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Editorial The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Jaap Timmer, Anna‐Karina Hermkens
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Screen as stage The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan
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Filming jilba: Sensing beyond the exclusionary fictions of climate science The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Citt Williams, Jarramali Kulka
‘Filming jilba’ makes up part of a larger practice‐based research project focusing on the body as a site of climate sensitivity and perception. Investigated in collaboration with Bama colleague, Jarramali Kulka (a Kuku Yalanji‐Nyungkal man from Australia's tropical Far North Queensland), and his custodial practice jilba (pronounced jil‐ba), the article describes the embryotic growth of a performative
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Luŋ'thun: Sand, saltwater, and collaborative attunements The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Paul Gurrumuruwuy, Jennifer Deger, Enid Guruŋulmiwuy, Victoria Baskin Coffey, Meredith Balanydjarrk, Warren Balpatji
This audio‐visual essay works with the epistemic imperatives of our research subject—the sands and saltwater of a small stretch of coastline in northern Australia. Orchestrating a series of sounds and images together with a gentle rhythm of text‐based Yolŋu (human/Indigenous) elaboration, we seek to enable others to attune to a material dynamics of collaboration and co‐creation made manifestly palpable
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REACH: Research as regeneration The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Jennifer Deger, Victoria Baskin Coffey
The galvanising aim in curating ‘Epistemic attunements’ has been to reach beyond the infrastructural imaginaries of the corporate publishing regimes that so brutally standardise the form, production, and distribution of research. Yet rather than being wholly enamoured with the pursuit of new publics, or with the kind of reach and influence that our bespoke digital platform affords, we take the idea
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Hearing Heat: An Anthropocene acoustemology The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Steven Feld
‘Hearing Heat: An Anthropocene acoustemology’ is an intermedia composition that meditates on the climate of history, listening to histories of listening from the Papua New Guinea rainforest to nuclear Japan to ancient and contemporary Greece. It proceeds through continual recombinations of visual and sonic media, with photographs, graphics, animation, and cinema dialoguing with ethnographic field recording
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The Fences: A webcomic on collective debt and ruination in Paraguay The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Enrique Bernardou, David Bueno, Caroline E. Schuster
The Fences: A webcomic on collective debt and ruination in Paraguay is a production of the Australian‐Paraguayan comics studio CómicsClub comprised of anthropologist and writer Caroline E. Schuster and artists Enrique Bernardou and David Bueno. This webcomic began as an anthropological fieldwork study of climate financing ‐ that is, novel financial arrangements that address the emerging weather‐related
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Cult, cosmos, and craft at a Thai art academy The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Anthony Lovenheim Irwin, Kenneth M. George, Kirin Narayan
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Kitkińike of recognition: In the direction of bibliographies as cultural landscapes The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Gretchen Stolte
This project explores bibliographies as cultural landscapes. Taking the Nez Perce term kitkińike (in the direction of) as a gesture that offers new theoretical grounds for considering the categorical power of bibliographies, I argue that bibliographies are more than just sources cited at the end of a publication. A dynamic and interactive interface performatively animates an existing list of texts
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Improvisations towards a sonorous ethics in Aotearoa New Zealand The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Sebastian J. Lowe
Taonga puoro is a Māori instrumental tradition through which one cultivates an improvisational form of playing with the world. It does not follow musical notation. ‘Instruments’ vary from rocks, to bones, wood and other non‐traditional materials, such as glass. They can be found in situ, or carefully crafted and gifted. Each performance is different, new and responsive not only to the riffing soundings
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Epistemic attunements: Experiments in intermedial anthropology The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Jennifer Deger, Victoria Baskin Coffey, Caleb Kingston, Sebastian J. Lowe, Lisa Stefanoff
‘Epistemic attunements – Regenerating anthroplogy's form’ is a collective experiment in expanding the expressive and analytic repertoire of anthropology and related disciplines. It features eleven peer‐reviewed research articles published on a standalone website that has been designed, built, and maintained by our editorial collective, independent of Wiley's infrastructure and oversight. The result
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Fire's habit: Elemental media and the politics of apprehension The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Daniel Fisher
