2017 Vietnam Update: The Politics of Life (20-21 Nov)

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Vietnamese today are questioning ends and means, particularly as they relate to human security. Thirty years after the country’s communist leadership decisively embraced market integration policies, poverty is declining, incomes are rising, and lives and livelihoods are being transformed. However, as regional tensions create new uncertainties, citizens are preoccupied with trust, accountability and control as […]

Mundane Governance Conference: Exploring the Hardwiring, Disappearance & Politics of Everyday Government (22-24 Nov 2017)

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Wed 22 Nov 2017, 9am – Fri 24 Nov 2017, 7pm, Australian National University Our conference will be held in the Sir Roland Wilson Building. The opening will be held in the Theatrette (Room 2.02). Confirmed speakers include Professor Steve Woolgar, University of Oxford Professor Andrew Dawson, University of Melbourne Professor Deborah Lupton, University of Canberra Professor […]

Staff highlight: Assa Doran

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Today is World Toilet Day. You should go and check out the thought-provoking research on the topic by our own Assa Doron. The cultural politics of shit: class, gender and public space in India Assa Doron &Ira Raja, Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 18,(2): 189-207 In this article we seek to interrogate the cultural, political and economic conditions that generate […]