CAPSTRANS RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

Dr Michael Goddard

Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Science, Education and Arts, University of Newcastle

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy (1989) University of Auckland, New Zealand

Research Programs

To be advised.

Research Specialisation

• Urbanization, history, tradition, social change in Papua New Guinea, especially in relation to Port Moresby settlements and peri-urban villages.
• The "village court" system in PNG. Socioeconomy of urban settlements in PNG. Social organization of criminal gangs in PNG, anthropological perspectives on "rascalism".
• Previously researched: madness and psychiatry in PNG, fieldwork in Western Highlands Province.
• Traditional cosmology and culture of the Motu, Port Moresby region.

Languages

Tok Pisin

Current Research Projects

Book, working title “Substantial Justice”, on the Village Court system in Papua New Guinea. (draft submitted to publisher).

Edited book (7 contributors), working title “About Mosbi”, on migrant, etc, experiences of Port Moresby (draft to be submitted to publisher August 2007.

Book, working title “Small departures’, on madness and the ambivalent use of psychiatry in a highland PNG Society

Articles on the history and pre-contact cosmology of the Motu, south coast PNG (book planned).

Recent Publications

• *In press with Glenn Albrecht, Nick Higginbotham and Sonya Freeman, ‘Human Health and Ecosystem health: A Social Perspective’. In Heggenhougen, K. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Public Health, San Diego CA, Elsevier. (5,600 words, accepted 30 November, 2006).
• Forthcoming 2007 ‘From ‘my story’ to ‘the story of myself’: colonial transformations of personal narratives among the Motu-Koita of Papua New Guinea’, In B. Lal (ed) Telling Pacific Lives. Australian National University Press.
• Forthcoming 2007 ‘The mad Fijian with the monkey – and other stories about a small island near Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea’, Journal de la Société des Océanistes, special issue.
• (2006) ‘Urbanisation in the Island Pacific: Towards sustainable development (Book Review)’ Oceania 76, 204-205.
• (2005) The Unseen City: Anthropological perspectives on Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea Pandanus Books, Canberra ACT.
• (2005) ‘Expressions of Interest: Informal Usury in urban Papua New Guinea’ Pacific Studies 28, 1/2, 42-67.
• (2005) ‘Research and Rhetoric on Women in Papua New Guinea’s village courts’ Oceania 75, 247-267.
• (2004) ‘An Anthropologist in Papua: The Photography of F.E. Williams, 1922-39’ The Australian Journal of Anthropology 15, 2.
• (2004) ‘In-house in Papua New Guinea’ The Australian Journal of Anthropology 15, 2.
• (2004) ‘Kastom or Community: A Study of Social Process and Change among the Wam people, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea’ The Australian Journal of Anthropology 15, 2.
• (2004) ‘Materializing the Nation: Commodities, Consumption and Media in Papua New Guinea’ The Australian Journal of Anthropology 15, 2.
• (2004) ‘Review of Adam Reed's “Papua New Guinea's Last Place: Experiences of Constraint in a Postcolonial Prison”’ Journal of the Polynesian Society 113, 205-207.
• (2004) ‘Women in Papua New Guinea's Village Courts’ State Society and Governance in Melanesia 
• (2003) ‘The Age of Steam: Constructed Identity and Recalcitrant Youth in a Papua New Guinea Village’ In S.Dinnen (ed) A Kind Of Mending: Restorative Justice in the Pacific Islands, Canberra: Pandanus Press, 45-72.
• (2003) ‘Historical Dictionary of Papua New Guinea’, Pacific Affairs, 76 ?
• (2003) ‘Protection of Intellectual, Biological and Cultural Property in Papua New Guinea’ The Australian Journal of Anthropology 14, 148-149.
• (2003) D. Van Heekeren, ‘United and Divided: Christianity, Tradition and Identity in Two South Coast Papua New Guinea Villages’ The Australian Journal of Anthropology 14, 2, 144-159.
• (2002) ‘Reto's Chance: State and Status in an Urban Papua New Guinea Settlement’ Oceania 73, 1, 1-16.
• (2002) ‘Review of E. LiPuma “Encompassing others: the magic of modernity in Melanesia”’ The Journal of the Polynesian Society 111, 1, 85-87.
• (2002) ‘Review of S. Dinnen, “Law and Order in a Weak State”’ The Contemporary Pacific 14, 1, 261-263.
• (2001) ‘Book Review of: B. Knauft, “From Primitive to Postcolonial in Melanesia and Anthropology”’ The Australian Journal of Anthropology 12, 3, 403-404.
• (2001) ‘Rethinking Western Motu Descent Groups’ Oceania 71, 4, 313-333.
• (2001) ‘From Rolling Thunder to Reggae: Imagining Squatter Settlements in Papua New Guinea’ The Contemporary Pacific 13, 1, 1-32.
• (2000) ‘Urban Crime and Social Status’ The Pacific Islands: an Encyclopedia
• (2000) ‘Village Court System of Papua New Guinea’ The Pacific Islands: an Encyclopedia
• (2000) ‘Of Cabbages and Kin: The value of an analytic distinction between gifts and commodities’ Critique of Anthropology 20, 2, 137-151.
• (2000) ‘Review of R. Eves "The Magical Body: Power, Fame and Meaning in a Melanesian Society"’ The Australian Journal of Anthropology 11, 2, 241-243.
• (2000) ‘Urban Crime and Social Status’ In B. V. Lal and K. Fortune (eds) The Pacific Islands: an Encyclopedia, University of Hawai’i Press, Hawai’i.
• (2000) ‘Village Court system of Papua New Guinea’ In B. V. Lal and K. Fortune (eds) The Pacific Islands: an Encyclopedia, University of Hawai’i Press, Hawai’i.
• (2000) ‘Three Urban Village Courts in Papua New Guinea: Some Comparative Observations’ In S. Dinnen and A. Ley (eds) Reflections on Violence in Melanesia, Hawkins Press and Asia Pacific Press, Canberra 241-253.

Current Research Students

• Euridice Tania Charon Cardona, PhD, “No Little Havana: Recreating Cubanness in Sydney Australia”. Expected submission 2006.
• Annie Vanderwyk, PhD, “Examining the maintenance of cultural integrity of Aboriginal People through literature”. (Co-supervisor). Expected submission 2009.
• Neville Stuart Drury, PhD, “Rosaleen Norton and the Western Esoteric Tradition”. (Co-supervisor). Expected submission 2010.
• Dianne Kay Sallee, PhD, “Western Society's Interpretation of the Contemporary Witch”. (Consultant supervisor). Expected submission 2015.
• Christopher Alec Deighton, PhD, “CWM Hart: Historical and Contemporary Contributions to Social Theory, Research and Practice”. (Principle supervisor). Expected submission 2014.