Challenges on the path to Treaty-based Local Government relationships

Bargh, Maria

doi:10.1080/1177083x.2020.1754246

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“…If a petition gains the signatures of five percent of local registered voters, the council is required to open the decision on the M aori ward to a referendum of the electorate. This is what happened in the case of New Plymouth, and has also happened in most other cases where local councils have tried to institute M aori wards (Bargh, 2016(Bargh, , 2021, leading in each case to the initiative being overturned by popular (i.e. white settler majority) vote.…”

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confidence: 64%

Building stamina, fighting fragility: The account of a white settler ‘recovering racist’

Bell

2022

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White fragility, a common response of white people to calls to engage in conversations about racism and address their complicity with it, has received considerable scholarly attention. Much less attention has been given to the antidote: white stamina. This paper explores the development of stamina in the journey of ‘recovery’ from racism of one white settler individual who has become a public figure in Aotearoa New Zealand, in part through his declaration that he is a ‘recovering racist’. Significantly, the racism at the heart of this person’s story was directed towards indigenous, Māori New Zealanders; racism and settler colonialism are intertwined in this case. Consequently, the paper also responds to Lawrence and Dua’s (2005) call to ‘decolonise antiracism’ by foregrounding the indigenous–settler relationship in the analysis of racism within a settler society. The paper teases out overlaps and differences between white racism and settler colonialism, and between white stamina and settler stamina. Finally, I argue that there may be things for antiracists to learn from struggles to decolonise settler colonialism. Most significantly, this analysis points to the importance and power of the existence of an aspirational positive identity and position for ‘recovering racists’.

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Building stamina, fighting fragility: The account of a white settler ‘recovering racist’

Bell

2022

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“…It is a Bill of Rights for Pākehā, too. It is the Treaty that gives Pākehā the right to be here" (E. T. Durie, 1990; see also Bargh, 2021) needs to be addressed as well. Such statements from respected Māori are not helpful after the 2014 paradigm shift.…”

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The Critical Juncture in Aotearoa New Zealand and The Collective Future: Policy Issues in Settler/Invader Colonial Zombiism Found in “Biculturalism”

Simon

2023

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This theoretical Kaupapa Māori writing inquiry study seeks to explore the settler colonial nature of Aotearoa New Zealand. The research finds that biculturalism, as a neo-liberal and settler-colonial construct does not provide for either tino rangatiratanga or mana motuhake. Indeed, biculturalism fails to provide for indigenous inclusion and actively suppresses the recognition of mana motuhake. Biculturalism is found to fit Beck’s definition of Zombie Concepts. These are social concepts that are dead and yet kept alive in their use by scholars and society to describe the growing fiction of traditional social institutions and in being kept alive maintain, in this case, settler colonial and colonial power structures. The main argument is that Biculturalism is neoliberal and settler colonial public discourse, that needs to be unpacked and then discarded because it does not provide for tino rangatiranga or mana motuhake.

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“…This aims to enable equitable Māori representation on councils. Bargh (2021) has identified three key challenges to greater engagement with te Tiriti from the local government sector. The first challenge consists of common discourses describing Māori as representatives rather than in terms of recognition of the Tiriti relationship.…”

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Critical Tiriti Analysis of He Mata whāriki, he matawhānui

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Berghan

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Hapū are interested in local government due to their decision-making influence over the cultural, social, economic and environmental wellbeing of a district that can enable or restrict tino rangatiratanga. In Aotearoa, the debate about Indigenous engagement in local government is shaped by Te Tiriti o Waitangi responsibilities to protect and promote the interests of hapū. There is currently a major review of local government underway, which is providing a once-in- a-generation opportunity to have a courageous conversation about the future of this sector. This paper presents a Critical Tiriti Analysis (CTA) examining to what extent He mata whāriki, he matawhānui–the local government draft review report–has engaged with te Tiriti. It includes a postscript on the final report released while this paper was under review. In the draft report we found variable engagement. It was strongest regarding relationships and governance and weaker in relation to tino rangatiratanga, ōritetanga (equitable citizenship) and wairuatanga (spiritual domain). This review challenges local and regional government to lift their game in relation to their te Tiriti responsibilities and concludes that local Māori solutions, mātauranga Māori knowledge and leadership are required at all levels of local and regional government. National states of emergency and devastating disasters in the context of Cyclone Gabrielle will no longer wait for the bureaucracy of the local government.

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Challenges on the path to Treaty-based Local Government relationships

Cited by 10 publications

References 12 publications

Building stamina, fighting fragility: The account of a white settler ‘recovering racist’

Building stamina, fighting fragility: The account of a white settler ‘recovering racist’

The Critical Juncture in Aotearoa New Zealand and The Collective Future: Policy Issues in Settler/Invader Colonial Zombiism Found in “Biculturalism”

Critical Tiriti Analysis of He Mata whāriki, he matawhānui

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