H H Askland
Biographic Data
| ID | 19378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H H Askland |
| GIVEN NAMES | H H |
| FAMILY NAME | Askland |
| SIGNATURE | ASKLAND H H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Newcastle Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6068-027X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A community-based evaluation of an AI Chatbot to support post-coal transitions
Presence, Absence and Ongoing Legacy: Mining Voids, Transition and Post-Industrial Futures in the Hunter Valley, Nsw, Australia
Debates about mining and its impacts on society, health and the environment have long existed. In more recent times, mining’s temporality and increased discussion about degraded landscapes have seen the emergence of theoretical ideas like the ‘minescape’ (Burtynsky 2009), the ‘anti-landscape’ (Nye, 2007), and abstractions such as ‘presence and absence’ also being considered (Jones et al, 2012; Tjandra 2023). This paper responds to and builds upon…
Fair winds: Foregrounding equity within the emerging Australian offshore wind industry
Lost Futures: Eritalgia, Sacrifice and Suffering at the New South Wales Coal Frontier
Embedded within large-scale resource extraction projects is a tension between the immobility of the resource and the mobility of the people who inhabit the surface over which the resource is found. The limited ability to negotiate the place of extraction, and the destruction of prior ecologies, can generate significant hardship to local populations and pose particular ethical dilemmas, as in the small village of Wollar located at the New South Wa…
United in criticism: The discursive politics and coalitions of Australian energy debates on social media
Beyond migration: A critical review of climate change induced displacement
Scholarship on displacement caused by the effects of climate change generally approaches displacement as the involuntary movement of people. However, in this article, we argue that there are uncertainties surrounding Climate Change Induced Displacement (CCID) that are partly caused by discursive ambiguity around the notion of ‘displacement’ – a concept that remains poorly defined in the context of climate change research – and a conflation betwee…
Displacement as Condition: A Refugee, a Farmer and the Teleology of Life
The focus on migration 'crisis' in recent years has reinforced tropes of displacement as a concept that refers to involuntary movement, foreclosing the possibility of thinking through displacement in relation to the politicisation of place more broadly. Here, we take up two radically different case studies - a farmer and a refugee - to ask whether it is possible to speak of displacement beyond assumptions of involuntary mobility, and what theoret…
A Dog Called Neville”: Using Dog Names To Explore Theory And Method In Anthropology
This paper explores our efforts to capture the imaginations of first-year anthropology students and draw them into a space where they could learn to think anthropologically and experience the insights this perspective provides. Usually, creating field-based opportunities for undergraduate students is difficult, but the COVID-19 pandemic made it impossible. Faced with limited opportunities to advance the students’ ethnographic experience and learn…
Mining voids: Extraction and emotion at the Australian coal frontier
Wollar is a small village located in the Mid-Western Region in New South Wales, Australia. Geographically removed, climatically different and culturally distinct from the Arctic, it might seem as a distant case for the exploration of Arctic Uchranotopias and resource extraction; the topic of this Special Issue. Yet, the affective and temporal dimensions of mining are not necessarily restricted to distinct regions, and there are theoretical opport…
A dying village: Mining and the experiential condition of displacement
The local politics of rural land use: Place, extraction industries and narratives of contemporary rurality
This article contributes to discussions of place and social change in rural sociology with a focus on the local politics of rural land use. In particular, the article explores the way that one rural place is responding to changes in the local and regional economy connected with the arrival of extractive industries such as mining and coal seam gas (CSG). The article shows how attitudes towards extractive industries are formed through notions of pl…
Affect, risk and local politics of knowledge: Changing land use in Narrabri, NSW
As conflicts emerge over land use when extractive industries arrive, what counts as legitimate knowledge about the risks generated by these developments becomes important to how individuals formulate their opinions. This article analyses knowledge, risk and perceptions of future land use in the Narrabri Shire, a rural area in Australia. In a risk society, especially a ‘post-truth’ one, the production of knowledge, whether scientific, political, m…
Lived experiences of environmental change: Solastalgia, power and place
