A brown migrant can live in Aotearoa New Zealand for ten years and still find themselves puzzled by two very simple questions. What exactly is ethnic, and what exactly is multiculturalism? They may have filled in enough government forms by then to know which box they are expected to tick. They may have attended Diwali … Continue reading Identity Without Destiny
Another Bridge, or Another Century?
For years, Auckland’s City Rail Link was treated as a kind of civic extravagance, a tunnel-shaped affront to fiscal sobriety. Every revision of its budget invited the same small chorus of disbelief. At about $5.5 billion, the CRL became evidence, for some, that public transport had grown too ambitious for its own good. Then came … Continue reading Another Bridge, or Another Century?
What Holds Us Together?
I recently watched Aaron Bastani’s conversation with Pankaj Mishra on Downstream. They covered a great deal of ground, from the changing balance of global power to the decline of Western media and the persistence of colonial habits of thought. What stayed with me, though, was a quieter question underneath much of the conversation: what happens … Continue reading What Holds Us Together?
Faultline Report 