Dr Damien Riggs

Position/s:Lecturer
Social Work and Social Planning
Phone: +61 8 82012786
Email:
Location: Social Sciences South (341)
Postal address: GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Biography

After the completion of my PhD i undertook a three-year ARC funded postdoctoral fellowship before commencing in my role as a lecturer in the Discipline of Social Work at Flinders. I am currently the President of the Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association and the National Convenor of the Australian Psychological Society's interest group on gay and lesbian issues and the editor of its journal, the Gay and Lesbian Issues and Psychology Review

Qualifications

  • Bachelor Behaviour Sciences (Flinders)
  • Bachelor Social Sciences (Psychology Honours) (CSU)
  • Phd (Adelaide)

Honours, awards and grants

2010 Early Career Researcher Award, APS
2011 VC Early Career Research Award, Flinders

Key responsibilities

Honours Coordination (2011)
Topic Coordination

Teaching

Teaching interests

  • families, relationships and parenting
  • child protection
  • research methods
  • sexuality studies
  • race and whiteness

Topic Coordinator:

  • SOAD3006  Practice Research
  • SOAD4004  Working with Children and Families
  • SOAD9218  Gender and Sexuality in Community, Mental Health and Public Policy Contexts

Research and consultancy

Research interests

  • LGBTQ social science studies
  • foster care
  • experiences of known sperm donors
  • masculinities and parenting
  • social construction of childhood
  • experiences of refugee students in Australian schools

Postgraduate research supervision

  • Discursive analyses of social issues esp. medical tourism and family formation
  • Quantitative analyses of social issues esp. discrimination

Publications

Books

Due, C. & Riggs, D.W., 2011. Representations of Indigenous Australians in the mainstream news media, Teneriffe QLD: Post Pressed.

Clarke, V., Ellis, S.J., Peel, E., & Riggs, D.W., 2010. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer psychology: An introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Riggs, D.W., 2010. What About the Children! Masculinities, Sexualities and Hegemony, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Riggs, D.W., 2007. Becoming parent: Lesbians, gay men, and family, Queensland: Post Pressed.

Riggs, D.W., 2006. Priscilla, (white) queen of the desert: Queer rights/race privilege, New York: Peter Lang.

Book chapters

Riggs, D.W., 2011. Angels and saints: The impact of lay understandings of foster care upon carers. In Advances in sociology research. New York: Nova Science, pp. 217-228.

Riggs, D.W., 2011. Elaborating a different 'yes, but': Complexities of race, sexuality and class in the counselling setting. In Explorations In Diversity: Examining Privilege And Oppression In A Multicultural Society. Brooks Cole.

Riggs, D.W., 2011. Perceptions of support among Australian lesbian and gay foster carers. In Sexual minority research in the new millenium. New York: Nova Science, pp. 131-152.

Riggs, D.W., 2011. The racial politics of marriage: rights and relationships in colonial context. In Speak now: Australian perspectives on same-sex marriage. Melbourne: Clouds of Magellan, pp. 191-201.

Riggs, D.W., 2011. What about the children! Homophobia, accusations of pedophilia and the construction of childhood. In Queering Paradigms II: Interrogating agendas. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 245-258.

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Books

Due, C. & Riggs, D.W., 2011. Representations of Indigenous Australians in the mainstream news media, Teneriffe QLD: Post Pressed.

Clarke, V., Ellis, S.J., Peel, E., & Riggs, D.W., 2010. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer psychology: An introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Clarke, V., Ellis, S.J., Peel, E., & Riggs, D.W., 2010. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer psychology: An introduction, New York: Cambridge University Press.

Riggs, D.W., 2010. What About the Children! Masculinities, Sexualities and Hegemony, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Riggs, D.W., 2007. Becoming parent: Lesbians, gay men, and family, Queensland: Post Pressed.

Riggs, D.W., 2006. Priscilla, (white) queen of the desert: Queer rights/race privilege, New York: Peter Lang.

Book chapters

Riggs, D.W., 2011. Elaborating a different 'yes, but': Complexities of race, sexuality and class in the counselling setting. In Explorations In Diversity: Examining Privilege And Oppression In A Multicultural Society. Brooks Cole.

Riggs, D.W., 2011. Angels and saints: The impact of lay understandings of foster care upon carers. In Advances in sociology research. New York: Nova Science, pp. 217-228.