This article weaves together text, photography, and audio recordings drawn from long‐term ethnographic research in northern Australia to ask what fire is becoming as its everyday, urban manifestations are tethered to the diacritics of catastrophic bushfire, on the one hand, and Indigenous expertise and cultural fire, on the other. In exploring both menacing and mundane facets of urban fire in northern
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Attunement: Form in motion The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Anna L. Tsing
To nurture and protect even small fragments of liveability, we must get to know the lives of others, human and nonhuman. The Anthropocene collates projects of erasure, and we forget that we need companions. What might it take to bring us back into remembrance? I use the word ‘attunement’ in this essay to refer to attempts to get to know, through alignment, how others express themselves in the world
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FORM: Anthropology as design The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Victoria Baskin Coffey, Jennifer Deger
This essay argues for design as an expression of analytic rigour and ethical commitment. It explores what it might mean to ‘write’ in collaboration with the entities and forces from Country, ancestors, oceans, soil, honeyeaters, sound, wild bores, frogs, fire, ash, sand, trees, and echoes, to colour, code, bitrates, cameras, computers, and archives. Every design decision in ‘Epistemic attunements’
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Wik Cha'prah – Cha tru chath: Wik blood speaks to you The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Fiona Wirrer‐George Oochunyung
My work to date explores and plays with bringing the essence of relational Arnya spirituality into new spaces and forms of conveyance, depiction and articulation. I do this by revisitation, re‐call and rearticulation of ancient songline eldership Voice teaching. Recall and retrieval from stored memory files articulates the knowledge narrative. The amalgamation of the organic internal filing system
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Cool burning the collection: Museum research as a regenerative act The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Jilda Andrews
Ethnographic collections, as material repositories of historical relationships, are powerful bodies of intercultural knowledge and exchange. Indigenous people have been active and influential in the building of these collections and continue today to be critical to the ongoing interpretation and engagement of such repositories. When faced with the tangled, overgrowth of values accumulated around collected
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Afterword: Reaching more than halfway The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Melinda Hinkson
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Winimaku ara papa wiimatjaraku and other stories The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Margaret Nampitjinpa Boko, Rosalyn Boko, Lisa Stefanoff
This audio‐visual essay invites readers to enter a new intermedial archive of documentary paintings and stories by a celebrated and prolific multilingual Central Australian Aboriginal woman artist. Addressing our written text to intimate family and audiences from elsewhere, in multiple voices and modes of address, we offer an opportunity to consider the dynamics of creating, keeping and caring for
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A bird, a flock, a song, and a forest: The decline of Regent Honeyeater life The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Thom van Dooren, Zoë Sadokierski, Myles Oakey, Timo Rissanen, Samuel Widin, Ross Crates
The south‐eastern corner of the Australian continent was once crisscrossed by the nomadic flight paths of the Regent Honeyeater. For hundreds of thousands of years, they winged their way up and down this vast continent. Today, however, the species is listed as critically endangered and is just clinging to existence. This multimedia essay tells the story of this decline, exploring the complex, co‐shaping
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Forecasts: A story of weather and finance at the edge of disaster By Caroline E.Schuster, illustrated by EnriqueBernardou, DavidBueno (Eds.), Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2023. pp. xvii + 212, CAN$28.95 (Pb.), CAN$70 (Hc.). ISBN: 9871487542238 The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 Mardi Reardon‐Smith
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Country, cattle and cooperation: On the potential of Kila in Warmun, Western Australia The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Catherine Massola
Gija people in the East Kimberley community of Warmun (Western Australia) negotiate their engagement with pastoralism with varying degrees of primacy. Through ethnography and oral histories, I explore how Gija people manage pastoralism and its effects through acts of accommodation, adoption, refusal and innovation. I begin by outlining the development of the colonial pastoral industry in Western Australia
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Latour's swan songs: Grappling with the ecological crisis The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Hans A. Baer
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Netflix streaming Video algorithms, taste and corporate responsibility The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Muhammad Asad Latif
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The sovereign citizen superconspiracy: Contemporary issues in native title anthropology The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Pascale Taplin, Claire Holland, Lorelei Billing
