Our celebrated filmmakers, novelists and poets — such as New Zealand's Poet Laureate, and most lauded documentarian — play with language and raise big issues.
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We study New Zealand, Pacific, Caribbean, Japanese, Spanish, French, Italian, Irish, Latin, Latin American, American and English literature. Also: Nabokov.
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Our interests range from language education to Māori and Pacific educational success to patriotic education, public pedagogy and post-WWII educational theatre.
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We research popular music, film, video games and comic books — and pop culture subjects like prisons, the Bible and kamikaze pilots — on nearly every continent.
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Is beauty in the eye of the beholder? We research how and why different cultures and ideologies prefer different styles of art, design, body adornment and life.
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Associate Professor Aroha Harris (Te Rarawa and Ngāpuhi) uncovers the complexity of Māori histories.
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Founded by award-winning novelist and academic Dr Paula Morris, the ANZL includes 15 Fellows and around 100 invited members.
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Our historians aim to put the history of Tāmaki Makaurau at the heart of an energetic conversation about our city.
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We combine macro and micro knowledges — getting down to the nitty-gritty and zooming out for the larger picture — to develop understandings of life.
Focusing on the details
Institutions can empower the vulnerable and/or discriminate and attack. We study collective actions and categories: their causes, effects and resistance.
Critiquing institutions
People make, shape and break physical and political locations — and vice versa. We study kaitiakitanga, disaster recovery, health and migration — old and new.
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