Expansion of Sustainability through New Economic Space

The return of M ori land to a productive role in the §so-called Knowledge Economy entails the §innovation and diffusion of technologies relevant to §the sustainable development of this land. §Sustainable development requires substantive changes §to current land and resource use to mitigate §environmental degradation and contribute to §ecological and sociological resilience. This book §takes concerns for cultural resilience that have §arisen as political-economic strategies converge §within the global New Economic Space and will show §how the self-determined participation of M ori§growers in this space can paradoxically lead to an§expansion of the Traditional Economic Space of M ori.§This expansion is directed by M ori cultural logics,§located in M ori territories but seeking innovations§from an amorphous core . The interface between a§global economy and the localities of a M ori cultural§economy is defined by the interrogation of§innovations, through the innovators. A malleable§collectivity of actants passes through this porous§interrogation border, enrolled by M ori §as components of their resilience strategies and§therefore the endurance of M ori culture.