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    On Documenting Indigenous Food Cultures
    Kikon, D ( 2020-08-23)
    What do we think of when we refer to ‘Indian Food?’ This discussion will explore food cultures in parts of India where spiced curries are not as common as one might believe. Anthropologist Dolly Kikon will be in conversation with filmmaker Nilanjan Bhattacharya about their documentary films Seasons of Life: Foraging and Fermenting Bamboo During Ceasefire and Johar: Welcome to Our World. Both these documentaries illustrate indigenous food cultures and practices, which are often overlooked in the mainstream discourse about Indian cuisine and food habits. In collaboration with Science Gallery Bengaluru
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    Social cohesion boosts rural China’s COVID-19 response
    Tan, X ; Wang, MY ; Song, Y ; Liu, T ( 2020-12-09)
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    In their Voices: Migrant Narratives and Voices
    Kikon, D (Global Migrants Festival, 2020-11-26)
    How do we ensure that migrants’ perspectives, concerns, and histories have their rightful place in our collective understanding – and how do we remake our maps and archives to represent their knowledge?
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    ‘Australia-style?’: a model for relations with Europe?
    Murray, P ; Matera, M ( 2020-10-19)
    During the referendum campaign in 2016, Australia was a reference point for many British Conservative politicians. Since then, the UK government has increasingly looked to Australia for inspiration – it has been regarded as a possible model for the UK’s new points-based immigration scheme, and more recently, it was revealed that the UK government was considering the offshore processing and detention of asylum seekers, a policy that Australia introduced in Nauru and Papua New Guinea. A further indication of this trend is the Johnson government’s appointment of former Australian Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, as an advisor to the UK Board of Trade, a move that was met with strong criticism from within the UK and Australia. Australia also features in discussions of the UK’s future engagement with the EU. Boris Johnson has referred to an Australian style trade deal with the EU. However, such references are misleading as there is currently no Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in force between Australia and the EU. One is being negotiated at present, but the current EU-Australia relationship is based on a network of agreements that may serve as inspiration for the UK’s future relationship with the EU.
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    Expanding PSOs: smarter deployment or coercive creepage?
    McDonald, D (The Age, 2020-05-21)
    In March 2020 the Victorian government invoked a state of emergency in response to COVID-19. Part of this saw an expansion in the deployment of PSOs.
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    Toxic Ecologies: Assam, oil, and a crude future
    Kikon, D (The India Forum, 2020)
    The ecological destruction from the Baghjan gas well blowout is part of the story of Assam’s economic development. Resource extraction has been foundational to the logic of politics in Assam but has marginalised local communities.
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    Communication, privilege and the ironies of isolation: from Melbourne to Papua New Guinea
    Minnegal, M ; Dwyer, PD ( 2020-04-17)
    Australians may imagine they are emerging into a brave new world, where Covid-19 has created new modes of connection to others, while freeing them from the need to venture to places, and at times, dictated by others. But for many in PNG, and elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific, the impact of Covid-19 may be ultimately experienced as a retreat from connection, and not as a transformation in ways people connect.
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    God, health and COVID-19 in remote Papua New Guinea
    Minnegal, M ; Dwyer, PD ( 2020-04-16)