Riggs, D.W., 2011. Perceptions of support among Australian lesbian and gay foster carers. In Sexual minority research in the new millenium. New York: Nova Science, pp. 131-152.

Riggs, D.W., 2011. The racial politics of marriage: rights and relationships in colonial context. In Speak now: Australian perspectives on same-sex marriage. Melbourne: Clouds of Magellan, pp. 191-201.

Riggs, D.W., 2011. What about the children! Homophobia, accusations of pedophilia and the construction of childhood. In Queering Paradigms II: Interrogating agendas. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 245-258.

Riggs, D.W., 2010. Developing a 'responsible' foster care praxis: Poly as a framework for examining power and propriety in family contexts. In Understanding non-monogamies. New York: Routledge, pp. 188-200.

Riggs, D.W., 2010. Gay Fathers. In Boy culture: An encyclopedia. Conneticut: Greenwood.

Due, C. & Riggs, D.W., 2010. The media proudly presents; 'Lessons' from celebrity moms. In Motherhood and Philosophy. UK: Wiley-VCH, pp. 191-201.

Riggs, D.W., 2009. Essentialist and constructionist positions. In LGBTQ America: An encyclopedia. Conneticut: Greenwood Press, pp. 338-344.

Lovell, J. & Riggs, D.W., 2009. Constructions of difference in children's storybooks and their implication in bullying behaviours. In The Racial Politics of Bodies, Nations and Knowledges. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 155-175.

Riggs, D.W., 2009. Not playing by the rules : a manifesto on biology, kinship and parenting. In And baby makes more: Known donors, queer And baby makes more: Known donors, queer parents, and our unexpected families. Toronto: Insomniac Press, pp. 171-178.

Durrheim, K., Hook, D., & Riggs, D.W., 2009. Race and racism. In Critical Psychology: An Introduction. London: Sage, pp. 197-214.

Riggs, D.W., 2009. Race privilege and its role in the 'disappearance' of birth families and adoptive children in debates over non-heterosexual adoption in Australia. In Other People's Children: Adoption in Australia. North Melbourne, Vic.: Australian Scholarly Publishing, pp. 161-175.

Riggs, D.W., 2009. Poppadoms, princesses and privilege : colonial relations in action in the celebrity big brother household. In Celebrity Colonialism: Fame, Power and Representation in Colonial and Postcolonial Cultures. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 209-224.

Riggs, D.W. & Augoustinos, M., 2008. 'The fine line between compensation and taking advantage': A discursive analysis of race privilege. In Psychology and Indigenous Australians: Effective Teaching and Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 43-54.

Riggs, D.W., 2008. Attachment theory as a 'practice of heterosexism': Resisting the psychologisation of lesbian and gay foster carers. In Mother knows best: Talking back to the baby 'experts'. Toronto: Demeter Press, pp. 148-157.

Augoustinos, M. & Riggs, D.W., 2007. Representing 'us' and 'them': Constructing white identities in everyday talk. In Social Representations and Identity: Content, process and power. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 109-130.

Riggs, D.W., 2007. Possessive investments at the intersection of gender, race and sexuality: Lesbian and gay rights in a postcolonising nation. In Intersections: Gender, Race and Ethnicity in Australasian Studies. New Delhi: Prestige Books, pp. 111-123.

Riggs, D.W., 2007. Psychoanalysis as a 'postcolonising' reading practice: Towards a discursive psychological reading of racism-as-repression. In Taking up the Challenge: Critical Whiteness Studies in a Postcolonising Nation. Belair, SA: Crawford House Publishing, pp. 347-365.

Riggs, D.W., 2007. Recognising race in LGBT psychology: Privilege, power & complicity. In Out in psychology: Privilege, power and complicity. London: John Wiley and Sons, pp. 59-76.

Riggs, D.W., 2006. 'Proving the case': Psychology, subjectivity and representations of lesbian and gay parents in the media. In News and News and sexuality: Media portraits of diversity. London: Sage Publications, pp. 235-256.

Riggs, D.W. & Briggs, L., 2004. Talking about heterosexism: Politics, complicity and identification. In Out in the Antipodes: Australian and New Zealand perspectives on gay and lesbian issues in psychology. Perth: Brightfire, pp. 416-434.

Refereed journal articles

Riggs, D.W., 2011. Loving otherwise: race, relationality and respectability in Wilkinson v Kitzinger. Critical Race and Whiteness Studies, 7(2), 2-17.

