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Wednesday 6th
Te Ao Paaho

Kaupapa koorero moo te raa nei
Ko te kaupapa koorero ko Paora Henry o te Pouwhakaata Tuatahi. Ka whai te koorero i taana moo te Kawana Tienara me nga mea i whai mai.

Subject of the day
The world of broadcasting

Analysis
The subject is Paul Henry from Television One. The discussion follows what he said about the Governor General and what ensued. http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv/4197611/Paul-Henry-suspended


puff goss
Is it true that the PNCC has given the Art Tour over to Zinmmermans? Good news and congratulations to Bronwyn if so!

The Isis serial by Benjamin Drum continues;
Part Three of Isis, the dancing tramp
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Astor

Rob has a dog called Astor. Astor is a collie. Astor runs freely along the river path and is known to all. Astor has access to the path through the back hedge of Rob's house.

He runs past the boathouse where Sam and Simon live. This is also the home of Isis Investigations, the private investigation agency owned and operated by the two of them.

Sam is as talkative as ever and at the present moment is explaining the class struggle in Germany and France to Simon. He listens patiently. Sam keeps coming back to Rosa Luxembourg.

Sam is tracing her lineage at present and she goes on to tell Simon about her links to Trinidad and Dalmatia. Simon listens but thinks of his own background. They are, he reflects, very different people.

Change is not a big factor in the lives of Sam and Simon. Simon is thinking of changing pubs but can't bring himself to do this. Sam is thinking about all sorts of things and talking incessantly as usual but not a lot seems to be being done in the Boathouse.

Wolfgang rages in his cell in Miami. Bail has been denied as he is deemed too big a risk. The other prisoners do not know what to make of him. Nor do the guards..

Astor runs along barking furiously at the rowing skiffs. Simon has taken rowing up again and is in the bumps team with Dave Walker. Bumps is a sport, a silly pastime more like, one that involves one boat bumping another in a race along the river.

Simon is considering Sam's wish to get married. He is entertaining the idea and this is actually a big step for him. Dismissing such ideas out of hand is more his style when it comes to any form of change.

Simon really has not thought about it all that much. Except that Sticks might make a good Best Man. Sticks has been Simon's best mate for a long time. Simon went to Winchester with him. Sticks works in the City.

Samantha is very serious in wanting to marry Simon. The fact that Simon does not, so far, seem keen has not deterred her. Talk as she might though, Sam has had difficulties in convincing Simon that marriage is a sound idea for both of them.

Simon is very body conscious at the moment. He is thinking of going to the gym. This is a seismic change or will be if it ever comes off. Dave Walker, the sports organiser and the Guv, the publican at the Joiner's Arms are taking bets.

Simon likes fine beers. He is quiet about this as he does not want Dave Walker or the Guv to think him precious when he swills the potions at the Joiner's. Mind you, Dave Walker did renounce Fosters.

At this moment Simon and Sam are thinking about lunch. This might be a challenge. Sam has taken up as a vegan. This means that they are both vegans but Simon, at least, is not sure what being a vegan is.

Simon has taken steps to find alternatives and has discovered slavic cooking. This is in itself a great leap in the dark made nearly impossible by the exigencies posed by Sam's new diet. As to what slavic cooking is exactly, that's for Simon to decide and others to find out perhaps.

He is thinking of getting a new scarf. No question, change is in the air for Simon. The scarf will still be blue though. Its just a question of what is to go on it.

Astor charges back to his home startling Rob and his mother. Rob is watching a rerun of The Fast and the Furious. Again. His mother despairs. Will he ever grow up?

Actually, Rob's best mate, apart from Bella, is, in fact, his mum. Its just the way they carry on. True love and respect disguised as World War Three. Steve is a useful diversion from all of this. Rob wonders whether Americans can really be that regular.

His mum has been conquering the world of business by taking over the print setting for another county newspaper. Rob is proud of this and shows off to Esme and Bella. They are impressed despite themselves.

Rob has an older brother, Rupert who he never, or seldom sees. Esme and Bella don't hesitate to invent stories about Rupert and imagine what he is like. Rob does wonder but he's got used to it. Rupert exists. Rupert is somewhere else. End of story? Perhaps.

Astor screams out of the house, spins out of the hole in the hedge and fairly pogos his way down the path. Small birds furiously flap out of his path. The angler looks up at all the hoohaa.

In Belfast it is time for rehearsals with the Elephant. This is actually a rehearsal for the climax of he show when the elephants come in to a tent abuzz with acts all performing at full force. He whole circus is involved.

Later that night the bear is washed. The trainer carefully dries the bear and then sleeps beside the cage in a cot. As he goes to sleep the trainer talks to he bear about he next day's activities.

And the Ringmaster practices with his whips. The short whip as he walks up and down using the whip as he turns to walk back. He practices his pose as the whip cracks.
Papers on Social Work 4th Edition by Peter Cleave has been released by Campus Press, There is a discussion of Whanau Ora the New Zealand government's strategy for social work announced in April-May 2010. There is a revisiting of the theme of restorative justice. All this and the classic, prize winning essays on social work education and value systems that have made Papers on Social Work one of the best selling books in the Campus Press set, internationally and locally.


