Zealand Geographer Research Articles

Antipodean more‐than‐human geographies: From the edges

AbstractTo be more‐than‐human is to be relational, to no longer see the human as a discrete individual and to recognise the multivalent agency and import of the non‐human in bio‐physical, socio‐economic and cultural worlds. This Special Issue galvanises an interest by Aotearoa New Zealand geographers in non‐human–human relations and delivers more‐than‐human research from the edges: of the discipline, from our geographic position antipodal to ‘the west’ and ‘the north’, from early career researchers and from cognate literatures at the periphery of geographic thought. The contributions here question understandings of ethics, politics, conservation and economy through papers that explore affect, care, agency, discourses and practices with a range of more‐than‐human subject‐objects: blackberries, wine yeasts, insects, PFAS and urban streams.

Addendum: Central‐Auckland rainfall, 1853–2020—Sites histories and implications for developing a long‐term rainfall record

AbstractFowler (2021a, New Zealand Geographer, 77, 16–31) supplemented the site histories of four central‐Auckland climate observatories by mining two searchable online historical archives (Papers Past, DigitalNZ). Photographic and map evidence was found for three of the sites, but not for the Auckland Domain observatory. Additional information (a map) has now been found which allows a more accurate determination of that site's location. The new information is presented here and the implications for the central‐Auckland rainfall record are noted.

Ben Garnier and geography at the University of Otago, 1945–1951

Ben Garnier was appointed to teach geography at the University of Otago in 1945. The circumstances by which Garnier accepted the appointment and his role as a teacher, researcher and officer of the New Zealand Geographical Society until his departure in 1951 are examined.

New horizons in the politics of water governance

AbstractThe governance of water encapsulates fundamental choices about how to mediate struggles between core values and interests across society. This Special Issue illustrates how New Zealand is driving frontiers of experimentation in water governance as well as theoretical innovation in water governance research. This scholarship pushes forward global thinking about the epistemological politics of water, transformations in decision‐making and the roles of non‐state actors in water politics. This research carries forward the longstanding interest of New Zealand geographers in freshwater politics, generating analytical insights of global significance and practical relevance.

The power of connection

As I write, it is two weeks since the Institute of Australian Geographers and New Zealand Geographical Society met online—thanks to the efforts of conference organiser, Phil McManus, the teams at University of Sydney and Encore, the two Society executives, their members, and friends of the discipline here and abroad. Recent and ongoing outbreaks of the Delta variant of COVID-19 meant that plans for a hybrid event were changed to a fully online experience, and some in attendance may have found that suboptimal. I loved every minute of it for a range of reasons, because in my mind there is no questioning the power of (re)connection, no matter the method. We came, gathered, celebrated, listened, learned, spoke, chatted, made notes, shared and challenged ideas and evidence, and speculated … And such connection is more than the mere act of getting in touch and reaching out, important though such gestures often are. Rather, we joined together, were bound—however briefly—in a community tied by a common passion for and commitment to geography and by questions that touch on what it is to be in the world. I can think of few more laudable ventures than that.

That which feeds: Sacred solidarities and roots of resistance

Sponsored by the Asia Pacific Viewpoint, this paper was originally delivered as a keynote address at the New Zealand Geographical Society (NZGS) conference in November of 2020. Building on the conference theme, ‘Embracing Diversity: Expanding Geographies’, it argues that any consideration of our diverse, layered and growing environments must consider the sacred. Rather than focus solely on what are often deemed ‘sacred’ sites – or those places marked by physical signposts, particular rituals or sanctioning – it encourages us to think deeply about the everyday sacred though recognising how places feed. Flowing between places and times, between Kumutoto Stream in Te Whanganui‐a‐Tara and Pōhakuloa in Hawaiʻi, this paper is a call to stand on whenua and see it, smell it, taste it and love it. It is an invitation to relate to place on an intimate level. It is a prompting to be critical of the urban and colonially constructed spaces that have become naturalised in our daily lives and to uncover the stories, histories and peoples they work to displace and erase so that we can plant collective roots of resistance and solidarity for better futures.

Kenneth Cumberland on historical geography at the first New Zealand Geography Conference in 1955

AbstractProfessor Kenneth Cumberland's presidential address at the first New Zealand geography conference in 1955 considered the achievements, aims and objectives of the discipline, which he positioned as a chorological science. This view of geography posed difficulties for the scope of historical geography, one of Cumberland's main areas of research. He addressed this problem in a second conference presentation, which has remained unpublished. This unpublished hitherto “lost manuscript” has been located and is examined with an eye to Cumberland's role as a disciplinary gatekeeper and boundary rider of New Zealand geography in the 1950s.

New Zealand Geographer Best Article Awards 2019

New Zealand GeographerVolume 76, Issue 2 p. 147-148 GEO-NEWS New Zealand Geographer Best Article Awards 2019 Juliana Mansvelt Managing Editor, Corresponding Author Juliana Mansvelt Managing Editor j.r.mansvelt@massey.ac.nz The New Zealand GeographerSearch for more papers by this author Juliana Mansvelt Managing Editor, Corresponding Author Juliana Mansvelt Managing Editor j.r.mansvelt@massey.ac.nz The New Zealand GeographerSearch for more papers by this author First published: 28 August 2020 https://doi.org/10.1111/nzg.12277Read 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 No abstract is available for this article. Volume76, Issue2August 2020Pages 147-148 RelatedInformation

The New Zealand Geographer reaches 75

The New Zealand Geographer reaches 75

Place as person, landscape as identity: Ancestral connection and modern legislation

