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I've been grappling with one of the focus questions in last week's session. "These are our stories, our people’ (Mike King) Why is it important for Maori to be a part of film and media?" One of the biggest problems with minorities is that their experiences are...
Cooking for Victory? This interview is a fascinating look at the role of Winston Churchill's chef! https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018754010/churchill-s-forgotten-cook-serving-up-victory-in-the-kitchen
Various revolutions across the past 200 years have caused changes in social structure, political control, and the movement of our everyday lives. Today I tried to write about the french revolution. It is intriguing to look back upon the past and in their perspective...
The eighth paperback Collins English dictionary defines conflict as: [An] opposition between ideas or interests. A struggle or battle. To be incompatible. The Latin root word of conflict is ‘confligere’, or ‘to combat’. While the Latin and second definition interest...
Dr Patrick Thomsens work really made me understand how much of who we are translates into our work. Whether that be figuring out parts ourselves, or through projecting what we want to understand - then ultimately finding/discovering something that was much bigger than...
The coagulation of past Italian to modern day Italian lingistically was as necessary to upholding historical texts as it was to upholding beauty formulas to the beauty society. Imagine not being able to read or understand historic Italian because you only know...
I experienced war, similarly to many of my generational peers through Avatar: The Last Airbender - a Nickelodeon show made for children alongside Spongebob Squarepants and Dora the Explorer. Avatar: The Last Airbender is an animated series set in an Asiatic world. In...
Dr. Zizek's lecture on the history of revolutionary violence made me question some of the ways in which historical conflict is percieved. The killing of George Floyd, and subsequent Black Lives Matter protests have presented some interesting perceptions of history. I...
ANTHEMS OF CHANGE What’s in an anthem? If you plugged the word ‘anthem’ into Google, you would perhaps one of the driest definitions I’ve seen yet: “A rousing or uplifting song identified with a particular group, body, or cause”. Coming first from religious...
As I’ve been reading more about war, I keep on returning to that question posed in our very first lecture: where’s the blood? Going through the long lists of facts and statistics, it becomes easy to slip into this comfortable niche of studying conflict in a detached,...
Change is an inevitable part of human existence, a fundamental component of our history that has so often been bolstered and revolutionised by war and conflict. Like change, conflict and by extension, war, are seemingly inevitable to our existence, events and ideas...
Throughout this course, we have been exposed to various legacies of the violence that has shaped our modern world. We have learnt of the violent nature by which our so-called "modern" nation-states have been constructed. We have learnt how revolutions have been...