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Marty Branagan

(He, him)
Senior Lecturer and Convenor of Peace Studies, University of New England

Marty is the author of the illustrated novel 'Locked On! The Seventh and Most Illegal in the Hitchhiker's Guide Trilogy' (2018), based on climate activism at Leard Forest and Bentley, NSW (https://irenepublishing.com/?product=locked-on);
and
'Global Warming, Militarism and Nonviolence: The Art of Active Resistance' (2013, Palgrave Macmillan), among other books.

Marty has published widely on nonviolence issues, including women in activism, recent developments in nonviolence, artistic activism, Australian eco-pax and social justice movements, nonviolence against Nazism, fossil fuel divestment and ethical investment.

He is also a long-term activist, exhibiting artist and rivercare volunteer.

Among many international conferences he has organised is 'Environmental and Sustainable Peace, Social Justice and Creative Activism: a conference celebrating 40 years of Peace Studies', UNE, 1-5 December 2022

Experience

  • 2003–2023
    Senior lecturer, University of New England

Education

  • 2006 
    UNE, PhD

Publications

  • 2022
    Nonviolence and Sustainability: An Indivisible Connection, Sustainability
  • 2022
    Women and Nonviolent Resistance to WWII Nazism, Social Alternatives
  • 2021
    Women in Environmental Nonviolent Action (chapter), Palgrave Macmillan
  • 2020
    Tintin: From Violent, Communist-Hating Conservative to Radical, International Journal of Comic Art
  • 2020
    Rethinking Wilderness and the Wild Conservation, Conflict and Co-existence , Routledge
  • 2018
    Locked On! The Seventh and Most Illegal in the Hitchhikers Guide Trilogy, Irene Publishing
  • 2014
    Cultivating Peace: Contexts, Practices and Multidimensional Models', Cambridge Scholars
  • 2013
    Global Warming, Militarism and Nonviolence: The Art of Active Resistance, Palgrave Macmillan
  • 2008
    'We Shall Never Be Moved: The Art of Australian Nonviolence, Lambert

Honours

New England Award