T Van Meijl
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4381 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | T Van Meijl |
| NOMBRES | T |
| APELLIDO | Van Meijl |
| FIRMA | VAN MEIJL T |
| AFILIACIONES | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0547-2627 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 130 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1992 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Disenfranchisement and poverty in the post-settlement phase of Māori claims
Since 1995, Māori tribes have received NZ$ 4.6 billion in compensation for grievances concerning their dispossession in the colonial history of New Zealand, but studies of the influence of settlements on the ‘well-being’ of Māori beneficiaries are scarce. This article reflects on the first major settlement, which was signed with the Waikato-Tainui tribe whose entire territory was confiscated in 1864. After 30 years, the settlement has increased i…
Neither soldier, nor civilian
Class and kinship in problem debt
This article discusses problem debt in the Netherlands by considering debtors' social connectedness, focusing especially on the role of kinship. The socioeconomic stratification approach entails problematic assumptions about class in private debt, but we contend that stratification offers only a partial explanation of why some groups acquire problem debt, and others do not. By instead drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's processual class interpretation, …
Environmental Management of Coal Mining Areas in Indonesia
This article examines the complexity of supervising the environmental management of coal mining operations in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. We found that the current cross-sectoral and multi-level arrangement of mining supervision leads to uncertain regulations on supervising the environmental management of coal mining operations. This study also shows that incomplete provisions lead to a legal vacuum at the implementation level. Inconsistent, ambi…
Belonging in Oceania
Ethnographic case studies explore what it means to “belong” in Oceania, as contributors consider ongoing formations of place, self and community in connection with travelling, internal and international migration. The chapters apply the multi-dimensional concepts of movement, place-making and cultural identifications to explain contemporary life in Oceanic societies. The volume closes by suggesting that constructions of multiple belongings—and, w…
Hei Taonga mā ngā Uri Whakatipu / Treasures for the Rising Generation
Review of: Hei Taonga mā ngā Uri Whakatipu / Treasures for the Rising Generation: The Dominion Museum Ethnological Expeditions 1919–1923 , Wayne Ngata, Arapata Hakiwai, Anne Salmond, Conal McCarthy, Amiria Salmond, Monty Soutar, James Schuster, Billie Lythberg, John Niko Maihi, Sandra Kahu Nepia, Te Wheturere Poope Gray, Te Aroha McDonnell and Natalie Robertson (2021) Wellington: Te Papa Press, 368 pp., ISBN 978 0 99510 310 8 (hbk), NZ$75.00
The Political Potential of Urban Informality in the Global North
In recent years, a growing number of scholars have highlighted the presence of urban informality in the Global North. Although we applaud this development, we deplore that this body of literature is characterized by analytical ambiguity and fragmented discussions. More specifically, the literature often reduces or repudiates the political potential of urban informality by (a) integrating it into the formal, (b) mobilizing it for policy purposes, …
Domestic violence policies in the Netherlands
In a number of countries, domestic violence is represented as a governable phenomenon that is amenable to policy interventions. Over the past 40 years in the Netherlands, however, this approach has not resulted in a reduction of domestic violence. Yet new policy strategies continue to be designed to improve existing interventions. In this article, we focus on a Dutch policy measure that aims to detect early signals of violence and abuse. We argue…
Linking Migration Aspirations to Integration Prospects
In this article, we examine the shifting role of aspirations in migration and integration processes by focusing on the experiences of a group of Syrian refugees settling in Sweden. We demonstrate that aspirations and capabilities may be used to study the lives of refugees (and immigrants) before, during, and after migration and that through a sequential study of aspirations it is possible to determine how refugees come to envision possible life t…
Authenticity in analogy between past and present
The question of authenticity emerges in contexts of cultural innovation when people question whether innovative expressions of culture imply discontinuity with the past. In this article, it will be argued that this modernist concept of authenticity is alien to Pacific modes of thinking about cultural innovation and change. It draws on extensive fieldwork in Māori society of Aotearoa New Zealand, where people rarely, if ever, refer to cultural pra…
Culture versus class
Interrogating why class has been demoted as a useful concept within anthropology, the author examines the ways in which issues of inequality and ethnicity have been used to explain both the enduring impact of settler colonialism on, and contemporary forms of discrimination against, New Zealand Māori. He weighs up the impact of the cultural turn in academia, the Māori Renaissance, the impact of neoliberalism, and the assumption that class coincide…
