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Who owns water? What is its legal status? How do waterways express cultural identities? The University's latest massive open online course (MOOC) explores questions around cultural relationships to wai (water), in the final installment of Aotearoa New Zealand’s first-ever bicultural MOOC series.
The plight of Thailand’s Shan youth highlights the inadequacies of international borders, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington anthropologist Dr Janepicha Cheva-Isarakul says.
Dr Emalani Case describes her activist roots and details some of the causes closest to her heart. She also discusses her current research and reveals how her passion for activism informs her work as a lecturer of Pacific Studies at the School of Languages and Cultures.