New Zealand GeographerVolume 76, Issue 1 p. 72-79 KEYNOTE Place as person, landscape as identity: Ancestral connection and modern legislation Kennedy Warne, Corresponding Author Kennedy Warne kennedy@kennedywarne.com orcid.org/0000-0001-9141-0707 Auckland, New Zealand Correspondence Kennedy Warne, 22A Methuen Road, Auckland 0600, New Zealand. Email: kennedy@kennedywarne.comSearch for more papers by this author Kennedy Warne, Corresponding Author Kennedy Warne kennedy@kennedywarne.com orcid.org/0000-0001-9141-0707 Auckland, New Zealand Correspondence Kennedy Warne, 22A Methuen Road, Auckland 0600, New Zealand. Email: kennedy@kennedywarne.comSearch for more papers by this author First published: 19 March 2020 https://doi.org/10.1111/nzg.12250Citations: 2 An address delivered by Kennedy Warne at the University of Auckland, August 22, 2019. Kennedy Warne is the editor-at-large of New Zealand Geographic magazine and an alumnus of the University of Auckland. Read 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 Citing Literature Volume76, Issue1April 2020Pages 72-79 This article also appears in:Remembering, Reimagining Geography RelatedInformation

New Zealand Geography and the International Geographical Union Part II: Audience to stage, 1956–1974

AbstractA second phase of New Zealand engagement with the International Geographical Union spans from 1956 to 1974. The nature of this engagement which culminated in the hosting of a Regional Conference in New Zealand in 1974 is the subject of this paper.

Assembling disruptive practice in the neoliberal university: an ethics of care

ABSTRACTWe document and interrogate our collective experimentation with disruptive academic practices as early- and mid-career women researchers in Aotearoa New Zealand. We grapple with our disruptions and attempted interventions to do academic work differently. We find that, in our efforts to resist, and attempts to promote different norms within a neoliberal university setting, we exercise a commitment to care: for colleagues, students, our friends, families and selves. This ethic of care emerged as we interrogated our gendered experiences in a set of experimental interventions designed to disrupt gendered neoliberal practices. These interventions – the formation of a national Women and Gender Geographies Research Network (2013), an interactive seminar (2015), and a panel session at the New Zealand Geographical Society Conference (2016) – generated different experiences of living, working, and relating in academic spaces. In productively disrupting, we learned the value of collectives to generate momentum and build solidarity, and the importance of creating safe spaces for sharing experiences. Our experiments emphasize that mutual trust, especially within our collective, is critical to progress. The interventions’ generative work privileged other forms of labour and fostered an active and equitable (knowledge) community in which practices of care for diverse academic communities and ourselves were paramount.

Thinking forward from New Zealand from (and with) global restructuring

ABSTRACTGlobal Restructuring (Fagan, R., and M. Webber. 1994. Global Restructuring: The Australian Experience. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.) and the two-volume Changing Places project (Britton, S., R. Le Heron, and E. Pawson. 1992. Changing Places in New Zealand: A Geography of Restructuring. Christchurch: The New Zealand Geographical Society.); and Le Heron, R., and E. Pawson, eds. 1996. Changing Places—New Zealand in the Nineties. Auckland: Longman Paul. in New Zealand provide very different accounts of economic restructuring in Australia and New Zealand respectively in the early 1990s. Taken together they provide a statement of the prominence of economic geography within antipodean geography at the time. However, the demise of command-and-control economic management that they analysed was already bringing about a defining shift in the fortunes of the sub-discipline. The paper suggests that the two volumes shaped different pathways for economic geography in the two countries. It goes on to ask what this reading might tell us about how to revitalise economic geography in our classrooms and disciplinary debates and contribute new strengths to the discipline more broadly.

Distinguished New Zealand Geographer: Professor Patrick Hesp

New Zealand GeographerVolume 74, Issue 1 p. 58-59 Geo-News Distinguished New Zealand Geographer: Professor Patrick Hesp Michael Hilton, Michael Hilton Otago BranchSearch for more papers by this author Michael Hilton, Michael Hilton Otago BranchSearch for more papers by this author First published: 10 April 2018 https://doi.org/10.1111/nzg.12183_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 No abstract is available for this article. Volume74, Issue1April 2018Pages 58-59 RelatedInformation

Distinguished New Zealand Geographer: Associate Professor Lex Chalmers

Distinguished New Zealand Geographer: Associate Professor Lex Chalmers

Exploring the New Zealand Geography Assessment: Focusing on the NCEA Level 3

Exploring the New Zealand Geography Assessment: Focusing on the NCEA Level 3

Distinguished New Zealand Geographer: Professor John Overton

Distinguished New Zealand Geographer: Professor John Overton

Distinguished New Zealand Geographer: Professor Andrew Sturman

Distinguished New Zealand Geographer: Professor Andrew Sturman

Euan McQueen, 1937-2016

New Zealand GeographerVolume 73, Issue 1 p. 63-64 Obituary Euan McQueen, 1937–2016 Brian Lynch, Brian Lynch Wellington, Former President New Zealand Geographical SocietySearch for more papers by this author Brian Lynch, Brian Lynch Wellington, Former President New Zealand Geographical SocietySearch for more papers by this author First published: 10 April 2017 https://doi.org/10.1111/nzg.12151Read 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 No abstract is available for this article. Volume73, Issue1April 2017Pages 63-64 RelatedInformation

Clear vision from the end of the Earth.

A pragmatic and deliberate approach to research funding yields impressive results, while New Zealand's geography makes it a perfect natural laboratory for Earth scientists, writes Linda Vergnani.