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Shifting States AAS/ASA/ASAANZ 2017, 11-15 December 2017 University of Adelaide, School of Social Sciences Timetable: Shifting States Shifting States AAS/ASA/ASAANZ 2017, 11-15 December 2017 University of Adelaide, School of Social Sciences Timetable: Shifting States Monday 11 December 10:30-16:00 Pre-Conference Forum for Native Title Practitioners 10:00-15:00 Postgrad workshops 13:00-17:30 Reception desk open 16:30-17:00 Welcome to Country 17:00-18:30 Opening Keynote: James Scott, ASA Firth Lecture 2017 18:35-20:30 Welcome drinks reception Tuesday 12 December 08:30-17:30 Reception desk open 09:00-10:30 Panel session I 10:30-11:00 Refreshments 11:00-12:30 Keynote II: Penny Harvey 12:30-13:30 Lunch, AAS institutional reps meeting, ASA AGM 13:30-15:00 Panel session II 15:00-15:30 Refreshments 15:30-17:00 Panel session III 17:00-17:15 Break 17:15-18:30 Roundtable: Roles and relationships of anthropological associations (...) 18:45-20:30 Wine tasting Wednesday 13 December 08:30-17:30 Reception desk open 09:00-10:30 Panel session IV 10:30-11:00 Refreshments 11:00-12:30 Panel session V Thursday 14 December 12:30-13:30 Lunch, ANSA AGM 08:30-17:30 Reception desk open 13:30-15:00 Panel session VI 09:00-10:30 Panel session VII 15:00-15:30 Refreshments 10:30-11:00 Refreshments 15:30-17:00 ASAANZ AGM 11:00-12:30 Keynote IV: Cris Shore 17:00-18:30 Keynote III: Suzi Hutchings, AAS Distinguished Lecturer 2017 12:30-13:30 Lunch 18:30-20:30 Drinks reception 13:30-15:00 Panel session VIII 15:00-15:30 Refreshments Friday 15 December 15:30-18:30 AAS AGM 18:45-23:30 Conference dinner 08:30-13:00 Reception desk open 09:00-10:30 Keynote V: Ghassan Hage 10:30-11:00 Refreshments 11:00-12:30 Panel session IX 12:30-13:30 Lunch 13:30-15:00 Panel session X AAS/ASA/ASAANZ 2017 Shifting States 11-15 December 2017, University of Adelaide 2017 Conference of the Australian Anthropological Society, the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth and the Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa/New Zealand Organised by the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies, University of Adelaide AAS Executive Gregory Acciaioli (President), Pamela McGrath (President Emeritus), Richard Vokes (President Elect), Hannah Bulloch (Ordinary Director), Gillian Tan (Ordinary Director), Patrick Guinness (Treasurer), Caroline Schuster (Secretary) ASAANZ Committee Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich (Chairperson), Nayantara Sheoran Appleton (Secretary), Caroline Thomas (Treasurer), Ruth Fitzgerald (SITES: Chair of Editorial Board), Jeffrey Sluka (Ethics Committee Chair), Graeme MacRae (IUAES andWCAA Representative & Massey University (Albany) Campus Representative), Fiona McCormack (University of Waikato Campus Representative), Jacinta Forde (Postgraduate Student Representative), Sharyn Graham Davies (Auckland University of Technology Campus Representative), Trisia Farrelly (Massey University (Manawatu) Campus Representative), Christine Dureau (University of Auckland Campus Representative), Piers Locke (University of Canterbury Campus Representative), Molly George (University of Otago Campus Representative), Catherine Trundle (Victoria University of Wellington Campus Representative), Lorena Gibson (Social Media Manager) ASA Committee Nigel Rapport (Chair), Cathrine Degnen (Hon. Secretary), Soumhya Venkatesan (Hon. treasurer), Julie Scott (ASA networks), Andrew Irving (Publications officer), Emma Gilberthorpe (Conference officer), Paul Gilbert (Media officer) Shifting States Conference convenors Convenors: Alison Dundon and Richard Vokes Shifting States Conference Local Committee Georgina Drew, Ashley Greenwood, Susan Hemer, Henrike Hoogenraad, Naomi Offler, Diane Rodger, William Skinner Conference administrators NomadIT: www.nomadit.co.uk Special thanks Tait Brimacombe, Brad Hicks, Toni Pihodnya Wireless internet Visitors whose home institutions are part of the Eduroam network may use their home institution credentials to access the Eduroam wireless network at the University of Adelaide. For those Shifting States guests without Eduroam credentials, they can log on to the University of Adelaide’s wifi network (UofA and UofA 5ghz) to receive complimentary internet access from 11-15 December from 08:00-18:00 each day. Username: Shifting2017 Password: States17 Cover illustration Shifting States – Tripoli, 2011, Luis Cruz Azaceta Acrylic, prismacolor pencil, shellac on canvas 24 x 36 inches https://shiftingstates.info/artist Contents Welcome addresses ............................................................................... 5 Theme ................................................................................................... 7 Practical information ............................................................................. 9 Food and what to see .......................................................................... 