Research is personal.
I’ve always been taught to keep as many confounding variables out of the data as possible – including myself, my views, thoughts, and opinions. But Dr Hirini Kaa and Patrick Thomsen told a different story. Their...
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Tissues, please.
What does it mean to “weep in the archives”? For me, it means connecting emotionally with the history that is – or isn’t – documented. It means expressing empathy with a community or a person separated from you by a...
Read MoreFinding Middle Ground
Reading the article on the Smithsonian’s Enola Gay exhibition and visiting the Auckland War Memorial Museum, there was a clear theme. Both acknowledged the tension between commemoration and scholarship in relation to conflict....
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Revolution and Racism
I will be the first to admit that my knowledge of American history is sketchy at best. Joe Zizek’s...
Read MoreConflict and Community?
We are in the presence of history: a global conflict of sorts that our grandkids will learn about in school. This “conflict” against COVID-19 has got me thinking, and one question, inspired by a group’s reading of Malešević’s...
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