Cruelty and a Different Recognition
Activity
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
Activity
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).
Activity
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…
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
Activity
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…