Biography
I am an anthropologist and geographer from Aotearoa New Zealand whose work addresses two overlapping fields of inquiry. The first examines natural hazards and environmental disasters through the social life of its technical infrastructures, and the second focuses on the politics of settler and Indigenous relations to lands and waters:
My 2017 book Wild Articulations examined how questions of belonging, environmental sustainability and development were articulated through a legal controversy in far north Queensland. Since then, I have been engaged in major funded research projects examining challenges and opportunites for Indigenous cultural fire and the social and cultural values of bushfire management.
I am the Convener of the Deakin Science and Society Network and one of the Global Editors of the journal Postcolonial Studies. I also co-produce the podcasts Conversations in Anthropology and Technoscience.
I am interested in supervising postgraduate projects related to these areas. More information on my publications is available here and on my website.
Read more on Timothy's profileAffiliations
Society for Social Studies of Science
American Anthropolical Association
Australian Anthropological Society
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association
Institute of Australian Geographers
Knowledge areas
My current areas of interest include:
- Settler-colonialism, including settler and Indigenous relations to lands and waters
- Science and technology studies, including environmental hazards, disasters and climate change
- Politics of infrastructure, including environmental monitoring and activism
Projects
Chief Investigator, 'Pyrosecurity: understanding and managing bushfires in a changing climate', Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), Australia Research Council, 2019-2022
Chief Investigator, 'Hazards, culture, and Indigenous communities', Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre, 2017-2021
Chief Investigator, 'Model cultures: social dimensions of natural hazards modelling in Australia', Central Research Grants Scheme, Faculty of Arts & Education, Deakin University, 2017
Principal Investigator (2014-2016) and Team Member (2016-), 'Scientific diversity, scientific uncertainty and risk mitigation policy and planning', Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre, 2014-2017
Publications
W Smith, T Neale, J Weir
(2021), Vol. 120, pp. 82-92, Geoforum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, C1
Fuzzy boundaries: simulation and expertise in bushfire prediction
T Neale, D May
(2020), pp. 1-23, Social studies of science, London, Eng., C1
5. "Related" Histories: on epistemic and reparative decolonization
T Neale, E Kowal
(2020), Vol. 59, pp. 403-412, History and Theory, Chichester, Eng., C1
Mysterious Motions: A Genealogy of 'Orbiting' in Australian Indigenous Affairs
Timothy Neale
(2019), pp. 259-277, Labour lines and colonial power : Indigenous and Pacific Islander labour mobility in Australia, Canberra, A.C.T., B1
J Sherry, T Neale, T McGee, M Sharpe
(2019), Vol. 234, pp. 494-502, Journal of environmental management, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, C1
Walking together: a decolonising experiment in bushfire management on Dja Dja Wurrung country
T Neale, R Carter, T Nelson, M Bourke
(2019), Vol. 26, pp. 341-359, Cultural geographies, London, Eng., C1
Permits to burn: weeds, slow violence, and the extractive future of northern Australia
T Neale, J Macdonald
(2019), Vol. 50, pp. 417-433, Australian geographer, Abingdon, Eng., C1
An eternal flame: The elemental governance of wildfire's pasts, presents and futures
T Neale, A Zahara, W Smith
(2019), Vol. 25, pp. 115-134, Cultural Studies Review, Ultimo, NSW, C1
'Are we wasting our time?': bushfire practitioners and flammable futures in northern Australia
T Neale
(2018), Vol. 19, pp. 473-495, Social and cultural geography, Abingdon, Eng., C1
Bushfire simulators and analysis in Australia: insights into an emerging sociotechnical practice
T Neale, D May
(2018), Vol. 17, pp. 200-218, Environmental hazards, London, Eng., C1
Digging for fire: finding control on the Australian continent
T Neale
(2018), Vol. 5, pp. 79-90, Journal of contemporary archaeology, Sheffield, Eng., C1
Expanding the role of targets in conservation policy
Tim Doherty, Lucie Bland, Brett Bryan, Timothy Neale, Emily Nicholson, Euan Ritchie, Don Driscoll
(2018), Vol. 33, pp. 809-812, Trends in ecology and evolution, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, C1
Wild articulations : environmentalism and indigeneity in Northern Australia
T Neale
(2017), Honolulu, Hawaii, A1
Mining, indigeneity, alterity: or, mining Indigenous alterity?
T Neale, E Vincent
(2017), Vol. 31, pp. 417-439, Cultural studies, Abingdon, Eng., C1
E Vincent, T Neale
(2017), Vol. 28, pp. 301-323, Australian journal of anthropology, London, Eng., C1
Australia's national climate: learning to adapt?
