Kāinga Tahi, Kāinga Rua - Fiona Cram, et al. (eds), (2022)
This edited collection examines the many ways tangata whenua experience housing and home across Aotearoa New Zealand, looking at changes wrought by colonisation and other external forces, while emphasising inspirational narratives of Indigenous resilience.
About this book
Personal, heartfelt discussions of the relationships between housing, home and identity highlight contemporary challenges. A rich set of papakāinga housing solutions, accompanied by illustrations, reveals new pathways ahead. Documenting these contemporary Māori housing narratives in their rural, urban and big-city contexts offers a sweeping overview of what ‘home’ can mean for tangata whenua in the twenty-first century.
Contributors:
Moana Jackson, Leonie Pihama, Nathan Williams, Mere Whaanga, Ana Apatu, Jenny Lee Morgan, Rihi Te Nana, Matthew Rout, John Reid, Diane Menzies, Angus MacFarlane, Jacqueline Paul, Maia Ratana, James Berghan, Jade Kake, Helen Potter, Tepora Emery, Hinerangi Goodman, Eleanor Black, Sylvia Tapuke, Rangimahora Reddy, Mary Louisa Simpson, Yvonne Wilson, Sophie Nock, Kirsten Johnson, David Goodwin, Lyn Carter, Anahera Rawiri, Rau Hoskins and Irene Kereama Royal.
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Publication details
Fiona Cram, Jessica Hutchings & Jo Smith (eds). Kāinga Tahi, Kāinga Rua: Māori housing realities and aspirations (Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 2022).
This book is part of a series marking the publication of Books of Mana (Otago University Press, 2025). It builds on the project Te Takarangi: Celebrating Māori publications and adds 30 titles to a selected list of 150 non-fiction books, led by Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga in collaboration with Royal Society Te Apārangi.