Writing

Essays

Salay, Sebastian and Jennifer Day (2025). ‘Embracing the ambiguity of land: lessons from urban Vanuatu‘, DevPolicy, 14 May

Salay, Sebastian (2024). ‘Growing a feeling of home in a new city‘, Pursuit, 15 October

Salay, Sebastian (2024). ‘Reopening Panguna Mine: A Cooperation Opportunity for Australia’, Insights, 9 June

Antoine, Sebastian and Ronny Kareni (2023). ‘West Papua’s musical diplomats‘, Overland Journal, 1 December

Journal Articles

Salay, Sebastian (2025). “”Music helps a West Papuan feeling”: affect and communitas for West Papuan musicians in MelbourneThe Contemporary Pacific 36(1): 33-62.

Salay, Sebastian and Jennifer Day (2025). “Overlapping Land Tenure Stories: Ambiguity in Port Vila’s Urban PrecarityCity and Society 37(1).

Book reviews

Salay, Sebastian (2024). Building on Borrowed Time: Rising seas and failing infrastructure in Semarang. The Australian Journal of Anthropology 35(3): 360-361.

Salay, Sebastian (2024). My Land, My Life: Dispossession at the Frontier of Desire. Oceania 94(3): 234-235.

Antoine, Sebastian (2022). In the shadow of the palms: More-than-human becomings in West Papua. Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 14: 121-123.

Antoine, Sebastian (2022). Brazilian Authoritarianism: Past and Present. Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 14: 106-107.

Audio

Guest programming on Outbound on Skylab Radio featuring West Papuan music