosophy, sociology, and politics, this book examines the use, evolution, legitimacy, and implications of surveillance. Drawing on a range of resources including literary texts, chapters explore key issues such as the use and legitimacy of surveillance to address a global health crisis, the role of surveillance in the experience of indigenous peoples in post-colonial societies, how surveillance interacts with gender race, ethnicity, and social class, and the interaction between technology, surveillance, and changing attitudes to expression. It shows how literature contributes innovative ways of thinking about the challenges posed by surveillance, how philosophy and sociology can help to correct biases and law and politics can offer new approaches to the legitimacy, use and implications of surveillance.
Edinburgh University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2023
Coolabah, May 3, 2018
This paper takes as its starting point, the acknowledgement that the Indigenous nations of the co... more This paper takes as its starting point, the acknowledgement that the Indigenous nations of the continent of Australia have never ceded their sovereignty and as such the current nation-state of Australia constitutes a nation in occupation of other people's lands. From a philosophical perspective, the Settler-citizens of the occupied territories of Australia therefore emerge into the world as occupier beings. As the inheritors of a still post-colonising nation, can contemporary Settler Australians find a way to live together ethically with the Indigenous population? This paper uses topologically based philosophical thinking of place in an effort to seek more expansive ways of thinking that might furnish us with productive questions about the meanings of place and identity in a settler-colonial context. I apply topological thinking to reveal the interrelated nature of Settler identity and the key constructs of settler-colonial Australia, the " possessive logics " of the political and legal systems that enact and maintain the occupation. The paper concludes with a call to thinking for place as a mode of acting in attentive awareness of the interests of a place as a whole, and in so doing realising an ethical relationship with both place and all the beings enfolded in it. Through recognising and relinquishing Occupier subjectivity, Settlers might begin to transform and decolonise themselves and engage in a process of becoming other than Occupier.
Flyer advertising the newly released volume, Testimony and Trauma, which contains my chapter, Ver... more Flyer advertising the newly released volume, Testimony and Trauma, which contains my chapter, Very Becoming: Transforming Our Settler Selves in Occupied Australia.
The Poem is part of my PhD research and has been published in Blue Giraffe #14.
Testimony and Trauma
In Australia, the ontological position of the Occupier has rendered the collective memory of inva... more In Australia, the ontological position of the Occupier has rendered the collective memory of invasion and occupation faulty or forgotten. Today it manifests in a lack of will by Settler Australians to engage with the devastating effects of our denial of Indigenous sovereignty upon Indigenous communities. In rethinking a way to be non-Indigenous Australians that has integrity and rejects an Occupier subject position unconditionally, questions of ontology must be addressed. We must ask ourselves about the very nature of our Being, in relation to the land we claim as ours and we must wonder that we have few troubling thoughts or memories nor memorials to tweak our consciences. What strategies can we employ to open up such questions? As an artist of white Settler origins, I suggest that the sensory and emotional experience rendered through visual art can create a space to bring into existence new ways of thinking and of being in Australia. Critically engaged non-Indigenous artists have the opportunity to make a cultural space, through their art practices, for robust public discourse acknowledging Indigenous sovereignty and the promise it holds for all of us. ISBN: 978-90-04-37674-8
In responding to Dr. Desmond Manderson's book Danse Macabre Dr. Rachel Joy engages with his third... more In responding to Dr. Desmond Manderson's book Danse Macabre Dr. Rachel Joy engages with his third chapter, Governor Arthur's Proclamation: Utopian Time. In deploying Governor Arthur's Proclamation to explore ideas of race, representation, law, time and space, Joy argues that Desmond Manderson offers an insightful methodology for making meaning of these historical and deeply political relationships. Today, as in the past, refusal to accept the settler occupation and the laws that belong with it means no access to protections under those laws. Joy call on the powerful truths offered by visual art, to show us that which remains hidden concerning race relations and notions of justice in Australia. Her response to Manderson moves back and forth between the historical frontier and the present day malevolence of 'the intervention' and the 'BasicsCard' to argue that the racist tropes that informed the violent dispossession of the First Peoples from their country were drawn from the same wellspring that spawned our legal system. As such it is perhaps not entirely surprising that a system devised by the invader in the interests of the settler requires a transaction of assimilation in return for the occupier's justice. Not only must Indigenous peoples assimilate to expect protection under the laws of a sovereign entity that dispossessed them of their country, they must effectively become refugees in their own lands. Should Aboriginal people wish to obtain the limited legal powers that native title law would afford them over their traditional lands, they must first give up their sovereignty and using the system of 'possessive logics' designed by the perpetrators of their dispossession, prove their claim. They must in effect be deterritorialised in order to be re-territorialised on the occupier's terms.
