A5031635379- Political Science Research and Education
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
- Psychedelics and Drug Studies
- Categorization, perception, and language
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
- Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
- Multilingual Education and Policy
University of Auckland
2021-2024
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
2024
Vanuatu has largely avoided the political violence seen elsewhere in Melanesia recent past. It a small but successful tourist economy, based on its selling point as tropical paradise. powerful cultural resources, form of Christianity and kastom, to bind people together with sense belonging from shared past hope for future. also well-earnt reputation fragmentation instability, topic which can raise strong emotions both inside out. Our brief history instability aims put present situation into...
A national referendum to legalise recreational cannabis use and supply in New Zealand via the Cannabis Legalisation Control Bill (CLCB) was recently narrowly defeated. Understanding underlying factors for this result can inform legalisation debate other countries.To investigate predictors of voter support opposition CLCB.A representative population panel 1,022 people completed an online survey intended voting on CLCB referendum, which included questions demographics, drug history, medicinal...
The contemporary political landscape is often represented by a single dimension of conflict: authority, hierarchy, and tradition on the right versus greater freedom, equality, systemic change left. Here, we argue that politics comprises not one, but two dimensions. Moreover, these dimensions are unique to modern nations, reflect psychology shaped evolutionary trade-offs which call ‘dual foundations’ inherent human social life. One foundation concerns trade-off between cooperation competition...
A quarter of a century has passed since the late Terry Crowley summed up academic consensus that creole language Bislama poses no immediate threat to any Vanuatu’s Indigenous languages. Does this remain true today? Since time, evidence both quantitative and qualitative been accumulating suggests is indeed gaining ground at expense In targeted review evidence, article brings together assesses insights linguists, ethnographers, others on causal mechanisms explain an ongoing shift towards...