About Ed Amon

Ed Amon has recently completed the Master of Indigenous Studies program at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is a PhD Candidate in Indigenous Studies at the University of Auckland. He is also 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 is currently a PhD Candidate in Indigenous Studies at University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is a also 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:

Jared Davidson, "Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand" (Bridget Williams Books, 2023)

September 28, 2023

Blood and Dirt

Jared Davidson
Hosted by Ed Amon
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Picture, for a minute, every artwork of colonial New Zealand you can think of. Now add a chain gang. Hard-labour men guarded by other men with guns. M…

Anam Zakaria, "1971: A People's History from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India" (Vintage Books, 2021)

July 12, 2023

1971

Anam Zakaria
Hosted by Ed Amon
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The year 1971 exists everywhere in Bangladesh-on its roads, in sculptures, in its museums and oral history projects, in its curriculum, in people's ho…

Peter Meihana, "Privilege in Perpetuity: Exploding a Pākehā Myth" (Bridget Williams Books, 2022)

April 8, 2023

Privilege in Perpetuity

Peter Meihana
Hosted by Ed Amon

'The idea of Māori privilege continues to be deployed in order to constrain Māori aspirations and maintain the power imbalance that colonisation achie…

Anna Pendergrast and Kelly Pendergrast, "More Zeros and Ones: Digital Technology, Maintenance and Equity in Aotearoa New Zealand" (Bridget Williams Books, 2022)

November 21, 2022

More Zeros and Ones

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 an…

Arcia Tecun et al., "Towards a Grammar of Race in Aotearoa New Zealand (Bridget Williams Books, 2022)

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 a…

Liana MacDonald et al., "Fragments from a Contested Past: Remembrance, Denial and New Zealand History" (Bridget Williams Books, 2022)

April 29, 2022

Fragments from a Contested Past

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 w…

Luke Fitzmaurice and Maria Bargh, "Stepping Up: COVID-19 Checkpoints and Rangatiratanga" (Huia Publishers, 2021)

January 19, 2022

Stepping Up

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 c…

Max Rashbrooke, "Too Much Money: How Wealth Disparities are Unbalancing Aotearoa New Zealand" (Bridget Williams Books, 2021)

November 24, 2021

Too Much Money

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. T…

Tamihana Te Rauparaha, "Record of the Life of the Great Te Rauparaha" (Auckland UP, 2021)

November 16, 2021

Record of the Life of the Great Te Rauparaha

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 nineteent…

Mark Beehre, "A Queer Existence: The Lives of Young Gay Men in Aotearoa New Zealand" (Massey UP, 2021)

October 13, 2021

A Queer Existence

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 majo…

Jared Davidson, "The History of a Riot: Class, Popular Protest and Violence in Early Colonial Nelson" (Bridget Williams Books, 2021)

September 14, 2021

The History of a Riot

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 Bo…