Imagining Decolonisation
By: Biana Elkington
4.59
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Decolonisation is a term that alarms some, and gives hope to others. It is an uncomfortable and oft…
Want to Read $ 3.00If you liked the history plot in Imagining Decolonisation by Biana Elkington , here is a list of 5 books like this:
1. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
By: Linda Tuhiwai Smith
4.25
Format: None pages,
From the vantage point of the colonized, the term 'research' is inextricably linked with European c… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Linda Tuhiwai Smith's Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples book and Biana Elkington's Imagining Decolonisation
2. Birnam Wood
By: Eleanor Catton
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood book and Biana Elkington's Imagining Decolonisation
"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
3. The Bookseller at the End of the World
By: Ruth Shaw
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny book… read more
Want to Read $ 10.99Similar categories in Ruth Shaw's The Bookseller at the End of the World book and Biana Elkington's Imagining Decolonisation
- nonfiction
"My mother, more than anyone, knew why I lived such a high-risk life. She gave me the freedom to run."-Ruth Shaw, The Bookseller at the End of the World
4. There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir
By: Emma Espiner
4.31
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
“I don’t know why medicine felt like coming home but, for some reason, it fits. I keep thinking abo… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Emma Espiner's There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir book and Biana Elkington's Imagining Decolonisation
- nonfiction
- essays
- indigenous
5. How to Loiter in a Turf War
By: Coco Solid
4.23
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A genre-bending work of autobiographical fiction from one of Aotearoa’s fiercest and most versatile… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Coco Solid's How to Loiter in a Turf War book and Biana Elkington's Imagining Decolonisation
- indigenous
"She gives him a hurled brick wrapped up in a smile"-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War
"Māoridom in Aotearoa dictates that we generate prestige from manaakitanga. It is the connection and hospitality we express for those in our care but also to show all that they are our equal, they too…"-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War
6. Straight Up
By: Ruby Tui
4.38
Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition
This is Ruby Tui. An open, raw and honest account of her journey from a troubled and unstable child… read more
Want to Read $ 10.99Similar categories in Ruby Tui's Straight Up book and Biana Elkington's Imagining Decolonisation
- nonfiction
"True leadership is the opposite of individualism, the opposite of one person standing above the rest. It's an encompassing, inclusive thing. I never liked the top-down way of leading. Even if I've be…"-Ruby Tui, Straight Up
7. Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts
By: Josie Shapiro
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved … read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Josie Shapiro's Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts book and Biana Elkington's Imagining Decolonisation
8. Greta & Valdin
By: Rebecca K. Reilly
4.05
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Rebecca K. Reilly's Greta & Valdin book and Biana Elkington's Imagining Decolonisation
"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin
9. The Axeman's Carnival
By: Catherine Chidgey
4.37
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pi… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Catherine Chidgey's The Axeman's Carnival book and Biana Elkington's Imagining Decolonisation
10. Loop Tracks
By: Sue Orr
4.16
Format: 332 pages, Paperback
It’s 1978: the Auckland abortion clinic has been forced to close and sixteen-year-old Charlie has t… read more
Want to Read $ 7.99Similar categories in Sue Orr's Loop Tracks book and Biana Elkington's Imagining Decolonisation
11. Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
By: Akala
4.54
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was whit… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Akala's Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire book and Biana Elkington's Imagining Decolonisation
- politics
- race
- history
- nonfiction
