Jennifer Cattermole

Beyond the Black Atlantic: Black Outernationality and Afrocentrism in Aotearoa/New Zealand Roots Reggae

Roots reggae has been labelled a roots music because its stylistic elements, associated iconography and cultural practices, as well as the linguistic and thematic content of song lyrics, have enabled some Jamaicans (descendants of African slaves transported to Jamaicas sugar-cane plantations) to maintain, renew and (re)create African identities. Although roots reggae has been globally disseminated, adopted and localized in numerous cultural contexts, it remains strongly associated with African geographical and cultural origins. This article explores how some New Zealand Polynesians have engaged with roots reggaes African roots, and the socio-political and psychological implications of their doing so. It argues that perceived similar experiences of rootlessness have led some Polynesian New Zealanders to form transcultural alliances with African-Jamaicans and other members of the African diaspora via their engagement with roots reggae, thereby showing that reggaes rhizomatic roots network extends far beyond the boundaries of Gilroys Black Atlantic and into Oceania.

Dunedin’s arts and culture strategy: a case study of the challenges of participatory governance in New Zealand

This article uses Ara Toi Ōtepoti – Our Creative Future – Dunedin Arts and Culture Strategy 2015 as a case study of the challenges of participatory governance. As the strategy was co-created by local arts lobby group Transforming Dunedin and the Dunedin City Council, an examination of its development provides an insight into some of the challenges community groups and local councils face when working together in co-design approaches to policy-making. The discussion focuses on key challenges encountered, which centred on differing understandings of what the term “partnership” actually entails. In response, it concludes by suggesting some good practice values and conditions to underpin co-design relationships.

Moonlight Leta Volume 1. Musical Transitions: Marshallese String Band Music Today and Yesterday

modern Indonesian agriculture or of rice in general. It could also be profitably used in courses of culture and development. As a film, it bucks the trend in that it has been produced by a large team, whereas modern ethnographic film making has become almost a one-person affair, with an anthropologist doing both the filming and editing. Although this trend in ethnographic film making has enabled a greater degree of intimacy and produced some classic films, it has also resulted in many more of ‘home movie’ quality from anthropologists with little understanding of the finer points of film making. This film, in contrast, is a quality product that raises many questions that lie at the heart of debates in the booming field of visual anthropology.