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Biography
I graduated with a PhD from the Bell School in July 2021. My dissertation passed without revision having been examined by scholars from a range of disciplines, including transitional justice (TJ) and law, TJ and education, and gender and Pacific studies. My dissertation and publications explore the linkages between education and processes of social change in Bougainville and Solomon Islands.
Research Interests
social and historical foundations of education, anthropology of education, transitional justice, peace building, state formation, Papua New Guinea, Bougainville, Solomon Islands
Education/Academic qualification
Anthropology, PhD, Enemy Friends: Silence and the Limits of Transitional Justice at Melanesian Boarding Schools, The Australian National University
Award Date: 11 Jun 2021
Transitional Justice, Bachelor, Teaching the Violent Past? Truth-Telling and History Education in Solomon Islands, The Australian National University
Award Date: 11 Dec 2013
Research student supervision
- Registered to supervise
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Professional Women, Nation-Making, and the Negotiation of Difference at Boarding Schools in Bougainville and Solomon Islands
Oakeshott, D., 2023, In: Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology. 24, 3, p. 181-198 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Enemy Friends: Silence and the Limits of Transitional Justice at Melanesian Boarding Schools
Oakeshott, D., Jan 2021, Canberra: Australian National University. 249 p.Research output: Thesis › Doctoral thesis
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The promise of education: Schooling journeys in the southwestern pacific
Hicks, R. E., McDougall, D. & Oakeshott, D., 2021, In: Contemporary Pacific. 33, 2, p. 301-336 36 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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“Just Something in History”: Classroom Knowledge and Refusals to Teach the Tension in Solomon Islands
Oakeshott, D., 2021, In: Contemporary Pacific. 33, 2, p. 386-408 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access1 Citation (Scopus)
Projects
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Report on Pacific Democracy
Palmieri, S., Carter, G., Cintra Oppermann, T., Oakeshott, D., Ride, A. & Wiltshire, C.
International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA)
30/04/24 → 30/11/24
Project: Research