Writing

Journal Articles

Salay, Sebastian (2026). “Anthropology is a Martial Art: Towards a Theory of Critical Anthropological Practice” Anthropological Forum.

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

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

Essays

Salay, Sebastian (2026). ‘Reciprocity in critical anthropological practice‘, Anthropological Theory Commons, 15 September

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

Book reviews

Salay, Sebastian (2026). Fugitive Anthropology: Embodying Activist Research. Anthropological Forum (ahead of print).

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

Sound design for the Oxford Anthropology Podcast