Kāinga Tahi, Kāinga Rua surveys the many ways Māori experience home and housing across Aotearoa New Zealand. These accounts range from the broader factors shaping Māori housing aspirations through to the experiences of whānau, hapū and iwi that connect to specific sites and locations.
From statistically informed analyses to more poetic renderings of the challenges and opportunities of Māori housing, the book encompasses a rich range of voices and perspectives, including many wāhine Māori authors. Opening with chapters on the wider contexts – history, land, colonisation – the book moves through to focused, and often intimate, discussions of the relationships between housing, home and identity. An expansive concluding section explores how Māori are developing housing solutions that are being called papakāinga. These chapters cover rural, urban and big-city developments and complete a sweeping book that revitalises our understanding of what constitutes a home for Māori in the twenty-first century.
Underpinned by Māori forms of knowledge, practices and values, the book is kaupapa Māori in its form and development.
