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Queer as a Two-Bob Watch

The Implications of Cultural Framing and Self-Declaration

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I grew up in Pukeatua. My father was a shearing contractor who worked in the sheep sheds in the back of Arohena and Ngaroma. These are places you have probably never heard of. They are small and remote. To say my origins are obscure is an understatement bordering on hyperbole. I remember as a boy hearing the men talking one day about a ram that had cost a farmer a lot of money.

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  1. School of Art and Design, AUT University, Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand

    Welby Ings

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    Michael A. Peters

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Ings, W. (2013). Queer as a Two-Bob Watch. In: Engels-Schwarzpaul, A.C., Peters, M.A. (eds) Of Other Thoughts: Non-Traditional Ways to the Doctorate. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-317-1_15

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