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Associate Professor Morgan Brigg

Associate Professor

School of Political Science and International Studies
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
m.brigg@uq.edu.au
+61 7 334 69986

Overview

Morgan Brigg blends theory and practice in examining the interplay of culture, governance and selfhood in conflict resolution, peacebuilding, governance, and international development. He worked in conflict resolution and mediation prior to his academic career, and he continues to practice as a nationally accredited mediator and facilitator. His research develops ways of knowing and working across cultural difference which draw upon Indigenous approaches to political community. Current projects examine ways of recuperating Indigenous forms of governance and conflict resolution, and the promise of ideas of relationality for making the field of conflict resolution a genuinely global endeavour.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Single-Authored Books

The New Politics of Conflict Resolution: Responding to Difference, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, (2008).

Edited Volumes

Mediating Across Difference: Oceanic and Asian Approaches to Conflict Resolution (with Roland Bleiker), Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, (2011).

Unsettling the Settler State: Creativity and Resistance in Indigenous-Settler State Governance (with Sarah Maddison), Sydney: Federation Press, (2011).

Autoethnographic International Relations, Forum in the Review of International Studies, Vol 36 No 3 and 4, 2010 (with Roland Bleiker)

Journal Articles

"Relational and Essential: Theorising Difference for Peacebuilding", Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. DOI: 10.1080/17502977.2018.1482078 (2018)

"Beyond the thrall of the state: governance as a relational-affective effect in Solomon Islands", Cooperation and Conflict. 53, 2 doi:10.1177/0010836718769096 (2018)

Humanitarian symbolic exchange: extending Responsibility to Protect through individual and local engagement. Third World Quarterly, . doi:10.1080/01436597.2017.1396534 (2017)

(with Jodie Curth-Bibb) "Recalibrating intercultural governance in Australian Indigenous organisations: the case of Aboriginal community controlled health", Australian Journal of Political Science, doi:10.1080/10361146.2017.1281379 (2017)

"Beyond accommodation: The cultural politics of recognition and relationality in dispute resolution." Australian Journal of Family Law 29 (3, Religion, culture and dispute resolution): 188-202 (2015)

“Old Cultures and New Possibilities: Marege’-Makassar Diplomacy in Southeast Asia”, The Pacific Review 24, no.5 (2011): 601-623."

"Autoethnographic International Relations: exploring the self as a source of knowledge" (with Roland Bleiker) Review of International Studies 36, no. 3 (2010):779-798

“Wantokism and State Building in the Solomon Islands: A Response to Fukuyama”. Pacific Economic Bulletin 24, no. 3 (2009): 148-161.

“The Developer’s Self: A Non-Deterministic Foucauldian Frame”. Third World Quarterly 30, no. 8 (2009): 1411-1426.

“Biopolitics Meets Terrapolitics: Political Ontologies and Governance in Settler-Colonial Australia”.Australian Journal of Political Science 42, no. 3 (2007): 403-417.

“Governance and Susceptibility in Conflict Resolution: Possibilities beyond Control”. Social and Legal Studies 16, no. 1 (2007): 27-47.

“Post-Development, Foucault, and the Colonisation Metaphor”. Third World Quarterly 23, no. 3 (2002): 421-436.

Book Chapters

"Relational Peacebuilding: Promise beyond Crisis", Peacebuilding in Crisis? Rethinking Paradigms and Practices of Transnational Cooperation, eds Tobias Debiel, Thomas Held, Ulrich Schneckener. Routledge, 56-69, (2016).

“Indigeneity and Peace”, (with Polly Walker), in "The Palgrave Handbook of Disciplinary and Regional Approaches to Peace". eds Oliver P. Richmond, Sandra Pogodda, Jasmin Ramovic: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 259-271, (2016).

“Beyond Captives and Captors: Settler-Indigenous Governance for the 21st Century” (with Lyndon Murphy). In Unsettling the Settler State: Creativity and Resistance in Indigenous-Settler State Governance, eds. S. Maddison and M. Brigg. Sydney: Federation Press, (2011).

“Conflict Murri Way: Managing Through Place and Relatedness” (with Mary Graham and Polly Walker). InMediating Across Difference: Oceanic and Asian Approaches to Conflict Resolution, eds. M. Brigg and R. Bleiker. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, (2011).

“Culture: Challenges and Possibilities”. In Palgrave Advances in Peacebuilding: Critical Developments and Approaches, ed. O. Richmond. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, (2010).

“Disciplining the Developmental Subject: Neoliberal Power and Governance through Microcredit”. In Prospects and Perils of Microcredit: Neoliberalism and Cultural Politics of Empowerment, ed. J. Fernando. London: Routledge, (2006).

Other Contributions

“Noel Pearson's hunt for the 'radical centre' is doomed”, (with Lyndon Murphy) The Age, February 18 (2016).

“Identity and politics in Settler-Colonialism: Relational analyses beyond domination?” Postcolonial Studies, DOI: 10.1080/13688790.2015.1061908, 2015.

