Dr Darlene McNaughton

Experience

Darlene has undertaken extensive, long-term anthropological research in Aotearoa-New Zealand 1997, Northern and Southern India 1999-2001 and in Western Cape York Peninsula 2005-2006. Her research profile includes several international publications and conference papers in the field of medical anthropology. She has also written a number of commissioned reports on Indigenous cultural heritage values in western Cape York Peninsula for local traditional owners and Rio Tinto-Alcan. Darlene also has experience in the public health sector and in community development, capacity enhancement and mobilization.

Research and Professional Interests

Darlene’s research interests include the nature of subalternity and stigma, indigenous environmental philosophy and mining, the anthropology of bio-medicine and the cultural dimensions of public health discourses on obesity. She is currently exploring social and cultural understandings of dengue fever in North Queensland as part of an international, multi-disciplinary research team funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s ‘Grand Challenges in Global Health’ (GCGH) initiative.

Teaching

Not currently teaching.

Grants

AIATSIS Grant, 2007-2008 Title, “Indigenous agency and well-being in an early 20th Century Presbyterian Mission at Weipa, Western Cape York Peninsula”.

Awards

1998 University Medalist - James Cook University, Australia.

Publications

McNaughton, Darlene (2008) Natural Enemies?: Scientists, Citizens, and Community Participation in Australia and New Zealand, Biological Control. (under review)

Bell, Kirsten, McNaughton, Darlene, & Salmon, Amy (in press) “Medicine, Morality and Mothering: Public Health Discourses on Fetal Alcohol Exposure, Smoking around Children and Childhood Overnutrition”, Critical Public Health.

McNaughton, Darlene(2008) “Report on the Cultural Mapping of the Ely Lease, Cape York Peninsula”, a report prepared with and for Traditional Owners and Rio-Tinto-Alcan (Weipa).

Bell, Kirsten & McNaughton, Darlene (2007) “Feminism and the Invisible Fat Man”, Body and Society, 13(1): 107-131.

McNaughton, Darlene (2007) “Recommendations for future identification, assessment and management of pastoral sites on the Comalco mining lease”, a report prepared for Traditional Owners and Rio Tinto (Weipa).

McNaughton, Darlene (2006) “The “Host” as Uninvited “Guest”: Hospitality, Violence and Tourism”, Annals of Tourism Research, 33(3): 645-665.

McNaughton, Darlene (2006) “Real hard work”: Pastoralism, Presbyterian Missions and Aboriginal Labour”, a research paper prepared for Traditional Owners and Rio Tinto (Weipa).

Morrison, Michael & McNaughton, Darlene (2005) “Culturally modified (scarred) trees of the Weipa region, western Cape York Peninsula”, a research paper prepared for Traditional Owners and Rio Tinto (Weipa).

Conference Presentations

Salmon, Amy, Bell, Kirsten & McNaughton, Darlene (2008) “Medicine, Morality and Mothering: Public Health Discourses on Fetal Alcohol Exposure, Smoking around Children and Childhood Overnutrition, The 34 ^th Annual Alcohol Epidemiology Symposium of the Kettil Bruun Society (KBS) Victoria, Canada.

Bell, Kirsten, McNaughton, Darlene & Salmon, Amy (2007) “Guilt and Shame in Health Promotion: A Comparison of Three Public Health Movements Targeting Mothers and Children”, The 19th International Union on Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) World Conference, Vancouver, Canada.

McNaughton, Darlene, Morrison, Michael & Shiner, Justin (2007) “An archaeological and oral historical investigation of Indigenous health and wellbeing at the Weipa Presbyterian Mission, western Cape York Peninsula”, New Ground: Australian Archaeology Conference, Sydney, Australia.