{"id":5345,"date":"2022-12-06T01:30:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T12:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teuru.org.nz\/?post_type=mec-events&#038;p=5345"},"modified":"2022-12-06T01:30:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T12:30:21","slug":"max-harris-close-reading-of-the-new-zealand-project","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/www.teuru.org.nz\/whats-on\/calendar\/max-harris-close-reading-of-the-new-zealand-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Harris: close reading of The New Zealand Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Max Harris\u2019 recently published book\u00a0<em>The New Zealand Project<\/em>\u00a0argues that our national politics is dominated by pragmatism to the detriment of core values. Harris instead calls for a strategic intervention to centralise values across New Zealand politics, activism and discourse. With his emphasis on creating new ways of thriving together, Harris\u2019 aspirational approach comes at a time of a renewed focus on how we might visualise Aotearoa New Zealand\u2019s identity. This event, led by Max Harris, is a chance to engage in a close reading with the author. Specifically, we\u2019ll be looking at Chapter 5, the art of what might not seem possible at the moment: on decolonisation and constitutions. A copy of\u00a0<em>The New Zealand Project\u00a0<\/em>will be available to read in the gallery in advance of the event.<\/p>\n<p>To encourage an active conversation amongst participants, numbers are limited for this close reading and booking is essential. Please\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:info@https:\/\/teuru.org.nz\/?subject=Max%20Harris%20reading\">email us\u00a0<\/a>or call 09 817 8087 to confirm a spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Harris\u2019 recently published book\u00a0The New Zealand Project\u00a0argues that our national politics is dominated by pragmatism to the detriment of core values. Harris instead calls for a strategic intervention to centralise values across New Zealand politics, activism and discourse. With his emphasis on creating new ways of thriving together, Harris\u2019 aspirational approach comes at a time of a renewed focus on how we might visualise Aotearoa New Zealand\u2019s identity. This event, led by Max Harris, is a chance to engage in a close reading with the author. Specifically, we\u2019ll be looking at Chapter 5, the art of what might not seem possible at the moment: on decolonisation and constitutions. A copy of\u00a0The New Zealand Project\u00a0will be available to read in the gallery in advance of the event. To encourage an active conversation amongst participants, numbers are limited for this close reading and booking is essential. Please\u00a0email us\u00a0or call 09 817 8087 to confirm a spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[9],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teuru.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/5345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teuru.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teuru.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teuru.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teuru.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teuru.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teuru.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5345"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teuru.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=5345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}