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Wild Honey: Reading New Zealand Women’s Poetry.
Get PDFWild Honey is an expansive anthology which covers the last 150 years of women’s poetry in New Zealand. Paula Green is widely known as an advocate of poetry and a generous and inclusive builder of community, as seen in her online blog NZ Poetry Shelf. This book continues her crusade to celebrate poetry in a way that is both accessible and welcoming. In Wild Honey Green has built a home for women’s poetry, a metaphor that she emphasizes in the structure of the book. The book is structured in the form of a house with different parts of the house providing the basis for each chapter
Defending Trinity College Dublin, Easter 1916.
Get PDFUnderstandably, the centenary of the Dublin Rising of Easter 1916, a critical turning point in modern Irish history, has generated literally shelves of new interpretations and commemorative volumes: some overtly celebratory; others more soberly reflective; yet others again offering quite fresh perspectives. Rory Sweetman’s Defending Trinity College Dublin, Easter 1916 falls clearly into the third category, in many respects as a footnote to the mayhem, albeit an intriguing one. Focusing on an attempted rebel attack on the College on the first night of the Rising, and the defence that was mounted, the author strongly argues that what transpired has long been misinterpreted, when not completely ignored by Irish historians. In consequence, the efforts of a small group of primarily New Zealand soldiers have been consigned to the dustbin of history. He argues strongly that the contingent’s contribution was critical to saving the College from almost certain destruction in later fighting, thereby ensuring it survived to become the respected institution it remains
He Wā Tuku Reo: Giving Voice to Māori in the Grand Narratives of Colin McCahon
Get PDFIn the extensive literature surrounding McCahon and his work, his engagement with te reo and te ao Māori has been considered by both Māori and non-Māori authors, who have offered contrasting perspectives on this issue. This article will compare these perspectives and argue that some Pākehā commentators have failed to understand the perspectives of Māori authors who have been critical of his engagements with Māori language and culture. Further, this article will examine the framing of the Māori critique of McCahon in the broader context of his status as New Zealand’s most written about, exhibited and celebrated artist.
 
A Family Plot
Get PDFThis essay begins with an account of the circumstances which led to my parents owning a Colin and Anne McCahon children’s painting. Then it expands upon certain biographical questions raised (or not raised) in my 2011 book Dark Night: Walking with McCahon. I describe the work I did in 2018 with Finn McCahon-Jones, Colin’s grandson, on the Visitor Narrative for the McCahon House Trust; and conclude with some thoughts upon the limitations of biography as a genre. Implicit in the discussion is a comparison, hopefully unforced, between my own family and that of the McCahons
Anglo-American Imperialism and the Pacific: Discourses of Encounter
Get PDFWhen I was a doctoral student, a group of students and teaching staff travelled to a coastal village east of Canberra called Kioloa every year, to breathe in the air from the Tasman Sea, which we normally had no chance to be exposed to in the inland capital city
Turning The Tide on Private Profit-Focused Provision In Early Childhood Education
Get PDFThe article analyses a market-based approach to early childhood education (ECE) provision and the growth of for-profit ECE provision, evidence about ‘quality’ and accessibility, and problems occurring when a need for private profit conflicts with the best interests of families and children. The issue of for-profit provision is set within the context of international developments and solutions in Europe, UK, US and Canada. Immediate steps that might be taken for a democratic system of community-based and public early childhood education in Aotearoa New Zealand are pinpointed. Overall, the article offers possibilities for asserting democratic values as a way towards alternatives in Aotearoa New Zealand’s early childhood education provision
Grounding rules and (hyper-)isomorphic formulas
Get PDFAn oft-defended claim of a close relationship between Gentzen inference rules and the meaning of the connectives they introduce and eliminate has given rise to a whole domain called proof-theoretic semantics, see Schroeder- Heister (1991); Prawitz (2006). A branch of proof-theoretic semantics, mainly developed by Dosen (2019); Dosen and Petric (2011), isolates in a precise mathematical manner formulas (of a logic L) that have the same meaning. These isomorphic formulas are defined to be those that behave identically in inferences. The aim of this paper is to investigate another type of recently discussed rules in the literature, namely grounding rules, and their link to the meaning of the connectives they provide the grounds for. In particular, by using grounding rules, we will refine the notion of isomorphic formulas through the notion of hyper-isomorphic formulas. We will argue that it is actually the notion of hyper-isomorphic formulas that identify those formulas that have the same meaning
Disclosure of Origin in the Patents Regime: A Call to Shift towards Meaningful Engagement on Māori Terms
Get PDFIn September 2018, the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) recommended that New Zealand introduce a "disclosure of origin" requirement for patent applicants. Disclosure of origin was also recommended by the Waitangi Tribunal in 2011. If applicants were required to disclose the origin of genetic resources or traditional knowledge used, interested iwi and hapū groups would more easily be able to monitor the use of their resources and oppose patents being granted, and decide whether to challenge or oppose the grant. It would also allow more patent applications to be identified as relating to Māori interests and subsequently be referred to the Patents Māori Advisory Committee (PMAC) in the examination process. This article examines the potential for a disclosure of origin requirement in New Zealand, assessing appropriate design elements and objectives
Woman, Non-Native, Other
Get PDFThis article addresses my fieldwork experiences as a Korean-American woman in Sri Lanka. In particular, it highlights the challenges I encountered around my identity, ranging from almost universal initial disbelief of my being “American” to questioning why I was studying in Sri Lanka and not South Korea. I go on to discuss how these challenges illustrate the persistence of the native/insider and non-native/outsider binary, and how, through this binary, the default racial category of the anthropologist still remains unnuanced and white
Sounds of Trauma
Get PDFThis article explores the sounds of trauma in anthropology. I ask: when, where, and under what circumstances do unmoored sounds and voices gain salience in anthropology? In particular, can methodological insights prepare anthropologists for the intense military scrutiny that societies endure in violent borderlands? Recalling the long tradition of orality in anthropology, I suggest that the slippery registers of sound and voice in trauma is generative not only of location and culture, but also of a perennial sense of dislocation. Writing anthropology demands the iterative re-dwelling and reliving of sound and voice that continually haunt, emerge, flow, and resurface across different stages of ethnographic labour. Disembodied sounds and voices generate indescribable languages. Based on my long term ethnographic fieldwork in the Northeast India-Bangladesh borderlands, I show how sensory modalities not only nourish divergent possibilities of meaning and emplacement but also register impasses of interpretation and displacement
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