Anti-mobile Placemaking in a Mobile World
Seminar
In this presentation I revisit debates about the socio-cultural importance of place and permanence in a hypermobile world order. I zoom in on everyday practices of a municipality located in the Austrian Nock mountains region which is at once characterized by a long history of cross-border…
Exploring the Effectiveness of Online Practical Laboratory Delivery in Biological Anthropology
Seminar
Online learning is becoming increasingly common in many practice-based fields, including biological anthropology. However, its impact on student outcomes is unknown due to a lack of research around the effectiveness of online practical training and around education in biological anthropology…
A Tale of Two Fisheries: on co-management in the Torres Strait
Seminar
This paper examines the assumptions, institutions and politics of fisheries co-management as they are actualised in the Torres Strait region. In the 1980s, central governments around the world instituted co-management arrangements in response to the limits and flaws of centralised, command-and-…
A Tale of Two Fisheries: on co-management in the Torres Strait
Seminar
This paper examines the assumptions, institutions and politics of fisheries co-management as they are actualised in the Torres Strait region. In the 1980s, central governments around the world instituted co-management arrangements in response to the limits and flaws of centralised, command-and-…
Exploring Psychopathology from an Evolutionary Psychology Perspective
Seminar
Recently there has been a move to conceptualise mental health problems (psychopathology) from an evolutionary psychology perspective; however, to-date there is limited empirical research investigating psychopathology through an evolutionary psychology lens. There are also mixed findings around…
Baloma: The spirits of the kula in the Trobriand Islands
Seminar
Malinowski’s Argonauts (1922) description of Trobriand kula beliefs and practices proved pivotal for the development of modern economic anthropology and, indeed, anthropology generally. With few exceptions, subsequent investigators (e.g., Uberoi 1962; Leach and Leach 1983) have followed Malinowski…
Remarking The Unmarked: An Anthropology of Masculinity Redux
Seminar
This lecture critically discusses studies of men and masculinities in anthropology and ethnography from other disciplines, as well as theoretical frameworks and debates among anthropologists and other relevant scholars in the field. By considering the ethnographic boom in men and…