Awkward Conversations about who we are

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• "New Zealand is a multicultural nation built on a bicultural base"

  identity East Coast

  25 Aug 2019

  

  Alex Perrottet talks with Dr Wayne Ngata and Mai Chen about race, colonisation, and identity from the different perspectives of tangata whenua and tauiwi. Recorded in Gisborne's Smash Palace. Audio

• Buzzy bees and hidden histories mark out two paths to self-awareness

  identity East Coast

  1 Sep 2019

  

  Alex Perrottet talks with "recovering racist" Andrew Newton and local body candidate Meredith Akuhata-Brown about race, colonisation, and identity. Recorded on location in Gisborne's Smash Palace. Audio

• It's the “Aha!” moments which reveal how much Māori and Pakeha relations have changed

  identity East Coast

  8 Sep 2019

  

  In this third panel discussion, Dr Jill Chrisp and Karen Johansen discuss with Alex Perrottet how their life together is affected by their families being on the opposite sides of Gisborne history.  Audio

• How should we remember contested history between Māori and Pakeha, and what should museums do about it?

  identity East Coast

  15 Sep 2019

  

  In this fourth panel discussion Tairawhiti Museum director Eloise Wallace talks with cultural heritage expert Karl Johnstone. Alex Perrottet is in the chair. Audio

• "Even when talking about Māori things, Pākeha voices carry more weight with Pākeha listeners"

  identity East Coast

  17 Nov 2019

  

  Assoc. Prof. Avril Bell & Anne McGuire talk about what Pākeha identity means with Alex Perrottet. Audio

• No bull: how a 16th-century Pope complicated the life of a Māori child every time she started in a new school

  identity

  24 Nov 2019

  

   Dayle Takitimu and Glenis Philip-Barbara discuss colonisation and doctrine of discovery. Alex Perrottet is in the chair. Audio