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ItemRural social movements: Conflicts over the countryside(Routledge, 2018-01-01)This chapter begins with a reflection on the meanings of social movements and follows this with a discussion of what it might mean to place the word rural in front of this term. It discusses the historical nature and role of rural social movements in the region, and reflects on some contemporary movement processes in the Latin American countryside. The chapter draws out broader observations on “Conflicts over the countryside.” It conveys the idea that there are many conflicts spread across Latin American countrysides, that these are conflicts over what that countryside should be for, who it should be for, and what its future should be, and that these conflicts are not just rural in nature but instead about country in the fullest sense of the term.
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ItemOn the risks of engineering mobility to reduce vulnerability to climate change: insights from a small island state(Cambridge University Press, 2012)This chapter explains the likely consequences of proposals to resettle large numbers of people away from the Pacific Islands for the people left behind. It does this by describing the effects of large-scale migration away from the small island state of Niue, which is a very good analogue from which lessons for other islands can be drawn. The chapter begins by examining the discourse on large-scale migration as a solution to save the people of the Pacific Islands from the impacts of climate change. The discourse of draining the people from these remote island backwaters of the world persists even though understanding of vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in the Pacific Islands remains extremely limited. In this discourse there is little concern for the needs and rights of migrants, and no consideration of the consequences of such movements for those people who cannot or do not wish to move. It is this latter issue that this chapter examines. There has been large-scale migration from Niue since 1971, to the extent that 80 per cent of the people born in Niue now live in New Zealand. There are six principal effects of this depopulation on those who remain on the island, namely that it leads to: distortions in markets; obsolescent political and administrative institutions; a hyper-concentration of social capital; increased demands on labour; difficulties in defining and maintaining that which is ‘traditional’; and an erosion of Niuean identity. Based on this examination, the chapter argues that migration is likely to be an impact of climate change as much as it is to be an adaptation. Mitigation and adaptation must therefore be the preferred strategies, although there may be scope for carefully managed labour migration as part of a suite of adaptation strategies.
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ItemInterlude: Supervising(Springer Nature Singapore, 2019-03-15)Recent years have seen the rise of practice-based/-led PhDs in geography. While diverse in format, these PhDs all recognise creative practices as forms of knowledge making. They are related to the discipline’s wider embrace of creative practices within the research process, from experiments with creative research methods as a means, to the generation of data for artistic research wherein practice is the research process. These creative geographies have co-emerged with non-representational theories, whose concerns with affect, practice and embodiment has furthered creative practices within geography. These PhDs are far from straightforward for students and supervisors, raising important questions around knowledge, judgement and linguistic imperialism. In this interlude, Hawkins and Hughes reflect on the challenges, practices, support mechanisms and possibilities for these PhDs.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableHydropower Politics and Conflict on the Salween River(SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG, 2019)This chapter examines the hydropower politics of the Salween River, with a focus on the projects proposed in Myanmar and their connections with neighboring China and Thailand via electricity trade, investment, and regional geopolitics.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableIntroduction: Resources Politics and Knowing the Salween River(Springer Nature, 2019-01-01)This chapter provides an overview of key arguments and concepts of the edited volume across three themes: resource politics, politics of making knowledge, and reconciling knowledge across divides.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableA State of Knowledge of the Salween River: An Overview of Civil Society Research(SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG, 2019)This chapter presents an overview of civil society research on Salween, providing an overview of the existing knowledge of the basin and a start to identifying key knowledge gaps in support of more informed, inclusive, and accountable water governance in the basin.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableSalween: What's in a Name?(SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG, 2019)In this short chapter, I walk the reader through the ways the river conventionally referred to as ‘Salween’ is called upon differently in distinct places by many people.
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ItemShowing now: The Bophana Audiovisual Resource Centre and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia(AUSTRALIAN NATL UNIV, 2019)The Bophana Centre is an audiovisual archive, a training centre and a venue for free film screenings in the centre of Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia. The centre was founded in 2006 by two Cambodian film-makers, Rithy Panh and Pannakar Ieu. In the same year, the United Nations–supported Khmer Rouge Tribunal – formally the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) – was also established in Phnom Penh. Although vastly different initiatives, the organisation and tribunal share a concern to work towards some form of justice for victims of Khmer Rouge crimes and to foster dialogue about how to constitute a better present and future in light of this and other historical conflicts in the country. This chapter is based in fieldwork conducted in and around the ECCC between late 2011 and early 2017. It introduces the work of the Bophana Centre as a unique Cambodian organisation and critically explores its relationship to the ECCC in the wider context of what is generally termed Cambodian civil society. It argues that the practices fostered at Bophana are ontologically and epistemologically at variance with transitional justice theory and practice.
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ItemTransitional Justice(Elsevier, 2019-01-01)This updated edition will assist readers in their research by providing factual information, historical perspectives, theoretical approaches, reviews of literature, and provocative topical discussions that will stimulate creative thinking.
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ItemJUSTICE AND THE PAST The Khmer Rouge Tribunal(ROUTLEDGE, 2017)