{"title":"Democracy in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Survival Guide, Geoffrey Palmer and Gwen Palmer Steeds (2022)","authors":"John F. Wilson","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00177_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00177_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Democracy in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Survival Guide, Geoffrey Palmer and Gwen Palmer Steeds (2022)\u0000 Wellington: Te Herenga Waka University Press, 400 pp.,\u0000 ISBN 978 1 77692 016 7 (pbk), NZ$40","PeriodicalId":205998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies","volume":"283 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141412674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Who was Jutta Merensky? In search of a German photographer of the Pacific","authors":"Nicholas Thomas","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00184_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00184_7","url":null,"abstract":"Outlined with this report is what is known regarding a significant donation of photographs received by the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA), Cambridge, in 2010. The photographer was Jutta Merensky, later Jutta Gethen (1911–96). Information available at present indicates that she visited the Pacific twice or more, probably in 1961 and over 1968–69. Several hundred transparencies and prints now cared for in Cambridge feature landscapes, ceremonies, people and daily activities in Aotearoa New Zealand, Samoa, French Polynesia and elsewhere and notably include a sequence of tatau (tattooing) photographs from Samoa.","PeriodicalId":205998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies","volume":"8 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141397705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mapping Security in the Pacific: A Focus on Context, Gender and Organisational Culture, Sara N. Amin, Danielle Watson and Christian Girard (eds) (2020)","authors":"Anna Ďurfina","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00180_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00180_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Mapping Security in the Pacific: A Focus on Context, Gender and Organisational Culture, Sara N. Amin, Danielle Watson and Christian Girard (eds) (2020)\u0000 Routledge: Taylor & Francis, 249 pp.,\u0000 ISBN 978 0 36714 392 3 (hbk), £104","PeriodicalId":205998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies","volume":"34 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141402785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"God Is Samoan: Dialogues between Culture and Theology in the Pacific, Matt Tomlinson (2020)","authors":"Martin Prior","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00179_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00179_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: God Is Samoan: Dialogues between Culture and Theology in the Pacific, Matt Tomlinson (2020)\u0000 Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai‘i Press, 182 pp.,\u0000 ISBN 978 0 82488 097 2 (hbk), US$80","PeriodicalId":205998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies","volume":"64 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141405708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Histories of Hate: The Radical Right in Aotearoa New Zealand, Matthew Cunningham, Marinus La Rooij and Paul Spoonley (eds) (2022)","authors":"Dominic Alessio","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00176_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00176_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Histories of Hate: The Radical Right in Aotearoa New Zealand, Matthew Cunningham, Marinus La Rooij and Paul Spoonley (eds) (2022)\u0000 Otago: Otago University Press, 440 pp.,\u0000 ISBN 978 1 99004 840 1 (pbk), NZ$50","PeriodicalId":205998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies","volume":"21 50","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141393431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay about Captain Cook, Alice Te Punga Somerville (2020)","authors":"Sebastian Jablonski","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00170_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00170_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay about Captain Cook, Alice Te Punga Somerville (2020)\u0000 Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 250 pp.,\u0000 ISBN 978 1 98858 774 5 (pbk), NZ$17.99","PeriodicalId":205998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies","volume":"100 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141407349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Photography, capitalism and empire: A case study of the Handbook of Fiji","authors":"Max Quanchi","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00185_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00185_1","url":null,"abstract":"Photographically illustrated handbooks became popular in the 1890s and supplemented the official Annual Reports and Blue Books. Handbooks were both an instrument of propaganda and a prospectus for potential investors and settlers and served a documentary purpose by providing a glimpse of a colony’s natural resources, economy, European life and Indigenous peoples. The handbook phenomenon, globally, has been largely overlooked by historians, despite adding to the complex archive generated by mid-century colonies. This article analyses the way photographs operated in the handbooks, particularly the inclusions and omissions in the many editions and reprints in the 1924–43 period, to provide insights into the ways a British colony – Fiji – was being remade and reshaped by capitalism and colonialism.","PeriodicalId":205998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies","volume":"32 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141412488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pacific Presences: Volume 1: Oceanic Art and European Museums, Lucie Carreau, Alison Clark, Alana Jelinek, Erna Lilje and Nicholas Thomas (eds) (2018)","authors":"Hermann Mückler","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00181_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00181_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Pacific Presences: Volume 1: Oceanic Art and European Museums, Lucie Carreau, Alison Clark, Alana Jelinek, Erna Lilje and Nicholas Thomas (eds) (2018)\u0000 Leiden: Sidestone Press, 253 pp.,\u0000 ISBN 978 9 08890 589 6 (pbk), €45\u0000 \u0000 Pacific Presences: Volume 2: Oceanic Art and European Museums, Lucie Carreau, Alison Clark, Alana Jelinek, Erna Lilje and Nicholas Thomas (eds) (2018)\u0000 Leiden: Sidestone Press, 511 pp.,\u0000 ISBN 978 9 08890 626 8 (pbk), €85","PeriodicalId":205998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies","volume":"4 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141391960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Policy-making under Pressure: Rethinking the Policy Process in Aotearoa New Zealand, Sonia Mazey and Jeremy Richardson (eds) (2021)","authors":"Martin Prior","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00182_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00182_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Policy-making under Pressure: Rethinking the Policy Process in Aotearoa New Zealand, Sonia Mazey and Jeremy Richardson (eds) (2021)\u0000 Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 316 pp.,\u0000 ISBN 978 1 98850 324 0 (pbk), NZ$49.99","PeriodicalId":205998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies","volume":"189 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141406261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chasing the Bounty: The Voyages of the Pandora and the Matavy, Donald A. Maxton (ed.) (2020)","authors":"Richard Lansdown","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00169_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00169_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Chasing the Bounty: The Voyages of the Pandora and the Matavy, Donald A. Maxton (ed.) (2020)\u0000 Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 200 pp.,\u0000 ISBN 978 1 47667 938 9 (pbk), US$39.95","PeriodicalId":205998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies","volume":"18 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141397620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}