Publications

In Press

Hobbis, Geoffrey and Stephanie Ketterer Hobbis. “Beyond Platform Capitalism: Critical Perspectives on Facebook Markets from Melanesia.” Media, Culture & Society

2021

OA Hobbis, Geoffrey and Stephanie Ketterer Hobbis. 2021. “An Ethnography of Deletion: Materializing Transience in Solomon Islands Digital Cultures.” In Storing and Sharing: Everyday Relationships with Digital Material, edited by Heather Horst, Jolynna Sinanan and Larissa Hjorth [Special Issue], New Media & Society 23(4): 750-765. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1461444820954195

OA Hobbis, Stephanie Ketterer and Geoffrey Hobbis. 2021. “Leadership in Absentia: Negotiating Distance in Centralized Solomon Islands.” Oceania 91(1):47-63. https://doi.org/10.1002/ocea.5295

2020

Hobbis, Geoffrey. 2020. The Digitizing Family: An Ethnography of Melanesian Smartphones. London: Palgrave.

OA Hobbis, Stephanie Ketterer and Geoffrey Hobbis. 2020. “Non-/Human Infrastructures and Digital Gifts: The Cables, Waves and Brokers of Solomon Islands Internet.” Ethnos (online first). https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2020.1828969

2019

Hobbis, Geoffrey. 2019. “New Media, New Melanesia?” In Erich Hirsch and William Rollason (eds.), The Melanesian World (Routledge World Series), pp.546-560. London: Routledge.

2018

OA Hobbis, Geoffrey. 2018. “Cowboys and Aliens: Body Techniques and Audience Reception in Malaita, Solomon Islands.” Visual Anthropology 31(3): 292-306. https://research.rug.nl/files/111989046/Hobbis_2018_VA_PrePublicationVersion.pdf

Hobbis, Geoffrey. 2018. “The Anthropological Cell Phone,” Cultural Anthropology: A Perspective on the Human Condition, Fourth Canadian Edition. Don Mills: Oxford University Press.

2017

OA Hobbis, Geoffrey. 2017. “The MicroSDs of Solomon Islands: An Offline Remittance Economy of Digital Multi-Media” In Mobile Digital Practices: Situating People, Things and Data [Thematic Issue]. Digital Culture & Society 3(2): 21-40. https://research.rug.nl/files/112041861/dcs_2017_0203.pdf

OA Hobbis, Geoffrey. 2017. “The Shifting Moralities of Mobile Phones in Lau Communicative Ecologies (Solomon Islands).” In Reimagining Oceania through Critical Junctures, edited by Philipp Schorch and Arno Pascht [Special Issue]. Oceania 87(2): 173-187. https://research.rug.nl/files/113181883/Hobbis_2017_Oceania_Precopyedited.pdf

OA Hobbis, Stephanie Ketterer and Geoffrey Hobbis. 2017. “Voter Integrity, Trust and the Promise of Digital Technologies: Biometric Voter Registration in Solomon Islands.” Anthropological Forum 27(2): 114-134. https://research.rug.nl/files/65168590/Hobbis_AF_27_2.pdf

OA Hobbis, Geoffrey and Stephanie Hobbis. 2017. “Auki.” In Clive Moore and Simeon Bouro (ed.), Solomon Islands in Pictures. Honiara: Solomon Islands Government and Solomon Islands National University. https://law.uq.edu.au/research/our-research/uq-solomon-islands-partnership/in-pictures

OA Hobbis, Geoffrey. 2017. A Technographic Anthropology of Mobile Phone Adoption in the Lau Lagoon, Malaita, Solomon Islands. PhD Thesis, EHESS and Concordia University. https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/982334/1/Hobbis_PhD_S2017.pdf

2015

OA Hobbis, Geoffrey and Stephanie Hobbis. 2015. “Lau” (Chapter 5: Economic Development and Political Tension, 1990s to 2010s). In Ben Burt (ed.), Malaita: A Pictorial History from Solomon Islands. London: British Museum Press, http://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/Malaita_online.pdf

Hobbis, Geoffrey. 2015. Review of Ben Burt and Lissant Bolton, eds. “The Things We Value: Culture and History in Solomon Islands.” Social Anthropology/ Anthropologie Sociale 23(3):383-384.

2013

Hobbis, Geoffrey and Stephanie Hobbis. 2013. “Mon Dieu, Bourdieu: The Magic of the Academy and its Ancestor Cults.” Anthropologica 55(2):441-453.

2012

Hobbis, Geoffrey. 2012. Review of Nicholas A. Bainton, “The Lihir Destiny: Cultural Responses to Mining in Melanesia.” Pacific Affairs 85(3):352-353.