We would like to invite to the upcoming book launch event to celebrate some of our colleagues who have recently published books. 
The books include: 

• Eli Elinoff’s – Citizen Design: City Making and Democracy in Northeast Thailand (https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/citizen-designs-city-making-and-democracy-in-northeastern-thailand/)
• Eli Elinoff and Tyson Vaughn’s edited volume - Disastrous Times: Beyond Environmental Crisis in Urbanizing Asia (https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/16147.html)
• Nayantara S. Appleton and Caroline Bennett’s edited volume – Methods, Moments, and Ethnographic Spaces in Asia (https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786612496/Methods-Moments-and-Ethnographic-Spaces-in-Asia)

 
These books will be of particular interests to scholars in and of Asia as well as our wider community of anthropologist, ethnographers, and scholars thinking about social, environmental, and political change more broadly.  
 
We would love it if you could join us to mark this event (If you are in Wellington). At the launch,  we’ll introduce the books, some key arguments, and you’ll also hear from local authors whose works are included in the book(s). This small discussion around the books will be followed by light refreshments and drinks.  
 
The evening celebration has generously been supported by School of Social and Cultural Studies (SACS) and Centre for Science in Society (CSiS) at Te Herenga Waka | Victoria University of Wellington. It is also supported by New Zealand Association of Asian Studies (NZASIA)and the Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa/New Zealand (ASAA/NZ).
 
Event Details: 
Thursday, May 27th,  2021
4:00 – 6:00 pm
Hunter Council Room