https://vickiezhang.com vickie zhang Wed, 31 Dec 2025 11:45:42 +0000 https://vickiezhang.com en https://vickiezhang.com/Home-title Fri, 02 Jun 2023 02:33:44 +0000 vickie zhang https://vickiezhang.com/Home-title MISCELLANEOUS UPDATES https://vickiezhang.com/12-25-Promises-Promises Wed, 31 Dec 2025 11:45:42 +0000 vickie zhang https://vickiezhang.com/12-25-Promises-Promises Compilation — “The Promise of Cultural Geography”What somehow has come to feel like the main thing I’ve been working on throughout 2025 has been a side project with Ben Anderson up in Durham called The Promise of Cultural Geography, put out on our new publisher,&nbsp;Cultural Geography (Un)limited Editions, which we (frankly) established to put out the book (more on that in a future post...). The Promises project followed on from the 50th anniversary event for the RGS-IBG Social and Cultural Geography Research Group that I last wrote about, out of which Chris Philo and I wrote the Revisiting New Words, New Worlds&nbsp;correspondence piece. To pair that ‘backwards-looking’ reflection, Ben and I hatched out a plan for a more ‘forwards-looking’ (or perhaps ‘stock-taking’) project, one that hoped to grasp at the multiplicty of the sub-discipline as it was being practiced in diverse corners and quarters of the world. At the start of the year, we sent out an open call for single-word submissions of between 1 and 1,000 words, in any style or form, in response to the question ‘What, for you, is the promise of cultural geography?’ That call-out became Promises,&nbsp;a compilation of 86 single- and multi-authored entries responding to this perhaps rather engimatic question. (Indeed, I enjoyed chatting to my Chinese colleagues about how to translate the different meanings and connotations of the word ‘promise’, for which there is no single equivalent in Mandarin, including&nbsp;the sense of a pledge, an oath, a commitment, its directedness, futurity, uncertainty, even failure...) In addition to the open-access digital copy (‘unlimited’), we also did a short run printed book (‘limited’), which we launched at the RGS-IBG Dialogues in Human Geography Discussion Forum ‘The future of cultural geography: promises and dreams’, alongside a stellar lineup of reflections and provocations by Adam Searle, Sasha Engelmann, Anna Secor, Leila Dawney and Chris Philo. We were absolutely delighted to have the book beautifully printed by Gomer Press in Llandysul, Wales, with a embossed hot pink cover, textured cream paper, and a flurorescent-orange-stitched naked spine. Big props go to Merle Patchett for style tips on colours and textures for the print version.&nbsp; Print copies are available for £10 + £3 postage worldwide&nbsp;— just get in touch with me by email if you’d like a copy. We managed to sell over 100 copies at the conference&nbsp;— a huge thanks goes to Catherine Souch and Sarah Evans of the RGS-IBG for taking care of the books at the registration desk.&nbsp; If you’re interested in hearing more about the origins and unfoldings of the project, Ben and I recently joined a podcast about the project at the Channel, the podcast of the Institute of Asian Studies at the Universiteit Leiden. We were generously hosted by Ben Linder, who got in touch with us to learn more about the project. Ben asked some really banger questions, and it was an absolute delight to speak with him.We are so grateful to every person who saw ‘promise’ in the Promise project. Ben and I are planning another collective project in the coming year, with much more planned for ‘cg(u)le’ — so stay tuned, and please, please consider sending something in! We’d love to have you. 12/2025 <img width="1748" height="2480" width_o="1748" height_o="2480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ab5c7eff5fc8e423d1c0bce37712a253a15d4c7b41b90ba80c6980315abfeccb/cover-flowers.jpg" data-mid="242301037" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ab5c7eff5fc8e423d1c0bce37712a253a15d4c7b41b90ba80c6980315abfeccb/cover-flowers.jpg" /> <img width="1748" height="2480" width_o="1748" height_o="2480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/94b450ac9e87365eafe720d1fc94b65457aecf626fcf77a1b8c31cb35bd21392/cover-back_final.jpg" data-mid="242301480" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/94b450ac9e87365eafe720d1fc94b65457aecf626fcf77a1b8c31cb35bd21392/cover-back_final.jpg" /> Citation: Zhang, V., &amp; Anderson, B. (2025). The promise of cultural geography. Cultural Geography (Un)limited Editions: Bristol and Durham.