The Australian Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) provides for the recognition of rights and interests which arise from the traditional laws and customs of Australian First Nation peoples. Processing applications for a determination of native title can take many years and involves numerous stakeholders, presentation of evidence of ongoing connection with the land and sea within a claim area, negotiations
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Multispecies marginality: Mangroves and migrant Papuans in the margins of urban colonisation The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Hatib Abdul Kadir
West Papuans' dependency on mangroves is a consequence of Sorong's status as a frontier town. Originally developed to accommodate the oil industry, Sorong is an attraction for Indonesian settlers who have dominated and continue to dominate the town's geographical and economic spaces. By combining multispecies ethnographic studies with issues of power relations in urban areas related to settler colonialism
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S/kinship: The relational ontology of tattoos in contemporary Australian discourse and practice The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Susannah Ostojic, John Taylor
In examining affective motivations and meanings associated with kin-based tattooing, this article proposes a practice of ‘s/kinship’: the tangible inscription of relational personhood on the body. While research on the practice of Western tattooing has long been drawn into discourses of deviance and individual identity, little attention has been paid to the tattooing of social relations. Drawing on
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Cross-sector collaboration for refugee employment: An anthropology of development perspective The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Asanka Gunasekara, Robyn Eversole, Kiros Hiruy, Sen Sendjaya, Tim Breitbarth
Employment plays a crucial role in the successful resettlement of migrants. However, there is a paucity of research on how to facilitate refugee employment outcomes and the role of cross-sector collaborations. Using a qualitative, multi-layered analysis of primary and secondary data from Australian settlement service providers (SSPs) and the businesses they work with, this study explores how public
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Roger Sandall's films and contemporary anthropology: Explorations in the aesthetic, the existential, and the possible. By Lorraine Mortimer, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2019, 347 pp. ISBN: 9780253043948 The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Holly High
The website rogersandall.com1 helpfully informs us that the original title of Mortimer's book, when it was at manuscript stage, was Letting Things Live: Roger Sandall's Films Meet Contemporary Anthropology. This is a much more apt title for this book, and it is regrettable if it was IUP that requested the change. The original title is a useful clarification for anyone wanting to read and engage with
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Introduction: From rupture to repair The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-14 Naomi Richman, J. Derrick Lemons
This special issue develops and expands the discussion about religious change within the anthropology of Christianity by introducing the analytic of ‘repair’ to complement ‘rupture’. Rupture has emerged in the last two decades as a framework for theorising ethnographic accounts of Christian conversion described in radical or absolute terms (e.g., Carroll, 2017; Daswani, 2011, 2015; Engelke, 2004, 2010;
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Transformed ecologies and transformational saints: Exploring new pilgrimage routes in North East England The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-04 Jonathan Miles-Watson
County Durham in the UK has witnessed dramatic social and environmental shifts over the past 50 years, yet Durham Cathedral has stood at the heart of the region, seemingly solid, unchanging and eternal. It is frequently narrated as a prestigious jewel (a national treasure) that is surrounded by a countryside (and people) that clearly bear the time-marked scars of the processes of industrialisation
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The transnational village in Timor-Leste The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Michael Rose
Migrants in 2020 stay connected with their homes in ways unimaginable just 10 years ago. In the case of the Australian Seasonal Worker Program (SWP) which facilitates the short term, repeat travel of Timorese to Australia to engage in harvest labour, this connectivity particularly pronounced and important. In this article, drawing on original ethnographic fieldwork in the household of a returned SWP
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Personal beginnings and institutional endings in spiritualism The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Matt Tomlinson
In the religious movement known as Spiritualism, a medium's task is to provide evidence that there is no such thing as death. Human existence is defined by Spiritualists in terms of continual spiritual progress rather than stark beginnings and endings, although converts do tell vivid stories of the moment they realised Spiritualism's truth. The movement changed over decades as mediums turned their
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Strange Aeons: Transhumanism, H.P. Lovecraft, and the affective index of posthuman dread The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Jon Bialecki
