Past events
05
Oct
2016
Primitivist Tourism, Ethnotourism and Ecotourism: The Political Economy of the Bakun Resettlement Scheme (BRS).
Abstract
Together with Shun Deng Fam, a graduate student in Biological Anthropology at CASS, I am working on a project concerned with the dam-induced...
30
Sep
2016
Online Cultural Collections Analysis and Management System (OCCAMS) research tool explained
OCCAMS was developed by the Centre for Digital Humanities Research at ANU to meet the specific needs of researchers working with cultural collections. From...
21
Sep
2016
Students, Schools, State: Interacting Circles of Educational Desire in Rural Odisha
Abstract
The 2009 Compulsory Education Act radically restructured state commitment to universal schooling across India, particularly for marginalised rural...
31
Aug
2016
Capturing the city in whole or in part
Abstract
In this paper I argue that popularly controlled cities occur when its people overcome its parts and capture it in whole. I demonstrate this through a...
26
Aug
2016
“Legacies of Lawlessness: When does Illegality become Heritage?”
Abstract:
Robin Hood, Jesse James, Bonnie and Clyde…. There is an infinite list of people whose defiance of state law made them popular heroes, and whose...
24
Aug
2016
Expanding education and entrenched inequalities: Formal schooling and its alternatives in Ranongga (Solomon Islands)
Abstract
Education promises social mobility, yet expanding access to education rarely changes relations of relative inequality because new opportunities tend...
17
Aug
2016
Thirdhand news: Innocent looking sofa transmogrifies into death trap! Dirty father in law not allowed to touch new granddaughter! Customer tells: We do not have any non-smoking rooms, sir, sorry!
Abstract
This baffling collection of enthusiastic statements was not sourced from Take 5 magazine. Each is instead drawn from my most recent work on thirdhand...
