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Fiona Murphy 2 posts 0 comments

Fiona Murphy is an anthropologist in the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security, and Justice, Queen's University Belfast. She specialises in Indigenous politics and movements, refugees and mobility studies, and sustainability in Australia, France, Turkey and Ireland.

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Film Review | Beautiful but Brutal, Sweet Country Tells an Important Tale

Fiona Murphy Mar 9, 2018 0

Sweet Country, by Indigenous Australian filmmaker Warwick Thornton, is a movie with brutality at its heart. Set in 1929, it tells the story of Sam, an Aboriginal stockman, forced to kill in self-defense a violent white landowner. Much…

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Review | Walk With MeSubtly Balances Observational Documentary with a Thoughtful Meditation on…

Fiona Murphy Jan 13, 2018 0

‘The practice of mindfulness is to learn to live our lives deeply. That way we will not waste our lives’ - Thich Nhat Hanh We live in a time characterized by speed and restlessness - our everyday is fast-paced and future-oriented. Warnings…