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Tonan Talk “Burmese women migrant workers in Thailand: Managing productive and reproductive responsibilities”
Title: Burmese women migrant workers in Thailand: Managing productive and reproductive responsibilities Speaker: Dr.Kyoko Kusakabe, Associate Professor, Gender and Development Studies, School of Environment, Resources and Development, Asian Institute of Technology Date: July 25 (Fri.), 12.00-13.30, 2014 Place: Meeting Room (Room No. 107) on the 1st Floor of East Building, CSEAS, Kyoto University Abstract: This presentation is a case study of Burmese women migrant workers in Thailand, and it argues that even in increasingly unstable circumstances women migrant workers have to continue to balance their reproductive responsibilities as mothers and daughters with their on-going roles as wage workers and economic providers, often managing complex trans-border care arrangements. The paper extends […]
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Tonan Talk “The Place of the Dead: Queer Performance, Modern Ruins, and Dictatorship Architecture”
Title: The Place of the Dead: Queer Performance, Modern Ruins, and Dictatorship Architecture Speaker: Dr. Bobby Benedicto Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow in the Humanities, McGill University Date: February 17 (Tue.), 16.00-18.00, 2015 Place: Tonan-tei (Room No. 201), CSEAS, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University Abstract: This paper examines the aftereffects of authoritarian power through an ethnographic account of queer performances set in the ageing Brutalist structures of the Philippine capital, Manila. Focusing on the megalithic public buildings erected under the orders of former first lady, Imelda Marcos, the paper suggests that the modern ruins of dictatorship architecture function paradoxically, as avatars for the violences and excesses of unbridled […]
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