Publications

Books

Postill, J., E. Ardevol and S. Tenhunen (eds.) in preparation. Theorising Media and Change.

Postill, J. 2011. Localizing the Internet: An Anthropological Account. Oxford and New York: Berghahn. See draft Introduction.

Bräuchler, B. and J. Postill (eds) 2010. Theorising Media and Practice. Oxford and New York: Berghahn.

Postill, J. 2006. Media and Nation Building: How the Iban Became Malaysian. Oxford and New York: Berghahn. Paperback edition published in July 2008.   See reviews.

Articles

Postill, J. and F. Osorio in preparation. Mobile livelihoods: a practice-theoretical take on mobile phones and development.

Postill, J. in preparation. Follow their interests: microblogging and the mainstreaming of nerd politics.

Postill, J. in preparation. Media and social changing since 1979: towards a diachronic ethnography of media and actual social changes.

Postill, J. in press. Democracy in the age of viral reality: a media epidemiography of Spain’s indignados movement Ethnography journal, Special Issue on Media Ethnography and the Public Sphere.

Postill, J. and S. Pink 2012. Social media ethnography: the digital researcher in a messy web. Media International Australia 145 , 123-134.

Postill, J. 2010. ‘Researching the Internet’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 16 (3), 646–650.

Postill, J. 2009. ‘What is the point of media anthropology?‘ Social Anthropology 17(3), 334-337, 340-342.

Postill, J. 2008 Localising the internet beyond communities and networks, New Media and Society 10 (3), 413-431; pre-publication version

Postill, J. 2003 ‘The mediated production of ethnicity and nationalism among the Iban of Sarawak (II), 1977-1997. Borneo Research Bulletin, Vol. 33.

Postill, J. 2003 ‘ Knowledge, literacy, and media among the Iban of Sarawak: a reply to Maurice Bloch’, in Social Anthropology, Vol 11, no. 1, 79-100.

Postill, J. 2002 ‘ Clock and calendar time: a missing anthropological problem’, in Time and Society, 11, 251-270.

Postill, J.  2002 ‘Using maps and diagrams to teach a region-based anthropology’, in Anthropology in Action, Special Issue on the Uses of Visual Methods in the Teaching and Learning of Anthropology, June 2002.

Postill, J. 2002 ‘The mediated production of ethnicity and nationalism among the Iban of Sarawak, 1954-1976′ in Borneo Research Bulletin, Vol. 32.

Postill, J. 1999 ‘The impact of television and radio on rural Iban: an ethnographic report’. Sarawak Development Journal 2 (2): 91-109.

Postill, J. 1998 ‘Little by little, a national subculture is made: the role of modern media in the institutional  transformations of Iban society’, in Borneo Research Bulletin 29: 95-128.

Postill, J. 1997 ’Social Significance of Media Among the Iban of Sarawak’, in Borneo Research Bulletin 28:156.

Postill, J. 1996 ‘A Sandinist counterattack in Borneo: a late reply to Derek Freeman’ (in Spanish), in Anales del Museo Nacional de Antropologia III: 53-62, Madrid.

Book chapters

Monterde, A. and J. Postill forthcoming 2013. Mobile ensembles: The uses of mobile phones for social protest by Spain’s indignados. In G. Goggin and L. Hjorth (eds.) Routledge Companion to Mobile Media.

Postill, J. forthcoming 2013. Publicity begins at home: doing public anthropology in the digital age. In S. Abram and S. Pink (eds.) Media, Anthropology and Public Engagement. Oxford: Berghahn.

Postill, J. forthcoming 2013. Fields as dynamic clusters of practices, games, and socialities. In V. Amit (ed.) Concepts of Sociality: An Anthropological Interrogation. Oxford: Berghahn.

Postill, J. 2012. Localising the internet beyond communities and networks. In C. Hine (ed.) Virtual Research Methods. London: Sage. Reprinted from Postill (2008), see above.

