Dr Andrew Gunstone
Senior Lecturer, Australian Indigenous Studies
Dr Andrew Gunstone joined the School of Humanities, Communications and Social Sciences in March 2004 and is currently Senior Lecturer in Australian Indigenous Studies. He is the Foundation Editor of the Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues.
Subjects taught by Andrew include:
- Introduction to Australian Indigenous Studies
- Activism, Politics and Indigenous Australia
- Dynamics of Indigenous Cultures
- Human Rights and the Indigenous Australian Experience
Research Interests / Publications
Andrew’s research interests, and areas of postgraduate supervision, include the politics of reconciliation - both in Australia and internationally - and the contemporary and historical political relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Australia.
Books
Gunstone, A. 2009. (2nd Ed.). Unfinished Business: the Australian formal reconciliation process. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Gunstone, A. (Editor). 2008. History, Politics and Knowledge: Essays in Australian Indigenous Studies. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Gunstone, A. 2007. Unfinished Business: the Australian formal reconciliation process. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Tripcony, P., Gunstone, A., Purdie, N., Boulton-Lewis, G. and Fanshawe, J. 2000. Positive Self-Identity for Indigenous Students and its Relationship to School Outcomes. Canberra: DETYA.
Book chapters
Gunstone, A. 2008. ‘The Australian Reconciliation Process: An Analysis’, in Fleming, C., Komesaroff, P. and Rothfield, P. (eds.), Pathways to Reconciliation: Theory and Practice. Ashgate Publishing: Aldershot, 169-178.
Gunstone, A. 2008. ‘Australian Indigenous Studies and Australian Universities’, in Gunstone, A. (ed.), History, Politics and Knowledge: Essays in Australian Indigenous Studies. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing: Melbourne.
Gunstone, A. 2008. ‘Unfinished Business: The Australian Reconciliation Process from 1991-2000’, in Gunstone, A. (ed.), History, Politics and Knowledge: Essays in Australian Indigenous Studies. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing: Melbourne.
Gunstone, A. 2007. ‘The Impact of Whiteness on the 1991-2000 Australian Reconciliation Process’, in Boucher, L., Carey, J. and Ellinghaus, K. (eds.), Historicising Whiteness: Transnational Perspectives on the Construction of an Identity. Melbourne: RMIT Publishing, 400-407.
Refereed journal articles
Gunstone, A. 2009. ‘The role of Indigenous Studies journals in the discipline of Indigenous Studies’. Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues 12(1-4): 132-138.
Gunstone, A. 2008. ‘Australian University approaches to Indigenous policies’. Australian Journal of Indigenous Education 37s: 103-108.
Gunstone, A. 2008. ‘Reconciliation and Australian Indigenous Health in the 1990s: a failure of public policy’. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 5(4): 251-263.
Gunstone, A. 2008. ‘The Politics of Saying Sorry’. Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues 11(2): 3-10.
Gunstone, A. 2007. ‘Community involvement and education in the 1991-2000 Australian reconciliation process'. Australian Journal of Indigenous Education 36: 39-48.
Gunstone, A. 2007. ‘‘These blokes are reinventing the 19th Century’: the Howard Government’s record on Indigenous Affairs 1996-2006’. Journal of Indigenous Policy 7: 42-53.
Gunstone, A. 2007. ‘Reconciliation inEast Gippsland’. Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues 10(1): 3-15.
Gunstone, A. 2006. ‘Teaching Australian Indigenous Studies to international students’. Australian Studies (UK) 19(2): 7-18.
Gunstone, A. 2006. ‘The impact of the Howard Government upon the formal Australian reconciliation process’. Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues 9(2-3): 57-72.
Gunstone, A. 2006. ‘The Howard Government's approach to Indigenous self-determination’. MAI Review Online 1: 1-3.
Gunstone, A. 2005. ‘Unfinished Business: the Australian reconciliation process from 1991 to 2000’. Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues 8(3-4): 16-32.
Gunstone, A. 2003. ‘The responses of Australian Governments to Indigenous challenges to the Australian State: 1967-2003’. Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues 6 (2): 3-25.
Refereed conference papers
Gunstone, A. 2008. ‘The failure of the Howard Government’s ‘practical’ reconciliation policy’. Second International Conference on Racisms in the New World Order, University of the Sunshine Coast, Caloundra, Queensland, 6-7 December 2007, 1-9.
Gunstone, A. 2008. ‘Over a decade of despair: the Howard Government and Indigenous Affairs 1996-2007’. 2008 Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, 6-9 July 2008, 1-12.
Gunstone, A. 2008. ‘Human rights, Indigenous rights and reconciliation in Australia’. Activating Human Rights and Peace Conference, Southern Cross University, Byron Bay, New South Wales, 1-4 July 2008, 1-8.
Gunstone, A. 2007. ‘The wider Australian community’s confusion and ignorance concerning the meanings of reconciliation’. 2006 Aboriginal Studies Association Conference, Aboriginal Studies Association, Sydney, NSW, 2-3 November 2006, 135-145.
Gunstone, A. 2007. ‘Government policies and wider community attitudes towards Indigenous socio-economic disadvantage in the reconciliation decade’. 2007 Australasian Political Studies Conference, Monash University, 24-26 September 2007, 1-18.
Gunstone, A. 2006. ‘The impact of whiteness on the 1991-2000 Australian reconciliation process’. Historicising Whiteness Conference, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, 22-24 November 2006, 1-12.
Gunstone, A. 2006. ‘The impact of nationalism upon the formal Australian reconciliation process’. 2006 Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, University of Newcastle, 25-27 September 2006, 1-17.
Gunstone, A. 2006. ‘The failure of reconciliation to address racist and ignorant attitudes in the wider community towards Indigenous peoples’. Racisms in the New World Order: Realities of Culture, Colour and Identity Conference, Coolum, 8-9 December 2005, 143-152.
Gunstone, A. 2005. ‘The Australian reconciliation process: 1991-2000’. 2005 Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, University of Otago, 28-30 September 2005, 1-14.
Gunstone, A. 2005. ‘Nationalism and the formal Australian reconciliation process’. Body Politic Conference, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 24-26 November 2004, 1-16.
Gunstone, A. 2004. ‘Reconciliation, Nationalism and the History Wars’. 2004 Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, University of Adelaide, 29 September-1 October 2004, 1-18.
Gunstone, A. 2000. ‘An examination of the Indigenous policies of Australian Universities’. 2000 Australian Indigenous Education Conference, Edith Cowan University, 4-7 April 2000, 1-11.
Contact Details
- Phone:
- 03 9902 6348 or 5122 6348
- Fax:
- 03 9902 6359 or 5122 6359
- Office:
- 1S113
- Email:
- Andrew.Gunstone@arts.monash.edu.au
- Address:
- School of Humanities, Communications & Social Sciences
Monash University, Gippsland Campus
Northways Road,
Churchill, Victoria 3842