Composting arcadia: Stories from Pākehā women “of the land” in Wairarapa, Aotearoa New Zealand

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Composting arcadia: Stories from Pākehā women “of the land” in Wairarapa, Aotearoa New Zealand

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I suggest that this thesis is a compost pile from Wairarapa that slowly turns over harmful but potentially fertile tales of arcadia. I narrate this thesis drawing on the fleshly stories of ten Pākehā (colonial settler) women “of the land’ and the ethico-onto-epistemology of Donna Haraway’s compost making. Composting is Haraway’s (2016) latest feminist call to trouble and queer the self-contained secular humanism of Western modernity. Uprooting the Western separation of ‘nature’ from culture,...

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08 Dec, 2021

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Rebecca Ream

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arcadia / Pākehā / Wairarapa / Donna Haraway / feminism / land / School: School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences / 059999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified / 970104 Expanding Knowledge in the Earth Sciences / Degree Discipline: Geography / Degree Level: Doctoral / Degree Name: Doctor of Philosophy / Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified

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