If You Lose Your Youth, You Lose Your Heart and Your Future: Affective Figures of Youth in Community Tensions Surrounding a Proposed Coal Seam Gas Project
The article discusses the tensions regarding the challenge to balance agriculture with a proposed coal seam gas mine in Narrabri, a regional centre in New South Wales, Australia, which revolved around notions of youth and 'the future'. 'Youth' as a symbolic category were positioned at the heart of the issues associated with land-use in the region on both sides of the debate. Young people were described throughout the study as an abstract symbol o…
Circulating Stories: E ast T imorese in A ustralia and Questions of Post‐Independence Identity
During the Indonesian occupation of E ast T imor, diasporic groups played a central role in the campaign for self‐determination. Throughout the occupation, E ast T imorese in A ustralia maintained a strong sense of long‐distance nationalism, which drove, directly or indirectly, communal and social activities. The fight to free E ast T imor was at the core of the exiles' collective imagination, defining them as a largely homeland‐focused community…
It was all about independence’: Loss, division and rejuvenation amongst the East Timorese in Melbourne
In this article I explore some of the changes that have occurred in the East‐Timorese community in Melbourne following independence. The focus of the paper is on the process of identification and how there has been a move from a collective identity towards social identity. Through contemporary anthropological conceptualisations of (collective) identity and Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of habitus and social field, I explore how divergence in pre‐ind…
My Life as a Chameleon: Finding the Anthropological Self through Interdisciplinary Collaboration
My Life as a ChameleonFinding the Anthropological Self through Interdisciplinary Collaboration Hedda Haugen Askland (bio) Chameleon: A saurian reptile of the genus Chamæleo, family Chamæleonidæ, small lizard-like creatures, distinguished by a prehensile tail, long tongue, eyes moving independently, and covered each with a single circular eyelid, but esp. by their power of changing the colour of the skin, "varying through different shades of yello…
Habitus, Practice and Agency of Young East Timorese Asylum Seekers in Australia
This article explores the process of agency and empowerment through a case study of a group of young East Timorese asylum seekers who arrived in Australia during the 1990s. Using Bourdieu's concept of habitus and his theory of practice, the article considers how the asylum seekers dealt with the challenges of exile and adjusted to Australian society. In addition to the difficulties asylum seekers normally face in exile, such as limited financial …
Lived experiences of environmental change: Solastalgia, power and place
A dying village: Mining and the experiential condition of displacement
Affect, risk and local politics of knowledge: Changing land use in Narrabri, NSW
As conflicts emerge over land use when extractive industries arrive, what counts as legitimate knowledge about the risks generated by these developments becomes important to how individuals formulate their opinions. This article analyses knowledge, risk and perceptions of future land use in the Narrabri Shire, a rural area in Australia. In a risk society, especially a ‘post-truth’ one, the production of knowledge, whether scientific, political, m…
Displacement as Condition: A Refugee, a Farmer and the Teleology of Life
The focus on migration 'crisis' in recent years has reinforced tropes of displacement as a concept that refers to involuntary movement, foreclosing the possibility of thinking through displacement in relation to the politicisation of place more broadly. Here, we take up two radically different case studies - a farmer and a refugee - to ask whether it is possible to speak of displacement beyond assumptions of involuntary mobility, and what theoret…
It was all about independence’: Loss, division and rejuvenation amongst the East Timorese in Melbourne
In this article I explore some of the changes that have occurred in the East‐Timorese community in Melbourne following independence. The focus of the paper is on the process of identification and how there has been a move from a collective identity towards social identity. Through contemporary anthropological conceptualisations of (collective) identity and Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of habitus and social field, I explore how divergence in pre‐ind…
Habitus, Practice and Agency of Young East Timorese Asylum Seekers in Australia
This article explores the process of agency and empowerment through a case study of a group of young East Timorese asylum seekers who arrived in Australia during the 1990s. Using Bourdieu's concept of habitus and his theory of practice, the article considers how the asylum seekers dealt with the challenges of exile and adjusted to Australian society. In addition to the difficulties asylum seekers normally face in exile, such as limited financial …
