Richard Shaw
Richard Shaw is a writer and academic who has written three books exploring historical amnesia and Pākehā myth-making amongst settler families in Aotearoa New Zealand: The Forgotten Coast (2021, Massey University Press), The Unsettled: Small Stories of Colonisation (2024, Massey University Press), which was shortlisted for the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, and The Good Settler: Essays from other people’s lands (2026, Massey University Press).
He is also a professor of politics at Massey University, where he teaches courses in politics in Aotearoa New Zealand and researches the roles of political advisers in government ministers’ offices.
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Richard Shaw
Politics professor and writer Richard Shaw’s new book The Good Settler is the third in a trilogy by one of our most incisive writers on decolonisation.
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