Announcements

• Now available: General issue (vol. 20 no. 2, 2023)

  21-05-2025

  Sites is pleased to advise that a new issue is now available:

  Compassion: The Missing Ingredient in Peace-building? (Miriam Bright)

  Enactivism and Māoritanga: Autonomy, Homonomy and Heteronomy (Nick Drury & Keith Tudor)

  A Pākehā Perspective on Undertaking Cross-Cultural Research on Māori And Moriori Musical Instruments (Jennifer Cattermole)

  Transformative Change: Barriers, Lessons and Possibilities from Covid-19 for Climate Justice (Emma Yvonne Simons)

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• Announcing the SITES senior student essay competition 2024

  04-03-2024

  Sites: Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies welcomes submissions for the annual senior undergraduate / postgraduate student essay competition. Papers of 4,000 – 6,000 words are due by 20 April 2024. The winning essay will be published in the July 2024 issue of Sites. For eligibility requirements and judging criteria, please visit: https://sites.otago.ac.nz/Sites/studentessaycompetition

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• Winner of the 2023 Sites senior student essay competition

  16-02-2024

  The Sites Editorial Board is delighted to announce the winner of the 2023 Sites Senior Student Essay Competition.  This year’s winner is Revena Correll Trnka, who recently completed a Masters in Anthropology at Te Herenga Waka / Victoria University of Wellington.  The title of the essay is “Dressed to Kill: Viewers’ Relationships with Representations of Violent Hyper-Femininity in Contemporary Queer Horror." The essay will be published in the June 2023 issue of Sites, due soon.

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• Now available: General issue with a special section on "The Temporality of Disaster" (vol. 19 no. 2, 2022)

  23-03-2023

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• CFP for special issue: "Emergenc(i)es" (submissions due 1 June 2023)

  20-01-2023

  In this special issue of SITES, due for publication in December 2023, we invite submissions that expand on the theme of “Emergenc(i)es.” We welcome contributions that reflect on emergent forms within the discipline, including methodologies and research practices, especially those which are generated under conditions of emergency and crisis.

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• Volume 17 (2) is now available

  23-03-2021

  The general issue of Sites for 2020 is now available featuring articles based in Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia. Edited by Ruth Fitzgerald (General Editor). Read More Read more about Volume 17 (2) is now available

• Announcing the 2021 SITES senior student essay competition

  20-03-2021

  SITES: journal of social anthropology and cultural studies invites submissions for the annual senior student essay competition. Essays for consideration require submission by the deadline of 15 April 2021. Read More Read more about Announcing the 2021 SITES senior student essay competition

• Winner of the 2020 Sites Senior Student Essay Competition

  21-01-2021

  The Sites Editorial Board is delighted to announce the winner of the 2020 Sites Senior Student Essay Competition. This year’s winner is Jacqueline Watt, a Master of Arts student majoring in Social Anthropology at Massey University. The winning essay is entitled 'Kiwiburn- a ‘Biophilic festival’: Considering mind-body-environment connections to nature in blended festivalscapes'. This essay will be published in the 2020 December issue of Sites. Read More Read more about Winner of the 2020 Sites Senior Student Essay Competition

• Special Issue Refugee Resettlement in Early Twenty-First Century New Zealand

  22-12-2020

  Edited by Professor Angela McCarthy of the Unviersty of Otago, this fascinating collection of articles draws from the 'Refuge in the City: Former Refugees in Urban New Zealand Conference' of 2018 and is respectfully dedicated to the survivors and victims of the 2019 mosque attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand. Read More Read more about Special Issue Refugee Resettlement in Early Twenty-First Century New Zealand

• How to submit an article to Sites

  04-03-2020

  1. Select 'register' on the home page menu at the top of the page 2. Choose your username and password and remember it 3. Fill in the metadata and near the bottom of the page select 'author' 4. From then on you access the journal via your user name and password which takes you to your 'user home' page where you can click on 'author' then 'start a new submission'. Read More Read more about How to submit an article to Sites

• SITES 16(2) now available

  18-12-2019

  Various issues associated with immigration and settlement in New Zealand and Australia are addressed in this issue of SITES. The regular contributions to this issue highlight themes of ontological colonialism, socio-cultural accommodations, and researcher reflexivity. In addition, this issue features a Special Section, Migration and Migrant Lives, guest edited by Amie Lennox of Massey University. Read More Read more about SITES 16(2) now available

• Sites 16(1) now available

  04-07-2019

  SITES issue 16, number 1 is now available online. This special issue on Christianity and Development in the Pacific was guest edited by Philip Fountain and Geoff Troughton. The special issue includes eight articles exploring the entanglements between Christianity and development in different parts of the Pacific. Papers include analysis of: the theological elements in the discourse of the ‘Pacific Way’, ritual dimensions of migration for climate change adaption in Fiji, Mormon theologies of ‘self-reliance’, faith-based Samoan approaches to pastoral counselling, church responses to development challenges in Solomon Islands, and theological education in Vanuatu. In addition, ‘big picture’ frameworks and research questions are laid out in the hope of inspiring further research on these themes. Read More Read more about Sites 16(1) now available