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About the author.
It is said that Peter Cleave has more books in New Zealand Libraries than any other author. Beginning as a collaborator on The Oxford Picture Dictionary of Maori in 1979 there has been a consistent pattern of a book published, an article in a referred journal and then a radio commentary repeated over a long period. With this pattern of published work have come the prizes; the First Class Masterate from Auckland University and a Commonwealth scholarship to the University of Oxford, the Phillip Bagby Scholarship and Rhodes Foundation funds while doing the Oxford Doctorate, the chair of the college common room and on from these to taking the prizes for best paper at conferences like the International Federation of Social Workers in Montreal in 2000.

Peter Cleave is without peer at the meeting place of language, culture and criticism, locally and internationally and this is seen in the sale of his books to libraries in New Zealand and Australia and around the world.

At the same time Peter Cleave, a former captain of the Manurewa High School First Fifteen in South Auckland, works on community radio and touches base with working people. He left school to work on the MV Tofua, a Banana Boat and began to learn about the Pacific, something he is still doing.

About Campus Press
Campus Press is the biggest academic press outside the universities in New Zealand. It was established in 1992 and for the last twelve years has been based in Palmerston North. Campus Press mostly supplies libraries.

Papers on Social Work, 4th Edition follows other releases in 2010 like Takutai: the Foreshore and Seabed, New Zealand’s most topical book with implications for US, European and other coastlines. ISBN 978-1-877229-46-6 See the attachment for the cover.



Takutai, the foreshore and seabed by Peter Cleave gives an historical background and then an analysis of the 2004 Foreshore and Seabed Act and the 2009 Ministerial Review. There is a wide range of examples of co-governance and co-management by iwi and councils of the foreshore and seabed from around Aotearoa/New Zealand. International case studies are also given. The Conclusion sets the scene for the Repeal of the Act and the introduction of new legislation in 2010.

What the critics had to say about the advance article;

one of the most well-conceived discussions of the present state of the Act that exists in print anywhere. …an extremely useful contribution not only to academic discourse, but to issues affecting the national life of the country.

Professor Paul Moon

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Full Review of Peter Cleave’s Ten Volume Set

By Paul Moon

July 2009

The very nature of academic publishing is that it serves a niche market, and in a country as small as New Zealand, that niche can be so narrow that some books probably never see the light of day because they are simply uneconomic to produce. So when a ten-volume set of books is released, written by Professor Peter Cleave – one of New Zealand’s respected academics – attention is bound to be aroused by the scale of the venture, and by the promise of a substantial body of content.

The work’s opening volume comprises a collection of articles, some of which are new, and some of which are revised versions of existing articles that Cleave has written or presented. The relevancy of the work is underscored by the first paper, which contains suggested options for dealing with the vexed issue of the Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004. The Government has indicated that it will reach some conclusions on this matter within the next two months, but regardless of what is decided, it will be interesting to see the extent to which Cleave’s recommendations are reflected in Government policy, and for academics to debate some of the themes raised long after any settlement has been made at a political level. This article stands out as being the most detailed in this volume, and certainly one of the most well-conceived discussions of the present state of the Act that exists in print anywhere. For this piece alone, the first volume in this collection makes an extremely useful contribution not only to academic discourse, but to issues affecting the national life of the country.

Other articles in this volume focus on issues surrounding Maori language – its survival, its transition from an oral to a written language, and its re-emergence as an oral and written language. To this is added a highly original and possibly even provocative piece on conceptual interpretations of pa; a reflection on issues associated with the 1981 Springbok rugby tour to New Zealand, and concludes with a series of brief but brilliant articles which tackle a variety of culturally-charged concepts, and which, among much else, challenge the reader’s understanding of meanings associated with them.

From a collection of articles, Cleave then provides in the second volume of this collection a book. Starting points? A discussion of contemporary Maori society and culture, is primarily about New Zealand historiography, into which is injected a broad range of arguments and perspectives relating to issues such as culture, identity, tradition and modernity, and the media. One of the great strengths of this volume is the extent to which Cleave is able to draw on international material and examples to illuminate his arguments, without the reader ever getting the sense that he is being overwhelmed by comparative examples from other countries. It is a difficult balance to establish, but when handled as masterfully as in Starting Points? The benefits are immediately apparent. The theme of literacy raised in the first volume reappears briefly in this one, but in a substantially different context, with a strong connection with the way in which history works in cultures that had/have strong oral components. In the central sections of this volume is a series of analyses of the works of other writers, in which Cleave adopts the format of quoting passages from articles, and then providing a commentary on them. This is an approach to criticism that is too seldom utilised. In the case of this volume, it has enabled Cleave to deconstruct and then reconstruct ideas and themes, using these sources as interchangeable building blocks – able to be assembled in a variety of forms according to the writer’s perspectives.