&nbsp;https://doi.org/10.71706/8dfd3ca0-0a6d-49ce-abdb-568a7ccbb807Podcast about the project at ‘The Channel’, the podcast from IIAS at Leiden University:&nbsp;https://www.iias.asia/the-channel/promise-cultural-geography <img width="1204" height="1600" width_o="1204" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fe38686ecdbecc7dde25ef8f7845e95bea73ea9ed786ccf33655937a7465d2e8/promises-prologue.jpeg" data-mid="242301478" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fe38686ecdbecc7dde25ef8f7845e95bea73ea9ed786ccf33655937a7465d2e8/promises-prologue.jpeg" /> <img width="1600" height="1204" width_o="1600" height_o="1204" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/17a1929479b6583ac392d115632bde274d1d36df78fa9f23e01427a1478dc688/promises-spread.jpeg" data-mid="242301486" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/17a1929479b6583ac392d115632bde274d1d36df78fa9f23e01427a1478dc688/promises-spread.jpeg" /> <img width="1204" height="1600" width_o="1204" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/32af840290d7dca942bafd238ab36b001147f36c4cf4811956abeb178b4a5361/promises-back.jpeg" data-mid="242301477" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/32af840290d7dca942bafd238ab36b001147f36c4cf4811956abeb178b4a5361/promises-back.jpeg" /> <img width="1204" height="1600" width_o="1204" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e0570e65622303122c96addbbc782085040b35778ea1795f548b0ecf80bbabf6/promises-thumb.jpeg" data-mid="242301476" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e0570e65622303122c96addbbc782085040b35778ea1795f548b0ecf80bbabf6/promises-thumb.jpeg" /> <img width="1204" height="1600" width_o="1204" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/876c52628d640a737312e573a44496ccd5804df7d558e01e0eccc8d9f1851ba1/promises-coffeetable.jpeg" data-mid="242301487" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/876c52628d640a737312e573a44496ccd5804df7d558e01e0eccc8d9f1851ba1/promises-coffeetable.jpeg" /> https://vickiezhang.com/01-25-Correspondence-Revisiting-New-Words-New-Worlds Thu, 28 Dec 2023 00:01:29 +0000 vickie zhang https://vickiezhang.com/01-25-Correspondence-Revisiting-New-Words-New-Worlds Book — “Revisiting New Words, New Worlds: A Correspondence, June-September 2024” Last November, Chris Philo and I put out a ‘correspondence’ in the form a small self-published book (seems impertinent to call it a book, but I suppose that’s an accurate description of the physical form it takes). The correspondence reflected on the early life of the Social and Cultural Geography Research Group (SCGRG) of the RGS-IBG and its role in the emergence of the influential ‘New Cultural Geography’ in the 1980s and 90s, specifically around the publication New Words, New Worlds published November 1991. &nbsp; Several timelines converged and intertwined themselves early in 2024 to bring this project to life.&nbsp; The earliest goes back to Chris examining my PhD thesis in early 2021. In the years since, we’ve kept in touch, and in the course of preparing lectures for an introduction to cultural geography unit as I started at Bristol,&nbsp;New Words, New Worlds kept cropping up in my reading - and yet, no matter where I looked, I couldn’t seem to find a copy. Seeing the Chris was the compiler, I got in touch to ask him about it.When the 50th anniversary of the SCGRG came up (of which I’ve been Treasurer the last few years), Chris and I came up with the idea to make NWNW available again, to honour the role of the group in bringing the original publication together, and to put some contextualising words to the life NWNW has taken in the 33 years since. To pull this together, Chris and I exchanged emails every few weeks for much of 2024. I loved receiving each thoughtful missive, and I’m thankful to Chris for taking the time to engage so wholeheartedly in this correspondence. 