Jerath Head Jerath Head i(10279251 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 The Geography of Respect Rock Climbers, Traditional Owners and Reconciling Ways of Seeing Jerath Head , 2023 single work
— Appears in: Griffith Review , 1 August no. 81 2023;
1 Solastalgia for a Thunderstorm Jerath Head , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Crackle : WEP Anthology of Creative Writing 2021; (p. 31-40)
1 How to Talk About a Mountain Jerath Head , 2021 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , August 2021; 'As an avid mountain climber, I have always loved the feeling of moving through space and communing with nature. But increasingly I am reassessing my relationship to what is inherently an act of conquest on land that is not mine to conquer.'
1 What Fills the Silence : The Book of Dirt by Bram Presser Jerath Head , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , May 2018;

'In David Graeber’s Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2012), the anthropologist and activist asks, ‘How does it become possible to treat people as if they are identical?’ He is reflecting on how a human being can be turned into an object of exchange, a slave—this ‘requires first of all ripping her from her context; that is, tearing her away from that web of relations that makes her the unique conflux of relations that she is’.' (Introduction)
1 The Nature of the Beast : The Politics of Writers Festivals Jerath Head , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , December 2017;

'As Millicent Weber pointed out a little while back in Overland, ‘literary festivals are complex beasts’. Particularly in recent years, they appear to have become more politicised, more contested spaces – exemplary of the tension that results when a ‘cultural project’, with presumed egalitarian aims, has a light shone on it by the market model it operates on, which doesn’t favour all people equally.' (Introduction)
1 Waiting Our Turn : Hope in a Connected World Jerath Head , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Griffith Review , May no. 56 2017; (p. 11-16) 'Abstract: Generationalism is a complex phenomenon. The concept of a generation is obvious: the social and economic contexts for a group of people born around the same time are going to be somewhat similar. But in addressing lived experience, a number of factors highlight how arbitrary such categorisation is: place, culture, socio-economic standing. In Generation Less: How Australia is Cheating the Young (Black Inc., 2016), Jennifer Rayner identifies this apparent contradiction as the difference between 'cohort' and 'life cycle' effects - that is, between the standard conception of generations as age groups, and the non age-specific commonalities that such designations cannot adequately address.' (Publication abstract)
1 The Centre from the Edge Jerath Head , 2017 single work prose travel
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings , January no. 28 2017; (p. 57-71) 'When we travel, how often is it in search of a validation of our existence? Can we live a full life without the desire for it to be endless?' (57)
1 The Space of Hours Jerath Head , 2016 single work essay
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings , no. 26 2016; (p. 44-56) ' Is it best to take time with books that are difficult to read? There are reading groups around the world devoting decades to one.' (Publication abstract)
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