Archive for the ‘New Zealand’ Category
Peter Limbrick, Making Settler Cinemas: Film and Colonial Encounters in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). In Making Settler Cinemas, Peter Limbrick argues that the United States, Australia, and New Zealand share histories of colonial encounters that have shaped their cinemas in distinctive ways. Going beyond readings of narrative and representation, […]
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From Waatea News: Taitokerau MP Hone Harawira, who chaired the Waitangi hui, says many people wanted to talk about the Declaration of Independence which preceded the Treaty of Waitangi, and about the constitutional issues being raised in the Northland claims now before the Waitangi Tribunal. “People talked in particular about the issue Ngapuhi is raising […]
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Mark Hickford, ‘”Vague Native Rights to Land”: British Imperial Policy on Native Title and Custom in New Zealand, 1837-53’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 38, 2 (2010): 175 – 206. Abstract: What is often referred to as a common law doctrine of aboriginal or customary title neither underpinned imperial policies towards Maori property rights […]
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ngapuhi case begins
A while ago I got whisper of an excitingly unique Maori claim launched by the Ngapuhi. Today I learn the case is getting under way today, via NZHerald: The Te Paparahi o te Raki inquiry is unique in that iwi members will argue that their ancestors did not cede sovereignty when the Treaty was signed […]
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Corinn Columpar, Unsettling Sights: The Fourth World on Film (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010): Unsettling Sights: The Fourth World on Film examines the politics of representing Aboriginality, in the process bringing frequently marginalized voices and visions, issues and debates into the limelight. Corinn Columpar uses film theory, postcolonial theory, and Indigenous theory to frame her […]
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Libby Porter, Unlearning the Colonial Cultures of Planning (Farnham/Burlington: Ashgate, 2010). Colonialization has never failed to provoke discussion and debate over its territorial, economic and political projects, and their ongoing consequences. This work argues that the state-based activity of planning was integral to these projects in conceptualizing, shaping and managing place in settler societies. Planning […]
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From maorinews: The Government is on the verge of offering the Tūhoe tribe a treaty settlement that could be as groundbreaking as it is controversial. Tūhoe is hoping it will mean total control of the Urewera National Park, and start the tribe on the way to self-rule and becoming a separate nation. But the Government […]
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call for papers: anzlhs law and history conference: owning the past – whose past? whose present?
From their website: The use and study of the past is constantly being refashioned and reinterpreted to construct meaning in the present, imparting understandings of a common but chaotic humanity. Because everyone and no one ‘owns’ history, the ownership of historical events and the right to speak of them remains deeply contested. What are the […]
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From the NZ Herald: A Ngapuhi leader is warning that “outsiders” could derail the tribe’s progress to settlement while others accuse the organisation he leads of manipulating the settlement process. In Te Runanga a Iwi o Ngapuhi’s (Traion) annual report chairman Sonny Tau outlines the importance of moving from grievance to development. Delaying Treaty of […]
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