Mining voids: Extraction and emotion at the Australian coal frontier
Wollar is a small village located in the Mid-Western Region in New South Wales, Australia. Geographically removed, climatically different and culturally distinct from the Arctic, it might seem as a distant case for the exploration of Arctic Uchranotopias and resource extraction; the topic of this Special Issue. Yet, the affective and temporal dimensions of mining are not necessarily restricted to distinct regions, and there are theoretical opport…
The local politics of rural land use: Place, extraction industries and narratives of contemporary rurality
This article contributes to discussions of place and social change in rural sociology with a focus on the local politics of rural land use. In particular, the article explores the way that one rural place is responding to changes in the local and regional economy connected with the arrival of extractive industries such as mining and coal seam gas (CSG). The article shows how attitudes towards extractive industries are formed through notions of pl…
My Life as a Chameleon: Finding the Anthropological Self through Interdisciplinary Collaboration
My Life as a ChameleonFinding the Anthropological Self through Interdisciplinary Collaboration Hedda Haugen Askland (bio) Chameleon: A saurian reptile of the genus Chamæleo, family Chamæleonidæ, small lizard-like creatures, distinguished by a prehensile tail, long tongue, eyes moving independently, and covered each with a single circular eyelid, but esp. by their power of changing the colour of the skin, "varying through different shades of yello…
United in criticism: The discursive politics and coalitions of Australian energy debates on social media
If You Lose Your Youth, You Lose Your Heart and Your Future: Affective Figures of Youth in Community Tensions Surrounding a Proposed Coal Seam Gas Project
The article discusses the tensions regarding the challenge to balance agriculture with a proposed coal seam gas mine in Narrabri, a regional centre in New South Wales, Australia, which revolved around notions of youth and 'the future'. 'Youth' as a symbolic category were positioned at the heart of the issues associated with land-use in the region on both sides of the debate. Young people were described throughout the study as an abstract symbol o…
Habitus, Practice and Agency of Young East Timorese Asylum Seekers in Australia
This article explores the process of agency and empowerment through a case study of a group of young East Timorese asylum seekers who arrived in Australia during the 1990s. Using Bourdieu's concept of habitus and his theory of practice, the article considers how the asylum seekers dealt with the challenges of exile and adjusted to Australian society. In addition to the difficulties asylum seekers normally face in exile, such as limited financial …
My Life as a Chameleon: Finding the Anthropological Self through Interdisciplinary Collaboration
My Life as a ChameleonFinding the Anthropological Self through Interdisciplinary Collaboration Hedda Haugen Askland (bio) Chameleon: A saurian reptile of the genus Chamæleo, family Chamæleonidæ, small lizard-like creatures, distinguished by a prehensile tail, long tongue, eyes moving independently, and covered each with a single circular eyelid, but esp. by their power of changing the colour of the skin, "varying through different shades of yello…
Circulating Stories: E ast T imorese in A ustralia and Questions of Post‐Independence Identity
During the Indonesian occupation of E ast T imor, diasporic groups played a central role in the campaign for self‐determination. Throughout the occupation, E ast T imorese in A ustralia maintained a strong sense of long‐distance nationalism, which drove, directly or indirectly, communal and social activities. The fight to free E ast T imor was at the core of the exiles' collective imagination, defining them as a largely homeland‐focused community…
It was all about independence’: Loss, division and rejuvenation amongst the East Timorese in Melbourne
In this article I explore some of the changes that have occurred in the East‐Timorese community in Melbourne following independence. The focus of the paper is on the process of identification and how there has been a move from a collective identity towards social identity. Through contemporary anthropological conceptualisations of (collective) identity and Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of habitus and social field, I explore how divergence in pre‐ind…
A dying village: Mining and the experiential condition of displacement
The local politics of rural land use: Place, extraction industries and narratives of contemporary rurality
This article contributes to discussions of place and social change in rural sociology with a focus on the local politics of rural land use. In particular, the article explores the way that one rural place is responding to changes in the local and regional economy connected with the arrival of extractive industries such as mining and coal seam gas (CSG). The article shows how attitudes towards extractive industries are formed through notions of pl…
