{"title":"‘Playing the tourist card’: Clandestine solidarity in occupied Timor-Leste","authors":"Chris Lundry","doi":"10.1111/taja.12519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12519","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Concepts of solidarity and justice have become salient in relation to tourism. This article describes clandestine activity in the name of solidarity but under the guise of tourism. When Indonesia opened Timor-Leste to tourism in 1988, solidarity activists entered as tourists to obtain information and media that would contradict the official Indonesian position on the status of the territory and its people. Maintaining personae, these activists simulated tourist behaviour in order to avoid detection by the authorities. The information and media they gathered was critical in bringing pressure to bear on Indonesia to resolve the conflict.</p>","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 3","pages":"206-219"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cosmopolitan gastro-aesthetics and the new tastes of Timor","authors":"Gabriel Tusinski","doi":"10.1111/taja.12515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12515","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In Dili, a new generation of Timorese “foodies” are reshaping the culinary landscape by formulating “Timorese Cuisine.” Armed with mobile devices and active on social media, they seek to build Timor's reputation as a tourist destination by managing consumers' appreciation for “local foods” through a novel “gastro-aesthetics” a culturally inflected field of qualities which contribute to judgements of the “pleasantness,” “beauty,” or “goodness” of food. But bringing Timorese foodways into correspondence with global consumer tastes unsettles their qualitative characteristics and their medical, moral, and cosmological meanings. With cultural politics dominated by resistance heroes and the Indonesian-educated “new generation,” this movement marks a youthful contribution to Timor-Leste's viability through entrepreneurialism. As the country's fossil fuel economy is challenged by climate change, and tourism promoted as a sustainable alternative, configuring “Timorese Cuisine” is an element of nation-<i>branding</i> at once elevates and diminishes the efficacies of “local foods” as social substances.</p>","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 3","pages":"160-174"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Consuming place: Women, wine and imagination","authors":"Janine Aujard","doi":"10.1111/taja.12514","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12514","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper examines wine drinking among English and Australian women to discover and analyse the connection between their consumption of wine and their experiences, thoughts and imaginings. Comparing the experiences of women from the English town of Halifax with women from the southern suburbs of Adelaide and McLaren Vale (South Australia), I show how imbibing wine enables both groups of women to consume place, space and time, thus extending a liminal experience. Importantly, both groups of women engage with notions of national or regional identity. However, whereas English women typically experience wine drinking as a temporal engagement of social imagination involving a form of armchair alco-tourism, Australian women mostly engage their social memory, and experience wine drinking as embedded within imagined communities of belonging. As such, this study demonstrates that wine drinking is not just gendered, but a complex, culturally situated practice and experience.</p>","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 3","pages":"288-301"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/taja.12514","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143253470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trial-and-error: Securing field access for qualitative research in Vietnam","authors":"Nicolas Lainez, Emmanuel Pannier","doi":"10.1111/taja.12507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12507","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Field access is frequently regarded as a mere practical step in the research process, with insufficient attention given to its broader implications. Numerous writings that focus on gaining field access offer just a collection of practical tips. While these recommendations are valuable, they are specific to each setting and individual experiences. Such an ad hoc approach fosters a limited understanding of the research permit application process and limits the discussion of access by disregarding its inherent uncertainty and its manifold consequences. In authoritarian contexts, obtaining field access remains highly uncertain and can be further complicated by arbitrary decision-making. This article demonstrates that in Vietnam, social scientists, including anthropologists, must navigate ambiguous processes of trial-and-error to secure field access. With the term ‘trial-and-error’ we refer to an approach to problem-solving in which various methods are attempted. Proceeding through trial-and-error involves familiarisation, networking, and improvisation. Based on 15 years of experience working in Vietnam we provide evidence that the process of trial-and-error is inherent in all three aspects. Beyond the issues surrounding access for foreign researchers, our observations also underscore the pivotal role of trial-and-error as a mechanism that Vietnamese citizens employ to navigate the uncertainties and arbitrariness associated with bureaucracy.</p>","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 3","pages":"302-320"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/taja.12507","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143253051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Afterword: Reaching more than halfway","authors":"Melinda Hinkson","doi":"10.1111/taja.12498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12498","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 1-2","pages":"145-147"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142245090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Paul Gurrumuruwuy, Jennifer Deger, Enid Guruŋulmiwuy, Victoria Baskin Coffey, Meredith Balanydjarrk, Warren Balpatji
