Mar 25, 2021
Quarantine/Kamau Taurua Island
The best part of my Dunedin visit was the time I spent on the Quarantine Island/Kamau Taurua with Henry Johnson who suggested we do our...
May 11, 2020
Covid-19 island diary: isle-solating in times of a global pandemic
In February of 2020 I returned back home to Aotearoa for a few weeks primarily to complete my work on island festivals which included...
Jan 14, 2020
Island 'Ikigai' encounters
My new island “Ikigai” company is consisting of my father’s nonagenarian friends who are meeting daily at the neighborhood’s cafe. I...
Oct 6, 2019
The people's reporters and their community activism
Another intensive fieldwork out in the northwest of Kyrgyzstan mapping the communicative ecology of remoteness. The trip gifted us once...
Jul 20, 2019
Jamaica: Rasta, Bob and Reggae
University of West Indies, Mona campus, Kingston; vast and beautiful, tropical and a site for exploration, the grounds of a colonial...
May 6, 2019
Inspiring community encounters in Talas
Mapping the communicative ecology of remoteness: another inspiring community radio encounter in the Talas region of Kyrgyzstan. To get...
Apr 16, 2019
From islands to highlands: mapping the communicative ecology of remoteness
My most inspiring fieldwork experiences have always been with community media, including this one at the Suusamyr community radio in...
Jan 26, 2019
The bazaars of this world
An afternoon at the Osh Bazaar, in Kyrgyzstan's capital city of Bishkek, lifted my spirit and rewarded me with so many smiley faces,...