scholarly journals A Tale of Two Stories: Unsettling a Settler Family’s History in Aotearoa New Zealand

Genealogy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Richard Shaw
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Family History ◽  
Family Farms ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Family Histories ◽  
Family Narrative ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Military Campaign ◽  
The Military

On the morning of the 5 November 1881, my great-grandfather stood alongside 1588 other military men, waiting to commence the invasion of Parihaka pā, home to the great pacifist leaders Te Whiti o Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi and their people. Having contributed to the military campaign against the pā, he returned some years later as part of the agricultural campaign to complete the alienation of Taranaki iwi from their land in Aotearoa New Zealand. None of this detail appears in any of the stories I was raised with. I grew up Pākehā (i.e., a descendant of people who came to Aotearoa from Europe as part of the process of colonisation) and so my stories tend to conform to orthodox settler narratives of ‘success, inevitability, and rights of belonging’. This article is an attempt to right that wrong. In it, I draw on insights from the critical family history literature to explain the nature, purposes and effects of the (non)narration of my great-grandfather’s participation in the military invasion of Parihaka in late 1881. On the basis of a more historically comprehensive and contextualised account of the acquisition of three family farms, I also explore how the control of land taken from others underpinned the creation of new settler subjectivities and created various forms of privilege that have flowed down through the generations. Family histories shape the ways in which we make sense of and locate ourselves in the places we live, and those of us whose roots reach back to the destructive practices of colonisation have a particular responsibility to ensure that such narratives do not conform to comfortable type. This article is an attempt to unsettle my settler family narrative.

Indigenous Peoples

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Te Paa-Daniel
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Anglican Church ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Treaty Of Waitangi ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Constitutional Revision

In 1992 the Anglican Church in Aotearoa New Zealand and Polynesia, which owed its origin ultimately to the work of Samuel Marsden and other missionaries, undertook a globally unprecedented project to redeem its inglorious colonial past, especially with respect to its treatment of indigenous Maori Anglicans. In this chapter Te Paa Daniel, an indigenous Anglican laywoman, explores the history of her Provincial Church in the Antipodes, outlining the facts of history, including the relationship with the Treaty of Waitangi, the period under Selwyn’s leadership, as experienced and understood from the perspective of Maori Anglicans. The chapter thus brings into view the events that informed and influenced the radical and globally unprecedented Constitutional Revision of 1992 which saw the creation of the partnership between different cultural jurisdictions (tikanga).

“Targeted Partnership” and Beyond

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-163
Author(s):  
Kobi Michael
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
The Political ◽  
Strategic Learning ◽  
Open Discourse ◽  
Military Campaigns ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Military Campaign ◽  
The Military ◽  
Israeli Experience

Jihadist terror is a multidimensional challenge that compels unique difficulties on compatibility between the military campaign and the political goal. Compatibility between military campaigns and political goal requires a deeper understanding about the Jihadi terrorism phenomenon that could be achieved by a strategic and diagnostic learning process. Such learning requires certain characteristics, which enable the creation of open discourse. This article introduced definitions of closed and open discourse, characterized the required conditions for creating open discourse, and explained the linkage between strategic learning and open discourse. This article aims to add another theoretical layer to Rebecca Schiff’s “targeted partnership” concept by elaborating on the essence of the encounter and discourse between the political and the military echelons in the context of terrorism in the Middle East, using examples from the American and Israeli experience. The concepts of “Discourse Space” and “Diagnostic Learning” are corresponding with Schiff’s concept and accomplish it.

Lexical expansion and terminological planning in indigenous and planned languages

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Krägeloh ◽  
Tia N. Neha
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Language Planning ◽  
Endangered Languages ◽  
New Words ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Speech Communities ◽  
The Creation

The development of terminology features heavily in language planning, and here the differences between planned and ethnic languages are much less pronounced. This is especially the case in languages with smaller numbers of speakers, or in indigenous and endangered languages such as Te Reo Māori of Aotearoa New Zealand that rely on language planning for their survival, and where conscious terminology planning is therefore commonplace. The present article compares the terminological principles that are applied in the creation of new terms in Te Reo Māori and the planned language Esperanto. Different preferences for endogenous versus exogenous ways of developing new words generate conflict in both language communities as they adapt to the demands of functioning in modern and international arenas. Long-term success in terminological planning can only be achieved by more comprehensive application of principles from terminological science to maximize the adequacy of the generated terms and their acceptance within the speech communities.

scholarly journals 'Introduction'

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Jatinder Mann
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
The Creation

