An Uncommon Land
Catherine KnightExploring enclosure, colonisation and denaturing through an ancestral past, towards the possibilities of a re-commoned future.
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The Silence of the Lambs: Late Soviet New Zealand and the subtle art of organised forgetting
The Gdańsk Shipyard, Poland. The Polish Shipyard became a metaphor for everything bad about Soviet-era socialism. Gdansk became famous for the mass shipbuilders’ strike in 1980, which marked the beginning of the civil resistance that led to...
Daffodil day is symptomatic of a perverse economy
Today when I went to do the weekly shop at my local supermarket, volunteers were outside collecting for Daffodil Day. So I donated some spare change. It wasn’t much, but it made me think.
Our economy is perverse. A charity like the Cancer...
Why has the price of mince soared to a record high of $24/kg?
I was watching the TV1 news last night – purely for anthropological research purposes, as I often explain to my friends – and noted with interest the story on surging beef mince prices. Mince is now selling for as much as $24 – that’s 23% h...
What I want from our new government in 2026
Parliament when the lights are on.
In many of my posts I have spoken in general terms about what I would like our government to do. So here I have drawn up what I am calling a ‘reverse manifesto’. (Definition: A bottom-up platform or docum...
Will our political future be more Aristotelian or Hobbesian?
Aristotle believed that the primary purpose of government was to provide for human wellbeing and flourishing
In June 2025, I stood in front of a group of mayors of the region and their stand-ins, and dared suggest that public policy - and...
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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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