[ANU Pacific.Institute] State, Religion and the Environment in the Pacific - A Masterclass with Edvard Hviding

[Nicholas Mortimer]

This is a call for interest in a Masterclass for postgraduate students and ECRs with Professor Edvard Hviding, University of Bergen and European Consortium for Pacific Studies (ECOPAS)
Date: 17 March, 2015
Time: 10 -12 pm (to be followed by lunch)
Venue: Graduate Room, Fellows (University House)
This Masterclass addresses a trio of recent works, dealing with Professor Hviding’s fieldwork record, with the rise of the social movement called the Christian fellowship Church, and with a current reconfiguration of rural wealth, all in the New Georgia/Marovo Lagoon area of the Western Solomons. These three works provide a methodologically based set of insights into a longue duree of developments under the radar of macro-level views of the Solomons (and thus a set of strong arguments FOR long-term anthropological fieldwork), as well as a portrayal of how unexpected things may happen during a long span of recurrent fieldwork.
Edvard Hviding is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, Director of the Bergen Pacific Studies Research Group, and Coordinator of the European Consortium for Pacific Studies (ECOPAS), an EU-funded network of European and Pacific research institutions. In 2012-13 he was Chair of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. Since 1986, Hviding has been engaged in long-term anthropological research in Solomon Islands. His research interests cover many interrelated topics in social, environmental and historical anthropology, including fishing, agroforestry and the customary tenure of sea and land; kinship and social organization; the cultural history and languages of New Georgia; colonial encounters; environmental knowledge and epistemology; customary law, leadership and dispossession; and the local manifestations and consequences of globalization. Most recently he has initiated a programme of comparative anthropological research on vernacular models of, and Pacific policies concerning, changes in environment, weather and climate. Among his publications are the monographs Guardians of Marovo Lagoon (1996), Islands of Rainforest (2000, with T. Bayliss-Smith), and Reef and Rainforest: An Environmental Encyclopedia of Marovo Lagoon (2005), and the edited volumes Made in Oceania (2011, with K.M. Rio), The Ethnographic Experiment (2014, with C. Berg), and Pacific Alternatives (2015, with G.M. White).
As we have limited places, we ask students to register in advance. Those wanting to participate should email nicholas.mortimer at anu.edu.au<mailto:nicholas.mortimer at anu.edu.au> by 2 March 2015. Please ensure that you send us the following information:
1) Title of thesis/project, and a note to indicate whether it is an MA, PhD or ECR project.
2) Name and affiliation (discipline, school etc)
3) A brief abstract/synopsis of your thesis/research project
Upon registering your interest you will be sent the following work by Prof. Hviding. These readings are a prerequisite of your participation and will form the basis of discussion:
Hviding, Edvard 2011. "Re-placing the State in the Western Solomon Islands: The Political Rise of the Christian Fellowship Church", in Made in Oceania: Social Movements, Cultural Heritage and the State in the Pacific, Edvard Hviding and Knut M. Rio (eds.), 51-89. Wantage, Oxon.: Sean Kingston Publishing.
Hviding, Edvard 2012. "Compressed globalization and expanding desires in Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands", in Returns to the Field: Multitemporal Research and Contemporary Anthropology, Signe Howell and Aud Talle (eds.), 203-229. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Hviding, Edvard nd. "Big Money in the Rural: Wealth and Dispossession in Western Solomons Political Economy." Under review for Journal of Pacific History, Special Issue edited by M. Allen, S. Dinnen & T. Kabutaulaka, 48 (2015).

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