Tag: PhD
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This boat is ours
When survival is a shared endeavour, who comes first? Questions What does safety mean in catastrophe? Does survival depend on conformity or rebellion? And what happens if you disagree with the people you’re trying to survive with? Who gets to be saved? Thinking It has often struck me how reports of disaster, catastrophe, and crisis,…
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A Return
to Substack, to normal, to questions Questions Why is the presence of children a signal of hope in novels about catastrophes? Why are children presented as different beings to the adults they’ll become? Why do we talk about having children as a choice: What does it mean if children are a signal of hope in…