Poline Bala

About Poline Bala

Poline Bala, With an exceptional h-index of 13 and a recent h-index of 6 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, specializes in the field of Social Anthropology, Anthropology of Development, Border studies, Society and Technology, Information Communication Technologies.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Decolonizing the pocket monster: Smartphones, Pokémon Go and generational conflict in Malaysian Borneo

Nature’s contributions to people in the context of a changing traditional rice cultivation landscape in the Upper Baram, Malaysia

Indigenous farmers’ perceptions of problems in the rice field agroecosystems in the upper Baram, Malaysia

Digital socio-technical innovation and indigenous knowledge

Skill acquisition (TVET) and employment in Sarawak

Views from the Ground: Reflections on Studying Indigeneity in Southeast Asia

MAKING SENSE OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC’S SOCIAL DISTANCING AND THE EMERGENCE OF VILLAGE BASED DISEASE SURVEILLANCE IN THE KELABIT HIGHLANDS OF SARAWAK

COMMUNITY RESILIENCE IN THE FACE OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC: THE CASE OF NYEGOL OF UPPER BENGOH

Poline Bala Information

University

Position

Associate Professor Social Anthropology

Citations(all)

479

Citations(since 2020)

154

Cited By

379

hIndex(all)

13

hIndex(since 2020)

6

i10Index(all)

14

i10Index(since 2020)

3

Email

University Profile Page

Google Scholar

Poline Bala Skills & Research Interests

Social Anthropology

Anthropology of Development

Border studies

Society and Technology

Information Communication Technologies

Top articles of Poline Bala

Decolonizing the pocket monster: Smartphones, Pokémon Go and generational conflict in Malaysian Borneo

New Media & Society

2023/6/29

Poline Bala
Poline Bala

H-Index: 5

Nature’s contributions to people in the context of a changing traditional rice cultivation landscape in the Upper Baram, Malaysia

Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography

2022/7/3

Christoph Schunko
Christoph Schunko

H-Index: 8

Poline Bala
Poline Bala

H-Index: 5

Indigenous farmers’ perceptions of problems in the rice field agroecosystems in the upper Baram, Malaysia

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

2022/3/29

Christoph Schunko
Christoph Schunko

H-Index: 8

Poline Bala
Poline Bala

H-Index: 5

Digital socio-technical innovation and indigenous knowledge

2022/3/18

Skill acquisition (TVET) and employment in Sarawak

International Social Science Journal

2022/3

Views from the Ground: Reflections on Studying Indigeneity in Southeast Asia

Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia

2022

MAKING SENSE OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC’S SOCIAL DISTANCING AND THE EMERGENCE OF VILLAGE BASED DISEASE SURVEILLANCE IN THE KELABIT HIGHLANDS OF SARAWAK

Journal of Sustainability Science and Management

2022/1

Poline Bala
Poline Bala

H-Index: 5

COMMUNITY RESILIENCE IN THE FACE OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC: THE CASE OF NYEGOL OF UPPER BENGOH

Journal of Sustainability Science and Management

2022/1

Poline Bala
Poline Bala

H-Index: 5

Kelvin Egay
Kelvin Egay

H-Index: 4

Migrants as brokers of food heritage making: a case study of the Bario Food and Cultural Festival in Borneo, Sarawak, Malaysia

Vivência: Revista de Antropologia

2021/12/2

Elise Mognard
Elise Mognard

H-Index: 6

Poline Bala
Poline Bala

H-Index: 5

The Practice of ‘Othering'during COVID-19 Pandemic in Malaysia: From the cities to the highlands

Migration Letters

2021/11/30

Poline Bala
Poline Bala

H-Index: 5

Sarawak Covid-19: effects of pre-festival mobility and festival gatherings

International Journal of Business and Society

2021/8/12

Poline Bala
Poline Bala

H-Index: 5

Helmy Hazmi
Helmy Hazmi

H-Index: 7

Digital inclusion of the Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia: Remote virtual mechanism for usability of telecentres amongst indigenous peoples

The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries

2021/7

Poline Bala
Poline Bala

H-Index: 5

Chong Eng Tan
Chong Eng Tan

H-Index: 5

Traversing sacred stones in the heart of Borneo: transboundary ecotourism through the megalithic landscapes of the Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak, Malaysia and the Kerayan …

Journal of Borneo-Kalimantan

2020/12/30

Poline Bala
Poline Bala

H-Index: 5

From the margins to the mainstream: indigenised development in borneo with information and communication technologies and its contribution to global sustainable development

Journal of Borneo-Kalimantan

2020/12/30

Poline Bala
Poline Bala

H-Index: 5

Fostering a TRIZ-based grassroots innovation among penans

MyTRIZ Conference

2020/12/3

TRIZ for Shaping Life-Long Learning

2020/12/1

Innovative Use of TPOA Telecentres for Covid-19 Awareness among the Orang Asli Communities

2020/12/1

Towards Participatory MOOCs

2020/11/26

Becoming like us: Conversion and Penan-ness at Long Beruang, Sarawak

Hunter Gatherer Research

2020/8/1

Valerie Mashman
Valerie Mashman

H-Index: 3

Poline Bala
Poline Bala

H-Index: 5

Preserving cultural knowledge through community-led MOOCs

IPSI BgD Transactions on Internet Research (TIR)

2020

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