ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on means to link structure to agency, rather than explore an emphasis on agency itself. The anti-tour campaign tapped three strands of political discontent. There was a growing dissatisfaction with the National Party government under the leadership of Robert Muldoon. The second was the impact of feminist politics: like much of the rest of the First World, Aotearoa/New Zealand had witnessed over a decade of active feminist campaigning around a diverse range of issues. The third was an emerging Maori land rights movement, asserting a different history of Aotearoa/New Zealand. The chapter utilizes three different terms to refer to the islands in the south-west Pacific known as ‘New Zealand’: ‘Aotearoa’ is used to mean the Maori cultural and historical space within those islands, ‘New Zealand’ refers to the dominant colonial, gendered and classed political entity, and ‘Aotearoa/New Zealand’ is an inclusive noun.
