puff 537 Thurs 7th

Thursday 7th
Kaupapa koorero moo te raa nei
Te Ao Toi

Ko te kaupapa i teenei raa ko te hiikoi moo nga mea toi i te taone o Papaioea. Kua whiringia a Bronwyn Zimmerman ki te arahi i teenei. He aha ngaa mea e whaingia e ia?


Subject of the day
The arts
Analysis
The subject today is the Art Tour of the city in Palmerston North. Bronwyn Zimmerman has been selected to lead this. What are the things that will be pursued by her?
http://zimmerman.co.nz/

Friday 8th

Kaupapa koorero moo te raa nei
Te Whare Miere

Rangahau

Kei te aha a Reipa moo Chris Carter. E ai ki te koorero e tuhi pukapuka ana a Chris Carter. E aha a Piripi Goff me te Toorangapu Reipa moo teenei?

Subject of the day
Parliament

Analysis
What is Labour doing about Chris Carter. It is said that he is writing a book. What will Phil Goff and the Labour Party do about this?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10677828


Monday 11th


Kaupapa koorero moo te raa nei
Rangitaanenuirawa

Rangahau
He aha ngaa mea hou i Rangitaane Paa? He koorero mo Whakapai Hauora me eetahi mea ki Rangitaane Paa.

Subject of the day
Rangitaanenuirawa

Analysis
What are the new things at Rangitaane Pa? A discussion about Whakapai Hauora and other things at Rangitaane Pa.
http://www.rangitaane.iwi.nz/

Tuesday 12th
Te moana me te ngahere

Kaupapa korero mo te raa nei
Rangahau
He koorero moo ngaa tuhinga naa Rachael Selby me Paataka Moore moo te Horowhenua. Kei roto i te pukapuka Kaitiaki teenei. Ko te kaitiakitanga o Ngati Pareraukawa teetahi o nga kaupapa e whaingia nei. E aha a Ngaati Pareraukawa i ngaa waa e tuu mai?

Subject of the day
The sea and the forest

Analysis

A discussion by Rachel Selby and Paataka Moore about the Horowhenua. This is in the book Kaitiaki. The kaitiakitanga of Ngaati Pareraukawa is one of the subjects examined.
http://www.kaitiakitanga.net/stories/origins%20research.htm

Wednesday 13th
Kaupapa koorero moo te raa
Te Ao Paaho

Rangahau
He koorero anoo moo Paul Henry me ngaa mea wheenaa i te ao paaho. He aha te pai o ngaa taangata peenei i te ao paaho? E aha taatou moo eenei taangata i ngaa waa e tuu mai?


Subject of the day
The world of broadcasting


Analysis
More discussion of Paul Henry and people like him. What is the value of people like this in the world of broadcasting? What will we do about people like this in future?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_jock

Thursday 14th

Te Ao Toi

Rangahau

Kaupapa koorero moo te raa nei
He korero moo ngaa whakairo o Rangitaane Paa. He aha eenei whakairo? He aha ngaa koorero e whaingia nei i eenei whakairo.


Subject of the day
The arts

Analysis
A discussion of the carvings at Rangitaane Paa. What are these carvings? What are the stories in these carvings?
http://www.maori.org.nz/whakairo/

Friday 15th

Kaupapa koorero moo te raa nei

Te Whare Miere
Rangahau

Kei te aha te Toorangapu Maaori moo te waa pooti e tuu mai nei? E whakarerekee ana te Toorangapu Maori i te Toorangapu Nahinara? Ka tuu te Toorangapu Maaori i oona anoo waewae?

Subject of the day
Parliament


Analysis
What is the Maori Party doing about the forthcoming election? Is it differentiating itself from the National Party? Is the Maori Party standing on its own two feet?
www.maoriparty.org/

Monday 18th

Rangtaanenuirawa

Rangahau

Kaupapa koorero moo te raa nei
Te hui ki Tuuturu Puumau i teenei raa moo te awa. He aha te tino kaupapa o teenei hui. He aha ngaa mea e whai mai?

Subject of the day
Rangtaanenuirawa


Analysis
The hui at Tuturu Pumau today about the river. What is the main subject of the meeting? What will follow from it?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1009/S00246/manawatu-river-accord.htm

Tuesday 19th
Kaupapa korero mo te ra nei
Te moana me te ngahere

Rangahau
He koorero moo ngaa tuhinga naa Tracey Whare moo te takutai moana. Ka haangai aa Tracey koorero ki a Ngaati Porou. He aha te pai o ngaa ture moo te takutai moo Ngaati Porou?

Subject of the day
Te moana me te ngahere

Analysis
A discussion of Tracey Whare’s writings about the foreshore and seabed. Tracey’s discussion applies to Ngaati Porou. What is the value of the legislation regarding the foreshore and seabed for Ngaati Porou?
www.courts.govt.nz/.../foreshore-and-seabed/foreshore-and-seabed...foreshore-and-seabed...ngati-porou/nga-hapu-o-ngati-porou-ne...

Wednesday 20th

Kaupapa koorero moo te raa
Te Ao Paaho

Rangahau
He aha ngaa mea e puta atu i te Pouwhakaata Maaori a te wiki e tuu mai. He aha ngaa mea pai rawa?

Subject of the day
The broadcasting world

Analysis
What is on Maori Television in the coming week? What are the best things on?
www.maoritelevision.com/

Thursday 21st
Kaupapa koorero moo te raa
Te Ao Toi
Rangahau
He aha ngaa mea tino pai raawa i te whare pikitia? He koorero moo teenaa pikitia, teenaa ranei e puta ana i Papaioea inaianei.

Subject of the day
What are the best things on at the movies? A discussion about one of the movies on in Palmerston North now.
www.dtcinemas.co.nz/ -

Friday 22nd

Te Whare Miere

Kaupapa koorero moo te raa nei
He aha te korero moo John Key. Ka pai tonu te hapori whanui i a ia? He aha ai?

Subject of the day
Parliament
Analysis
What is the story with John Key? Do the community at large still like him? Why?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Key

Monday 25th
Rangitaanenuirawa

Kaupapa koorero moo te raa nei
He aha te pai o te mahi e mahia nei i Himatangi? He mea pai teenaa mahi moo Rangitaane kaore kau ranei? He mea pai te mahi nei moo ngaa taangata e noho ana ki reira?

Rangahau

Subject of the day
Rangitaanenuirawa


Analysis
What is the value of the work being done at Himatangi. Is it good for Rangitaane or not? Is it good for the people who live there?
www.ourregion.co.nz/himatangi-beach/ -

Tuesday 26th
Te moana me te ngahere

Rangahau
He koorero moo ngaa tuhinga naa Veronica Tawhai moo ngaa rawaho. He aha te whanaungatanga o nga rawaho ki te iwi taketake, ki ngaa Kaunihera, ki te moana me te ngahere? E aha ngaa rawaho i ngaa waa e tuu mai?

Subject of the day
Te moana me te ngahere

Analysis
A discussion about the writings of Veronica Tawhai about rawaho. Whhat is the relationship between rawaho and local people, Councils and the sea and forest? What will rawaho do in future?
www.envbop.govt.nz/.../Tangata-Whenua-of-Tauranga-Moana.aspx -

Wednesday 27th
Te Ao Paaho

Kaupapa koorero moo te raa nei
He koorero moo ngaa niupapa o Papaioea. He aha te pai o nga niupepa peenaa i te Tribune, te Guardian, te Standard ranei? He aha te mea tino pai rawa o eenei?

Rangahau
Te Ao Paaho


Subject of the day
A discussion of the newspapers of Palmerston North. What is the value of the Tribune, the Guardian and the Standard? What is the best of these?
www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/ -

Thursday 28th

Te Ao Toi

Kaupapa koorero moo te raa nei
He aha te tino pikitia Maori o ngaa waa katoa? He aha ai?

Rangahau

Subject of the day
Analysis
What is the best Maori movie of all time? Why?
forums.overclockers.co.nz/.../t-459.html -

Friday 29th
Kaupapa koorero moo te raa nei

Te Whare Miere

Rangahau
Kaupapa koorero moo te raa nei
Naa te aha te wahanguu o te Toorangapu Kaakaariki? He mataku raatou i eetahi atu Toorangapu? Kei te moohio raatou i aa raatou anoo kaupapa?

Subject of the day
Parliament

Analysis
Why are the Greens so quiet? Are they scared of other parties? Do they know what they are about?
www.greens.org.nz/puff is a daily spin on what is going on. For example the Hotaka says what is happening today on the radio.
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Aotearoa Waka question of the day
What is the United Nations doing about the private navy said to being got together by insurers for use in the waters off Somalia?
Benjamin Drum's serial, Isis: The Dancing Tramp, continues
Part Four
4
Papers of Service

The information on the registration plates tracing them to London comes in a few days later but at the same time Walter returns and serves papers on the Tramp.

Walter Bradbury simply marched up to the Tramp, asked him if he was his name, gave him the papers and paced off again. It was all very direct. He mades it all seem so easy. Once again Esme and Bella spottted him. Again they ran to the Boathouse to tell Simon and Sam.

This time though, Walter gives them a wave and a hint of a smile after he has served the papers. Just to let them know he is there. With that he strides off purposefully as though he has a bus or a train to catch.

Astor ran down the path toward the Tramp who is left standing, holding the papers. As is often thye case these days, he seems oblivious to all around him. He carries on, wandering and staring for long periods of time at the river.

The Tramp has a favourite spot, shady and sheltered at a bend in the Isis. Here he can watch the world without the world crashing in on him. Here he is at home.

The Tramp dislikes the angler who fishes near this spot for some reason. This does not seem to bother the angler who remains a study in impassivity. The angler only speaks when spoken to.

The Tramp is more tolerant now of Esme and Bella as if he sees that they are really trying to help him. He gets involved as much as a spectator can in their games with stencils. He is past interfering and changing stencils around and hiding them.

Esme has a favourite spot by the river in College Park, a small area by the river. Astor comes to join her there. Esme is thinking about her friends. There are so many dramas going on.

Bella is carrying on with Rob. Esme approves. Rob's mum seems happy enough and Bella's parents don't know. Just then she notices that the Tramp has started his dance. She watches, transfixed.

Bella has some queries about Rob's Mum. She thinks they are too close. Also Bella and Esme, for that matter, want to know what happened with William, Robs brother who is nowhere to be found now.

Did social workers take him away? Is William with Rob's dad, another figure who remains in the shadows? Is he still alive? Rob and his mother seem to liv such normal lives but underneath there are these stories.

The Tramp has noticed that Rob likes drawing crows. And cats. For years Rob has done stencils, working off photographs supplied by Esme and Bella. And for years the Tramp has silently scrutinised them, mostly with approval.

Rob likes art at school but also maths. He intends to combine these skills but can't see how. Not that this kind of thing worries him. So long as Astor is fit and fed, the Isis flows and life goes on as normal Rob is happy.

But the Tramp is not a happy soul. His best mates are the animals on the river bank. He knows where the voles live. He waits for the swans at certain times. Astor is a great friend for him, always there to be patted and spoken to.

In the Belfast morning the bear and his trainer are sent to town to drum up business for the circus. They wander around town and finally settle on a spot where the Trainer can play the accordion and the bear can dance.

Walter for that was the PI's name had been sacked from the police at an early stage in his career. It was not anything major but there were reservations, let's leave it at that. He was good at surveillance work though and had been picked up by a firm of solicitors.

He had been chosen up by the firm of solicitors after he had singlehandedly faced down an East End thug who was stiffarming a client of the firm. This had happened as he walked home from the pub one night.

The solicitors valued him because he was prepared to take on anything, from the most mundane to the most daring. Walter always took a measured approach without saying a great deal. The solicitors wondered how on earth the police had let him go.

In his Miami cell Wolfgang gives his instruction. Set it up for maximum embarrassment he says into a cellphone smuggled in for him. His rage at his former colleagues is immeasurable.

Walter was extremely patient and had the gift of always being able to keep a low tone of voice. He did not excite easily. And he was able to fit in. He was very good at surveillance and situations where he had to stay still for a long while.

A non smoker, Walter liked a pint. He could handle it though and had never been seen drunk. As a single man he found it important to socialise. He was known to arch an eyebrow if not to heartily guffaw his way about the place.

Walter was good at pool. He was not a team player so he did not go away with the team from his local. But if he was around he would certainly pick up a cue.

Walter was good at darts as well. He liked the tension in darts, the careful evaluation of an opponent, the summing up of what shot to take next. Walter also liked competing against himself.

His favourite colour was dark brown. Walter could not say why this was but it was something to do with his childhood. His mother had been an army nurse at one point. Khaki everywhere.

Ferrets and stoats were his favourite animals. He liked their speed. And their cunning, their ability under pressure. Other than that he was not a great pet lover and did notice plants much at all.

Lock stock and barrel was his favourite film of all time. He liked In Bruges as well. He related to East End hard men without being, he thought, one of them.

Walter's best mate was a Maltese chap of about the same age as him. He was known as Sonny. They played pool together. Though they had not been introduced Sonny had played pool against David Walker in his London local when Dave came with the Joiner's team to the London local that Sonny and Walter patronised.

Sonny had beaten Dave but not without a fight. Dave could not figure how the diminutive and unprepossessing Sonny could put up such a contest. Dave had resisted but Sonny had outsmarted him in the end.

Dave Walker himself now came along the path, notebook in hand, walking the bumps course. He is looking for bends, eddies, hazards for the boat and so forth. He gives Astor a pat and waves to the Tramp.

Dave Walker has found new team members in darts and cricket for his teams at the Joiner's Arms. He has a full season in front of him and with the Bumps coming on there is a lot to do. Needless to say the Guv is pretty happy about all of this as it means more patrons at the Joiner's.

Dave is always searching for new talent. It is a strange drive, a drive to be involved and to involve others, often in things that they might not be that good at.

Dave Walker is the the gregarious transformer and is nicknamed accordingly. There is more to it than that though and those that know him think he is trying to displace a lost love of some kind. If so he never lets on.

He is leading the Joiner's Team, many of whom have never rowed before in the Bumps. This includes organising team and sponsorship at the start and the actual bumps at the end. It is quite a expensive business and he is searching for a wider sponsorship group to help make ends meet.

Dave travels to London to take Joiners Darts and Pool teams to competitions with other pubs in the Brewer's Choice franchise. This means he meets a lot of managers of small teams and has deep and sometimes completely meaningless negotiations with the strangest people. He loves it.

He now sports a moustache. At six three he looks quite the swashbuckler. So far there is no female partner in sight on his horizons or even up close. This does not worry him at least not apparently so.

The Ringmaster set his tents and waited for a call. It was a wet night on the outskirts of Belfast. Tomorrow the circus would be set up and running. There could be some interesting developments when the call came through as well.

The bear rests and his trainer sleeps. Outside the wind howls and the rain sheets down. The Trainer knows the bear could get restless later so he tries to get some good sleep in the meantime.BlogTalkRadio


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Daily Highlights: Monday; October 4, 2010

Posted: 04 Oct 2010 05:19 AM PDT



Mr. Media gets busy with Yvonne Strahovski, who plays Sarah Walker on Chuck. The Australian-born beauty (who’s of Polish descent) will chat about what’s coming up on the NBC series, and about her role opposite Bobby De Niro and Clive Owen in the big-screen flick, The Killer Elite.