Riggs, D.W., 2011. Let's go to the movies: filmic representations of gay foster carer and adoptive parents. Journal of GLBT Family Studies, 7(3), 297-312.

Riggs, D.W., 2011. Australian lesbian and gay foster carers negotiating the child protection system: strengths and challenges. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 8(3), 215-226.

Riggs, D.W. & Scholz, B., 2011. The value and meaning attached to genetic relatedness among Australian sperm donors. NEW GENETICS AND SOCIETY, 30(1), 41-58.

Riggs, D.W. & Russell, L., 2011. Characteristics of men willing to act as sperm donors in the context of identity-release legislation. Human Reproduction, 26(1), 266-272.

Due, C. & Riggs, D.W., 2011. Freedom to roam? Space use in Primary Schools with New Arrivals Programs. Online Journal of International Research in Early Childhood Education, 2(1), 1-16.

Palasinski, M., Riggs, D.W., & Zebialowicz, A., 2011. You don't do it in public?: racism, respectability and responsibility in Celebrity Big Brother. Celebrity Studies, 2(2), 164-177.

Riggs, D.W., Delfabbro, P.H., & Augoustinos, M., 2010. Foster fathers and carework: Engaging alternate models of parenting. Fathering, 8(1), 24-36.

Riggs, D.W., 2010. 'I'm not gay, but my four mums are': Psychological knowledge and lesbian-headed families. Radical Psychology, 9(1).

Riggs, D.W. & Fell, G.R., 2010. Teaching cultural competency for working with lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans clients. Psychology Learning and Teaching Journal, 9(1), 30-38.

Riggs, D.W., 2010. Pragmatic imbalances: Australian lesbian and gay foster carers. Law in Context, 28(1), 65-77.

Due, C. & Riggs, D.W., 2010. Playing at the edges: The use of playground spaces in South Australian primary schools with New Arrivals Programmes. Social Geographies, 5, 25-37.

Riggs, D.W. & Due, C., 2010. Gay men, race privilege, and surrogacy in India. Outskirts, 22.

Due, C. & Riggs, D.W., 2010. Representing Australian land. Mainstream media reporting of Native Title. International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, 3(1), 26-36.

Riggs, D.W., 2010. On accountability: Towards a white middle-class queer post identity politics identity politics. Ethnicities, 10, 344-357.

Due, C. & Riggs, D.W., 2010. Friendship, exclusion and power: A study of two South Australian schools with New Arrivals Programs. Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 35, 73-80.

Riggs, D.W. & Due, C., 2010. The management of accusations of racism in Celebrity Big Brother. Discourse and Society, 21(3), 257-271.

Due, C. & Riggs, D.W., 2009. Moving beyond English as a requirement to 'fit in': Considering refugee and migrant education in South Australia. Refuge, 26(2), 55-64.

Riggs, D.W. & Augoustinos, M., 2009. Institutional stressors and individual strengths: Policy and practice directions for working with Australian lesbian and gay foster carers. Practice: Social Work in Action, 21(2), 77-90.

Riggs, D.W., 2009. The health and well-being implications of emotion work undertaken by gay sperm donors. Feminism and Psychology, 19(4), 517-533.

Riggs, D.W., Augoustinos, M., & Delfabbro, P.H., 2009. Role of foster family belonging in recovery from child maltreatment. Australian Psychologist, 44(3), 166-173.

Riggs, D.W., Delfabbro, P.H., & Augoustinos, M., 2009. Negotiating foster families: Identification and desire. British Journal of Social Work, 39(5), 789-806.

Riggs, D.W., King, D., Delfabbro, P.H., & Augoustinos, M., 2009. 'Children out of place' : representations of foster care in the Australian news media. Journal of Children and Media, 3(3), 234-248.

Riggs, D.W., Mclaren, S., & Mayes, A.S., 2009. Attitudes toward parenting in a lesbian and gay community convenience sample. Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health, 13(1), 51-61.

Riggs, D.W. & Patterson, A., 2009. The smiling faces of contemporary homophobia and transphobia. Gay and Lesbian Issues and Psychology Review, 5(3), 185-190.

Due, C. & Riggs, D.W., 2008. 'We grew here you flew here': Claims to 'home' in the Cronulla riots. Colloquy: Text Theory Critique, 16, 210-228.

Fell, G.R., Mattiske, J.K., & Riggs, D.W., 2008. Challenging heteronormativity in psychological practice with lesbian, gay and bisexual clients. Gay and Lesbian Issues and Psychology Review, 4(2), 127-140.

