Auckland University Press Research Articles

Mountains, volcanoes, coasts and caves: Origins of Aotearoa New Zealand's natural wonders. By Bruce W.Hayward, with aerial photography by Alastair Jamieson and Lloyd Homer, Auckland: Auckland University Press. 2023. pp. 364. $69.99, Flexibind, ISBN: 9781869408

Mountains, volcanoes, coasts and caves: Origins of Aotearoa New Zealand's natural wonders. By Bruce W.Hayward, with aerial photography by Alastair Jamieson and Lloyd Homer, Auckland: Auckland University Press. 2023. pp. 364. $69.99, Flexibind, ISBN: 9781869408

Book Review [Secret History: State Survelliance in New Zealand, 1900 – 1956 by Richard S. Hill and Steven Loveridge, published by Auckland University Press (Auckland, New Zealand, 2023)

This is a book review of the book by by Richard S. Hill and Steven Loveridge, published by Auckland University Press. Published - 13 July 2023 Published by - Auckland University Press (Auckland, New Zealand 2023) Format - Hard back ISBN - 9781869409852 448 pages Reviewed by Associate Professor Damien Rogers

BALLET AND SAWHORSE

The Yale ReviewVolume 107, Issue 1 p. 23-23 POETRY BALLET AND SAWHORSE ELIZABETH SMITHER, ELIZABETH SMITHER Author of many collections of poetry, as well as novels and short stories. In 2018, her collection Night Horse (Auckland University Press) won the poetry category of the 50th Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.Search for more papers by this author ELIZABETH SMITHER, ELIZABETH SMITHER Author of many collections of poetry, as well as novels and short stories. In 2018, her collection Night Horse (Auckland University Press) won the poetry category of the 50th Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.Search for more papers by this author First published: 27 December 2018 https://doi.org/10.1111/yrev.13434AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume107, Issue1January 2019Pages 23-23 RelatedInformation

Book review of Shaunnagh Dorsett, Juridical Encounters: Māori and the Colonial Courts 1840 – 1852 (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2017)

Book review of Shaunnagh Dorsett, Juridical Encounters: Māori and the Colonial Courts 1840 – 1852 (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2017)

