This page holds pdf files of or links to some of my writing, especially material that can be difficult to find from within the Pacific. Please refer to the Publications tab for full referencing details.

• Public Health Messages About Face Masks Early in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perceptions of and Impacts on Canadians.  (Ying Shan Doris Zhang, Heather Young-Leslie, Yekta Sharafaddin-Zadeh, Kimberly Noels and Nigel Mantou Lou, 2021).

• COVID discrimination experience: Chinese Canadians’ social identities moderate the effect of personal and group discrimination on well-being. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. Accepted Nov 30,2021 (Nigel Mantou Lou, Kimberley A. Noels, Sachi Kurl, Ying Shan Doris Zhang, and Heather Young-Leslie).

• Constructions of Happiness and Satisfaction in the Kingdom of Tonga (with Sean Moore, 2012)

• Thinking Ecographically: Places, Ecographers & Environmentalism (with Jamon Halvaksz, 2008)

•  Tonga (re: The Civil Servants Strike). The Contemporary Pacific 19(1). Jan 2007. [Alternate link]

• A Fishy Romance; Chiefly Power and the Geopolitics of Desire (original title: Ecography and the Geopolitics of Desire, changed by the press)

• Sea Turtle Wars; Culture, War and Sea Turtles in the Republic of Marshall Islands (With Regina Woodrom, Julie Kroeker and Suzanne Finney) Hotlink to SPC Traditional Marine Resource Management and Knowledge Information Bulletin #21 – October 2007

• Pacific Textiles, Pacific Cultures: Hybridity & Pragmatic Creativity (with Ping-Ann Addo, 2007)

• Pacific Studies Forum on Cathy Small’s “Voyages: From Tongan Villages to American Suburbs”

• Subjective Well-being and Life Satisfaction in The Kingdom of Tonga (With Sean Moore and Carrie Lavis, 2004)

• This Leg is Not (Just) A Leg (hot link to “Revealing Pictures, Reflexive Frames” visual anthropology online gallery curated by Craig Campbell)

• …Like A Mat Being Woven

• Tongan Doctors & Critical Medical Ethnography

• PushingChildrenUp(HyL2004)

• Producing What in the transition? (Public Health Messages in Tonga)

• Women of the New Millennium: Tongan Women Determine their Development Direction

• Interviewed by Patricia Chargot for: Meet The Tongans (hot link to “Yak’s Corner”, The Detroit Free Press. Provides monthly news for children re: world cultures)

• Fostering: Case Study-Oceania. In The Routledge Women’s Encyclopedia (2001)

• The Anthropologist, The Mother And The Cross-Cultured Child: Lessons in The Relativity Of Cultural Relativity. In: Fieldwork and Families: Constructing New Models for Ethnographic Research. Juliana Flinn, Leslie Marshall, and Jocelyn Armstrong Eds., Honolulu, University of Hawai`i Press, 1998.

• Understanding Differences and Similarities. In Ethnographic Essays in Cultural Anthropology; A Problem Based Approach. Morrison, R. Bruce and C. Roderick Wilson (eds)