My blogs

About me

Gender	Female
Industry	Environment
Occupation	Social Anthropologist
Location	Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Introduction	This blog tracks my three years of exploration and Ethnography through Australian Sustainable Communities (aka Eco-villages, Communes & Intentional Communities). My Anthropological honours thesis "Hippies in Suits - Creating Alternatives Through Intentional Community" tracked the historical arc of Australian attempts at communal, environmental living and the changing way these communities invent themselves (with varying levels of success). As a certain level of sharing is required to live an environmentally sustainable life, I made sure I visited communities with varying levels of 'communality' (sharing). My goal here is to show you what I discovered and contribute to the discourse about the extent to which our highly individualised society can successfully incorporate aspects eco-living. I hope to convey a sense of the vibrant Australian Eco-village movement, which continues to sew and reap largely unnoticed. This movement is thriving and deeply historically-rooted. Modern interpretations steadily gain momentum as collective consumption permeates the urban ‘un-intentional’ community, connecting and changing us all for the better.
Interests	In what you think, Sideshow freaks, the secrets of body language, swapping skills, Anthropological ethnography, strange diseases of the mind, how to make things, studies on human subjects before the invention of ethics committees, clouds, sword swallowing, knitted blankets, people over 80, things overlooked or unloved, the smooth surface inside an almond, harmonics, getting giddy, music festivals, tender moments moments with the world, first day of school photos, old loved spencers, circus tissue, the central markets, catching the tram to the sea side, watching rage.
Favorite movies	His Girl Friday, Brazil, A Clockwork Orange, Strangers On A Train, The Birds, Kiss of The Spiderwoman, Earth Girls Are Easy, The Idiots, Being There, Gummo, The Life Aquatic, Living In Obilvion High School, Spellbound, Spirited Away, The Dark Crystal, Leon The Professional, Dancer In the Dark, High Fidelity, My Beautifull Laundrette, Bagdad Cafe, Magnolia, My Own Private Idaho, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Running On Empty, Requiem For A Dream, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Shining, Whale Rider, Ferris Beuller's Day Off, The Goonies, Ghostbusters, Flashdance, The Three Amigos.
Favorite music	Baterz, The Pogues, The Pixies, Foo Fighters, Le Tigre, Eliot Smith, Morphine, Coda, Modest Mouse, Little Birdy, Tenacious D, The Donnas, The Velvet Underground, Nick Cave, Nick Drake, End Of Fashion, Queens of The Stoneage, PJ, New Order, Ween, Tom Waits, The Cure, Kings Of Leon, Lovage, Smiths, Augie March, Martha Wainwright, Wolfmother, Gomez, The Mountain Goats, Paul Dempsey, Iggy, Joy Division, Butterfingers, The Bedridden, Leelu, Soursob Bob, Leigh Stardust, Tom Barnes, Guillaume, Delia, Cookie Baker, Fruit, The Audreys, John Woods, New Pollutants.
Favorite books	I'm not a fiction addict but I can't help loving, Janet Frame, Franz Kafka, Barbara Kingsolver, Oscar Wilde, Noam Chomski, Flannery O'Connor, Hunter S Thompson.