Screen LibraryA land of milk and honey? : making sense of Aotearoa New Zealand /
"Since colonisation, New Zealand has been mythologised as a 'land of milk and honey' - a promised land of natural abundance and endless opportunity. In the twenty-first century, the country has become literally a land of milk and honey as agricultural exports from such commodities dom...
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Auckland University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Auckland, NZ : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"Since colonisation, New Zealand has been mythologised as a 'land of milk and honey' - a promised land of natural abundance and endless opportunity. In the twenty-first century, the country has become literally a land of milk and honey as agricultural exports from such commodities dominate the national economy. But does New Zealand live up to its promise? In this introductory textbook for first year sociology students, some of this country's leading social scientists help us to make sense of contemporary New Zealand. In 21 chapters, the authors examine New Zealand's political identity and constitution; our Māori, Pākehā, Pacific and Asian peoples; problems of class, poverty and inequality; gender and sexualities; and contemporary debates around ageing, incarceration and the environment. The authors find a complex society where thirty years of neoliberal economics and globalising politics have exacerbated inequalities that are differentially experienced by class, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and age. These social divides and problems are at the heart of this text. For sociology students and for a wider audience of New Zealanders, A Land of Milk and Honey? is a lively introduction to where we have come from, where we are now, and where New Zealand society might be headed"--Back cover. |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-320) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781869408626 1869408624 |
| Index Number: | HN930 |
| CLC: |
D761.2 K896.12 |
| Call Number: | K896.12/L253 |
| Contents: |
FOUNDATIONS: STATE AND NATION -- Plunder in the Promised Land: Māori Land Alienation and the Genesis of Capitalism in Aotearoa New Zealand -- Rangatiratanga, Kāwanatanga and the Constitution -- We're All in This Together? Democracy and Politics in Aotearoa New Zealand -- Imagining Aotearoa New Zealand: The Politics of National Imagining -- NEW ZEALAND PEOPLES -- Ka Pū Te Ruha, Ka Hao Te Rangatahi: Māori Identities in the Twenty-first Century -- Pākehā Ethnicity: The Politics of White Privilege -- Deconstructing the Big Brown Tail/Tales: Pasifika Peoples in Aotearoa New Zealand -- The Asianisation of Aotearoa: Immigration Impacts -- The land of Me and Money? New Zealand Society under Neoliberalism -- Rich and Poor: Class Division in Aotearoa New Zealand -- Poverty in a Land of Plenty: The Poor Will Always Be With Us -- Social Mobility in Aotearoa New Zealand in the Neoliberal Era: Increasing or Decreasing? -- GENDERS AND SEXUALITIES -- We Still Need Feminism in Aotearoa: The Achievements and Unfinished Tasks of the Women's Movement -- Homosexuality in Aotearoa New Zealand: Regulation and Resistance -- Man-Up? A Socio-historical Examination of Pākeha and Maori Masculinities -- CONTEMPORARY ISSUES AND DIVIDES -- Ageing Well? Social Support and Inequalities for Older New Zealanders -- No Promised land: Domestic Violence, Marginalisation and Masculinity -- Locked Up: Incarceration in Aotearoa New Zealand -- Clean, Green Aotearoa New Zealand? -- |