Ethics and Politics, 2020
In responding to Dr. Desmond Manderson's book Danse Macabre Dr. Rachel Joy engages with his third... more In responding to Dr. Desmond Manderson's book Danse Macabre Dr. Rachel Joy engages with his third chapter, Governor Arthur's Proclamation: Utopian Time. In deploying Governor Ar-thur's Proclamation to explore ideas of race, representation, law, time and space, Joy argues that Desmond Manderson offers an insightful methodology for making meaning of these historical and deeply political relationships. Today, as in the past, refusal to accept the settler occupation and the laws that belong with it means no access to protections under those laws. Joy call on the powerful truths offered by visual art, to show us that which remains hidden concerning race relations and notions of justice in Australia. Her response to Manderson moves back and forth between the historical frontier and the present day malevolence of 'the intervention' and the 'BasicsCard' to argue that the racist tropes that informed the violent dispossession of the First Peoples from their country were drawn from the same wellspring that spawned our legal system. As such it is perhaps not entirely surprising that a system devised by the invader in the interests of the settler requires a transaction of assimilation in return for the occupier's justice. Not only must Indigenous peoples assimilate to expect protection under the laws of a sovereign entity that dispossessed them of their country, they must effectively become refugees in their own lands. Should Aboriginal people wish to obtain the limited legal powers that native title law would afford them over their traditional lands, they must first give up their sovereignty and using the system of 'possessive logics' designed by the perpetrators of their dispossession, prove their claim. They must in effect be deterritorialised in order to be re-territorialised on the occupier's terms.
Coolabah: Special Issue Reimagining Australia, 2018
This paper takes as its starting point, the acknowledgement that the Indigenous nations of the co... more This paper takes as its starting point, the acknowledgement that the Indigenous nations of the continent of Australia have never ceded their sovereignty and as such the current nation-state of Australia constitutes a nation in occupation of other people's lands. From a philosophical perspective, the Settler-citizens of the occupied territories of Australia therefore emerge into the world as occupier beings. As the inheritors of a still post-colonising nation, can contemporary Settler Australians find a way to live together ethically with the Indigenous population? This paper uses topologically based philosophical thinking of place in an effort to seek more expansive ways of thinking that might furnish us with productive questions about the meanings of place and identity in a settler-colonial context. I apply topological thinking to reveal the interrelated nature of Settler identity and the key constructs of settler-colonial Australia, the " possessive logics " of the political and legal systems that enact and maintain the occupation. The paper concludes with a call to thinking for place as a mode of acting in attentive awareness of the interests of a place as a whole, and in so doing realising an ethical relationship with both place and all the beings enfolded in it. Through recognising and relinquishing Occupier subjectivity, Settlers might begin to transform and decolonise themselves and engage in a process of becoming other than Occupier.
