The biggest challenges of the 21st century require global solutions. Focussing on three of the most urgent problems of our time - climate change, conflict and poverty, and inequality - Tu Rangaranga introduces the notion of global citizenship, and what it means to be an active citizen in today's world.
Kupu Māori / Glossary; PART ONE: TE TAKE, THE BASE -- Tuia te here tangata: The threads that connect us / Margaret Forster & Sharon McLennan; Global encounters / David Littlewood & Carol Neill; Encountering globalisation / Sharon McLennan; Encountering global citizenship / Sharon McLennan, Margaret Forster & Rand Hazou; Rights / Shine Choi, Margaret Forster & Beth Greener; Responsibilities / Tracey Hepi, Krushil Watene & Carol Neill. PART TWO: TE RITO, THE CENTRAL SHOOTS CLIMATE CHANGE -- Encountering climate change / Sharon McLennan & Axel Malecki; Climate change, tourism and the Pacific / Apisalome Movono & Sharon McLennan; Tangata whenua responses to climate change / Lucy Kaiser & Christine Kenney; Writing the climate crisis / Ingrid Horrocks & Tom Doig. CONFLICT -- Encountering conflict / David Littlewood; Responsibility to Protect: Using armed force to counter atrocity crimes / Damien Rogers; Conflict commodities, rights and responsibilities / Vanessa Bramwell, Glenn Banks, Nicholas Holm & Sy Taffel; Arts and conflict: Banksy, art and Palestinian solidarity / Rand Hazou. POVERTY & INEQUALITY -- Encountering inequality and poverty / Carol Neill & Samantha Gardyne; Poverty, inequality and the SDGs: Transforming our world for whom? / Samantha Gardyne & Axel Malecki; Covid-19 and inequality in Aotearoa / Margaret Forster, Sharon McLennan & Catherine Rivera; Shifting the poverty lens for sustainable livelihoods: Pasifika perspectives on better quality of life / Siautu Alefaio-Tugia, Malcolm Andrews, Emeline Afeaki-Mafile`o, Petra Satele, Stuart Carr, Jarrod Haar, Darrin Hodgetts, Jane Parker, James Arrowsmith, Amanda Young-Hauser & Harvey Jones. PART THREE: TE PUĀWAI, THE FLOWERS -- Agency and action / Margaret Forster & David Belgrave; Reflections on global citizenship / Sharon McLennan; About the contributors; Index.
Sharon McLennan has a background in development studies and teaches global citizenship at Massey University. Margaret Forster (Ngāti Kahungunu, Rongomaiwāhine) is an expert in Māori knowledge systems and Māori engagement. As an Indigenous educator and researcher her work draws on Māori worldviews, understandings, and knowledge to respond to contemporary issues. Carol Neill is a senior lecturer at Massey University and has worked across multiple disciplinary areas. More recently, her research has focused on New Zealand social history. David Littlewood is an historian who has held a range of teaching positions at Massey University and has published extensively from his research. Rand Hazou is a senior lecturer at Massey University. As a theatre academic and facilitator, he has worked across a variety of creative and community contexts.