New Zealand and Europe

Connections and Comparisons

• Publisher: BRILL
• Pages: 276
• ISBN_10: 9004333096
  ISBN_13: 9789004333093
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Popular Culture , Social Science / Sociology / General , Literary Criticism / General , History / Europe / General , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General , Social Science / Human Geography , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Regional Studies ,

Description:... This book is one of first comparative studies of the cultural, political and economic interactions between New Zealand and Europe. The chapters that comprise this book are a deliberate exercise in variety inside the theme of New Zealand and Europe: Connections and Comparisons. They derive from the first conference of the New Zealand European Studies Association and give a flavour of the active and far-reaching nature of studies relating to Europe currently taking place in New Zealand. The cultural and historical chapters, while often quite specific in focus, touch on themes of universal cross-cultural relevance: the fate of imported languages and cultures; the tendencies to familiarise or exoticise unknown lands; the problematic representation of women in politics; the ambivalences and tensions between dominant and subordinate cultures; and the responsibility of the intellectual in the face of authority.