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About Ed Amon

Ed Amon has recently completed the Master of Indigenous Studies program at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is a columnist at his local paper: Hibiscus Matters, and a Stand-up Comedian. His main interests are indigenous studies, politics, history, and cricket. Follow him on twitter @edamoned or email him at edamonnz@gmail.com
Ed Amon has recently completed the Master of Indigenous Studies program at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is a columnist at his local paper: Hibiscus Matters, and a Stand-up Comedian. His main interests are indigenous studies, politics, history, and cricket. Follow him on twitter @edamoned or email him at edamonnz@gmail.com

NBN Episodes hosted by Ed:

Australian and New Zealand Studies November 21, 2022

More Zeros and Ones

Digital Technology, Maintenance and Equity in Aotearoa New Zealand

Anna Pendergrast and Kelly Pendergrast

Hosted by Ed Amon
Many of today’s digital technologies inadvertently amplify the power structures and prejudices of wider society. By examining the way digital tools and platforms are designed, built, and maintained, this BWB …
Australian and New Zealand Studies October 18, 2022

Towards a Grammar of Race in Aotearoa New Zealand

Arcia Tecun, Lana Lopesi, and Anisha Sankar

Hosted by Ed Amon
A search for new ways to talk about race in Aotearoa New Zealand brought together this powerful group of scholars, writers, and activists. For these authors, attempts to confront racism …
Australian and New Zealand Studies April 29, 2022

Fragments from a Contested Past

Remembrance, Denial and New Zealand History

Joanna Kidman, Vincent O'Malley, Liana MacDonald, Tom Roa, and Keziah Wallis

Hosted by Ed Amon
‘What a nation or society chooses to remember and forget speaks to its contemporary priorities and sense of identity. Understanding how that process works enables us to better imagine a …
Australian and New Zealand Studies January 19, 2022

Stepping Up

COVID-19 Checkpoints and Rangatiratanga

Luke Fitzmaurice and Maria Bargh

Hosted by Ed Amon
Stepping Up: COVID-19 Checkpoints and Rangatiratanga (Huia Publishers, 2021) discusses the roadside checkpoints that were set up by Māori to protect communities during the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. Case …
Australian and New Zealand Studies November 24, 2021

Too Much Money

How Wealth Disparities are Unbalancing Aotearoa New Zealand

Max Rashbrooke

Hosted by Ed Amon
Today, someone in the wealthiest 1 per cent of adults – a club of some 40,000 people – has a net worth 68 times that of the average New Zealander …
Australian and New Zealand Studies November 16, 2021

Record of the Life of the Great Te Rauparaha

Edited and Translated by Ross Calman

Tamihana Te Rauparaha

Hosted by Ed Amon
Te Rauparaha is most well known today as the composer of the haka ‘Ka mate’, made famous the world over by the All Blacks. A major figure in nineteenth-century history …
Australian and New Zealand Studies October 13, 2021

A Queer Existence

The Lives of Young Gay Men in Aotearoa New Zealand

Mark Beehre

Hosted by Ed Amon
Today I talk to Mark Beehre about his new book, A Queer Existence, published by Massey University Press New Zealand 2021. A Queer Existence is a major documentary project that …
Australian and New Zealand Studies September 14, 2021

The History of a Riot

Class, Popular Protest and Violence in Early Colonial Nelson

Jared Davidson

Hosted by Ed Amon
Today I talk to Jared Davidson, the author of The History of a Riot: Class, Popular Protest and Violence in Early Colonial Nelson (Bridget Williams Books, 2021). In 1843, the …