Raul Pertierra, Ph.D

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Raul Pertierra was initially a science teacher but took up anthropology at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, where he completed a Ph.D. He then taught at several Australian and overseas universities but spent most of his professional life in the School of Sociology at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, where he is presently a Visiting Fellow. Dr. Pertierras main ethnographic interests has been the Philippines where he continues to conduct research in a range of areas, from religion and politics to mobile phones and the Internet. He is on the editorial board of several journals, including Pilipinas and Human Technology.

Areas of Interest: 

Philippine Higher Education – Attaining Global standards, Social impact assessment for Development projects, effects of overseas work on local communities, globalization and national identities

Curriculum

Academic Background: 

Sociology, Macquarie University

Contribution: 

Publications

Selected publications from 2000 onwards

  • 2005) Mobile Phones, Identity and Discursive Intimacy, Human Technology, Vol.1 no.1 April.
  • (2004) Globalism, Culture and the Nation-State, Philippine Studies, Vol. 52 no.1
  • (2003) Pilipinas: A Journal of Philippine Studies, No. 40 March, Introduction to Special Issue on Information and Communication Technologies.
  • (2003) Science, Technology and Everyday Culture in the Philippines, Institute of Philippine Culture, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City.
  • (2002) Txt-ing Selves: Cellphones and Philippine Modernity, De La Salle University Press, Manila.
  • (2002) the work of culture, De La Salle University Press, Manila.
  • (2001) American rule in the Philippine hinterlands, Mixed Blessings: American Occupation of the Philippines, (ed) Macferson, H. Greenwood Press, Washington.
  • (2001) The Philippines, Handbook of Southeast Asia, (eds) Heenan, P. & Lamontagne, M., Fitzroy Dearborn, Chicago.
  • (2001) Multiple Identities, Overseas Labor and a Diasporal Consciousness in a Local Community, Going Global: Asian Societies on the Cusp of Change, (ed.) Malay, A., Asian Center, University of the Philippines, Quezon City.
  • (2000a) The challenge of globalization: the Philippine case, Asian Studies, 36(1): 134-47.
  • (2000b) The nation-state, knowledge and sexuality, Diliman Review 48(2): 52-57.