Following on from Starting Points? is the third edition of one of Cleave’s seminal works: Rangahau pae iti kahurangi: Research in a small world of light and shade. This work, on themes and approaches to research in a broadly Maori context, has become a recommended text book for many tertiary course around the country, and draws heavily on traditional concepts of learning and understanding as part of the basis for one of the frameworks of research. The traditional is not closed off from critique, however, and Cleave’s great strength in this area is his ability to combine an in-depth cultural knowledge with recent scholarship on research, producing insightful and useful conclusions for anyone engaged in this area of study.

Another third edition in this collection is Papers on Social Work. His volume is made up of seven papers dealing with subjects from the more standard ones, such as ethics, to the some unlikely choices, such as the city space and social work, and the thematically-related article on places of inquiry. Yet, whether predictable or otherwise, Cleave brings new insights and challenging perspectives to the reader. Even the most experienced social work practitioner would be bound to have the perceptions of their profession augmented as a result of reading this book and absorbing some of its ideas.

Papers on Social Work is followed by the 244-page volume Papers on Language. Made up of thirteen articles, this work has Cleave again drawing on a useful quantity of international scholarship, and revealing why he is so highly-regarded in the academic community. There are too few writers in this country capable of combining material from so many different disciplines and in a way that produces such a wide variety of perspectives. Again, there is some material here that appears elsewhere, but its precise employment this volume avoids any sense of repetition. A few of the shorter articles in this volume would be suited mainly for teachers of te reo, but otherwise, the tenor of the works as a whole is well-suited to the general academic reader.

The next book in this collection is the 197-page What do we know about the mark on the wall? Images, rules and prior knowledge. As for its subject, Cleave opens with the teasing line: ‘As the author I still have difficulty saying what his book is about’. But rather than answer with a pithy summary, Cleave allows the ideas contained in this work to speak for themselves – no more, no less. Themes about the meaning of ideas, place, and memory compete with topics on historiography, sociolinguistics, and social geography, among many others. This is probably the most challenging book in the collection. Cleave moves, sometimes with great speed, from one topic to another, often leaving just hints of whole new areas of potential exploration. The reader might feel settled with an idea, and then in the next paragraph, Cleave might challenge that idea from several angles, before hauling the topic elsewhere, with a series of careful thematic links. There is no stated topic for this book, and nor ought there to be. It is like a rhapsody, with different motifs surfacing at various points, connected by very little at times, yet, at the conclusion, it all seems to have a link of sorts to the idea of knowledge. This is possibly one of the most satisfying yet challenging works in the collection.

Te Pu Tapere- the impulse to perform, formerly known as Depot Takirua, is the third edition of this work, and focuses mainly on the electronic media. At 204 pages, it is as substantial a work as any of its companion volumes in this collection, and for those studying film and television in New Zealand, it would be indispensible. This most certainly ought to be a prescribed text for all media students. The portrayal of Maori in film and television comes in for close scrutiny here, and Cleave seizes on several deficiencies and stereotypes in the way culture is presented in popular culture. The chapter on Jane Campion’s The Piano is one of the outstanding portions of this book, and as all the other chapters, offers insights that hitherto have not been available to readers interested in these areas of study. Some of the essays in this work date back to the 1990s, but have been revised where appropriate to maintain their currency.

Iwi Station: A Discussion of Print, Radio, Television, and the Internet in Aotearoa/ New Zealand also has a string media focus, as the title suggests. However, in keeping with the general approach of the other volumes in this collection, Cleave has added elements of history, sociology, and anthropology into the mix. And instead of merely being descriptive about the topics he has chosen, Cleave continually probes and questions to elicit deeper meanings behind them. This is most certainly a text that should be compulsory reading for every journalist and person involved in the media in New Zealand. In particular, it lifts the lid on the sorts of conceptual developments in thought that have led to the status the media currently has in New Zealand.

This collection, coming out as a single set, is unique in New Zealand academic writing. But the format and quantity side, the lasting value of these works is in the ideas they express and the changes in perception that they will bring about for the reader. Cleave deserves full praise for the contribution he has made in these works to the intellectual conversation about New Zealandness.

Paul Moon is Professor of History at Te Ara Poutama, the faculty of Maori Development at AUT University.

There are ten books in the basic Campus Press set. All of these are 200 pages or more in length. Terms of Trade are that the books are available from Campus Press for 57.00 NZD as individual titles or for 400.00 NZD for the Collection.

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978-1-877229-32-9 Maori Unpacked Second Edition

978-1-877229-37-4 Iwi Station Second Edition

978-1-877229-39-8 Papers on Language Third Edition

978-1-877229-42-8 Papers on Social Work Third Edition

978-1-877229-43-5 Rangahau pae iti kahurangi Third Edition

978-1-877229-44-2 What do we know about the mark on the wall Third Edition

978-1-877229-43-5 Te Pu Tapere- the Impulse to perform, formerly titled, From the Depot Takirua, Third Edition

978-1-877229-41-1 Papers to conference Fourth Edition

978-1-877229-38-1 Starting Points


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