Review of: Pacific Women in Politics: Gender Quota Campaigns in the Pacific Islands, Kerryn Baker (2019) Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai‘i Press, 199 pp., ISBN 978 0 82487 259 5 (hbk), US$68
{"title":"Pacific Women in Politics: Gender Quota Campaigns in the Pacific Islands, Kerryn Baker (2019)","authors":"John F. Wilson","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00056_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00056_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Pacific Women in Politics: Gender Quota Campaigns in the Pacific Islands, Kerryn Baker (2019)\u0000Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai‘i Press, 199 pp.,\u0000ISBN 978 0 82487 259 5 (hbk), US$68","PeriodicalId":37507,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47353571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In recent years, the notion of ‘climate change fiction’ (‘cli-fi’) has passed into common parlance to denote a strand of fictionalized narratives foregrounding the dynamics and consequences of climate change on Earth. While the acceptance criteria for such a category are flexible at best, the role of policy-making and of New Zealand as a political actor and geographical setting to the global eco-catastrophe remain marginal features in such contemporary stories. Jeff Murray’s 2019 novel entitled Melt crucially bridges fiction and public policy, in a move to put the Pacific, New Zealand and Antarctica at the forefront of climate change debates. As the near future sees Antarctica melting, the novel particularly focuses on the sociopolitical and infrastructural challenge that millions of climate change refugees will represent to wealthy and relatively spared nations, such as New Zealand. Correlated issues in sustainable management, economic inequality, intercultural relations and geopolitics are further evoked. In its attempt to alert New Zealand policy-makers and the general public to these long-term questions, Melt importantly invites reflection on the potentiality of narrative to inspire action taking. This article takes the form of an interdisciplinary discussion between Murray, a first-time novelist with a professional background in strategy policy, and literary and cultural studies scholar Jessica Maufort.
{"title":"A novel to influence public policy? The role of New Zealand in climate migration and the occupation of Antarctica","authors":"J. Murray, Jessica Maufort","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00048_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00048_1","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, the notion of ‘climate change fiction’ (‘cli-fi’) has passed into common parlance to denote a strand of fictionalized narratives foregrounding the dynamics and consequences of climate change on Earth. While the acceptance criteria for such a category are flexible at best, the role of policy-making and of New Zealand as a political actor and geographical setting to the global eco-catastrophe remain marginal features in such contemporary stories. Jeff Murray’s 2019 novel entitled Melt crucially bridges fiction and public policy, in a move to put the Pacific, New Zealand and Antarctica at the forefront of climate change debates. As the near future sees Antarctica melting, the novel particularly focuses on the sociopolitical and infrastructural challenge that millions of climate change refugees will represent to wealthy and relatively spared nations, such as New Zealand. Correlated issues in sustainable management, economic inequality, intercultural relations and geopolitics are further evoked. In its attempt to alert New Zealand policy-makers and the general public to these long-term questions, Melt importantly invites reflection on the potentiality of narrative to inspire action taking. This article takes the form of an interdisciplinary discussion between Murray, a first-time novelist with a professional background in strategy policy, and literary and cultural studies scholar Jessica Maufort.","PeriodicalId":37507,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46037236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Review of: Honour, Mana, and Agency in Polynesian-European Conflict, Annette Wilkes (2019) London and New York: Routledge, 251 pp., ISBN 978 0 36702 622 6 (hbk), £120
{"title":"Honour, Mana, and Agency in Polynesian-European Conflict, Annette Wilkes (2019)","authors":"Paola Della Valle","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00052_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00052_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Honour, Mana, and Agency in Polynesian-European Conflict, Annette Wilkes (2019)\u0000London and New York: Routledge, 251 pp.,\u0000ISBN 978 0 36702 622 6 (hbk), £120","PeriodicalId":37507,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41291673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Like many other rapidly growing urban centres across the world, Auckland City finds itself caught between the unending demand for land to accommodate new residential and commercial developments, and the need to preserve the agricultural institutions that support dense urban populations. Land at the periphery of Auckland’s urban expansion has become significantly more lucrative when developed for housing and commercial interests than when used to grow food. The question of what farmers, residents, property developers and Council planners value land for is now crucial to preserving Auckland’s food security and food sovereignty in the near future. This article takes Pukekohe – an agricultural powerhouse and soon-to-be new satellite town at the southern periphery of urban Auckland – as a case study for this phenomenon. I first present a discourse analysis of development in government planning documents, demonstrating that discourses of flexible planning and economic opportunity enable the unchecked loss of productive land to ad hoc urban sprawl. I then turn to media interviews and statements from prominent Pukekohe stakeholders and relate their positions to Stephen Gudeman’s theory of the five spheres of economic abstraction, arguing that one’s working relationship to land defines the value it holds for them. Lastly, I take the conclusions drawn from these two approaches to discuss the political economy of Pukekohe’s urban development, detailing the ways in which the patterns of Auckland’s urban growth privilege the short-term generation of revenue over the substantial foundations of our existence. This contradiction has been faced by cities across the planet for much of the course of human history, yet it has never been more relevant than it is today, as the world’s urban population significantly increases and the realities of climate change force us to reconsider the future of global food production.