Riggs, D.W. & Delfabbro, P.H., 2008. Economics of care: Remuneration and recognition of foster carers. Journal of the Association For Research on Mothering, 10(1), 94-104.

Riggs, D.W., 2008. 'The blighted germs of heterosexual tendencies': Reading Freud in (be)hindsight. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 18, 131-139.

Riggs, D.W., 2008. White mothers, Indigenous families, and the politics of voice. Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association eJournal, 4(1).

Riggs, D.W., 2008. Lesbian mothers, gay sperm donors, and community: Ensuring the wellbeing of children and families. Health Sociology Review, 17(3), 226-234.

Riggs, D.W., 2008. Towards a 'non-indifferent' account of child protection. Australian Feminist Studies, 23(57), 375-388.

Riggs, D.W., 2008. Using multinomial logistic regression analysis to develop a model of Australian gay and heterosexual sperm donors' motivations and beliefs. International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society, 6(2), 106-123.

Riggs, D.W., 2008. All the boys are straight: Heteronormativity in books on fathering and raising boys. THYMOS: The Journal of Boyhood Studies, 2(2), 186-202.

Barker, M., Hagger-Johnson, G., Hegarty, P., Hutchison, C., & Riggs, D.W., 2007. Responses from the Lesbian and Gay Psychology Section to Crossley's 'Making sense of 'barebacking''. British Journal of Social Psychology, 46(3), 667-677.

Riggs, D.W. & Augoustinos, M., 2007. Learning difference: Representations of diversity in storybooks for children of lesbian and gay parents. Journal of GLBT Family Studies, 3(2 & 3), 133-156.

Riggs, D.W., 2007. On being acceptable: state sanction, race privilege and lesbian and gay parents. Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, 7(1).

Riggs, D.W., 2007. Psychology, individualism and activism: Challenging discourses of 'equality with' in the same-sex marriage debate. Gay and Lesbian Issues and Psychology Review, 3(3), 185-194.

Riggs, D.W., 2007. Queer theory and its future in psychology: exploring issues of race privilege. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 1(1), 39-52.

Riggs, D.W., 2007. Reassessing the foster-care system: examining the impact of heterosexism on lesbian and gay applicants. Hypatia, 22(1), 132-148.

Riggs, D.W., Augoustinos, M., & Delfabbro, P.H., 2007. 'Basically it's a recognition issue': Validating a foster parent identity. Family Matters, 76, 64-69.

Riggs, D.W. & Walker, G.A., 2006. Queer(y)ing rights: Psychology, liberal individualism and colonisation. Australian Psychologist, 41(2), 95-103.

Riggs, D.W. & Choi, P.Y., 2006. Heterosexism, racism and psychology. Psychologist, 19(5), 288-291.

Riggs, D.W., 2006. 'Serosameness' or 'serodifference'?: Resisting polarised discourses of identity and relationality in the context of HIV. Sexualities, 9(4), 409-422.

Riggs, D.W., 2006. 'This reads like a conspiracy theory', or; Mundane heterosexism hurts too!. Lesbian and Gay Psychology Review, 7, 310-313.

Riggs, D.W., 2006. Bodies at the border: Contingency, hegemony and materiality. Philament: An On-Line Journal of the Arts and Culture, 9, 59-74.

Riggs, D.W., 2006. Developmentalism and the rhetoric of best interests of the child: challenging heteronormative constructions of families and parenting in foster care. Journal of GLBT Family Studies, 2(2), 57-73.

Riggs, D.W., 2006. What's love got to do with it? Ambivalence and the national imaginary. International Journal of Critical Psychology, 16, 32-52.

Riggs, D.W., 2005. Caught `n `e Frame? Queer embodiment under heteropatriarchy. Philament: An On-Line Journal of the Arts and Culture, 7.

Riggs, D.W. & Augoustinos, M., 2005. The psychic life of colonial power: Racialised subjectivities, bodies and methods. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 15(6), 461-477.

Riggs, D.W., 2005. Locating control: psychology and the cultural production of 'healthy subject positions'. Culture Health and Sexuality, 7(2), 87-100.

Riggs, D.W., 2005. Who wants to be a 'good parent'? Scientific representations of lesbian and gay parents in the news media. M/C Journal, 8(1).

