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The UK Climate Change Act: an act to follow?
No full textThe New Zealand government recently announced an intention to make the country carbon neutral by 2050. Interest has been expressed in using the United Kingdom’s Climate Change Act 2008 as a model to achieve this goal. However, more needs to be done to critically review the UK legislation’s applicability to the New Zealand context. This article identifies some of the issues emerging from a ten-year review of the UK act. It is hoped that close consideration of these issues will inform New Zealand policy and legislative development
Suze Randal translates Viola Di Grado
No full textThe Demons of Faro: Ingmar Bergman and the interior vocabulary of disaste
The Gay Novel and the Gay World
Get PDFIn a recent review essay, J. Daniel Elam charts the emergence of “gay world literary fiction,” a subgenre of the category “world literature,” which over the last twenty years or so has become both a marketing strategy for publishers and a “disciplinary rallying point of literary criticism and the academic humanities.”[i] While Elam’s essay is implicitly underpinned by the usual disciplinary understanding of world literature (fiction from potentially anywhere in the globe, translated into English, and studied comparatively), its focus is narrowed to the “gay world” within the planetary world—a putatively homogenous, transnational gay subculture enabled by digital connectivity and the flows of global capital. This new gay world is, according to Elam, characterized by atomization: “From Sofia to Shanghai, authors of gay fiction describe a collection of scattered and isolated individuals, needy but incurious.” The situation has emerged from the “curious paradox” that “visibility and acceptance” have “made life better” for many gay men “at the cost of community and identity.” “Gay visibility, with its attendant politics of respectability” has occurred at the expense of older subcultural institutions like “the gay bar, the bathhouse, the piano bar, and cruising areas,” rendering the gay community “a banally knowable object rather than the product of a passionately forged experience of self-making. In place of the urgent longings of 20th-century queer literature, one encounters a peculiar form of worldly, muted yearning. So-called gay world literature emerges from a global community that isn’t a community at all.”
[i] J. Daniel Elam, “The World of Gay Lit,” Public Books (16 October 2017). Web. Accessed 1 March, 2018. “Disciplinary rallying point”: Emily Apter, Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability (London: Verso, 2013), 1. For a discussion of the interrelations between “world literature” as the marketization of cultural differences and as a field of scholarly enquiry, see Simon During, Exit Capitalism: Literary Culture, Theory and Post-Secular Modernity (New York: Routledge, 2009), 57–58
Athens to Aotearoa: Greece and Rome in New Zealand Literature and Society
Get PDFClassical Reception Studies has developed over the last twenty years, with Classicists and Ancient Historians finding never-ending sources of academic inspiration. With its origins in Comparative Literature Studies and the Classical Tradition, Classical Reception Studies has extended beyond textual analyses to include the visual arts, film, popular culture, and socio-political histories and philosophies. It has also extended beyond Britain and Europe – its traditional strongholds – to research embedded in the influence of ancient Mediterranean cultures on the Antipodes.  
Contributors
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Dougal McNeill is a Senior Lecturer, School of English, Film, Theatre, and Media Studies
Shintaro Kono is an Associate Professor at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo.
Alistair Murray is a graduate student in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago
Theo Schoon and the case of the Pink Venus De Milo
Get PDFTheodorus Johannes Schoon (1915–1985) was a pioneering painter, printmaker, photographer, gourd and jade carver, and ceramicist. A Dutchman, born and raised in Indonesia, he arrived in Aotearoa in 1939, where he used his sense of difference and being out-of-place to make art that challenged Pākehā attitudes and cultural values. This article considers how Indonesian art and Dutch colonialism prepared Schoon for his encounter with Māori art, resulting in an extraordinary and complicated relationship that left its mark on the visual arts in Aotearoa
The Motoring Lobby in New Zealand, 1898–1930
Get PDFThis article examines how motoring organisations in New Zealand sought to influence local and national government during the first three decades of their existence. It shows that motor clubs formed alliances with other pressure groups which changed according to the issues at stake. These allies included local government bodies, urban and provincial promotional leagues, chambers of commerce, tourist organisations and representatives of other road users. Automobile associations sought to gain a favourable public image for motoring through the press, both newspapers and their own publications, as well as by self-policing and charitable activity. This article looks at the lobbying of parliamentarians regarding legislative measures that affected motorists such as roading, taxation and regulation. It concludes that motoring organisations’ demands in general received a favourable response so long as there were no major implications for government revenue
Cleansing the Colony: Transporting Convicts from New Zealand to Van Diemen’s Land
Get PDFSerendipitous is how Kristyn Harman describes the discovery of the “Register of indents for convicts transported to Van Diemen’s Land, 25 Nov 1847—22 Feb 1853,” at Archives New Zealand in 2013. 
Searches for Tradition: Essays on New Zealand Music, Past and Present
Get PDFSearching for tradition in New Zealand music is itself now a tradition, one that began in earnest with Douglas Lilburn’s famous talk given at the Cambridge Summer School of Music in January 1946. At that time, the seminal talk had no title. It was only forty years later that Lilburn gave it the name A Search for a Tradition, when music historian John Mansfield Thomson edited it for publication
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