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Fifteen writers with diverse personal and scholarly backgrounds come together in this collection to examine issues of identity, viewing it as both a departing point and end destination for the various peoples who have come to call New Zealand ""home."" The essays reflect the diversity of thinking about identity across the social sciences as well as common themes that transcend disciplinary boundaries. Their explorations of the process of identity-making underscore the historical roots, dynamism, and plurality of ideas of national identity in New Zealand, offering a view not only of what has be

University students frequently engage in normalized practices of heavy drinking, and social networking sites are becoming increasingly important in this context. The present study explored the role of Facebook within student drinking cultures by conducting three friendship groups in which students discussed their social networking and alcohol consumption alongside an Internet-enabled laptop. Transcripts were discursively analyzed; this demonstrated that "pleasurable consumption," "routine socialization," and "managed risk" discourses were used to construct Facebook as an essential but mundane tool, and Facebook was used regularly to create positive constructions of risky drinking. Particular types of risky drinking are discussed as being encouraged through both the interactions present on Facebook and the structure of the site that helps shape these interactions. Findings are beneficial for public health strategies seeking to understand and minimize harmful university drinking practices.

Introduction to youth drinking cultures in a digital world / Antonia C. Lyons, Timothy McCreanor, Ian Goodwin & Helen Moewaka Barnes -- Neoliberalism, alcohol, and identity : a symptomatic reading of young people's drinking cultures in a digital world / Ian Goodwin & Christine Griffin -- Social locations : class, gender and young people's alcohol consumption in a digital world / Lin Bailey & Christine Griffin -- Curating identity : drinking, young women, femininities and social media practices / Jo Lindsay & Sian Supski -- Masculinities, alcohol consumption and social networking / Antonia C. Lyons & Brendan Gough -- Ethnicity/culture, alcohol and social media / Helen Moewaka Barnes, Patricia Niland, Lina Samu, Acushla Dee Sciascia & Timothy McCreanor -- Understanding social media as commercial platforms for engaging with young adults / Nina Michealidou -- Alcohol corporations and marketing in social media / Nicolas Carah -- Mobile technologies and spatially structured real-time marketing / Rebeca Monk & Derek Heim -- Creating powerful brands / Richard Purves -- Social media affordances for curbing alcohol consumption : insights from Hello Sunday Morning blog posts / Hélène Cherrier, Nicholas Carah & Carla Meurk -- Regulating social media : reasons not to ask the audience / Andy Ruddock -- Restricting alcohol marketing on social media in Finland / Marjatta Montonen & Ismo Tuoninen -- New marketing, new policy? Emerging debates over regulating alcohol campaigns in social media / Sarah Mart -- Digital alcohol marketing and the public good : industry, research and ethics / Tim McCreanor, Helen Moewaka Barnes, Antonia C. Lyons & Ian Goodwin

"Social media has helped boost the culture of intoxication, a central aspect of young people's social lives in many Western countries. Initial research suggests that these technologies enable highly-nuanced, targeted marketing and innovations - creating new virtual spaces that alter the dynamics and consequences of drinking cultures in significant ways."--Publisher's website

New Zealand Governments have longstanding policy commitments to equal employment practices. Little attention has been paid to ethnic pay disparities in recent years. Informed by a series of official information act requests, we were interested to find out what extent, ethnic pay disparities existed within the core public sector and district health boards (DHBs). We examined the population proportions of Māori, Pasifika and Other ethnicities earning over $NZ100,000 over five year intervals between 2001 to 2016, using linear regression analysis. The analyses showed a statistically significant pattern of ethnic pay disparities across the public sector. There were fewer Māori and Pasifika staff employed in DHBs than their population proportion. The failure to promote Māori and Pasifika to the upper tiers of public sector is consistent with definitions of institutional racism. The authors call for more research to understand the dynamics of ethnic pay disparity and the drivers of this disparity.