The Tourist Hotel Corporation: It is time the story was told in full

i te kore nga putake e mākukungia e kore te rakau e tupu ('If the roots of the tree are not watered the tree will never grow')
 New Zealand is in the middle of the most dramatic and sustained boom in tourism and hospitality in its history. The hotel sector that underpins our tourism growth stands utterly transformed from its humble beginnings. Yet the history of the Tourist Hotel Corporation (THC) and its role as the ‘roots’ of the modern hotel industry still tends to be told only as a minor part of our wider tourism story. Recent PhD research [1], based on extensive archive sources and interviews with senior practitioners, argues that the time has come for the THC story to be told in full.
 While there have been histories of the tourism and hospitality sector that cover the THC [2–7], they have not included in-depth discussion of the origins, structure and legacies of the organisation. Established in 1955 and sold in 1991, the THC dominated the New Zealand tourist hotel sector for 35 years, running around 10 resort-style properties and setting the standard for service. However, the current dominance of neo-liberal ideology has resulted in the achievements of the Government-owned THC being somewhat dismissed and the role of massive Government investment in the development of our hotel sector often being ‘conveniently’ forgotten. It is common for the THC to be depicted as rather archaic. Burdened with political interference and gross underfunding, the THC is sometimes depicted as a prime example of what happens when the state tries to run a business.
 However, this research argues there is a more heroic telling of the THC story, one that celebrates the THC as the fundamental ‘roots’ of the modern hotel sector. The THC was a key player in transforming post-war New Zealand hospitality, raising the bar for service, food and beverage and accommodation significantly. The THC invested heavily in improving buildings, vehicles, equipment and machinery, developing the skills and careers of its staff, and innovating menus. Staff from the THC were seen as ‘A grade’ and many of today’s most successful General Managers learnt their trade in THC properties. Many THC staff also went on to set up influential restaurants outside of hotels during this period.
 The THC managed significant tourism development even while showing a profit from 1974 till the late 1980s, posting a 2.7 million dollar surplus in 1986. However, a combination of perceived indebtedness, the 1987 recession and free-market Government ideology resulted in the sale of the THC to the Southern Pacific Hotel Corporation in 1991. The story of the THC involves drama, intrigue, politics, high finance, rapid growth and equally rapid collapse. But most importantly, this is the story of the origins of our hotel industry, showing the huge contribution this state funded group made to the modern industry. Surely it is time this story was told in full, on its own terms and in glorious technicolour.
 If you would like to read the PhD thesis this research is based on you can access it here: https://aut.researchgateway.ac.nz/handle/10292/10412
 Corresponding author
 David is Senior Lecturer at the School of Hospitality and Tourism, Auckland University of Technology. He spent 18 years working in the hospitality industry as a hotel manager and restaurateur. His research includes work, employment and labour market issues in hospitality and tourism. David completed his PhD in 2017 – a history of employment relations in the New Zealand hotel sector, 1955–2000.
 David Williamson can be contacted at: david.williamson@aut.ac.nz
 References
 (1) Williamson, D. In Search of Consensus: A History of Employment Relations in the New Zealand Hotel Sector – 1955 to 2000; Ph.D. Thesis, Auckland University of Technology, 2017.
 (2) Brien, A. 100 Years of Hospitality in New Zealand: The People, the Politics, the Passion; Wellington Museums Trust in association with the Hospitality Association of NZ: Wellington, New Zealand, 2003.
 (3) McClure, M. The Wonder Country: Making New Zealand Tourism; Auckland University Press: Auckland, New Zealand, 2004.
 (4) Medlik, S. The Business of Hotels, 4th ed.; Butterworth-Heinemann: Oxford, U.K., 2000.
 (5) Slattery, P. The Economic Ascent of the Hotel Business; Goodfellow Publishers: Oxford, U.K., 2009.
 (6) Watkins, L. Billion Dollar Miracle: The Authentic Story of the Birth and Amazing Growth of the Tourism Industry in New Zealand; Travel Agents Association of New Zealand: Auckland, New Zealand, 1987.
 (7) Yu, L. The International Hospitality Business: Management and Operations; Haworth Press: New York, 1999.

Elizabeth Stanley (2016) The Road to Hell: State Violence against Children in Postwar New Zealand. Auckland, NZ: Auckland University Press.

A review of Elizabeth Stanley's recent publication on state violence against children in New Zealand.

The Rise and Fall of National Women’s Hospital: A History by Linda Bryder (review)

