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Stuck in India: Punjabi temporary migrants of New Zealand
Full text linkOur paper reflects on creating a short documentary in 2021 centred around an online discussion, which the second author recorded with three Punjabi migrants. At the time of being interviewed, these migrants had New Zealand temporary work and study visas and were stuck in Punjab, India, for more than a year since the New Zealand government announced on 19 March 2020 the international border would be closed indefinitely due to Covid-19. The documentary research found that Punjabis stranded in their country of origin were imploring Punjabis in New Zealand to lobby to the New Zealand state to let them return. As a result, Auckland migrant groups were advocating for temporary migrants to be allowed back
New Zealand's broadcasting model as a colonial construct: A personal reflection
Full text linkIn this paper, Haunui Royal reflects on his professional career as a filmmaker in 1980s and 1990s Aotearoa New Zealand committed to directing and producing kaupapa Māori documentaries for public television
Reflections on Nan’s liver transplant
Full text linkThe first liver transplant in Aotearoa New Zealand took place in 1998 following the establishment of the New Zealand Liver Transplant Unit (NZLTU) at Auckland Hospital (Gane et al., 2002). From that time to 30 December 2001, 186 patients were listed for liver transplantation, 13 of whom were Māori (Gane et al., 2002). Furthermore, from 1998 to 2014 a total of 595 liver transplants were performed by the NZLTU (Munn et al., 2014). In 1999 my grandmother, Rēpora Marion Brown (1940-2017), required an emergency liver transplant at Auckland Hospital
The effects of the 2021 Delta lockdown in Aotearoa New Zealand: Some preliminary material to inform a future research question
Full text linkThis paper is based on preliminary material gathered about the effects of the 2021 Delta lockdown in Aotearoa New Zealand. The preliminary material was gathered via a questionnaire and analysed using reflexive thematic analysis. This paper will offer some preliminary findings which are intended to inform a future research question
The Historicity of the Doctrine of Discovery in New Zealand’s Colonisation
Full text linkOver the last two decades, claims that the Doctrine of Discovery (based on a 1493 papal bull) had some bearing on New Zealand’s colonisation have been gaining force in academic and popular literature, with a nexus emerging between historical and legal analyses of its purported role in British intervention in the country from the eighteenth century. This article explores the bases for these claims, and introduces a distinction between functionalist and intentionalist approaches to interpreting Britain’s colonisation of New Zealand as a means of contextualising and accounting for the explanatory appeal of the Doctrine as a first cause of New Zealand’s colonisation
Quotes From Paul Moon
Full text linkThis is the fifteenth year of Te Kaharoa – a journal founded and edited for a decade by Professor Paul Moon. It is also the 25th anniversary of its predecessor, He Tuhinga Aronui, which he also founded and edited. By way of a tribute to his contributions in this field for a quarter of a century, we have assembled quotes from his writings and lectures. Although these constitute a small selection, we hope that they give some insight into his thoughts on certain topics. As a historian, it is not surprising that most of these quotes are history-related, but some touch on other subject
Tūtira mai! Reporting a Tiriti o Waitangi settlement ceremony for public radio through a Māori lens
Full text linkRadio New Zealand is a Government-owned public broadcaster in Aotearoa New Zealand. Its news channel, RNZ National, has among its reporting team Māori journalists who report in English on issues of significance to Māori for a national audience that is predominantly non-Māori. This case study documents the activities of a bilingual Māori RNZ National reporter as she covers a Tiriti o Waitangi settlement between the Crown and a collective of East Coast iwi (tribes). It traces how the reporter balances tikanga, or Māori cultural norms, with journalistic demands as she produces news stories for the internet and radio and images for Twitter. The news content is presented and analysed through the lens of the Anglo-American news values in operation in Aotearoa New Zealand, demonstrating how Māori history, culture and aspiration are centred within these. This paper assumes some understanding of news values and journalistic practice and process.  
Can Te Reo Māori Survive the 21st Century? An Index-Linked Approach to Indigenous Language Revitalisation
Full text linkIn 2017, I published a book called Killing Te Reo Māori. It was not especially well received at first, with some reviewers condemning it, oddly, without ever having read the work (and admitting as much). One academic even publicly denounced the book solely on the basis that she was unable to find the website of the photographer who produced one of the imagesfor the cover (the details were later provided to her). This sort of interminable barrel-scraping was indicative of how some critics latched onto the shadow rather than the substance of the work.Had these critics paid attention to the text instead of prejudging it, they would have realised that the book was not what they imagined – that is, a criticism of the language. Rather, it was a pointed critique of many of the attempts at revitalising the Te Reo – attempts that seem to be failing with depressing regularity (a fact that was confirmed in subsequent research on the topic). Indeed, the regularity is such that I began making predictions every year that around Māori Language Week, a new book, a new method of teaching, or a new app would be revealed, and that it would promise to contribute – often in a ‘ground-breaking’ way – to saving Te Reo. I also predicted that the promotion would be considerable, the execution uncertain, and the evaluation nonexistent. This prophecy has played out every year, and in the meantime, the erosion of Te Reo as a living language proceeds towards its terminal end
Book Review: Peter Cleave, Data Wars: The Algorithmic State
Full text linkIn recent years, literature on indigenous issues has come to be dominated by two connected themes: the challenges arising from the experiences of colonisation; and the means of (re-) asserting indigenous culture, political influence, and identity. To some degree, the focus on these areas has come at the expense of other developments affecting indigenous groups (among others), particularly the rise of commercial and political forces that subvert the significance of the binary Western-indigenous model of analysis, and that present both material and conceptual challenges to notions of indigeneity. Among much else, the cultural and political ramifications of emerging virtual states on indigenous peoples is a topic of Professor Peter Cleave’s new book, Data Wars: The Algorithmic State
Postscript
Full text linkThere has been a ruling in December 2021 by the High Court in New Zealand that data to do with vaccination be given over by the Ministry of Health to the Whānau Ora Commissioning Agency. The present article, Ngā Pakanga Maramara, The Data Wars, forms a Postscript to Maramara me te Iwi, Data and the Indigenous Group, an earlier paper in tekaharoa.com and takes the argument therein to a consideration of this ruling and the context involved. A similar form is followed to that of the earlier paper and in the example of the High Court ruling and its aftermath concepts of state and ethnicity are considered along with an overview of government and Iwi organisations in Aotearoa-New Zealand. The ruling is considered as something of a change or a breakthrough to new forms of data control. The nature and use of data is considered in general terms as well as in the specific context of the Covid 19 pandemic in Aotearoa-New Zealand. There is considerable discussion of border concepts and practices as there is of mental as well as physical health