{"title":"The Braided River: Migration and the Personal Essay, Diane Comer (2019)","authors":"Vicky Yiannoutsos","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00059_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00059_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: The Braided River: Migration and the Personal Essay, Diane Comer (2019)\u0000Dunedin: Otago University Press, 304 pp.,\u0000ISBN 978 1 98853 153 3 (pbk), NZ$35","PeriodicalId":37507,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43678231","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":"Manufacturing urban identities: The emergence of Auckland’s and Wellington’s ‘character’ in New Zealand tourism film","authors":"Diego Bonelli","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00047_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00047_1","url":null,"abstract":"Since its inception, New Zealand film production has often been characterized by a strong focus on the promotion and marketing of local scenic locations. However, over the last few decades and simultaneously with New Zealand’s rapidly increasing urbanization rates, urban narratives have gained prominence in the cinematic representation of the country, gradually becoming important aspects of national tourism marketing campaigns. This article first provides an overview of New Zealand tourism film’s dynamics of production and recurring themes and narratives from the early twentieth century to the 1960s. It then focuses on Toehold on a Harbour and This Auckland – tourism films produced by the government-led New Zealand National Film Unit and released respectively in 1967 and 1966 – and identifies a turning point in the manufacturing of local urban narratives and in New Zealand urban tourism marketing. My critical and textual analysis of these two case studies notably relies on the examination of archival documents related to their production and on an interview with This Auckland’s director Hugh Macdonald. It ultimately shows how the emergence of ‘cities with a character’ as a tourism marketing tool was in fact a carefully planned, articulated and years-long government-driven strategy.","PeriodicalId":37507,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46622247","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":"Trophies, Relics and Curios? Missionary Heritage from Africa and the Pacific, Karen Jacobs, Chantal Knowles and Chris Wingfield (eds) (2015)","authors":"Lisa Renard","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00067_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00067_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Trophies, Relics and Curios? Missionary Heritage from Africa and the Pacific, Karen Jacobs, Chantal Knowles and Chris Wingfield (eds) (2015)\u0000Leiden: Sidestone Press, 220 pp.,\u0000ISBN 978 9 08890 271 0 (pbk), €34.95","PeriodicalId":37507,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46541181","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":"Beyond Ethnicity: New Politics of Race in Hawai‘i, Camilla Fojas, Rudy P. Guevarra Jr. and Nitasha Tamar Sharma (eds) (2018)","authors":"Ana Cristina Gomes da Rocha","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00055_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00055_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Beyond Ethnicity: New Politics of Race in Hawai‘i, Camilla Fojas, Rudy P. Guevarra Jr. and Nitasha Tamar Sharma (eds) (2018)\u0000Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai‘i Press, 232 pp.,\u0000ISBN 978 0 82486 988 5 (hbk), US$72","PeriodicalId":37507,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43145027","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":"The World’s Din: Listening to Records, Radio and Films in New Zealand, 1880–1940, Peter Hoar (2018)","authors":"Simon Sigley","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00065_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00065_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: The World’s Din: Listening to Records, Radio and Films in New Zealand, 1880–1940, Peter Hoar (2018)\u0000Dunedin: Otago University Press, 288 pp.,\u0000ISBN 978 1 98853 119 9 (pbk), NZ$45","PeriodicalId":37507,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48528114","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":"Narrative and Identity Construction in the Pacific Islands, Farzana Gounder (ed.) (2015)","authors":"Marc Maufort","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00057_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00057_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Narrative and Identity Construction in the Pacific Islands, Farzana Gounder (ed.) (2015)\u0000Amsterdam and Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins, 260 pp.,\u0000ISBN 978 9 02724 934 0 (hbk), €99","PeriodicalId":37507,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45333923","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}
Leali‘ifano Albert Refiti, A. Engels-Schwarzpaul, Lana Lopesi, Billie Lythberg, Layne Waerea, V. Smith
{"title":"Vā at the time of COVID-19: When an aspect of research unexpectedly turns into lived experience and practice","authors":"Leali‘ifano Albert Refiti, A. Engels-Schwarzpaul, Lana Lopesi, Billie Lythberg, Layne Waerea, V. Smith","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00049_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00049_7","url":null,"abstract":"In 2019, the Vā Moana–Pacific Spaces research group at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) began to investigate how core Moana and Māori values can be translated from onsite, embodied engagements into digital environments. This was prompted by our wish to provide access to all those who could not travel to attend a conference in late 2021 for our Marsden-funded research project, ‘Vā Moana: Space and relationality in Pacific thought and identity’ (2019–22). The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally reframed this premise, as providing offsite access was no longer simply a ‘nice option’. The crisis challenged us to find out how virtual participation in events can uphold values of tikanga (correct procedure, custom) and teu le vā (nurturing relational space). In particular, our research examines practices foregrounding vā as the attachment to and feeling for place, as well as relatedness between people and other entities. We have observed an emerging conceptual deployment of vā as relational space and a mode of belonging, especially in diasporic constellations oriented by a cosmopolitan understanding of vā. Due to this focus, we noticed early on that simply moving meetings online is unlikely to create a supportive environment for Indigenous researchers in diaspora, who share principal values and a commitment to a kaupapa (agenda, initiative). This realization led us to interrogate how research collaboration and circulation are influenced by the distinct features of physical and online contexts, protocols and connectivity. To develop the alternative kind of vā we envisaged – together with strategies to sustain it through our online practices – thus became a much larger project in the times of rapid change under COVID-19. This is a very brief, initial report on our experiences.","PeriodicalId":37507,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46890422","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":"Post Marks: The Way We Were – Early New Zealand Postcards, 1897–1922, Leo Haks, Colleen Dallimore and Alan Jackson (2015)","authors":"Hermann Mückler","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00064_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00064_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Post Marks: The Way We Were – Early New Zealand Postcards, 1897–1922, Leo Haks, Colleen Dallimore and Alan Jackson (2015)\u0000Auckland: Kowhai Media, 327 pp.,\u0000ISBN 978 0 98765 466 3 (hbk), NZ$69.99","PeriodicalId":37507,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48516275","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":"Te Papa: Reinventing New Zealand’s National Museum 1998–2018, Conal McCarthy (2018)","authors":"Hilke Thode-Arora","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00063_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00063_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Te Papa: Reinventing New Zealand’s National Museum 1998–2018, Conal McCarthy (2018)\u0000Wellington: Te Papa Press, 256 pp.,\u0000ISBN 978 0 99413 626 8 (pbk), NZ$44.99","PeriodicalId":37507,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42697762","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}