Reviewed by: The Rise and Fall of National Women’s Hospital: A History by Linda Bryder Wendy Mitchinson Linda Bryder. The Rise and Fall of National Women’s Hospital: A History. Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press, 2014. vii + 323 pp. NZ$49.99 (978-1-86940-809-1). Hospital histories are not easy to write—each has its own personality that over time can shift due to changes in the political and social context and the hospital’s internal dynamics. The National Women’s Hospital (NWH) took in its first patients in 1946, had its own facility in 1964, and closed in 2004. For a major [End Page 152] hospital, its life span was quite short. In the years leading up to the creation of the NWH, most women in New Zealand were delivered by midwives at home or in what were called St Helens hospitals (heavily subsidized compared to public hospitals). Under the new Labour government in the late 1930s, the decision was made that women in delivery should have access to both a nurse and a physician within a hospital setting. Women’s organizations were supportive of the shift, as were many women, seeing in a hospital birth access to pain relief and a longer stay after the birth before going home. Linda Bryder argues that the NWH was unlike most hospitals in the early years. Its teaching was focused on postgraduate students, it had university status and thus was not controlled by the state, and it had an international reputation in research. Much of the latter focused on developing methods to save premature newborns and before birth, for example, giving an Rh-negative fetus time to grow through an intrauterine blood transfusion of Rh-negative blood. In addition, NWH kept up to date in infertility research and methods to overcome it such as AID and IVF. In looking at all these issues, Bryder is essentially introducing the reader to the history of technology in childbirth. While research brought international fame to the hospital, the daily running of it was left largely to the midwives and nurses. Here Bryder excels in tracking the power each had. For example, in the 1950s, a nursing shortage caused NWH to consider hiring male nurses, something that the country’s Nurses and Midwives Registration Board (NMRB) rejected and the NWH consequently had to accept. As with any institution, the NWH had to deal with changes from outside. Between 1964 and the 1980s many women were questioning the way childbirth in a hospital was managed, what Bryder sees as part of “rising consumerism” (p. 169) of the larger society. In the 1970s onward the controversial issues of contraception, sterilization, and abortion challenged both practitioners and patients, and Bryder is adamant that the conflicts that ensued were not simplistic conflicts between doctors versus women. Doctors were not of one view on any of the challenges, but then neither were women. Here Bryder shows us how almost any aspect of birthing could be contested. Chapter 10, “Feminists, Midwives and National Women’s Hospital,” is central to the narrative. It addresses the Cartwright Report on the research done in NWH on cervical cancer that led to a “scandal” that weakened the reputation of the hospital. For Bryder, the feminists who “exposed” the problem were “radical” (p. 190) with “little room for compromise or negotiation” (p. 191) in their view of how delivery of babies should be handled—by midwives and at home. It is unclear, however, how this group garnered the power that they seemed to have in successfully confronting the NWH. While the Labour government elected in 1984 sympathized with the women’s movement, surely not all women in it were what Bryder sees as radical. The hospital had difficulty overcoming the Cartwright Report and the debates over birthing norms, but the context of the 1980s and 1990s faced NWH with too many changes: the increase in numbers of women coming to the hospital due to the closure of another hospital nearby, the lack of midwives at the hospital to [End Page 153] cope with the rise in patients, the lack of finances to maintain good care, the end of the Postgraduate School as...

New Zealand's London: A Colony and its Metropolis Felicity Barnes. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2012. 280 pp. NZ $49.99 (paperback).

<b><i>New Zealand's London: A Colony and its Metropolis</i></b> Felicity Barnes. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2012. 280 pp. NZ $49.99 (paperback).

Feminists and Formalists

‘Abstracts come in from the cold’, announced an Auckland Star headline on 9 April 1974. The article was about the Petar/James Gallery, a dealer gallery established two years previously by an ambiti...

Diffracted Waves and World Literature

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsJacob EdmondJacob Edmond works on theories and practices of comparison in modern and contemporary literature with a particular focus on generic and inter-art boundary crossing, new media, and globalization in avant-garde poetry in Russian, Chinese and English. He is author of A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature (Fordham University Press, 2012), co-editor of Recentring Asia: Histories, Encounters, Identities (Brill, 2011), and co-editor and co-translator of Yang Lian's Unreal City: A Chinese Poet in Auckland (Auckland University Press, 2006). His articles have appeared in journals such as Comparative Literature, Contemporary Literature, Poetics Today, and The China Quarterly. He is associate professor in English at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Email: jacob.edmond@otago.ac.nz

