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Tag Archives: fieldwork
Remote Ethnography in Post-Conflict Aceh, Indonesia
On Friday at 12:30 PM, I will be presenting this talk at the Harvard University Asia Center as part of their Southeast Asia Seminar Series. This is a draft chapter of my dissertation, and I am soliciting feedback after the … Continue reading
Posted in Aceh, Anthropology, Conflict, Indonesia, Status Updates
Tagged Aceh, anthropology, Cambridge, CGIS, CGIS South, chapter, conflict, dissertation, ethnography, fieldwork, Harvard, Harvard University, Harvard University Asia Center, humanitarianism, Indonesia, Massachusetts, presentation, Southeast Asia, Southeast Asia Seminar Series, Sumatra, talk
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Book Club: A Certain Age
I have been struggling with the strange kind of fieldwork I did in Aceh for the past few years and how to both acknowledge that strangeness and write about it. Rudolf Mrázek’s new book, A Certain Age: Colonial Jakarta Through … Continue reading
Posted in Aceh, Anthropology, Book Club, Indonesia, Reflexive
Tagged A Certain Age: Colonial Jakarta Through the Memories of Its Intellectuals, academia, Aceh, anthropology, Book Club, cognitive sparks, dustbin of history, ethnography, fieldwork, flaneur, fragments, humanitarianism, humanitarians, Indonesia, interviews, Jakarta, Marc Augé, mediation, memories, methods, misunderstanding, mobility, modernity, nationalism, non-place, non-places, progress, Rudolf Mrázek, Sartre, social science, supermodernity, supracolonialism, supramodernity, theory, touched away, transcripts, Walter Benjamin
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Community Perceptions of the Peace Process: Eleven Case Studies for the Multi-Stakeholder Review of Post-Conflict Programming in Aceh (MSR)
At last! The Multi-Stakeholder Review of Post-Conflict Programming: Identifying the Foundations for Sustainable Peace and Development in Aceh was finally published in hard copy a few weeks ago in Indonesia. This was an enormous undertaking, involving, well, “multi-stakeholders” ranging from … Continue reading
Posted in Aceh, Conflict, Indonesia, Publications
Tagged ABAS, Aceh, Aceh Timur, Aceh Utara, Activism and Peace Work, ALA, anti-separatists, AusAID, Australian Agency for International Development, Bireuen, case studies, civil society, community perceptions, conflict, Conflict and Development, donor agencies, fieldwork, focus group discussions, GAM, government, IDP, IDPs, in-depth interviews, Indonesia, KPA, mental health, militias, MSR, Multi Stakeholder Review, Multi-Stakeholder Review of Post-Conflict Programming in Aceh, parlok, Partai Aceh, partai lokal, peace, pemekaran, political prisoners, qualitative research, recovery, Sawang, World Bank
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Book Club: Contemporary States of Emergency
A few months ago, while I was still in Indonesia, Zone Books published Contemporary States of Emergency: The Politics of Military and Humanitarian Interventions, co-edited by anthropologists Didier Fassin and Mariella Pandolfi. I’m pleased because this is my first peer … Continue reading
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Tagged academia, Aceh, anthropology, bearing witness, Book Club, Byron Good, contemporary states of emergency, Didier Fassin, donor time, ethnography, fieldwork, humanitarian intervention, humanitarianism, Indonesia, International Organization for Migration, intervention, IOM, Mariella Pandolfi, Mary-Jo Good, NGO, psychosocial, psychosocial needs assessment, Publications, research, social science, supracolonialism, the politics of military and humanitarian intervention, zone books
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