New technologies open up the possibility of rapid social change the likes of which has not been seen since the appearance of anatomically modern humans: humanity being either substituted by or transformed into a new post-human species. Such an unprecedented change is difficult to concretely imagine in advance of its occurrence because it would unfold in a heretofore unheralded manner, and due to the
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After rupture: Visions of history, African spirituality and theological repair in Nigerian Pentecostalism The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-22 Naomi Richman
How do Pentecostal Christians seek repair and renewal in their lives, after their efforts to rupture with the past and become born again? In this article, I wish to consider the ways that a group of Nigerian Pentecostals who belong to a deliverance church re-narrativise their lives by constructing and entering into new timelines of history after their attempts to break with the past. This discursive
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The room where it happened: How evangelical leaders used a Closed-Door meeting to change sentiment for Donald J. Trump The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-17 J. Derrick Lemons
The embrace of Donald J. Trump as a presidential candidate in 2016 was not a given for evangelical voters. The thrice married, one-time advocate for abortion, who prided himself on his ability to attract beautiful women did not seem like someone for whom evangelicals would enthusiastically show up to vote. Understanding the need to excite the tepid Evangelical base, evangelical leaders planned a meeting
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Nor shadow of turning: Anthropological reflections on theological critiques of doctrinal change The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Joseph Webster
To all intents and purposes, the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland, the Brethren of Gamrie, and the Orange Order each claim a monopoly over theological truth, believing that they are right and that everyone else is wrong. Such a position is hardly exceptional – strong versions of pluralism take precisely this same monopolistic stance, calling, in effect, for a rejection of anything that rejects
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Justice for Walker: Warlpiri responses to the police shooting of Kumunjayi Walker The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-25 Ned Jampijinpa Hargraves, Samara Fernandez-Brown, Harry Jakamarra Nelson, Robin Japanangka Granites, Eddie Jampijinpa Robertson, Valerie Napaljarri Martin, Margaret Napanangka Brown, Warren Japanangka Williams, Louanna Napangardi Williams, Georgia Curran
The police shooting of Kumunjayi Walker in Yuendumu in November 2019 instigated an immediate and determined response from Warlpiri families who were shocked and saddened by the death of a loved one in the prime of his life and enraged by this latest event in a long string of colonial injustices. This article collates perspectives as expressed in interviews and public statements from Warlpiri spokespeople
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What graffiti arts and tags tell us about urban identity in Nouméa (New Caledonia) The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-25 Geneix-Rabault Stéphanie
This article aims to describe and analyse graffiti arts and tags in the city of Nouméa, the capital of New Caledonia, a multicultural and multilingual city which is home to people who have moved from many different areas of New Caledonia and other countries of the South Pacific. I aim to understand how the citizens of Nouméa use graffiti and tags to construct their plural identities and identify themselves
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Hom and Honiara: Interpreting, importing, and adapting “home” in Solomon Islands The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Rodolfo Maggio
The residents of Gilbert Camp, an illegal settlement on the outskirts of Honiara, the capital city of Solomon Islands, recurrently declare that life in town is hard. However, they have been migrating there, they keep doing so notwithstanding great challenges, and create the conditions for others to settle too. The apparent contradiction between their ideas and behaviours is resolved by looking at their
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Polynesianising and regenerating urban spaces: An analysis of the artworks and interventions of the Centre des Métiers d'Art de Polynésie française and of its artists The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Estelle Castro-Koshy, Tokainiua Devatine
This article studies the relationships that the Centre des Métiers d’Art de la Polynésie française (CMA—Centre for Arts and Crafts of French Polynesia), five contemporary artists connected to it, and their artworks, have with the city of Pape'ete and its urban environment. The first part analyses the teaching philosophy of the CMA and foregrounds its role as a tool of social mobility for its students
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Military policing and labour extraction in the north-west Kimberley The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Anthony Redmond
This paper explores the political economy of Australia's prison industrial complex and its severe impact on Indigenous communities. Taking a historical perspective, the paper moves between a broader analysis of the forced extraction of Indigenous labour by the state and private enterprise and the violence against Indigenous people which accompanies it.
