Online Cultural Collections Analysis and Management System (OCCAMS) research tool explained
Seminar
OCCAMS was developed by the Centre for Digital Humanities Research at ANU to meet the specific needs of researchers working with cultural collections. From photographs to film; from paintings to sculptures, and performance—OCCAMS allows researchers to work with and develop data about all kinds of…
Students, Schools, State: Interacting Circles of Educational Desire in Rural Odisha
Activity
Abstract The 2009 Compulsory Education Act radically restructured state commitment to universal schooling across India, particularly for marginalised rural Scheduled Tribe and Scheduled Caste children. Though rural Odishan school buildings are more visible, inside, students are often present and…
Capturing the city in whole or in part
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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 history of Surabaya, Indonesia, from August 1945 when the electricity station was taken over by Indonesians and electricity sent to poor…
“Legacies of Lawlessness: When does Illegality become Heritage?”
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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 memory is now enshrined as heritage. The same process perpetuates the image of popular rebellions that become emblematic of national pride…
Expanding education and entrenched inequalities: Formal schooling and its alternatives in Ranongga (Solomon Islands)
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Abstract Education promises social mobility, yet expanding access to education rarely changes relations of relative inequality because new opportunities tend to be monopolized by the most privileged classes in society. Since the end of the so-called “Ethnic Tensions” of 1998-2003 in Solomon Islands…
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!
Activity
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 smoke or, if I’m being publicity-savvy about it (which I’m told by Bloomsbury I simply must be), the third section of my new book about the…
Toward the critical anthropology of the future: future scenarios in the age of climate change
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Abstract: While the anthropology of the future began to appear in the 1970s, it quickly petered away but has started to make a comeback in recent years. Bearing the gravity of the ecological crisis, particularly climate change in mind, this seminar explores three possible scenarios for the future…