Ms Anna Trembath

Position	Casual
School / Work Unit	Global Studies, Social Science &Planning
Contact Details	No Phone
Location	City Campus
Portfolio	Design & Social Context

Qualifications

2004: BA (Hons), Monash University (Politics)

Work responsibilities

I have worked with the Globalism Institute since 2004 with my research coming to focus on the Globalism Institute’s activities in Timor-Leste, particularly in the area of gender. I have traveled to Timor-Leste on various occasions over the last four years, and across 2006 and 2007 spent one year in country working on a Globalism Institute research project undertaken with the support of the Office for the Promotion of Equality (located in the Prime Minister’s Office) and Irish Aid. This project resulted in the bilingual report Mapping the Pursuit of Gender Equality: Non-Government and International Agency Activity in Timor-Leste (Globalism Institute, RMIT University, and Irish Aid, Melbourne, August 2007), co-authored with Damian Grenfell.

In addition, I have a range of research responsibilities, including development of the Timor-Leste Research website (www.timor-leste.org), coordinating grant reporting, producing research outcomes, collecting and analysing research materials, undertaking project planning and providing research and administrative support to the project.

I am also a PhD candidate with RMIT University’s Global Cities program. My thesis deals with the intersections between the nation-formation process and changes to gender relations in Timor-Leste (Creating the Nation, Reconstituting Gender: Transformations to Social Relations in Contemporary Timor-Leste, 2007-ongoing)..

Research Interests

My primary area of interest is the nexus between identity and forms of social transformation, with my current work focusing on gender, nation-formation and nationalism, security and violence and civil society organisations, in the context of Timor-Leste.

Research Projects

2004-present

Human Security, Global Cities – Timor-Leste program, 2007-ongoing

Mapping the Pursuit of Gender Equality: Non-Government and International Agency Activity in Timor-Leste, 2006-2007

Sources of Insecurity (2004-06)

Biotechnology Across the Borders of Life, (2005)

2003-2004

‘Recognition and Redistribution: Identity at the Intersection of Struggle and Emancipation’

Honours thesis, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University

My thesis was concerned with evaluating the emancipatory nature of theoretical responses to identity-based struggle made by Nancy Fraser, Axel Honneth and Charles Taylor, as they engage engage with ideas of recognition and redistribution.

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

‘Multicultural Education and Racism: The Case of Arab-Australian Students in Contemporary Australia’, (with Fethi Mansouri) International Education Journal, vol. 6, no. 4, September 2005, pp. 516-529.

Reports

Mapping the Pursuit of Gender Equality: Non-Government and International Agency Activity in Timor-Leste / MapabaLala’okBukaIgualdadeJéneru: AtividadeAjénsia La Governmentál no Internasionálnianiha Timor-Leste, (with Damian Grenfell) Globalism Institute, RMIT University, and Irish Aid, Melbourne, August 2005, ISBN 978-0-646-47770-1 (English and Tetun versions available, http://www.timor-leste.org/gender.html).

Challenges and Possibilities: International Organizations and Women in Timor-Leste / Desafiu no Oportunidade: OrganizasaunInternasionál no Fetoiha Timor-Leste, Forum Report (with D. Grenfell and C. Scanlon, eds), 96 page hard-copy, two CDs and web-based version (http://www.timor-leste.org/events/challenges.html), October 2005.

Other Journal Articles and Political Commentaries

Trembath, Anna, ‘Review of Independent Women: The Story of Women’s Activism in East Timor’, International Journal of Feminist Politics, forthcoming 2008.

Trembath, Anna, ‘On East Timorese Solidarity: Review of David Scott’s Last Flight out of Dili’, Arena Magazine, no. 87, February-March 2007.

Trembath, Anna and Damian Grenfell, ‘Oan Kiak: Women and Independence in Timor-Leste’, Arena Magazine, no. 83, June-July 2006, pp. 10-12.

‘Review of Reconciliations by Agnes Toth and Bernard Hickey, eds’, API Review of Books, Issue 42, April 2006, http://www.api-network.com/

‘Review of Social Justice and the Politics of Community by Christine Everingham’, Forum, No. 41, March 2005, pp. 6,8.

‘A Spectre Haunting the Refugee Movement?’, (with Damian Grenfell), Arena Magazine, no. 68, 2003-2004, p. 21.

‘Baxter and Beyond: Where Now for the Refugee Movement?’, (with Damian Grenfell), Arena Magazine, no. 65, 2003, pp. 9-10.

‘First Time Voters’, The Age, commentary on the lead-up to the 2001 Federal Election

Conference Papers/Publications

Trembath, Anna, ‘Gender Dynamics in Timor-Leste’s Security Crisis’, Second Oceanic Conference on International Studies, Melbourne University, Melbourne, 7 July 2006.

‘One World, Many Worlds? Identity and Difference in Resistance Politics’, (with Damian Grenfell), Other Worlds: Social Movements and the Making of Alternatives, University of Technology, Sydney, April 2005.

‘Negotiating Identity Amidst Prejudice and Exclusion: Young Arab-Australians post-September 11’, Clash of Civilisations? Culture and the Manipulation of Identity in Europe and Australia, Contemporary Europe Research Centre, University of Melbourne, December 2004.

Seminars and Lectures

‘Discrimination, Stereotypes and Arabic-Speaking Australians’, Adult Learning Centre, Lolotoe, Timor-Leste, September 2006.

‘Gender and Security in Timor-Leste’, Globalism Institute Seminar Series 2006, RMIT University, Melbourne, 24 May 2006.

‘Networks from the Local to the International’ (with Damian Grenfell), invited address at two-day networking forum sponsored by UNDP, Oxfam Australia and NGO Forum, Dili, November 2005.

Community Engagement

A member of the organising committee of Challenges and Possibilities: International Organisations and Women in East Timor, held 9-11 September 2005, RMIT University Melbourne.