Indigeneity in Waiting: Critical Reflections on Power and Progress
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Indigeneity in Waiting: Critical Reflections on Power and Progress Significant institutional and legal advances concerning indigenous peoples have taken place both on national and international levels during the past two decades. The access of indigenous peoples to state-based political…
Remaking Ho Chi Minh City: mobile subjectivities and the feel of a post-war and post-socialist urban place
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Abstract Drawing on my fieldwork among undocumented migrants, upwardly mobile residents, returnees, and mass transit riders of Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), this paper explores sensory encounters, embodied practices and cultural imaginings that shape the feel of the city. HCMC is among the most rapidly…
Cruelty and a Different Recognition
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Abstract Drawing on my field experience in Indigenous communities in the Top End of the Northern Territory, in this presentation I compare and contrast indigenous ideas of the cruel, the cheeky and the dangerous, and draw a distinction between what I call `permeable’ versus `categorical’ ways of…
What Cash Can’t Buy: Music, Money and Social Change in The Gambia
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Abstract The conspicuous exchange of money is an important part of many musical performances in The Gambia. In neighbourhood events, small denomination bills are passed from hand to hand, waved in the air, placed inside instruments, pinned to clothing, and collected in buckets. In contemporary…
Primitivist Tourism, Ethnotourism and Ecotourism: The Political Economy of the Bakun Resettlement Scheme (BRS).
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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 displacement and resettlement of 15 longhouse communities from the Balui River in upland Sarawak to an area known as Asap. The move was necessitated…