Rate My Professor Lisa Palmer

Palmer has authored and co-authored numerous influential publications. Key works include the book 'Water Politics and Spiritual Ecology: Custom, environmental governance and development' (2015), which examines hydro-social cycles in East Timor, and 'Honour Among Nations? Treaties and Agreements with Indigenous People' (2004), co-edited with Marcia Langton and Maureen Tehan. Notable articles encompass 'Ambivalent Indigeneities in an independent Timor-Leste: Between the customary and national governance of resources' (2018), 'Land access and livelihoods in post-conflict Timor-Leste: no magic bullets' (2015), 'Subterranean waters and the curation of underground histories in Timor Leste' (2016), and 'Indigenous knowledge and the shackles of wilderness' (2021, PNAS). Her Google Scholar profile records over 3,000 citations. In addition to scholarly output, Palmer is a filmmaker, having produced documentaries such as 'Holding Tightly: Custom and Healing in Timor-Leste' and 'Wild Honey: Caring for bees in a divided land', which explore Indigenous environmental practices through visual ethnography. She contributes to public discourse via symposia on Indigenous knowledge and articles in Pursuit by the University of Melbourne.