Forgetting Atlantis - Essay on Lost Deaths and their Lives

在二十多年的学术，专业和创作实践中，我的写作通过各种媒介，包括新闻，散文，创意和实验非小说和诗歌，研究了全球相关性的主题。这种对突出和探索社会政治主题的承诺-从武装冲突和移民，到性别，生态和殖民主义-已经反映在我为澳大利亚和国际媒体出版的出版物中，如伦敦书评，卫报，眉毛抬起，雅各宾派，新人文主义和开放民主。最值得注意的是，我的第一本非小说类书籍《水的尽头》（由澳大利亚理事会资助）采用了创新的研究和写作方法，通过移民和其他人（包括活动家、政治家、非政府组织工作人员和社区成员）的叙述，记录了在欧洲寻求庇护的经历。这项工作证明了我的实践能力，实现复杂的艺术项目，并在跨文化和社会鸿沟敏感地沟通，同时保持敏锐的意识到我的实践的影响。这本书被列入2021年沃克利图书奖的长期名单，它的积极反应同样反映了我的工作旨在以独特，易于理解和引人注目的风格探索道德后果问题。我致力于发展和扩大我的创造性实践，通过我的下一本书项目追求进一步的原创和引人入胜的知识生产。像我以前的工作一样，拟议的图书项目旨在增强对人类经验的理解，这些经验往往超出了公众持续关注的范围，包括性别认同，移民，生态，性暴力，残疾和自杀。在调查四个案例研究，通过新颖的叙事策略，它渴望记录事件的方式，既相关，达到一般观众。这本书的价值在于叙述的形式和内容本身，因为创作实践将初级和次级研究与作者自己的经验反思相结合。其结果是一部实验性的非虚构作品，它深入到不同的文化、关系和人类的定义中。在这样做的过程中，它寻求对生活和死亡模式的非小说反思以及实验散文媒介本身的原创贡献。

Over two decades of academic, professional and creative practice, my writing has investigated subjects of global relevance through a variety of mediums, including journalism, essays, creative and experimental non-fiction and poetry. This commitment to foregrounding and exploring socio-political themes-from armed conflict and migration, to gender, ecology and colonialism-has been reflected in my publications for Australian and international outlets such as London Review of Books, The Guardian, The Lifted Brow, Jacobin, New Humanist and Open Democracy. Most notably, my first non-fiction book, Where the Water Ends (supported by Australia Council funding) employed innovative research and writing practices to document experiences of asylum-seeking in Europe through narratives from migrants and others including, activists, politicians, NGO staff and community members. The work testifies to my practical ability to realise complex artistic projects and communicate sensitively across cultural and social divides, while maintaining keen awareness of the implications of my practice. The positive reception of the book, which was long-listed for the 2021 Walkley Book Award, likewise reflects how my work aims to explore matters of ethical consequence in a unique, accessible and compelling style. I am dedicated to evolving and expanding my creative practice in the pursuit of further original and engaging knowledge production through my next book project. Like my previous work, the proposed book project aims to augment understandings of human experiences that often fall beyond the scope of sustained public attention, including gender identity, migration, ecology, sexual violence, disability and suicide. In investigating four case-studies through novel narrative strategies, it aspires to document events in a manner that is both of relevance and reach to general audiences. The book's value lies as much in the form of narration as in the content itself, as the creative practice combines primary and secondary research with the author's own empirical reflections. The result is a work of experimental non-fiction that burrows into different cultural, relational and corporeal definitions of the human. In doing so, it seeks an original contribution to both non-fiction reflections on modes of living and dying, as well as to the experimental essay medium itself.