Public Knowledge (Radical Future series)

Author(s): Edited by Emma Johnson

Aotearoa New Zealand Non-Fiction | Politics | Freerange Press

This is the second volume in the Radical Futures series, which is focused on future challenges that affect us all. 


What do we know? And how do we know it? These are essential questions to consider when a functioning democracy is reliant on an informed populace. Yet at this moment in the information age something has gone awry with our public knowledge. Are we cultivating an environment for the sharing of ideas? Who has access to the institutions and practices that hold our collective knowledge? Do we know when to act and when to delegate to experts? Is our education, in the broader sense of the term, sufficient for us to meaningfully participate in public life? 


From archives and mātauranga Māori to formal education models and knowledge types that inspire action, this multi-author book explores the state of our public knowledge, its potential and how it affects our public life and conversations. With the need to find responsive solutions to the challenges facing us, the health of our public knowledge matters to us all.  


 

Featuring:


Archive stories, archive realities - Jared Davidson (archivist and historian)


Mātauranga Māori: Practising knowledge -Joseph Hullen (Ngāi Tūāhuriri/Ngāti Hinematua) 


Agreements in likes and dislikes: Navigating politics in the age of social media - Gwynn Compton (public relations)


Not listening: Changing conversations in the wake of the mosque shootings - Sally Blundell (journalist)


Making a table: Moana publics online - Lana Lopesi (editor)


Welcome to the circus - Morgan Godfery (writer and trade unionist)


Beyond the social contract: Knowledge and citizenship - Michael Macaulay (Government, Victoria University)


Expanding conversations: Editorial cartoons - Hannah Benbow (cartoon librarian)


Educating publics - Ruth Boyask (Education, Auckland University of Technology)


The balancing act: Limits and freedom of speech - Golriz Ghahraman (MP)


Derailing democracy: Digital media and public knowledge - Marianne Elliott (researcher and advocate)


Knowing but not doing: Public knowledge, action and social change - Sacha McMeeking (researcher and commentator)


On becoming an academic: A social education - Nicola Gaston (Physics, University of Auckland)


Making knowledge public - Barnaby Bennett (designer)

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Featuring: Barnaby Bennett (designer)  Golriz Ghahraman (Member of Parliament)  Gwynn Compton (public relations)  Hannah Benbow (cartoon librarian)  Jared Davidson (archivist & historian)  Joseph Hullen (Ngāi Tūāhuriri/Ngāti Hinematua)  Lana Lopesi (editor)  Marianne Elliott (researcher & advocate)  Michael Macaulay (Victoria University)  Morgan Godfery (writer & trade unionist)  Nicola Gaston (University of Auckland)  Ruth Boyask (Auckland University of Technology)  Sacha McMeeking (researcher & commentator)  Sally Blundell (journalist)

General Fields

  • : 9780473495732
  • : Freerange Press
  • : Freerange Press
  • : December 2019
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Edited by Emma Johnson
  • : Paperback
  • : 144