TY - JOUR
T1 - An Australian archive of feelings
T2 - The sorry books campaign and the pedagogy of compassion
AU - Kennedy, Rosanne
PY - 2011/9
Y1 - 2011/9
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=80052490296&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/08164649.2011.606603
DO - 10.1080/08164649.2011.606603
M3 - Article
SN - 0816-4649
VL - 26
SP - 257
EP - 279
JO - Australian Feminist Studies
JF - Australian Feminist Studies
IS - 69
ER -