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Liana MacDonald

New Books in History

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New Books in Australian and New Zealand Studies

Critical Studies in Education

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Phillipa Chong

W. W. Norton

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Lisa Uperesa

Alastair Paton

Jenny Coleman

Heather Goodall

Geoff Lindsay

Trevor Thompson

Nicholas Thomas

Nicholas Ferns

Andrew Wright

Kathryn Conrad

Henry Reynolds

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In this episode CSE speaks with Dr Liana Macdonald from Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington. Her paper with Dr Joanna Kidman, Uncanny pedagogies: teaching difficult histories at sites of colonial violence, was published in Critical Studies in Education Issue 1 for 2022. In that paper, they introduce the notion of a settler colonial crypt to show how settler memory and forgetting of colonial violence can be challenged and transformed by Māori tribal memories. The introduction of difficult histories at sites of colonial violence is accompanied by the uncanny; intellectual, emotional and embodied experiences that are uncomfortable and frightening, yet stimulating and inspiring, to generate new ways of considering settler-Indigenous relations. Data from a large-scale ethnographic study exploring how different groups in New Zealand remember or forget the New Zealand Wars reveal how secondary school students were directed towards the uncanny during a field trip. The excursion demonstrates the potential for transforming understandings about how invasion and violence accompanied settlement, providing the impetus for something-to-be-done and setting the groundwork for genuine attempts at reconciliation. MacDonald, L., &amp; Kidman, J. (2021). Uncanny pedagogies: teaching difficult histories at sites of colonial violence. Critical Studies in Education, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2021.1923543

In this episode CSE speaks with <a href="https://people.wgtn.ac.nz/liana.macdonald" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dr Liana Macdonald</a> from Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington. Her paper with <a href="https://people.wgtn.ac.nz/Joanna.Kidman" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dr Joanna Kidman</a>, Uncanny pedagogies: teaching difficult histories at sites of colonial violence, was published in Critical Studies in Education Issue 1 for 2022. In that paper, they introduce the notion of a settler colonial crypt to show how settler memory and forgetting of colonial violence can be challenged and transformed by Māori tribal memories. The introduction of difficult histories at sites of colonial violence is accompanied by the uncanny; intellectual, emotional and embodied experiences that are uncomfortable and frightening, yet stimulating and inspiring, to generate new ways of considering settler-Indigenous relations. Data from a large-scale ethnographic study exploring how different groups in New Zealand remember or forget the New Zealand Wars reveal how secondary school students were directed towards the uncanny during a field trip. The excursion demonstrates the potential for transforming understandings about how invasion and violence accompanied settlement, providing the impetus for something-to-be-done and setting the groundwork for genuine attempts at reconciliation. MacDonald, L., &amp; Kidman, J. (2021). Uncanny pedagogies: teaching difficult histories at sites of colonial violence. Critical Studies in Education, 1-16. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2021.1923543" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2021.1923543</a>

Liana Macdonald: Uncanny pedagogies: teaching difficult histories at sites of colonial violence

Bridget Williams

‘What a nation or society chooses to remember and forget speaks to its contemporary priorities and sense of identity. Understanding how that process works enables us to better imagine a future with a different, or wider, set of priorities.’History has rarely felt more topical or relevant as, all across the globe, nations have begun to debate who, how and what they choose to remember and forget. In this BWB Text addressing ‘difficult histories’, a team of five researchers, several from iwi invaded or attacked during the nineteenth-century New Zealand Wars, reflect on these questions of memory and loss locally.Combining first-hand fieldnotes from their journeys to sites of conflict and contestation with innovative archival and oral research exploring the gaps and silences in the ways we engage with the past, Fragments from a Contested Past: Remembrance, Denial and New Zealand History (Bridget Williams Books, 2022) investigates how these events are remembered – or not – and how this has shaped the modern New Zealand nation.Liana MacDonald (Ngāti Kuia, Rangitāne o Wairau, Ngāti Koata) is a lecturer in the Faculty of Education, Victoria University of Wellington. She is interested in how racism, whiteness, and settler colonialism manifest in national institutions. Her current research explores possibilities for decolonial transformation in schools, particularly through land education.To find more information about the project please visit: https://www.difficulthistories.nz/Ed Amon is a Master of Indigenous Studies Candidate at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, a columnist at his local paper: Hibiscus Matters, and a Stand-up Comedian. His main interests are indigenous studies, politics, history, and cricket. Follow him on twitter @edamoned or email him at edamonnz@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/australian-and-new-zealand-studies

‘What a nation or society chooses to remember and forget speaks to its contemporary priorities and sense of identity. Understanding how that process works enables us to better imagine a future with a different, or wider, set of priorities.’History has rarely felt more topical or relevant as, all across the globe, nations have begun to debate who, how and what they choose to remember and forget. In this BWB Text addressing ‘difficult histories’, a team of five researchers, several from iwi invaded or attacked during the nineteenth-century New Zealand Wars, reflect on these questions of memory and loss locally.Combining first-hand fieldnotes from their journeys to sites of conflict and contestation with innovative archival and oral research exploring the gaps and silences in the ways we engage with the past, <a href="https://www.bwb.co.nz/books/fragments-from-a-contested-past/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fragments from a Contested Past: Remembrance, Denial and New Zealand History</a> (Bridget Williams Books, 2022) investigates how these events are remembered – or not – and how this has shaped the modern New Zealand nation.Liana MacDonald (Ngāti Kuia, Rangitāne o Wairau, Ngāti Koata) is a lecturer in the Faculty of Education, Victoria University of Wellington. She is interested in how racism, whiteness, and settler colonialism manifest in national institutions. Her current research explores possibilities for decolonial transformation in schools, particularly through land education.To find more information about the project please visit: <a href="https://www.difficulthistories.nz/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.difficulthistories.nz/</a>Ed Amon is a Master of Indigenous Studies Candidate at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, a columnist at his local paper: Hibiscus Matters, and a Stand-up Comedian. His main interests are indigenous studies, politics, history, and cricket. Follow him on twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/edamoned" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@edamoned</a> or email him at <a href="mailto:edamonnz@gmail.com">edamonnz@gmail.com</a> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>Support our show by becoming a premium member! <a href="https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/australian-and-new-zealand-studies" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/australian-and-new-zealand-studies</a>

Liana MacDonald et al., "Fragments from a Contested Past: Remembrance, Denial and New Zealand History" (Bridget Williams Books, 2022)