Christine Kenneally
Auteur van The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language
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Christine Kenneally was born in Melbourne, Australia. She is a journalist who writes on science, language and culture. She received an Honors BA in English and Linguistics from Melbourne University and completed a PhD in Linguistics at Cambridge University in England. After living in Iowa City for toon meer three-and-a-half years, she moved to New York City where she started writing for Feed, the Internet's first magazine, founded by Stephanie Syman and Steven Johnson, among other publications. Her science articles include one about new field of epigenetics, the study of the forces that act on and effect alterations to DNA Her first book, The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language, is about the relatively new field of evolutionary linguistics starring such figures as cognitive scientist Philip Lieberman, primatologist Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and psychologists Steven Pinker and Paul Bloom. Kenneally's second book, The Invisible History of the Human Race: How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures, draws on cutting-edge research to reveal how both historical artifacts and DNA tell us where we come from and where we may be headed. She was shortlisted for the Stella Prize 2015 for this title. Her title The Past May Not Make You Feel Better, won the Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing 2015. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Werken van Christine Kenneally
The Invisible History of the Human Race: How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures (2014) 341 exemplaren
Ghosts of the Orphanage: A True Story of Murder, a Conspiracy of Silence, and a Search for Justice (2023) 56 exemplaren
The Ghosts of the Orphanage 5 exemplaren
The Lace reader 1 exemplaar
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While one doesn't expect an orphanage to be an overly cheerful place, one can at least hope that they were places where the kids would sing 'It's a hard-knock life for us' while scrubbing the floors. [author:Christine Kenneally|192902] quickly disabuses us of any such notions though, describing a worldwide epidemic of abuse that took places in orphanages from the late 19th century to as late as the 1970s when most of the institutions were phased out. Her descriptions suggest that practices ranging from verbal, physical and sexual abuse to first degree murder were not the exception, but the norm in almost every institution in every country.
While I don't doubt the truth of the incidents that the author presents, my initial impression was that she bit off way more than she could chew when she chose the topic. Even the 10 years that the author has dedicated to this project seems like insufficient time to research, collate, and cogently present the case in the manner that it deserves. I would have liked to see her make a clear undeniable argument about a single case rather than unload so much information that I no longer know what happened to which Sally and when.
As I progressed through the book, though, it became evident that her investigation, and those of attorneys and victims associations trying to get answers started a groundswell far beyond anyone's expectations. What began with cries of blasphemy has become torrent of confirmed allegations that threaten the very existence of the institutions that run the establishments. As with the Spotlight investigation, a few reports of abuse has become thousands around the globe. In time, the full scope of the abuse became overwhelming.
As the vast majority of the orphanages were run by religious institutions, it boggles my mind and makes me wonder if they should even be allowed to operate in civilized countries.… (meer)