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Dr Graeme Macrae

Senior Lecturer

School of People, Environment and Planning

Professional

Contact details

Ph: +64 9 414 0800 x43474
Location: 2.27, Atrium
Campus: Albany

Research Expertise

Research Interests

Broadly: the intersections of human society/culture with environment/ecologies by way of technological interventions, such as ....

Specifically: architecture/urban design/landscape, agriculture, waste management, disaster recovery.

Regionally: mostly in Indonesia (especially Bali) but also in India.

Thematics

Resource Development and Management, Future Food Systems

Area of Expertise

Field of research codes
Agricultural And Veterinary Sciences (070000):
Anthropology (160100): Anthropology not elsewhere classified (160199): Anthropology of Development (160101):
Biological Sciences (060000):
Comparative Economic Systems (149901): Ecological Economics (149902):
Ecology (060200): Ecology not elsewhere classified (060299):
Economics (140000):
Engineering (090000):
Other Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences (079900):
Other Economics (149900):
Social and Cultural Anthropology (160104): Studies In Human Society (160000):
Technology (100000)

Keywords

Disciplinary background: Anthropology

Regional focus: 1. Indonesia (especially Bali) and 2. India (especially Tamil Nadu and north India).

Research Focus:Environment and Development, especially the technological systems by which human societies intervene into natural systems - e.g agriculture, waste management, disaster recovery, architecture/engineering.

Research Projects

Summary of Research Projects

Position	Current	Completed
Project Leader	0	3

Consultancy and Languages

Languages

Spanish (S American)
Last used: minimal
Spoken ability: Needs work
Written ability: Needs work
Dutch
Last used: reading only
Spoken ability: Needs work
Written ability: Needs work
German
Last used: occasionally
Spoken ability: Needs work
Written ability: Needs work
Balinese
Last used: annually
Spoken ability: Needs work
Written ability: Needs work
Indonesia
Last used: regularly
Spoken ability: Excellent
Written ability: Excellent

Teaching and Supervision

Teaching Statement

100 level: Endangered Cultures

200 level: Visual Ethnography

300 level: Regional Ethnography: SE Asia & Environment

Postgraduate:

Contemporary Anthropology: Theory and Practice

Supervision: BA hons, MA, PhD

Courses Coordinated

146.102 Endangered Cultures
146.302 Regional Ethnography: Asia
146.708 Anthropology Today: Current Issues

Contact Supervisor

Summary of Doctoral Supervision

Position	Current	Completed
Main Supervisor	0	4
Co-supervisor	1	7

Current Doctoral Supervision

Co-supervisor of:

Kris Finlayson - Doctor of Philosophy
Performing Identities: An Ethnographic Analysis of Afrikaner Identity in NZ

Completed Doctoral Supervision

Main Supervisor of:

2019 - Siaosi Ilaiu - Doctor of Philosophy
Paradigm Shifts in Ancient Kingship Traditions in Tonga. A Historical and Anthropological examination of political practices and changes throughout the bi-partite and try-partite systems of government 1350-1875 AD: The Case of Hau.
2017 - Hanny Hartono - Doctor of Philosophy
Media Consumption in Contemporary Urban Indonesia and Everyday Life: Muslim Women, Parenting and Media
2016 - Ruth Gibbons - Doctor of Philosophy
"It's All of These Puzzle Pieces.": The Representation and the Manifest Discourse of Dyslexic Experience
2013 - Rachael Burke - Doctor of Philosophy
Bodies in Context: A Comparative Study of Early Childhood Education in New Zealand and Japan