Pamela Nilan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3773960 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pamela Nilan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pamela |
| FAMILY NAME | Nilan |
| SIGNATURE | NILAN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Newcastle Australia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Indonesian-Australian media during an infodemic
The World Health Organisation (WHO) calls the proliferation of conflicting information during the COVID-19 pandemic an 'infodemic'. To counter the infodemic experienced by diaspora communities, ethnic and multilingual media producers filled vital health communication gaps. This article focuses on the experiences of Indonesian-Australian media producers during this infodemic in Australia. Following semi-structured interviews with 10 Indonesian-Aus…
Navigating communication privacy in pseudo-administration
Divorce for female civil servants in Indonesia is more complex than for non-civil servants due to a pseudo-administrative process. This condition requires submitting a written application for divorce permission to their agency and proceeding through multiple lengthy stages. During this process, women must verbally disclose sensitive personal details to state authorities. Failure to obtain written permission or to report the divorce within a speci…
Young People and the Far Right
Early Marriage Among Sasak Boys in Rural North Lombok
Child marriage remains a pattern in parts of Indonesia despite recent legislative attempts to ban the practice. Previous studies of the phenomenon have primarily concerned girls. Against that research trend, this article seeks to shed light on early marriage among Sasak boys in rural north Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara. It draws on the narratives of six young Sasak men who were married during their mid-teens. Our analysis focusses on the sustained a…
The campaign to save the Bandung city forest in Indonesia
In 2007, Babakan Siliwangi city forest in Bandung came under threat of privatisation from a local corporation, PT EGI, which proposed hotel and commercial development. In the period 2012–2013, the anti-corporatist, environmentalist group Backsilmove emerged to fight a successful campaign to save the forest for public use. Employing the ‘cognitive praxis’ approach pioneered by [Eyerman and Jamison (1991. Social movements: a cognitive approach. Uni…
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
This article looks at the environmental discourses articulated by university students attending Universitas Sriwijaya (UNSRI) in Palembang, South Sumatra, during the 2014 annual burning season when land is illegally cleared to extend palm oil plantations. The smoke was so thick it was hard to breathe. Yet the young activists often made no initial reference to the smoke. When asked directly, they used normalising discourses to talk about the smoke…
Dangerous fieldwork' re-examined
This article takes two examples of trying to collect fieldwork data in dangerous or difficult circumstances in Bali and uses them to explore some issues central to qualitative research. These issues include shifting researcher subject positions in qualitative sociology approaches, and the coherence and usefulness of data collected in chaotic or risky circumstances. Methodological practices such as reflexivity are considered, as well as the task o…
Six girls in a tree
Kazzies, DBTs and Tryhards
One aspect of the work that adolescent girls do in creating and maintaining friendship networks with each other, the process of including some girls and excluding others, is explored using an ethnomethodological framework of analysis. Three adolescent schoolgirls in Australia talk about themselves and the other girls in their school. A close examination of this talk reveals a hierarchy of style categorisations which resonate with the socio‐econom…
Dangerous fieldwork' re-examined
This article takes two examples of trying to collect fieldwork data in dangerous or difficult circumstances in Bali and uses them to explore some issues central to qualitative research. These issues include shifting researcher subject positions in qualitative sociology approaches, and the coherence and usefulness of data collected in chaotic or risky circumstances. Methodological practices such as reflexivity are considered, as well as the task o…
Kazzies, DBTs and Tryhards
One aspect of the work that adolescent girls do in creating and maintaining friendship networks with each other, the process of including some girls and excluding others, is explored using an ethnomethodological framework of analysis. Three adolescent schoolgirls in Australia talk about themselves and the other girls in their school. A close examination of this talk reveals a hierarchy of style categorisations which resonate with the socio‐econom…
Six girls in a tree
Six girls in a tree
Kazzies, DBTs and Tryhards
One aspect of the work that adolescent girls do in creating and maintaining friendship networks with each other, the process of including some girls and excluding others, is explored using an ethnomethodological framework of analysis. Three adolescent schoolgirls in Australia talk about themselves and the other girls in their school. A close examination of this talk reveals a hierarchy of style categorisations which resonate with the socio‐econom…
Dangerous fieldwork' re-examined
This article takes two examples of trying to collect fieldwork data in dangerous or difficult circumstances in Bali and uses them to explore some issues central to qualitative research. These issues include shifting researcher subject positions in qualitative sociology approaches, and the coherence and usefulness of data collected in chaotic or risky circumstances. Methodological practices such as reflexivity are considered, as well as the task o…
The campaign to save the Bandung city forest in Indonesia
In 2007, Babakan Siliwangi city forest in Bandung came under threat of privatisation from a local corporation, PT EGI, which proposed hotel and commercial development. In the period 2012–2013, the anti-corporatist, environmentalist group Backsilmove emerged to fight a successful campaign to save the forest for public use. Employing the ‘cognitive praxis’ approach pioneered by [Eyerman and Jamison (1991. Social movements: a cognitive approach. Uni…
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
This article looks at the environmental discourses articulated by university students attending Universitas Sriwijaya (UNSRI) in Palembang, South Sumatra, during the 2014 annual burning season when land is illegally cleared to extend palm oil plantations. The smoke was so thick it was hard to breathe. Yet the young activists often made no initial reference to the smoke. When asked directly, they used normalising discourses to talk about the smoke…
Early Marriage Among Sasak Boys in Rural North Lombok
Child marriage remains a pattern in parts of Indonesia despite recent legislative attempts to ban the practice. Previous studies of the phenomenon have primarily concerned girls. Against that research trend, this article seeks to shed light on early marriage among Sasak boys in rural north Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara. It draws on the narratives of six young Sasak men who were married during their mid-teens. Our analysis focusses on the sustained a…
Young People and the Far Right
Navigating communication privacy in pseudo-administration
Divorce for female civil servants in Indonesia is more complex than for non-civil servants due to a pseudo-administrative process. This condition requires submitting a written application for divorce permission to their agency and proceeding through multiple lengthy stages. During this process, women must verbally disclose sensitive personal details to state authorities. Failure to obtain written permission or to report the divorce within a speci…
Indonesian-Australian media during an infodemic
The World Health Organisation (WHO) calls the proliferation of conflicting information during the COVID-19 pandemic an 'infodemic'. To counter the infodemic experienced by diaspora communities, ethnic and multilingual media producers filled vital health communication gaps. This article focuses on the experiences of Indonesian-Australian media producers during this infodemic in Australia. Following semi-structured interviews with 10 Indonesian-Aus…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Asian Studies and History (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Gender and Women's Rights (2 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (2 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (2 works)