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SUMMARY:Social Anthropology Seminar - Monday\, 26th October 2015 - Liana 
 Chua\, University of Brunel
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DESCRIPTION:Social Anthropology Seminar\nMonday\, 26th October 2015\n4:15
 -6:00pm \n(Tea and Coffee will be available outside the boardroom at 4:0
 0pm)\nLiana Chua\, University of Brunel\n\nIf God is with us\, who can b
 e against us? Moral temporalities and Christian cosmopolitics in Sarawak
 \, Malaysian Borneo\n\nThis paper puts two recent bodies of work – the a
 nthropology of Christianity and literature on ‘indigenous cosmopolitics’
  – in dialogue by exploring Christianity as a form of political critique
  and engagement among Bidayuhs in Malaysian Borneo. Drawing on fieldwork
  on a dam-construction and resettlement project\, I examine the imbricat
 ion of both God and Christian morality with a group of affected villager
 s’ long-running struggle to resist the whole scheme. I suggest that far 
 from turning away from the politics of a domineering\, developmentalist 
 government\, their efforts entail an attempt to reframe the terms of the
 ir engagement with the state and to forge a new kind of politics. At the
  same time\, I consider the implications of moving beyond anthropologist
 s’ default stance of ‘methodological atheism’ by taking God and other Ch
 ristian personages seriously as agentive social presences in earthly rel
 ations and events.\n\n2.016/2.017\, Second Floor Boardroom\, Arthur Lewi
 s Building\nALL WELCOME!\n
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LOCATION:2nd floor Boardroom - 2.016 / .017\, Arthur Lewis Building\, Man
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