"The officer's question already let me know that in his eyes I was dirt; that is, matter out of place."-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"As long as whiteness is a metaphor for power, blackness must of course function as a metaphor for powerlessness, and as long as money whitens, poverty must blacken."-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"Are we really trying to encourage and normalise black academic excellence in the UK? Or would we prefer the extra cost of imprisonment and crime that comes further down the line after neglect, just s…"-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"Real-life racism makes you paranoid, even in children it creates the dilemma of not knowing if someone is just being horrible in the ‘normal’ way, as people so often are, or if you are being ‘blacked…"-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
12. Auē
By: Becky Manawatu
4.50
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Taukiri was born into sorrow. Auē can be heard in the sound of the sea he loves and hates, and in t… read more
Want to Read $ 10.99Similar categories in Becky Manawatu's Auē book and Biana Elkington's Imagining Decolonisation
- indigenous
"I thought how many terrible words there were, and how when they were let loose in the world, they sucked up all the air around them."-Becky Manawatu, Auē
13. Grand: Becoming My Mother's Daughter
By: Noelle McCarthy
4.13
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
"I’ll be grand, girl, I’ve great faith." – Mammy, just before she died Funny, charismatic and ge… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Noelle McCarthy's Grand: Becoming My Mother's Daughter book and Biana Elkington's Imagining Decolonisation
- nonfiction
14. Kāwai For Such A Time As This
By: Monty Soutar
4.16
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
This epic historical adventure tells the story of pre-colonial Aotearoa New Zealand like it’s never… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Monty Soutar's Kāwai For Such A Time As This book and Biana Elkington's Imagining Decolonisation
- indigenous
15. Kurangaituku
By: Whiti Hereaka
4.34
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
Kurangaituku is the story of Hatupatu told from the perspective of the traditional ‘monster’, Kuran… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Whiti Hereaka's Kurangaituku book and Biana Elkington's Imagining Decolonisation
- indigenous
"The lives I have consumed are countless. The lives you can live within stories are endless. Through story, I gift you my sight. I let you see this world as I see it."-Whiti Hereaka, Kurangaituku
16. Aroha: Maori wisdom for a contented life lived in harmony with our planet
By: Hinemoa Elder
4.32
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Ancient wisdom for difficult modern times Kia oraWelcome to Aroha.Aroha is an ancient Maori word a… read more
Want to Read $ 10.99Similar categories in Hinemoa Elder's Aroha: Maori wisdom for a contented life lived in harmony with our planet book and Biana Elkington's Imagining Decolonisation
- nonfiction
17. This Pākehā Life: An Unsettled Memoir
By: Alison Jones
4.34
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
This book is about my making sense here, of my becoming and being Pākehā. Every Pākehā becomes a Pā… read more
Want to Read $ 12.00Similar categories in Alison Jones's This Pākehā Life: An Unsettled Memoir book and Biana Elkington's Imagining Decolonisation
- nonfiction
18. Tikanga Maori: Living by Maori Values
By: Hirini Moko Mead
4.25
Format: 398 pages, Paperback
Tikanga Māori is the authoritative and accessible introduction to understanding the correct Māori w… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Hirini Moko Mead's Tikanga Maori: Living by Maori Values book and Biana Elkington's Imagining Decolonisation
- nonfiction
- race
- history
19. Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay about Captain Cook (BWB Texts, #87)
By: Alice Te Punga Somerville
4.49
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay about Captain Cook, No. 29: With a Non-argument … read more
Want to Read $ 3.00Similar categories in Alice Te Punga Somerville's Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay about Captain Cook (BWB Texts, #87) book and Biana Elkington's Imagining Decolonisation
- history
- nonfiction
- essays
20. Imagining Decolonisation
By: Biana Elkington
4.59
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Decolonisation is a term that alarms some, and gives hope to others. It is an uncomfortable and oft… read more
Want to Read $ 3.00Similar categories in Biana Elkington's Imagining Decolonisation book and Biana Elkington's Imagining Decolonisation
- race
- history
- politics
- indigenous
- nonfiction
- essays
21. Fragments from a Contested Past: Remembrance, Denial and New Zealand History (BWB Texts)
By: Joanna Kidman
4.56
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
'What a nation or society choose to remember and forget speaks to its contemporary priorities and s… read more
Want to Read $ 3.99Similar categories in Joanna Kidman's Fragments from a Contested Past: Remembrance, Denial and New Zealand History (BWB Texts) book and Biana Elkington's Imagining Decolonisation
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
