Acknowledgements

I would first like to acknowledge the many people who have had a direct hand in shaping the direction of this book. Thank especially to Sarah Barradell, Wenche Bjorbækmo, Tone Dahl Michelsen, Barbara Gibson, Louise Søgard Hansen, Richard Horwood, Paul Lagerman, Matt Lowe, Filip Maric, Jon Nicholls, Anna Rajala, Michael Rowe, Tobba Therkildsen Sudmann, Patty Thille, Dave Walton, Kate Waterworth, Joost van Wijchen, and Adriane Vieira for your generosity and patience, enthusiasm and wisdom.

Thanks also needs to go to the many close friends and colleagues I have come to know during the course of this book. The work of these people has been a real inspiration for many of the ideas presented here: Alia Alghwiri, Abdul Awali, Jesse Awenus, Birgitte Ahlsen, Rani Lill Anjum, Catherina Broberg, Martin Chadwick, Shirley Chubb, Cath Conn, Josh Darby, Clare Delaney, Blaise Doran, Lucy Inyang Edet, Jo Fadyl, Magda Fourie, Alma Viviana Silva Guerrero, Kirsten Glasgow, Laura Graham, Max Greatrix, Karen Synne Groven, Dave Holmes Hazel Horobin, Fiona Jenkins, Robert Jones, Stephen Jutterdal, Roger Kerry, Anne Elizabeth Kinsella, Michelle Kleiner, Susan Kohut, Anne Langaas, Peter Larmer, Joshua Lee, Zoe Leyland, Antonio Alves Lopes, Wendy Lowe, Cameron MacDonald, Helen Macdonald, Seán Manning, Sarah Marshall, Katya Masnyk, Anne Marit Mengshoel, Kath McPherson, Fiona Moffatt, Shoiab Mohammad, John O’Connor, Ana Luiza Oliviera, Gwyn Owen, Narelle Patton, Unnur Pétursdóttir, Jeanette Praestegaard, Aydee Luisa Robayo, Glenn Ruscoe, Kritika Satiji, Jenny Setchell, James Shaw, Sandra Schiller, Devorah Shubowitz, Hana Al Sobayel, Emma Stokes, Randi Sviland, Gail Teachman, Oliver Thomson, Rachael Tucker, Keith Tudor, Susan Waller, Nicky Wilson, Richard Woolf and Lee Sin Yi.

With the production of this workbook, I’d also like to acknowledge the help and support of Sophie Baker, Donna Coventry, Luqman Hayes, Craig Murdoch and Tui Gordon at AUT’s Te Matapuna Library & Learning Services who advocated for this project and provided the help and support that made it real.

I would like to acknowledge the help of my daughter, Alice Nicholls, for her critical sociological insights and copy editing skills. And the two manuscript reviewers for their kind comments and suggestions, and to Matt Browne at MIT Press, for his support and enthusiasm for the project.

But special mention needs to go Sue, Tom, Ali, Irene, and Jon. These people know first-hand the travails of long-form writing. I can’t thank you enough for your love and support.

To Irene Elizabeth Nicholls

The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; I have a goodly heritage (Psalm 16:6)