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New Zealand Family Law and International Law – A Comment with Some Questions
Get PDFIn this article, an addition to the issue in honour of Bill Atkin, Sir Kenneth Keith considers the growing impact of international law on family law in New Zealand. The article begins by broadly outlining shifts in society and legal approach that impact on the field of family law. This leads to a discussion of the Hague Conference on Private International law, the conventions that came out of the conference, and the extent of New Zealand's adoption of those conventions. The different ways in which these conventions have been implemented in national law, both historically and in the present day, are then addressed. The article concludes by noting New Zealand's failure to accede to various conventions touching on family law, and suggests that international law will yet have considerable impact in family law development
Welcome to Commoning Ethnography
Get PDFWhat does it mean to suggest that ethnography might be a site, source, or scene of commoning? What does combining the idea of commoning with the practice of ethnography allow us to think about or to do that we might not otherwise? Why create a journal dedicated to such an obviously paradoxical thought experiment? This editorial introduction outlines the impetus behind this project, our aspirations for it, and considers some of the questions it raises. It also offers a brief synopsis of the scope of the first issue.
 
Māori Saltwater Commons: Property, wealth, and inequality
Get PDFThis article draws on Māori claims to fisheries in Aotearoa New Zealand as well as their opposition to the establishment of a large scale marine protected area, to question whether commoning, as a conceptual frame, can account for indigenous resistances in ocean environments. It argues that the theorisation of horizontal collective activism, an emphasis on a politics of relationality encompassing humans and non-humans and the potential for transformative practice in commonings, is congruent with the indigenous sociality mobilised by Māori in relation to their seascapes. As an analytical tool, however, commoning pays inadequate attention to inegalitarianism. Inequality may amplify, for instance, in the process of claiming indigenous rights, or it may otherwise be reconfigured as it articulates with the imperative of neoliberal environmental capitalism. Property – alienated, usurped or reappropriated – while considered a reductive representation of the commons is, at least for indigenous peoples, a crucial feature of struggles, a phenomenon clearly articulated in Māori claims to fisheries and marine spaces
Marco Sonzogni interviews Jean Boase-Beier
No full text"Technology has a potentially far greater role in Translation Studies than in the practice of translation. Where it affects the practice of translation, it’s often in areas such as use of online dictionaries or research resources and so on, which can be very useful but don’t radically change the way we translate.
Alessandra Giorgioni translates Leonardo Guzzo
No full textTranslation of the story "The Idol" submitted by Alessandra Giorgioni 
"Can I see your social license please?"
Get PDFThe concept of a ‘social licence to operate’ has become ubiquitous in recent years, but there is no agreed definition, and its meaning continues to mutate as it spreads to ever more domains. The concept was first floated by a mining company executive after a disaster at a mine in the Philippines in 1995, and it spread exponentially. A small but growing body of academic research and commentary is bringing some rigour, but is not keeping pace with its rate of mutation. The narrative around the term is now more valuable than the term itself, which should be retired
The Mounting Crisis at Ihumaatao: A High Cost Special Housing Area or a Cultural Heritage Landscape for Future Generations?
Get PDFA recent Environment Court decision adds to more than 150 years of Court, Crown, and Council decision-making that alienates mana whenua from land they occupied for centuries and now puts Ihumaatao, a rare cultural heritage landscape near Auckland International Airport, at risk of permanent destruction. This latest Court decision gives transnational corporation Fletcher Building Limited, the current ‘landowners’, the green light to progress its inappropriately sited, low-density, high-cost housing development at Ihumaatao. Fletcher plans to build 480 dwellings on 32 hectares, using the fast-track, developer-friendly provisions of the Housing Accords and Special Housing Areas Act 2013 (HASHA Act) to sideline mana whenua and community interests, as well as diminishing protections for our cultural and natural heritage.
 
Marco Sonzogni interviews Tim Parks
No full text"I suppose nothing more than translation reminds us of the fatal connection between language, thought, and expression. Moving from one language to another is like going back and forth between quite distinct equally powerful enchantments and I suppose it is this savouring of the languages and their differences that has always fascinated me.
Teresia Kieuea Teaiwa's Multilingual Mother - A LIVING DOCUMENT (National Poetry Day NZ 2018)
No full textIn memoriam Teresia Kieuea Teaiwa (1968 – 2017
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