History of New Zealand

Te whakamahi i te kupu rangatiratanga i te tekau mā iwa o ngā rautau.

by Lachy Paterson

He Pukenga Kōrero, 10:1 (2011), pp. 17-24.

[Written in Māori.  He mea tuhituhi i roto i te reo Māori]
"Rangatiratanga" is a derived noun from... more [Written in Māori.  He mea tuhituhi i roto i te reo Māori]
"Rangatiratanga" is a derived noun from the term "rangatira" (chief) and traditionally referred to the qualities and practice of chiefdomship.  The term "rangatiratanga" has an important place within New Zealand historiography as it was utilized within New Zealand's foundational document, the Treaty of Waitangi, to translate Māori land rights.  It is now generally accepted within scholarly debate in New Zealand that the chiefly signatories were likely to have considered that the Treaty's rangatiratanga guaranteed more than mere land ownership.  This article investigates the use of the word "rangatiratanga" in nineteenth-century Māori-language texts (scriptural, governmental, and Māori-produced documents) to show that rangatiratanga had a variety of meanings depending on the context of the text, and the agenda of those who were using it.

Sport, manhood and empire: British responses to the New Zealand rugby tour of 1905

by John Nauright

This article analyzes British responses to the successes of the 1905 New Zealand All Black rugby team in the context... more This article analyzes British responses to the successes of the 1905 New Zealand All Black rugby team in the context of fears of racial degeneration in Britain. It further explores how the British viewed the New Zealand team's innovative style of play including changes to standard formations used in the game as well as specialized positional play. Finally concepts of colonial robust masculinity suggested to British experts that the British "race" was not necessarily in decline in the colonies of settlement as evidenced both by troop performance in the South African War of 1899-1902 and on the playing fields.

Women's sports and embodiment in Australia and New Zealand

by John Nauright

Published in the International Journal of the History of Sport (2000), co-authored with Angela Burroughs.

‘Like fleas on a dog’: New Zealand and emerging protest against South African sport, 1965-74.

by John Nauright

Published in Sporting Traditions, 10:1 (1993), 54-77.

Myth and reality: reflections on rugby and New Zealand..

by John Nauright

Published in Sporting Traditions, 6:2 (1990), 219-30. This was my first publication in a refereed journal.

Rugby et identité nationale en Nouvelle-Zélande

by John Nauright

Published in STAPS: Revue internationale des sciences du sport et de l'éducation physiques, 78 (2007), 101-114.

Swalwell The Early Micro User FINAL

by Melanie Swalwell

Towards the Preservation of Local Computer Game Software: Challenges, Strategies, Reflections

by Melanie Swalwell

in “Towards the Preservation of Local Computer Game Software: Challenges, strategies, reflections”, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, (special issue on cultural memory and digital preservation, ed. Will Straw and Jessica Santone), vol. 15, no. 3, Aug 2009, pp. 263-279.

New Zealand’s digital game history includes a significant quantity of locally written software titles from the 1980s.... more New Zealand’s digital game history includes a significant quantity of locally written software titles from the 1980s. Currently, few people are aware of this, no institutional collections exist, and institutional preservation efforts are directed elsewhere. This context prompted the assembly of a multidisciplinary team of researchers to bring legal, technical, and media-historical expertise to bear on these titles’ preservation. This article briefly introduces the game preservation landscape, before outlining the case for the preservation of local game software. It reports on the challenges faced in a pilot study to preserve locally written game software for the Sega SC3000 computer. The initial plan – to secure licence agreements that would, in turn, enable technical preservation – gave way as a more complex intertwining of the legal and technical emerged. Navigating these challenges required a change of strategy: from emulation to translation. Translation – from BASIC to Java – is an elegant solution, in the circumstances. As well as recounting the project’s practical realization, this article considers the fidelity of the conserved digital game to its ‘original’.

‘Bush Cinderellas: Young New Zealanders and romance at the movies, 1919-1939’

by Charlotte Greenhalgh

New Zealand Journal of History, 44, 1, 2010, pp.1-21.

‘The church as a site of romance’

by Charlotte Greenhalgh

in Geoffrey Troughton and Hugh Morrison, eds, The Spirit of the Past: Essays on Christianity in New Zealand History, Wellington, Victoria University Press, 2011.

Historicising the 'Big O.E.': New Approaches to New Zealand Tourists and Travel Writing Abroad

by Genevieve de Pont

'History Compass', 10, 3, 2012, pp.219-230

New Zealand scholars only began to focus on New Zealanders’ leisured travelling abroad in the last decade, far more... more New Zealand scholars only began to focus on New Zealanders’ leisured travelling abroad in the last decade, far more recently than scholars from other former British settler colonies commenced research on past travellers from their nations. New Zealand research sits within a nexus of popular assertions or stereotypes about the importance of travel for the development of New Zealand culture, and about the national characteristics of New Zealanders. This article outlines the trends which have emerged within this small pool of literature, and argues scholars who have researched the O.E., or overseas experience, have tended to look ‘inwards’ at pre-existing local understandings of the value of travel, while scholars considering other models of travel by New Zealanders have more often turned their attention ‘outwards’, using post-colonial frameworks. I argue that between these strands of scholarship lie many opportunities for further research on New Zealand international tourists and travel writers, and that this scholarship is necessary in order to adequately reflect upon the importance which has been attributed to New Zealanders’ travels by historians and public commentators.