Riggs, D.W. & Augoustinos, M., 2004. Projecting threat: Managing subjective investments in whiteness. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 9(2), 219-236.

Riggs, D.W., 2004. 'We don't talk about race anymore': Privilege, power and critical whiteness studies. Borderlands E-Journal, 3(2).

Riggs, D.W., 2004. Benevolence and the management of stake: On being `good white people'. Philament: An On-Line Journal of the Arts and Culture, 4.

Riggs, D.W., 2004. Challenging the monoculturalism of psychology: Towards a socially accountable pedagogy and practice. Australian Psychologist, 39(2), 118-126.

Riggs, D.W., 2004. Constructions of sexuality and ethics in the conversion therapy literature. Lesbian and Gay Psychology Review, 5, 6-14.

Riggs, D.W., 2004. Resisting heterosexism in foster carer training: Valuing queer approaches to adult learning and relationality. Canadian Online Journal of Queer Studies in Education, 1(1), 1-24.

Riggs, D.W., 2004. Understanding history as a rhetorical strategy: Constructions of truth and objectivity in debates over Windschuttle's fabrication. Journal of Australian Studies, 28(82), 37-48.

Riggs, D.W., 2003. Repressing a privileged location: Exploring the uncanniness of white belonging. Analysis (Melbourne), 12, 83-98.

Refereed conference papers

Riggs, D.W., 2011. Gardens of the mind: Nature, power and design for mental health. Diversity and Unity: Proceedings of the IASDR2011, the 4th World Conference on Design Research.

Riggs, D.W., 2011. Light lies: How does glass communicate in a mental health unit?. Refereed proceedings of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association conference: Communication on the edge 2011, Hamilton, New Zealand, July 6-8., 1-20.

Riggs, D.W., 2007. Unnatural 'Crimes' and 'Natural' Rights: Theorising Queer White Colonialisms. Historicising Whiteness: Transnational perspectives on the construction of an identity, 35-40.

Riggs, D.W., 2005. Cultures of denial: Managing the past, justifying the present. The body politic: Racialised political cultures in Australia.

Journal articles

Riggs, D.W. & Palasinski, M., 2011. Young men view things differently. British Medical Journal, 342, 2903-2903.

Riggs, D.W., 2011. Queering evidence-based practice. Psychology and Sexulaity, 2(1), 87-98.

Riggs, D.W., 2010. The educational experiences of lesbian-mother families: A South Australian study. LES Online, 2, 3-13.

Riggs, D.W., 2009. Lesbian and gay parenting. Sociology Review, 19, 20-22.

Riggs, D.W., 2009. The ground upon which we stand: Reading sexuality through race. Lesbian and Gay Psychology Review, 10, 42-46.

Riggs, D.W., 2008. Reading Interrelationality: The Racial Politics of Academic Research. Darkmatter, 3.

Riggs, D.W., 2007. How do bodies matter: Understanding embodied racialised subjectivities. Darkmatter, 2.

Conference publications

Riggs, D.W., 2009. Heteronormativity and Australian foster care.

Riggs, D.W., Mclaren, S., & Mayes, A.S., 2008. Attitudes of lesbians and gay men toward lesbian and gay parents. Proceedings for the 2008 43rd APS Annual Conference, 259-263.

Riggs, D.W., Augoustinos, M., & Delfabbro, P., 2008. Children out of place: News media representations of foster care in Australia.

Riggs, D.W., 2008. The psychology of sperm donation: Implications for donor recruitment.

Riggs, D.W., 2008. All the boys are straight: Heteronormativity in books on fathering and raising boys.

Riggs, D.W., 2008. Gay and heterosexual men who act as known sperm donors: Expectations and implications. Proceedings for the 2008 43rd APS Annual Conference, 254-258.

Riggs, D.W., 2008. Jade Goody, celebrity Big Brother, and the denial of racism.

Riggs, D.W., 2008. Lesbian mothers, gay sperm donors, and community.

Riggs, D.W., 2007. White mothers, Indigenous children: Child removal, good intentions, and denied knowledges.

Riggs, D.W., 2007. Safety for whom? Children protection in neocolonial contexts.

Riggs, D.W., 2007. Queer rights/race privilege.

Riggs, D.W., 2007. Negotiating a parenting identity: Desire, identification and foster care.

Riggs, D.W., 2007. Gay men parenting: Social and legal issues.

Riggs, D.W., 2007. 'Call me father of the year and I'll drown you!': Male foster carers negotiating complex identities.