3/2025<img width="3508" height="2480" width_o="3508" height_o="2480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c4059bdb246bfb10d9932dec81321b71a972e08d3de747f987d5553ce084653a/RevisitingNWNW-cover-flattenedA4.png" data-mid="225623669" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c4059bdb246bfb10d9932dec81321b71a972e08d3de747f987d5553ce084653a/RevisitingNWNW-cover-flattenedA4.png" /> Citation: Philo, C. &amp; Zhang, V. (2024). Revisiting ‘New Words, New Worlds’: A Correspondence. Social and Cultural Geography Research Group: Bristol. https://doi.org/10.71706/29b99027-6c3b-46ab-bf6b-54a74a746105Learn more about the SCGRG 50th event and publication, and read the original New Words, New Worlds:&nbsp;https://scgrg.co.uk/50th https://vickiezhang.com/01-24-Article-Embodying-industrial-transitions-TiBG Mon, 27 Jan 2025 20:50:12 +0000 vickie zhang https://vickiezhang.com/01-24-Article-Embodying-industrial-transitions-TiBG New paper — “Embodying industrial transitions: Melancholy loss, interrupted habit and transitional memory after the end of a coal mine“ After finally finding some time to write between moving from Singapore to Bristol, I’ve recently had a paper published in Transactions drawing on my PhD research on two coal mine closures in Australia and China. The overall project aimed to trace the gamut of ways in which workers responded to the unwilled changes presented by the mine closures, exploring how people embodied the closure’s afterlife through changing circumstances, intensities and evaluations.&nbsp;This particular paper presents a slice of this project that focuses on the slower-paced bodiy transformations afoot in everyday life, and the non-linear intensities associated with these melancholy transitions. It’s an attempt to show (what might be called) ‘non-representational’ and ‘representational’ forces as always imbricated in embodied life, through the plural operation of memory in unfolding experience. I use the term ‘affective transition’ to denote this transformative process, but something about the term is still unsatisfactory to me insofar as it suggests clear boundaries for a timespaces whose fuzzy edges necessarily reach across unremembered pasts, unassimilated presents and unrealised futures (as I argue in the paper). So the paradoxes remain. I first wrote up these ideas during my PhD, so as a piece of work it feels old despite being newly out. I did enjoy coming back to the vignettes and smoothing out the original argument, but I think I’ve had enough of this more didactic academic writing style for the next while. In this version, I ended up grounding the narrative in the idea of ‘memory’ because I felt it resonated more widely, but I do think ‘melancholy’ really is the driving void at the heart of this paper - it’s an affective condition that keeps calling to me, and no doubt I’ll continue to grapple with it in the future.&nbsp; 2/2024<img width="2100" height="1750" width_o="2100" height_o="1750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/82feac2a9d00e7699aa78729b609e9ff4013f18335ba7b774c700469bca95ba4/Graphical_Abstract.png" data-mid="225623018" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/82feac2a9d00e7699aa78729b609e9ff4013f18335ba7b774c700469bca95ba4/Graphical_Abstract.png" /> Citation: Zhang, V. (2024). Embodying industrial transitions: Melancholy loss, interrupted habit and transitional memory after the end of a coal mine. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. doi.org/10.1111/tran.12672 https://vickiezhang.com/12-23-New-paper-Negative-affects-PiHG-copy Fri, 05 Apr 2024 09:12:24 +0000 vickie zhang https://vickiezhang.com/12-23-New-paper-Negative-affects-PiHG-copy New paper&nbsp;— “What should we do with bad feelings? Negative affects, impotential responses” Thomas Dekeyser, David Bissell and I have a new article out open access in Progress in Human Geography on the politics of ‘negative affects’.&nbsp; We explore the ethics of responding to bad feeling in human geography, identifying an ‘ethics of rehabilitation’ which recurs across the discipline, that seeks to repair bad feeling through attempts to work away negativity and activate latent potential. Against this persistent desire to overcome negativity and seek potential, we ask why, and how, geographers might explicitly make space for impotentiality. We outline two forms of impotentiality — incapacities (when one is unable to act) and negative capacities (when one decides not to act) — and draw on these positions to put forward an ‘ethics of impotentiality’ that, we suggest, might sidestep some of the more troubling effects of the rehabilitative position, and acknowledge the validity not only of bad feelings, but also the impotence that one might experience in the face of those overwhelming feelings. Despite the topic matter, writing with these with these two irrepressibly brilliant and kind people was only full of good feels, and I’m looking forward to working with them again. We would love to hear