PhD research (2023-)
My PhD research is titled “Languages rights and minority-language publishing in Australia” and I am doing it through the Centre for Communication and Social Change at The University of Queensland. My PhD is focused on the intersection between community publishing, minority-language publishing and the concept of language rights. My hypothesis is that certain minority-language communities choose community publishing as a tool to defend their language rights – and I want to know HOW and WHY in order to help other communities protect and maintain their languages.
I will be doing ethnographic research to explore two case studies of community publishing. One case study is with a braille publisher (considering braille as a minority writing system), and one is with an Indigenous organisation that publishes in multiple Aboriginal languages. The research and interviews will be completed in 2024 and 2025, and this research project has received ethics approval from The University of Queensland.
I am incredibly appreciative that my 2025 research with Muurrbay Aboriginal Language and Culture Co-operative has been supported by the SHARP 25th-Anniversary Fellowship, a Minor Grant from The Bibliographical Society (UK) and a Donald Kerr Bursary for Bibliographic Research from The Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand (BSANZ).
To date I have completed work proposing a connection between the braille writing system and the concept of language rights. You can read my proposal in an 11pt Word document (DOCX, 30KB), an 18pt Word document (DOCX, 31KB) or in a BRF document (BRF, 11KB). If you have feedback on this, please get in touch! My contact details are in the document.
Master’s research (2020)
As part of my Master of Communication for Social Change at The University of Queensland, I conducted research with two long-running small presses in Australia – Spinifex Press and Wild Dingo Press. My aim was to learn how micro- and small-press publishers successfully published and promoted the work of “diverse authors”, or authors who have traditionally been excluded from mainstream publishing. I also set out to learn what the non-mainstream authors of those publishing houses thought about the publishing practices used.
I issued detailed findings on the Small Press Network website (SPN is currently planning for its future activities), and now here (see “Open publication” below). You can also find an article in the journal Publishing Research Quarterly which summarises my findings.
Please feel free to use and share this information, especially if you are part of a small or micro-press, or if you want to learn from other publishers’ experience how the publishing industry can increase the diversity of stories and range of voices that are found in books.
- Open publication: “A sacred duty”: How Australian micro- and small presses publish and promote silenced and under-represented writers – and what their authors think about the process, Small Press Network (2021-2023).
- Part 1 (PDF, 300KB): The strategies of small presses and their authors’ feedback on those strategies (November 2021)
- Part 2 (PDF, 278KB): Literature review on micro- and small presses and under-represented writers (May 2023) – this is an expanded version of the literature review published in the master’s thesis.
- Part 3 (PDF, 320KB): What small-press publishers and their under-represented authors say about working with each other (June 2023)
- Journal article: “Amplifying Silenced Voices Through Micro- and Small-Press Publishing”, Publishing Research Quarterly (2021), doi: 10.1007/s12109-021-09797-7.
- Master’s thesis: “A sacred duty”: Amplifying silenced voices through micro- and small publishing, School of Communication and Arts, The University of Queensland (2020).
Invited position
- Associate editor of scholarly journal Publishing Research Quarterly, responsible for book reviews (July 2023–)
Research
- Lock (Ngiyampaa), M. J., McMillan (Wiradjuri), F., Warne (Oglala Lakota), D., Bennett (Gamilaraay), B., Kidd (Ngāpuhi), J., Williams (Bkejwanong), N., Martire, J. L., Worley, P., Hutten-Czapski, P., Saurman, E., Matthews (Quandamooka), V., Walke (Bundjalung), E., Edwards, D. W., Owen (Nurrunga and Ngarrendjeri), J., Browne, J., & Roberts, R. (2022). ICIRAS: Research and reconciliation with indigenous peoples in rural health journals. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 30(4), 550-558. https://doi.org/doi.org/10.1111/ajr.12905
- Jodie Lea Martire and Working Group. “In what ways has the digital era changed the notion of public space?” Media Development (2022).
- Jodie Lea Martire. “Measuring “diversity” in Australian publishing.” Antipodes (2021), doi: 10.1353/apo.2021.0031
- Jodie Lea Martire (ed.). The Struggles for Women’s Rights in Chiapas: A Directory of Social Organisations Supporting Chiapas Women (in English), Lilla: International Women’s Network (2009).
- Jodie Lea Martire (ed.). Las luchas por los derechos de las mujeres en Chiapas: Un directorio de organizaciones sociales que trabajan a favor de las chiapanecas (in Spanish), Lilla: International Women’s Network (2009).
Editorials
- Lock (Ngiyampaa), M. J., McMillan (Wiradjuri), F., Bennett (Gamilaraay), B., Martire, J. L., Warne (Oglala Lakota), D., Kidd (Ngāpuhi), J., Williams (Anishiinabe), N., Roberts, R., Worley, P., & Hutten-Czapski, P. (2022). Position statement: Research and reconciliation with Indigenous peoples in rural health journals. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 30(1). https://doi.org/10.1111/ajr.12834
Book reviews
- Jodie Lea Martire. “Review of Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation“, The AALITRA Review (2023): https://ojs.latrobe.edu.au/ojs/index.php/AALITRA/article/view/1266
- Jodie Lea Martire. “Georgina Colby, Kaja Marczewska and Leigh Wilson, eds. 2020. The Contemporary Small Press: Making Publishing Visible. New Directions in Book History. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. xvii + 281 pp. US$129.99. Hardback. ISBN: 978-3-030-48783-6. Also available in eBook, e-ISBN: 978-3-030-48784-3″, Publishing Research Quarterly (2023): http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12109-022-09933-x
- Jodie Lea Martire. “Lucy Bell, Alex Ungprateeb Flynn and Patrick O’Hare (eds.): Taking Form, Making Worlds: Cartonera Publishers in Latin America“, Publishing Research Quarterly (2022): http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12109-022-09933-x
- Jodie Lea Martire. “Ksenija Bilbija and Paloma Celis Carbajal (eds.): A Primer of Latin American Cartonera Publishers / Un ABC de las Editoriales Cartoneras en América Latina“, Publishing Research Quarterly (2022): http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12109-022-09932-y
- Jodie Lea Martire. “Alexandra Dane and Millicent Weber, Eds.: Post-Digital Book Cultures: Australian Perspectives”, Publishing Research Quarterly (2021): http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12109-021-09849-y
Working papers
- Lara Cain Gray and Jodie Lea Martire. “Accessibility and inclusivity in remote and low-income reader communities”, Working Paper 6/21, Library For All (December 2021).
Presentations – selected
- Jodie Lea Martire. “The braid of words: Translating, editing, publishing” [invited workshop], IPEd Queensland (online, 2024). Write-up for IPEd by Glenine Hamlyn AE.
- Jodie Lea Martire. “Using language rights to advocate for greater braille access” [conference paper], 2024 Round Table Conference (Perth, Australia, 2024)
- Jodie Lea Martire. “‘Diversity’, terminology and the small press” [video recording], Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Conference (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland, Aotearoa / New Zealand, 2021)
- Jodie Lea Martire. “Editing and publishing silenced and under-represented voices”. 2021 IPEd National Conference: Editing on the edges (online, 2021). Write-up for IPEd by Thirangie Jayatilake.
- Jodie Lea Martire. “Notes towards a philosophical definition of small presses” [video recording], Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Conference (Melbourne, Australia, 2020).
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