"Dialogue on Governance and Peace: Choiseul and Western Province, Solomon Islands", (with W. Chadwick, C. Griggers), in Sharing and Exploring Pacific Approaches to Dialogue: A compendium of Case Studies from Pacific Island Countries, J. Murdock, T. Vienings and J. Namgyal (eds.), Suva, Fiji, UNDP Pacific Centre (2015).

“Culture, ‘Relationality’, and Global Cooperation" Global Cooperation Research Papers 6, Duisburg, Germany, (2014).

The Forked Tongue of the Whiteman: Culture and contemporary peacebuilding, in Pax In Nuce weblog, Posted on July 31 (2014).

"Review of Kevin Avruch, Context and Pretext in Conflict Resolution: Culture, Identity, Power, and Practice." Australian Journal of International Affairs, (2013).

“Networked Relationality: Indigenous Insights for Integrated Peacebuilding.” Research Report Series, Hiroshima University Partnership for Peacebuilding and Social Capacity (2008).

“Review: Harrison, Simon, (2007) Fracturing Resemblances: Identity and Mimetic Conflict in Melanesia and the West, New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books”. Anthropological Forum 18, no. 2 (2008): 179-181.

“Whitegoods” (with Lyndon Murphy). Arena Magazine, no. 67 (2003): 30-31.

Research Interests

  • Conflict Resolution
    The politics, ethics and efficacy of conflict resolution, conflict management, peacemaking and peacebuilding.
  • Indigenous Politics
    Settler-Indigenous and global Indigenous politics, including different conceptions of political order and contemporary governance practices.
  • Politics of Cultural Difference, Decoloniality, Postcolonialism
    How cultural difference frames conceptions of political order, decolonising knowledge production.
  • Selfhood and Subjectivity
    The variable production of selves through relations of power and culture, and the self as a vehicle for knowing and translating across cultural difference.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland

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Available Projects

  • Indigenous Governance (Southeast Queensland focus)

  • Indigenous Peacemaking

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Publications

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Book

Book Chapter

  • Indigenous Public Policy Futures: A Manifesto for Relationalist Public Administration

    Graham, Mary and Brigg, Morgan (2023). Indigenous Public Policy Futures: A Manifesto for Relationalist Public Administration. Public Policy and Indigenous Futures. (pp. 13-26) Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-19-9319-0_2

  • Indigenous Approaches to Peace

    Morgan Brigg and Polly O. Walker (2021). Indigenous Approaches to Peace. The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies. (pp. 1-6) edited by Oliver Richmond and Gëzim Visoka. London, United Kingdom: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-11795-5_201-1

  • Beyond ‘structured inattention’ : towards Australian Indigenous political studies?

    Brigg, Morgan and Murphy, Lyndon (2021). Beyond ‘structured inattention’ : towards Australian Indigenous political studies?. The Oxford handbook of Australian politics. (pp. 1-16) edited by Jenny M. Lewis and Anne Tiernan. London, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198805465.013.32

  • From substantialist to relational difference in peace and conflict studies

    Brigg, Morgan (2019). From substantialist to relational difference in peace and conflict studies. Rethinking Peace : Discourse, Memory, Translation, and Dialogue. (pp. 135-143) edited by Alexander Laban Hinton, Giorgio Shani and Jermiah Alberg. London, United Kingdom: Rowman & Littlefield International.

  • Registers of Relationality for Knowing Indigenous-Settler Politics

    Brigg, Morgan (2019). Registers of Relationality for Knowing Indigenous-Settler Politics. Questioning Indigenous-Settler Relations. (pp. 15-31) Singapore: Springer Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-13-9205-4_2

  • Rebalancing power and culture? The case of alternative dispute resolution

    Brigg, Morgan (2017). Rebalancing power and culture? The case of alternative dispute resolution. Culture in the domains of law. (pp. 247-265) edited by René Provost. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781316681060.010

  • Indigeneity and peace

    Brigg, Morgan and Walker, Polly O. (2016). Indigeneity and peace. The Palgrave handbook of disciplinary and regional approaches to peace. (pp. 259-271) edited by Oliver P. Richmond, Sandra Pogodda and Jasmin Ramović. Basingstonke, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-1-137-40761-0_20

  • Relational peacebuilding: promise beyond crisis

    Brigg, Morgan (2016). Relational peacebuilding: promise beyond crisis. Peacebuilding in crisis: rethinking paradigms and practices of transnational cooperation. (pp. 56-69) edited by Tobias Debiel, Thomas Held and Ulrich Schneckener. Abingdon, Oxon United Kingdom: Routhledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315717852-4

  • The Blaktism and the transit between selves: the politics of entangled lives in Settler-Colonialism

    Brigg, Morgan (2015). The Blaktism and the transit between selves: the politics of entangled lives in Settler-Colonialism. Courting Blakness: Recalibrating Knowledge in the Sandstone University. (pp. 166-173) edited by Fiona Foley, Louise Martin-Chew and Fiona Nicoll. Brisbane, QLD, Austalia: Univeristy of Queensland Press.

