Island time : New Zealand's Pacific futures
Series: BWB textsPublisher: Wellington, New Zealand : Bridget Williams Books, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 256 pages ; 18 cmISBN:- 9781988533537
- 1988533538
- 198853352X
- 9781988533520
- DU 410 SAL .S25 2017
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Whitecliffe Library NZ & Pacific | NZ & Pacific | NZ&P DU 410 SAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0013379 |
Includes bibliographical references.
The Pacific future has already happened -- A tale of two cities: racial segregation in Auckland -- Building different cities -- The Pacific economy -- Future economy, future work -- New Zealand's Pacific way: Pacific politics in New Zealand -- Pacific politics 2.0: fragmenting Pacific politics -- The rain from Manu'a.
"The task of living in modern New Zealand - and especially in modern Auckland - is not just to understand how to live with different peoples, but how to adapt to the future that has already happened. New Zealand is a nation that exists on Pacific Islands, but does not, will not, perhaps cannot, see itself as a Pacific Island nation. Yet turning to the Pacific, argues Damon Salesa, enables us to grasp a fuller understanding of what life is really like on these shores. After all, Salesa argues, in many ways New Zealand's Pacific future has already happened. Setting a course through the 'islands' of Pacific life in New Zealand - Ōtara, Tokoroa, Porirua, Ōamaru, and beyond - he charts a country becoming 'even more Pacific by the hour'. What would it mean, this far-sighted book asks, for New Zealand to recognise its Pacific talent and finally act like a Pacific nation?"--Publisher's website.