Maria pallotta chiarolli biography definition
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maria pallotta-chiarolli
La Terra
La Terra, 2024
La terra can be translated to mean soil, dirt, earth, land, Earth, country. Its multiple meanings... more La terra can be translated to mean soil, dirt, earth, land, Earth, country. Its multiple meanings stretch to embrace both a sense of belonging and longing. La terra is ubiquitous, it gets under your nails, under your feet, and under your skin. Connection to la terra as Earth, to nature, is hard-wired in all of us. It fosters meaning, tranquillity and restoration. But the loss of la terra can also break one's heart, as has been the case for many migrant and diasporic communities forced to leave their home. Throughout this our fourth anthology, we show our multifarious belongings to multiple terre and both the ongoing colonising of First Lands and the enduring connections to nature by evoking nature imagery, memories, symbols, and metaphors to make sense of the great beauty and the senselessness of the world-birth, family, de
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“Wogarigines”
:life stories and oral histories of indigenous Australians with Mediterranean heritages.
Through literary non-fiction, combining storytelling, biography and analytical prose, this research will be the first compilation of the life stories and histories of “Wogarigines”, a term often used by Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander people with Southern European (SE: Greek, Italian, Maltese, Portuguese and Spanish) migrant heritages. It will document individual, interpersonal and family histories of Indigenous and SE relations, intersections, conflicts and connections, and how these were framed/constrained by national policies, and socio-cultural perspectives and practices. It would also document and honour their strategies of resistance, re-definition and re-clamation.
The research will explore lives, loves and losses interwoven, crossed or contested on the borders of and within communities of “mobs” and “migrants”. My initial research and “yarns” with Indigenous ind
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CURRICULUM VITAE (as of February 10th, 2017) Dr Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli Senior Lecturer in Social Diversity in Health and Education School of Health and Social Development Deakin University 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Vic, 3125 Ph: 61 03 9251 7198 Mobile: 0414 804 529 Email: mariapc@deakin.edu.au Dr Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli has gained national and international recognition as a writer, researcher, lecturer and consultant in the issues of cultural diversity, gender diversity, sexuell diversity, family diversity, HIV/AIDS, and social diversity in health and education, with a specific focus on adolescence and young people. In 1999, Maria was honoured with the title of Lifelong Honorary Patron of PFLAG Victoria. Maria is also an External Faculty Member of Saybrook University , San Francisco (upon invitation in 2002), teaching and supervising in its postgraduate programs on sexual and gender diversity in health and education. In 2003, Maria was invited to become a Founding Member of