Amanda Kearney (Ph.D., University of Melbourne, 2005) is an anthropologist whose research centers on human resilience and the challenges of future security. For over two decades, she has worked in close collaboration with Indigenous families in northern and central Australia—including Yanyuwa, Marra, Garrwa, Gudanji, and Aṉangu peoples—as well as with African descendant communities in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. These long-term partnerships have led to co-authored books such as Indigenous Law and the Politics of Kincentricity & Orality and Jakarda wuka (Too many stories): Narratives of Yanyuwa Sea Country and Rock Art from Northern Australia’s Gulf of Carpentaria. Her scholarship appears widely in leading journals, and she also contributes applied expertise on Indigenous rights, intercultural ethics, and underwater cultural heritage. She currently serves as editor-in-chief of Anthropological Forum. Her latest book is Indigenous Law and the Politics of Kincentricity and Orality (2023).

Kearney, Amanda, Dinah Norman a-Marngawi, Mavis Timothy a-Muluwamara, Graham Dimanyurru, Annie a-Karrakayny, John Bradley, and Vincent Dodd. 2023. Indigenous Law and the Politics of Kincentricity and Orality. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.