Dr Alana Brekelmans
Research Fellow
TC Beirne School of Law
Publications
Book Chapters
Brekelmans, Alana (2025). Awake in the Golden Age (Capacities to dream other-wise at the end of the world). Capacities to: affect up against Fascism. (pp. 91-102) edited by Gregory J. Seigworth, Mathew Arthur, Wendy J. Truran and Chad Shomura. Lancaster, PA, United States: Imbricate Press. doi: 10.22387/CTAUAF
Brekelmans, Alana, Kum Sing, Tanya, Major, Ronald, Kum Sing, Graham, Lucas, Brenda and Wildermuth, Deborah (2022). Mitakoodi housing. Camps, cottages and homes: a brief history of Indigenous housing in Queensland. (pp. 1-8) edited by Timothy O'Rourke and Mandana Mapar. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland Anthropology Museum.
Langford, Alexandra, Brekelmans, Alana and Lawrence, Geoffrey (2021). 'I want to sleep at night as well': guilt and care in the making of agricultural credit markets. Markets in their place: context, culture, finance. (pp. 122-140) edited by Russell Prince, Matthew Henry, Carolyn Morris, Aisling Gallagher and Stephen FitzHerbert. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429296260-7
Journal Articles
Brekelmans, Alana (2025). Attuning to Anthropologies Otherwise: The Curatorium Collective's Epistemic Experiments in Ethnography. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 26 (1), 1-4. doi: 10.1080/14442213.2024.2446042
Igreja, Victor, Axelsen, Taryn and Brekelmans, Alana (2024). Exploring the mental health of young people in households and schools in Gorongosa District, Center of Mozambique. Scientific Reports, 14 (1) 28057, 1-15. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-79257-7
Brekelmans, Alana (2024). Imploding fictions: following the object through the ethnographic novel. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 25 (4), 1-3. doi: 10.1080/14442213.2024.2378550
Brekelmans, Alana (2024). Speculative Ethnography in the Multiverse: Caroline E. Schuster’s
Forecasts
and Chronotopes of Disaster in the Critical Graphic Narrative. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 25 (3), 1-4. doi: 10.1080/14442213.2024.2355412
Brekelmans, Alana and Martin, Richard J. (2024). Frontier narratives that take on flesh: tracing legacy, labour, and legitimacy in Outback Queensland, Australia. Oceania, 94 (1), 18-38. doi: 10.1002/ocea.5393
Brekelmans, Alana (2024). Multimedia review column: TikTok and the new public ethnographer. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 25 (2), 208-211. doi: 10.1080/14442213.2024.2314335
Brekelmans, Alana (2023). Difference and Care in Lisa Palmer’s Collaborative Engagements with Timor Leste. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 24 (5), 1-3. doi: 10.1080/14442213.2023.2267252
Brekelmans, Alana (2023). The fall: an affective methodology. Capacious: Journal of Emerging Affect Inquiry, 143-163. doi: 10.22387/cap2022.72
Brekelmans, Alana (2022). A mutable space : Identity in the ruins of a polyethnic town camp, Outback Australia. Focaal, 2024 (99) 081803, 1-14. doi: 10.3167/fcl.2022.081803
Igreja, Victor, Colaizzi, Janna and Brekelmans, Alana (2021). Legacies of civil wars: a 14-year study of social conflicts and well-being outcomes in farming economies. British Journal of Sociology, 72 (2), 426-447. doi: 10.1111/1468-4446.12802
Conference Papers
Brekelmans, Alana (2024). All that we make (together we compose and decompose).. Society for the Study of Affect Conference, Lancaster, PA, United States, 12-14 October 2024.
Kerinaiua, Mavis and Brekelmans, Alana (2023). Walking together: negotiating knowledge in research. People, Plants, and the Law, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 26 October 2023.
Kerinaiua, Mavis and Brekelmans, Alana (2023). The Turtuni Framework: guiding collaborative research for Tiwi Murrukupuni (Country). Ecological Society of Australia, Darwin, NT, Australia, 3-7 July 2023.
Brekelmans, Alana (2022). Excessive affects: improvisation as a feminist methodology in anthropologies of settler colonialism. Australian Anthropological Society Conference ‘Life Support’, Geelong, VIC, Australia, 23-26 November 2022.
Brekelmans, Alana (2022). Strange gaze: four glances at the poetics and politics of looking in art and anthropology. Strange Intimacies, Tartu, Estonia, 23-24 September 2022.
Seminar Paper
Brekelmans, Alana (2022). Specters and the speculative: living with ghosts in an apocalypse.. UQ Anthropology Museum, University of Queensland, Australia.
Thesis
Brekelmans, Alana (2021). Out there, back then: chronotopes of presence and absence in Outback Australia. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/358d292
Creative Work
Brekelmans, Alana (2021). Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Queensland Gallery of Modern Art.