TY  - BOOK
AU  - Salesa,Damon Ieremia
TI  - Island time: New Zealand's Pacific futures 
T2  - BWB Texts
SN  - 9781988533537
AV  - DU410.5 .S25 2017
U1  - 993 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Wellington, New Zealand
PB  - Bridget Williams Books
KW  - National characteristics, New Zealand
KW  - Pacific Islanders
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - Multiculturalism
KW  - International relations
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
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