Eve Vincent

Eve Vincent is an Associate Professor of Anthropology in the School of Communication, Society and Culture at Macquarie University. Her books include Who Cares? Life on Welfare in Australia (MUP, 2023) and Love Across Class (with Rose Butler, MUP, 2024).

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Noticing teeth

TEETH ARE ONE of the most visible markers of poverty: structural circumstances that are individually borne. In an essay for Aeon, US journalist Sarah Smarsh calls them ‘poor teeth’. She writes: ‘Often, bad teeth are blamed solely on the habits and choices of their owners, and for the poor therein lies an undue shaming.’ And: ‘Poor teeth…beget not just shame but more poorness: people with bad teeth have a harder time getting jobs and other opportunities.’ In the age of ‘whitened, straightened, veneered smiles’, the distance between ruined poor teeth and healthy, wealthy teeth is growing.

Outlaw one

Essay‘THE WIND IS my hairdresser,’ says Sue Coleman Haseldine, known locally as Aunty Sue, stepping out into her dusty yard and letting the hot north wind rush through tangled thick black hair. A wire clothesline stretches across the dirt...

Confusions of an economist’s daughter

EssayDad wore his "It's time" badge with its rusted pin to our small country school to vote. He wore it to irritate the National Party voters and Christian fundamentalists whose community was ours. But it was important not to be selfish, our parents said, so we were a Labor-voting family. We were lucky because life was comfortable, but others were not so lucky and deserved a break.

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