

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...
Mar 25, 2021


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...
May 11, 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...
Jan 14, 2020


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...
Oct 6, 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...
Jul 20, 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...
May 6, 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...
Apr 16, 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,...
Jan 26, 2019