Dr Sean Martin-Iverson

I am a social anthropologist whose research focuses on the politics of cultural production in urban Indonesia and Southeast Asia, especially DIY production and performance as anti-capitalist praxis in hardcore punk and related underground music scenes. I have broader interests in the intersections of underground culture with creative labour and cultural industries, the transformation and contestation of urban space, social movement activism, and the politics of value. At Murdoch, I teach units about anthropology and ethnography, the cultural and social history of Asia, and the politics of media and popular culture in Asia. In 2024 I was a visiting lecturer at the Political Anthropology Lab at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris.