Archive for September, 2005
Biculturalism as Multiculturalism
Sunday, September 4th, 2005The biculturalism versus multiculturalism debate in New Zealand is tired. To develop either means opening our imaginations to an other possibility, rather than assuming there can be many possibilities without us changing. That is why Aotearoa New Zealand’s biculturalism is so interesting and challenging - but only if we take a bicultural approach to biculturalism itself. To understand more, we can to turn to feminist theory, particularly more psychoanalytically-inflected models. Also, Christchurch gives me the creeps. This is a very rough paper, not designed to be published, so excuse some poor grammar etc. But it does contain the idea of why I live in Aotearoa.
