Flinders University
Assoc Prof Susanne Schech
Assoc Prof
Susanne
Schech
Flinders University
http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/susanne.schech
| Position/s: | Associate Professor Centre for Development Studies |
| Phone: | +61 8 82012489 |
| Email: | susanne.schech@flinders.edu.au |
| Location: | Social Sciences South (212) |
| Postal address: | GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia |
Qualifications
BA Hons in Geography, University of Durham
PhD in Geography, University of Durham
Key responsibilities
Head of the Centre for Development Studies
Chair of the School of International Studies Research Committee
Teaching
Teaching interests
I teach broadly in the field of development studies. Special interests lie in gender and development, and culture and development, and I contribute to topics on sustainable development and international work integrated learning.
Research and consultancy
Research interests
- Human Geography (Nationalism, Identity, Gender)
- International Development (Theories of Development, Culture and Development, Gender and Development, Poverty Reduction, ICTs)
- Ethnicity and Race Studies (Constructions of Racial and Ethnic Identities, Identity Constructions of Refugees and Migrants)
Postgraduate research supervision
PhD supervisions:
Bimal Regmi, 'Identifying operational mechanisms for mainstreaming climate change adaptation in Nepal' (co-supervision with Cassandra Star)
Sanzida Akhter, 'Health care seeking behaviour of mothers suffering from maternal disability in Bangladesh' (co-supervision with Gour Dasvarma and Udoy Saikia)
Recently completed Higher Degrees supervisions:
Catherine Koerner, 'Beyond a white Australia? Race, multiculturalism, Indigenous sovereignty and Australian identities', PhD 2010 (joint supervision with Jane Haggis)
Sheila James, 'Wanting to be 'white' or not? The Anglo-Indians and the dilemma of identity', PhD 2009 (joint supervision with Jane Haggis)
Sanjugta Vas Dev ,'Refugees and their host communities' , PhD 2008 (joint supervision with Anthony Langlois)
Benjamin Heyward, ‘Participatory development in the Philippines’, MA 2007
Lincolin Arsyad, ‘The role of micro-credit in regional economic development’, PhD 2006 (joint supervision with Joe Williams)
Leah Briones, ‘Beyond agency and rights: capability, migration and livelihood in Filipina experiences of domestic work in Paris and Hong Kong’, PhD 2006 (joint supervision with Jane Haggis)
Publications
Books
Schech, S.B. & Haggis, J., 2000. Culture and Development: A critical Introduction, Oxford: Blackwell.
Book chapters
Haggis, J. & Schech, S.B., 2009. Migrants, masculinities and work in the Australian national imaginary. In Migrant men: Critical studies of masculinities and the migration experience. New York, US: Routledge, pp. 60-76.
Schech, S.B., 2009. Afterword. In On the edges of development: cultural interventions. New York: Routledge, pp. 232-240.
Schech, S.B. & Haggis, J., 2008. Culture and Development. In The Companion to Development Studies. London, UK: Hodder Education, pp. 50-54.
Schech, S.B. & Vas Dev, S., 2007. Governing through participation? The World Bank's new approach to the poor. In The World Bank development, poverty, hegemony. Durban, South Africa: University of Kwa-Zulu Natal Press, pp. 171-201.
Schech, S.B. & Haggis, J., 2004. Terrains of migrancy and whiteness: how British migrants locate themselves in Australia. In Whitening Race: Essays in social and cultural criticism. Canberra, ACT: AIATSIS Aboriginal Studies Press, pp. 176-191.
Refereed journal articles
Haggis, J. & Schech, S.B., 2010. Refugees, settlement processes and citizenship making: an Australian case study. National Identities, 12(4), 365-379.
Schech, S.B. & Mustafa, M., 2010. The politics of gender mainstreaming poverty reduction: an Indonesian case study. Social Politics, 17(1), 111-135.
Schech, S.B. & Vas Dev, S., 2007. Gender justice: the World Bank's new approach to the poor?. Development in Practice, 17(1), 14-26.
Haggis, J., Schech, S.B., & Rainbird, S.J., 2007. From refugee to settlement case worker: cultural brokers in the contact zone and the border work of identity. International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations, 7(1), 237-248.
Books
Schech, S.B. & Haggis, J., 2003. Culture and development a critical introduction, Taipei: Chu Liu Book Company.
Schech, S.B. & Haggis, J., 2002. Development: A Cultural Studies Reader, Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
Schech, S.B. & Haggis, J., 2000. Culture and Development: A critical Introduction, Oxford: Blackwell.
Book chapters
Haggis, J. & Schech, S.B., 2009. Migrants, masculinities and work in the Australian national imaginary. In Migrant men: Critical studies of masculinities and the migration experience. New York, US: Routledge, pp. 60-76.
Schech, S.B., 2009. Afterword. In On the edges of development: cultural interventions. New York: Routledge, pp. 232-240.
Schech, S.B. & Haggis, J., 2008. Culture and Development. In The Companion to Development Studies. London, UK: Hodder Education, pp. 50-54.
Schech, S.B. & Vas Dev, S., 2007. Governing through participation? The World Bank's new approach to the poor. In The World Bank development, poverty, hegemony. Durban, South Africa: University of Kwa-Zulu Natal Press, pp. 171-201.
Schech, S.B. & Haggis, J., 2004. Terrains of migrancy and whiteness: how British migrants locate themselves in Australia. In Whitening Race: Essays in social and cultural criticism. Canberra, ACT: AIATSIS Aboriginal Studies Press, pp. 176-191.
