Phillip Winn, Dip Teach (QUT), BA Hons (UQ), PhD (ANU)
Research Fellow, School of Culture, History & Language
Email: phillip.winn@anu.edu.au
Biographical statement
I am currently Senior Research Associate in the ARC Discovery Project: 'Being Muslim in eastern Indonesia: practice, politics and cultural diversity', 2009-2011 (with Prof. Kathy Robinson, Dr Andrew McWilliam [ANU] and Prof. Nurul Ilmi Idrus [Universitas Hasanuddin, Makassar]). This project investigates expressions of religiosity among Muslim communities in an understudied region. Field-based research has emphasised Indonesia & Maluku (an eastern province). I have held teaching and/or research positions in academia, government and non-government organizations, and published articles in edited volumes, journals, newspapers and magazines.
Research Interests
Political anthropology (esp. sovereignty & governmentality); religiosity, subjectivity & community; understanding violence & conflict; place & identity; Maluku & eastern Indonesia; small island societies.
Key Publications
- 2008 'The Butonese of Banda: departure, mobility and identification', in Horizons of home: nation, gender and migrancy in island Southeast Asia (Annual Indonesia Lecture Series, no. 25), pp. 85-100. P. Graham ed. Melbourne: Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash Asia Institute.
- 2007 'The Southeast Asian exception and "unforeseen results": unfree labour in the Banda Islands', in Legacies of Slavery: Comparative Perspectives, pp. 76-107. M. Fernandes-Dias ed. London: Cambridge Scholars.
- 2006 'Tanah berkat (blessed land) and the source of the local in the Banda Islands, central Maluku', in Sharing the Earth, Dividing the Land. Land and territory in the Austronesian world Comparative Austronesia Series, pp. 61-81. T. Reuter ed. Canberra: ANU E Press.
- 2003 'Sovereign violence, moral authority and the Maluku cakalele', in A State of Emergency: Violence, Society and the State in Indonesia, pp. 49-76. S. Pannell ed. Darwin: NTU Press.
Career Highlights
Lecturer and postgraduate coursework convener, School of Archaeology and Anthropology, ANU (2005-8); consultant anthropologist, North Queensland Land Council (2005); member of the Australian Parliamentary Election Observer Mission to Indonesia (2004); Indonesia Analyst, Office of National Assessments (2002-4); Reviews Editor, The Australian Journal of Anthropology (2005-present).
