The Trajectory of the Waitangi Tribunal

Sharp, Andrew

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“…Literature began to evidence the systemic discrimination Māori faced in almost all areas of life, including education, employment, the legal system and politics, and disproportionate rates of poverty, ill-health, incarceration, and low educational attainment compared with Pākehā (European New Zealanders) [171][172][173][174]. The Waitangi Tribunal (in combination with the Māori cultural renaissance of the 1980s and 1990s) has served as a conduit for Māori to reassert their sovereignty and utilise their distinctive tribal identities to recover their lands and seek compensation for historical grievance and harm [175][176][177]. Many iwi and hap ū (including Te Roroa and Te Uri o Hau) have now settled treaty claims and established 'postsettlement' tribal organisations to manage their lands and waters in accordance with local preferences [178,179], participate in local and regional governance, and provide health, educational, housing, and other social services to whānau [180,181].…”

Section: Research Context: Amorphous Subjectivities Inequality and Ag...mentioning

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Diversifying Indigenous Vulnerability and Adaptation: An Intersectional Reading of Māori Women’s Experiences of Health, Wellbeing, and Climate Change

2022

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Despite evidence that Indigenous peoples’ multiple subjectivities engender diverse lived experiences both between and within Indigenous groups, the influence of multiple subjectivities on Indigenous peoples’ vulnerability and adaptation to climate change is largely un-explored. Drawing on ethnographic research with Indigenous Māori women in Aotearoa New Zealand, this paper provides empirical evidence that subjectivity-mediated power dynamics operating within Indigenous societies (at the individual and household scale) are important determinants of vulnerability and adaptation which should be considered in both scholarship and policy. Using an intersectional framework, I demonstrate how different Māori women and their whānau (families) live, cope with, and adapt to the embodied physical and emotional health effects of climate change in radically different ways because of their subject positionings, even though they belong to the same community, hapū (sub-tribe), or iwi (tribe). In underlining these heterogenous experiences, I provide an avenue for reconsidering how climate adaptation scholarship, policies, and practices might better engage with the complex, amorphous realities within Māori and other Indigenous communities. I argue it is possible to develop more inclusive, tailored, and sustainable adaptation that considers divergent vulnerabilities and adaptive capacities within Indigenous communities, groups, and societies and supports customised vulnerability-reduction strategies.

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Section: Research Context: Amorphous Subjectivities Inequality and Ag...mentioning

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Diversifying Indigenous Vulnerability and Adaptation: An Intersectional Reading of Māori Women’s Experiences of Health, Wellbeing, and Climate Change

2022

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“…There is a deep concern that important kin relationships have been partially replaced by legal notions of property, as an amalgamation of business and charitable goals have come to define post-settlement tribal interests. Fears that the corporatisation of iwi in the post-settlement environment may become a form of clientelism have also been expressed by several other commentators (see Sharp, 2004;Seuffert, 2005, andPoata-Smith, 2004). Poata-Smith contends that, 'The corporatisation of iwi has serious implications for governance structures, leadership, representation and accountability within iwi, hapu and urban Maori communities.…”

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Shifting Margins, Shifting Centres: Development Paradigms in Maori Education

Kidman¹

2009

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In this paper, the cosmopolitan and imperial underpinnings of New Zealand Maori development education during the late colonial period are explored in relation to current development priorities. It is argued that these philosophies rapidly hybridised in order to fit local economic and political conditions and further, that a form of neo-colonialism subsequently emerged that combines neoliberalism with late colonial thinking about indigenous development. The expression of these ideas by contemporary elites has significant implications for future development education initiatives in New Zealand.

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“…The Treaty debate is fuelled by ambiguity. It is stressed that the Treaty is a significant contributor to the historical and political landscape of New Zealand (Sharp 2004).…”

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A Mana Wahine Critical Analysis of New Zealand Legislation Concerning Education: Implications for Addressing Māori Social Disadvantage

Paul¹

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<p>Theory and practice are intertwined, woven inextricably together by the way that each informs and is informed by the other (Moss 2002, Pihama 2001, Simmonds 2009). This research confronts and analyses the legal bases of gendered and race-based inequalities by critically analysing New Zealand social policy legislation through a mana wahine perspective. Mana wahine and critical policy analysis share common goals to challenge dominant theoretical and methodological norms in order to recognise unequal power distributions, of which colonisation is implicit (Tomlins-Jahnke 1997). This research has been guided by a reading of literature that suggests Māori social disadvantage has become ingrained and that policies designed to address this inequality and to include Māori people and Māori perspectives in mainstreamed systems are both confusing, and yet to be successful. This study has been designed to explore present policy legislation concerning social development. A case study of the education system has been used, which draws on historic and more contemporary Western political agendas as reflected in legislative shifts. Key findings of this research include the exclusion of mana wahine through the ongoing processes of colonisation that do not give rise to Māori cultural understandings. To summarise, the social policy context at present is characterised by: Māori demands for greater self-determination; an absence of Treaty rights for Māori; liberal interpretations of Treaty principles, and scant processes to implement them; a devoid of aspects pertinent to mana wahine, and; the contradiction between Government's articulated position on rights and inclusion in social policy and the language used in and concepts enforced by legislation. The findings are significant and reveal the ongoing complexities of Indigenous inequalities in the context of widespread policy ‘commitment’ to inclusion and equality. The central argument developed throughout this study is that there is an urgent need to shift policy thinking toward Māori if there is to be a significant movement toward justice for Māori women, which will involve Māori-centred decolonisation and the inclusion of aspects pertinent to mana wahine.</p>

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The Trajectory of the Waitangi Tribunal

Cited by 5 publications

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Diversifying Indigenous Vulnerability and Adaptation: An Intersectional Reading of Māori Women’s Experiences of Health, Wellbeing, and Climate Change

Diversifying Indigenous Vulnerability and Adaptation: An Intersectional Reading of Māori Women’s Experiences of Health, Wellbeing, and Climate Change

Shifting Margins, Shifting Centres: Development Paradigms in Maori Education

A Mana Wahine Critical Analysis of New Zealand Legislation Concerning Education: Implications for Addressing Māori Social Disadvantage

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