Siri Wacana KITA Bil. 3/2023: Language and Labour in a Sabah Palm Oil Estate

LANGUAGE AND LABOUR IN A SABAH PALM OIL ESTATE
Oleh:
Dr. Andrew M. CARRUTHERS
Penolong Profesor Antropologi
University of Pennsylvania / Felo Pelawat Fulbright

ABSTRAK

Engaging recent anthropological work on “plantation life,” this talk explores the forms of life that interactionally emerge in a palm oil plantation estate in the East Malaysian state of Sabah’s 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.

PROFAIL PENCERAMAH

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’ everyday evaluative practices to better understand how they jointly navigate an archipelagic world.

Before arriving at Penn, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Max Weber Foundation Research Group on “Borders, Mobility, and New Infrastructures” 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.

Dr. Carruthers is overseas on research leave for the 2022-2023 academic year.
E-mail: acarru@sas.upenn.edu

ATUR CARA TENTATIF

Tarikh: 14 Jun 2023 (Rabu)
Masa: 10 pagi – 12 tengah hari (GMT +8)
Lokasi: Bilik Mesyuarat KITA
Platform: Zoom & KITA Facebook page (pautan di bawah)

10.00 pagi: Pengenalan oleh Moderator, Prof. Emeritus Dr. James T. Collins
10.10 pagi: Seminar oleh Dr. Andrew M. Carruthers
11.10 pagi: Sesi Q & A
12.00 tengah hari: Penutup

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