Morgan Godfery
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WRITER & WRITER: 'A foot between two whenua' – Morgan Godfery Interviews Hana Pera Aoake
Artist and writer Hana Pera Aoake speaks to writer and trade unionist Morgan Godfery about growing up between Australia and Aotearoa, their work in relation to European knowledge systems, and the process of publishing A Bathful of Kawakawa and Hot Water – a book of their collected writings.
I always come back to Te Ahukaramuu Charles Taylor’s definition of kaupapa Maaori being about transformation and pulling different or new knowledge systems together to better understand the historical and contemporary dimensions of power structures within New Zealand. Our tuupuna (ancestors) adopted many paakehaa (European settler) technologies, clothing, food, ways of life etc. I think it’s really important to understand European knowledge systems. How else are you going to critique them?