Melissa Demian is an American-born, United Kingdom-trained anthropologist. She is currently a research fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra.
Melissa Demian
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Writing on Public Books
City of the Future
This is the latest installment of Public Streets, a biweekly urban observations series curated by Ellis Avery. “Been gardening?” the Greens campaigner asks. I’ve stopped to chat, knees and hands grubby from the morning’s activity. “Yeah—just in the park back there, next to the oval!” I point behind her. “We’re planting a food forest.” “I […]
Abney Park Cemetery
This is a new installment of Public Streets, a biweekly urban observations series curated by Ellis Avery. Salvation Army officers don’t die; they are “promoted to glory.” In Abney Park Cemetery there have been many such promotions, as most of the founding generation of the Salvos, including William Booth and his family, are buried here. Abney Park, […]
