This Thursday 30 october at 6pm
Aldersgate 309 Durham St North
Join author Rebecca Macfie, youth advocate Moana Cole and Christchurch Methodist Mission Executive Director Jill Hawkey in discussion about the systems holding people in hardship, and insights from the front lines of community action.
It was while researching her two latest projects that Award-winning journalist Rebecca Macfie came to realise the privileges colonisation had bequeathed her own family. Facebook event
More places to read about these books
Published by Bridget Williams Books
Buy them online or at our wonderful local Scorpio Books
Hardship and Hope
Stories of Resistance in the Fight Against Poverty in Aotearoa by Rebecca MacFie
Expanding on her New Zealand Listener series, Macfie reveals the everyday struggles whanau face across the country and lays bare the systems that perpetuate poverty. Hardship and Hope grounds the national poverty crisis in the lived realities of the people and organisations leading local initiatives to confront injustice and build a fairer future. Buy it here
Pakukore – Poverty, by Design
Rebecca Macfie, Graeme Whimp and Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich (eds)
‘Poverty in Aotearoa is not accidental. It is designed into our systems, our institutions, and our policies.’
Poverty is not the result of individual failure or misfortune. It is a product of the design of our economic and institutional systems. Pakukore brings together leading thinkers and practitioners to expose the systemic nature of poverty in Aotearoa and explore pathways for change.
From education, health and housing to government finance, welfare and justice, this book shows how inequality is embedded in the structures of our society. It offers analysis from economists, public health experts, legal scholars, community leaders and those working at the front lines of social need. Buy it here
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