New Zealand Governments have longstanding policy commitments to equal employment practices. Little attention has been paid to ethnic pay disparities in recent years. Informed by a series of official information act requests, we were interested to find out what extent, ethnic pay disparities existed within the core public sector and district health boards (DHBs). We examined the population proportions of Māori, Pasifika and Other ethnicities earning over $NZ100,000 over five year intervals between 2001 to 2016, using linear regression analysis. The analyses showed a statistically significant pattern of ethnic pay disparities across the public sector. There were fewer Māori and Pasifika staff employed in DHBs than their population proportion. The failure to promote Māori and Pasifika to the upper tiers of public sector is consistent with definitions of institutional racism. The authors call for more research to understand the dynamics of ethnic pay disparity and the drivers of this disparity.

New Zealand, similar to many other westernised nations, has a well-developed national culture of drinking to intoxication. Within this cultural context, young women are exhorted to engage with the night time economy, get drunk and have "fun" without relinquishing claims to "respectability". More recently, the rise of Facebook and other social networking sites has coincided with shifts in postfeminism, neo-liberalism and the development of the night time economy. Social networking sites have become a mundane part of people's everyday lives, whilst still reflecting structural constraints such as class, ethnicity and gender. This article reports on a qualitative study of young women's drinking practices and uses of Facebook. Focus group discussions were conducted with eight friendship groups involving 36 participants aged 18–25 years. Transcripts of these discussions were subjected to thematic analysis. Three key themes were identified: "tragic girls" and "crack whores"; "drunken femininities"; and "Facebook, alcohol and drunken femininities". The results indicated that young women experienced significant tensions in expressing their "drunken femininities" both in public and online, whilst also engaging in "airbrushing" of Facebook photos to minimize the appearance of intoxication for known and unknown audiences.

Beyond their educational function, schools are frequently a focal point for community life. We argue that this latter role was compromised in New Zealand by a decade of neoliberal realignments within education policy. During the 1990s the abolition of school zones, the commodification of education, and the drive for efficiency in the allocation of educational resources undermined the place of school in community life. In this paper we explore the impacts of a school closure on an urban neighbourhood in Invercargill, New Zealand. We present and interpret narratives gathered during an interview-based study of the closure of Surrey Park Primary School. Our analysis highlights parents' perspectives on the role of the educational bureaucracy in the closure debate, the ambiguous role assigned to 'community' within the restructured system, the impact of the closure for low-income families, and the place of schools in contributing to the neighbourhood social cohesion. Our analysis concurs with international research suggesting that breaking links between schools and communities has potentially significant educational impacts on children.

This article explores affect, colonial privilege, and the cultural politics of national commemoration in Aotearoa New Zealand. Based on focus‐group interviews around two major national days, we examine means through which feelings and emotions are deployed in ways that enable the reproduction of social advantage. Situating affect within patterns of relationship, four interrelated affective‐discursive practices are explored. In relation to Waitangi Day, agents tend to work under the rubric of anger and confusion. For Anzac Day, being grateful and moved shapes the interaction, although participants often indicate preferences towards "having a day off." Given the colonial context in which these practices circulate, analysis observes the associated freedom and ease by which affective‐discursive privilege is (re)produced. Often incongruent and rarely challenged, privilege allows associated actors to do what they want, when they want, however they want. This affective climate authorizes the ongoing reproduction of, and justification for, membership to a higher‐status ethnic group of which unearned opportunities and entitlements remain its everyday, expected currency.

AbstractThis paper investigates affective–discursive dimensions of nation‐building via commemorations of nationhood within Aotearoa New Zealand to ask about how these assemblages construct feeling trajectories for citizen participants. We report auto‐ethnographic analyses of participation in specific Anzac Day war remembrance events that occurred in the capital city Wellington. Analyses point to the ways in which engagement in the choreographies of commemoration constructs varied emotion‐laden subject positions for participants and how these psycho‐social differences index and evoke contrasting memorial politics. We conclude that while the differences in affective ambience at different events may prompt citizens towards nationalistic or more conciliatory identity politics, the ceremonies create space for participants to feel and enact diverse affective practices.