Reproduction Now! Workshop
Workshop
On Friday Nov 17th, Celia Roberts and Mary Lou Rasmussen (Sociology) will host a one-day interdisciplinary workshop to explore feminism and reproduction in the current moment. Today, we see increasing numbers of people making decisions to not have children, in part because of concerns related to…
Food System Transitions, Nutritional Insecurity and Oil Palm: Changing Landscapes of Social Reproduction in Sumatra's Plantation Belt
Seminar
In Southeast Asia, a plantation boom over recent decades has transformed landscapes and life-making on an immense scale, with some 16 million hectares of land under oil palm cultivation in Indonesia. In Sumatra, the historical origin of Indonesia's oil palm complex and where the societal…
[CANCELLED] Exploring the use of a relational paradigm for understanding human-wildlife coexistence on the peri urban fringe
Seminar
In recent decades human population expansion has led to significant overlaps between human and wildlife communities. Accordingly, understanding how humans and wildlife coexist in shared spaces is becoming increasingly important to achieving sustainable conservation outcomes. These studies are…
Stolenwealth: Examining the expropriation of First Nations women’s unpaid care
Seminar
This article examines the intersections between coloniality and gender in the generation and maintenance of Australian wealth. Settler colonialism is ongoing in Australia and is intricately linked to wealth accumulation –where First Nations people’s labour, land and lives have been, and continue to…
Mad Knowledges and User-Led Research - A Conversation
Seminar
Diana Rose and Michelle Banfield will discuss Diana’s book Mad Knowledges and User Led Research (Palgrave, 2022) which combines theory, research and activism around 'madness' and proposes the conditions needed to address the development of Mad epistemologies (knowledges). This is ONLINE ONLY.…
Against Posthumanism
Conference
This workshop will involve an engagement with Professor Nikolas Rose’s recent publication, ‘Against Posthumanism: Notes Towards an Ethopolitics of Personhood’ (co-authored with Professor Thomas Osbourne). The paper, which will be circulated to invited participants prior to the event, challenges…
Towards Ecosocial Cities? Urban-Nature Encounters and Relations
Conference
We are now living in the age of expansive urbanisation, with estimates suggesting that nearly 60% of the world’s population – some 4.4 billion people – reside in cities (World Bank, 2023), with this trend only set to intensify over the coming decades (Rose and Fitzgerald, 2022). While cities…