13 Book exhibit ...................................................................................... 17 Events and meetings .......................................................................... 19 Daily timetable .................................................................................. 27 Panel and paper abstracts .................................................................. 39 Laboratories: Screen/Media/Art ...................................................... 129 List of convenors, discussants and authors ...................................... 137 Notes 4 Welcome addresses Welcome address from the Australian Anthropological Society (AAS) President Let me join the conference convenors and heads of the Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa/New Zealand (ASAA/NZ) and the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth (ASA) in acknowledging the Kaurna people’s custodianship and ownership of the land on which this conference is taking place, paying respects to the Kaurna Elders past and present. I am honoured to be given the opportunity as well to extend a welcome to all the delegates and other participants in this joint conference of the AAS, ASAA/NZ and ASA UK. This is the second time that all three of these associations have met together for an annual conference, following on from the inaugural 2008 joint conference hosted by the ASAANZ in Auckland. Having committed itself to triennial joint conferences, the AAS has met with the ASAANZ every three years since the Auckland conference, alternating between our two states, and the 2011 conference included the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) as well. These joint meetings have certainly enlivened the panels and other activities of the conferences, extended the range of discourse in the conference panels and enhanced our networks of academic collaboration and social community. This year’s conference theme, ‘Shifting States’, gives us the opportunity to re-evaluate not only the transformations of nation-states across the present and past range of political perturbations, but also to re-evaluate how our discipline has approached the study of states. The very ambiguity of the conference’s title – a tradition of anthropological discourse perhaps brought to its apogee by Lévi-Strauss – has catalysed as well a range of existential explorations of our forms of being and becoming in various socio-political contexts and according to varying cultural understandings across the 56 panels that constitute the discursive ganglia of our gathering, connecting us across the conference in various clusters. And we will have the opportunity too, of attending in unison the presentations of our five keynote speakers (our intellectual spinal cord, perhaps), as well other plenary events such as the distinguished lectures and the roundtable on the contemporary role of anthropological associations. All in all, this conference promises to be not only an exciting experience, but an opportunity to redefine how we operate in the contemporary and emergent context of shifting states. For making all this possible, I would like to extend thanks from the AAS to the conference convenors and all their colleagues, academic and administrative, and students who have contributed to the efforts of the conference organising committee. The conference convenors have named many of those in their welcome, so let me just add their own names – Richard Vokes and Alison Dundon – to the recipients of our gratitude. Let me also thank once again all those at NomadIT – Triinu, Rohan, James, (in reverse alphabetical order for a change) and others whose names I do not know – who have demonstrated once again with their admirable efficiency and good cheer how a conference should be managed. And, of course, thanks as well to all of you as participants from the three associations and beyond. Your participation as keynote speakers, paper givers, discussants, chairs, volunteers, and audience members throughout the conference is what energises this conference, activating our intellectual impulses and giving life to what promises to be an experience of intellectual excitation. Greg Acciaioli, Australian Anthropological Association Welcome address from the Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa/New Zealand (ASAANZ) Chairperson Kia ora ASAANZ friends and colleagues, Welcome to this wonderful conference hosted by our Anthropology colleagues at Adelaide. It is great to collaborate in this way and we are already looking forward to hosting the next joint conference in Aotearoa New Zealand in three years time. Conferences like this one generate so much optimism, hope and a sense of collective endeavour as well as intellectual nourishment and inspiration. More than ever do we need a
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