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ItemGlobal warming as a by-product of the capitalist treadmill of production and consumption - The need for an alternative global system(AUSTRALIAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOC, 2008-04)
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ItemNeoliberalism, mobility and Cook Islands men in transit(AUSTRALIAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOC, 2008-08)From the 1990s, neoliberalism has been vigorously promoted by aid agencies operating in the Cook Islands. The solution to the country's economic problems has been sought in the privatisation of government assets and services and the development of free‐market principles. Social Impact Assessment reports of these reforms have included information on their effect on women and children under the heading of ‘gender’; men, however, are notably absent as a category of analysis. Building on recent work about men, masculinities and development, this paper begins to address this imbalance by examining how Cook Islands men have been effected by, and how they react to, neoliberalism in a series of gender specific ways. In particular, it explores the relationship between masculinity, class, status, and migration.
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ItemKimberley friction: Complex attachments to water-places in northern Ausralia(WILEY, 2008-03)ABSTRACT Water, in all its physical, symbolic and metaphorical guises, has an obvious interconnection with people. Without water, human and other life forms cannot (and do not) exist. Less obvious is water's potential as a site of anthropological investigation to explore attachments to place. Such attachments, as Arturo Escobar observes, facilitate a multiplicity of place‐based cultures, and emerge when ‘connectivity, interactivity and positionality’ are present. His observation makes epistemological room for what Anna Tsing conceptualises as the ‘friction’ that permeates environmental and indigenous projects. Via Australian‐based Kimberley ethnographic insights, this article examines people's attachments to place‐based cultures when they become meaningful through multi‐layered tensions about water.
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ItemThe modern face of traditional agrarian rule: local government in Pakistan(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2009)
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ItemThe Ethics of Apology A Set of Commentaries(SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 2009-09)■ On 13 February 2008, the Australian government apologized to the ‘stolen generations’: those children of Aboriginal descent who were removed from their parents (usually their Aboriginal mothers) to be raised in white foster-homes and institutions administered by government and Christian churches — a practice that lasted from before the First World War to the early 1970s. This apology was significant, in the words of Rudd, for the ‘healing’ of the Australian nation. Apologizing for past injustices has become a significant speech act in current times. Why does saying sorry seem to be ubiquitous at the moment? What are the instances of not saying sorry? What are the ethical implications of this era of remembrance and apology? This set of commentaries seeks to explore some of the ethical, philosophical, social and political dimensions of this Age of Apology. The authors discuss whether apology is a responsibility which cannot — and should not — be avoided; the ethical pitfalls of seeking an apology, or not uttering it; the global and local understandings of apology and forgiveness; and the processes of ownership and appropriation in saying sorry.
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ItemOf Droughts and Flooding Rains: Local and Institutional Perceptions of Environmental Change in an Australian Estuary(SOC APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY, 2009-03)
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