Schech, S.B. & Haggis, J., 2000. Migrancy, whiteness and the settler self in contemporary Australia. In Race, colour and identity in Australia and New Zealand. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, pp. 231-239.
Haggis, J. & Schech, S.B., 1999. Incoherence and whiteness: reflections on a study of settler life histories. In Unmasking whiteness: race relations and reconciliation. Nathan: The Queensland Studies Centre Griffiths University, pp. 45-51.
Refereed journal articles
Schech, S.B., 2012. Development perspectives from the Antipodes: an introduction. Third World Quarterly, 33(6), 969-980.
Schech, S.B. & Mustafa, M., 2010. The politics of gender mainstreaming poverty reduction: an Indonesian case study. Social Politics, 17(1), 111-135.
Haggis, J. & Schech, S.B., 2010. Refugees, settlement processes and citizenship making: an Australian case study. National Identities, 12(4), 365-379.
Haggis, J., Schech, S.B., & Rainbird, S.J., 2007. From refugee to settlement case worker: cultural brokers in the contact zone and the border work of identity. International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations, 7(1), 237-248.
Schech, S.B. & Vas Dev, S., 2007. Gender justice: the World Bank's new approach to the poor?. Development in Practice, 17(1), 14-26.
Schech, S.B., 2002. Wired for change: the links between ICTs and development discourses. Journal of International Development, 14(1), 13-23.
Schech, S.B. & Mcnally, S., 2001. Interpreting Gender Policy: The Challenges of Negotiating Difference in Australian Development Projects in Vietnam. Canadian Journal of Development Studies-Revue Canadienne D Etudes Du Developpement, 22(3), 655-674.
Schech, S.B. & Haggis, J., 2001. Migrancy, Multiculturalism and Whiteness, Re-charting Core Identitites in Australia. Communal Plural: Journal of Trans-National and Cross-Cultural Studies, 9(2), 143-159.
Haggis, J. & Schech, S.B., 2000. Meaning well and global good manners: reflections on white western feminist cross-cultural praxis. Australian Feminist Studies, 15(33), 387-399.
Haggis, J., Schech, S.B., & Fitzgerald, G., 1999. Narrating lives, narrating whiteness - a research note. Journal of Australian Studies, 23(60), 168-173.
Schech, S.B., 1998. Between tradition and post-coloniality: The location of gender in Australian development policy. Australian Geographer, (3), 389-404.
Schech, S.B. & Haggis, J., 1998. Post-colonialism, identity and location: being white Australian in Asia. Environment and Planning D-Society and Space, 16, 615-629.
Refereed conference papers
Schech, S.B., 2003. The Culturing of Development Studies. Geography's new frontiers, conference papers no. 17, 225-226.
Journal articles
Schech, S.B., 2011. Geographies of development in the 21st century. By Sylvia Chant and Cathy McIlwaine. GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL, 177(1), 97-98.
Schech, S.B., 2010. Introduction to International Development: Approaches, Actors, and Issues (eds P. A. Haslam, J. Schafer and P. Beaudet). Geographical Research, (4), 451-453.
Schech, S.B., 2009. Race and the Crisis of Humanism [book review]. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 99(2), 427-429.
Schech, S.B., 2007. Gender and social policy in a global context: uncovering the gendered structure of 'the social' (book review). Development in Practice, 17(1), 160-162.
Schech, S.B., 2004. "On post-colonial futures: Transformations of colonial culture" (Bill Ashcroft) and "Post-colonial liberalism" (Duncan Ivison). Journal of Sociology, 40(1), 93-96.
Schech, S.B., 2002. Placebound. Australian feminist geographies, by Johnson L, Huggins J, Jacobs J [Book Review]. Australian Feminist Studies, 17(37), 114-115.
Vas Dev, S. & Schech, S.B., 2000. Southern NGOs and the Internet: Empowerment or enslavement?. Policy, Organisation and Society, (2), 39-58.
Other public research outputs
Schech, S.B. & Wadham, B.A., 2005. Proceedings of the Placing Race and Localising Whiteness Conference (Editors), Bedford Park, SA: Flinders University.
Haggis, J., Schech, S.B., Baulderstone, J.M., & Ellickson, C.M., 2005. Occasional Paper: Gender Equity in DECS - A Focus on Women. , 1-44.
Schech, S.B. & Haggis, J., 2003. Culture and Development: A Critical Introduction (Chinese language translation).
Professional and community engagement
Susanne has been deeply involved in designing, managing and delivering gender training courses in Indonesia and Australia under the Australian Agency for International Development since 2000. Currently she provides management and advice to the Gender Consortium at Flinders University which she helped to establish. The Gender Consortium continues to provide gender training and research activities to numerous stakeholders in Australia and overseas.
Susanne is actively engaged in coordinating the university's research activities related to migration and refugees. She set up the Migration and Refugee Research Centre which supports research in this field and promotes research oriented networking with civil society organisations, government, industry and NGO partners (now administered by Humanities). She sits on the Don Dunstan foundation Steering Committee responsible for bringing together refugee and migration research across the South Australian universities.
Professional memberships include the Institute of Australian Geographers (IAG) and the American Association of Geographers (AAG).
Expertise for media contact
- Human Geography nationalism, identity, gender
- International Development theories of development; postcolonial theories; gender and development; Asia, Australia, Indonesia, poverty reduction, ICTs
- Ethnicity and Race Studies constructions of racial and ethnic identities
Subject/s
- Asia
- Australia
- Development
- Migration
- Refugees
