Pascale Taplin is a social anthropologist with over twenty years of experience working in Northern Australia. Pascale is a PhD Candidate, Researcher and Casual Sessional Academic at the ANU National Security College (NSC). Her research draws on her expertise in applied anthropology to understand the intersection of disinformation and accelerationism in Australia. Pascale teaches national security masters students on information warfare, propaganda and cognitive security, and is a student representative on the ANU Human Research Ethics Committee.

Recent Publications

Taplin,P. (2026) First Nations’ perspectives on national security. Canberra. ANU National Security College.

Taplin, P. Innes, T. and Peterson, N. “Differentiating Indigenous Sovereign Citizen Claims from Discourse on Indigenous Sovereignty in Australia: An Anthropological Insight,” Australian Law Journal 99, no. 1020 (2025)

Daniel Ireland-Piper with Pascale Taplin and Elise Stephenson. (2025) National Security Podcast: Insidious and underappreciated? The impact of gender-based violence on national security https://shows.acast.com/13de84ee-6f50-420b-9f5a-52e94d3a2597/680887173744a6172186a00f

Taplin, P. (2025) Conspiracy / Theory: edited by Joseph Masco and Lisa Wedeen, Durnham & London, Duke University Press, 2024, 504 pp. Book review for Anthropological Forum, 1–3

Taplin, P. (2025) Digital Artefacts of Alternate Truths; A digital anthropology of social medias provides insights into conspiracy-driven radicalisation. Conference presentation, Artefacta, Helsinki. 

Taplin, P. (2025) Dialogic pedagogies in difficult conversations. Seminar presentation, Lunchvox; Managing classroom discussions on challenging topics. ANU Centre for Learning and Teaching, Canberra.

Taplin, P. (2024) Informing State Power: Honest ethnography and national security. Conference presentation, Australian Anthropology Annual Conference, Perth.

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.

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

Taplin, P. (2023) Disinformation in Native Title; Strategies for practitioners. Conference presentation at Centre for Native Title Anthropology Assembly 

Taplin, P. (2023) Leaving behind good governance: Exploring “justice” for those who reject liberal democracies. Conference presentation at Research for Ethical Development Conference Cairns.