Dr John Postill

Books

Bräuchler, B. and J. Postill (eds) (forthcoming 2008) Theorising Media and Practice. Oxford and New York : Berghahn.
- Book rationale, contributors and chapter summaries [html]

Postill, J. (forthcoming 2007) Grounding the Internet: The Politics of Cyberactivism and Local Government in a Kuala Lumpur Suburb. Oxford and New York : Berghahn
- Book Outline [html]
- Draft Chapter 6 [html]

Postill, J. (2006) Media and Nation Building: How the Iban Became Malaysian, Oxford and New York : Berghahn.
- Draft Chapter 1 [pdf] and electronic seminar on this chapter [pdf] 
- Review by Gordon Gray for American Anthropologist, June 2007 [html]
- Review by Sabina Mihelj, Loughborough University for H-Nationalism, June 2007 [html]

Book chapters

Postill, J. (in press) The mediated production of ethnicity and nationalism among the Iban of Sarawak, 1953-1976. In Z. Ibrahim (ed) Representation, Identity and Multiculturalism in Sarawak. Bangi: Malaysian Social Science Association and Dayak Cultural Foundation.

Postill, J. (forthcoming) Networking the governance fields in a Kuala Lumpur suburb, 1999-2006, in D. Drackle and P. Harvey (eds.) New Mediators: Ethnographic Approaches to the Electronic Management of Diversity. Bielefeld : Transcript.

Postill, J. (forthcoming) Running cyburbia: new media and local governance in Subang Jaya. In Yeoh Seng Guan (ed) Media, Culture and Power in Malaysia, London and New York : Routledge.

Postill, J. (forthcoming) The Dayak Festival as a media ritual. In Yeoh Seng Guan (ed) Media, Culture and Power in Malaysia, London and New York : Routledge.[pdf]

Postill, J. (2005). Internet y epidemiologa cultural en Malasia: reflexiones desde la antropologa cognitiva. In Ardvol, E. and Grau, J. Antropologa de los Media.  Seville: AA.EE. [pdf]