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Appropriation or appreciation – finding new ways to share
For the past couple of weeks the blog has been looking at the thorny issue of appropriation: when does using someone else’s culture become “theft” and when is it actually an acknowledgement of the value inherent in the objects of that culture? What is actually at stake when we make use of culture to create?…
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Last week’s links
Last week there was a hiccough on the blog. Well, actually, to tell the truth, it was more than a hiccough. The blog and its associated website decided to go down completely and nothing could resurrect it. So, once again, welcome to a new website and blog! Fingers crossed that this time it is all…
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Nau mai, haere Mai (a New Zealand welcome)
This week sees the official launch of the new website. Our readers might have noticed a few changes going on over the past few months, and there are more to come. The blog (and website) has been going since 2007. In that year I remember becoming frustrated with the way blogs were disappearing from the…