About
This site converges several interests in Antarctica being developed by Juan Francisco Salazar in collaboration with colleagues in Australia and Chile.
Juan Francisco Salazar is a senior lecturer in communication and media studies at the School of Humanities and Communication Arts where he currently teaches in film/media studies with a focus on documentary film. He is a researcher at the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney since 2006 and over the past decade his research and advocacy work have been in media anthropology; community and alternative media; Indigenous media and communication rights; communication and social change.
In recent years he has developed further interests in climate change communication and environmental humanities particulalry developing interests in socio-ecological futures studies and social studies of Antarctica. Since 2012 he is co-chair of the Social Sciences Action Group of the Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research (SCAR).
As a media practitioner he has produced several documentaries and experimental short films, and collaborated with a wide range of community media/arts organisations and artists including several local councils, creative studios and community development organizations in Sydney, Mexico, the UK and Chile. He has been an international coordinator of the OURMedia Network since 2004 and was convenor of the OURMedia 6th International Conference in Sydney, 2007. He has been a visiting research fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex (2008) and a visiting teaching fellow at the School of Communication, Universidad de las Américas, Mexico (2006).
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