The Fourth Eye: Maori Media in Aotearoa New Zealand

Description

The Fourth Eye brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars to provide a critical and comprehensive account of the intricate and complex relationship between the media and Maori culture. Focusing on New Zealand as a case study, the authors address the broader question: what is Indigenous media? While engaging with distinct themes such as the misrepresentation of Maori people in the media, access of Indigenous communities to media technologies, and the use of media for activism, the essays in this much-needed new collection articulate an Indigenous media landscape that converses with issues that reach far beyond New Zealand.

Brendan Hokowhitu is dean of the faculty of native studies at the University of Alberta. He is coeditor of Indigenous Identity and Resistance: Researching the Diversity of Knowledge.

"Lively and comprehensive, The Fourth Eye is an ambitious book, the first major collection devoted to Maori media." -Faye Ginsburg, New York University