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Juridical Encounters: Māori and the Colonial Courts, 1840-1852.
Get PDFJuridical Encounters: Māori and the Colonial Courts, 1840-1852 by Shaunnagh Dorsett is an engaging and nuanced study of the development of colonial laws and institutions in Aotearoa New Zealand and the expansion of the jurisdiction of state law that begins in this period. The issues explored in the book – relating to the relationship between the law of the settler state and Indigenous law; the recognition of Māori law by the state legal system; and the authority with which Māori and state law speak – remain live issues today. Studying how those issues were addressed during the Crown colony period helps us to understand the current relationship between Māori law and state law, how we arrived at this point, and, crucially, it helps us to think about how to approach that relationship with legal techniques appropriate to the social and political context and objectives of the 21st century
The Land is Our History: Indigeneity, Law, and the Settler State.
Get PDF Miranda Johnson’s The Land is Our History turns its gaze to a formative time in recent history for the development of indigenous peoples’ status as “indigenous” and new settler state identities. Johnson examines some of the legal strategies engaged by indigenous peoples and their advocates in Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and Canada from the early 1970s to the mid-1990s to advance their land rights and other claims
In Search of Consensus: New Zealand’s Electoral Act 1956 and its Constitutional Legacy.
Get PDFNew Zealand’s Electoral Act 1956, and in particular the entrenched (or “reserved”) provisions it introduced into the country’s legal framework, has long represented something of a constitutional oddity. In reserving certain key aspects of our electoral process, the 1956 Act purported to stop future Parliaments from altering these except by following a particular, and more demanding, process of enactment
Editor's Introduction
Get PDFThis thematic issue of the journal was conceived during a symposium at Victoria University of Wellington in November 2018 on the theme of ‘The Family as Mnemonic Community’. At the symposium, funded through a New Zealand Marsden grant for the project ‘The Missing Link’, a group of international and multidisciplinary researchers shared their investigations into family memory and discussed four broad questions:
- what kinds of stories or information do families pass down the generations?
- how are family stories about the past transmitted, remembered, and received?
- why do family memories and stories about the past matter in the present?
- and what are the advantages and disadvantages of different scholarly approaches?
Five out of six of the authors in this issue presented papers at the symposium, and their articles are revised or reconceptualised for publication here. The remaining author was invited to submit a paper once we scoped out the majority of submissions and decided on the shape of the volume
S (for Syllogism) Revisited: "The Revolution Devours its Children"
Get PDFIn 1978, the authors began a paper, “S (for Syllogism),” henceforth [S4S], intended as a philosophical companion piece to the technical solution [SPW] of the Anderson-Belnap P–W problem. [S4S] has gone through a number of drafts, which have been circulated among close friends. Meanwhile other authors have failed to see the point of the semantics which we introduced in [SPW]. It will accordingly be our purpose here to revisit that semantics, while giving our present views on syllogistic matters past, present and future, especially as they relate to not begging the question via such dubious theses as A →’ A. We shall investigate in particular a paraconsistent attitude toward such theses
Unpublished Post-War Writing and Emergent Gay Cultures
Get PDFThe 1950s and ’60s were pivotal decades in the emergence of modern gay life. New Zealand’s cities expanded rapidly after the end of the war, and the size of homosexual networks grew quickly. There were profound contradictions too. While many men partied, others were imprisoned for same-sex activity. A homemade queer literature accompanied these changes, and four examples illustrate the tensions of the time. The first, an essay called “De Profundis for Today,” was the work of Dunedin businessman Ernie Webber, who wrote it in Mt Eden Prison in 1957. The second piece, an early 1960s novel titled “The Rock Orchid,” is by Bert Pimley, a fellow inmate of Webber at Mt Eden. The third and fourth pieces, short essays by Auckland man Don Goodsell, are very different in their context and tone. The evocatively titled “Did You Ever See a Dream Limping?” and “The Night is Young and We’re So Beautiful” tell not of imprisonment but of the social opportunities of New Zealand’s cities during the 1960
Maori Writing: Speaking with Two Mouths
No full textDrawing on her own experiences as a novelist and anthologist, Tina Makereti explores the situation of the Māori writer as someone “speaking with two mouths,” addressing and drawing from both Māori and Pākehā literary traditions and ways of expressing creativity. Considering some examples from her own fiction and the work of other notable writers such as Patricia Grace, Makereti argues for a richer, more expansive conception of Māori and New Zealand literary history, one drawing on, and acknowledging, Māori ways of imagining literature.
 
Tears of Rangi: Experiments Across Worlds
Get PDFTears of Rangi is, says Anne Salmond, an exploration of ontology, defined as “the study of the nature of reality, along with the basic categories of being and their relations” (18). For Salmond, relationality structures te ao Māori, as expressed in whakapapa, but also the hau (the wind of life). Practices, such as giftgiving, bore hau and when exchanged entangled people in relationships, creating obligations and responsibilitie
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