Island time : New Zealand's Pacific futures /
Damon Salesa.
- 256 pages ; 18 cm
- BWB Texts .
- BWB texts. .
Includes bibliographical references.
The Pacific future has already happened -- A tale of two cities: racial segregation in Auckland -- Building different cities -- The Pacific economy -- Future economy, future work -- New Zealand's Pacific way: Pacific politics in New Zealand -- Pacific politics 2.0: fragmenting Pacific politics -- The rain from Manu'a.
"The task of living in modern New Zealand – and especially in modern Auckland - is not just to understand how to live with different peoples, but how to adapt to the future that has already happened. New Zealand is a nation that exists on Pacific Islands, but does not, will not, perhaps cannot, see itself as a Pacific Island nation. Yet turning to the Pacific, argues Damon Salesa, enables us to grasp a fuller understanding of what life is really like on these shores. After all, Salesa argues, in many ways New Zealand’s Pacific future has already happened. Setting a course through the ‘islands’ of Pacific life in New Zealand – Ōtara, Tokoroa, Porirua, Ōamaru and beyond – he charts a country becoming ‘even more Pacific by the hour’. What would it mean, this far-sighted book asks, for New Zealand to recognise its Pacific talent and finally act like a Pacific nation?"--Publisher's website.
9781988533537 1988533538
https://doi.org/10.7810/9781988533537
National characteristics, New Zealand. Pacific Islanders--New Zealand Multiculturalism--New Zealand International relations.