  • Relational sensibility in peacebuilding: emancipation, tyranny, or transformation?

    Brigg, Morgan (2013). Relational sensibility in peacebuilding: emancipation, tyranny, or transformation?. Relational Sensibility and the 'Turn to the Local': Prospects for the Future of Peacebuilding. (pp. 12-18) edited by Wren Chadwick, Tobias Debiel and Frank Gadinger. Duisburg, Germany: Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research (KHK / GCR21).

  • Beyond 'Structured Inattention': Towards Australian Indigenous Political Studies?

    Brigg, Morgan and Murphy, Lyndon (2012). Beyond 'Structured Inattention': Towards Australian Indigenous Political Studies?. The Oxford Handbook of Australian Politics. (pp. 545-559) Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198805465.013.30

  • Beyond captives and captors: Settler-Indigenous governance for the 21st Century

    Brigg, Morgan and Murphy, Lyndon (2011). Beyond captives and captors: Settler-Indigenous governance for the 21st Century. Unsettling the settler state: Creativity and resistance in Indigenous-settler state governance. (pp. 16-31) edited by Sarah Maddison and Morgan Brigg. Leichhardt, NSW, Australia: The Federation Press.

  • Conflict Murri way: Managing through place and relatedness

    Graham, Mary, Brigg, Morgan and Walker, Polly O. (2011). Conflict Murri way: Managing through place and relatedness. Mediating across difference: Oceanic and Asian approaches to conflict resolution. (pp. 75-99) edited by Morgan Brigg and Roland Bleiker. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press.

  • Introduction

    Brigg, Morgan and Bleiker, Roland (2011). Introduction. Mediating across difference: Oceanic and Asian approaches to conflict resolution. (pp. 1-15) edited by Morgan Brigg and Roland Bleiker. Honolulu, HI, U.S.A.: University of Hawaii Press.

  • Post-colonial conflict resolution

    Brigg, Morgan and Bleiker, Roland (2011). Post-colonial conflict resolution. Mediating across difference: Oceanic and Asian approaches to conflict resolution. (pp. 19-37) edited by Morgan Brigg and Roland Bleiker. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press. doi: 10.21313/hawaii/9780824834593.003.0002

  • Unsettling governance: From bark petition to YouTube

    Brigg, Morgan and Maddison, Sarah (2011). Unsettling governance: From bark petition to YouTube. Unsettling the settler state: Creativity and resistance in Indigenous-settler state governance. (pp. 1-14) edited by Morgan Brigg and Sarah Maddison. Leichhardt, NSW, Australia: The Federation Press.

  • Culture: Challenges and possibilities

    Brigg, Morgan (2010). Culture: Challenges and possibilities. Palgrave advances in peacebuilding: Critical developments and approaches. (pp. 329-346) edited by Oliver P. Richmond. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan.

  • Conclusion

    Brigg, Morgan (2008). Conclusion. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. (pp. 154-164) Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9780230583375_7

  • Governing Difference

    Brigg, Morgan (2008). Governing Difference. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. (pp. 50-78) Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9780230583375_3

  • Introduction

    Brigg, Morgan (2008). Introduction. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. (pp. 1-22) Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9780230583375_1

  • Recognition and Relatedness

    Brigg, Morgan (2008). Recognition and Relatedness. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. (pp. 105-129) Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9780230583375_5

  • Responding Anew

    Brigg, Morgan (2008). Responding Anew. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. (pp. 130-153) Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9780230583375_6

  • Sovereign Selves

    Brigg, Morgan (2008). Sovereign Selves. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. (pp. 79-101) Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9780230583375_4

  • The Culture Challenge

    Brigg, Morgan (2008). The Culture Challenge. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. (pp. 25-49) Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9780230583375_2

  • Disciplining the development subject: Neoliberal power and governance through microcredit

    Brigg, M J (2006). Disciplining the development subject: Neoliberal power and governance through microcredit. Microfinance: Perils and Prospects. (pp. 64-88) edited by J.L. Fernando. London, UK and New York, USA: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group.

  • Disciplining the developmental subject: Neoliberal power and governance through microcredit

    Brigg, Morgan (2005). Disciplining the developmental subject: Neoliberal power and governance through microcredit. Microfinance: Perils and Prospects. (pp. 55-76) Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. doi: 10.4324/9780203329245

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PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • Relating with Relational Knowledge

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Self-Sacrifice and Intractable Conflict

    Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • In the Company of Colonisers: Hunting & Gathering Aboriginal Politics in White Australia

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Situating Saibai Language and Cultural archival material within a Cultural Framework

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

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  • SPACE, RACE AND GENDER: Analyzing Counterterrorism Strategy in Kenya through a Feminist Geopolitical Lens

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

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  • Conflict and Disaster Recovery

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

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Completed Supervision

Possible Research Projects

Note for students: The possible research projects listed on this page may not be comprehensive or up to date. Always feel free to contact the staff for more information, and also with your own research ideas.

  • Indigenous Governance (Southeast Queensland focus)

  • Indigenous Peacemaking

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