Gillian Cowlishaw

Title

Gillian Cowlishaw

Rights

Image used with author's permission. Photograph credit to Hal Wootten AC,QC.

Birth Date

1934

Birthplace

Bay of Plenty Region

Primary Sources

Cowlishaw, G. (2018). Tunnel Vision: Part Two-Explaining Australian anthropology’s conservatism. The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 29(1), 35. 
https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12259

Cowlishaw, G. (2017). Tunnel Vision: Part One - Resisting post-colonialism in Australian anthropology. The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 28(3), 324. 
https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12242

Cowlishaw, G. (2017). Prison Worlds: An Ethnography of the Carceral Condition. The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 28(3), 389. 
https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12254

Cowlishaw, G. (2009) The city's outback, Sydney: University of NSW Press. ISBN 9781742230757

Cowlishaw, G. K. (Ed) (2006). Bourke: Our yarns the stories behind “blackfellas, whitefellas”, designed and illustrated by Bobby Mackay. Broadway UTS ePRESS, 
https://doi.org/10.3316/aiatsis.u407804

Cowlishaw, G. (2004), Blackfellas, Whitefellas and the Hidden Injuries of Race, Blackwell Publishing, ISBN 1-40511-404-5

Cowlishaw, G. (2003). Disappointing Indigenous People: Violence and the Refusal of Help. Public Culture 15(1), 103-125. 
https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/39978

Cowlishaw, G. (Recorded and Edited) (2000). Love Against the Law: The Autobiographies of Tex and Nelly Camfoo, Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press. ISBN 085575348X

Cowlishaw, G. (Ed) (1999). Rednecks, eggheads and blackfellas: a study of racial power and intimacy in Australia, St Leonards, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin. ISBN 0472086480

Cowlishaw, G. and Morris. B (1997). Race matters: indigenous Australians and 'our' society, Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press. ISBN 0855752947

Cowlishaw, G. (1989). Black, white or brindle: race in rural Australia, Cambridge; Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.

Secondary Sources

Ponsonnet, M. (2007). Recognising victims without blaming them: A moral contest? About Peter Sutton’s “the politics of suffering: Indigenous policy in Australia since the 1970s” and Gillian Cowlishaw’s replies. Australian Aboriginal Studies, 1, 43–50.

Lea, T., Kowal, E. and Cowlishaw, G. (2006). Moving anthropology: critical Indigenous studies, Darwin, New Testament: Charles Darwin University Press,

Extra Resources

Gillian Cowlishaw, Inside Story, ISSN 1837-0497 Accessed Nov 1, 2022. 
https://insidestory.org.au/authors/gillian-cowlishaw/

Cowlishaw, G. (2020) Black Love Matters, Inside Story, 14 July, 2020 
https://insidestory.org.au/black-loves-matter/

Cowlishaw, G. (2020). Professor Gillian Cowlishaw’s opening address at the Inaugural Behrouz Boochani Award event, held at the Australian Anthropological Society conference in Canberra on 4 December 2019. The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 31(1), 3. 
https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12349

Citation

“Gillian Cowlishaw,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed April 3, 2025, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/171.

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