Debra McDougall

A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea

Debra McDougall

Journal article  |  2022  |  OCEANIA

Unequal Lives: Gender, Race and Class in the Western Pacific

Nicholas A Bainton, Debra McDougall, Kalissa Alexeyeff, John Cox

Book  |  2021

This collection is a major contribution to academic and political debates about the perverse effects of inequality, which now rank..

Unequal Lives in the Western Pacific

Nicholas Bainton, Debra McDougall

Book Chapter  |  2021

This collection is a major contribution to academic and political debates about the perverse effects of inequality, which now rank..

"All Read Well": Schooling on Solid Ground in a Solomon Islands Language Movement

Debra McDougall, Alpheaus G Zobule

Journal article  |  2021  |  CONTEMPORARY PACIFIC

Education in Oceania tends to orient students to distant shores. Schooling is a path away from home places and often away from hom..

Becoming Educators in Oceania: From Ridge to Reef to the Region and Then Returning Home

Rosarine Rafai, Jiokapeci Qalo-Qiolevu, Maca Radua-Stephens, Debra McDougall, David Oakeshott, Rachel Emerine Hicks

Journal article  |  2021  |  CONTEMPORARY PACIFIC

The Promise of Education: Schooling Journeys in the Southwestern Pacific

Rachel Emerine Hicks, Debra McDougall, David Oakeshott

Journal article  |  2021  |  CONTEMPORARY PACIFIC

“Schooling journeys” is more than a metaphor in the southwestern Pacific. Especially in rural areas, many children travel hours ea..

Recordings and texts from Ranongga, Solomon Islands

Debra McDougall, Alpheaus Zobule

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2021

This deposit includes three distinct collections of materials. 1) Audio recordings of traditional stories made in 1986 and 1992 b..

Trash and Treasure: Pathologies of Permanence on the Margins of Our Plastic Age

Debra McDougall

Book Chapter  |  2021

The volume's topics are wide in scope, ranging from the discourse of social decay in contemporary Australian settler colonialism a..

Gendered Ambition and Disappointment: Women and Men in a Vernacular Language Education Movement in Melanesia

Debra McDougall

Book Chapter  |  2021

This collection is a major contribution to academic and political debates about the perverse effects of inequality, which now rank..

Beyond rupture: Christian culture in the Pacific

D McDougall

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Australian Journal of Anthropology

In its many forms, Christianity tends to focus adherents’ attention upon earlier religious traditions, compelling them to renew th..