Postill, J. 2012. Digital politics and political engagement. In H. Horst and D. Miller (eds) Digital Anthropology. Oxford: Berg.

Postill, J. 2010. Introduction: Theorising media and practice. In B. Bräuchler and J. Postill (eds) Theorising Media and Practice. Oxford and New York: Berghahn.

Postill, J. 2010. Running cyburbia: new media and local governance in Subang Jaya. In Yeoh Seng Guan (ed) Media, Culture and Power in Malaysia, London and New York: Routledge.

Postill, J. 2010. The Dayak Festival as a media ritual. In Yeoh Seng Guan (ed) Media, Culture and Power in Malaysia, London and New York: Routledge.

Postill, J. 2009. Dramas, fields and threads: exploring sociality in a Malaysian cyberdistrict. In M. I. Srinivasan and R.R. Mathur (eds) Ethnography and the Internet: An Exploration. Hyderabad: Ifcai University Press.

Postill, J. 2008 The mediated production of ethnicity and nationalism among the Iban of Sarawak, 1953-1976. In Z. Ibrahim (ed) Representation, Identity and Multiculturalism in Sarawak. Bangi: Malaysian Social Science Association and Dayak Cultural Foundation.

Postill, J. 2005. Internet y epidemiología cultural en Malaisia: reflexiones desde la antropología cognitiva. In Ardevol, E. and J. Grau (eds) Antropología de los Media.  Seville: AA.EE.

Essays and short pieces

Postill, J. 2012. Participatory media research and Spain’s 15M movement, Cultural Anthropology, August 2012.

Postill, J. 2011. The unevenness of social change. Media and Social Change, 3 June 2011.

Postill, J. 2010. Publicity begins at home, Anthropology & Publicity, 4 Nov 2010.

Postill, J. 2008. What is practice theory?, media/anthropology, 30 Oct 2008.

Reviews

Postill, J. forthcoming. Review of Skuse, A., M. Gillespie and G. Power (2012) Drama for Development: Cultural Translation and Social Change. London: Sage, for Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI).

Postill, J. 2011. Review of Bird, S.E. ed. (2010) The Anthropology of News and Journalism: Global perspectives. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, for Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI)

Postill, J.2010. Review of Cultural Diversity and Global Media by Eugenia Siapera
(2010 Wiley-Blackwell) for the International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics.

Postill, J. 2008 Review of Dale F. Eickelman and Jon W. Anderson, eds., New Media and the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere, 2nd ed. (Indiana University Press, 2003), in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East

Postill, J. 2007 Review of Evens and Handelman (eds) The Manchester School: Practice and Ethnographic Praxis in Anthropology (2006) for Ethnos 72: 4, pp. 563-565

Postill, J. 2007 Review of Olson and Torrance (eds) The Making of Literate Societies (2001) for Social Anthropology 15(2), pp. 262-264

Postill, J. 2006 Review of B. Bräuchler, B. 2005. Cyberidentities at War: Der Molukkenkonflikt im Internet. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, in Ethnos 70 (3).

Postill, J. 2006 Review of P. Hopper Rebuilding Communities in an Age of Individualism (2003) for Comparative Sociology 5 (1), 89-91.

Postill, J. 2004 Review of R. Aunger The Electric Meme (2003) in Ethnos 70 (2): 267-9.

Postill, J. 2004 Review of R. Foster Materializing the Nation (2002) in Ethnos 69: 1.

Postill, J. 2004 Review of N. Couldry Media Rituals (2003) in Anthropological Theory, February 2004.

Postill, J. 2003  Review of D. Holland et al’s Identity and Agency in Cultural Worlds(1999) in Anthropological Theory 3 (4): 511-512.

Postill, J. 2003 Review of D.E. Anderson and J.P.H. Poon (eds) Asia-Pacific Transitions (2001) in Comparative Sociology (2) 3: 571.

Reports

Postill, J. 2005 Community Forums and News in Subang Jaya – Malaysia. Report commissioned by the UK Local E-democracy National Project, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister