Leadership ideology in neotribal capitalism

The weight of inquiry: conflicting cultures in New Zealand's tertiary institutions

“…The 1989 Education Act, Section 181[b] that tertiary institutions 'acknowledge the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi' created the foundation brokerage site in education. Treaty audits to monitor compliance have been effective brokerage mechanisms since that time (Rata, 2003). The brokerage process is most clearly illustrated in the agreement negotiated between the main South Island Ngai Tahu tribe and several South Island tertiary institutions (Tau et al, 2003).…”

“…Instead, the brokerage functions and mechanisms of consultation, advice and appointment that accompanied cultural and ethnic politicisation transformed ethnic and religious leaders into self-interested elites whose very claims to 'represent' their respective groups depended upon maintaining the groups' distinctive separateness, ensuring that only they, its leaders, crossed the erected boundaries as the legitimate voice of the group. In New Zealand Maori intellectuals have played a major role in creating the justifying ideology and universities have been an important site for its development and influence (Rata, 2003).…”

Rethinking biculturalism

“…It is fundamentally different from the traditional tribe in terms of its economic and socio-political systems (Rata, 1999(Rata, , 2003a(Rata, , 2003b(Rata, , 2003c. Despite this fundamental difference, the neotribe has defined itself as the revival of the traditional tribe.…”

“…Biculturalism has strengthened ethnic boundaries and led to the acceptance of a neotraditionalist ideology that promotes a primordial fixed notion of culture and enables a group in society, the leaders of the neotribes, to pursue their material and political interests and to conceal this self-interest (Rata, 2003a(Rata, , 2003c. Biculturalism, by shifting to bi-ethnicism and neotraditionalism, destroys the conditions that are necessary to democratic functioning.…”

Localising neoliberalism: indigenist brokerage in the New Zealand university

“…This followed the allocation of Treaty of Waitangi 1 historical grievance settlements to the revived tribes and not to pan-Maori, the consequence of the government's acceptance of the tribe's claim that the tribal sociopolitical entity is the legitimate inheritor of the traditional past. Elsewhere I have used the term 'neotribe' (Rata 2000(Rata , 2003a(Rata , 2003b to theorise this articulation of the revived tribe's economic character with the traditionalist ideology used to justify its claims for the economic and political inheritance of the past. It is a strategy also used to claim contemporary resources, such as the electromagnetic spectrum (Drinnan 2010, 7) and geothermal resources (FoMA 2010), and to claim a constitutional partnership with the government (Durie 2009).…”