The Meeting Place: Maori and Pakeha Encounters, 1642-1840, by Vincent O’Malley

The Meeting Place: Maori and Pakeha Encounters, 1642-1840, by Vincent O'Malley. Auckland, New Zealand, Auckland University Press, 2012. viii, 284pp. $45.00 US (paper). This is an engaging, clearly written monograph that contributes to histories of colonial encounter. New Zealand is focus; however, themes and interpretations will be familiar and useful to all historians interested in what happens when very different groups of people suddenly come into contact. For his theoretical framework, O'Malley draws upon international scholarship on colonial encounters, in particular ideas of Greg Dening, Nicholas Thomas, and Richard White. Moving beyond theories of fatal impact, focus is on interaction between Maori and Pakeha (white people). O'Malley traces and interprets complex and ever-shifting power relations between his two groups. Central to his approach are concepts of power/knowledge and orientalism. For example, he argues that Maori and Pakeha were always defined in relation to other. O'Malley has benefit of strong body of work by New Zealand historians to draw from, and book stands upon work of large number of scholars. Ann Parsonson, Judith Binney, Anne Salmond, Angela Ballara and James Belich are singled out as those who have previously demonstrated interactive complexities of colonial encounter. Canadian scholarship does not feature in book, but there are clearly many parallels, as well as differences--his approach has much in common with recent Canadian work on Aboriginal and settler interaction in Canadian contact zone. Traditional historical markers are used to define time period under examination. The book starts with Dutch Abel Tasman's 1642 discovery of New Zealand and ends with 6 February 1840 signing of Treaty of Waitangi between Maori and British Crown. The central thesis is that in-between these significant dates, the meeting place was a liminal and hybrid world (p. 226). O'Malley demonstrates and argues that came into existence, and then ended when Pakeha became powerful enough to dictate terms and cultural hegemony ensued. While far North of New Zealand necessarily provides backdrop for most of book's content, there is excellent attention to regional differences in middle section of book. The book charts period of interaction and exchange where neither party was able to dictate rules of engagement. Instead, Maori and Pakeha developed new customs and practices to manage their political, religious, economic, and sexual relationships. It was not case of simple acculturation or assimilation of Maori by Pakeha at that time. The thesis is that the meeting of Maori and Pakeha was dynamic, fluid and evolving process of mutual discovery, reaction, adjustment and reflection (p. 10). O'Malley begins by documenting mutual ignorance in 1642 when Tasman did not even reach shore due to cultural breakdown and resulting bloody violence. What follows is middle ground that became clearer after arrival of missionaries in 1814, resulting in Pakeha hegemony and mono-culturalism, which was enabled by Treaty of Waitangi (1840), and gained strength from 1860s. The sources are traditional European written accounts. …

Home in the Howling Wilderness: Settlers and the Environment in Southern New Zealand. By Peter Holland. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2013. 254 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. Paper $NZD49.99.

Previous articleNext article No AccessBOOK REVIEWSHome in the Howling Wilderness: Settlers and the Environment in Southern New Zealand. By Peter Holland. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2013. 254 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. Paper $NZD49.99.Charles DawsonCharles Dawson HECUA New Zealand Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Volume 19, Number 1January 2014 Published for the American Society for Environmental History and the Forest History Society Views: 3Total views on this site Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emt122 Views: 3Total views on this site HistoryPublished online November 22, 2013 © 2013 The Author. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Volcanoes of Auckland: The essential guide by Bruce W.Hayward, GraemeMurdoch and GordonMaitland, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 2011. 234 pp. ISBN 978‐1‐86940‐479‐6.

New Zealand GeographerVolume 69, Issue 2 p. 169-170 Book Review Volcanoes of Auckland: The essential guide by Bruce W. Hayward, Graeme Murdoch and Gordon Maitland, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 2011. 234 pp. ISBN 978-1-86940-479-6. Brad Scott, Brad Scott GNS ScienceSearch for more papers by this author Brad Scott, Brad Scott GNS ScienceSearch for more papers by this author First published: 01 August 2013 https://doi.org/10.1111/nzg.12019_3Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume69, Issue2August 2013Pages 169-170 RelatedInformation

The Auckland University Press anthology of New Zealand literature

The Auckland University Press anthology of New Zealand literature

The Frame Function: An Inside-Out Guide to the Novels of Janet Frame (review)

