Geraldene Peters
Geraldene Peters' research focuses on broadly on documentary media exploring the politics and ethnographic experience of identity and place across moving and still images within Aotearoa/New Zealand (and elsewhere). She is especially interested in how class and ethnicity are articulated and responded to through marginalised media forms, in particular domestic, community and arts-based media, completing a PhD about activist left documentary in Aotearoa/New Zealand in 2006.
Since undergraduate theatre and film study her work has also been characterised by an exploration of relationships between theory and practice informing her current pedagogical interests in modes of research-led practice. She has accumulated production experience since 1991 as a researcher, production manager and assistant editor across a range of documentary modes from small format community video to international films, as well as working with media collectives such as Indymedia and local social justice movements.
Her current research interests are in Media, Film and Documentary theory and history; research-led Documentary practices; Cultural Studies; Visual culture; Film, Media and Cultural Studies in Aotearoa/New Zealand; Community and radical/alternative media practices.
Clinton Watkins