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The KenyanistFuzzy arithmetic: Kenya’s 42+ ethnic groupsFor many Kenyans, being part of an ethnic group is an important mark of their identity. It symbolizes belonging, and access to resources. The question of which ethnic groups belong in Kenya is another part of this salient debate.
Ethnicity is often used as a means of mobilizing for state resources especially around elections. The question of which ethnic groups belong in Kenya therefore elicits sensitive emotions as some groups have in the past been denied citizenship on the basis of their ethnicity. Moreover, when the question of how many tribes are in Kenya...
2023-10-1841 min
Welcome?Beyond Kokoda II: Welcome to KokodaSince the early 1990s Kokoda, in Papua New Guinea’s Oro Province, has become a site of intense national feeling for many Australians. Thousands travel to Oro each year to complete the 96km track that runs from Kokoda Station to Port Moresby, in an act of remembrance of the conflict waged there in 1942 between Australian and Japanese forces. More than 45 years after the end of Australian colonial administration of PNG, the Kokoda Track is one of the few spaces when ordinary Papua New Guineans and Australians have much to do with one another.In this episode, we...
2021-03-0532 minWelcome?Beyond Kokoda I: KapurakamboCommunities across Papua New Guinea’s Oro Province were profoundly affected by the Second World War, and the fighting between Australia, American, and Japanese forces that was waged on their lands. In the years since, the Kokoda Track has become a focal point for many Australian tourists looking to commemorate the war. But there are many other communities across PNG whose wartime experiences don’t attract that same kind of attention or recognition.In this episode we travel to one of these lesser-known places, a small village called Kapurakambo in PNG’s Oro Province. The community there de...
2021-03-0530 minWelcome?Nubian Nostalgia: Part 2This is part two of a two part episode. Head to our feed for part one.Kenya’s Nubians are an ethnic minority who found themselves in the country after having served the British as soldiers during the colonial period and in both World wars. They were originally from Sudan, but over many generations have come to see themselves as Kenyan, even though the Kenyan government has only recently recognised them as citizens.The story of Kenya’s Nubians illustrates the impossible positions that so many people were put in by Imperial powers: brou...
2021-03-0523 minWelcome?Nubian Nostalgia: Part 1This is part one of a two part episode. Head to our feed for part two.Kenya’s Nubians are an ethnic minority who found themselves in the country after having served the British as soldiers during the colonial period and in both World wars. They were originally from Sudan, but over many generations have come to see themselves as Kenyan, even though the Kenyan government has only recently recognised them as citizens.The story of Kenya’s Nubians illustrates the impossible positions that so many people were put in by Imperial powers: brou...
2021-03-0528 minWelcome?Radical Poetics: Writing Forward, Writing BlakThe English language is an import to this country. As with the foreign flora and fauna brought by the boats to the shores, language spread where the speakers settled; thrown over like a blanket on the same bed where the pillows of the ‘dying race’ were being smoothed.And yet, we survived.Indigenous poets who have been published since owe a lot to the landmark publication of Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s 1964 collection We are Going, the first published collection of poetry from an Aboriginal person in this country. In the time since, poets have ‘written bac...
2021-03-0529 minWelcome?On the RoadListeners are warned that the episode includes the name of an Aboriginal person that has died. His name is used with permission.Native title in Australia is sometimes celebrated as a successful form of recognition for Indigenous people. But the way the law works means the rights of Indigenous people are required to co-exist with those of settlers and their descendants. This is the case in Wilinggin in the Kimberley region of North West Australia. Here, Ngarinyin people who never ceded their land live alongside cattle station owners, tourism operators and other Aboriginal people, and though...
2021-03-0550 minWelcome?The Longing of Like Souls: Part 2This is part two of a two part episode. Head to our feed for part one.In this episode, we explore Africa as not some out of the way place riddled with poverty and conflict, but as a more ordinary place that is home to ordinary people, and the place from which they welcome – or not – their many and varied visitors. We explore the human connections that are possible, and those that have been made more difficult by traumatic colonial pasts. But we also talk about Africa, and Africans, as inherently worldly, both bigger and older than...
2021-03-0424 minWelcome?The Longing of Like Souls: Part 1This is part one of a two part episode. Head to our feed for part two.In this episode, we explore Africa as not some out of the way place riddled with poverty and conflict, but as a more ordinary place that is home to ordinary people, and the place from which they welcome – or not – their many and varied visitors. We explore the human connections that are possible, and those that have been made more difficult by traumatic colonial pasts. But we also talk about Africa, and Africans, as inherently worldly, both bigger and older than...
2021-03-0427 minWelcome?TrailerA podcast telling stories about colonised landscapes, and the people who meet in them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2020-11-0302 min
?????????????????????Episode #16: Akhil Gupta with Sam Balaton-ChrimesWe are firmly in our teens now, back in your feed with Episode 16. In this episode, David is accompanied in his hosting duties by Sam Balaton-Chrimes, Lecturer in Politics at Deakin University. Their guest is Akhil Gupta, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles and also a visiting Professor of Anthropology and Development Studies at the University of Melbourne. This episode, like Akhil's work, explores questions of transnational capitalism, infrastructure, and corruption, primarily in India. Akhil’s work has become required reading across the discipline, interrogating anthropological theory from the margins, drawing on critiques of development, postcoloniality, gl...
2018-09-261h 00
Conversations in AnthropologyEpisode #15: Akhil Gupta with Sam Balaton-ChrimesWe are firmly in our teens now, back in your feed with Episode 16. In this episode, David is accompanied in his hosting duties by Sam Balaton-Chrimes, Lecturer in Politics at Deakin University. Their guest is Akhil Gupta, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles and also a visiting Professor of Anthropology and Development Studies at the University of Melbourne. This episode, like Akhil's work, explores questions of transnational capitalism, infrastructure, and corruption, primarily in India. Akhil’s work has become required reading across the discipline, interrogating anthropological theory from the margins, drawing on critiques of development, postcoloniality, gl...
2018-09-261h 00?????????????????????Episode #15: Akhil Gupta with Sam Balaton-ChrimesWe are firmly in our teens now, back in your feed with Episode 16. In this episode, David is accompanied in his hosting duties by Sam Balaton-Chrimes, Lecturer in Politics at Deakin University. Their guest is Akhil Gupta, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles and also a visiting Professor of Anthropology and Development Studies at the University of Melbourne. This episode, like Akhil's work, explores questions of transnational capitalism, infrastructure, and corruption, primarily in India. Akhil’s work has become required reading across the discipline, interrogating anthropological theory from the margins, drawing on critiques of development, postcoloniality, gl...
2018-09-261h 00