I’m Alana Brekelmans (Settler, she/her): a storyteller, researcher, and embodied practice facilitator.

My vision is to compassionately, creatively, and collaboratively engage with a variety of stories (including stories that are silent, embodied, and more-the-human) to examine how these narratives interface with power structures in the processes of making and unmaking worlds. I use ethnographic, creative, and feminist methodologies to explore affect, environment, and knowledge practices. This has involved creative and ethnographic work on settler-colonial imaginaries and political ecologies in Outback Queensland, and cross-cultural trans-disciplinary collaboration for science and ecology in Indigenous Australia.

I am currently a research fellow in the T.C Bierne School of Law, University of Queensland; adjunct fellow in The Northern Institute and Centre for Creative Futures, Charles Darwin University; and visiting fellow in the School of Life and Environmental Science at Deakin University. I hold a PhD from the University of Queensland, Australia, for which I received the 2021 Australian Anthropology Society Thesis Award. Collaborative work with Mavis Kerinauia was also awarded the 2023 Ecological Society Australia & Bush Heritage Right Way Science Award.

I live and work on unceded Indigenous lands, and I pay my respects to Elders past and present (please see specific works for acknowledgements of the lands and peoples who supported the practices).