{"title":"Luŋ'thun: Sand, saltwater, and collaborative attunements","authors":"Paul Gurrumuruwuy, Jennifer Deger, Enid Guruŋulmiwuy, Victoria Baskin Coffey, Meredith Balanydjarrk, Warren Balpatji","doi":"10.1111/taja.12494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12494","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This audio-visual essay works with the epistemic imperatives of our research subject—the sands and saltwater of a small stretch of coastline in northern Australia. Orchestrating a series of sounds and images together with a gentle rhythm of text-based Yolŋu (human/Indigenous) elaboration, we seek to enable others to attune to a material dynamics of collaboration and co-creation made manifestly palpable in the kinetic zones of coastal life. Rather than either simply telling, or showing, we invite our ‘readers’ to enter into a slow process of attuning to the forms of sensuous instruction offered directly from the <i>wäŋa</i> (land, environment, Country). In this way we orientate towards research as a shared and emergent processes of becoming knowledgeable with more-than-human worlds. The result is a Yolŋu-led digital experiment in sovereign knowledge production: a modelling of a site-specific, participatory onto-epistemics intended to inspire others towards the possibilities of creative, relational modes of more-than-human research.</p>","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 1-2","pages":"27-38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/taja.12494","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142245103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"FORM: Anthropology as design","authors":"Victoria Baskin Coffey, Jennifer Deger","doi":"10.1111/taja.12489","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12489","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This essay argues for design as an expression of analytic rigour and ethical commitment. It explores what it might mean to ‘write’ in collaboration with the entities and forces from Country, ancestors, oceans, soil, honeyeaters, sound, wild bores, frogs, fire, ash, sand, trees, and echoes, to colour, code, bitrates, cameras, computers, and archives. Every design decision in ‘Epistemic attunements’ was conceptually-motivated and informed by an anthropologically-attuned sensibilty. It was never simply a case of making things look ‘beautiful’. The analytic force of the design propelled our intermedial arguments forward, but also sideways, down through layers, into shifts of sensation and abrupt moments of pause for specific critical effect.</p>","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 1-2","pages":"20-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/taja.12489","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142245099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Attunement: Form in motion","authors":"Anna L. Tsing","doi":"10.1111/taja.12490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12490","url":null,"abstract":"<p>To nurture and protect even small fragments of liveability, we must get to know the lives of others, human and nonhuman. The Anthropocene collates projects of erasure, and we forget that we need companions. What might it take to bring us back into remembrance? I use the word ‘attunement’ in this essay to refer to attempts to get to know, through alignment, how others express themselves in the world. I'm particularly interested in forms of alignment that refuse Cartesian dreams of minds in contact.</p>","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 1-2","pages":"78-79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/taja.12490","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142245098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Enrique Bernardou, David Bueno, Caroline E. Schuster
{"title":"The Fences: A webcomic on collective debt and ruination in Paraguay","authors":"Enrique Bernardou, David Bueno, Caroline E. Schuster","doi":"10.1111/taja.12495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12495","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>The Fences: A webcomic on collective debt and ruination in Paraguay</i> is a production of the Australian-Paraguayan comics studio CómicsClub comprised of anthropologist and writer Caroline E. Schuster and artists Enrique Bernardou and David Bueno. This webcomic began as an anthropological fieldwork study of climate financing - that is, novel financial arrangements that address the emerging weather-related risks to human communities of global warming, deforestation, and mass extinction. As we enter an era of ‘global weirding’ characterised by strange and extreme weather, insurance companies have welcomed the opportunity to cast themselves as financial ‘first responders,’ offering coverage for drought, floods, bushfires, and other so-called secondary perils that cost billions of dollars annually in property damage and reconstruction costs. The webcomic tells this story through interactive sequential art. Through branching timelines and ‘what if?’ scenarios, the project recuperates a critical speculative imagination and offers alternatives to financial modes of ‘buying the future.’</p>","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 1-2","pages":"54-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/taja.12495","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142244796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jennifer Deger, Victoria Baskin Coffey, Caleb Kingston, Sebastian J. Lowe, Lisa Stefanoff
{"title":"Epistemic attunements: Experiments in intermedial anthropology","authors":"Jennifer Deger, Victoria Baskin Coffey, Caleb Kingston, Sebastian J. Lowe, Lisa Stefanoff","doi":"10.1111/taja.12492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12492","url":null,"abstract":"<p>‘Epistemic attunements – Regenerating anthroplogy's form’ is a collective experiment in expanding the expressive and analytic repertoire of anthropology and related disciplines. It features eleven peer-reviewed research articles published on a standalone website that has been designed, built, and maintained by our editorial collective, independent of Wiley's infrastructure and oversight. The result is a unique off-grid adventure in academic publishing that seeks to contribute to the re-orientation and outward opening of a discipline long committed to finding new ways to apprehend—and respond to—worlds undergoing constant, messy, and often-brutal transformation. In this essay we describe the making of this double special issue of <i>TAJA</i> to make the case for intermedial research and co-design as regenerative praxis.</p>","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 1-2","pages":"3-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/taja.12492","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142245102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}