Reflections on Xinjiang

In Progress: a chronicle of the extent of Uygur separatism, extremism and terrorism in XUAR and the historiographic revisionism of key Uygur NGOs funded by the US National Endowment for Democracy [NED[ in manufacturing an "East Turkistan" ideological platform from which to allege a CPC "genocide" against the Uygur minority in XUAR.  Qualified by personal, authentic experience of living and working in XUAR and extensive critical discourse analysis of the construction and dissemination of the Uygur "genocide" myth, intended to systematically deconstruct this myth. This research is entirely independent and self-funded, although open to sponsorship and funding.

Identity Construct Dialectics

Text, Meta-Text and Discourse Construction in Auto-ethnographic Film as Post-Modern Genre: a hybrid theorized account of the development of auto-ethnographic film within the history of observational cinema and post-colonial visual anthropology

Offensive to a Reasonable Adult

A case by case chronological retrospective of the evolution and religious morals-based politicization of Australia's film classification and censorship regime from the silent era to the present day: fully illustrated with extracts from Classification Board and Classification Review Board transcripts (forth-coming)

Always an Other? Representations of Disability in Australian Film

In Progress: revising and updating a monograph manuscript originally written while I was a SAR Research Fellow at Australia's National Film & Sound Archive [NFSA] shortly before coming to China.  Again, this project is unfunded: although I have a US publisher commitment, there is no advance.  The monograph is a chronological account of representations of disability in Australian film analyzed through the prism of the social model of disability advanced by the international Disability Movement through the emergence of Disability Studies as a tertiary discipline in the US, UK and Australia.

Reflections on Xinjiang

Auto-ethnographic reflection on my experience in Xinjiang, China over one year from 2011-2012, as shaped by populist Western media mythification of Uygur "cultural genocide": commencing initially in serialized format on YouTube, but undeveloped due to lack of budgetary resources

The Man from Bolshevik Gully

Ethnographic profile of my father, a stateless Czech WW2 refugee who first came to Australia by ship under the UN mandated Displaced Persons scheme that began Australia's immigration program n the 1950s (forthcoming - starting with a rough cut video)