The international business performance of Ceramco Limted with reference to the crockery trade

by Peter Mellalieu

Mellalieu, P. J. (1976, October). The international business performance of Ceramco Limted with reference to the crockery trade (Term paper for International Business, Master of Public Policy). Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.

The study reports how the New Zealand company Ceramco (formerly Crown Lynn Potteries) became an international business... more The study reports how the New Zealand company Ceramco (formerly Crown Lynn Potteries) became an international business enterprise. The report describes how the specialized ceramics subsidiary grew from the company’s established manufacturing of bricks and roof tiles to become a company exporting from New Zealand. The subsequent evolution of Ceramco to attain global horizons with world-wide manufacturing and marketing operations is discussed. Particular attention is paid to policy changes in New Zealand’s macro-economic environment that facilitated the establishment of the company’s protected crockery manufacturing business, export subsidies, and grants for off-shore manufacture.

New Myths for a Very New World: The Mythic Journey as a Basis for Learning About Entrepreneurial Start-Ups

by Peter Mellalieu

Mellalieu, P. J. (2001). New Myths for a Very New World: The Mythic Journey as a Basis for Learning About Entrepreneurial Start-Ups. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Thinking. Presented at the Breakthroughs: The 9th International Conference on Thinking, Auckland, NZ. Retrieved from http://tinyurl.com/heropll

Also presented at:
Mellalieu, P. J. (2003). 7th International Conference on African Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development (ICAESB), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Mellalieu, P. J. (2004). Enterprise in Distant Lands: Studies of South Pacific Business Development, The University of Auckland Business School.

How does a young, “peripheral” country develop the cultural infrastructure - the myths and stories - it needs to... more How does a young, “peripheral” country develop the cultural infrastructure - the myths and stories - it needs to inspire creation of the heroic forces for creating successful enterprises in a hypercompetitive, globalising world? The article presents the ‘first act’ of the true story of the establishment and early challenges faced by an ambitious new venture, New Zealand-based Pacific Lithium Limited (PLL), and its founding entrepreneur, Robin Johannink. Somewhat untypical for a formal business case report, the structure of the story presented here is strongly informed by Vogler’s (1998) “mythic structure of the heroic journey” and inspired by de Jong’s (1999) application of the mythic structure to what he notes as the heroic task of establishing a new business enterprise. The second part of the article presents observations drawn from the Pacific Lithium story, and outlines our approaches for extending the learning one can make from contemporary heroic tales of enterprise such as the one presented here. The author concludes that de Jong appears quite correct when he suggests that “as a scalable, replicable piece of social code, [the mythic structure of the heroic journey] could be as profound as the biological code Watson and Crick found in DNA” (de Jong, p. 159)

Nga Tamatoa and the Rhetoric of Brown Power: Re-Situating Collective Rhetorics in Global Colonialism

by Lachy Paterson

By Sharon Stevens and Lachy Paterson.  In Darin Payne and Daphne Desser (ed). Teaching Writing in Globalization Remapping Disciplinary Work, Lanham: Lexington Books, pp. 17-38.

"Imperium in Imperio: Irish Episcopal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century"

by Colin Barr

The political context of John Mulgan’s Greek wartime life and death

by Martyn Brown

his paper provides a wider perspective on New Zealand author John Mulgan’s wartime experiences with Special Operations... more his paper provides a wider perspective on New Zealand author John Mulgan’s wartime experiences with Special Operations Executive (SOE) in Greece. Specifically, it focuses more deeply on the political and international relations dimensions than do previous studies. In doing so, it also reveals the interest of Peter Fraser’s Labour government in Mulgan’s assessment of the political situation in Greece. The specifics of that encounter between the soldier long absent from New Zealand and the Wellington administration provide a reassessment of New Zealand’s attitude toward Anglo-Greek policy in late 1944 and early 1945. The investigation into Mulgan’s death in Cairo also provides a litmus test of the extent of Dominion independence at the time.

Molluscan foraging efficiency and patterns of mobility amongst foraging agriculturalists: A case study from northern New Zealand

by Melinda Allen

8.2 "New" New Zealand Editorial

by Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings

'Placing Literary Culture: Books and Civic Culture in Milton', Journal of New Zealand Literature, 28:2 (2010).

by Tony Ballantyne

Reading the Newspaper in Colonial Otago

by Tony Ballantyne

Journal of New Zealand Studies- special issue, "Communicating Culture in Colonial New Zealand', 12 n.s. 2011.