Asset mapping and Whanau action research: ‘New’ subjects negotiating the politics of knowledge in Te Rarawa

Abstract

Te Runanga o Te Rarawa is the tribal council representing the interests of the

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Contract Scholars, Friendly Philanthropists and Feminist Activists: new development subjects in the Pacific

“…The particular funding pool was seen by the leaders of Te Rarawa as enabling them to establish a new institutional structure, which was required to manage substantial funds the group had won from the government in compensation for breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi. 17 The first key point in this story is that Te Rarawa successfully worked with the tools of the neoliberal state in ways that avoided the kinds of neoliberal subject that are normally produced in the process. Rather than becoming autonomous and self-maximising subjects, like the new M aori elite who are thought to sit around the privileged 'Brown Table', 18 the collective vision of Te Rarawa remained intact and stayed infused with local M aori concepts of well-being that focused on housing, health and forests.…”

Harry Johnston's New Boot: The Uganda Agreement and Ideas of Development

“…The problem is, however, what this might mean in a practical sense. 90 These preliminary attempts to decolonize the idea and practice of development are beginning to achieve some limited success, according to independent assessments of recent development projects. 85 The latest turn in development studies has thus been to use the insights of post-development theory to "imagine" 86 legitimately practical alternatives to modernist development.…”