Kirsten Thorpe

Title

Kirsten Thorpe

Rights

Image used with permission, all rights remain with the author. Photograph credit to Andrew Coffey.

Birthplace

Worimi

Primary Sources

Thorpe, K. Returning love to Ancestors captured in the archives: Indigenous wellbeing, sovereignty and archival sovereignty. Archival Science 24, 125–142 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-024-09440-2

Thorpe, K., Sentance, N., & Booker, L. (2024). Wikimedia Australia and first nations metadata: utilising the ATSILIRN protocols to create culturally appropriate description and access. New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/13614568.2024.2374294

Thorpe, K., & Booker, L. (2022). Navigating Respectful Practice to Support Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights in Australian Libraries. In 18 Navigating Respectful Practice to Support Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights in Australian Libraries (pp. 440–466). De Gruyter Saur.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110732009

Thorpe, K., Christen, K., Booker,L., & Galassi. M., (2021). Designing archival information systems through partnerships with Indigenous communities. Australasian Journal of Information Systems, 25.
https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v25i0.2917

Thorpe, K. (2021). The dangers of libraries and archives for Indigenous Australian workers: Investigating the question of Indigenous cultural safety. IFLA Journal, 47(3), 341–350.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0340035220987574

Thorpe, K., Faulkhead, S., Booker, L. (2020). Transforming the archive: Returning and connecting Indigenous repatriation records. In, Fforde, C. McKeown, T., and Keeler, H. The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Repatriation: Return, Reconcile, Renew, Routledge, 822-834.

Thorpe, K. (2019).Transformative Praxis - Building Spaces for Indigenous Self-Determination in Libraries and Archives, In the Library With the Lead Pipe, Open Access 23 Jan , Accessed Dec 2, 2022
https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2019/transformative-praxis/

Thorpe, K. (2019). Speaking back to colonial collections: Building living Aboriginal archives. Artlink, 39(2), 42.
https://www.artlink.com.au/articles/4762/speaking-back-to-colonial-collections-building-liv/

Thorpe, K., & Galassi, M. (2018). Diversity, Inclusion & respect: Embedding Indigenous priorities in public library services. Public Library Quarterly, 37(2), 180-194.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01616846.2018.1460568

Thorpe, K., Galassi, M., & Franks, R. (2016). Discovering Indigenous Australian Culture: Building Trusted Engagement in Online Environments. Journal of Web Librarianship, 10(4), 343–363.
https://doi.org/10.1080/19322909.2016.1197809

Thorpe, K., & Byrne, A. (2016). Indigenous voices in the State Library of New South Wales. The Australian Library Journal, 65(1), 17–29.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00049670.2016.1129682

Thorpe, K. (2015). Aboriginal Community archives: A Case study in ethical community research, in Gilliland, A.J., McKemmish. S. and Lau A. J., (Eds), Research in the Archival Multiverse. Monash University Press. Open Access. Accessed Dec 2, 2022
http://www.publishing.monash.edu/books/ram-9781876924676.html

Secondary Sources

Golding, F., Lewis, A., McKemmish, S., Rolan, G., & Thorpe, K. (2021). Rights in records: A Charter of Lifelong Rights in Childhood Recordkeeping in Out-of-Home Care for Australian and Indigenous Australian children and care leavers. The International Journal of Human Rights, 25(9), 1625–1657.  https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2020.1859484

Thorner, S., Edmonds, F., Clarke, M., Thorpe, K., Khan, R., & Huebner. S., (2019). ‪The Living Archive of Aboriginal Art: Maree Clarke and the Circulation of Photographs as Culture-Making‬. Mapping Meaning: The Journal. Accessed Dec 2, 2022.

Extra Resources

Thorpe, K (2022) Mukurtu: an online dilly bag for keeping Indigenous digital archives safe Published: April 16, 2019, Accessed Dec 2,  The Conversation
https://theconversation.com/mukurtu-an-online-dilly-bag-for-keeping-indigenous-digital-archives-safe-112949

Kirsten Thorpe, Accessed Dec 2, 2022.
https://profiles.uts.edu.au/Kirsten.Thorpe

Indigenous Archives Collective, Accessed April 2, 2023.
https://indigenousarchives.net/

Collection

Citation

“Kirsten Thorpe,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed December 27, 2024, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/181.

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