The Tragedy of the (Global) Commons: A Divided Anthropos Encounters (Abrupt) Climate Change
Seminar
At the advent of the Anthropocene, life is being pushed to its limits the world over; we are currently living through the Sixth Mass Extinction to occur since multicellular life first emerged on the planet 570 million years ago. In light of the abject failure of global environmental governance to…
Centring Indigenous sovereignty in migration studies: ethical and methodological challenges
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Centring Indigenous sovereignty in migration studies: ethical and methodological challenges In this presentation I will argue that in order to decolonise migration studies, scholars must not only acknowledge persisting imperial and colonial legacies, but also centre Indigenous sovereignty. This is…
Drawing the Climate Crisis
Seminar
My paper considers technical images that remake human-nature relationships along urban shores. They produce particular kinds of coastal futures through their modes of drawing humans, animals, plants, and matter. They are also drawings that erase relationships for the benefit of developmental goals…
Bright Scholars in the City: a social mobility intervention for the children of the rural poor in Vietnam
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Bright Scholars in the City: a social mobility intervention for the children of the rural poor in Vietnam This paper arises from the author's recent experience of completing an impact study of an international NGO's pro-poor social mobility program, based in Quảng Nam province and Đà Nẵng City in…
Nutag: Homeland to Horses and Humans in Mongolia
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One aspect that mammals have in common, including ourselves, is the recognition of a home. In Mongolia the herding encampment (khot ail) is the joint ‘home’ for herders and herd animals alike, while seasonal migration of the encampment coincides with the grazing and movement of the herds within…
Studying collective behavior and social structure using tools from complex systems science
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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez is a researcher on social complexity at the Applied Mathematics and Systems Research Institute at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), in Mexico City. Holds a B.Sc. degree in basic biomedical research from UNAM and a PhD in biology from the University of…
The uncertain regime of sudden security: what happens after the grant of permanent visa to former asylum seekers in Australia
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The uncertain regime of sudden security: what happens after the grant of permanent visa to former asylum seekers in Australia An estimated 30,000 asylum seekers have been living for up to ten years under conditions of prolonged uncertainty in Australia, due to freezes and other delays in visa…