Deirdre Howard-Wagner
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Room 157 A26 - R.C Mills Building +612 9351 6679 On leave semester 2, 2009 |
Current Position
Lecturer in Socio-Legal Studies
Research Interests
Indigenous social and legal justice; Indigenous rights in law, policy and practice; whiteness, power relations and resistance; sociology of whiteness, race and racism; terrorism and miscarriages of justice; terrorism and liberty and security; citizenship, refugees and the right to have rights; localised crime management, alcohol related crime and young adults.
Other offices held:
Executive Member, Law and Society Association Australia and New Zealand, Coordinator – Sociology of Indigenous issues thematic group – The Australia Sociological Association (TASA)
Current Teaching:
SLSS1001 Introduction to Socio-Legal Studies
SLSS2601 Socio-Legal Research
New units to be offered in 2010 – SLSS2604 Indigenous Social and Legal Justice (undergraduate) and Indigenous Rights – Global Issues (postgraduate)
Research Grants
$8,000 – Study of Northern Territory Intervention – University of Sydney FARSS Grant awarded June 2008. Chief Investigator: Dr D Howard-Wagner
$15,000 - Study of Indigenous Land Use Agreement Scheme (ILUAs) effectiveness as a long-term measure for dealing with native title - University of Sydney R and D Grant awarded November 2006. Chief Investigator: Dr D Howard-Wagner
$8,000 – Study of changes to Aboriginal legal services – University of Newcastle Early Career Researcher Grant awarded June 2005. Chief Investigator: Dr D Howard-Wagner
$560,000 – Evaluation of user group perceptions of the Medical Assessment Scheme and Claims Advisory and Resolution Service established under the Motor Accident Compensation Act 1999 (NSW). Chief Investigators: Professor T Wright and Dr D Howard-Wagner (January 2004 - July 2006)
Publications
Book Chapters (DEST B1)
Howard-Wagner, D. (2009) ‘From State of Denial to State of Emergency: Governing Australian Indigenous communities through the exception’, in D. Fassin and M. Pandolfi (eds.) Contemporary States of Emergency: The Politics of Military and Humanitarian Interventions, Zone Publishing, New York (accepted February 2008 and forthcoming).
Howard-Wagner, D. (2009) ‘The state’s ‘intervention’ in Indigenous affairs in the Northern Territory: governing the Indigenous population through violence, abuse and neglect’, in C. Browne and J. McGill (eds.) Violence and the Post-Colonial Welfare State in France and Australia, University of Sydney Press, Sydney (accepted February 2008 and forthcoming).
Journals articles (DEST C1)
Howard-Wagner, D. (2009) ‘Whiteness, power relations, resistance and the practical recognition of Indigenous rights in Newcastle’, in Theory in Action, US Journal of Transformative Studies, Volume 2 (1): 40-65.
Howard-Wagner, D. (2008) ‘Legislating Away Indigenous Rights’, in The Protection of Law, Law Text Culture, Volume 12, December 2008: 45-68.
Journal Articles (DEST C2)
Howard-Wagner, D. (2007) ‘Restoring social order through tackling “passive welfare”: the statutory intent of the Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007 (Cth) and Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Welfare Payment Reform) Act 2007 (Cth)’ in Current Issues in Criminal Justice Journal, Vol 19. No. 2, November 2007.
Refereed Conference Papers (DEST E1)
Howard-Wagner, D. (2008) ‘Reconciliation as a Moral Injunction’, in Re-imagining Sociology, TASA Reference Conference Proceedings, 2-5 December 2008, Melbourne, Australia. PDF: Reconciliation as a Moral Injunction
Howard-Wagner, D. (2007) ‘The Denial of Separate Rights: Political Rationalities and Technologies Governing Indigenous Affairs as Practices of Whiteness’, in TASA and SAANZ Joint Conference Refereed Conference Proceedings – Public Sociologies: Lessons and Trans-Tasman Comparisons, 4-7 December 2007, Auckland, New Zealand. PDF: Denial of Privilege
Howard-Wagner, D. (2007) ‘Colonialism and the Science of Race Difference’, in TASA and SAANZ Joint Conference Refereed Conference Proceedings – Public Sociologies: Lessons and Trans-Tasman Comparisons, 4-7 December 2007, Auckland, New Zealand. PDF: Colonialism and the Science of Race Difference
Howard-Wagner, D. (2006) ‘Practices of Inclusiveness’ in Newcastle: protocols of whiteness, Indigenous protocols and power relations’, The Australian Sociological Association Refereed Conference Proceedings, December 2006. PDF: Practices of Inclusiveness
Conference Papers (DEST E2)
Howard-Wagner, D. and Maguire, A. (2008) ‘Indigenous Land Use Agreements: A Double Edged Sword’, ‘W(h)ither Human Rights’, Law and Society Australia and New Zealand Association Annual Conference, December 2008, Sydney, Australia.
