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Griffith Review 63 - Writing the Country by Ashley Hay; Julianne Schultz
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
How we speak of and to the world we live in requires us to make sense of where we are and where we?re going; it requires us to describe, interrogate and analyse our places from the smallest to the grandest of scales.In the second issue of Griffith Review, published fifteen years ago, Melissa Lucashenko ...Show more
Griffith Review 65: Crimes and Punishments by Ashley Hay (Editor)
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
What is it about crime stories that make people hunger for them? The volume of content produced in these genres - from the pages of mysteries and thrillers to audio and visual dramas and reconstructions - hints at a primal and deeply ingrained fascination with the darker side of human nature. While crim ...Show more
Griffith Review 75: Learning Curves by Ashley Hay (Editor)
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
What can we learn about learning?Australians have one of the highest levels of educational attainment in the world, but not every Australian has access to a world-class education. What represents a 'good’ education in a country with an increasingly segmented school system and a tertiary sector that face ...Show more
Griffith Review 76: Acts of Reckoning by Ashley Hay (Editor); Teela Reid (Contribution by)
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
Truth-telling in a post-truth world.Four years on from the Uluru Statement from the Heart, there’s a clear divide between the groundswell of popular support to recognise the rightful place of First Nations people in Australia’s democratic life and ongoing political inertia in the same space. Griffith Re ...Show more
Griffith Review 77: Real Cool World by Ashley Hay
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
Griffith Review 77: Real Cool World explores Antarctica as both a place and a canvas for imagination. This vast, dry continent drives much of our global weather, a litmus test for change at the world’s extremities and a canary in the coalmine. Stories about this deep south illuminate much of the rest of ...Show more
Griffith Review 78: A Matter of Taste by Carody Culver (Editor); Ashley Hay (Editor)
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
Food is more than a matter of taste. From the comfort of the kitchen to the theatre of the restaurant, the glamour of the TV studio to the gloss of the cookbook page, the ways we frame and consume stories about food shape our cultural histories as much as our personal identities.Griffith Review 78 serve ...Show more
Griffith Review 79: Counterfeit Culture by Carody Culver (Editor)
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
'A faker,' said Orson Welles, 'makes fools of the experts. So, who's the expert? Who’s the faker?'Griffith Review 79 lifts the curtain on fakes, frauds and forgeries. Treading the tightrope between art and lies, it explores the appeal of stories, objects, bodies or experiences that offer the false promi ...Show more
Griffith Review 80 Creation Stories by Culver Carody
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
The capacity to tell stories — along with language and the ability to create art — is seen as both intrinsic and unique to the human species. Over thousands of years, we’ve forged narratives of our origins, our journeys and our dreams as a means of accounting for who we are and to define our place in th ...Show more
Griffith Review 82: Animal Magic by Carody Culver (Editor)
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
Whether it’s man’s best friend or the king of the jungle, animals occupy a central place in our social, emotional and cultural lives. We’re happy as clams or pigs in mud; we hold our horses or take a lion’s share of what we want; we avoid the elephant in the room or try not to open a can of worms. Anima ...Show more
Griffith Review 83 Past Perfect by Carody Culver (Editor)
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
The past, famously, is a foreign country — but in the twenty-first century, it’s one in which we increasingly seek solace. No matter the relentless pace of technological innovation and the digitisation of everything from money to media – our appetites for retro design and aesthetics, for cultural produc ...Show more
Griffith Review 84: Attachment Styles
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
The attachments we form shape our experience of the world and our understanding of who we are. ‘Hell is other people', wrote Jean-Paul Sartre, his point being less about misanthropy and more about how entwined our self-perception is with the ways in which others perceive us. And alongside our personal r ...Show more
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