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Research Disciplines: Anthropology (4401)
Socio-Economic Objectives: Expanding knowledge (2801)

Pacific Peoples heritage and culture (2112)

Publications

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Journal Articles

Henry R, Ramoutsaki H, Long D, Acciaioli G, Foale S, Pocock C, McBain-Rigg K and Wood M (2023) Weedy Life: Coloniality, Decoloniality, and Tropicality. Etropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 22 (1). pp. 236-269
Henry R, Wood M, Neuendorf N and Brooksbank J (2020) Planning for later life: transnational and inter-generational care among Papua New Guineans in Australia. Geoforum, 112. pp. 24-30
Wood M, Foale S and Gabriel J (2020) Anticipating Ulawun Volcano in New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Anthropological Forum, 30 (1-2). pp. 30-41
Gabriel J, Filer C, Wood M and Foale S (2017) Tourist initiatives and extreme wilderness in the Nakanai Mountains (PNG). Shima, 11 (1). pp. 122-143
Wood M (2016) Dudley Bulmer's artefacts as autobiography. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. Culture, 10. pp. 77-92
Gabriel J and Wood M (2015) The Rimbunan Hijau Group in the forests of Papua New Guinea. Journal of Pacific History, 50 (3). pp. 322-343
Wood M (2014) Times and transitional relief in negotiating permits in a PNG logging concession, 1992-2012. Pacific Studies, 37 (1). pp. 1-28

Book Chapters

Gabriel J, Filer C, Wood M and Foale S (2023) Tourist Initiatives and Wilderness in The Nakanai Mountains, on the Island of New Britain, PNG. In: Islandscapes and Tourism: An Anthology. CAB International, Oxforshire, UK, pp. 166-183
Wood M (2023) The origin of death in Kamula futures. In: Celebrating Indigenous Voice: Legends and Narratives in Languages of the Tropics and Beyond. Anthropological LInguistics, 5. De Gruyter, Berlin, Germany, pp. 305-324
Wood M (2018) Spirits, Christians and capitalists in the rainforests of Papua New Guinea. In: Fairies, Demons, and Nature Spirits: 'small gods' at the margins of Christendom. Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. Palgrave Macmillan, London, UK, pp. 301-323
Gabriel J, Nelson P, Filer C and Wood M (2017) Oil palm development and large-scale land acquisitions in Papua New Guinea. In: Kastom, Property and Ideology: land transformations in Melanesia. Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, pp. 205-250
Wood M (2015) Representational excess in recent attempts to acquire forest carbon in the Kamula Doso area, Western Province, Papua New Guinea. In: Tropical Forests of Oceania: anthropological perspectives. Asia-Pacific Environment Monographs. Australian National University Press, Canberra, ACT, Australia, pp. 211-236

More: ResearchOnline@JCU stores 36+ research outputs authored by Dr Michael Wood from 1998 onwards.

Current Funding

Current and recent Research Funding to JCU is shown by funding source and project.

United Nations Development Programme - PNG - Grant

Gender Analysis and Action Plan for Sustainable Financing of PNG?s Protected Area Network

Indicative Funding: $100,000 over 2 years
Summary: The Gender Analysis and Action Plan will contribute to the Social and Environmental Safeguards (SES) which underpin the UNDP commitment to mainstream social and environmental sustainability in all Programmes and Projects, including the Sustainable Financing of Papua New Guinea?s Protected Area Network. Protected Area investments directly affect the land and forest rights of communities, and it is critical to avoid creating `fortress? conservation zones that diminish, rather than enhance, local livelihoods and biodiversity. A key element of the SES is Principle 2: Gender Equality and Women?s Empowerment. Everyone is gendered: women, men, youth (f/m/t) and hence the gender analysis addresses all positions. The Gender Analysis will be fully integrated into the project document for the Sustainable Financing of Papua New Guinea?s Protected Area Network to inform the process of using a gender-responsive results reporting and monitoring and evaluation system. The Gender Action Plan for the project will provide concrete outputs to facilitate implementation of activities that promote gender equality and women?s empowerment.
Investigators: Jennifer Gabriel and Michael Wood (Cairns Institute, College of Arts and Society & Education)
Keywords: Papua New Guinea; Gender; Protected Area; Social and Environmental Sustainability; Livelihoods; Tropical Societies

United Nation Development Programme - Micro-Capital Grant

Sustainable Livelihoods and Protected Area Planning in PNG

Indicative Funding: $204,000 over 1 year
Summary: The Nakanai Ranges have been identified as a Key "Biodiversity Area due to their high density of endemic and range-restricted species of high conservation concern due to pressures of industrial logging and oil palm development. We aim to engage local communities in stewardship of world heritage through tangible conservation and livelihood benefits, acknowledging the causal relationship between heritage, local people and their well-being. Protection of primary rainforest in Nakanai will enable the continued flow of ecosystem services, such as the provision of clean water and the protection of soil resources.
Investigators: Jennifer Gabriel, Simon Foale and Michael Wood (College of Arts, Society & Education and College of Healthcare Sciences)
Keywords: sustainable livelihoods; Papua New Guinea; protected area planning; Biodiversity Conservation; World Heritage; Poverty Alleviation

Supervision

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These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.

Current

Palliative Medicine Pioneers: A Window into the History and Development of Palliative Care in Australia (PhD , Advisor Mentor)
Occult politics and the esoteric self in Aboriginal Australia (PhD , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)
DEATHS OUT OF CUSTODY (PhD , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)
Impacts of Chinese Tourism on the Infrastructure of Fiji (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
An Anthropological Exploration into Cultural Deafhood in Australia (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
PNG heritage in the archives: a legal anthropology of cultural property (PhD , Secondary Advisor)

Completed

“Tobi (or Not) Tobi” Climate change, cultural heritage and community agency: an ethnographic case-study of Tobi Island in the Republic of Palau (2019, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
A shared history forgotten: Aboriginal miners and prospectors of tropical Queensland, from pre-contact times - c.1970 (2019, PhD , Secondary Advisor/AM)
Luksave Em Bikpela Samting! Witnessing Violence In Papua New Guinea (2020, PhD , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)
The ego made manifest: Max Stirner, egoism and the avant-garde literary manifesto, 1880–1914 (2021, PhD , Advisor Mentor)
Spirit, story, symbol: Indigenous curating in the Queensland rainforest (2021, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
Moral reasoning, death and the clinic: the ethics of end-of-life decisions (2019, PhD , Primary Advisor)
Skelim pik olosem wanem? A governance systems analysis of the PNG petroleum sector (2023, PhD , Secondary Advisor/AM)

Collaboration

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