{"id":10644,"date":"2023-06-12T23:43:07","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T15:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/kita\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=10644"},"modified":"2023-06-13T11:35:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T03:35:11","slug":"swk2023-03-2","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/kita\/ms\/event\/swk2023-03-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Siri Wacana KITA Bil. 3\/2023: Language and Labour in a Sabah Palm Oil Estate"},"content":{"rendered":"

LANGUAGE AND LABOUR IN A SABAH PALM OIL ESTATE<\/strong>
\nOleh:<\/strong>
\nDr. Andrew M. CARRUTHERS<\/strong>
\nPenolong Profesor Antropologi<\/strong>
\nUniversity of Pennsylvania \/ Felo Pelawat Fulbright<\/strong><\/p>\n

ABSTRAK<\/strong><\/p>\n

Engaging recent anthropological work on \u201cplantation life,\u201d this talk explores the forms of life that interactionally emerge in a palm oil plantation estate in the East Malaysian state of Sabah\u2019s Tawau district, one whose labor force disproportionately consists of ethnically Bugis immigrants from Indonesia. Building on several years of ethnographic research in Sabah, while attending to the ins and outs of everyday and workaday life on Kadera Estate, I explore issues of language and labor, discipline and beauty, and organization and orderliness. Attention to such issues, I argue, invites an ethnographically fine-grained and semiotically sensitive understanding of plantation life as it takes shape and unfolds in the shadow of the Indonesia-Malaysia border.<\/p>\n

PROFAIL PENCERAMAH<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andrew M. Carruthers is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches courses in linguistic anthropology, semiotics, and Southeast Asian Studies, in addition to topical classes on migration and globalization. An ethnographer of language and mobility in Island Southeast Asia, Carruthers studies Malay-speaking migrants\u2019 everyday evaluative practices to better understand how they jointly navigate an archipelagic world.<\/p>\n

Before arriving at Penn, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Max Weber Foundation Research Group on \u201cBorders, Mobility, and New Infrastructures\u201d at the National University of Singapore, and a Visiting Fellow in the Indonesian and Malaysian Studies Programmes at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore.<\/p>\n

Dr. Carruthers is overseas on research leave for the 2022-2023 academic year.
\nE-mail: acarru@sas.upenn.edu<\/p>\n

ATUR CARA TENTATIF<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tarikh: 14 Jun 2023 (Rabu)
\nMasa: 10 pagi \u2013 12 tengah hari (GMT +8)
\nLokasi: Bilik Mesyuarat KITA
\nPlatform: Zoom & KITA Facebook page (pautan di bawah)<\/p>\n

10.00 pagi: Pengenalan oleh Moderator, Prof. Emeritus Dr. James T. Collins
\n10.10 pagi: Seminar oleh Dr. Andrew M. Carruthers
\n11.10 pagi: Sesi Q & A
\n12.00 tengah hari: Penutup<\/p>\n

Sertai melalui Zoom<\/a><\/p>\n

Sertai melalui Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n