New Zealand Identities

Departures and Destinations

James H. Liu, Tim McCreanor, Tracey McIntosh, Teresia Teaiwa

• Publisher: Victoria University Press
• Year: 2014
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781776560004
• Subtopic: Australian & Oceanian History
• Index: History

Fifteen writers with diverse personal and scholarly backgrounds come together in this collection to examine issues of identity, viewing it as both a departing point and end destination for the various peoples who have come to call New Zealand "home." The essays reflect the diversity of thinking about identity across the social sciences as well as common themes that transcend disciplinary boundaries. Their explorations of the process of identity-making underscore the historical roots, dynamism, and plurality of ideas of national identity in New Zealand, offering a view not only of what has been but also what might be on the horizon.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface: ‘The Spirit of Waikanae’
• Introduction: Constructing New Zealand Identities
• Citizenship, Identity and Belonging: Addressing the Mythologies of the Unitary Nation State in Aotearoa/New Zealand
• Maori Identities: Fixed, Fluid, Forced
• ‘Sticks and stones may break my bones . . .’: Talking Pakeha Identities
• History and Identity: A System of Checks and Balances for Aotearoa/New Zealand
• Nation and Identity in the Waitangi Tribunal Reports
• Moving Beyond Cultural Essentialism
• Rethinking Inclusion and Biculturalism: Towards a More Relational Practice of Democratic Justice
• The Changing Face of New Zealand’s Population and National Identity
• Immigration, Acculturation and National Identity in New Zealand
• New Zealand Chinese Identity: Sojourners, Model Minority and Multiple Identities
• Living in the City Ain’t So Bad: Cultural Identity for Young Maori in South Auckland
• Ambivalent Kinships? Pacific People in New Zealand
• Representing New Zealand: Identity, Diplomacy and the Making of Foreign Policy
• Who Are We? New Zealand Identity and Spirituality
• 100% Pure Conjecture: Accounts of Our Future State(s)
• Afterword: The Evolution of an Inclusive National Identity
• Contributors
• Index