Professor Kathryn Robinson
BA (Hons) (Sydney), PhD (ANU)
Emeritus Professor, School of Culture, History & Language
College of Asia & the Pacific
Areas of expertise
- Gender Specific Studies 169901
- Anthropology 1601
- Religion And Religious Studies 2204
- Anthropology Of Development 160101
Research interests
Indonesia and Southeast Asia; development; gender; traditional architecture; medical anthropology; Islam; Internet mediated social relations; cross-cultural marriages.
Publications
- Robinson, K, ed., 2020, Mosques and Imams: Everyday Islam in Eastern Indonesia, NUS Press - National University of Singapore, Singapore.
- Robinson, K 2019, 'Can Formalisation of Adat Land Regulation Protect Community Rights? The Case of the Orang Asli Sorowako and the Karongsi'e/Dongi', The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 471-486.
- van der Muur, W, Vel, J & Robinson, K 2019, 'Changing Indigeneity Politics in Indonesia: From Revival to Projects', The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 379-396.
- Robinson, K 2018, 'Women in the Shadows. Gender, Puppets and the Power of Tradition in Bali', Australian Journal of Anthropology, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 389-391.
- Robinson, K 2018, 'Gender culture and politics in post-New Order Indonesia', in Robert W Hefner (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Indonesia, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York, pp. 309-321pp.
- McCarthy, J, Robinson, K & Dhiaulhaq, A 2018, 'Addressing Adverse Formalisation: The Land Question in Outer Island Indonesia', in Adriaan Bedner and Barbara Oomen (ed.), Real Legal Certainty and its Relevance: Essays in honour of Jan Michiel Otto, Leiden University Press, Amsterdam, pp. 25-42.
- Robinson, K 2018, 'Enacting the Corporation: An American Mining Firm in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia', The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 179-180pp.
- Robinson, K 2018, 'Sex and Gender Roles, Critiques of', in Hilary Callan (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., United Kingdom.
- Robinson, K 2018, 'Sex and Gender Roles, Division of Labor in', in Hilary Callan (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., United Kingdom.
- Robinson, K 2018, 'Gender, Marxist Theories of', in Hilary Callan (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., United Kingdom, pp. 1-5.
- Robinson, K 2017, 'Obituary: Gillian Charite Bottomley (1939-2016)', The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 89-90pp.
- Robinson, K 2017, 'From "Stone-Age' to "Real-Time': Exploring Papuan Temporalities, Mobilities and Religiosities', Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 270-272pp.
- Robinson, K & Erb, M 2017, Mining - who benefits?, pp. online.
- Robinson, K, ed., 2016, Youth Identities and Social Transformations in Modern Indonesia, Brill, Leiden/Boston.
- Robinson, K 2016, 'Educational Aspirations and Inter-Generational Relations in Sorowako', in Kathryn Robinson (ed.), Youth Identities and Social Transformations in Modern Indonesia, Brill, Leiden/Boston, pp. 69-90.
- Robinson, K 2016, 'Mining, land and community rights in Indonesia', in John F. McCarthy and Kathryn Robinson (ed.), Land and Development in Indonesia Searching for the People's Sovereignty, ISEAS Publishing, Singapore, pp. 141-164.
- McCarthy, J & Robinson, K, eds, 2016, Land and Development in Indonesia: Searching for the People's Sovereignty, ISEAS Publishing, Singapore.
- McCarthy, J & Robinson, K 2016, 'Land, economic development, social justice and environmental development in Indonesia: the search for the people's sovereignty', in John F. McCarthy and Kathryn Robinson (ed.), Land and Development in Indonesia Searching for the People's Sovereignty, ISEAS Publishing, Singapore, pp. 1-34.
- Colfer, C, Daro Minarchek, R, Cairns, M et al 2015, 'Gender analysis: Shifting cultivation and indigenous people', in Malcolm F Cairns (ed.), Shifting Cultivation and Environmental Change: Indigenous people, agriculture and forest conservation, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, pp. 920-957.
