Affect, Knowledge and Embodiment: A Critical Feminist Arts/ Research Workshop Series
Workshop
In this workshop, we explore ways of practically extending critical and feminist social research with art – specifically photography, sociological fiction and zine making. These arts practices are valuable for opening up how we critically explore, analyse, collaborate on, and share experiences and…
Understanding the online "Manosphere" -- Simon Copland
Seminar
In April 2018 Alek Minassian sped a van through Toronto, Canada, killing ten and injuring sixteen others. Minassian belonged to an online community called ‘incels’ (involuntary celibates), comprised of men who blame women for their inability to gain sexual relationships. Incels speak disparagingly…
Dr Laura Clancy - The British Monarchy, Grenfell Tower, and social inequality in London
Seminar
The fire at Grenfell Tower, a block of public housing flats in The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, in June 2017 has come to epitomise the growing divide between Britain’s rich and poor in the last decade. Yet, the proximity of Kensington Palace, home of many senior British royals,…
Christopher Chevalier: Connected Histories – Recovering Oral History and Social History in Solomon Islands
Other
Pre-PHD Submission Presentation "My research explored different approaches to oral history to recover individual and social history in Solomon Islands since the end of the Pacific War in 1945. I gathered archival materials, life histories, and oral testimonies of older islanders and expatriates…
Dr Jathan Sadowski- Biopolitical Platforms: The Perverse Virtues of Digital Labour
Seminar
By mediating everyday activities, social interactions, and economic transactions, digital platforms play an increasingly dominant role in contemporary capitalism. These platforms have excelled at extracting value from assets and labour that have been deemed un(der)productive. While the burgeoning…
Tim Rowse: Indigenous cultural capital – an inescapably political concept
Seminar
This paper will develop some ideas broached in the recent essay collection The difference identity makes: Indigenous cultural capital in Australian cultural fields (eds Bamblett, Myers and Rowse, Aboriginal Studies Press 2019). The paper will begin by making three observations about the politics of…
Dr Anna Olsen PhD - The social life of naloxone
Seminar
Hardon, van der Geest and Whyte, anthropologists who study medicines, contend that like other commodities, medicines acquire meaning as they enter into the life of people. As such, it is fruitful to follow medicines around in order to study their culturally situated uses. Medicines transform not…