New Zealand Identities: Departures & Destinations

Status: Live
Contact: James Liu

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ISBN 0-86473-517-0, 300 pages, index, NZ$39.95
Published September 2005

The various peoples who have come to call New Zealand home have long histories of their own, but as a modern nation New Zealand is young, and the process of identity-making here is dynamic. For this book, the Centre for Applied Cross Cultural Research at VUW brought together writers with diverse personal and scholarly backgrounds, to examine issues of identity as both a departing point and destination.

Chapters:

  • Citizenship, Identity and Belonging: Addressing the Mythologies of the Unitary Nation State in Aotearoa/New Zealand, David Pearson
  • Maori identities: Fixed, Fluid, Forced, Tracey McIntosh
  • ‘Sticks and stones may break my bones ...’: Talking Pakeha identities, Tim McCreanor
  • History and identity: A system of checks and balances for Aotearoa/New Zealand, James H. Liu
  • Nation and identity in the Waitangi Tribunal Reports, Giselle Byrnes
  • Moving Beyond Cultural Essentialism, Hal B. Levine
  • Rethinking inclusion and equality: Towards a more relational practice of democratic justice, Kelly Barclay
  • The Changing Face of New Zealand’s Population and National Identity, Arvind Zodgekar
  • Immigration, Acculturation and National Identity in New Zealand, Colleen Ward and En-Yi Lin
  • New Zealand Chinese Identity: Sojourners, Model Minority and Multiple Identities, Manying Ip and David Pang
  • Living in the City Ain’t So Bad: Cultural identity for young Maori in South Auckland, Belinda Borell
  • Ambivalent Kinships? Pacific People in New Zealand, Teresia Teaiwa and Sean Mallon
  • Representing New Zealand: Identity, Diplomacy and the Making of Foreign Policy, David Capie and Gerald McGhie
  • 100% Pure Conjecture: Accounts of our future state(s), Bob Frame, Pala Molisa, Rhys Taylor, Hemi Toia and Wong Liu Shueng
  • Who are we? New Zealand identity and spirituality, Paul Morris
  • Afterword: The evolution of an inclusive national identity, Joris de Bres

If you would like to purchase a copy of this book, please email cacr@vuw.ac.nz