TY - BOOK AU - Elizabeth,Vivienne AU - Bell,Avril AU - Wynyard,Matt AU - McIntosh,Tracey TI - A land of milk and honey?: making sense of Aotearoa New Zealand SN - 9781869408626 U1 - 301.0993 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Auckland, New Zealand PB - Auckland University Press KW - Sociology KW - New Zealand KW - Social conditions KW - History N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part 1; FOUNDATIONS: STATE AND NATION --; 1; Plunder in the Promised Land: Māori Land Alienation and the Genesis of Capitalism in Aotearoa New Zealand --; Matt Wynyard --; 2; Rangatiratanga, Kāwanatanga and the Constitution --; Ranginui Walker --; 3; We're All in This Together? Democracy and Politics in Aotearoa New Zealand --; Richard Shaw --; 4; Imagining Aotearoa New Zealand: The Politics of National Imagining --; Avril Bell --; Part 11; NEW ZEALAND PEOPLES --; 5; Ka Pū Te Ruha, Ka Hao Te Rangatahi: Māori Identities in the Twenty-first Century --; Tahu Kukutai --; Melinda Webber --; 6; Pākehā Ethnicity: The Politics of White Privilege --; Steve Matthewman --; 7; Deconstructing the Big Brown Tail/Tales: Pasifika Peoples in Aotearoa New Zealand --; Karlo Mila --; 8; The Asianisation of Aotearoa: Immigration Impacts --; Paul Spoonley --; Part 111; 9; The land of Me and Money? New Zealand Society under Neoliberalism --; Louise Humpage --; 10; Rich and Poor: Class Division in Aotearoa New Zeland --; Bruce Curtis --; Marko Galic --; 11; Poverty in a Land of Plenty: The Poor Will Always Be With Us --; Kellie McNeill --; 12; Social Mobility in Aotearoa New Zealand in the Neoliberal Era: Increasing or Decreasing? --; Gerry Cotterell --; Part IV; GENDERS AND SEXUALITIES --; 13; We Still Need Feminism in Aotearoa: The Achievements and Unfinished Tasks of the Women's Movement --; Julia Schuster --; 14; Homosexuality in Aotearoa New Zealand: Regulation and Resistance --; Johanna Schmidt --; 15; Man-Up? A Socio-historical Examination of Pākeha and Maori Masculinities --; Richard Pringle --; 16. gender Inequalities Are a Thing of the Past. Yeah, right!; Vivienne Elizabeth --; Part V; CONTEMPORARY ISSUES AND DIVIDES --; 17; Ageing Well? Social Support and Inequalities for Older New Zealanders --; Ngaire Kerse --; 18; No Promised land: Domestic Violence, Marginalisation and Masculinity --; Vivienne Elaizabeth --; 19; Locked Up: Incarceration in Aotearoa New Zealand --; tracey McIntosh --; Bartek Goldman --; 20. The Urban(e) and the Metro-rural in Aotearoa --; Peter J. Howland --; 21; Clean, Green Aotearoa New Zealand? --; Corrina Tucker N2 - "Since colonisation, New Zealand has been mythologised as a 'land of milk and honey'-a promised land of natural abundance and endless opportunity-but does this country live up to its mythology? In this introductory textbook for first year sociology students, 21 of this country's leading social scientists look at our politics, our people and our problems to help readers make sense of contemporary New Zealand. For sociology students and for a wider audience of New Zealanders, A Land of Milk and Honey? Making Sense of Aotearoa New Zealand is a lively introduction to where we have come from, where we are now, and where New Zealand society might be headed"-- Publisher description ER -