indonesian_open FW: SISC seminar 27 May

[Wittman, Leonie]

Message from Steven Drakeley.

-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Drakeley [mailto:s.drakeley at uws.edu.au] 
Sent: Tuesday, 17 May 2005 5:49 PM

Dear colleagues and friends

I am writing to remind you that our fourth SISC seminar of the year will
be 
held at 5.30 on Friday 27 May.

Speaker:  Dr Maria Amigo

Maria completed her PhD in Anthropology at the University of Sydney in 
January this year. She lived in Indonesia, conducting her field work in 
East Lombok, in 2002-2003. Her research interests are in the areas of
the 
Anthropology of Development and Economic Anthropology.

Topic:  "Children" and "Work": Viewpoints from child workers in Lombok.

Abstract:
This paper will address the concept of "work" in connection with the 
concept of "childhood" and discuss how both these socio-historically 
constructed notions have come to be perceived as incompatible. The paper

will explore the ideas of work and labour, counterpoise them with 
vernacular conceptions of "work" where I conducted fieldwork in Lombok, 
Indonesia, and present ethnographic material that will question and
unravel 
the pejorative idea of "child labour". By taking the voices of the same 
working children as key sources of information, the paper aims at 
conceiving child workers as subjects - and not objects - of study.

Time and Date: 5.30 pm Friday 27 May.

Venue: CMO5C.02.46-g

We look forward to seeing you there.

Steven Drakeley
For the SISC Organising Committee