Otago Daily Times

Written By Amanda Barusch

  • Media – Otago Daily Times

  • Medium – Newspaper

  • Type – Article

  • Title – What are the risks?

  • Author – Bruce Munro

  • Date – January 28, 2019

  • Link – https://www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/magazine/what-are-risks-0

  • Synopsis – What troubles are brewing for 2019? Five experts in various fields tell Bruce Munro what they believe are the biggest risks facing New Zealand this year. Emeritus Prof Amanda Barusch, of the University of Otago's department of sociology, gender and social work weighs in on the social risks.

Amanda Barusch

Amanda Barusch has worked as a janitor, exotic dancer, editor, and college professor. She lives in the American West, where she spends as much time as possible on dirt paths. She has an abiding disdain for boundaries and adores ambiguity. Amanda has published eight books of non-fiction, a few poems, and a growing number of short stories. Aging Angry is her first work of creative non-fiction. She uses magical realism to explore deep truths of the human experience in this rapidly changing world.

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