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  • The Europa Lectures, 2002–2014

    From Enlargement to Crisis

    Series series Europe and the World
    Commencing in 2001, the Europa Lecture has become a high-profile fixture on the EU-New Zealand calendar. As witnessed by the fifteen lectures reproduced in this new volume, the speakers were selected for both their high-level profile as well as their importance to this bilateral dialogue. This volume includes speeches from three Prime Ministers, a President, four European Commissioners as well as ... Read more

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  • Postcolonial Governmentalities

    Rationalities, Violences and Contestations

    Series series Kilombo: International Relations and Colonial Questions
    This edited volume asks how governmentality and postcolonial approaches can be brought together to help us better understand specific sites and practices of contemporary postcolonial governance. The framework/approach was inspired by the recent use of governmentality approaches that emphasize how governance functions not solely through states but through multiple tactics and means that regulate ... Read more

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  • Transatlantic Roots Music

    Folk, Blues, and National Identities

    Edited by Jill Terry, Neil A. Wynn ...
    Series series American Made Music Series
    This book presents a collection of essays on the debates about origins, authenticity, and identity in folk and blues music. The essays had their origins in an international conference on the Transatlantic routes of American roots music, out of which emerged common themes and questions of origins and authenticity in folk music, black and white, American and British. The central theme is musical ... Read more

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  • Hairy Scary Hazza

    Illustrated by Salvador Capuyan ...
    Anyone who has ever lived in or visited Australia for any length of time will find themselves smiling as they turn the pages of this little book about Hairy Scary Hazza , a Huntsman spider who loves to hide in the most unexpected places. ... Read more

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    Illustrated by Salvador Capuyan ...
    Hazza the Huntsman is not as scary as he looks, and neither is the Nanna whose house he is hiding in. One fateful day both Hazza and Nanna learn that the things that they had always believed about one another were not exactly the truth. They listened, and they thought carefully about what Nanna's neighbour Biddy had to say. This simple little story teaches all of us the importance of being willing ... Read more

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