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ItemArtists’ interviews and their use in conservation: reflections on issues and practices(Routledge - Taylor & Francis, 2016-12-21)Artists’ interviews are widely used in the conservation of contemporary art. Best practice is detailed in recent publications, conferences and workshops, however, there is little information on how to analyse the data collected, and the issues related to the dissemination and future access to the content. This article examines various techniques of analysis appropriated from qualitative research in the social sciences, and relates them to the intended uses of interviews in conservation. Drawing on a case study that involved interaction with an artist over several years, including interviews and informal conversations, this article argues that a conservators’ specific skills set has the capacity to interpret the findings and to understand the creative processes. It also highlights the importance of reflexivity and the public circulation of this interpretation, which is essential for the development of a sustainable practice of artists’ interviews in conservation.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableTo Catch a Djinn: A ghazal for my Dadi and her sisters(Usawa Literary Review, 2020)This poem takes a family story originally told in Urdu and tells it in English, but as a ghazal. In this way the form reflects the relationship between narrator and story even though the language has been changed. The form, with its strict use of rhyme and rhythm, injects a playfulness to the narrative that reflects the age of the characters and the fantastical elements of the story. This is a new use of the ghazal, which is often a more serious, romantic form in English.
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ItemHollywood ending?(Mark Baker, 2021-04-30)Amid the relief at Joe Biden’s engagement with climate change, did we lose sight of what’s happening on the ground?
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ItemNot drowning, fighting( 2021-06-03)Have reporters’ cliches got in the way of understanding how Pacific islanders are dealing with climate change?
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Item‘The fear of this vaccine is real’: how Papua New Guinea’s Covid strategy went so wrong( 2022-12-02)Public confusion and distrust over vaccination have been fuelled by what experts say are crippling failures in authorities’ response to the pandemic
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ItemBuried Treasure: Journey into deep time(Griffith Review, 2022)Over the entire 800,000-year record, atmospheric carbon dioxide has never peaked over 300 ppm. For all of human history, it sat around 275 ppm until about 200 years ago, when we began to dig up and burn coal to fuel the Industrial Age. In 1950, it punched through the 300-ppm historic ceiling. In mid-May, as the forests of the Northern Hemisphere dropped their leaves, the planet exhaled atmospheric carbon dioxide at a new daily record of 421 ppm.
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ItemPapua New Guinea’s Resource Curse(Schwartz Media, 2018)PNG LNG has yielded gas worth billions for its Western operators. Local landowners have received no royalties at all. With anger rising, dire consequences were predicted. Then disaster struck.
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ItemThe Totten Hots Up: A major Antarctic glacier is becoming dangerously unstable(Schwartz Media, 2017)
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ItemThe Butterfly Effect(Griffith University and Text Publishing Company, 2019-02-05)Sometime in 1906, butterfly hunter Albert Stewart Meek disembarks from an old pearler named Hekla on the north-east coast of New Guinea. He unloads his provisions and tools of trade: killing bottles with cyanide of potassium for small insects, syringes with acetic acid for larger ones, non-rusting pins for setting his trophies, cork-lined collecting cases. He waves off the boat with instructions to the skipper to return for him in three months.
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ItemPNG’s Women in Waiting(Melbourne University Publishing (MUP), 2022)The two women, venerable grandmothers and veteran activists, are plotting revolution and dissecting the exercise of feminine power in Papua New Guinea over plates of fish and chips and salad.