Graeme MacRae

TL;DR: The response to the Jogjakarta earthquake is examined from a perspective grounded both within and outside the aid system, local as well as global, and an approach more grounded in local knowledge and responsive to local concerns is argued.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the categories of tourism studies are inadequate for making sense of it, suggesting instead cosmopolitanism as a potentially more useful tool for understanding this transformation.

TL;DR: There is a need for integrated studies of the entire rice production/marketing complex, especially from the bottom-up point of view of farmers, and especially on one project that has been successful in reducing production costs by conversion to organic production, but less so in marketing its produce.

TL;DR: In this paper, an ethnographic study of individual subaks indicates that subaks are neither as homogeneous nor as harmonious as some other studies have suggested, and that processes of continuity and change co-exist in delicate dynamic equilibrium.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the international humanitarian response to the earthquake in Jogjakarta, Indonesia in May 2006 and compared it with a small but very successful local initiative.