Reserachers working on


PACIFIC MEDIA


(alphabetical order)

Emmanuelle CRANE
Adjunct Professor, History, Media studies at Sorbonne Paris 4, France

Administrative areas: French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Rapanui - Easter Island (Chile), Australia
Keywords: Engaged Anthropology, Ethnographic Filmmaking, French Overseas Territories, Gender Violence, Justice, Media And National Identity, Pacific Media, Post-Colonialism, Violence, Sexual Assaults

Thomas DICK
PhD Student, School of Arts and Social Science at Southern Cross University, Australia

Administrative areas: Vanuatu, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Sanma (Vanuatu), Torba (Vanuatu), Malampa (Vanuatu)
Places: Melanesia, Australia (area)
Keywords: Water Music, Agency, Audiovisual and Media, Colonial Discourse, Cultural Production, Creativity, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Development Media, Diasporas, Ethnographic Filmmaking

Sebastian T. ELLERICH
Lecturer, Musicological Department at University of Cologne, Germany

Administrative areas: Fiji, Vanuatu
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Agriculture, Bislama, History, Identity, Indigenization, Kava, Language Ideology, Music, Music and Languages, Nationalism

Courtney HANDMAN
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology at University of Texas at Austin, United States

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea, Morobe (Papua New Guinea)
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Christianity, Christianisation, Colonial Discourse, Colonialism, Communication, Language Policy, Language Ideology, Linguistic Anthropology, Mission History, Pacific Media

Jari KUPIAINEN
Principal lecturer, Media Studies at Karelia University of Applied Sciences, Finland

Administrative areas: Solomon Islands, Rennell and Bellona (Solomon Islands), Western (Solomon Islands)
Places: Melanesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Art, Audiovisual and Media, Agency, Christianisation, Cognitive Anthropology, Colonial Discourse, Complexity, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Production

Mike POLTORAK
Adjunct/associate Researcher, School of Anthropology and Conservation at University of Kent, United Kingdom

Administrative areas: Tonga, New Zealand, Fiji
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Medical Anthropology, Visual Anthropology, Pacific Media, Intersubjectivity, Ilness Experience, Mental Illness, Global Health, Ethnographic Filmmaking, Engaged Anthropology

Jope TARAI
PhD Student, Department of Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific at Australian National University, Australia

Administrative areas: Fiji, Australia
Places: Australian Capital Territory, Australia (area), Melanesia, Fiji Islands
Keywords: Indigenous Politics, Indigenous Inquiry, Indigenous Epistemology, Pacific Regional Politics, Pacific Media, Pacific Relational Hermeneutics, Religion and the Media, Social Media Activism, Sociality, Politics