Riggs, D.W. & Augoustinos, M., 2007. This is not a confessional song: Discourse analysis and race privilege.

Riggs, D.W., 2007. White mothers, Indigenous families, and the politics of voice.

Riggs, D.W. & Augoustinos, M., 2007. Discourses of child protection and foster care provision.

Riggs, D.W., 2006. Injured identities: Queer rights and the discipline of psychology.

Riggs, D.W., 2006. Exploring the impact of heterosexism on lesbian and gay applicants.

Riggs, D.W., 2006. Attachment theory as a practice of heterosexism.

Riggs, D.W., 2006. 'What's love got to do with it?': Queer rights/race privilege.

Riggs, D.W. & Augoustinos, M., 2006. Learning difference: Representations of diversity in storybooks for children with lesbian and gay parents.

Riggs, D.W., 2006. Power and privilege in celebrity big brother.

Riggs, D.W., 2006. Turning the screw: Racial melancholia/white subjectivities.

Riggs, D.W., 2006. Psychology and anti-racism: Understanding the melancholic white subject. Proceedings of the 2006 joint conference of the APS and NZPsS : psychology bridging the Tasman : science culture and practice.

Riggs, D.W., 2005. Building community through difference rather than sameness: Barebacking practices and discourses of shared serostatus.

Riggs, D.W., 2005. 'Rather like a conspiracy theory': refusing heteronormative understandings of lesbian and gay parents.

Riggs, D.W., 2005. ''Loving families': Race and the representation of lesbian and gay families.

Riggs, D.W., 2005. Developmentalism and rhetoric of `best interests of the child'.

Riggs, D.W., 2005. Thinking through racism and anti-racist practice: Power, subjectivity and agency.

Riggs, D.W., 2005. Whose morality? Normative constructions of health and sexuality in research on barebacking.

Riggs, D.W., 2004. Constructing the national good: Howard and the rhetoric of benevolence. Proceedings of the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference 2004, 1-17.

Riggs, D.W., 2004. (Bare)Backing ourselves into a corner?: Resisting heteropolarised understandings of gay men's sexuality.

Riggs, D.W., 2004. 'Expert knowledge' and the fight for rights: examining representations of lesbian and gay parents in the media.

Riggs, D.W., 2004. Cultures of denial: Denying the past, justifying the present. The Body Politic: Racialised political cultures in Australia.

Riggs, D.W., 2004. Resisting the psychologisation of lesbian and gay parents: Attachment theory as a practice of heterosexism.

Riggs, D.W., 2004. Performing the subject position `good white person': Managing racism/race privilege.

Riggs, D.W. & Selby, J., 2003. Setting the seen: Whiteness as unmarked category in psychologists' writings on race in Australia. Development through diversity : proceedings of the 38th APS Annual Conference, 190-194.

Riggs, D.W., 2003. Challenging 'polite performances': Locating the political in whiteness research.

Riggs, D.W., 2003. Constructing the White Nation: Projecting Threat, Justifying Colonisation.

Riggs, D.W., 2003. Idealising Place: Art, appropriation and the 'pre-colonial landscape'. Placing Race and localising Whiteness.

Riggs, D.W., 2003. Managing the 'anxiety of whiteness': Science, imperialism and the construction of the white gaze.

Riggs, D.W., 2003. On the limits of the discourses of sameness and difference.

Riggs, D.W., 2003. Rewriting the subject: A critical approach to subjectivity within health psychology.

Riggs, D.W., 2002. As if it were real: Writing experiential multiplicity as epistemology. Conference Proceedings of the 1st Australian Postgraduate Students' Critical Psychology Conference, 162-177.

Other public research outputs

Baird, B.J. & Riggs, D.W., 2009. The racial politics of bodies, nations and knowledges (Co-editors), Newcastle on Tyne, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Riggs, D.W., 2007. Taking up the challenge: Critical race and whiteness studies in a postcolonising nation (Editor), Belair: Crawford House Publishers.

Riggs, D.W. & Walker, G.A., 2004. Out in the antipodes: Australian and New Zealand perspectives on gay and lesbian issues in psychology (Editor), Perth: Brightfire.

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Professional and community engagement

Expertise for media contact

  • Lesbian and Gay Parenting
  • Foster Care

Subject/s

  • Children/Youth
  • Gender studies
  • Refugees
  • Reproduction
  • Rights
  • Surrogacy

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