My research and publications

Selected works

Google Scholar Profile

Abstracts

• With co-author Bhurshita Seechurn: Film Industry in Mauritius: The Representation of Gender in Mauritian Cinematography (UOM Research Week 2020 Book of Abstracts, pp192-193)
• With co-author Géraldine Saintas: The Representation of LGBTQ+ in Mauritian Media-Gender-Equality-Media-Transgender-Saintas-Chan-Meetoo (UOM Research Week 2020 Book of Abstracts, pp194-195)

Papers

• Assessing the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) Amendment Bill 2021, 2021
• Analytical Paper on the ICTA Consultation Paper on proposed amendments to the ICT Act for regulating the use and addressing the abuse and misuse of Social Media in Mauritius, 2021.
• Improving Democracy in Mauritius The need to remove information boundaries and enhance the media in Journal of Social Policies and Development – Special Issue – OSSREA Mauritius Chapter, 2013
• Young Adults and Social Networking Sites in Mauritius with Deepa Rathcharen in University of Mauritius Research Journal 17, 2011.
• ICT, society and poverty: the vision of Mauritius as a cyber island from a development perspective in “Poverty in Mauritius: An Agenda for Reflection and Action–Articulating the Local with the Regional”, 2007.
• Nouveaux médias. Discours politico-médiatiques et pratiques domestiques à l’île Maurice in “Media and Democracy in an age of transition”, 2005.

Chapters in Books

• Editorship, Agency and Content through the Gender Lens: An Analysis of Gender Balance in the News Industry and its Output in Mauritius in “The Gender Divides of the Mauritian Society: Re-appropriating the Empowerment and Citizenship Discourse” edited by Tandrayen Ragoobur, V., CODESRIA, Éditions Le Printemps, 2020.
• Introdiksion in “Kaya ant sime lamizer ek sime lalimier“, Creole Speaking Union, 2020.
• Kaya, enn Zom Santimantal in “Kaya ant sime lamizer ek sime lalimier“, Creole Speaking Union, 2020.
• Itilizasion Lang Kreol dan bann Text Kaya in “Kaya ant sime lamizer ek sime lalimier“, Creole Speaking Union,  2020.
• The Media as Agents of Democracy in Mauritius in “The Mauritian Paradox: Fifty years of Development, Diversity and Democracy”, UOM Press, 2018.
• Ethics in Journalism: Why and How? in “Ethical Journalism and Gender-Sensitive Reporting”, 2013.
• Gender-Sensitive Reporting in “Ethical Journalism and Gender-Sensitive Reporting”, 2013.
• State or Self regulation. The search for common ground in “Enhancing Democratic Systems: The Media in Mauritius”, 2011.
• La représentation de la femme dans les médias mauriciens. De la discrimination subtile aux stéréotypes flagrants. in “Femmes et représentations culturelles”, 2009.

Edited Books

• Kaya ant sime lamizer ek sime lalimier, Creole Speaking Union, 2020.
• Media Ethics and Regulation. Insights from Africa, Langaa, 2013 (available on Amazon).
• Enhancing Democratic Systems: The Media in Mauritius, UOM Press & Langaa 2011 (available on Amazon).

Contributions as lexicographic coordinator

• “Diksioner Morisien (Trwaziem edision)” by Carpooran. A., Éditions Le Printemps, 2019.
• “Diksioner Kreol Rodrige Version prototip let A-G” by A. Carpooran & Y. Maury, UOM Press, 2019.

Other contributions

• La Constitution, euh… c’est quoi?, Amnesty International Mauritius Section with FES and UNDF, Caractère Ltée, 2010.

Commissioned Research

• Mauritius Country Report in Report on the State of Right to Information in Africa 2017 in the context of SDG 16.10.2
• The State of ICT in Education in Mauritius for Pearson Education International, 2008.
• Evaluation of National Media Campaign on Non-Communicable Diseases for WHO and MOHQL, 2006.
• Evaluation of National Media Campaign on HIV-AIDS for WHO and MOHQL, 2006.

Forthcoming

• Les paradoxes de la langue et de la culture dans les médias mauriciens. Le cas de la radio.
• « Kaya ant sime lamizer ek sime lalimier» Actes de contestation, hybridation et oeuvres de construction nationale.
• Mauritian Cinematography and the Male Gaze: Maximising Women’s Bodies and Minimising the Female Voice. An analysis of the representation of women on screen and behind the camera in Mauritian films (with co-author Bhurshita Seechurn).

Ongoing research Projects

• Revisiting the ethnographic and linguistic specificities of Rodrigues (commissionned by Rodrigues Regional Assembly and PMO)
• Diksioner Kreol Rodrige (commissionned by Rodrigues Regional Assembly)
• Preparasion Terin pou Introdiksion Kreol Repiblik Moris dan Parlman (inter-institutional research project with UOM, MIE, UTM, OUM and UDM)

Creative writing

• Kadans siklonn, enn ti text ki finn paret an Desam 2021 dan liv “Ti zistwar” ki finn pibliye par Daarka ek ilistre par Geeani kot Krike Krake Edition.