Affect, risk and local politics of knowledge: Changing land use in Narrabri, NSW
As conflicts emerge over land use when extractive industries arrive, what counts as legitimate knowledge about the risks generated by these developments becomes important to how individuals formulate their opinions. This article analyses knowledge, risk and perceptions of future land use in the Narrabri Shire, a rural area in Australia. In a risk society, especially a ‘post-truth’ one, the production of knowledge, whether scientific, political, m…
Lived experiences of environmental change: Solastalgia, power and place
If You Lose Your Youth, You Lose Your Heart and Your Future: Affective Figures of Youth in Community Tensions Surrounding a Proposed Coal Seam Gas Project
The article discusses the tensions regarding the challenge to balance agriculture with a proposed coal seam gas mine in Narrabri, a regional centre in New South Wales, Australia, which revolved around notions of youth and 'the future'. 'Youth' as a symbolic category were positioned at the heart of the issues associated with land-use in the region on both sides of the debate. Young people were described throughout the study as an abstract symbol o…
Mining voids: Extraction and emotion at the Australian coal frontier
Wollar is a small village located in the Mid-Western Region in New South Wales, Australia. Geographically removed, climatically different and culturally distinct from the Arctic, it might seem as a distant case for the exploration of Arctic Uchranotopias and resource extraction; the topic of this Special Issue. Yet, the affective and temporal dimensions of mining are not necessarily restricted to distinct regions, and there are theoretical opport…
A Dog Called Neville”: Using Dog Names To Explore Theory And Method In Anthropology
This paper explores our efforts to capture the imaginations of first-year anthropology students and draw them into a space where they could learn to think anthropologically and experience the insights this perspective provides. Usually, creating field-based opportunities for undergraduate students is difficult, but the COVID-19 pandemic made it impossible. Faced with limited opportunities to advance the students’ ethnographic experience and learn…
Beyond migration: A critical review of climate change induced displacement
Scholarship on displacement caused by the effects of climate change generally approaches displacement as the involuntary movement of people. However, in this article, we argue that there are uncertainties surrounding Climate Change Induced Displacement (CCID) that are partly caused by discursive ambiguity around the notion of ‘displacement’ – a concept that remains poorly defined in the context of climate change research – and a conflation betwee…
Displacement as Condition: A Refugee, a Farmer and the Teleology of Life
The focus on migration 'crisis' in recent years has reinforced tropes of displacement as a concept that refers to involuntary movement, foreclosing the possibility of thinking through displacement in relation to the politicisation of place more broadly. Here, we take up two radically different case studies - a farmer and a refugee - to ask whether it is possible to speak of displacement beyond assumptions of involuntary mobility, and what theoret…
Lost Futures: Eritalgia, Sacrifice and Suffering at the New South Wales Coal Frontier
Embedded within large-scale resource extraction projects is a tension between the immobility of the resource and the mobility of the people who inhabit the surface over which the resource is found. The limited ability to negotiate the place of extraction, and the destruction of prior ecologies, can generate significant hardship to local populations and pose particular ethical dilemmas, as in the small village of Wollar located at the New South Wa…
United in criticism: The discursive politics and coalitions of Australian energy debates on social media
Presence, Absence and Ongoing Legacy: Mining Voids, Transition and Post-Industrial Futures in the Hunter Valley, Nsw, Australia
Debates about mining and its impacts on society, health and the environment have long existed. In more recent times, mining’s temporality and increased discussion about degraded landscapes have seen the emergence of theoretical ideas like the ‘minescape’ (Burtynsky 2009), the ‘anti-landscape’ (Nye, 2007), and abstractions such as ‘presence and absence’ also being considered (Jones et al, 2012; Tjandra 2023). This paper responds to and builds upon…
Fair winds: Foregrounding equity within the emerging Australian offshore wind industry
A community-based evaluation of an AI Chatbot to support post-coal transitions
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (9 works) · Geography (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Mining and Resource Management (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Social science (5 works)