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Biography
My current interests revolve around indigenous Melanesian historicities - their transformation through cross-cultural encounters; their representation through various media, including film and fiction; and their articulation with contemporary challenges such as land reform, large natural resource projects, and cultural heritage management planning. I am also engaged, together with Bronwen Douglas, in an ARC Discovery Project on "European Naturalists and the Constitution of Human Difference in Oceania". Publications under preparation include an edited collection on the history of racial science in Oceania, and a monograph on violence and first contact in the New Guinea Highlands.
Career highlights
UNCEN-ANU Baseline Studies Project at the Freeport mine, Irian Jaya (1996-98); Visiting positions as Directeur de Recherche, CNRS, Marseille (1999-2000), and as Directeur de Recherche, EHESS, Paris (2001); nomination for World Heritage status of Chief Roi Mata's Domain on behalf of the Republic of Vanuatu (2007).
Research interests
Resource ownership and land rights; violence and human rights; racism, concepts of "race" and colonial encounters; social and agricultural transformations; narrative and memory; sacred geography; theory in the disciplines of history, anthropology, archaeology and geography; regional interests in eastern Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu.
Qualifications
Expertise Areas
- Agricultural Land Management
- Sustainable Agricultural Development
- Horticultural Crop Growth and Development
- ANTHROPOLOGY
- Social and Cultural Anthropology
- Government and Politics of Asia and the Pacific
- Studies of Pacific Peoples' Societies
- ARCHAEOLOGY
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Archaeology
- Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas
- Archaeology of New Guinea and Pacific Islands (excl. New Zealand)
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History
- Asian History
- Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History)
- Pacific History (excl. New Zealand and Maori)
- History and Philosophy of Science (incl. Non-historical Philosophy of Science)
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Network (past 5 years)
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Intangible cultural heritage (ICH) and climate change
United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation
10/02/22 → 31/05/22
Project: Research
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Social and Environmental Screening Studies for Elk-Antelope Project Facilities
11/12/14 → 12/01/15
Project: Research
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The original field anthropologist: Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay in Oceania, 1871-1883
Ballard, C. & Philps, J.
Australian Research Council (ARC)
1/05/11 → 31/08/16
Project: Research
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Agarabi pottery production in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea
Hardy, K., Ballard, C. & Leclerc, M., 2023, In: Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 69, p. 1-12Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Setting parameters for developing undergraduate expertise in transdisciplinary problem solving at a university-wide scale: a case study
Bammer, G., Browne, C., Ballard, C., Lloyd, N., Kevan, A., Neales, N., Nurmikko-Fuller, T., Perera, S., Singhal, I. & Van Kerkhoff, L., 2023, In: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 10Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Stones in Motion: monuments and chiefly title histories in central Vanuatu
Ballard, C., 2023, In: Archaeology in Oceania. 58, 1, p. 20-32Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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A night on the island: Jean Guiart and Roi Mata on Lelepa
Ballard, C., 2022, In: Journal de la Société des Océanistes. 154, p. 93-104Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Community management of cultural tourism at a world heritage site: Intersections of the 'local' and 'global' at Chief Roi Mata's Domain, Vanuatu
Ballard, C. & Trau, A., 2022, Routledge Handbook on Tourism and Small Island States in the Pacific. Marcus L. Stephenson (ed.). London: Routledge, p. 205-218Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter