Massacre is now part of Christchurch's identity, so how does a city rise above that?
- Written by Will Rifkin, Chair in Applied Regional Economics and Director, Hunter Research Foundation Centre, University of Newcastle
Christchurch has a challenging new aspect to its identity. The city is now inextricably associated with the March 15 mass shootings at two mosques. So how does a city come to terms with and recover from having its name become synonymous with and coloured by such an atrocity?
This event has impacts on how both outsiders and residents perceive the...
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