Katherine Gibson and Juan Francisco Salazar of Western Sydney
University, explore what it might mean to live with the rhythms of
nature and with each other in resilient community economies.For more
than half a century, a 1.5 km handmade bamboo bridge spanned the
Mekong River in Cambodia. It was constructed annually as the waters of
the river subsided, and dismantled as they rose again with the monsoon
rains, until in 2017, it was replaced by a concrete structure
permanently connecting the island community of Koh Paen to the
bustling city of Kampong Cham.What can a bamboo bridge teach us about
ingenuity and resilience, respect for renewable materials and ethical
living? Interspersed with clips from their film commemorating this
beautiful, ephemeral bridge, Katherine Gibson and Juan Francisco
Salazar illuminate local practices innovatively harnessed to diversify
livelihoods and build economic resilience.6pm: Welcome drink and
refreshments6.30pm: Talk and Q&AADVANCE BOOKINGS ESSENTIALCash-only
tickets available at the door, subject to availabilityKATHERINE
GIBSONKatherine Gibson is a Professorial Research Fellow in the
Institute for Culture and Society at the Western Sydney University. An
economic geographer with an international reputation for innovative
research on economic transformation, she has more than 30 years’
experience of working with communities to build resilient economies.
As J.K. Gibson-Graham, the collective authorial presence she shares
with the late Julie Graham (Professor of Geography, University of
Massachusetts Amherst), her books include The End of Capitalism (As
We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy (1996) and A
Postcapitalist Politics (2006). Her most recent books are Take Back
the Economy: An Ethical Guide for Transforming Our
Communities, co-authored with Jenny Cameron and Stephen Healy
(2013), Making Other Worlds Possible: Performing Diverse Economies,
co-edited with Gerda Roelvink and Kevin St Martin (2015)
and Manifesto for Living in the Anthropocene, co-edited with Deborah
Bird Rose and Ruth Fincher (2015).JUAN FRANCISCO SALAZARJuan Francisco
Salazar is an Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and
Communication Arts at Western Sydney University, where he is currently
Research Director of the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS). An
anthropologist and filmmaker, his academic and creative work are
concerned with the coupled dynamics of social-environmental change.
Juan Francisco Salazar has worked with a range of communities in
central Australia, Cambodia, Chile, Colombia, Vanuatu and Antarctica
and his latest film The Bamboo Bridge (2019), in collaboration with
Katherine Gibson, follows his award-winning documentary Nightfall on
Gaia (2015), exploring human-environmental relations in times of
abrupt change.Juan Francisco Salazar is leading the Australian
Research Council Linkage Project Antarctic Cities and the Global
Commons: Rethinking the Gateways (2017-2020), and his most recent
publication is the co-edited volume Anthropology and Futures:
Researching Emerging and Uncertain Worlds (2017).What is the
HumanNature Series?In this landmark series of talks, we are proud to
host a stellar line up of leading Australian and international
scholars. They will share with us their insights from history,
literature, philosophy, anthropology and art to examine the
significant interplay between the humanities and the environmental
crisis we face today, including climate change, biodiversity loss and
a wide range of other issues.Image credit: Katherine GibsonPresented
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