L Rickards, T Neale, M Kearnes
(2017), Vol. 55, pp. 469-476, Geographical research, Chichester, Eng., C1
T Neale
(2016), pp. 29-46, Biopolitics and memory in postcolonial literature and culture, Abingdon, Eng., B1-1
Re-reading the Wild Rivers Act controversy
T Neale
(2016), pp. 25-53, Unstable relations: environmentalism and indigenous people in contemporary Australia, Perth, W.A., B1
T Neale, E Vincent
(2016), pp. 1-24, Unstable relations: environmentalism and indigenous people in contemporary Australia, Perth, W.A., B1
T Neale, J Weir, T McGee
(2016), Vol. 72, pp. 16-25, Geoforum, Oxford, Eng., C1-1
Burning anticipation: wildfire, risk mitigation and simulation modelling in Victoria, Australia
T Neale
(2016), Vol. 48, pp. 2026-2045, Environment and planning A, London, Eng., C1-1
Locating the intangible: integrating a sense of place into cost estimations of natural disasters
L Magee, J Handmer, T Neale, M Ladds
(2016), Vol. 77, pp. 61-72, Geoforum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, C1-1
Modelling systemic racism: mobilising the dynamics of race and games in everyday racism
R Fordyce, T Neale, T Apperley
(2016), pp. 1-1, Fibreculture journal, Sydney, N.S.W., C1-1
T Neale, J Weir, S Dovers
(2016), Vol. 31, pp. 13-17, Australian journal of emergency management, East Melbourne, Vic., C1-1
An experimental act: formations of wildness and indigeneity in far North Queensland
T Neale
(2016), Vol. 19, pp. 249-269, Postcolonial studies, Abingdon, Eng., C1
Roads to Coen: Cape York and the infrastructure of wilderness
T Neale
(2016), Vol. 75, pp. 124-132, Meanjin, Parkville, Vic., C1
Unstable relations: Indigenous people and environmentalism in contemporary Australia
E Vincent, T Neale
(2016), Crawley, W.A., A7
Other people's country: law, water and entitlement in settler colonial sites
T Neale, S Turner
(2016), London, Eng., A7-1
A critical review of the application of environmental scenario exercises
J Wodak, T Neale
(2015), Vol. 73, pp. 176-186, Futures, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, C1-1
First law and the force of water: law, water, entitlement
S Turner, T Neale
(2015), Vol. 5, pp. 387-397, Settler colonial studies, Abingdon, Eng., C1-1
Navigating scientific uncertainty in wildfire and flood risk mitigation: a qualitative review
T Neale, J Weir
(2015), Vol. 13, pp. 255-265, International journal of disaster risk reduction, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, C1-1
T Neale
(2015), [Sydney, N.S.W.], A6-1
Indigenous cultural studies: intersections between cultural studies and Indigenous studies
E Vincent, T Neale, C McKinnon
(2014), pp. 11-35, History, power, text: cultural studies and Indigenous studies, Sydney, N.S.W., B1-1
History, power, text: cultural studies and indigenous studies
T Neale, C McKinnon, E Vincent
(2014), Sydney, N.S.W., A7-1
T Neale
(2013), Vol. 27, pp. 177-192, Continuum: journal of media & cultural studies, Abingdon, Eng., C1-1
'A substantial piece in life': viabilities, realities and given futures at the Wild Rivers inquiries
T Neale
(2012), pp. 1-1, Australian humanities review, Canberra, A.C.T., C1-1
Duplicity of meaning: wildness, indigeneity and recognition in the wild rivers act debate
T Neale
(2011), Vol. 20, pp. 310-332, Griffith law review, Abingdon, Eng., C1-1
"... the credentials that would rescue me": Trauma and the fraudulent survivor
T Neale
(2010), Vol. 24, pp. 431-448, Holocaust and genocide studies, Oxford, Eng., C1-1
Funded Projects at Deakin
Australian Competitive Grants
Pyrosecurity: Understanding and managing bushfire in a changing climate
Dr Timothy Neale
ARC DECRA - Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
- 2021: $38,072
- 2020: $129,357
- 2019: $127,070
Other Public Sector Funding
Local SDGs: A general framework for charting pathways to sustainability to future-proof local communities.
Prof Brett Bryan, Prof Rebecca Lester, Prof Euan Ritchie, A/Prof Kelly Miller, A/Prof Robert Faggian, Prof Emily Nicholson, Dr Asef Nazari, Dr Don Gunasekera, Dr Timothy Neale, Dr Michalis Hadjikakou
- 2019: $15,000
Industry and Other Funding
Local SDGs: A general framework for charting pathways to sustainability to future-proof local communities.
Prof Brett Bryan, Prof Rebecca Lester, Prof Euan Ritchie, A/Prof Kelly Miller, A/Prof Robert Faggian, Prof Emily Nicholson, Dr Asef Nazari, Dr Don Gunasekera, Dr Timothy Neale, Dr Michalis Hadjikakou
- 2020: $190,000
- 2019: $205,909
- 2018: $195,000
Other Funding Sources
Hazards, culture, and Indigenous communities
Dr Timothy Neale, Jessica Weir
- 2020: $60,096
- 2019: $80,128
- 2018: $80,128
- 2017: $20,032
Supervisions
No completed student supervisions to report