Thursday, November 1, 2018

Metropolis Talk (This was the text of a short talk I intended to give at Metropolis but a change of format meant that I delivered most of it as part of a Q&A type panel)

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I am sorry if I didn’t join you from the start of this session but I am not in a rush to hear what the minister of immigration has to say. ...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Dear White (The motion “It’s OK to be white” introduced by White Supremacist Senator Pauline Hanson denouncing “anti-white racism” and “attacks on Western civilisation” was narrowly defeated 31-28 on Monday, with the government supporting it)

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Dear white*, it's ok It's ok to be white but it’s ok to be white and nice It’s not ok to be White and mean, It’s ok to...
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Saturday, September 1, 2018

Regarding the film 'the insult'

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Last night I saw the Lebanese film 'The Insult' with some friends in Sydney. I had already seen it with  Greg Burris  when it first...
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Sunday, August 19, 2018

Encountering the Cannibal: Melbourne University Open Day Introduction to Anthropology

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Whether it is medicine or psychology or astronomy university subjects aim at professionalizing what is an ordinary experience pursued w...
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Sunday, August 5, 2018

Marcel Mauss' The Gift: the 3,493,654th take on the book

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I was reading Bourdieu’s Anthropologie Politique to introduce the students to his theory of practice via a reflection on his take on the...
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Thursday, July 26, 2018

Afterword to 'Decolonizing the Curriculum', Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, Winter 2018

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This thought-provoking collection of essays treats the decolonization of the university from a variety of perspectives. It explores a wide ...
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Thursday, July 19, 2018

Intro to Inside and outside the law (Social Analysis, Volume 62, Issue 3, Autumn 2018, 1–21)

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Introduction Despite the absence of shared public spaces, the serious environmental problems and the lack of centralized urban planning ...