Solo

by

Hazel Phillips

One afternoon in Auckland, journalist Hazel Phillips decided to close her laptop and head for the hills. She then spent the next three years living in mountain huts and tramping alone for days at a time, all the while holding down a full-time job.As she ranged from Arthur's Pass and the Kaimanawa Forest Park to the Ruahine Range and Fiordland, she had her share of danger and loneliness, but she also grew in confidence and backcountry knowledge. Her story of this solo life is an absorbing b...

Sport in Aotearoa New Zealand

This fascinating book investigates the sporting traditions, successes, systems, "terrains" and contemporary issues that underpin sport in New Zealand, also known by its Māori name of Aotearoa.The book unpacks some of the "cliches" around the place, prominence and impact of sport and recreation in Aotearoa New Zealand in order to better understand the country’s sporting history, cultures, institutions and systems, as well as the relationship between sport and different sections of s...

Jumping Sundays

by

Nick Bollinger

On a Sunday afternoon in the spring of 1969, thousands of people defied Auckland city bylaws and came to party in Albert Park. A rock band played on the rotunda. Some people held hands, some danced alone, some sat under trees with guitars, flutes and bongos and made music of their own. They wore kaftans, ponchos and leather-fringed jerkins, floppy hats, headbands, beads and flowers. Poetry and political diatribes were delivered from a podium, improvised from an upturned tea chest. There we...

Death and Funeral Practices in Aotearoa New Zealand

by

Ruth McManus

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Denise Blake

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Jessica Thompson

This book provides a shortform definitive reference text on the landscape and features of Aotearoa New Zealand that underpin its familiar, though country-specific, ways of caring for the dead. It provides an account of diverse funerary practices that have taken shape through the various cultures that have settled here.In the backdrop of the colonising history of Aotearoa New Zealand, the book examines the complex legislative framework that separates Māori and non-Māori funerary leg...

So, You Want to Move to New Zealand: An American's Comprehensive Guide to Relocating and Adapting to Life in Aotearoa - 2nd Edition

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Melissa Cox

New!! Volume 2, published Nov. 2024 with the most up-to-date information. Are you considering moving to New Zealand? Or looking to enjoy an extended vacation? This comprehensive guide will support you every step of the way! Written by a dual citizen of New Zealand and the United States, this book is packed with tips, resources, and perspectives from other American expats to help you start a new, exciting life in the Land of the Long White Cloud.Whether you are loo...

Remember Me

In haka and waiata, sea shanties and ballads, in the words of Sam Hunt and Selina Tusitala Marsh, Hone Tuwhare and Hera Lindsay Bird, the rhythms of poetry have carried our sounds and stories, our loves and losses for generations. Now Anne Kennedy brings together for the first time a selection of over 200 poems from Aotearoa to learn by heart – whakatauki and odes, poems of love and of nature, of whanau, history and politics.For a wedding, a tangi, for a day at school or an evening at home...

Critical Mental Health in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand

This interdisciplinary volume examines the social production of mental health and illness in Australia and Aotearoa (New Zealand). It draws together cutting-edge critical mental health scholarship from the region, to interrogate how personal, community, institutional and mediated relations, make and remake experiences of ‘mental health.’In the wake of the widespread insertion of psy-considerations into everyday lives, here contributors demonstrate how the relations between communit...

The Best Country to Give Birth?

by

Linda Bryder

‘ In 2012, following his investigation of the deaths of two babies in childbirth at Waikato Hospital, Hamilton coroner Gordon Matenga asked, ‘ Does New Zealand have the safe, world-leading system the Government says we do, or are we losing babies because the balance has swung too far towards the idea that because childbirth is natural, then the philosophy of “ non-intervention” is best?' ‘ Babies' deaths reignite maternity row' , the New Zealand Herald announced.' — from the introduction b...

Social Policy for Social Work and Human Services in Aotearoa New Zealand

Social policy reflects the dominant social, economic and political discourses of a nation's government and reveals how each country addresses the needs and wellbeing of its population. For practitioners in social work and human services, questions of human rights, citizenship, social justice and equity are ever-present in their day-to-day work with clients of all ages. As such, social policy plays a significant role in shaping the response to need in any community or population, through th...

An African Village-Boy in Aotearoa New Zealand

by

Kudakwashe Tuwe

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Dr. Kudakwashe Nomore Tuwe

Dr Kudakwashe Nomore Tuwe presents his true-life story, An African Village-Boy in Aotearoa New Zealand. Reflecting on his childhood in his village in rural Zimbabwe, he takes the reader on an exciting journey that ushers you into the realities of life without electricity, tap-water and flush-toilets. Tuwe's childhood coincided with the Zimbabwe war of liberation. This influenced him to attempt to cross into neighbouring Mozambique to train as a Freedom Fighter in order to liberate his coun...

Employment Relations in Aotearoa New Zealand: An Introduction

by

Erling Rasmussen

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Felicity Lamm

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Julienne Molineaux

A concise and timely book for employers, unions, academics and anyone with an interest in employment relations in Aotearoa New ZealandEmployment Relations in Aotearoa New Zealand: An Introduction covers history, approaches to the study of employment relations, key legislation and policies, and contemporary labour market issues.In recent years, New Zealanders have witnessed major reforms that in turn have resulted in significant changes in employmen...

Mediterranean Collections in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand

This volume brings together academics and museum professionals responsible for ancient Mediterranean collections across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand to report on their collections’ legacies and their ongoing value for research, education, and community engagement in the twenty-first century.An introductory chapter offers an overview of the themes that unite these Mediterranean collections: their colonial legacies, their more recent history, and the network of scholars who hav...