Land of Milk & Honey

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AUP TEXT TITLE. Since colonisation, New Zealand has been mythologised as a 'land of milk and honey'-a promised land of natural abundance and endless opportunity-but does this country live up to its mythology In this introductory textbook for first year sociology students, 21 of this country's leading social scientists look at our politics, our people and our problems to help readers make sense of contemporary New Zealand. For sociology students and for a wider audience of New Zealanders, A Land of Milk and Honey Making Sense of Aoetearoa New Zealand is a lively introduction to where we have come from, where we are now, and where New Zealand society might be headed.

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Avril Bell is a Pkeh New Zealander and senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Auckland. Her research centres on the legacy of settler colonialism in making sense of Pkeh identities, New Zealand national identity and Mori-Pkeh relations. Her book, Relating Indigenous and Settler Identities: Beyond Domination (Palgrave, 2014) extends this focus to make connections between settler colonialism in New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the USA.Vivienne Elizabeth is a Pkeh New Zealander and associate professor in sociology at the University of Auckland. She brings a gendered lens to thinking about contemporary family life in Aotearoa New Zealand. She has researched in two areas: post-separation parenting arrangements and the difficulties mothers, in particular, face in negotiating these arrangements; and relationship transitions, leading to a co-authored monograph, Marriage in an Age of Cohabitation (Oxford University Press, 2014), with Professor Maureen Baker. Tracey McIntosh (Thoe) is an associate professor in sociology and co-director of Ng Pae o te Mramatanga - New Zealand's Mori Centre of Research Excellence. Her teaching and research interests include incarceration, Mori women and prison, Indigenous peoples and the criminal justice system. Matt Wynyard recently completed a PhD in sociology at the University of Auckland. His research interests include political economy, colonisation, agriculture and the environment and the sociology of food. He currently lives in Wellington with his family where he works as an historian.