Yasmine Musharbash Yasmine Musharbash i(9099638 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 The First-ever First Nations Anthology of Speculative Fiction Is Playful, Bitter, Loud and Proud Yasmine Musharbash , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 1 June 2022;

— Review of This All Come Back Now 2022 anthology short story

'This is not “just” an anthology of First Nations speculative fiction, but also the first anthology of First Nations speculative fiction. And what an entry onto the scene it is!' 

1 y separately published work icon Monster Anthropology : Ethnographic Explorations of Transforming Social Worlds Through Monsters Geir Henning Presterudstuen (editor), Yasmine Musharbash (editor), London : Bloomsbury , 2019 18531411 2019 anthology criticism

'Monsters are culturally meaningful across the world. Starting from this key premise, this book tackles monsters in the context of social change. Writing in a time of violent upheaval, when technological innovation brings forth new monsters while others perish as part of the widespread extinctions that signify the Anthropocene, contributors argue that putting monsters at the center of social analysis opens up new perspectives on change and social transformation. Through a series of ethnographically grounded analyses they capture monsters that herald, drive, experience, enjoy, and suffer the transformations of the worlds they beleaguer.

'Topics examined include the evil skulking new roads in Ancient Greece, terror in post-socialist Laos's territorial cults, a horrific flying head that augurs catastrophe in the rain forest of Borneo, benign spirits that accompany people through the mist in Iceland, flesh-eating giants marching through neo-colonial central Australia, and ghosts lingering in Pacific villages in the aftermath of environmental disasters.

'By taking the proposition that monsters and the humans they haunt are intricately and intimately entangled seriously, this book offers unique, cross-cultural perspectives on how people perceive the world and their place within it. It also shows how these experiences of belonging are mediated by our relationships with the other-than-human.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 2 y separately published work icon Yuendumu Everyday : Contemporary Life in Remote Aboriginal Australia Yasmine Musharbash , Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press , 2008 9099654 2008 single work criticism

'Yuendumu everyday explores intimacy, immediacy and mobility as the core principles underpinning contemporary everyday life in a central Australian Aboriginal settlement. It analyses an everyday shaped through the interplay between a not so distant hunter–gatherer past and the realities of living in a first-world nation–state by considering such apparently mundane matters as: What is a camp? How does that relate to houses? Who sleeps where, and next to whom? Why does this constantly change? What and where are the public/private boundaries? And most importantly: How do Indigenous people in praxis relate to each other?...' (Source: Publisher's website)

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