Alice Duncan-Kemp’s books drew on a childhood in intimate contact with Mithaka people. Historian Tom Griffiths’ book, Alice’s dreaming, reminds us of her work.
- Associate Professor, Anthropology, Macquarie University
Barbara Ehrenreich was inspired to write her classic expose of low-wage life in America by punitive 1990s welfare laws. Today, its message is as urgent as ever.
In the age of ‘whitened, straightened, veneered smiles’, the distance between ruined poor teeth and healthy, wealthy teeth is growing.
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In Homework, renowned writer Geoff Dyer meditates on the whole, small world of childhood – and how class influences who we become.
What happens when people form romantic relationships across class? Eve Vincent and Rose Butler interviewed 38 people to find out. Their candid answers are revealing.
ParentsNext requires the parents of very young children to perform monitored activities in return for Centrelink payments. Eve Vincent talks to single mothers about ‘the indignity of investigation’.
Australia likes to talk about itself as an egalitarian society but class, of course, exists. And it can have an impact on our romantic relationships, bringing both rewards and conflict.
ParentsNext compels mothers into makework rather than work and devalues the work they do.
The lived experience of the lead-grey cashless debit card is a world away from the black-and-white impressions of federal politicians.
Relations between Indigenous peoples and environmentalists can be productive for both parties, but they will always be unstable.
Rather than being microcosms of the community, schools are increasingly divided by class and ethnicity.
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