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Playing the Anzac card
Emerald Muriwai If dollars talk, Anzac is shouting from the roof whilst Waitangi sits quietly on the floor. In New Zealand, people are generally familiar with the key differences between two of the nation’s biggest commemorative days. We start the year with the challenging, ‘radical’ politics of Waitangi Day on February 6th and a few…
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Peoples’ passion – wairua, affect and national days
Tim McCreanor In a world gripped by a rising tide of populist nationalism, high emotion and desperate passions often seem to drive global movements, tensions between countries and policies. Politicians feed off the outpourings of rage, resentment, fear and sorrow while social media magnify the most extreme voices to fever pitch. We don’t talk…
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A brief commentary on how media tend to ‘do’ emotion around Waitangi Day
Alex McConville Waitangi Day. ‘A day of hostility’. ‘A day of conflict’. …And a day where a ‘few grumpy Māori ruin it for the rest of us’. For the New Zealand media, these ways of emoting around the day are business as usual. You know how it goes: How will the day be ruined this…
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Māori Association of Social Science Conference: Reflections
Māori Association of Social Science Conference: Reflections Emerald Muriwai McPhee Last month we were privileged with the opportunity to take our Māori researchers from the Wairua, Affect and National Days project down to the Māori Association of Social Science Conference. The conference theme was Nui te kōrero: Rewriting national narratives which was fitting to both…
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Gallipoli, Te Papa, Wellington
Jade Le Grice I have to confess I am writing this reflection on my experience of Te Papa’s Gallipoli exhibit seven months after a visit where I penned my initial thoughts, and ten months after my first visit. With some distance from the visit, on the eve of ANZAC day 2016, it seems a timely…