{"title":"The price we pay for land: The political economy of Pukekohe’s development","authors":"Benjamin Felix Richardson","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00045_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00045_1","url":null,"abstract":"Like many other rapidly growing urban centres across the world, Auckland City finds itself caught between the unending demand for land to accommodate new residential and commercial developments, and the need to preserve the agricultural institutions that support dense urban populations. Land at the periphery of Auckland’s urban expansion has become significantly more lucrative when developed for housing and commercial interests than when used to grow food. The question of what farmers, residents, property developers and Council planners value land for is now crucial to preserving Auckland’s food security and food sovereignty in the near future. This article takes Pukekohe – an agricultural powerhouse and soon-to-be new satellite town at the southern periphery of urban Auckland – as a case study for this phenomenon. I first present a discourse analysis of development in government planning documents, demonstrating that discourses of flexible planning and economic opportunity enable the unchecked loss of productive land to ad hoc urban sprawl. I then turn to media interviews and statements from prominent Pukekohe stakeholders and relate their positions to Stephen Gudeman’s theory of the five spheres of economic abstraction, arguing that one’s working relationship to land defines the value it holds for them. Lastly, I take the conclusions drawn from these two approaches to discuss the political economy of Pukekohe’s urban development, detailing the ways in which the patterns of Auckland’s urban growth privilege the short-term generation of revenue over the substantial foundations of our existence. This contradiction has been faced by cities across the planet for much of the course of human history, yet it has never been more relevant than it is today, as the world’s urban population significantly increases and the realities of climate change force us to reconsider the future of global food production.","PeriodicalId":37507,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44389567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Review of: Rushing for Gold: Life and Commerce on the Goldfields of New Zealand and Australia, Lloyd Carpenter and Lyndon Fraser (eds) (2016) Dunedin: Otago University Press, 344 pp., ISBN 978 1 87757 854 0 (pbk), NZ$45
{"title":"Rushing for Gold: Life and Commerce on the Goldfields of New Zealand and Australia, Lloyd Carpenter and Lyndon Fraser (eds) (2016)","authors":"L. Sedgwick","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00053_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00053_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Rushing for Gold: Life and Commerce on the Goldfields of New Zealand and Australia, Lloyd Carpenter and Lyndon Fraser (eds) (2016)\u0000Dunedin: Otago University Press, 344 pp.,\u0000ISBN 978 1 87757 854 0 (pbk), NZ$45","PeriodicalId":37507,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66741358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Over the last decade, studies from multiple academic disciplines have started to examine the city’s role as a place of decolonization for Māori people in Aotearoa New Zealand. This article uses those multidisciplinary findings as a basis for literary criticism by re-examining the role of the city in Patricia Grace’s second novel Potiki (1986). Indigenous urbanites are generally deemed impossible and ‘unnatural’ within the inherited colonial ideology. And even though the novel foregrounds a Māori family’s return to their ancestral land, this article argues that the very success of this return is based on the interrelation between ‘rural’ and ‘urban’ strategies of decolonization. While the colonial urban–rural binary often seems reinforced, the novel inverts the power positions between colonizer and colonized, thereby promoting decolonization. At the same time, some characters become unconsciously entrapped in a romanticized pre-migration idyll, which the harsh reality of agricultural working life cannot satisfy. In order to assess the effectiveness of the different decolonizing strategies employed by the characters, my analysis utilizes the postcolonial key concepts of binary opposition, the liminal, the interstice, ambivalence, double consciousness and cultural appropriation, and examines the degree to which inherited binary oppositions are either maintained or defied by Pākehā and Māori within the novel.
