Archive for the 'Writing and research' Category
Location, Location, Location: Property in the First and Fourth Worlds
Tuesday, January 11th, 2005The two forms of activism I know well - the first world anti-copyright struggle and the fourth world struggle to prevent unlawful exploitation of traditional knoweldge - seem to be unbridgeable. I think the first world has more to learn from the fourth than vice-versa.
On “New Zealand” “Studies”
Sunday, July 11th, 2004Why do my favourite Maori academics get so rarely cited by Pakeha New Zealanders? Partially because it’s difficult to maintain the coherence of the nation-state. This makes me suspect that undoing that coherence might be the key to cultural justice. My first academic paper on these issues.
