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Informationen zum Autor Avril Bell is a Pakeha New Zealander and Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Auckland. Vivienne Elizabeth is a Pakeha New Zealander and Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Auckland. Tracey McIntosh (Tuhoe) is an Associate Professor in Sociology and Co-Director of Nga Pae o te Maramatanga, New Zealand's Maori Centre of Research Excellence. Matt Wynyard recently completed a PhD in Sociology at the University of Auckland. Klappentext Since colonisation New Zealand has been mythologised as a land of milk and honey a promised land of natural abundance and endless opportunity. In the twenty first century the country has become literally a land of milk and honey as agricultural exports from such commodities dominate the national economy. But does New Zealand live up to its promise? In this introductory textbook for first year sociology students some of this countrys leading social scientists help us to make sense of contemporary New Zealand. In 21 chapters, the authors examine New Zealands political identity and constitution our Maaori Paakehaa Pacific and Asian peoples problems of class poverty and inequality gender and sexualities; and contemporary debates around ageing incarceration and the environment. The authors find a complex society where thirty years of neoliberal economics and globalising politics have exacerbated inequalities that are differentially experienced by class ethnicity gender sexuality and age. These social divides and problems are at the heart of this text. For sociology students and for a wider audience of New Zealanders A Land of Milk and Honey? is a lively introduction to where we have come from where we are now and where New Zealand society might be headed Back cover.
