Mechanisms of invisibility: Contradictions of localising humanitarianism and questions of participation
Seminar
Localisation refers to shifting the ownership and leadership of crisis response to local actors. Within the humanitarian sector, localisation has been framed as making aid more reflective of needs on the ground, supporting more equitable structures, and addressing concerns related to colonisation…
Unfolding plans: Projections, time, and political possibilities in Mumbai
Seminar
This paper explores how plans unfold over time, shaped by urgency, waiting, and tactical foresight. Based on long-term ethnographic research in Mumbai, it follows the revision of the city’s urban plan to show how plans operate simultaneously as images and as documents, moving through different…
Let's ‘slip the surly bonds’ of academic prose! Writing for a 'broader audience'
Workshop
An interactive hybrid workshop for colleagues interested in writing for a ‘broader audience’ – whatever that means! – and other forms of science communication. This draws on my extensive experience in this area (including written media contributions, broadcast writing, podcasts, and books) and…
How to Build a Stock Exchange - Public Lecture by Professor Philip Roscoe
Lecture
Join us for a public lecture by Professor Philip Roscoe, RSSS Visiting Fellow in Sociology, on his book How to Build a Stock Exchange: The Past, Present and Future of Finance (2023).About the BookWhy is finance so important? How do stock markets work and what do they really do? Most importantly,…
The Economies of Life in the Platform Economy: Social Reproduction, Depletion, and Disposability
Seminar
This paper examines the dynamics of the platform economy through the lens of social reproduction theory and feminist technoscience approaches to economics and capitalism. Both perspectives converge in their focus on situating bodies and the embodied experience of working and existing at the core of…
CANCELLED - Remaking the self after cancer: pleasure, embodiment, creativity
Seminar
Event co-hosted by the ANU School of Sociology and the ANU Gender Institute.A cancer diagnosis can affect all areas of identity, including physical, temporal, psychosocial, sexual and relational. Renegotiating one’s sense of self in the face of a cancer diagnosis requires navigating biomedical…
Temporary: We wanted workers but we got people
Panel discussion
An exhibition and panel discussion by Kaya Barry, Matt Withers, Kirstie Petrou, Jeanette Tanghwa, Ema Moolchand. The exhibition brings together images and stories of temporary migration from the Pacific to Australia.Hosted by ABC Radio National's Natasha Mitchell, this public panel discussion will…