Wessell, Adele
Southern Cross University
Australia
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Articles
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FeatureOpening up the past to the present involves choices of method and form in the production of historical knowledge which are moral and political ones. Different ways of arriving at the past have put other people and stories ‘outside history’, to use Ashis Nandy’s phrase (64). On his terms, transformative politics only allows one option then, of bringing the ahistoricals into history. We call...Read more
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EditorialIn George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the pigs infamously changed the law to read: “some animals are more equal than others” (108). From Charlotte’s Web to Babe, there are a plethora of contemporary cultural references, as well as expressions of their intelligence and worth, which would seem to support the pigs’ cause. However, simultaneously, the term “pig” is also synonymous with...Read more
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Editorial