- Robinson, K & McWilliam, A 2015, 'Striving for good practice: Unpacking AusAID's approach to community development', in Susanna Price and Kathryn Robinson (ed.), Making a difference? Social assessment policy and praxis and its emergence in China, Berghahn Books, New York and Oxford, pp. 103-125.
- Robinson, K 2015, 'Masculinity, sexuality and Islam: the gender politics of regime change in Indonesia', in Linda Rae Bennett and Sharyn Graham Davies (ed.), Sex and Sexualities in Contemporary Indonesia: Sexual politics, health, diversity and representations, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, pp. 51-68.
- Robinson, K 2014, 'Citizenship, identity and difference in Indonesia', RIMA: Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 5-34.
- Robinson, K 2014, 'What Does a Gender Relations Approach Bring to Southeast Asian Studies?', in Mikko Huotari, Jurgen Ruland, Judith Schlehe (ed.), Methodology and Research Practice in Southeast Asian Studies, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Hampshire, pp. 107-127.
- Robinson, K 2012, 'Islam and Gender Relations in Indonesia, with a Special Focus on Eastern Indonesia', Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, no. 30, pp. 1-4.
- Robinson, K 2012, 'Indigeneity, Locality and Recognition: Young People's Shifting Engagements with Modernity in an Indonesian Mining Town (Sorowako South Sulawesi)', Young Lives changing times: perspectives on social reproduction, ed. Ute Eickelkamp, Open Conference Systems, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, pp. 1-33pp.
- Nisa, E, Robinson, K & Fachruddin, F, eds, 2012, Islam and Gender Relations in Indonesia, with a Special Focus on Eastern Indonesia.
- Nilan, P, Parker, L, Bennett, L et al 2011, 'Indonesian youth looking towards the future', Journal of Youth Studies, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 709-728.
- Robinson, K 2011, 'Sawerigading vs. Sharia: Identities and Political Contestation in Decentralised Indonesia', Asian Journal of Social Science, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 219-237.
- Robinson, K, McWilliam, A, Lorenzen, S & Malhi, A, 2010, Final Research Report. Canberra: ANU - Rio Tinto Sulawesi Nickel Social Baseline & Community Relations Project.
- Robinson, K, Malhi, A & Lorenzen, S, 2009, Mid-Year Research Report. Canberra: ANU - Rio Tinto Sulawesi Nickel Social Baseline & Community Relations Project.
- Robinson, K, McWilliam, A, Lorenzen, S & Malhi, A, 2008, Desktop Report. Canberra: ANU - Rio Tinto Sulawesi Nickel Social Baseline & Community Relations Project.
- Robinson, K, McWilliam, A, Lorenzen, S & Malhi, A, 2008, Reconnaissance Trip Interim Report, Canberra: ANU - Rio Tinto Sulawesi Nickel Social Baseline & Community Relations Project.
- Robinson, K 2009, 'Anthropology of Indonesia in Australia: the politics of knowledge', RIMA: Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 7-33.
- Robinson, K 2009, Gender, Islam and Democracy in Indonesia, Taylor & Francis Group, New York.
- Robinson, K 2009, 'Islam, gender, and politics in Indonesia', in Louise Edwards and Mina Roces (ed.), Women in Asia: Women and Political Power, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York, pp. 292-306.
- Alexander, J, Henry, R & Robinson, K 2008, 'Connecting the Miles: Introduction', The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 175-176.
- Robinson, K 2008, 'The culture of politics and the politics of culture in the anthropology of Douglas Miles', The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 243-252.
- Robinson, K 2008, 'Islamic cosmopolitics, human rights and anti-violence strategies in Indonesia', in P. Werbner (ed.), Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism: Feminist, vernacular and rooted perspectives, Berg Publishers, Oxford, pp. 111-133.
- Robinson, K 2008, 'Indonesia', in Bonnie G Smith (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, Oxford University Press, USA, pp. 580-584.
