Editorial Introduction: The utility and futility of 'the nation' in histories of Aotearoa New Zealand.

An introduction is presented which discusses articles in the issue on New Zealand history, including one on interracial rape and sexual violence in the 1860s, one on postcolonial methodology and the historical concept of the British World, and one on Whanganui Māori claims to the Whanganui River

Enhancing postgraduate supervision through a process of conversational inquiry

This paper outlines and begins to evaluate a process to build a critical and reflective community of postgraduate supervisors who can develop their supervision practice through reflective conversations, with the sharing of best practice and reference to research-based evidence. In 2009, the initiative of the Postgraduate Supervisors’ Conversations was set up through the collaboration of the Pro-Vice Chancellor (Postgraduate) and the Teaching Development Unit at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. We designed this initiative to complement the compulsory workshops for postgraduate supervisors that are intended to provide foundation skills. We aimed to create a professional development opportunity that could enhance supervisors’ capacity to manage the ongoing interpersonal and academic complexity of the supervision process as well as its dynamic character. This paper outlines the rationale for the Postgraduate Supervisors’ Conversations, describes its implementation and discusses the implications of an initial evaluative focus group discussion with attendees

Patrons of Maori Culture: Power, Theory and Ideology in the Maori Renaissance

Review of Patrons of Maori Culture: Power, Theory and Ideology in the Maori Renaissanc

Living Relationships Kokiri Ngatahi: The Treaty of Waitangi in the New Millennium

Review of Living Relationships Kokiri Ngatahi: The Treaty of Waitangi in the New Millenniu

Te Mana Te Kawanatanga: The Politics of Maori Self-Determination

Research into the politics of Maori self-determinatio

Patrons of Maori Culture: Power, Theory and Ideology in the Maori Renaissance

Review of Patrons of Maori Culture: Power, Theory and Ideology in the Maori Renaissanc

‘Texted pasts’—the sources of colonial land surveying

This article considers how the diaries and field books of colonial land surveyors provides historians of colonisation with a valuable repository of information. It is argued that these largely marginalised archival sources are significant for two reasons. First, while they contain a good deal of detail regarding the practice of land surveying—measurements, sketches and brief maps—these texts also contain rich botanical and ethnological information as well as personal reflections on the processes of land transformation and settlement. Second, as these texts were constructed ‘in transit’, they present to the historian important questions of context, authority and self-censorship.Professor Giselle Byrnes is Pro Vice-Chancellor of the Faculty of Law, Education, Business and Arts at Charles Darwin University, Northern Territory AUSTRALIACorrespondence relating to this article may be directed to the author at [email protected]

Living Relationships Kokiri Ngatahi: The Treaty of Waitangi in the New Millennium

Review of Living Relationships Kokiri Ngatahi: The Treaty of Waitangi in the New Millenniu

Tom's Letters: The Private World of Thomas King, Victorian Gentleman.

Letters from the Private World of Thomas King, Victorian Gentlema

Afixing Names to Places: Colonial Surveying & the Construction of Cultural Space

Afixing Names to Places: Colonial Surveying & the Construction of Cultural Spa