This journal article analyses a collection of West Papuan petitions to the UN that were sent in the lead up to the so-called ‘Act of Free Choice’ in 1969. I argue that these petitions are an important archive within histories of decolonisation.

In this journal article, I investigate how the West Papuan campaign (pre-1962 NY agreement) hit upon tensions between territorial integrity and self-determination within anti-colonial politics. I also make a case for the inclusion of the Pacific in studies of the Global South.

I published a journal article with the International History Review on how West Papuan activists connected their campaign for decolonisation to anti-colonial struggles in Africa and Asia, and the need to incorporate this into international histories of decolonisation.

I wrote an article for the Conversation on the history of West Papuan activism at the UN as a pre-history to the recent activism and the push for a referendum.