CRONIN, JAN. The Function: An Inside-Out Guide to Novels of Janet Frame. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2011. 222 pp. $35.00. Published in May 2011, Jan Cronin's The Function is, if I count well, tenth monograph to be entirely dedicated to study of New Zealand's best-known author Janet (1924-2004). Aside from constituting a significant contribution to Janet scholarship, Cronin's study is, as its title indicates, a helpful inside-out guide for students and teachers alike insofar as it delineates author's system of stagings or enactments (13) and in so doing facilitates navigation across or around Frame's sea of ideas. To anyone unfamiliar with but wishing to apply a similar inside-out approach to another author, Cronin's work certainly a first-rate starting point. Amateurs will also relish inclusion of an important segment of Framean paratext--i.e, reviews of novels, interviews with and, courtesy of Janet Literary Trust, fragments from Frame's unpublished correspondence with Bill Brown--which Cronin utilizes to circumscribe Frame's artistic intentions and measure effects of the frame function on readers and reviewers. Within ambit of Janet scholarship, specificity of Cronin's contribution resides in its postulating that Framean text characterized by operation of a prescriptive authorial presence (19) and that resulting tension between discourse and story or, as she expresses it, between a text works and what it says (13), determines tenor, and reception, of a text. Faces in Water (1961) for instance polarized around Frame's desire to trigger off a compassionate response to madness and her commitment to notion of madness as inviolable and inscrutable (31). To preserve and advance both agendas, author has no choice but to deflect reader's attention away from that [inviolable] otherness (35). A similar tension between how and what underpins A State of Siege (1966) where Frame tempts reader into replicating Malfred's [the main protagonist] reading practices (46) although, this time, text itself geared against Malfred's Neoplatonist (41) interpretations, her pursuit of ideals (41) beyond shadow world. To enact a privileged scheme, quite prepared, then, to interrupt any attempt at creative collaboration (50) on reader's part--the reader, Cronin explains, is very much marshaled by whether s/he realises it or (50). In same vein, author displays a surprising propensity in The Edge of Alphabet (1961), Scented Gardens for Blind (1964) or Intensive Care (1970) for using her characters as vehicles for enactment of central preoccupations (67)--at cost, sometimes, of their credibility as human beings. As such, image that emerges from Cronin's work of as a manipulating demiurge dangling characters and readers alike at other hand of authorial umbilical cord not flattering for her audience. Yet, in granting both a tyrannical agency and a voice of her own (through inclusion of her letters and interviews), Cronin goes some way towards contravening a well-worn tendency among 'experts'--be they doctors or critics--to maintain erroneous diagnosis of as a schizophrenic or to re-diagnose her, posthumously, with autism in order perhaps to explain away complexities of her art. A corollary achievement of The Function that it shows process through which herself flouts authority of some characters but also, even more daringly, of entire narratives. …

Book Review: The Treaty of Waitangi companion: Māori and Pākehā from Tasman to today

Review(s) of: The Treaty of Waitangi Companion: Maori and Pakeha from Tasman to Today, by O'Malley, V., Stirling, B., and Penetito, W. (Eds.). (2010), Auckland: Auckland University Press. 422 p. ISBN: 9781869404673.

The Face of War: New Zealand's Great War Photography (review)

