The Lives and Labour of Australia’s Energy Workforce
Lecture
Hear Beck Pearce talk on the 30 August about Australia’s energy workforce, the latest talk in a series about society and climate. Morning tea is included so bring a mug! In this talk, Beck provides notes from the field and insights from a labour study of the industrial transformations set in train…
Welcoming the Foreigner: A Possibility of Multispecies Hospitality
Seminar
Building on a long-term ethnographic engagement with Pakistani pigeon flyers, in this talk, I discuss the arrival of European racing pigeons in Pakistan and the capture of Pakistani “spy pigeons” at the India-Pakistan border. By examining the moral values created through culturally enshrined values…
Intersex Narratives in the Global South: Departures from Medical Imperatives
Seminar
Emphasis on medicalisation of sex and gender in North America—inspired by John Money’s work with intersex and transgender patients in the 1950s—has influenced intersex medicalisation globally. Using interviews with doctors, intersex adults, and families of intersex people, I examine the medical…
The Relationships and Health of Non-migrating Partners of International Labour Migrant Men in Nepal
Seminar
Over half of all Nepali households have at least one family member currently abroad or living in Nepal as a returnee (IOM, 2018). Because of economic and social constraints and household responsibilities, men usually leave behind their spouses and children to work abroad (Lokshin & Glinskaya,…
Bridging the Languages of the Biophysical and the Social in Expert Advice on Sustainability: Reflections on the International Resource Panel
Seminar
Across the environmental turn in the social sciences, many compelling arguments have been put forward on the need to understand and act on planetary crises in ways that connect social, institutional and biophysical matters. In the science/policy world of organised expert advice to governments and…
The Lactation After Loss Quilt: Commemoration, Agency and Advocacy
Exhibition
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“I’m done:” poetic reflections on meaning-making, narrative, and stillness towards end of life for people with deteriorating heart failure
Seminar
Dying with heart failure is a turbulent journey that unfolds potentially over years. However, making life ‘worth living’ in the face of dying is less well-studied. Based on two years’ ethnographic fieldwork in England (2017-2019) with people with heart failure, I will present poetic excerpts that…