Paola Balla

Title

Paola Balla

Birth Date

1974

Birthplace

Wemba-Wemba, Gunditjmara

Primary Sources

Balla, P., Jackson, K., Quayle, A. F., Sonn, C. C., & Price, R. K. (2022). “Don't let anybody ever put you down culturally…. it's not good…”: Creating spaces for Blak women's healing. American Journal of Community Psychology
https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12607


Balla, P. (2020). Disrupting Artistic Terra Nullius: The ways that First Nations women in art & community speak Blak to the colony & patriarchy, Doctoral dissertation, Victoria University.

Secondary Sources

Sonn, C.C., Quayle, A.F., & Balla, P. (2022). Community arts for critical community psychology praxis: Towards decolonisation and Aboriginal self-determination. In Carolyn Kagan, J. Akhurst, J. Alfaro, R. Lawthom, M. Richards, & A. Zambrano (Eds.), The Routledge international handbook of community psychology: facing global crises with hope (pp. 212–226). Routledge. 
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429325663-17/community-arts-critical-community-psychology-praxis-christopher-sonn-amy-quayle-paola-balla

Buuren K. and Maya Hodge M, Bryan A., Balla, P., Briggs, P., Briggs, C., Bundle, Y., Clark, Hodge, M., Martin, B., Onus, T., Rhall, S., Buuren.(2022) Collective movements: First Nations collectives, collaborations and creative practices from across Victoria, Caufield East, VIC: Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton, VIC: Monash University Publishing, ISBN 9781922633330

Thorner, S., Edmonds, F., Clarke, M., & Balla, P. (2018). Maree's backyard: Intercultural collaborations for Indigenous sovereignty in Melbourne. Oceania, 88(3), 269-291. 
https://doi.org/10.1002/ocea.5206

Extra Resources

Baker, A.G., & Balla, P. Talking art & ideas, In conversation with Paola Balla, February 17, 2022 Flinders University, YouTube, Accessed Aug 19, 2022. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7C6C49uNpU

Harvey, J.L. (2022). Wemba Wemba + Gunditjmara Woman Paola Balla on designing the 'Blak Love' tram. Accessed Aug 19, 2022. 
https://thedesignfiles.net/2022/10/creative-people-paola-balla-blak-love-tram/

Collection

Citation

“Paola Balla,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed September 12, 2024, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/114.

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