Making Our Place: Exploring Land-use Tensions in Aotearoa New Zealand - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1877372889 ISBN 13 : 9781877372889

Editeur : Otago University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Making Our Place 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 wit Full description

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À propos des auteurs

Jacinta Ruru (Raukawa, Ngāti Ranginui) is a professor of law at the University of Otago and co-director of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, New Zealands Māori Centre of Research Excellence. Her extensive research considers Indigenous peoples rights, interests and responsibilities to own and care for lands and waters. She seeks to disrupt colonial legal norms and inspire a more just legal system. She has multidisciplinary research collaborations around the world, including as co-author of Discovering Indigenous Lands: The doctrine of discovery in the English colonies (Oxford University Press, 2010). She has won awards for teaching, research and graduate supervision.Linda Waimarie Nikora (Tūhoe, Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti) is a professor of Indigenous studies at the University of Auckland and co-director of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, New Zealands Māori Centre of Research Excellence. Her specialty interest is in the development of Indigenous psychologies to serve the interests and aspirations of Māori and Indigenous peoples. She has been involved in research about Māori flourishing; tangi and Māori ways of mourning; traditional body modification; ethnic status as a stressor; Māori identity development; cultural safety and competence; Māori mental health and recovery; social and economic determinants of health; homelessness; relational health and social connectedness.

Mick Abbott is Director of the Master of Design programme in the Department of Applied Sciences at the University of Otago.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Otago University Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1877372889
• ISBN 13: 9781877372889
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Éditeur: Ruru Jacinta, Stephenson Janet, Abbott Mick
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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