People Matter (such as Dr Melani Anae and Prof Stephen Winter)
Reflecting on the tools for making change in Dr. Melani Anae and Prof. Stephen Winter’s talks.
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Tag: New Zealand
Empathy for Debate and Positionality
When we engage in debate, it is important to acknowledge that our emotional responses come from our experiences and our origins. This reveals the need for empathy in understanding our differences not as an objective truth which only one has discovered but as co-existent interpretations that deserve understanding and compromise if we are ever to diverge from the hostility that seems to be the focus of much modern political discourse.
Read MoreTranslation is Positional
Translation is a simple process, right? Take a word in one language, change it into the other language, repeat for the whole text. A tried and true method, except… obviously not, please don’t translate things like...
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On the Importance of Representative Diversity in Scholarly History
Tension between the celebration and criticism of war is advanced by motives informed by oppositely different experiences of the same shared history. Especially in a multicultural society that has been framed by colonial values, such diversity is necessary to adequately represent minority perspectives within dominant institutions.
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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