Howard-Wagner, D (2008) ‘The normalisation of alcohol related crime and risk related behaviour among young adults’, Re-imagining Sociology, TASA Refereed Conference Proceedings, 2-5 December 2008, Melbourne, Australia.
Howard-Wagner, D. (2007) ‘State in Denial to National Emergency (Part I) – Governing the Indigenous population through responses to violence and child sexual abuse in Indigenous communities’, in Violence and the Post Colonial Welfare State in France and Australia, Workshop Proceedings, October 18 2007, University of Sydney.
Howard-Wagner, D. (2007) ‘The market is the only thing that is universal: the containing and remapping of Indigenous rights’, Paper presented at International Conference Law and Society in the 21st Century, Joint Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association and the Research Committee on Sociology of Law, Humboldt University Berlin, July 25-28, 2007.
Howard, D. (2004) ‘Recognition or Incorporation: have the Australia courts and legislatures really moved any closer toward recognising Indigenous customary law alongside Australia’s legal system, in recent years?’, Crossing Boundaries – Australian Law Teachers Association Conference 2004, 8-11 July, Darwin, Australia.
Other conference papers
Howard-Wagner, D. and Rosenberg, M. (2007) ‘Guilt, torture, terror and the loss of liberty’, in Marking Sites of Analysis, Discipline, Interrogation, in Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference Presentations, December
2007, Melbourne, Australia.
Howard-Wagner, D. (2007) ‘Beyond Citizenship: securing state borders and diminishing human rights’, in Securitising Migration: State Security or Human Security Workshop, 19 October 2007, University of Sydney.
Howard-Wagner, D (2006) ‘Legislating away Indigenous rights: an examination of Federal Indigenous law reform since 1996’, the Australian and New Zealand Law and Society Conference, December 2006.
Howard-Wagner, D (2006) Neo-liberal rationalities and the end of Indigenous rights in Australia, Paper presented at the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting 2006 Baltimore, Maryland USA
Howard, D. (2005) ‘Moral panics, the media and the Law – the public liability crisis’, Symposium Moral panics, the media and the Law, Newcastle University, 28-30 September 2005.
Howard, D and Williams, K (2005) ‘How white is Australian Law – the High Court and Native Title’ Law’s Empire Conference, Canadian Law and Society Conference, British Columbia, June 2005.
Howard, D. (2004) ‘Recognition or Incorporation: have the Australia courts and legislatures really moved any closer toward recognising Indigenous customary law alongside Australia’s legal system, in recent years?”, Crossing Boundaries – Australian Law Teachers Association Conference 2004, 8-11 July, Darwin, Australia.
Howard, D. (2004) Who are the real ‘heroes’ and ‘villains’: the print media’s role in constructing the ‘public liability crisis’ as a ‘moral panic drama’, Socio-legal Studies Association Annual Conference 2004, 6-8 April 2004, at the School of Law, Glasgow, Scotland. Invited to submit the paper to the British Journal of Law and Society, Blackwell Publishing.
Research Monographs
Howard-Wagner D (2006) Consolidated Report - User Group perceptions of the MAS and the CARS - Final Findings, Justice Policy Research Centre. Tabled in NSW Legislative Council Law and Justice Committee in October 2006.
Howard-Wagner D and Dixon, E. (2006) Study Six: CARS claimants’ perceptions of the CARS – Preliminary Findings, Justice Policy Research Centre. Tabled in NSW Legislative Council Law and Justice Committee in June 2006.
Kellehear, S., Howard, D. and Dixon, E. (2005) Study Five: MAS claimants’ perceptions of the MAS – Preliminary Findings, Justice Policy Research Centre. Tabled in NSW Legislative Council Law and Justice Committee in June 2006.
Howard, D., Kellehear, S., and Dixon, E. (2005) Study Four: Solicitors’ perceptions of the MAS and the CARS – Preliminary Findings, Justice Policy Research Centre. Tabled in the NSW Legislative Council Law and Justice Committee in June 2006.
Howard, D. (2004) Study Three: CTP Insurers’ perceptions of the MAS and the CARS – Preliminary Findings, Justice Policy Research Centre. Tabled in NSW Legislative Council Law and Justice Committee in March 2005.
Howard, D. and Hazel, G. (2004) Study Two: CARS assessors’ perceptions of the CARS – Preliminary Findings, Justice Policy Research Centre. Tabled in the NSW Legislative Council Law and Justice Committee in March 2005.
Howard, D., Hazel, G., and Wright, T. (2004) Study One: MAS assessors’ perceptions of the MAS – Preliminary Findings, Justice Policy Research Centre. Tabled in NSW Legislative Council Law and Justice Committee in March 2005.