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Introduction
Get PDFThis is the introduction to the special issue on Robert K. Meyer and the philosophy of arithmetic
Pākehā Landhome-Making: Composting Arcadia with(in) Wairarapa
Get PDFThis article offers the notion of landhome-making as a way to compost arcadia. For my doctoral research, I interviewed Pākehā women from rural Wairarapa. Here I draw on fragments from three participants’ stories to demonstrate how landhome-making can be a fertile way to trouble dominant understandings of arcadia by drawing on Donna Haraway’s composting. Arcadia, which can be understood as a rural paradise, was a key way Europeans settled New Zealand, and is still a formative way in which Pākehā relate to land. Although immersed in colonial mythologizing, in which the arcadian ideal is an intimate part, I suggest participants’ narratives also have the capacity to disrupt this problematic colonial ideal. I found this out by using feminist more-than-human ethnographic methodologies that helped me conclude that landhome-making possesses possibilities for composting dominant understandings of arcadia with(in) Wairarapa
Closing the Gaps: An Update on Indicators of Inequality for Māori and Pacific People
Get PDFThis article updates and expands an earlier study investigating the gaps in inequality indicators between different ethnic groups in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). The present study updates the same inequality indicators across categories of health, knowledge and skills, employment, standard of living, and cultural identity, using more recent data. It is also extended to incorporate the third-largest ethnic group in NZ, Asian people. This ethnic group is often excluded from inequality discussions, as Asian people are typically believed to outperform, or at least be on par with, the European ethnic group
The North Shore’s Forgotten Horse Tramway: The Devonport and Lake Takapuna Tramway Company
Get PDFOne of New Zealand’s last horse tramways, the Devonport and Lake Takapuna Tramway Company has been largely neglected by historians, and those who have reported on it often include or imply incorrect information. This has resulted in a universally negative opinion of the tramway that briefly shuttled passengers between Victoria Wharf and Cheltenham Beach in Devonport, Auckland, between 1886 and 1888. This article examines the company’s history from the perspectives of those who witnessed its rise and fall, and includes technical details from primary sources, observations by reporters, and additional information derived from photographs, maps, and government documents.
 
People and Place: The West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island in History and Literature.
Get PDFIn his poem “Zoetropes,” Bill Manhire, writing from London in 1981, notes the exhilaration with which an expat Kiwi keenly notices the letter ‘Z’ in any text, instinctively scanning down the page, hoping to find the word New Zealand, that jolt-to-the-heart moment in which one is reminded of home. There is a local variant even within Aotearoa-New Zealand experienced by West Coasters who no longer live there, ever on the lookout for mention of Westland or for meeting other people with a connection to it. In media, however, the Coast only very occasionally makes an appearance outside of the weather report. 2020 was quite an exception, with the much-anticipated mini-series dramatisation of Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries, as well as A Madness of Sunshine, a thriller novel by bestseller romance writer, Nalini Singh, and an academic history by Greymouth expat Len Richardson, People and Place: The West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island in History and Literature. And so, like Manhire in London, I scan the screen and pages on the lookout for recognisable signals from home, of characters and place that capture West Coast experience
Developing Our Voices: Pacific Early Career Academics’ Journeys in Aotearoa New Zealand
Get PDFThe proportion of Pacific academics in permanent confirmation path positions at New Zealand universities (1.4 percent) continues to lag far behind the Pacific share of New Zealand’s population (7 percent). In this paper, we use a thematic talanoa to explore the experiences of Pacific early career academics (PECA) at the University of Auckland to highlight the key themes, challenges and features of our daily lives in the colonial, Western, and Pākehā institution that is the university. This paper sheds light on the systemic and structural barriers that impact PECA journeys through higher education and suggests actions that universities in New Zealand can take to further support, nurture, and develop PECA pathways into and upward through the academy
Le Malaga Faigatā: Misadventures of An Accidental Academic
Get PDFE lele le toloa, ae maˈau i le vai
The toloa will fly far and wide, but will always return to the water—Samoan proverb
In my doctoral thesis, I examined the barriers to and enablers of academic success for Pacific tertiary health students at the University of Auckland. Ten years on, now back at the University of Auckland, I find myself again reflecting on the barriers to and enablers of academic success for Pacific academics. This reflection piece stems from a seminar I gave for the University of Auckland’s Pacific Research Hub, entitled “Constructing Resilience: Lessons from An Accidental Pacific Academic.” Initially, I was only going to speak to my current research project on Pacific youth resilience. But I was encouraged to share my experiences as a Samoan researcher and academic, especially for early career researchers. I therefore decided to use the seminar as a talanoa to share my experiences and have an honest discussion about some of the challenges that we, as Pacific researchers, experience within the academy. Rather than trying to sell a fairy tale, I decided to use the opportunity for real talk, sharing some of the things I wish someone had told me before I went down the academic path.
 
Strong Depth Relevance
Get PDFRelevant logics infamously have the property that they only validate a conditional when some propositional variable is shared between its antecedent and consequent. This property has been strengthened in a variety of ways over the last half-century. Two of the more famous of these strengthenings are the strong variable sharing property and the depth relevance property. In this paper I demonstrate that an appropriate class of relevant logics has a property that might naturally be characterized as the supremum of these two properties. I also show how to use this fact to demonstrate that these logics seem to be constructive in previously unknown ways
Anthony Angelo and Law Reform in Mauritius
Get PDFThe author, former Professor and Dean of Law at Victoria University of Wellington and President of the Court of Appeal, discusses his experience working a law reform project in Mauritius with Professor Tony Angelo. As the author has experience in income tax reform, the article focuses on Professor Angelo's legislative drafting and policy development in relation to income tax law. Professor Angelo is described as a "one man Law Reform Commission" regarding his role in Mauritius, and discusses the importance of rules relating to technical interpretation and accessibility
Niue in New Zealand Legislation
Get PDFThis article provides guidance to non-Niuean lawyers, and particularly for New Zealand lawyers, who want to ascertain the Niue law on a particular matter. The need arises because a New Zealand statute that was extended to be part of the law of Niue may still be in force in New Zealand and in Niue but, because of the passage of time and legislative action in one or both of the countries, the text and effect of the statute may be different in each country
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