title: Productivist and post-productivist conceptualizations of agriculture from a New Zealand perspective

authors: Jay, Grace Mairi M.

subjects: productivist

abstract: This paper considers productivist/post-productivist conceptualisations of agriculture in the light of changing New Zealand attitudes toward protection of indigenous vegetation and wildlife.   It will show how the attitude of farmers toward native habitat and wildlife mirror changes in the wider New Zealand society.  It will suggest that post-productivist elements vary from one part of the world to another, and thereby reflect not so much change within agriculture, or even change within rural society, but changing relationships between the wider society (of which agriculture is always a part), and the environment.

text: Productivist and post-productivist conceptualizations of agriculture from a New Zealand perspective This paper considers productivist/post-productivist conceptualisations of agriculture in the light of changing New Zealand attitudes toward protection of indigenous vegetation and wildlife.   It will show how the attitude of farmers toward native habitat and wildlife mirror changes in the wider New Zealand society.  It will suggest that post-productivist elements vary from one part of the world to another, and thereby reflect not so much change within agriculture, or even change within rural society, but changing relationships between the wider society (of which agriculture is always a part), and the environment.

year: 2004

title: Rangitoto Island field trip, Auckland

authors: Lowe, David J.

subjects: Rangitoto

abstract: Rangitoto, Māori for ‘blood red sky’ (also ‘lava, scoria’), derives from the phrase Ngā Rangi-i-totongia-a Tama-te-kapua (the full name for the island) meaning “the day the blood of Tamatekapua was shed”, referring to a battle between Tamatekapua and Hoturoa, commanders of the Arawa and Tainui canoes, respectively, at Islington Bay. The Island is arguably Auckland’s most beloved and omnipresent landscape feature. It is a symmetrical, ~6-km wide, basaltic shield volcano that last erupted c. 550‒500 calendar/calibrated (cal.) yr BP (c. 1400‒1450 AD), not long after arrival and settlement of Polynesians in the Auckland region (c. 1280 AD). It is by far the largest, and the youngest, volcano in the Auckland Volcanic Field (AVF). The AVF consists of ~53 individual eruptive centres, all of which lie within the boundaries of the Auckland urban area. Recent research on deposits in a 150-m-long drill core obtained from Rangitoto Island in February, 2014, and on cryptotephras in sediments from Lake Pupuke on North Shore and on tephras in wetlands on adjacent Motutapu Island, has revealed Rangitoto’s complex history, with three main phases (1‒3) suggested. The flora on Rangitoto is unique among the islands situated in the Hauraki Gulf because of the island’s young age, and the fact that technically Rangitoto is an ‘oceanic’ island. Its flora and fauna are derived entirely from long distance dispersal. The island contains some 582 vascular plant taxa of which 228 (39%) are indigenous.

text: Rangitoto Island field trip, Auckland Rangitoto, Māori for ‘blood red sky’ (also ‘lava, scoria’), derives from the phrase Ngā Rangi-i-totongia-a Tama-te-kapua (the full name for the island) meaning “the day the blood of Tamatekapua was shed”, referring to a battle between Tamatekapua and Hoturoa, commanders of the Arawa and Tainui canoes, respectively, at Islington Bay. The Island is arguably Auckland’s most beloved and omnipresent landscape feature. It is a symmetrical, ~6-km wide, basaltic shield volcano that last erupted c. 550‒500 calendar/calibrated (cal.) yr BP (c. 1400‒1450 AD), not long after arrival and settlement of Polynesians in the Auckland region (c. 1280 AD). It is by far the largest, and the youngest, volcano in the Auckland Volcanic Field (AVF). The AVF consists of ~53 individual eruptive centres, all of which lie within the boundaries of the Auckland urban area. Recent research on deposits in a 150-m-long drill core obtained from Rangitoto Island in February, 2014, and on cryptotephras in sediments from Lake Pupuke on North Shore and on tephras in wetlands on adjacent Motutapu Island, has revealed Rangitoto’s complex history, with three main phases (1‒3) suggested. The flora on Rangitoto is unique among the islands situated in the Hauraki Gulf because of the island’s young age, and the fact that technically Rangitoto is an ‘oceanic’ island. Its flora and fauna are derived entirely from long distance dispersal. The island contains some 582 vascular plant taxa of which 228 (39%) are indigenous.

year: 2017-11-28

title: Imagining our own approaches

authors: Smith, Linda Tuhiwai

abstract: I spent some formative years of my life either in the back of museums or their basements helping my father, a scholar of Māori Studies, and keeping myself out of trouble. In the late 1960s I had one small job in the library basement of the Peabody Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, typing new labels for the captains’ log books of ships that were sailing during the American Revolution. I read most of those journals that consisted of pages and pages of wind directions with the rare glimpse of an encounter with another ship or a list of supplies. Why were we there in Salem when we came from Aotearoa, New Zealand? We were there because Salem was the home base for ships that sailed into the Pacific and returned home with collections of materials from the various Pacific Islands countries they visited. My father was studying elaborately carved items from the Marquesa Islands that looked very much like Māori designs.

text: Imagining our own approaches I spent some formative years of my life either in the back of museums or their basements helping my father, a scholar of Māori Studies, and keeping myself out of trouble. In the late 1960s I had one small job in the library basement of the Peabody Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, typing new labels for the captains’ log books of ships that were sailing during the American Revolution. I read most of those journals that consisted of pages and pages of wind directions with the rare glimpse of an encounter with another ship or a list of supplies. Why were we there in Salem when we came from Aotearoa, New Zealand? We were there because Salem was the home base for ships that sailed into the Pacific and returned home with collections of materials from the various Pacific Islands countries they visited. My father was studying elaborately carved items from the Marquesa Islands that looked very much like Māori designs.

year: 2015