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Foundations

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Foundations

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ISBN: 9780473636890
Title: Foundations
Author: SPEEDY KARIN

Every day we face decisions, crossroads that can take us on wildly different
rides. Our lives are never certain, no matter how well we plan. Although,
fascinatingly, unknowingly, sometimes spookily, we can find ourselves on paths
once trodden by our forebears…
In Foundations, Karin Speedy takes us on a whirlwind journey through time and
space as she navigates intersecting personal, local, family and global histories,
stories that help her reckon with who she is and where she stands in this
complicated (post)colonial world. If colonialism, slavery, violence and heartbreak
feature heavily in her memoir so too do friendship, love, poetry, books, music,
laughter and resistance. Warm, funny, quirky yet also confronting and, at times,
shockingly brutal, her childhood and young adult memories bring to life the
scenes and sounds of 70s, 80s and 90s New Zealand. At university, Karin’s
unquenchable thirst for knowledge and social justice see her embark on her first
research project, a decolonial study of Louisiana Creole, research that cements
her future as an anti-racist, activist scholar. Forever questioning the master
narratives, digging deeper and peeling back layers to expose what lies hidden
beneath and behind, Karin reminds us that history and trauma are all around us,
ingrained in our lives, etched into our landscapes and at the very foundations of
our cities and infrastructure. When she begins to examine her own family stories,
rooted in colonisation and working-class struggle and embedded in the national
histories of Aotearoa and Australia, she uncovers astonishing inter-generational
palimpsests and starts to grasp the importance of listening to her ghosts.

Format: Trade paperback
Price: $34.00