The Australian Journal of Anthropology 

About: The Australian Journal of Anthropology is an academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Politics & Indigenous. It has an ISSN identifier of 1035-8811. Over the lifetime, 832 publications have been published receiving 9247 citations. The journal is also known as: Australian Journal of Anthropology.

Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture

Abstract: COURSE DESCRIPTION In popular and scholarly discourse, the term \"globalization\" is widely used to put a name to the shape of the contemporary world. In the realms of advertising, a variety of media, policymaking, politics, academia, and everyday talk, \"globalization\" references the sense that we now live in a deeply and everincreasingly interconnected, mobile, and speeded-up world that is unprecedented, fueled by technological innovations and geopolitical and economic transformations. Drawing on perspectives from history, anthropology, cultural and literary studies, geography, political economy, and sociology, this course will explore theories, discourses, and experiences of globalization.

Ordinary Ethics: Anthropology, Language, and Action

Abstract: What is the place of the ethical in human life? How do we render it visible? How might sustained attention to the ethical transform anthropological theory and enrich our understanding of thought, speech, and social action? This volume offers a significant attempt to address these questions. It is a common experience of most ethnographers that the people we encounter are trying to do what they consider right or good, are being evaluated according to criteria of what is right and good, or are in some debate about what constitutes the human good. Yet anthropological theory has tended to overlook all this in favor of analyses that emphasize structure, power, and interest.Bringing together ethnographic exposition with philosophical concepts and arguments and effectively transcending subdisciplinary boundaries between cultural and linguistic anthropology, the essays collected in this volume explore the ethical entailments of speech and action and demonstrate the centrality of ethical practice, judgment, reasoning, responsibility, cultivation, commitment, and questioning in social life. Rather than focus on codes of conduct or hot-button issues, they make the cumulative argument that ethics is profoundly ordinary,pervasive-and possibly even intrinsic to speech and action. In addition to deepening our understanding of ethics, the volume makes an incisive and necessary intervention in anthropological theory,recasting discussion in ways that force us to rethink such concepts as power, agency, and relativism.Individual chapters consider the place of ethics with respect to conversation and interaction; judgment and responsibility; formality, etiquette, performance, ritual, and law; character and empathy; social boundaries and exclusions; socialization and punishment; and commemoration, history, and living together in peace and war.Together they offer a comprehensive portrait of an approach that is now critical for advancing anthropological theory and ethnographic description, as well as fruitful conversation with philosophy.

Anthropology and Climate Change: From Encounters to Actions

Abstract: Climate Change and Social InequalityUnfinishedClimate CulturesEnvironmental AnthropologyAnthropology and Climate ChangeAnthropology and Global HistoryRoutledge Handbook of Environmental AnthropologyAnthropology and Climate ChangeScience, Society and the EnvironmentClimate without NatureClimate Change, Vulnerability and MigrationChanging the AtmosphereAnthropology and Climate ChangeCurating the FutureCulture and ConservationAnthropology and NatureHuman AdaptabilityA Companion to the Anthropology of Environmental HealthHandbook of Political AnthropologyGlobal Mental HealthGlobal Warming and the Political Ecology of HealthFierce Climate, Sacred GroundClimate Change, Culture, and EconomicsHow Climate Change Comes to MatterThe Anthropology of Corporate Social ResponsibilityAnthropology and Climate ChangeEnvironmental Anthropology TodayApplying Anthropology in the Global VillageClimate Change and Human MobilityThe Anthropology of Climate ChangeClimate Change and Tradition in a Small Island StateLiving in DenialThe Anthropology of Disasters in Latin AmericaAnthropology and Climate ChangeDestination AnthropoceneAlien OceanThe Social Life of Climate Change ModelsClimate Change Adaptation and DevelopmentThe Anthropology of Climate ChangeThe Anthropology of Climate Change

Australian Indigenous Studies: A Question of Discipline

Abstract: This paper is an early discussion of the ways we are approaching Indigenous Studies in Australian Universities. The focus is on how disciplinary and scholarly issues within Indigenous Studies can be interrogated and yet retain the necessary cohesion and solidarity so important to the Indigenous struggle. The paper contrasts Indigenous Studies pursued by Indigenous scholars to other disciplinary perspectives in the academy. Categories such as the Indigenous community and Indigenous knowledge are problematised, not to dissolve them, but to explore productive avenues. I identify one of the problems that Indigenous studies faces as resisting the tendency to perpetuate an enclave within the academy whose purpose is to reflect back an impoverished and codified representation of Indigenous culture to the communities that are its source. On the other hand, there is danger also in the necessary engagement with other disciplines on their own terms. My suggestion is that we see ourselves mapping our understanding of our particular Indigenous experiences upon a terrain intersected by the pathways, both of other Indigenous experiences, and of the non-Indigenous academic disciplines. My intention is to stimulate some thought among Indigenous academics and scholars about the future possibilities of Australian Indigenous Studies as a field of endeavour.