Lisa Palmer

Lisa Palmer teaches and researches on indigenous environmental knowledge and practices at the University of Melbourne. She lives in Melbourne and regularly travels to Timor-Leste to carry out research and visit extended family. She has published widely and is the author of an ethnography on people's complex relations with water in Timor-Leste titled Water politics and spiritual ecology: Custom, environmental governance and development (2015, Routledge, London). Working also through visual methods she has directed two films, Wild Honey: Caring for bees in a divided land and Holding Tightly: Custom and Healing in Timor-Leste.

Filmography

	WILD HONEY: CARING FOR BEES IN A DIVIDED LAND » Official Selection, Dili International Film Festival, 2019. Official Selection, 14th Bali International Film Festival (Balinale), 2021...
	HOLDING TIGHTLY - Custom and Healing in Timor-Leste » (Hametin Hatutan Lisan no Ai-moruk iha Timor-Leste) Healing in Timor-Leste is rarely straightforward. Timorese people acknowledge and embrace multiple pathways to healing in a complex interplay between spiritual care, comfort and personal connection...