your thoughts on the article if you find time to read it. 12/2023 <img width="6667" height="3750" width_o="6667" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0e029ea3147eff1db7774533e7c5f4d745eed462760473444ea856111db2166d/NegativeAffects_tweet-abstract.jpg" data-mid="208345640" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0e029ea3147eff1db7774533e7c5f4d745eed462760473444ea856111db2166d/NegativeAffects_tweet-abstract.jpg" />Citation: Dekeyser, T., Zhang, V., &amp; Bissell, D. (2023). What should we do with bad feelings? Negative affects, impotential responses. Progress in Human Geography. doi.org/10.1177/03091325231213513 https://vickiezhang.com/10-23-Field-trip-Hengyang-China-with-Geography-at-Guangzhou-University Thu, 28 Dec 2023 01:24:28 +0000 vickie zhang https://vickiezhang.com/10-23-Field-trip-Hengyang-China-with-Geography-at-Guangzhou-University Field trip&nbsp;— Hengyang, Hunan, ChinaIt’s been a year for unexpected field trips — this time with second year undergraduates from Guangzhou University’s geography program during my extended visit to GZU’s Centre for Human Geography and Urban Development this autumn. Together, we rode the old 绿皮车 ‘green-skin’ slow train; learned about the important work on intangible cultural heritage by geography colleagues at Hengyang Normal University; (futilely) attempted to disentangle the Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian influences at the Great Temple of Nanyue; climbed (or rather strolled a paved road up) sacred Mount Heng, one of China’s Five Great Mountains; burned our mouths on the aromatic but **spicy** Hunan cuisine; and burned the midnight oil with students preparing for their research presentations on the final day.Alongside our group activities, the students were tasked with undertaking a mini research project in three days, and they blew me away with their dedication, ingenuity, teamwork, persistence and style.&nbsp; I had a lot of fun exploring this new city, hearing about what excites and ails students today, and above all learning from the wonderful teaching crew — Yuan Zhenjie, Yang Rong, Teng Li &amp; Chen Xiaoyue. I am so thankful that they allowed me join them.&nbsp; 10/2023 <img width="1600" height="1066" width_o="1600" height_o="1066" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f9e50398b3b924f474217bacc25273a5f2016d22af52460e92a6e715cfb38ae9/11.jpg" data-mid="200227740" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f9e50398b3b924f474217bacc25273a5f2016d22af52460e92a6e715cfb38ae9/11.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="1066" width_o="1600" height_o="1066" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dd20ac879cd38395bb8e99030481bd0f52f7cdbe0f8eaeea4638717ef2497fe5/4.jpg" data-mid="200227733" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dd20ac879cd38395bb8e99030481bd0f52f7cdbe0f8eaeea4638717ef2497fe5/4.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="1066" width_o="1600" height_o="1066" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c6dfec0901646a6892efa5d1c35c6ed59a7ac5dbe1997c68edfe09a3936a829d/8.jpg" data-mid="200227737" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c6dfec0901646a6892efa5d1c35c6ed59a7ac5dbe1997c68edfe09a3936a829d/8.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="1066" width_o="1600" height_o="1066" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c942741bf3eab09408c1f97199e8c23b00088eebd1425f5cceec305861a9f38a/12.jpg" data-mid="200227741" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c942741bf3eab09408c1f97199e8c23b00088eebd1425f5cceec305861a9f38a/12.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="1066" width_o="1600" height_o="1066" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8f593c38d3c50d0cbf5d53447d80d00d7a4a2c85af0060708e5dd0a363373f61/10.jpg" data-mid="200227739" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8f593c38d3c50d0cbf5d53447d80d00d7a4a2c85af0060708e5dd0a363373f61/10.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="1066" width_o="1600" height_o="1066" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7581eedba4ba1f011de414e8ad5f7125ec12e5b37926f583869704a3a1f395c0/6.jpg" data-mid="200227735" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7581eedba4ba1f011de414e8ad5f7125ec12e5b37926f583869704a3a1f395c0/6.