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Rethinking settler colonialism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

Rethinking settler colonialism

Rethinking settler colonialism focuses on the long history of contact between indigenous peoples and the white colonial communities who settled in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada and South Africa. It interrogates how histories of colonial settlement have been mythologised, narrated and embodied in public culture in the twentieth century (through monuments, exhibitions and images) and charts some of the vociferous challenges to such histories that have emerged over recent years. Despite a shared familiarity with cultural and political institutions, practices and policies amongst the white settler communities, the distinctiveness which marked these constituencies as variously, ‘Austr...

Kāinga
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 128

Kāinga

‘Dare we elevate kāinga as a way of achieving regionalised ecological accountability, and in the process can we bring humanity back into balance with the universe?’ Through his own experience and the stories of his tīpuna, Paul Tapsell (Te Arawa, Tainui) charts the impact of colonisation on his people. Alienation from kāinga and whenua becomes a wider story of environmental degradation and system collapse. This book is an impassioned plea to step back from the edge. It is now up to the Crown, Tapsell writes, to accept the need for radical change. The ecological costs of colonisation are clear, and yet those same extractive and exploitative models remain foundational today. Only a complete step-change, one that embraces kāinga, can transform our lands and waterways, and potentially become a source of inspiration to the world.

A Practical Guide to Challenging Seizures Under the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979
  • Language: en

A Practical Guide to Challenging Seizures Under the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979

  • Categories: Law

This guide provides practitioners involved with challenges to seizures under the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 with detailed coverage of the relevant statutory provisions and case law and practical advice as to the procedures and issues which may arise. The book gives an analysis of the legislative framework dealing with forfeiture, examples of the situations when goods and/or vehicles are seized and explains the distinct statutory regimes dealing with Condemnation proceedings in the Magistrates and Crown Courts and Restoration appeals in the First Tier Tribunal (Tax Chamber). Paul Tapsell is a barrister and mediator who has been based in Becket Chambers, Canterbury since 1993. His ...

The Adventures of Jonathan Dennis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 208

The Adventures of Jonathan Dennis

A history of the New Zealand Film Archive and its founding director. Jonathan Dennis (1953–2002), was the creative and talented founding director of the New Zealand Film Archive. As a Pakeha (non-Maori/indigenous New Zealander) with a strong sense of social justice, Dennis became a conduit for tension and debate over the preservation and presentation of indigenous and non-indigenous film archival materials from the time the Archive opened in 1981. His work resulted in a film archive and curatorship practice which differed significantly from that of the North American and European archives he originally sought to emulate. He supported a philosophical shift in archival practice by engaging indigenous peoples in developing creative and innovative exhibitions from the 1980s until his death, recognizing that much of the expertise required to work with archival materials rested with the communities outside archival walls. This book presents new interviews gathered by the author, as well as an examination of existing interviews, films and broadcasts about and with Jonathan Dennis, to consider the narrative of a life and work in relation to film archiving.

Pūkaki
  • Language: en

Pūkaki

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Exploring the legacy of Pukaki, the ancestral father of Ngati Whakaue, a hapu (sub-tribe) of Te Arawa of Rotorua, this text also relates the history of the carving of Pukaki that featured in the Te Maori exhibition, its origins, how it was acquired by the Crown and how Ngati Whakaue regained it from the Auckland Museum in 1997.

Looking Reality in the Eye
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 210

Looking Reality in the Eye

  • Categories: Art

Museums are often stereotyped as dusty storage facilities for ancient artefacts considered important by only a handful of scholars. Recently there has been effort on the part of some museumologists to reconsider the role and responsibilities of museums, art galleries and science centres as integral social institutions in their communities. The book attempts to point the way towards a sustainable future for museums by examining institutions that have found creative ways to attain a socially responsive model for cultural resource management. Accessible and engaging, the articles presented here are an excellent starting point for any discussion on what museums have been and what they should strive to be.

This Is Our Life
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 321

This Is Our Life

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-11-01
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  • Publisher: UBC Press

In September 2009, twenty-one members of the Haida Nation went to the Pitt Rivers Museum and the British Museum to work with several hundred heritage treasures. Featuring contributions from all the participants and a rich selection of illustrations, This Is Our Life details the remarkable story of the Haida Project � from the planning to the encounter and through the years that followed. A fascinating look at the meaning behind objects, the value of repatriation, and the impact of historical trajectories like colonialism, this is also a story of the understanding that grew between the Haida people and museum staff.

Maori Treasures of New Zealand
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 178

Maori Treasures of New Zealand

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: Unknown

"Unless otherwise specified, all written material has been produced by the author, Paul Tapsell, and all photographic work by Krzysztof Pfeiffer" -- T.p. verso.

Looking Back and Living Forward
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 318

Looking Back and Living Forward

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-04-16
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Looking Back and Living Forward: Indigenous Research Rising Up brings together research from a diverse group of scholars from a variety of disciplines. The work shared in this book is done by and with Indigenous peoples, from across Canada and around the world. Together, the collaborators’ voices resonate with urgency and insights towards resistance and resurgence. The various chapters address historical legacies, environmental concerns, community needs, wisdom teachings, legal issues, personal journeys, educational implications, and more. In these offerings, the contributors share the findings from their literature surveys, document analyses, community-based projects, self-studies, and work with knowledge keepers and elders. The scholarship draws on the teachings of the past, experiences of the present, and will undoubtedly inform research to come.

New Museums and the Making of Culture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 278

New Museums and the Making of Culture

In the last decade, museums all around the world have been reinventing themselves. They are now much more than scholarly, cultural archives. A remit to reach out to a broader public, the increasing politicization of the ownership and curation of objects, the architectural expectations of new buildings, the requirements of the "event exhibit"...all have changed the way any new museum is built, operates and serves its public purpose. Museums now reflect global economics and local politics. New museums now shape our public culture.Illustrated with a very wide range of museums and museum spaces - from MOMA in New York to the reconstruction of Ground Zero, from the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC to the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, from the planned renewal of the Crystal Palace site in London to the Sendai Mediatheque in Japan - the book reveals how the new museum is evolving as a cross-disciplinary, self-consciously political, and often avowedly self-reflexive institution.