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Griffith Review 76: Acts of Reckoning by Ashley Hay (Editor); Teela Reid (Contribution by)
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | 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: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | 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: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | 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: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | 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: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | 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 81 the Leisure Principle by GRIFFITH
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
In 1930, John Maynard Keynes spelt out a vision of the impending utopia. Work, he said, will become a thing of the past. ‘For the first time since creation,’ he predicted, ‘man will be faced with his real, his permanent problem — how to occupy the leisure which science…will have won for him.’So where di ...Show more
Griffith Review 84: Attachment Styles
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | 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
Griffith Review 9: Up North by SCHULTZ Julianne (ed
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Griffith REVIEW Ser.
Up Northwill challenge our fascination with Northern Australia and the region. The keynote essay by the principal historian of the Australian War Memorial, Peter Stanley, will present new evidence which challenges the accepted view about the threat Australia faced during the second half of WWII. This e ...Show more
Griffith Review: Dreams of Land by Julianne Schultz (Editor)
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Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: Griffith REVIEW Ser.
This quarterly publication from Griffith University and ABC Books looks at a different theme in each issue, in essays that aim to build a bridge between journalism, academic and literary writing. Each issue also includes a photographic essay, short story and poetry. It's goal is to provide a snapshot of ...Show more
Griffith Review : Making Perfect Bodies (Winter 2004) by Julianne Schultz (ed)
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Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: Griffith REVIEW Ser.
Science and popular culture are driving our obsession with physical perfection. Griffith Review 4: Making Perfect Bodies explores the limits of this obsession and what it may mean for the future. In this issue, Donald Horne reflects on changing ideas of bodily perfection and health, Sam Tormey explo ...Show more
Hidden Queensland by SCHULTZ (ED), JULIANNE
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Griffith REVIEW Ser.
The election of the Rudd Government signals a momentous change in Australia- real political power moved north for the first time. Modern Queensland is a product of its past as well as the profound transformation and rapid population increase of the past two decades and this issue explains how it happene ...Show more
Money, Sex, Power by SCHULTZ Julianne (ed
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Griffith REVIEW Ser.
Money makes the world go around, but when it stops the consequences are profound - from Masters of the Universe who lose their magical touch, to remote communities where the unwritten laws of money, sex and power are challenged, power can disappear with astonishing speed. A series of key essays explore ...Show more