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We just ‘SHAREit’: Smartphones, data and music sharing in urban Papua New Guinea The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Denis Crowdy, Heather A. Horst
This article examines how the use of mobile phones and associated software creates and sustains regionally diverse urban communities. There is an interdependent connection between music that is highly participatory and locally relevant, and processes involved in sustaining key social relationships across a variety of groupings. Increasingly ubiquitous technologies such as mobile phones are used for
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The archipelago of meaning: Methodological contributions to the study of Vanuatu sand drawing The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Simon Devylder
Vanuatu sand drawing has been listed by UNESCO since 2006 and has both fascinated and puzzled researchers from various disciplines for over a century. The inherent multi-dimensionality of the practice makes analysis complex, and until very recently developing a systematic methodology to study this intangible art form was difficult. This paper aims to contribute to filling this gap with the analysis
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Pacific artistic communities in Australia: Gaining visibility in the art world The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Géraldine Le Roux
This article shows that although Pacific arts began to be largely recognised in Australia in the 1990s, Pacific artists based in Australia remained mostly invisible in the contemporary art scene until the mid-2000s. I aim to demonstrate how Pacific artists and curators—who in some cases collaborated with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and curators—have made visible myriad Pacific identities
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Digicel! Topap long ples ia! An international telecommunications company making itself at home in the urban landscapes of Vanuatu, Samoa and Tonga The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Fiona Willans, Jim Gure, Tereise Vaifale, ' Elenoa Veikune
Mobile phone usage has increased at an unprecedented rate across the Pacific over the past 10–15 years, radically transforming the way communication takes place. The catalyst for this transformation is generally attributed to the breakdown of monopolies previously held by national telecom corporations over their own domestic markets, and the entrance of one particular new provider, Digicel. This paper
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Performing difference, longing for ‘home’: Claiming ethnic identities to build national unity among urban Solomon Islands youth The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-31 Rachel Emerine Hicks
Since independence, Solomon Islands schools have aimed to establish a national identity and unity among Solomon Islanders; however, ethnic ties to ‘home’ remain strong. This is particularly evident in Honiara, the densely populated and multi-ethnic capital of Solomon Islands, when urban youth who have grown up in Honiara claim their home is in a province. This paper argues that the ‘unity in diversity’
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The tradition of indigenous people and the status of internal migrants – The story of exclusion in West Seram (Maluku, Indonesia) The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-30 Simona Sienkiewicz
In this paper, I explore approaches in establishing cross-cultural relations between indigenous people and internal migrants in the district of West Seram (Maluku, Indonesia). According to current data, the number of people from other islands exceeds the local population but the district government neglects the ethnic issues. Emerging inequalities are becoming a challenge for internal migrants, especially
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An introduction in 3 parts: Anthropological perspectives on the shooting of Kumanjayi Walker The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Yasmine Musharbash
This is an introduction in three parts. In the first part, I introduce this Special Issue, the briefs that led to its realisation, some of the key themes the contributors wrestle with, and the contributions themselves. The second part is more of a personal introduction; namely, an ethnographic narrative of my own experience of the first hours and days following the shooting. My aim here is to take
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Re-territorializing the city: Youth and the productive role of reggae music in Vanuatu The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Daniela Kraemer, Monika Stern
In Vanuatu, the popularity of reggae music has been on the rise since the late 1980s. Today, reggae music and reggae culture is ubiquitous. For many young people in Port Vila, Vanuatu's capital city, it is a fundamental component of their sense of belonging to the city. Their attraction to reggae derives from its messages of camaraderie, equality and justice. This paper argues that for many urban youth
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‘Cop chasing’ in Alice Springs: Youth experiences of surveillance in a Central Australian Town The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Lora Chapman