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="1066" width_o="1600" height_o="1066" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/912a7b7c34b23e9cf7d2e868f9e0f41b3353436c419de2231dfb0cca8000a13f/1.jpg" data-mid="200227730" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/912a7b7c34b23e9cf7d2e868f9e0f41b3353436c419de2231dfb0cca8000a13f/1.jpg" /> <img width="925" height="1388" width_o="925" height_o="1388" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ec1696053bd18d3c11428b03e30389db4fcc429123918b0cae5fe440a35f464a/13.jpg" data-mid="200227742" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/925/i/ec1696053bd18d3c11428b03e30389db4fcc429123918b0cae5fe440a35f464a/13.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="1066" width_o="1600" height_o="1066" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4589acf58ddb373529a8103f057b70409173fb6a748fe03e439ee840446403a2/5.jpg" data-mid="200227734" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4589acf58ddb373529a8103f057b70409173fb6a748fe03e439ee840446403a2/5.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="1066" width_o="1600" height_o="1066" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a563c205acd44f185b14441ffcc507af78e70914195c5940cdb98ced0f57e54d/9.jpg" data-mid="200227738" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a563c205acd44f185b14441ffcc507af78e70914195c5940cdb98ced0f57e54d/9.jpg" /> <img width="1066" height="1600" width_o="1066" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aebfc4bf4a5eebac6c75b0bae2777cfeef1bd8a8bff393e01b0d996cf0819167/2.jpg" data-mid="200227731" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aebfc4bf4a5eebac6c75b0bae2777cfeef1bd8a8bff393e01b0d996cf0819167/2.jpg" /> https://vickiezhang.com/09-23-Video-Never-Lost-in-Timor-Leste Thu, 28 Dec 2023 00:32:16 +0000 vickie zhang https://vickiezhang.com/09-23-Video-Never-Lost-in-Timor-Leste Video&nbsp;— “Never Lost: Journey Across Timor’s Mountains and Sea”I had the great fortune and pleasure of joining this year’s East Timor Field Class this July, which has been led and run by Prof Lisa Palmer for students of the Geography program at the University of Melbourne for many years&nbsp;— and in collaboration with Timor’s Haburas Foundation in its last several iterations. In light of the announcement of the 2023 Timor-Leste Tourism Short Film Awards, we decided to put together a short video about the field class, drawing on footage I filmed during this year’s 12-day trip. It’s a straight up promotional video — with requisite drone-shot vistas of sweeping landscapes — but it was a lot of fun to edit together with Lisa, and we hope it gives you a flavour of the field class, which is genuinely life-changing in its scope, sensitivity and intercultural-interspecies-morethanhuman-learnings and humblings. My life certainly feels changed after it. We were pleased to be shortlisted for the awards, with the short film screened at the "Explore the Undiscovered" Tourism Short Film Festival held at Fundação Oriente in Dili in October. The music is by Haburas’ inimitable Reynato de Oliveira, who joined us for the trip with his guitar, and was recorded live and impromptu. My thanks go to Lisa, Susanna Barnes, Alex Cullen and the folks at Haburas — Pedrito, Jimy, Cancio, Aju, Rey — for the warmest welcome, the daily Tetum lessons, and my newfound obsession with Xina Timor (the 500+ year history of Chinese migration to Timor-Leste). 10/2023Tagline: Since 2015, Haburas Foundation have partnered with the University of Melbourne's Geography program to run life-changing study tours of Timor-Leste. In this film, join the 2023 class as they embark on an awe-inspiring journey across mountains and sea. https://vickiezhang.com/05-23-RCN-Coal-Transitions-Year-1 Thu, 01 Jun 2023 05:34:20 +0000 vickie zhang https://vickiezhang.com/05-23-RCN-Coal-Transitions-Year-1 NSF RCN Global Coal Transitions Network&nbsp;— Year 1 Workshop (Durham, UK; Poznań &amp; Konin, Poland) <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/692d561459d9e02a9874274459f1363e36c1430524975691bf48ea3711454ba4/_DSC0452.jpg" data-mid="180625147" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/692d561459d9e02a9874274459f1363e36c1430524975691bf48ea3711454ba4/_DSC0452.jpg" /> Photo dump from site visits to a coal-fired power plant and a coal mine in Konin, Poland, on day 4 of a workshop bringing together social science researchers working on coal and energy transitions (if you’re on the desktop site, click or drag the photos to see the full images.) The workshop was part 1 of a three-year research collaboration network funded by the NSF. Read more about the network here: u.osu.edu/globalcoal. It was an inspiring week with an incredible group of people. Thanks especially to PIs Max Woodworth and Jeffrey Jacquet, and Aleksandra Lis and Sarah Knuth for organising the days, and props to J. Mijin Cha and Andrew Curley for being my photographic muses. Already looking forward to the Year 2 conference in Columbus, Ohio in July 2024 (and get in touch if you’re interested to join or hear more). I also took the opportunity to finally update this website—so below is a compendium of random things from over the years, which I’ll add to as I get the chance. 