Geoffrey Hobbis
Post-doctoral fellow
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Centre de recherche et de documentation sur l'Oceanie
France
Biography
March 2017: Doctorate in Social Anthropology (co-supervision of thesis), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Center for Research and Documentation on Oceania (CREDO) and Concordia University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Subject: How does the digital divide? (Solomon Islands) Thesis defended on March 20, 2017 at the University of Concordia 2010: Master of Arts, Material and Visual Anthropology, University College London (United Kingdom) 2008: Bachelor of Arts, Social Anthropology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby (Canada)
Research Interest
Anthropology of Oceania: Melanesia - Solomon Islands Digital anthropology, technical systems
Publications
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Hobbis G. The Oceanic Digital Revolution Today: Experiences, Trends and Challenges. InEmpires and Cultures of the Pacific, The 21st annual conference of the New Zealand Studies Association 2015 Jul 1.
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Hobbis S, Hobbis G. The Digital Promise as Illusion: Biometric Voter Registration in Solomon Islands. InAnnual Meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania 2016 Feb 10.
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Hobbis GG. A Technographic Anthropology of Mobile Phone Adoption in the Lau Lagoon, Malaita, Solomon Islands (Doctoral dissertation, Concordia University).
