Department of Anthropology & Archaeology
Anthropology 1593 The science of mankind in the widest sense, coined from Greek: anthropos “human being” + –logos “study of.”
ANTH206 Anthropology of Contemporary Issues: Anthropology & Globalisation
ANTH327 Anthropology of Money
ANTH425 Flexible Borders: Anthropology of Transnationalism & Diaspora
Gregory Rawlings is a Senior Lecturer in social anthropology in the Department of Anthropology & Archaeology at the University of Otago. Greg's research and teaching focuses on processes of globalisation, transnationalism and citizenship. He is a social anthropologist with a strong commitment to inter-disciplinary work that traverses history, law and economics to engage with finance, taxation, international relations and political economy. Greg's PhD (2003) in Anthropology from the Australian National University (ANU), was based on 23 months ethnographic fieldwork in Pango village (a peri-urban community located just outside of the country’s capital, Port Vila), where he explored the social, cultural and economic impacts of the Vanuatu tax haven on indigenous livelihoods. From 2002–2005, Greg was Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Tax System Integrity (CTSI) at the ANU where he carried out multi-sited and mixed-methods research on tax compliance in Australia, offshore finance in Andorra, Guernsey, Samoa and Singapore, and money laundering in The Netherlands. From 2006-2007, Greg lectured in the School of Archaeology & Anthropology at the ANU. During this period he pursued a number of applied anthropological projects and collaborative research endeavours with external agencies, most notably Australia’s AusAID, examining governance, oversight institutions (auditors general, ombudsmen, parliamentary accounts committees and financial intelligence units) and leadership codes in the Pacific. Since his appointment at Otago in June 2007, Greg has embarked on a new research project that is informed by thematic interests in history and anthropology, and law and society, to examine questions of 'race', citizenship and human rights in Vanuatu, as part of British colonial policy during the decolonisation of empire in the second half of the twentieth century. The first of a series of findings from this research are available in articles recently published in History and Anthropology and The Journal of Pacific History (see below for full details). Although Greg's research areas are diverse, they are unified by an interest in the relationship between law, society and culture within the historically informed paradigms of transnationalism, globalisation and citizenship that frame much of contemporary social and cultural anthropology. He also works with a number of MA and PhD postgraduate students working in areas of transnationalism, globalisation and citizenship and in August 2011, Greg's supervision was recognised with the Top Humanities Supervisor of the Year award at the University of Otago.
Rawlings, Gregory (2012) "Statelessness, Human Rights and Decolonisation: Citizenship in Vanuatu, 1906-80". The Journal of Pacific History, Vol. 47, No. 1: 45-68.
Rawlings, Gregory (2012) “Intangible Nodes and Networks of Influence: The Ethics of Tax Compliance in Australian SMEs.” International Small Business Journal (ISBJ), Vol. 30, No. 1: 84–95.
Rawlings, Gregory (2011) “Statelessness, Citizenship and Annotated Discriminations: Meta Documents, and the Aesthetics of the Subtle at the United Nations.” History and Anthropology, Vol. 22, No. 4: 461–479.
Rawlings, Gregory (2011) “Relative Trust: the Vanuatu tax haven and the management of elite family fortunes.” In Mary Patterson & Martha Macintyre (Eds) Managing Modernity in the Western Pacific, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Brisbane: 260–305.
Unger, Brigitte and Gregory Rawlings. (2008). “Competing for Criminal Money.” Global Business and Economics Review (GBER), Vol. 10, No. 3: 331–352.
Rawlings, Gregory (2007) “Taxes and Transnational Treaties: Responsive Regulation and the Reassertion of Offshore Sovereignty.” Law and Policy, Vol. 29, No. 1: 51-66.
Sharman, Jason and Gregory Rawlings. (2006). “National Tax Blacklists: A comparative Analysis.” The Journal of International Taxation, Vol. 17, No.9: 38-47 & 64.
Rawlings, Gregory (2005) “Mobile People, Mobile Capital and Tax Neutrality: Sustaining a Market for Offshore Finance Centres.” In Accounting Forum, Vol. 29, 289-310.
Rawlings, Gregory (2004) “Globalisation and the continuing appeal of offshore finance.” In Oceanic Conference on International Studies: Conference Proceedings (14-16 July). Australian National University. Canberra
Rawlings, Gregory (2004) “Laws, Liquidity and Eurobonds: The Making of the Vanuatu Tax Haven.” In The Journal of Pacific History, Vol. 39, No.3: 325-341.
Rawlings, Gregory and Valerie Braithwaite (2003). “Voices for Change: Australian Perspectives on Tax Administration.” In Australian Journal of Social Issues, Vol. 38, No. 3 (August): 263-268.
Rawlings, Gregory (2003) “Cultural Narratives of Taxation and Citizenship: Fairness, Groups and Globalisation.” In Australian Journal of Social Issues, Vol. 38, No. 3 (August): 269-305.
Rawlings, Gregory and Ewan Maidment. (2002). “Losuia District Administration Archives, Kiriwina, Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea.” In The Journal of Pacific History. Vol. 37, No. 2: 255-270.
Rawlings, Gregory (2000) “The Chief Mason, the Expatriate and the Banyan Tree”. In Conversations: Occasional Writings from the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. Brij Lal (ed) Australian National University. Canberra: 61-68.