05/2023 <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/55400978274f871b2f7f871d35c3d0f8f880319e492c834880186eea5eaa4099/_DSC0330.jpg" data-mid="180625145" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/55400978274f871b2f7f871d35c3d0f8f880319e492c834880186eea5eaa4099/_DSC0330.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5e96e370271be5ea72590e62b1125e3c41a26af925c3e2013fcea2aa2f0d2832/_DSC0273.jpg" data-mid="180625137" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5e96e370271be5ea72590e62b1125e3c41a26af925c3e2013fcea2aa2f0d2832/_DSC0273.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" 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height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f467d1042d27849a1dee22b0c44b32b21cddb6be7420469ed4cefdbd7fd3cbf0/_DSC0519.jpg" data-mid="180625240" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f467d1042d27849a1dee22b0c44b32b21cddb6be7420469ed4cefdbd7fd3cbf0/_DSC0519.jpg" /> <img width="1945" height="2918" width_o="1945" height_o="2918" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9d96aa36fcbc19004672b555677152e9c512ce365c8ec04ce5bd49e4f27596be/_DSC0316.jpg" data-mid="180626167" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9d96aa36fcbc19004672b555677152e9c512ce365c8ec04ce5bd49e4f27596be/_DSC0316.jpg" /> https://vickiezhang.com/04-22-Film-review-Holding-Tightly Thu, 15 Dec 2022 05:03:30 +0000 vickie zhang https://vickiezhang.com/04-22-Film-review-Holding-Tightly Film review — Holding Tightly: Custom and Healing in Timor-Leste In early 2022, we held the first screening of Lisa Palmer and Susanna Barnes’ newest documentary,&nbsp;Holding Tightly: Custom and Healing in Timor Leste,&nbsp;in the Geography Seminar Series at the University of Melbourne.I had the honour of being the discussant for the screening, and wrote up my comments in a film review for The AAG Review of Books. You can read the review here. The 30-minute film explores seven different approaches to healing in Baucau, Timor-Leste’s second-largest city, as seen through the eyes of practitioners, patients, people and place. It explores the, variously complementary and antagonistic relation between folk remedies and western medicine, ultimately demonstrating how pharmacological intervention and spiritual connection are profoundly entangled in customary practices of healing in Timor today. 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https://vickiezhang.com/03-21-KSCA-AFS-Newspaper Thu, 15 Dec 2022 05:03:30 +0000 vickie zhang https://vickiezhang.com/03-21-KSCA-AFS-Newspaper KSCA — An Artist, a Farmer and a Scientist Walk into a Bar... (NSW, Australia) Interested in cross-disciplinary collaboration, socially engaged art and regenerative agriculture?An Artist, a Farmer and a Scientist Walk into a Bar... is a newspaper exploring issues of land, regenerative agriculture and rural change in Australia. It is the final publication of a major creative arts initiative from the Kandos School of Cultural Adaptation (KSCA). The initiative involved nine artists embarking on collaborations with farmers, scientists, Aboriginal knowledge holders, chefs and rural innovators, including at The Living Classroom in Bingara, NSW. Through reports, stories, essays, poems, reflections and more, the pieces seek ways to re-think and re-practice relationships to land in a changing climate. I co-edited the newspaper with Laura Fisher and Lucas Ihlein, and contributed an article called “Serres’ Ark: Crossing Disciplines at Groundwell”. The article reflects on the embodied work of interdisciplinary collaboration, refracted through the life of philosopher Michel Serres. Access the digital newspaper here, and get in touch if you’d like to be posted a hard copy version to read over Sunday breakfast. 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