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Mahurangi author John Bluck has a new book out next month.
Living on the fault line – Aotearoa New Zealand’s bicultural future follows the success of Becoming Pākehā – a journey between two cultures, which was published in 2022.
Bluck says that as he travelled around the country talking about his last book, he met many people uncomfortable with the name Pākehā and anxious about the future of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
“That anxiety has translated into turmoil with our new coalition government’s policies on things Māori and a wider-than-ever ethnic divide,” he says.
“Living on the Fault Line tries to address this crisis time, which is triggering Māori anger and Pākehā silence. It explores what a Kiwi identity might look like that keeps faith with Te Tiriti and why there is such a division between those who dream of a tiriti-based future, with shared language and entangled cultures and those who fear that future, branding it as unfair, unequal, imposed.”
Bluck, speaking for and to Pākehā, makes what one early reviewer calls “an eloquent and impassioned plea for a Pākehā voice that is confident enough to join the debate about NZ’s future without being defensive about or disconnected from the history we have to own.”
Living on the fault line – Aotearoa New Zealand’s bicultural future is published by Quentin Wilson Publishing.
