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Author Talk - ‘Blood and Dirt' by Jared Davidson - Christchurch

Mar 18, 2024 | eventfinda.co.nz | Jared Davidson |Scorpio Books

Join us and Bridget Williams Books as we host an author talk on 'Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand' by Jared Davidson. Jared Davidson will appear in conversation with literary critic and WORD Christchurch Programme Director Kiran Dass, who named 'Blood and Dirt' in her top 3 books of 2023.
'Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand' by Jared Davidson, with Kiran Dass - Scorpio Books

Mar 4, 2024 | scorpiobooks.co.nz | Jared Davidson

Join us and Bridget Williams Books as we host an author talk on Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand by Jared Davidson. Jared Davidson will appear in conversation with literary critic and WORD Christchurch Programme Director Kiran Dass, who named Blood and Dirt in her top 3 books of 2023.
The Year in Books: Our Top History Picks

Nov 21, 2023 | nzherald.co.nz | Mark Broatch |Jared Davidson |Peter Frankopan |Mary Beard

Pax: War and Peace in Rome’s Golden Age by Tom Holland, Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers by Emma Smith and Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China’s Cultural Revolution by Tania Branigan.
Convict New Zealand? It’s not as far-fetched as it sounds

Nov 6, 2023 | thespinoff.co.nz | Jared Davidson

Ever since writing Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand, Jared Davidson can’t help but see Aotearoa through the lens of the forced labour that helped build some of our most iconic places.
The multi-billion-dollar industry that grew from prison labour

Sep 2, 2023 | thespinoff.co.nz | Jared Davidson

In his new book Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand, Jared Davidson tracks the history of unfree work and how it shaped the Aotearoa we know today. This is an excerpt from the chapter ‘Plantation’. On a January morning in 1903, intrepid journalist Constance Barnicoat stopped at the lonely Waiotapu Hotel, 30 kilometres south of Rotorua.
Empire on the cheap — prison labour in the Pacific | E-Tangata

Aug 5, 2023 | e-tangata.co.nz | Jared Davidson

In a new book, Blood and Dirt, archivist and writer Jared Davidson looks at the little-known history of prison labour and the coercion and violence that went into the building of colonial New Zealand. That forced labour model was even exported to New Zealand’s Pacific territories, where new laws and new prisons soon followed, as this extract shows. Descriptions of the Cook Islands in turn-of-the-century government reports read like real estate listings for imperialists.
A Handmaid’s Tale with Nazis: the enduring message of Katharine Burdekin’s Swastika Night

May 16, 2023 | overland.org.au | Lucy Sussex |Grace Brooks |Jared Davidson

‘Did I just see what I thought I did?’Open is a photograph album from pre-World War Two France—a My Trip book of a world facing cataclysm. Shots show student hikers in rural France, including my father. They have found on the track an abandoned teddy bear, with one paw upraised, in what looks like a Nazi salute. So they responded, jokingly saluting a fluffy bear Führer. These students were hardly ignorant of the imminent conflict.
Blood and Dirt

Apr 4, 2023 | bwb.co.nz | Jared Davidson

'Book review – Three of the best from 2023: Blood and Dirt', Kiran Dass, RNZ Nine to Noon, 22 January 2024'The Aotearoa books of the year for 2023', Claire Mabey, The Spinoff, 5 December 2023. 'Convict New Zealand? It’s not as far-fetched as it sounds', Jared Davidson, The Spinoff, 7 November 2023. 'Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand: Jared Davidson', New Zealand History, 27 October 2023. 'An Interview with Jared Davidson', New Books Network, 28 September 2023.
Carceral Frontiers: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand’s Pacific

Mar 25, 2023 | liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk | Jared Davidson

HomeLabour HistoryAhead of PrintCarceral Frontiers: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand’s Pacific AbstractFramed by an understanding that prisons and their work regimes mobilise as much as they confine, this paper highlights the importance of prison labour in the making of commodity and carceral frontiers in New Zealand’s Pacific empire between the 1890s and 1920s.