Pascale Taplin is an anthropologist with over twenty years of experience working with Australian First Nations in the Northern Territory and Queensland. Pascale has diverse professional interests, previously contributing to ecological research and overseeing land management programs in remote areas. Pascale’s current research interest is in disinformation and cognitive security; her PhD research applies anthropology to understand the intersection of conspiracy theories and accelerationism.

Recent Publications

Taplin, P. (2023) ‘Contextualizing Belief in Conspiracy Theories: A Case Study in Native Title.’, Dispute Resolution Review, 2(1), pp. 1–11.

Taplin, P. and Holland, C. (2023) ‘Sovereign Citizen Rhetoric as Narrative Warfare. Journal of Information Warfare’, Journal of Information Warfare, 22(3).

Taplin, P., Holland, C. and Billing, L. (2023) ‘The sovereign citizen superconspiracy: Contemporary issues in native title anthropology.’, The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 34(2), pp. 110–129.

Older publications

Lawes, M., Taplin, P., Bellairs, S., Franklin, D. (2013) A trade-off in stand size effects in the reproductive biology of a declining tropical conifer Callitris intratropica. Plant Ecology. Vol 214 (1) pp 169-174.

Whiteside, T., and Taplin, P., (2010) Semi-automated identification and extraction of Callitris intratropica from Eucalypt dominant savanna. GEOBIA 2010: Geographic object-based image analysis, 29 June - 2 July, Gent, Belgium.