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In an era of globalisation, positivist research methodologies and voices are privileged and funded over those of qualitative researchers. This has led to narrowing beliefs about what constitutes knowledge, and about the ways in which knowledge is constructed and evaluated, impacting upon the conduct, funding and reporting of arts research, and also...
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... Polish and english, the voices of her family offer a small but important telling of personal truths against the silencing of histories. Speaking from places between the darkness of myth and the transformative magic of fairy tales these little stories are accompanied by images of a child-helper, a fox-girl-trickster-creative (Figure 2) who, while she cannot heal the wounded creatures of her world, nonetheless strives to comfort. ...
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... uses the female crafts of stitching and knitting to challenge and subvert the traditional tools of artistic "masters". Stitching fur, whiskers and claws of the fox into totemic images (Figure 2), she creates exquisitely crafted masks, cuffs and muffs marked with the felt red crosses. These emblems at once childlike and primitive reveal the bones behind the stories, voicing narratives in defiance of erasure. ...
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