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Author/Editor: Diane Bell for the Ngarrindjeri Nation
Biography Diane Bell’s home town might be Melbourne, but she has lived in many different places – a decade in Canberra, several years in the Northern Territory, several in NSW and seventeen years in the USA. When George Bush was re-elected, she came home and settled on the banks of the Finniss River, South Australia. “It’s where I feel at home; where I know the Ngarrindjeri stories for the place, the names and songs of the birds,” she says. “And it’s where I continue to work. Knowing the people who are the traditional owners of the land, creates the possibility of being at home on someone else’s land. There is the possibility of negotiation.”
Diane is a feminist anthropologist who lives her politics and does not shy away from controversy. Her commitment to social justice is apparent in her work in the area of land rights, law reform, violence against women and environmental causes.
Her books include Daughters of the Dreaming (1983,1993,2003); Generations: Grandmothers, mothers, and daughters (1987); Law: The old and the new (1980); Religion in Aboriginal Australia (1984, co-edited); Gendered Fields: Women, men and ethnography (1993, co-edited); Radically Speaking: Feminism reclaimed (1996, co-edited with Renate Klein) and; Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin: A world that is, was, and will be (1998), which won the NSW Premier’s Literary Award and was a finalist for the Age Book of the Year Award, the Queensland Premier’s History Award and the Australian Literary Society Gold Medallion. Website: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dibell/; http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=name&id=1127064338; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ImqRXTRNKE News
Awards and Translations 1999 Finalist: Age Book of the Year for Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin: A World that is, was, and will be. (Melbourne: Spinifex, 1998) 1999 Finalist: Queensland Premier's History Award for Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin: A World that is, was, and will be. (Melbourne: Spinifex, 1998) 1999 New South Wales Premier's Gleebook Award received for cultural and literary criticism for Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin: A World that is, was, and will be. (Melbourne: Spinifex, 1998) 2000 Finalist: Gold Medal for the Australian Literary Society for Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin: A World that is, was, and will be. (Melbourne: Spinifex, 1998) 2000 Senior Scholar Special Commendation of Honor received from the American Association of University Women (AAUW) 2000 - 2003 Regional Editor for the Latin and North America Women’s Studies International Forum 2002 Inducted into the Golden Key Honor Society, November 28, as an Honorary Member for "commitment to higher education and an outstanding job in capacity as Director of Women's Studies" |
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