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ItemGlobal warming as a by-product of the capitalist treadmill of production and consumption - The need for an alternative global systemBaer, H (AUSTRALIAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOC, 2008-04)
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ItemNeoliberalism, mobility and Cook Islands men in transitAlexeyeff, K (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 AusraliaToussaint, S (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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ItemTowards Movement StudiesDAWSON, A (The Australian Sociological Association, 2008)