Key researchers Ph-Po:

Dr Simon Philpott

Lecturer, School of Asian Languages and Studies, Hobart

Research Interests

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Relevant publications:

• Rethinking Indonesia: Postcolonial Theory, Authoritarianism and Identity. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000.
• "The Natural Order of Things? From ‘Lazy Natives’ to Political Science in the Netherlands Indies." Race, Person and Gender Beyond Europe. Ed. M. Jolly and N. Thomas. Princeton: Duke University Press. (forthcoming)
• "Negotiating West Papuan Independence: Political and Cultural Issues." Forthcoming publication arising from West Papua at the Cross Roads: An Uncertain Future, a conference held at the University of Sydney, April 19 2000.

Fiona Polack

Postgraduate Student, School of English and European Languages and Literatures

Research Interests

I am a PhD student in the School of English and European Languages and Literatures, as well as part-time research assistant to Professor Lucy Frost. My thesis is entitled 'Leaving/Walking Around/Coming Home: Literary Paths Through Non-Metropolitan Spaces' and it focuses on constructions of Tasmania and Newfoundland in contemporary culture.

Recent Publications include

• "Place and Space: Views from a Tasmanian Mountain." Imagining Australian Space. Ed. Ruth Barcan and Ian Buchanan. Nedlands: University of WA Press, 1999. 145-157.
• "Writing and Rewriting the Island: Tasmania, Politics, and Contemporary Australian Fiction." Message in a Bottle: The Literature of Small Islands. Ed. Laurie Brinklow, Frank Ledwell and Jane Ledwell. Charlottetown: Institute of Island Studies, 2000. 215-219.

Michael Powell

Honorary Research Associate, School of History and Classics

Research Interests

• Post colonial political and religious formation in Sri Lanka emphasising the work of Tasmanian scholar FL Woodward
• Colonial missionary activity in Solomon Islands and the post colonial aftermath concentrating on the Tasmanian missionary J Goldie
• History of Tasmanian Landscape, land use and environment change.