Ashley Barnwell

Keeping the Nation’s Secrets: “Colonial Storytelling” within Australian Families

Ashley Barnwell

Journal article  |  2021  |  Journal of Family History

Recent studies of the genealogy craze focus on how family historians appeal to ancestors to fashion their own identities, but prac..

Family History Collaborators in Conversation

Ashley Barnwell, Laura King

Journal article  |  2020  |  International Public History

Ashley Barnwell and Laura King converse about their collaborations with family historians in Australia and England. They reveal th..

Critical Affect: The Politics of Method

Ashley Barnwell

Book  |  2020

Following the rising interest in affective aspects of social experience, there has been a rush to set aside poststructural critiqu..

What is ‘publicly available data’? Exploring blurred public-private boundaries and ethical practices through a case study on Instagram

Signe Ravn, Ashley Barnwell, Barbara Barbosa Neves

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics

This article adds to the literature on ethics in digital research by problematizing simple understandings of what constitutes “pub..

Family Secrets and the Slow Violence of Social Stigma

Ashley Barnwell

Journal article  |  2019  |  Sociology

This article uses Rob Nixon’s theory of ‘slow violence’ to examine how families keep secrets to manage stigma over time. In an age..

Research Methodologies for Auto/Biography Studies

Book  |  2019

This collection of short essays provides a rigorous, rich, collaborative space in which scholars and practitioners debate the valu..

‘Given it is all so remote from us’: family secrets, ancestral shames and the proximities of emotion

Ashley Barnwell

Journal article  |  2019  |  Emotions and Society

This article examines how families relate emotionally to their ancestors as they deal with the discovery of past family secrets. I..

Reckoning with the Past: Family Historiographies in Postcolonial Australian Literature

A Barnwell, Joseph Cummins

Book  |  2019

What we do when we do life writing: methodologies for auto/biography now

Ashley Barnwell, Kate Douglas

Book Chapter  |  2019

Convict Shame to Convict Chic: Intergenerational Memory and Family Histories

A BARNWELL

Journal article  |  2019  |  Memory Studies

This article highlights the significance of family history research for memory studies. It provides an overview of the economic an..