Book Launch: Hannah Bulloch ‘In Pursuit of Progress: Narratives of Development on a Philippine Island’ (13 April)

Author:Ā Dr Hannah Bulloch, Research Fellow, ANU National Centre for Indigenous Studies

Discussants:

  • Dr Anna Cristina Pertierra, a Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Social Analysis at Western Sydney University, with expertise in Latin American and the Philippines.
  • Ms Regina Macalandag Estorba, a PhD scholar in the ANUā€™s Crawford School, currently studying citizenship and the Badjao peoples of the Philippines.
  • Associate Professor Patrick Guinness, a senior lecturer in ANUā€™s School of Archaeology and Anthropology, whose work focuses on the anthropology of development in Southeast Asia, Melanesia and East Africa.

Friday 13Ā AprilĀ 3:00-5:00pmĀ Room 1.04, Coombs Extension Building (#8). 8 Fellows Road, ANU

The idea of development has been scrutinised as a ā€˜Westernā€™ metaphor ordering global difference, and as a banner under which diverse schemes for societal improvement find legitimacy and common purpose. But how is development assimilated into the worldviews of developmentā€™s subjects?

In Pursuit of ProgressĀ explores myths, meanings and practices of ā€˜developmentā€™, ā€˜progressā€™ and ā€˜modernisationā€™ on the Philippine island of Siquijor. It asks how such meta-narratives are entangled in peopleā€™s identities and life trajectories. How do they shape peopleā€™s understandings of their histories, their place in the world, and their dreams for the future?

The book contributes to debates in anthropology, sociology, and development studies regarding how discourses of development act on local and global power relations.

Author, Dr Hannah Bulloch, is a Research Fellow at the ANUā€™s National Centre for Indigenous Studies and a former DECRA Fellow in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology.

At this paperback launch, Dr Bulloch will give a reading from the book, and perspectives on key aspects of the work will be provided by the three discussants mentioned above.

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