Colonialism is not an event relegated to the past but a mind-set. When that mind-set justifies a... more Colonialism is not an event relegated to the past but a mind-set. When that mind-set justifies a land grab of continental scale (the creation of the nation state of Australia), ignoring Indigenous sovereignty and using legal institutions to hide the theft and enshrine it in law this is a monumental act of political violence. In Australia the ontological position of the occupier has rendered the collective memory of invasion and occupation faulty or forgotten. Today it manifests in a lack of will by white settler Australians to engage with the devastating effects of our denial of Indigenous sovereignty upon Indigenous communities. In re-thinking a way to be white in Australia that has integrity and rejects an occupier subject position unconditionally, questions of ontology must be addressed. We must ask ourselves about the very nature of our Being in relation to the land we claim as ours and we must wonder that we have no troubling thoughts or memories nor memorials to tweak our consciences. What strategies can we employ to open up such questions? As an artist of white settler origins I suggest that the sensory and emotional experience rendered through visual art can provide a way to honour the significance of land to Indigenous ontology and envisage new ways of thinking and of being in Australia. Critically engaged white artists have the opportunity to make a cultural space, through their art practices, for robust public discourse acknowledging Indigenous sovereignty and the promise it holds for all of us.
The Poem is part of my PhD research and has been published in Blue Giraffe #14.
Link to PhD Thesis: Being Occupier by Dr. Rachel Joy
Being Occupier, 2018
This interdisciplinary, art-practice led research explores the relationship between art and quest... more This interdisciplinary, art-practice led research explores the relationship between art and questions of awareness, guilt and racism towards Indigenous people in this country. It asks how an art practice can help facilitate acknowledgement of Indigenous sovereignty and the continuing harm done by contemporary settler society. Through engaging with questions of identity and Heidegger's account of dwelling authentically, the research acts as a sensory provocation to destabilising settler subjectivity in Australia.
News by Dr. Rachel Joy
Flyer advertising the newly released volume, Testimony and Trauma, which contains my chapter, Ver... more Flyer advertising the newly released volume, Testimony and Trauma, which contains my chapter, Very Becoming: Transforming Our Settler Selves in Occupied Australia.
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Book Chapters by Dr. Rachel Joy
Drawing on a range of resources including literary texts, chapters explore key issues such as the use and legitimacy of surveillance to address a global health crisis, the role of surveillance in the experience of indigenous peoples in post-colonial societies, how surveillance interacts with gender race, ethnicity, and social class, and the interaction between technology, surveillance, and changing attitudes to expression. It shows how literature contributes innovative ways of thinking about the challenges posed by surveillance, how philosophy and sociology can help to correct biases and law and politics can offer new approaches to the legitimacy, use and implications of surveillance.
ISBN: 978-90-04-37674-8
Beisinghoff, Barbara, Birgit Kümmel, and Udo Reuter. 2014. Barbara Beisinghoff - das Gesetz des Sterns und die Formel der Blume: Wasserzeichen, Radierungen, Künstlerbücher und Installationen; Ausstellungen im Schloss Museum Bad Arolsen, Museumsverein. Bad Arolsen: Museum. ISBN: 978-3-930930-32-6
Papers by Dr. Rachel Joy
Link to PhD Thesis: Being Occupier by Dr. Rachel Joy
News by Dr. Rachel Joy
Drawing on a range of resources including literary texts, chapters explore key issues such as the use and legitimacy of surveillance to address a global health crisis, the role of surveillance in the experience of indigenous peoples in post-colonial societies, how surveillance interacts with gender race, ethnicity, and social class, and the interaction between technology, surveillance, and changing attitudes to expression. It shows how literature contributes innovative ways of thinking about the challenges posed by surveillance, how philosophy and sociology can help to correct biases and law and politics can offer new approaches to the legitimacy, use and implications of surveillance.
ISBN: 978-90-04-37674-8
Beisinghoff, Barbara, Birgit Kümmel, and Udo Reuter. 2014. Barbara Beisinghoff - das Gesetz des Sterns und die Formel der Blume: Wasserzeichen, Radierungen, Künstlerbücher und Installationen; Ausstellungen im Schloss Museum Bad Arolsen, Museumsverein. Bad Arolsen: Museum. ISBN: 978-3-930930-32-6