Reviewed by: The Face of War: New Zealand's Great War Photography Nic Clarke Callister, Sandy — The Face of War: New Zealand's Great War Photography. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2008. Pp. 150. In The Face of War: New Zealand's Great War Photography, Sandy Callister sets out to scrutinize "how photographs shaped, and continue to shape" New Zealanders' memories and understandings of the Great War. In doing so, Callister engages with a myriad of subjects, including, but not confined to, medical photography (in particular photographs of those who suffered facial wounds), memorialization, battlefield photography, and how photographs acted (and continue to act) as a bridge between battle front and home front, war and peace, past and present. The result is a compelling cultural history that not only offers new insight into how the "war to end all wars" affected New Zealanders, but also challenges the traditional photographic remembering of the conflict in which the battlefield has characteristically had primacy. Callister argues that New Zealanders' tendency to privilege photographs that portray the "spectacle of war" when seeking images of the conflict have acted to obscure, if not render invisible, other forms of photographic evidence that illustrate the impact of war on the dominion. As a result, New Zealanders' collective memory of the war has become skewed. By focusing on images of the trenches, primarily those that clung precariously to the hillsides of the Dardanelles, New Zealanders have forgotten much else of their nation's experience of the war. No stronger case for this argument is made than in Callister's exploration of the images of those men who received severe wounds, and particularly those who were wounded in the face. The removal of these disturbing photographs from the view of the public — which began during the war — has caused New Zealanders to forget horrific realities of war and become complacent in the face of euphemisms for wounding, especially since these "broken gargoyles" have long since died. It is in these pictures that we are confronted with the visual definition of "nicked by shrapnel": a long, deep gouge in the side of a man's face; eyes blasted from sockets; limbs torn from bodies. It is here we see "vivid and undeniable evidence of the violence meted out to New Zealand soldiers" (p. 101). Importantly, these images also draw attention to those men whose sacrifices are often overlooked in public rememberings of the war: the maimed and disfigured. [End Page 473] The Face of War also offers important insight into how photographs became both loci of memory for and bridges of connection between those who went to war and those who stayed behind. Photographs allowed soldiers to retain a tangible link to their loved ones, no matter where they might be. The reverse was equally true. Photographs of New Zealand's men-folk in uniform not only gave those who stayed within the bounds of Aotearoa a treasured keepsake, but also — in the case of those photographs sent back home from foreign shores — allowed them to share in some of the adventure. Most importantly, photographs provided visual evidence of the sacrifices families had made, particularly if their loved ones had fallen in battle. In this vein, Callister's examination of the way in which photographs were used as proxies for the bodies of loved ones who would never return to New Zealand's shores is of great importance. Acting as personal focal points for the traumatic loss of loved ones for many individuals, families, and communities, photographs became important sites of mourning that are deserving of greater examination by those seeking to examine how New Zealanders grieved and remembered, both individually and as a nation. As one might expect in such a wide-ranging but relatively short work, there are both general and specific weaknesses. In more than one instance it would have been better if Callister had spent more time teasing out and directly engaging with the complex and intertwining strands of individual points, rather than simply flagging them and moving on to the next, equally interesting, topic of discussion. Callister's argument that overrepresentation of Gallipoli in New Zealand's Great War photography has influenced the way New Zealanders...

Whare Karakia: Maori Church Building, Decoration and Ritual in Aotearoa New Zealand 1834-1863 [Book Review

A critical review of the book 'Whare Karakia: Maori Church Building, Decoration and Ritual in Aotearoa New Zealand 1834-1863' by Richard Sundt. Review(s) of: Whare Karakia: Maori Church Building, Decoration and Ritual in Aotearoa New Zealand 1834-1863, by Richard Sundt, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 2010 xiii, 225 pp. ISBN 9781869404567.

The Dragon and the Taniwha — Maori and Chinese in New Zealand. Edited by Manying IP. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2009. Pp. 360.

The Dragon and the Taniwha — Maori and Chinese in New Zealand. Edited by Manying IP. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2009. Pp. 360.

The New Zealand Family since 1840: A Demographic History. By Ian Pool, Arunachalam Dharmalingam, and Janet Sceats (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2007. 474 pp. $50.00)

Journal Article The New Zealand Family since 1840: A Demographic History. By Ian Pool, Arunachalam Dharmalingam, and Janet Sceats (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2007. 474 pp. $50.00) Get access Evan Roberts Evan Roberts Victorian University of Wellington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 42, Issue 4, Summer 2009, Pages 1060–1062, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/42.4.1060 Published: 01 July 2009