Dr Annick Thomassin
Research interests
- Indigenous people-settler relations;
- Indigenous development alternatives and life projects;
- Co-management;
- Governance systems and paradigms;
- Sovereignties;
- Political ecology/political ontology;
- Decolonising methodologies;
- Indigenous knowledge systems;
- Indigenous cultural and natural management;
- Urban/peri-urban fisheries and environmental stewardship;
- Marine Fisheries Management;
- Small-scale fisheries;
- Neo-colonialism and Indigenous peoples;
- Maritime Anthropolgy
Biography
Dr Annick Thomassin has over 16-year experience in the field of anthropology, political ecology and political economy working across a range of topics including co-management of natural resources, social exclusion policies and Indigenous-driven development.
Her research and studies have largely focused on the political structures and mechanisms that contribute to making Indigenous/minority groups’ perspectives invisible. She has notably work at documenting and theorising a range of conflicts and collaborations underpinning fisheries management arrangements involving Indigenous/minority groups and central governments.
Her PhD research explored how specific standpoints on marine territories ownership, resource management and economic development informing fisheries management structure impede genuine dialogues and collaborations between the Torres Strait Islanders and the Commonwealth government.
She is the primary investigator of the Seachange: Aboriginal marine pathways to social inclusion, a grassroots, research-action project developed in collaboration with Mogo and Batemans Bay Local Aboriginal Land Councils. This project aims at co-developing new research methodologies combining biological and cultural knowledge and data.
Annick is currently a research fellow at CAEPR working with Associate Dr Kirrily Jordan and Dr Mandy Yap. She is also currently exploring the question of Indigenous Life Projects with a particular focus on the restoration and maintenance of Indigenous fisheries and environmental stewardship in urban spaces.
Publications
- Thomassin, A, Neale, T & Weir, J 2019, 'The natural hazard sector's engagement with Indigenous peoples: a critical review of CANZUS countries', Geographical Research, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 164-177.
- Thomassin, A & Butler, R 2014, 'Engaging Indigenous economy: A selected annotated bibliography of Jon Altman's writings 1979-2014', CAEPR Working Papers, no. 96/2014, p. 112.
- Hunt, J. in Klein, E, Lahn, J, Altman, J et al 2014, Academic perspectives on The Forrest review: creating parity Topical Issue 2/2014.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Preparation of manuscript for publication of thesis: "This Part of the Sea Belongs to Us": Politics, Sea Rights and Fisheries Co-management in the Torres Strait (Primary Investigator)
- Rekindling Japanese and Torres Strait Connections - manuscript translation and republication (Secondary Investigator)
- Reviving Dhurga to better talk with Country: Environmental Custodianship & Disasters (Primary Investigator)
- Rekindling Japanese and Torres Strait Connections (Secondary Investigator)
- ITS Monitoring and evaluation Framework Aboriginal Victoria (Secondary Investigator)
- Environmental Stewardship Resurgence in Yuin Land and Sea Country (Primary Investigator)
- Qualitative research into the experiences of technology-facilitated abuse of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women living in regional and remote areas (Secondary Investigator)
- Exploring Economic Prosperity for Aboriginal Peoples in NSW (Secondary Investigator)
- The Two Way Project: Creative Engagement Between Canberra and Queanbeyan Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and the ANU (Secondary Investigator)
