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Dr Anne-Marie Hilsdon

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    • Role:
    • Senior Lecturer
    • Department:
    • Department of Social Sciences
    • Location:
    • Humanities
    • Telephone:
    • +61 8 9266 3349

Anne-Marie is a senior lecturer in anthropology and sociology in the Department of Social Sciences. She completed her PhD at the University of Queensland in 1992. Most of her research has been in the Philippines and Malaysia examining issues of social change. Her research usually involves extended periods of fieldwork at the community level.

She is interested in how formulations of identity at local national and global levels with respect to mobility, religion, violence and human rights intersect with gender, ethnicity, class and sexuality in shaping human experience. She teaches in the area of gender, human rights, migration and Southeast Asian studies. 

Research Interests

  • 2006-2007 Muslims and Christians: Women, Religious Nationalism and Sustainability in the Philippines  (University Strategic Research Grant);
  • 2005 Women, Religious Nationalism and Sustainability in East Malaysia (Faculty RPI Grant);
  • 2003-2004 Sexuality, Violence and Migration: the case of Filipino Migrants Sabah (RUSSIC small grants);
  • 2003-2004 Working Women in Sarawak (RUSSIC small grants).

Memberships

She is director of Curtin’s Research Unit for the Study of Societies in Change (RUSSIC);
She is also a member of the:

  • Asian Studies Association of Australia
  • Australian Anthropological Society
  • Centre for Advanced Studies in Australia, Asia and the Pacific (CASAAP).

Publications

Book Chapters (Authored, Research Quality)

  • Hilsdon, A. 2007. The Musician, the Masseuse and the Manager: Sexy Mothers in Sabah. In Working and Mothering in Asia: Images, Ideologies and Identities, eds Theresa W Devasahayam & Brenda S A Yeoh, 195-220. Singapore: NUS Press.
  • Hilsdon, A. 2003. Violence against Maranao Muslim women in the Philippines. In Violence Against Women in Asian Societies. Gender Inequality and Technologies of Violence, eds Linda Rae Bennett, Lenore Manderson, 20-40. United Kingdom: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
  • Hilsdon, A. 2001. Doing God's Work: Citizenship, Gender and Sexuality in the Philipines. In Borders of Being: Citizenship, Fertility and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, eds Margaret Jolly and Kalpana Ram, 154-177. Ann Arbor, USA: University of Michigan.
  • Hilsdon, A. 2000. The Contemplacion fiasco: The hanging of a Filipino domestic worker in Singapore. In Human Rights and Gender Politics Asia-Pacific perspectives, eds Anne-Marie Hilsdon, Martha Macintyre, Vera Mackie and Maila Stivens, 172-192. London and New York: Routledge.

Refereed Articles (Scholarly Journals)

  • Hilsdon, A. 2009. Invisible Bodies: Gender, Conflict and Peace in Mindanao. Asian Studies Review 33(3): 349-365.
  • Giridharan, B, and Hilsdon, A. 2008. Racialised sexualities: the case of Filipina migrant workers in East Malaysia. Gender, Place and Culture 15(6): 611-628.
  • Hilsdon, A. 2007. Introduction: Reconsidering Agency - Feminist Anthropologies in Asia. Australian Journal of Anthropology 4: 127-137.
  • Hilsdon, A. 2007. Transnationalism and agency in East Malaysia: Filipina migrants in the nightlife industries. Australian Journal of Anthropology 18: 172-193.
  • Hilsdon, A. 2006. Migration and human rights: The case of Filipino Muslim women in Sabah, Malaysia. Women's Studies International Forum 29(4): 405-416.
  • Rozario, S, and Hilsdon, A. 2006. Special Issue on Islam, gender and human rights. Women's Studies International Forum 29(4): 331-338.
  • Hilsdon, A. 2003. What the Papers Say. Representing Violence Against Overseas Contract Workers. Violence Against Women 9(6): 698-722.