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An Uncommon Land

Catherine Knight

Exploring enclosure, colonisation and denaturing through an ancestral past, towards the possibilities of a re-commoned future.

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    Catherine is an award-winning writer, environmental historian and a policy practitioner living on the Kapiti Coast. Author of several books including 'Beyond Manapouri: 50 years of environmental politics in New Zealand' (Canterbury University Press).

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