Maori Sovereignty, Black Feminism, and the New Zealand Trade Union Movement

Locke, Cybèle

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“…Zealand-based resistance movements such as Ngā Tamatoa (Walker, 1984) and events such as the Bastion Point occupation (Locke, 2012), the legal experiences as they relate to CRT are context-bound, and therefore any conclusions drawn from CRT as they relate to Aotearoa New Zealand are done so with this in mind.…”

Section: Rationalising Critical Race Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Ka ao, ka ao, ka awatea: Emergent Māori experiences of education employment transition

Mitchell¹

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<p>The significance of genealogy on Māori transitions between education and employment is often not appreciated as a valid body of knowledge. This research seeks to consider a family history of Māori ‘education towards employment’ experiences and the ensuing conversations that have occurred as part of those experiences. Of major focus is the influence of state policy on systems that have educated Māori to become employable or unemployable, highlighting the often insidious nature of the underlying themes of assimilation, cultural adaptation and integration that have underpinned these policies. Kaupapa Māori theory is engaged as the methodological approach for this research, while a ‘hypothetical dialogue’, counter-storying and Critical Race Theory (CRT) form the theoretical frameworks for analysing the historical and contemporary narratives provided. What this enables is the positioning of a Māori lens with which to understand the inherent values, beliefs and experiential learning that emerge through using autoethnography and more specifically, indigenous autoethnography. This research details a series of conversations that portray the education-employment transitions of different generations of the researcher’s family. It is a highly personalised account shared to provide insight into the effect of policy on these transitions. Accompanied by scholarly commentary, the thematic material is derived from the collection and analysis of primary data such as genealogical and personal experience, which includes the analysis of family narratives and the observation of hui/meetings.1 Secondary data includes literature and review of policy, which provided a baseline for the research. The findings of the research establish deficit thinking as a distinctive, historic and recurring feature of systems that are supposed to educate Māori for employment, but which instead continue to educate and transition a significant number of young Māori into unemployment, underemployment and temporary employment arrangements. These findings contribute to the development of an initiative that supports Māori transitions between education and employment, and which looks to the design of a community hub dedicated to educating whole families at a grassroots level; specifically focusing on a group of parents and whānau studying towards an undergraduate qualification based at their local kura/school.</p>

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Ka ao, ka ao, ka awatea: Emergent Māori experiences of education employment transition

Mitchell¹

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“…For example, more visible scholarship on feminism can be placed under the multicultural idea, such as the intersectional feminism of Crenshaw (1991) or the politics of emotion and of the body discussed by Ahmed (2000Ahmed ( , 2014. Feminism that aligns with biculturalism is recently more visible, with attempts by feminists at bicultural theorising, acknowledging oppression within the feminist movement (Connor, 2016;Huygens, 2001;Locke, 2012). Smith's (2021) work on how to rethink ideas related to the legacy of colonialism, even though not specifically feminist, inspired Lee and Evans's (2021) book, Indigenous Women's Voices, that explores the difficult path of studying colonial structures forced upon Indigenous women, undermining their own voices, wisdom and knowledge.…”

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“…Hassall and Karacaoglu (2021) outline how Eurocentric political ideas such as liberalism and neoliberalism challenge Indigenous thought. Connor (2016) and Locke (2012) explored the relationship between biculturalism and multiculturalism against a feminist scene. Some scholars are optimistic that biculturalism and multiculturalism can complement each other and coexist (Durie, 2005;Hill, 2010;Huygens, 2001).…”

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Diversifying Leadership within the New Zealand Public Service: How institutional will becomes an institutional wall

Albert Llorente

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<p>Aotearoa New Zealand will experience significant growth in its diverse population over the next 10 years. In response to this, the New Zealand Public Service wants to diversify its leadership, which is almost 90% NZ European, to better reflect the communities it serves. This thesis investigates how aligned Public Service policies are with current scholarship on diversifying leadership using institutionalism as a key political ideology. The methodology is a three-step process. First, an Official Information Act request was sent to 23 government agencies asking for their policies on diversity and inclusion, funding for diversity and inclusion, internal complaint processes, and how they knew they were not discriminating against their diverse workforce. Second, a thematic analysis of the scholarship was conducted, and third, a reflexive thematic analysis was used to analyse 1,500 pages of government documents received in response to the Official Information Act request. The findings demonstrate that there are currently formal and visible facilitators for diversifying leadership, but they are largely ineffective due to informal and invisible hurdles that are real and ignored. The mixed understanding throughout the D&I policies within the formal bicultural and implied multicultural frameworks adopted was one surprise finding that would need more research. It serves as a stark reminder that Māori-Crown obligations and Diversity and Inclusion initiatives are not easily reconciled, and that leaders in the public service still have a lot of work to do to overcome their own resistance to change, intersectional inclusionary practices, and developing a deeper understanding of the connections between formal and informal rules and norms, and the significance of the latter, in order to enable the former. According to these findings, the New Zealand Public Service may improve the possibility that its leadership will be more diverse if it recognises and addresses the informal, invisible barriers and increases the efficiency of the formal, visible facilitators.</p>

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Maori Sovereignty, Black Feminism, and the New Zealand Trade Union Movement

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Ka ao, ka ao, ka awatea: Emergent Māori experiences of education employment transition

Ka ao, ka ao, ka awatea: Emergent Māori experiences of education employment transition

Diversifying Leadership within the New Zealand Public Service: How institutional will becomes an institutional wall

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