In death, as in life, Nelson Mandela has become a focus of debate and contestation in New Zealand. Several of the country’s former right-wing politicians have seemingly disowned their opposition to him and the anti-apartheid movement, while current ones, including the incumbent Prime Minister, stress their supposed indifference to the hugely divisive 1981 Springbok Tour. […]
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Adele Perry is the Canada Research Chair in Western Canadian Social History at the University of Manitoba. She recently gave a talk on the #IdleNoMore movement, a grassroots, non-hierarchal, feminist and environmentalist social movement founded by women, which originated among Canada’s indigenous peoples. This talk has now been reproduced online. More than simply resonating with […]