Indigenous youth living in Alice Springs are subject to routine forms of surveillance, facilitated by a range of stakeholders, including police, security guards, government agents, business owners and members of their own communities. ‘The problem’ of youth is the subject of much attention in media and community forums as well as Northern Territory specific legislation, resulting in increased levels
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Carceral spectres: Hyperincarceration and the haunting of Aboriginal life The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Patrick Horton
Drawing on recent participant observation-based data from the Northern Territory's Victoria River region, I propose that the coercive and custodial arms of the settler state are predominant features of, and constant and permanent forces of rupture in, remote Aboriginal life. I use the term ‘carceral spectres’ to describe the ways hyperincarceration and hyperpolicing shape, disturb and, in particular
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An introduction to ‘Making the city “home”: Practices of belonging in Pacific cities’ The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Daniela Kraemer, Monika Stern
It is estimated that by 2050, 50% of Pacific peoples will be living out their full lives in cities and towns throughout Oceania and around the world. Over the last 35 years, previous patterns of circular migration have been giving way to permanent urban settlers and to generations born and raised in urban places. These ‘urbanites’ demonstrate a firm commitment to urban living in both the present and
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Hope in a time of world-shattering events and unbearable situations: Policing and an emergent ‘ethics of dwelling’ in Lander Warlpiri country The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Petronella Vaarzon-Morel
In November 2019, members of Willowra community marched on the local police station in protest against the police shooting of Kumunjayi Walker at Yuendumu. Expressing solidarity with family at Yuendumu, individuals breached the barbwire fence of the vacant police compound. Unlike settlements such as Yuendumu, which have had resident police for decades, Willowra police station is 1 of 18 Northern Territory
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Afterword: Context erasure The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-16 Melinda Hinkson
This afterword reflects upon the not guilty verdict and the media reportage that followed the conclusion of the murder trial of Constable Zachary Rolfe. After the lifting of media embargoes, a plethora of new material was delivered into the public domain. Much of this material was forensic and voyeuristic in approach, dedicated to expanding the narrative of endemic physical violence in Kumunjayi Walker's
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Erasing trauma – Erasing indigeneity: How the settler colonial state erased Warlpiri trauma in the wake of the police shooting Kumunjayi Walker The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-10 Liz Scarfe
In this paper, I argue that the rhetoric and discharge of state mental health care provisions in the wake of the police shooting of Kumunjayi Walker reflect the logic of elimination that underpins settler-colonial societies. Firstly, the use of emotional politics and the diplomacy of sympathy transform the police shooting of an Aboriginal man into a simple loss of life. Secondly, the deployment of
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The rhetoric of the Brazilian far-right, built in the streets: The case of Rio de Janeiro The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-03-22 Gabriel Bayarri Toscano
This article is an ethnographic exploration of the construction of far-right rhetoric in Brazil. It begins with a description of events on the final day of the 2018 election, when Jair Messias Bolsonaro won the presidency. To contextualise this scene, I analyse how far-right rhetoric was articulated in the Brazilian public sphere from June 2013 until 2018, specifically in the state of Rio de Janeiro
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Autoethnography and ‘chimeric-thinking’: A phenomenological reconsideration of illness and alterity The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-03-18 Sarah Pini
This paper tackles the concept of alterity through an embodied perspective. By questioning my lived experience of cancer and how illness—as a disruptive event (Carel, 2008, 2016, 2021)—enables philosophical reflection and the exploration of ‘other’ ways of being-in-the-world (Merleau-Ponty 2012 [1945]), I ask if an embodied ‘chimeric-thinking’ can be used to question established notions of alterity
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Articulating Aboriginality in multicultural Redfern The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-03-02 Ángeles Montalvo Chaves
Koori Radio was founded in Redfern in 1993 as an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander radio station. Its aim was to give a voice to these communities, acting as a counterpoint to their stereotyped representation in mainstream media and promoting their creative practices (especially music). Rather than ‘thinking only Aboriginal’, it has increasingly embraced the ongoing multicultural diversity of modern