Review: The Wild Green Yonder

Dr. Cath Koa Dunsford

THE WILD GREEN YONDER: TEN SEASONS VOLUNTEERING ON NEW ZEALAND’S ORGANIC FARMS
PHILIPPA JAMIESON
NEW HOLLAND PUBLISHERS: http://www.newhollandpublishers.co.nz

If you are concerned about the state of the planet and have a keen interest in sustainability and organic gardening or farming, then read this book. Even better, become inspired to do something about it and volunteer as a woofer: WWOOF: World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms. This is one of the most constructive ways

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Review: DEMONIC GROUNDS: BLACK WOMEN AND THE CARTOGRAPHIES OF STRUGGLE

KATHERINE MCKITTRICK
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS, USA, 2006
http://www.upress.umn.edu

REVIEWED BY DR. CATHIE DUNSFORD.

A warning. Dr. Katherine McKittrick’s Demonic Grounds may well change the way you think about your land, identity, cultural background, race, class, who we are and who we think we are, how you perceive geography and what the nature of geography is in the widest possible sense. You may find yourself and your notions challenged as you chart this new land of

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LISTENING TO THE LAND AND THE STORIES OF THE WOMEN

KUNGUN NGARRINDJERI MIMINAR YUNNAN
LISTEN TO NGARRINDJERI WOMEN SPEAKING
EDITED BY DIANE BELL FOR THE NGARRINDJERI NATION
SPINIFEX PRESS, 2008

UNSETTLING THE LAND
SUZANNE BELLAMY AND SUSAN HAWTHORNE
SPINIFEX PRESS, 2008

Order from Spinifex Press, Melbourne, Australia: http://www.spinifexpress.com.au

LISTENING TO THE LAND AND THE STORIES OF THE WOMEN:

Spinifex Press has always been a leader in publishing the voices of indigenous women and issues surrounding our stories and

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Review of OUR CARRIBEAN: A GATHERING OF LESBIAN AND GAY WRITING FROM THE ANTILLES

Reviewd by Dr Cathie Koa Dunsford

OUR CARRIBEAN: A GATHERING OF LESBIAN AND GAY WRITING FROM THE ANTILLES
EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THOMAS GLAVE
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS, USA
http://www.dukeupress.edu

REVIEWER: DR. CATHIE KOA DUNSFORD

RE-MEMBERING OUR CARRIBEAN CONNECTIONS: AN INDIGENOUS MAORI RESPONSE TO THOMAS GLAVE’S OUR CARRIBEAN: A GATHERING OF LESBIAN AND GAY WRITING FROM THE ANTILLES.

When I was teaching Audre Lorde’s Zami at the University of California, Berkeley and as a guest lecturer at San

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Review of THE FLIGHT OF THE KERERU

Reviewed by Dr. Cathie Dunsford

THE FLIGHT OF THE KERERU
GRAHAM DAVIES
NATIONAL PACIFIC PRESS, WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND, 2007
Email: books@npp.co.nz

Tena nga kanohi kua tikona e Matariki
Here are the eyes affected by the Pleiades

[a Maori proverb applying to one who is wakeful at night, aware of all around]

The Flight of the Kereru is a visionary novel by Graham Davies which takes us on a huge journey of discovery - for the characters within the text and also the reader coming to the text.

Graham Davies

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