- Robinson, K 2008, 'Sukarnoputri, Megawati', in Bonnie G Smith (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, Oxford University Press, USA, pp. 178-179.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K & Robinson, K 2008, ''Period Problems' at the Coalface', Feminist Review, vol. 89, no. 1, pp. 102-121.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K & Robinson, K 2008, 'Bodies in contest: Gender difference and equity in a coal mine', in Michelle Ford and Lyn Parker (ed.), Women and Work in Indonesia, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon and New York, pp. 120-135.
- Robinson, K, ed., 2008, Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 9(1), 9(2), 9(3), 9(4).
- Robinson, K 2007, 'Islamic Influences on Indonesian Feminism', in Tony Day (ed.), Identifying with Freedom; Indonesia after Suharto, Berghahn Books, New York, Oxford, pp. 39-48.
- Robinson, K, ed., 2007, Asian and Pacific Cosmopolitans: Self and Subject in Motion, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Basingstoke UK.
- Robinson, K 2007, 'Introduction: Asian and Pacific Cosmopolitans: Self and Subject in Motion', in K Robinson (ed.), Asian and Pacific Cosmopolitans: Self and Subject in Motion, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Basingstoke UK, pp. 1-15.
- Robinson, K 2007, 'Marriage Migration, Gender Transformations, and Family Values in the 'Global Ecumene'', Gender, Place and Culture, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 483-497.
- Cahill, A, Curnow, J, Gibson, K et al 2007, A collaborative research project which relies on ssets mapping is informing communities in Indonesia and the Philippines how to improve incomes, Focus, The Magazine of Australia Aid Program.
- McWilliam, A, Robinson, K & Curnow, J 2007, 'Local cooperatives and microfinance in eastern Indonesia: Autonomy and opportunity for community economies', Development Bulletin (Canberra), vol. 72, pp. 14-18.
- Robinson, K 2006, 'Muslim women's political struggle for marriage law reform in contemporary Indonesia', in Amanda Whiting & Carolyn Evans (ed.), Mixed Blessings: Laws, Religions, and Women�s Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 183-210.
- Robinson, K 2006, 'Secularization of Family Law in Indonesia: Interview with Kathryn Robinson', Harvard Asia Quarterly, vol. x, no. 1, pp. 44-45.
- Robinson, K 2006, 'Islamic Influences on Indonesian Feminism', Social Analysis, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 171-177.
- Robinson, K 2006, 'Idioms of vernacular humanism: The west and the east', Anthropological Forum, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 241-255.
- Murray, D, Boellstorff, T & Robinson, K 2006, 'East Indies/West Indies: Comparative Archipelagoes', Anthropological Forum, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 219-227.
- Robinson, K & McWilliam, A 2006, 'Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) in Indonesia: Action research and the diverse economies of Buton and Ngada (Flores)', Masyarakat Indonesia: Majalah Ilmu-Ilmu Sosial Indonesia, vol. XXX11, no. 2, pp. 31-54.
- Robinson, K 2004, 'Islam, Gender and Politics in Indonesia', in Virginia Hooker & Amin Saikal (ed.), Islamic Perspectives on the new Millennium, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore, pp. 183-196.
- Robinson, K 2004, 'Editors forward', The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, vol. 4, no. 1 & 2, pp. 1-2.
- Robinson, K 2004, 'Chandra Jayawardena and the Ethical Turn in Australian Anthropology', Critique of Anthropology, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 379-402.
- Robinson, K, Gibson, K, McKay, D, & A. McWilliam 2004, 'Negotiating alternative economic strategies for regional development', Development Bulletin (Canberra), vol. 65, pp. 46-50.
- Robinson, K 2003, 'Editorial', The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 1-5.
- Robinson, K & Utomo, I 2003, 'Introduction', RIMA: Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 5-16.
- Robinson, K 2003, 'Comment', Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 143-154.
- Robinson, K 2003, 'Families: Metaphors of nation. Overview', in Suad Joseph (ed.), Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Brill Academic Publishers, Netherlands, pp. 154-160.
