[Anthropgrad] Human Geography Seminar

[Sandra Davenport]

*Human Geography Seminar
**Monday, 11 February, 2008 *
*3.30pm  - 5 pm*
Seminar Room C, Coombs Building

*Katherine Gibson and Gerda Roelvink*
Department of Human Geography

*Reading tropical geographies of Asia for diverse cultural economic 
practices*
This seminar presents a research proposal for comments and suggestions. 
The research project [to be undertaken by Katherine Gibson, Lesley 
Potter and Gerda Roelvink]* *will reconstruct landscapes of cultural 
economic diversity in rural Asia from a close reading of 'tropical 
geographies' written in the mid-twentieth century. These texts, 
published before geography shifted to systematic studies of 
modernization and underdevelopment, contain material ripe for discursive 
gleaning. They provide information on culturally embedded practices of 
exchange, labour, enterprise and environmental management that can 
contribute to current debates about ethical economies and alternative 
development pathways. A book on the role that tropical geographers 
played in the shaping of modern economies in Asia will be written.

**Convenor
Kersty Hobson
Department of Human Geography, Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies
Email: kersty.hobson at anu.edu.au
Tel: 612 54344

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Sandra Davenport
Department of Human Geography
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
The Australian National University
Canberra  ACT  0200  Australia
Tel: +61-2-612-52205;  Fax: +61-2-6257 1893

http://rspas.anu.edu.au/humgeog/

ANU CRICOS Provider Number 00120C

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