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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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ItemThe imperative of repair: Fixing bikes - for free(Berghahn Books, 2019-09-01)This chapter discusses how we can interrupt the cycle of consumption and disposal to reuse a relatively simple and ubiquitous item – the bicycle. We compare two projects that are non-commercial, community-based and involve volunteers who recycle, redistribute and assist with the repair of bicycles. The first is a project that repairs donated bikes and gives them to asylum seekers and refugees who have moved into an urban area. The repair of lives broken by the disruption of seeking refuge in another country is being helped with the life-enhancing mobility of a bicycle. The second is a network of community bike workshops open to anybody, which help owners to keep their bikes on the road by teaching maintenance skills. Being able to repair their bike frees the user from having to pay and wait for a professional service to recover their velomobility. Both types of project operate at the margins of the system of capitalist production and consumption in which bicycles are originally manufactured. Both counter the tendency of advanced industrialised societies towards consuming new replacement goods rather than repairing the broken.