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Bonnie Etherington
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The Earth Cries Out ('17). PhD Northwestern. Lecturer in literary & creative communication at Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington. Pākehā (settler) born in Whakatū, raised in West Papua.
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I'm excited to share that my project, "Literatures of Environment and Disability from Oceania," has received a Marsden Fast-Start Grant for the next three years. I am immensely grateful to everyone who read my proposal. Attached is the abstract for the project (with alt text).
This project is the first to analyse literatures of environment and disability from Oceania. A diverse range of environmental impacts is hitting Oceania in this current moment of climate change, and disabled people, especially disabled Indigenous people, are increasingly at risk from those impacts. Yet the stories these people tell are often overlooked by literary researchers. It is imperative to highlight disabled people’s stories from Oceania as those who live here face progressively volatile environmental situations. These literatures emerge from contexts where military and extractive contamination often cause disabilities, and where disabled people are considered collateral damage during disasters, including the Covid-19 pandemic. My project analyses novels, short stories, creative nonfiction, and poems from places including Aotearoa, Guåhan, Hawai‘i, Sāmoa, West Papua, Niu Gini, the Marshall Islands, and Fiji, establishing how such stories resist ableist narratives and theorise
November 1, 2023 at 9:15 PM
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On Friday, my Honours students presented their amazing final projects. This article is one of them, written by Dr Dunning, who is a former GP and is now studying science communication. Worth a read on this post-election day.
www.nzdoctor.co.nz/article/opin...
October 14, 2023 at 6:41 PM