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Benjamin R. Hall

Cartographer by day, anthropologist by night

  • Aug 30
    Rough guide to recording location information in the field

    This guide accompanies a lecture I am giving to applied anthropology students at the University of Queensland. Think of it as cultural heritage fieldwork on a shoestring. Students should step through this HOWTO guide before the fieldwork component of the course.

  • Aug 11
    Clearing curses, commanding crocodiles: observations of atypical events in rural Solomon Islands

    This is my first publication! In the article I analyse the way rural Solomon Islanders tell wondrous stories about themselves and how these stories relate to the politics of logging and land disputes (among other things).

  • Jul 20
    Queensland Globe and the rise of the citizen-user

    States have been the purveyors of fine maps for centuries. But the citizens these states serve are now transgressive social media identities. In this piece, I reflect on the changing character of the citizen in the era of planetary scale computing and offer some suggestions for what this might mean for maps and mapping in the future.

  • Mar 23
    Map Case: Brisbane's Flood Awareness Map

    In this map review, I discuss Brisbane’s Flood Awareness Map and provide some suggestions on how to improve the design through the use of multiple maps of the same extent.

  • Mar 12
    Upcoming paper: The role of maps in the politics of seabed mining around Groote Eylandt

    This paper is to be presented at the SSSI conference in May. In it I discuss the recording and mapping of indigenous knowledge about saltwater country.

  • Mar 6
    Biography

    An introduction to my recent projects, work history and research interests.

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