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An Australian Archive of Feelings: The Sorry Books Campaign and the Pedagogy of Compassion

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2011

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Kennedy, Rosanne

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Taylor & Francis Group

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The Sorry Books campaign, held in 1998, was a popular reconciliation event that created conditions for the Australian public to apologise to the 'Stolen Generations' when the Howard government refused to offer a parliamentary apology. Feminist and queer approaches, with their complex analyses of emotion in the public sphere and their attention to the formation of counter-public archives of memory, are particularly productive for analysing the Sorry Books campaign as an Australian case study of compassionate politics. In this article, I draw on the work of Lauren Berlant, Ann Cvetkovich and others to develop a range of frameworks for analysing and evaluating the Sorry Books campaign.

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/56957

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ANU Research Publications

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Australian Feminist Studies

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10.1080/08164649.2011.606603

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