Evangelia Papoutsaki MA Leeds, PhD Cardiff, MRSNZ

Cities aren’t made for silence, they are meant to hum with human interactions and movement. Even the birds are missing us, I think, as...

Of all my publications over the years, this was the one I enjoyed writing the most! "Akina: An Ecocultural Portrait of an Island...

To be called a Vachengeti/Keeper/Mentor for this truly amazing new initiative, "Sesa Mathlo Apothecary", is an honor that I will carry...

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...

In February of 2020 I returned back home to Aotearoa for a few weeks primarily to complete my work on island festivals which included writing up with an island resident and activist, John Stanfield, a chapter on Waiheke islands and its 'festivalscape'. I had arranged to stay with another island resident and artist, Nora West, with whom I had stayed in the past and whose house is right by the Oneroa Bay and its iconic beach. Little did I know that the island and this beach wo

My new island “Ikigai” company is consisting of my father’s nonagenarian friends who are meeting daily at the neighborhood’s cafe. I...

Another intensive fieldwork out in the northwest of Kyrgyzstan mapping the communicative ecology of remoteness. The trip gifted us once...

University of West Indies, Mona campus, Kingston; vast and beautiful, tropical and a site for exploration, the grounds of a colonial...