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MAKING OUR PLACE
EXPLORING LAND-USE TENSIONS IN AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND |
| By: |
Jacinta Ruru (Editor), Janet Stephenson (Editor), Mick Abbott (Editor) |
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Electronic book text |
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£11.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1927322472 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781927322475 |
| Publisher: |
OTAGO UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 2011 |
| Description: |
Fascination with the interplay of people and place inspired the editors of this book to bring together New Zealanders from different backgrounds and disciplines to explore conflict and change found among New Zealand's sacred, historic, rural, urban, and coastal landscapes. All contributors engage with the underlying question: are there better ways to reconcile inherent tensions in the struggle with the land and with each other? Issues fundamental to identity are placed at center stage, including New Zealand indigenous rights and restitution, development and conservation, claiming and naming. The authors discuss issues ranging from the early-settler surveying lines to the Wanganui/Whanganui naming debate, the legal arguments over wahi tapu and Maori customary land to dairying in the Mackenzie Basin. In exploring different ways of framing landscape tensions, they seek new understandings of why such passion, reverence, and contest is generated, and they look for ways to identify new appro |
| Synopsis: |
Fascination with the interplay of people and place inspired the editors to bring together New Zealanders from different backgrounds and disciplines to explore some of the stories and sites of conflict and change to be found amongst our sacred, historic, rural, urban and coastal landscapes. All of the writers in making our place engage with the underlying question: are there better ways to reconcile the tensions inherent in our struggles with the land and each other? |
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New Zealand |
| Imprint: |
Otago University Press |
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Non-returnable |
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