Rawlings, Gregory (1999). “Foundations of Urbanisation: Port Vila Town and Pango Village, Vanuatu.” In Oceania. Vol. 70, No.1: 72-86.
Rawlings, Gregory (1999). “Villages, Islands and Tax Havens: The global/local implications of a financial entrepôt in Vanuatu.” In Canberra Anthropology. Vol. 22, No. 2: 37-50.
Rawlings, Gregory (2005). Offshore Finance Centres: Institutions of Global Capital and Sites of Cultural Practice, Working Paper 60. January 2005. Canberra: Centre for Tax System Integrity, The ANU. ISBN 0642 768609. (17pp typeset)
Rawlings, Gregory (2005). Cultural Narratives of Taxation and Citizenship: Fairness, Groups and Globalisation, Working Paper 52. Canberra: Centre for Tax System Integrity, The ANU. ISBN 0642 76848 X (36pp typeset)
Rawlings, Gregory (2005). English Laws and Global Money Markets: The Rise of the Vanuatu Tax Haven, Working Paper 61. January 2005. Canberra: Centre for Tax System Integrity, The ANU. ISBN 0642 768617. (30pp typeset)
Rawlings, Gregory (2005) Networks of Influence and the Management of SME Tax Compliance in Australia, Working Paper 78. June 2005. Canberra: Centre for Tax System Integrity, The ANU. ISBN.0 642 768 781 (37pp typeset)
Rawlings, Gregory (2005). Responsive Regulation, Multilateralism, Bilateral Tax Treaties and the Continuing Appeal of Offshore Finance Centres, Working Paper 74. June 2005. Canberra: Centre for Tax System Integrity, The ANU. ISBN 0642 768 749. (24pp typeset)
Cox, Marcus, Hannington Alatoa, Linda Kenni, Anna Naupa, Gregory Rawlings, Nikunj Soni, Charles Vatu, George Sokomanu and Vincent Bulekone (2007) The Unfinished State: Drivers of Change in Vanuatu. Canberra: AusAID (78pp typeset)
http://www.ausaid.gov.au/publications/pubout.cfm?ID=5886_7826_215_4825_8415
Rawlings, Gregory (2006) Regulating responsively for oversight agencies in the Pacific. Targeted Research Papers for AusAID. Canberra: State, Society & Governance in Melanesia (SSGM), The ANU (25pp typeset) http://ips.cap.anu.edu.au/ssgm/publications/research_papers/?searchterm=2006
Unger, Brigitte, Greg Rawlings, Melissa Siegel, Joras Ferwerda, Wouter de Kruijf, Madalina Busuioc and Kristen Wokke (2005) The amounts and effects of money laundering: report for the Dutch Ministry of Finance. Utrecht: Utrecht School of Economics and the Australian National University (181pp typeset) http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/documenten-en-publicaties/rapporten/2006/02/16/onderzoeksrapport-the-amounts-and-the-effects-of-money-laundering.html
Sharman, Jason and Gregory Rawlings (2005) Deconstructing national tax blacklists: removing obstacles to cross-border trade in financial services: a report for the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. Sydney and Canberra. University of Sydney and the Australian National University (35pp typeset)
Harry Saunderson Warner. Online Embodiment, Facebook and the Construction of Self.
Enrollment Date: 27 February 2012.
Kirsten Stallard, BA(Hons — 1st Class), (Otago, 2009). The Christhchuch Earthquake: Place, Identity and Community.
Enrollment date: 01 February 2011.
Rochelle Lee Bailey, MA (Distinction) (Canterbury, 2009). An Ethnography of Migration, Development and the Left-Behind: Viticultural Seasonal Workers in Central Otago and Vanuatu.
Enrollment Date: 23 March 2010.
Mei Ding, MA (Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009). Uyghur Chinese in Australia: Food, Cuisine and Migrants Multiple Identities.
Enrollment Date: 01 January 2011.
Roberta Jenkins, MA (McMaster, 2001). Institutions and Faith: Building the Community of Christ in South Korea.
Enrollment Date: 01 July 2010
Mattie Koenders, BA(Hons — 1st Class), (Otago, 2011). Living the Wanaka Dream: Networking the
Divide Between Work, Leisure and Ski Tourism in New Zealand's Southern Alps.
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Danielle McGivern, BA(Hons — 1st Class), (Otago, 2011). The Human Terrain System: A Militarisation of Anthropology.
Juliet Checketts nee Begley, BA(Hons — 1st Class), (Otago, 2010). The Politics of Concealment: The Manifestations of Race in the Northern Territory Emergency Response Intervention.
Kirsten Stallard, BA(Hons — 1st Class), (Otago, 2008). RSE Participants in the Print Media of Marlborough.
William (Will) Anderson, BPhEd (Hons) (Otago, 2009), BA(Otago, 2010)
Shadow Cultures, Shadow Histories: Foreign Military Personnel in Africa, 1960–1980. (Distinction). 12/07/2010–30/11/2011.
A copy of this thesis can be read here: http://otago.ourarchive.ac.nz/handle/10523/2117
Jeffrey Scofield, BA (University of California at Santa Cruz, 2008). The Promotion of Place: Immigration
Policies, Citizenship and Economic Reform in New Zealand. 01/03/2010–30/06/2011.
A copy of this thesis can be read here: http://otago.ourarchive.ac.nz/handle/10523/1892
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