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The interrelationships between contemporary political & economic changes in Aotearoa/New Zealand & the articulation between gender, ethnic, & class identities in New Zealand society are examined. Postcolonial politics in New Zealand has criticized the hegemonic role of the descendants of European colonizing settlers, & class & gender concerns have typically been subordinated to those of ethnicity. Identity politics has evolved, pitting white against Maori. Increasing participation of nonwhites in political & government activities is increasing the heterogeneity, as well as the tensions, of civil society. The politicization of women & the development of local versions of feminism are discussed. Internationalization of the New Zealand economy is creating conditions in which cross-sectional forms of resistance based not on common identity, but on shared purpose, are required. 57 References. D. Generoli

Consistent with an ongoing experience of neo-liberal experimentation, tertiary sector reform in New Zealand is being driven by the ambition to re-create universities in a qualitatively new form. We argue that, through calculative practices, New Zealand universities are being positioned and are positioning themselves in the neo-liberalizing spaces of university education. In turn, these calculative practices are giving rise to new views of the university and altering the behaviours of staff and students. We draw attention not only to the constitutive power of calculative practices, but also to the political contestations that surround them. Our conclusion is that, because of these contestations, the spaces and subjectivities of the neo-liberalizing university are multiple and contradictory. The attempted reinvention of New Zealand universities will have varied effects and give rise to multiple political forms.

This paper argues for moving away from a linear understanding of feminism which assumes that past feminism produces present and future feminism as a response to its previous waves. Instead, we argue for embracing the multiplicity and simultaneity of contemporary feminisms, taking inspiration from Elizabeth Grosz's writings on futurity and Cindi Katz's work on resistance, resilience and reworking. Drawing on Katz's framing, we review three analytically distinct ways to conceptualise feminist politics and consider how feminist geographers are asking new questions of familiar domains, as well as finding gender formations and political possibilities in unexpected empirical sites.

Commissioned to celebrate the 40th year of Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, this book evaluates the role of the critical social scientist and how the point of their work is not simply to interpret the world but to change itBrings together leading critical social scientists to consider the major challenges of our time and what is to be done about themApplies diagnostic and normative reasoning to momentous issues including the global economic crisis, transnational environmental problems, record levels of malnourishment, never ending wars, and proliferating natural disastersTheoretically diverse - a range of perspectives are put to work ranging from Marxism and feminism to anarchismThe chapters comprise advanced but accessible analyses of the present and future world order Noel Castreeis a Professor in the School of Environment and Development, Manchester University.Paul Chattertondirects the MA for Social Activism at the University of Leeds.Nik Heynenis an Associate Professor at the University of Georgia.Wendy Larneris a Professor of Geography at Bristol University who works on globalisation and gender.Melissa W. Wrightis an Associate Professor in the Geography and Women's Studies at The Pennsylvania State University.

Despite the growing academic and political urgency in understanding how 'other' cultures encounter 'the West', economics has been slow to engage with the ideas and challenges posed by postcolonial critiques. In turn, postcolonial approaches have been criticised for their simplistic treatment of the economic and for not engaging with existing economic analyses of poverty and wealth creation. Utilising examples drawn from India to Latin America, and bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines, including Geography, Economics, Development Studies, History and Women's Studies, Postcolonial Economies breaks new ground in providing a space for nascent debates about postcolonialism and its treatment of the economic