CDU Researcher Profile

Senior Advisor – Support and Equity Services

• Research interests
• Publications
• Current projects
• Recent completions supervised

Research Interests

My research interest is in Southeast Asian arts and culture with a particular focus on:

• Cultural production through the performance of arts and craft activities in Southeast Asia
• Democratisation and cultural revival in post colonial Southeast Asia

Recent Publications

Conference presentations

1. White, C. (2004) Morlum: Popular music of Northeast Thailand. 15th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, National Convention Centre, Canberra 29 June - 2 July 2004
2. White, C. (2001) Interfacing Global and Indigenous Knowledge – Who Benefits. ACUADS Annual Conference 2001: The Meeting Place - Two Way Education and Other Cross Cultural Approaches, Northern Territory University, Darwin 13 -15 September 2001
3. White, C (2000) Embracing Difference - Interfacing Indigenous Knowledge in the delivery of Digital Media programs at the Northern Territory University. Sixth UNESCO -ACEID International Conference, Bangkok, Thailand 12 -15 December 2000
   

Current Projects

Chris’s current projects include:

• Arts, Crafts and Cultural Production: an examination of the production, forms and functions of the arts and crafts of everyday life within the social and cultural space of a contemporary Thai/Lao village.
• Making Thai: a re-exanimation of the role of state sponsored compulsory education in promoting Thai citizenship, through the national social studies curriculum, in a Lao speaking village in northeast Thailand.

Recent Completions Supervised

Martin, R A M: Portraiture in the Bathroom, Master of Fine Arts

Davidson, J: Aboriginal imagination: Aboriginal new media artists promoting health education, Master of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

Cattoni, V: Through the kebaya: A cross-cultural project - Indonesia and Australia, Master of Fine Arts

Barrkman, J: The Influence of Indian patola and trade cloths on the ritual practices and textile motifs of the Atoin Meto people of West Timor, Master of Arts

Kusumastuti, Y: Maket Forces - A Case Study of Contemporary Art Practice in Indonesia, Master of Arts