Dr Juan Francisco Salazar

• Honours and Awards
• Grants and Current Projects
• Selected Publications
• Contact

Biography

Juan Francisco Salazar (born in Chile, 1971) is a Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies at the School of Communication Arts, and a researcher at the Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney. He holds a PhD in Communication (2005) and a Master of Arts in Cultural Studies (1999). He also holds a Bachelor of Anthropology (Honours) from the University of Chile (1994). In Sydney he has worked with a wide range of community media/arts organizations and artists including several local councils in Western Sydney and activist groups. He has directed and taken part in several consultancy projects and evaluations such as UNESCO and the Inter American Development Bank and several Chilean Government agencies (Ministry of Education, JUNJI), Foundations (Fundacion Minera Escondida) and NGO’s (Environmental Impact and Indigenous Hertitage surveys).

Dr Salazar's area of expertise include: Media anthropology; community and alternative media; Indigenous media; communication and social change; experimental film; documentary film theory and production; cultural mapping; ICT's and intercultural dialogue; Latin America.

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Honours and Awards

Visiting Appointments

• 2008, Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
• 2008, Invited speaker Department of Anthropology, New York University.
• 2007, Invited speaker at the Latin America Symposium Citizenship and Identity in an Age of Shifting Borders, University of Oklahoma USA
• 2006, Visiting Teaching Fellow, School of Communication, Universidad de las Americas, Mexico Scholarships
• 2000, Australian Postgraduate Research Award

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Grants and Current Projects

• Hot Science, Global Citizens: The Agency of the Museum Sector in Climate Change Debates
  Researchers: Fiona Cameron, Bob Hodge, Brett Neilson, Juan Salazar, Jan Conroy, David Karoly, S. Chan, Carolyn Meehan, Lynda Kelly, Graham Durant, Wayne LaBar and Richard Sandell Partners: Museum Victoria, Australian Museum, Questacon and The Liberty Science Center (USA) Funding Body: Australian Research Council Period: 2008-2010
• Global Digital Atlas for Cultural Diversity, Pluralism and Intercultural Dialogue in Asia
  Researchers: Ien Ang, Kay Anderson, Andre Frankovits, Brett Neilson, Juan Salazar, Ian Johnson, Steven Hayes, Andrew Wilson, Beng Huat Chua, Daniel P. S. Goh, Eric Charles Thompson, Anjali Monteiro, K. P. Jayasankar, Shilpa Phadke Partner/Funding Body: UNESCO Period: 2007-2008
• Digital Refuge: Storytelling and Sustainability of Community Media in Western Sydney.
  Researchers: Juan Salazar, Hart Cohen, Lena Nahlous, Caitlin Vaughan. Funding Body: UWS Sustainability Research Grant. Partner: Information and Cultural Exchange (ICE), Fairfield City Council (FCC). Period: 2007-2008
• 33º South Heterotopies of Place and Space.
  Researchers: Sarah Waterson and Juan Salazar. Funding Body: Australia Council for the Arts, Research and Development Grant. Period: 2007-2008

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Selected Publications

Authored Books
Cohen, H., Salazar, J. F. & Barkat, I. 2008, Screen Media: Theories, Histories and Practices, South Melbourne, Vic: Oxford University Press.

Edited Books
Pettit, J., Salazar, J. F. & Gumucio-Dagron, A. (guest eds) 2009, Citizens’ Development in Practice [Special Issue: Media and Communication: New Expressions of Power and Voice], Oxfam GB: Rawat Publications.

Book Chapters
Salazar, J. F. 2008, ‘Making Culture Visible: The Mediated Construction of a Mapuche Nation in Chile’, in, Stein, L., Rodriquez, C. & Kidd, D. (eds), Making Our Media: Global Initiatives Toward a Democratic Public Sphere – Volume 1, Cresshill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Salazar, J. F. & Cordova, A. 2008, ‘Imperfect Media: The Poetics of Indigenous Video in Latin America’, in, Stewart, M. & Wilson, P. (eds), Global Indigenous Media: Cultures, Poetics, and Politics, Durham, NC & London: Duke University Press, pp 39-57.

Salazar, J. F. & Waterson, S. 2008, ‘Play_Space: Participatory Communities and Game Space’, in, Butt, D., Bywater, J. & Paul, N. (eds), Place: Local Knowledge and New Media Practice, Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp147-164.

Salazar, J. F. 2007a, ‘Indigenous Peoples and the Cultural Constructions of Information and Communication Technology in Latin America’, in, Dyson, L. E., Hendriks, M. & Grant, S. (eds), Indigenous People and Information Technology, Hershey, PA.: Idea-Group Publishing, pp. 14-26.

Salazar, J. F. 2007b, ‘Indigenous People and the Communication Rights Agenda: A Global Perspective’, in, Nightingale, V. & Dwyer, T. (eds), New Media Worlds: Challenges for Convergence, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, pp 87-101.

Journal Articles
Cohen, H. & Salazar, J. F. (guest eds) 2005, Media International Australia (Incorporating Culture and Policy) [Special Issue on Digital Anthropology], 116(August).

Salazar, J. F. 2005, ‘Digitising Knowledge: Anthropology and New Practices of Digitextuality’, Media International Australia (Incorporating Culture and Policy) [Special Issue on Digital Anthropology], 116(August): 64-74.

Salazar, J. F. 2005, ‘Communication Rights in the ‘Information Society’: The Case of Indigenous Media in Latin America’, Revista Codigos, 2(December): 38-52, Universidad de la Americas, Puebla, Mexico.

Salazar, J. F. 2003, ‘Articulating an Activist Imaginary: Internet as Counter Public Sphere in the Mapuche Movement’, Media International Australia (Incorporating Culture and Policy), 107(May): 19-29.

Salazar, J. F. 2002, ‘Activismo Indígena en América Latina: Estrategias para una construcción cultural de las tecnologías de información y comunicación’, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, 8(2): 61-79.

Conference Proceedings

Dyson, L., Salazar J. F. & Hendriks, M. 2006, ‘ICTs for Intercultural Dialogue: An Overview of UNESCO’s Indigenous Communication Project’, in, Ess, C. & Sudweeks, F. (eds), Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Cultural Attitudes Towards Technology and Communication (CATaC), 28 June-01 July 2006, Tartu, Estonia, Perth, Western Australia: Murdoch University, pp 340-359.

Other Publications

Salazar, J. F. 2008, 'Tactics of Elusion in Recent Australian Cinema', in, Tsoutas, N. (curator), Australian Exhibition Catalogue, Sydney: Casula Powerhouse Museum.

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