The aim and scope of the Journal of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies (JACANZS) is to publish articles in various disciplines (history, politics, literature, law, anthropology, and Indigenous studies) on one or more of the following countries: Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand, with a core focus on articles that are comparative in their geographic remit, for example Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, or Australia and Canada. The creation of the journal responds to a lack of journals that collectively publish across the fields of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand studies from multi and interdisciplinary perspectives. It also followed the creation of the Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand Studies Network (ACNZSN) to reflect the work and membership of the network.

scholarly journals Reverberating Historical Privilege of a “Middling” Sort of Settler Family

Genealogy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avril Bell
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Family History ◽  
Historical Trauma ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
White Settler ◽  
Initial Acquisition ◽  
Societal Relations

Critical family history illuminates societal relations of inequality through focusing on the experiences and trajectories of particular families. Here, I focus on unequal relations between white settler colonizers and indigenous communities within Aotearoa, New Zealand. I use data gathered from family wills and archival research to sketch aspects of the economic privilege of branches of my own ancestral families in contrast to the economic dispossession and injustices faced by the Māori communities alongside whom they lived. The concept of historical privilege forms the analytic basis of this exploration, beginning with the founding historical windfalls experienced by the Bell and Graham families through their initial acquisition of Māori lands and the parallel historical trauma experienced by Māori at the loss of these lands. I then explore how these windfalls and traumas underpinned the divergent economic trajectories on both sides of this colonial relationship, touching on issues of family inheritance and structural and symbolic privilege. Neither the Bells nor the Grahams accumulated significant wealth, but the stories of such “middling” families are helpful in illuminating mechanisms of historical privilege that we inheritors of such privilege find it difficult to “see” or remember.

Convict shame to convict chic: Intergenerational memory and family histories

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 398-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Barnwell
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Family Histories ◽  
Australian Family ◽  
Family Narrative ◽  
Socially Responsive ◽  
Generational Conflicts ◽  
Memory Editing

This article highlights the significance of family history research for memory studies. It provides an overview of the economic and cultural impact of this popular practice as well as a survey of the interdisciplinary field of research emerging around questions of genealogy and identity. It then develops a framework for engaging with the intergenerational, socially responsive memory work of family historians drawing from Paul Connerton’s typography of forgetting, Maurice Halbwach’s theory of social memory and Karl Mannheim’s notion of generations. The article grounds this framework with a case study about generational conflicts in Australian family histories, specifically around the shifting status of the convict ancestor, from a figure of secrecy and shame to one of pride and intrigue. I argue that family history research reveals the process by which generations have shaped memory, editing ‘the family narrative’ in response to changing social ideas about which kinds of identities and families hold value and promise. The names and dates on family trees therefore tell the stories not just of a discrete set of individuals but also of how social, national and generational interests interlink to produce the narratives we live by in both intimate and public spheres.

scholarly journals Practice of adoption in Aotearoa before the 1881 Adoption of Children Act

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 45-53
Author(s):  
Erica Newman
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Two Cultures ◽  
Kinship Structure ◽  
The Creation

INTRODUCTION: With the arrival of Europeans in Aotearoa New Zealand came a familial kinship structure and ideas of caring and nurturing children different from that of indigenous Māori society. Europeans brought with them a practice of adoption, a concept that differed from the indigenous kinship practice of whāngai. This led to misunderstandings between the two cultures about care arrangements, particularly when a Māori child was left with a European couple. Even the reasons why Māori engaged in this type of arrangement was often not fully understood by Europeans. For Māori, these arrangements were usually temporary, while Europeans considered them to be permanent. Hence, we have the beginning of the challenges that contributed to the creation of the 1881 Adoption of Infants Act, a first within the British Empire.APPROACH: This article begins with a description of the Māori practice of whāngai and the European practice of adoption preceding the 1881 act, highlighting the key differences between each—the most significant difference being the European idea of permanent and the Māori idea of temporary care arrangements.

scholarly journals Introduction

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Jatinder Mann ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
The Creation

The aim and scope of the Journal of Australian, Canadian and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies (JACANZS) is to publish articles in various disciplines (history, politics, literature, law, anthropology, and Indigenous studies) on one or more of the following countries; Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand, with a core focus on articles that are comparative in their geographic remit for example Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, or Australia and Canada. The creation of the journal responds to a lack of journals that collectively publish across the fields of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand studies from multi and interdisciplinary perspectives. It also followed the creation of the Australian, Canadian and New Zealand Studies Network (ACNZSN) to reflect the work and membership of the network.

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