Fearing Truganini

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Reading the entrails: Digesting posthuman entanglement
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Eating together online: The ambivalent conviviality of ASMR videos
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Francis Russell

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Shared food conversations: Jason Phu and Nagesh Seethiah
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In conversation with Sabrina Baker

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A good dinner party: Food as a medium for social change
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Courtney Coombs

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Eat the problem: MONA's carnivalesque of cuisine
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Ashley Crawford

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Jen Rae

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Violent dreams of development: A food bowl in the north‑west of Australia?
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Alana Hunt

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Tasmanian essayist and poet, currently working as Indigenous Visiting Research Scholar at AIATSIS in Canberra, Greg Lehman looks over David Hansen's recent award-winning essay entitled 'Seeing Truganini' and finds it wanting.

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