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Finance was at the centre of every stage of the colonisation of Aotearoa, from the sale of Māori lands and the emigration of early colonists to the founding of settler nationhood and the enforcement of colonial governance.Join us in TimeOut’s cosy upstairs space for a talk by Catherine Comyn on her Ockham-longlisted book, The Financial Colonisation of Aotearoa (ESRA, 2023).
This book tells the story of the financial instruments and imperatives that drove the British colonial project in the nineteenth century. This is a history of the joint stock company, a speculative London property market that romanticised the distant lands of indigenous peoples, and the calculated use of credit and taxation by the British to dispossess Māori of their land and subject them to colonial rule.
By illuminating the centrality of finance in the colonisation of Aotearoa, Comyn not only reframes the understanding of this country's history, but also the stakes of anti-colonial struggle today.
Catherine Comyn (Ngāti Ranginui, Pākehā) is a PhD candidate in International Political Economy at King's College London. Her research focuses on finance capital and colonisation, and possibilities for their overcoming.
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“The most stimulating book I have read on the colonisation of Aotearoa from the exciting new generation of scholars”
- Jane Kelsey
“entirely novel, and desperately needed”
- Arama Rata
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Time Out Bookstore, 432 Mount Eden Rd, Mount Eden, Auckland 1024, New Zealand,Auckland, New Zealand