{"title":"The homeland and the city: Rural and urban decolonization in Patricia Grace’s Potiki","authors":"Pia Brückner","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00046_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00046_1","url":null,"abstract":"Over the last decade, studies from multiple academic disciplines have started to examine the city’s role as a place of decolonization for Māori people in Aotearoa New Zealand. This article uses those multidisciplinary findings as a basis for literary criticism by re-examining the role of the city in Patricia Grace’s second novel Potiki (1986). Indigenous urbanites are generally deemed impossible and ‘unnatural’ within the inherited colonial ideology. And even though the novel foregrounds a Māori family’s return to their ancestral land, this article argues that the very success of this return is based on the interrelation between ‘rural’ and ‘urban’ strategies of decolonization. While the colonial urban–rural binary often seems reinforced, the novel inverts the power positions between colonizer and colonized, thereby promoting decolonization. At the same time, some characters become unconsciously entrapped in a romanticized pre-migration idyll, which the harsh reality of agricultural working life cannot satisfy. In order to assess the effectiveness of the different decolonizing strategies employed by the characters, my analysis utilizes the postcolonial key concepts of binary opposition, the liminal, the interstice, ambivalence, double consciousness and cultural appropriation, and examines the degree to which inherited binary oppositions are either maintained or defied by Pākehā and Māori within the novel.","PeriodicalId":37507,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66741806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Special Issue: New Scholarship in New Zealand and Pacific Studies Part 1","authors":"Jessica Maufort, Sonja Mausen","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00044_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00044_2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37507,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45346370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Oceanian Journeys and Sojourns: Home Thoughts Abroad, Judith A. Bennett (ed.) (2015)","authors":"Hermann Mückler","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00058_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00058_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Oceanian Journeys and Sojourns: Home Thoughts Abroad, Judith A. Bennett (ed.) (2015)\u0000Dunedin: Otago University Press, 408 pp.,\u0000ISBN 978 1 87757 888 5 (pbk), NZ$45","PeriodicalId":37507,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42429723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Review of: The New Biological Economy: How New Zealanders Are Creating Value from the Land, Eric Pawson and the Biological Economies Team (2018) Auckland: Auckland University Press, 304 pp., ISBN 978 1 86940 888 6 (pbk), NZ$45
{"title":"The New Biological Economy: How New Zealanders Are Creating Value from the Land, Eric Pawson and the Biological Economies Team (2018)","authors":"Gail Pittaway","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00060_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00060_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: The New Biological Economy: How New Zealanders Are Creating Value from the Land, Eric Pawson and the Biological Economies Team (2018)\u0000Auckland: Auckland University Press, 304 pp.,\u0000ISBN 978 1 86940 888 6 (pbk), NZ$45","PeriodicalId":37507,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45387728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Review of: Charles Brasch: Journals 1958–1973, selected, annotated and introduced by Peter Simpson (2018) Dunedin: Otago University Press, 694 pp., ISBN 978 1 98853 114 4 (hbk), NZ$59.95
{"title":"Charles Brasch: Journals 1958–1973, selected, annotated and introduced by Peter Simpson (2018)","authors":"M. Lodge","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00066_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00066_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Charles Brasch: Journals 1958–1973, selected, annotated and introduced by Peter Simpson (2018)\u0000Dunedin: Otago University Press, 694 pp.,\u0000ISBN 978 1 98853 114 4 (hbk), NZ$59.95","PeriodicalId":37507,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42461045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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