Kinga Tahi, Kinga Rua surveys the many ways Mori experience home and housing across Aotearoa New Zealand. These accounts range from the broader factors shaping Mori housing aspirations through to the experiences of whnau, hap and iwi that connect to specific sites and locations.
From statistically informed analyses to more poetic renderings of the challenges and opportunities of Mori housing, the book encompasses a rich range of voices and perspectives, including many whine Mori 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 Mori are developing housing solutions that are being called papakinga. These chapters cover rural, urban and big-city developments and complete a sweeping book that revitalises our understanding of what constitutes a home for Mori in the twenty-first century.
Underpinned by Mori forms of knowledge, practices and values, the book is kaupapa Mori in its form and development.