Ask Mom RN host Tamara Walker gets down to brass tacks with carpenter Carter Oosterhouse (try saying that 3 times fast), host of the HGTV series Carter Can. The hunky builder will talk about teaming up with Lowe’s to promote energy-saving technologies.


Stardish Radio’s Jo Ann Kubasek sits down with former WWE Diva Stacy Keibler who’s appeared in such flicks as True Lies and The Firm, and recently wrapped Dyfunctional Friends. Stacy will preview her guest turn on tonight’s episode of NBC’s Chuck.


Comedian Stevie Mack gives it up for Andres “Dres” Titus, half of the alternative hip-hop group Black Sheep, who charted in the ‘90s with tracks like Strobelite Honey and The Choice Is Yours. Dres will fill us in on his latest EP, From The Black Pool of Genius.


Variety Topics host Sonia Fitch gets up close and personal with Fox News Channel legal analyst— and Bill O’Reilly’s sparring partner in his weekly “Is It Legal?” segment—Lis Wiehl, who’ll chat about her latest thriller (authored with April Henry), titled Face of Betrayal.


The Stupid Cancer Show’s Matthew Zachary and Lisa Bernhard welcome Meghan Rogers, president of the National Collegiate Cancer Foundation, Kay Cofrancesco, director of advocacy relations for the Lung Cancer Alliance, and Beth Stern, executive director of the LUNGevity Foundation.

Thousands of live radio shows broadcast live everyday on BlogTalkRadio. Find out what’s on live now.



Justin Bieber: His ‘Evil Eyes’ Pleased ‘CSI’ Creator Anthony Zuiker

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 06:47 AM PDT

What does the biggest pop star on the planet do while waiting around the set to film his first foray into prime-time TV?

Interviewed on Tomorrow Will Be Televised, CSI creator and executive producer Anthony Zuiker chats about working with Justin Bieber, who plays Jason McCann—a “troubled teen who is faced with a difficult decision regarding his only brother”—on Season 11 of the hit CBS series, which got under way Sept. 23.


Justin: A touch of De Niro?

“It was interesting. He definitely is a young boy,” Anthony tells host Simon Applebaum of the Baby singer.

“He likes to eat a lot of cake. And he likes to skateboard around the set. Does a lot of talking, which is interesting.

“He wasn’t prepared for us to change lines on the fly. So that was kind of a surprise to him. But our actors are professionals. They sat him down, worked the lines,” continues Anthony.

“They thought he did an admirable job acting inside the episode. He looked really, really great.

“He’s a nice button to the show, with his evil eyes there—telling the audience that he shall come back. He’s slated to come back some time later in the season.”

Anthony also touches on the decision to cast Justin in the first place.

“There’s no denying, that in a ratings-driven business, when you have a guest star that people care about, there is definitely a pop in ratings. You can definitely see the difference,” he says.


"All in all, it was a win for us," Anthony tells us of Justin's "CSI" stint.

“It is a treat to our audience to see someone they know and love in the format of one of their favorite shows.”

Only time will tell if Justin will make a successful jump into acting, as his namesake—Justin Timberlake—has done with the critically-acclaimed flick The Social Network.

But for the moment, millions of screaming fans are no doubt chanting, We want our JB-TV!


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.


Papers on Social Work, Fourth Edition has the ISBN
978-1-877229-47-3

NZD 65.00 including tax plus 12.50 Post and Pack no matter how big the order.

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Order through comment or email to puffmedia@yahoo.co.nz using the Order Form at the bottom of this email.

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

Takutai costs 65.00NZD from Campus Press with a 12.50 NZD freight charge no matter how big the order.

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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.

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