The sustainability façade: An analysis of the Ruataniwha dam debate

The sustainability façade: An analysis of the Ruataniwha dam debate'National Party', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/national-party (accessed 19 December 2017

Living library : print & oral cultures & the bicultural library

The essay explores the question of whether the library, as an institution of Western print culture, can adequately house Maori materials and provide services to meet Maori needs. An earlier debate of orality and literacy in nineteenth-century New Zealand raised questions about the primacy of the oral traditions, the loss of these traditions with the advent of print, and the sue of print by Maori. A closer look at some of the attitudes towards print and oral cultures makes it difficult to find clear distinctions between them. There is a dynamic relationship between the spoken and written or printed word, from the nineteenth century to contemporary publishing; and the strength of te reo Maori is an essential part of this relationship. The mnemonic consciousness generated by oral tradition does come into conflict with established library practices; but there are some Western approaches to knowledge which correspond to Maori tradition. A fully bicultural library would need to develop an approach which recognised the open, dynamic relationship between words, meanings, sources and contexts, transcending form and format; it would also need to recognise the corrsepondences and relationships of people, places and phenomena which is essential to whakapapa philosophy. In so doing, it would honour both Maori and Western traditions

Choice and Success: The Evolution of a Modern Hero

The phenomenon of modern fantasy is the result of a tradition that originated with romance. It is a tradition that has experienced continual redefinement and utilization over the years. This is evidenced by the rediscovery of certain characteristics of the Medieval Romance and the development of others by the Romantics, William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. These characteristics are identifiable in the works of such later writers as Charles Dickens, William Morris, H.G. Wells, G.B. Shaw, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkein. The concern of these succeeding authors is the same as that of the Romantics, i.e., the nature and condition of man in modern technological society. The study of the works of these authors reveals two distinct approaches to the relationship of man and his society, and these approaches produce two different types of hero