- Robinson, K 2002, 'Inter-Ethnic Violence: The Bugis and the problem of explanation', in Minako Sakai (ed.), Beyond Jakarta: Regional Autonomy and Local Society in Indonesia, Crawford House Publishing, Belair, SA, pp. 145-172, 319-322.
- Bessell, S & Robinson, K, eds, 2002, Women in Indonesia: Gender, Equity and Development, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore.
- Robinson, K & Bessell, S 2002, 'Introduction to the issues', in Kathryn Robinson, Sharon Bessell (ed.), Women in Indonesia: Gender equity and development, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore, pp. 1-12.
- Robinson, K 2002, 'Book review: Veil: modesty, privacy and resistance', The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, vol. tba, pp. 138-139.
- Robinson, K 2002, Labour, love and loss: mining and the displacement of womens labour, Oxfam Community Aid Abroad.
- Robinson, K 2001, 'Indonesia Update 2001: Gender equity and development in Indonesia', <>, pp. 385-386.
- Bryson, L, Robinson, K & McPhillips, K 2001, 'Turning public issues into private troubles: lead contamination, domestic labor, and the exploitation of womens unpaid labor in Australia', Gender and Society, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 754-772.
- Robinson, K 2001, 'Government agency, womens agency: feminisms, fertility, and population control', in Margaret Jolly and Kalpana Ram (ed.), Borders of Being: Citizenship, Fertility, and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, pp. 36-57.
- Robinson, K 2001, 'Gender, Islam and culture in Indonesia', in Blackburn, Susan (ed.), Love, Sex and Power: Women in Southeast Asia, Monash University Publishing, Clayton, Victoria, pp. 17-30.
- Robinson, K 2001, Population and development in eastern Indonesia: women and development, ANU Research School of Social Sciences.
- Robinson, K 2000, 'Ketegangan antaretnis, Orang Bugis, dan masalah penjelasan', Antropologi Indonesia, vol. 63, pp. 45-53.
- Robinson, K 2000, 'Book Review: Negotiating Language, Constructing Race. Disciplining Difference in Singapore', The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 147-149.
- Robinson, K 2000, 'Book Review: Conceiving Spirits: Birth Rituals and Contested Identities Among the Lauje of Indonesia', The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 145-147.
- Robinson, K 2000, 'Gender, Islam, and nationality: Indonesian domestic servants in the Middle East', in Adams, Kathleen M; Dickey, Sara (ed.), Home and hegemony: domestic service and identity politics in South and Southeast Asia, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, pp. 249-282.
- Robinson, K 2000, 'Indonesian women -- from Orde Baru to Reformasi', in Edwards, Louise; Roces, Mina (ed.), Women in Asia: tradition, modernity and globalisation, Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, NSW, pp. 139-169.
- Robinson, K 2000, 'Looking for father-right: the Asian values debate and Australian-Asian relations', in John Docker, Gerhard Fischer (ed.), Race, Colour and Identity in Australia and New Zealand, UNSW Press, Sydney, Australia, pp. 158-173.
- Robinson, K 2000, 'Economy as a cultural system: the economic anthropology of Paul Alexander', The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 3-13.
- Robinson, K & Goodall, J 2000, 'Orphans of nature', Australian Feminist Studies, vol. 15, no. 32, pp. 177-190.
- Acciaioli, G, Robinson, K & Tonkinson, R 1999, 'Challenges for the social sciences and Australia: anthropology', Anthropological Forum, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 63-74.
- Robinson, K 1999, 'Book Review: From Motherhood to Global Citizenship: Womens Rights and International Organizations', Contemporary Sociology, vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 619-620.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (Primary Investigator)
- Community rights in an age of footloose capital: Mining in decentralized Indonesia (Primary Investigator)
- Citizenship and identities in democratising Indonesia: integration and exclusion (Primary Investigator)
- Being Muslim in Eastern Indonesia: practice, politics and cultural diversity (Primary Investigator)
