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Wrestling Around Neutrality

Ethnovellas and the Need for Loki

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Writing for as long as I can remember has been one of my greatest joys. It is because of this that I am particularly wary of how the detached style of academic writing can diminish reader engagement.

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Manypeney, A. (2013). Wrestling Around Neutrality. In: Vicars, M., McKenna, T. (eds) Discourse, Power, and Resistance Down Under. Transgressions. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-509-0_11

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