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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
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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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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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Book Club: Conflict, Violence, and Displacement in Indonesia
Any book might have been a compelling jolt out of the academic ambivalence that precedes (and prevents) my dissertation, but it happened to be Conflict, Violence, and Displacement in Indonesia, published last year by the Cornell Southeast Asia Program, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Aceh, Aceh Peace Monitoring Update, Agamben, agency, Althusser, anthropology, Book Club, book review, Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution Studies, conflict, development, discourse, discursive analysis, displacement, Ed Aspinall, ethnography, Eva-Lotta Hedman, Foucault, humanitarian, humanitarianism, humanitarians, IDP, IDPs, Indonesia, internally displaced, Mariella Pandolfi, mobile sovereign, mobile sovereignty, Paul Brass, peace, pengungsi, Reflexive, refugees, state of exception, structure, violence, Walter Benjamin, World Bank
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