The Politicization of the Immigration Debate in the Netherlands
This article analyses public discourses in the Netherlands about the arrival of boat refugees in Europe. By comparing three Dutch newspapers with received knowledge about migration in academic literature, we compare and contrast policies advocating border control in order to stop the arrival of boat refugees with scientific evidence about these proposed solutions. We argue that discrepancies exist between policy suggestions and the evidence provi…
Doing Indigenous Epistemology
Indigenous peoples around the world are exploring indigenous epistemology with the aim to reassert the validity of their own ways of knowing and being. This assertion is taking place not only among indigenous scholars in the academy but it is also happening among people with little or no schooling. In this context, indigenous people often think of themselves as having "inside knowledge" or being '"inside knowledge." This raises the question wheth…
Performing as a professional
Migrant integration policies in the Netherlands have become increasingly restrictive over the past two decades. This development has been prompted chiefly by the strong politicization of the subject of integration and, as a consequence, a growing political interference with policymaking. Policy design and construction is predominantly carried out by policy officials in state bureaucracies. Some of these actors, however, have great difficulties wi…
Changing Contexts, Shifting Meanings
This book sheds new light on processes of cultural transformation at work in Oceania and analyzes them as products of interrelationships between culturally created meanings and specific contexts. In a series of inspiring essays, noted scholars of the region examine these interrelationships for insight into how cultural traditions are shaped on an ongoing basis.The collection marks a turning point in the debate on the conceptualization of traditio…
Doing policy
This article explores how public policies regarding domestic violence aim at assembling a fragmented domain of views, attitudes and practices in a coherent manner. We propose to approach policy from an object-oriented anthropology, which makes it necessary to understand how objects come into being and to explore their ontology. We argue that policy objects, such as domestic violence, become real and multiply in practice when they associate in an …
The W aikato R iver
In M āori cosmology, rivers and other waterways are conceptualised as living ancestors, who have their own life force and spiritual strength. The special status of rivers in M āori society also explains why they are sometimes separated from other M āori claims to natural resources of which they were dispossessed in the 19th century. Until recently, M āori were often eager to contend that ownership of rivers is not their prime interest, but instea…
Maori–Pasifika relations
Maori people maintain ambiguous relations with the rest of the Pacific. Genealogical relationships continue to be celebrated in ongoing connections across a wide range of domains and discourses, but the colonial history of New Zealand has also turned Maori into a community of indigenous people that has been eclipsed by European settlers over the past two centuries. As a corollary, Maori are embroiled in an intense struggle for recognition of thei…
Special Issue
Migration and the dialogue of multiple identifications
This article examines the cultural dilemmas proceeding from the multiple identifications of Kurdish migrants working in the multicultural environment of Istanbul’s tourist industry. Since identifications invariably multiply when migrants enter multicultural environments, the question emerges how migrants cope with increasing identifications? How are multiple identifications related within the self? In this article, these questions are addressed, …
Treasured Possessions
This book presents a compelling analysis of the redefinition of cultural and intellectual property by Indigenous peoples in Vanuatu and New Zealand. Alternative notions of culture, heritage and pro
Multicultural adolescents between tradition and postmodernity
This chapter builds on Dialogical Self Theory to investigate the identity development of adolescents growing up in multicultural societies. Their cultural identity is not only compounded by the rapid cultural changes associated with globalization, but also by the paradoxical revival of cultural traditions which the large-scale compression of time and space has incited at local levels of society. Dialogical Self Theory, which is based on the metap…
Changing property regimes in Māori society
This article examines controversies around the representation of Maori in the process that aimed at settling colonial grievances about the dispossession of their land in the 19th century. The analysis of contemporary questions is situated in a historical perspective on the nature of property rights in the past: who used to own the land then and what does it mean now? A legal anthropological perspective is used to disentangle historical and contem…
Introduction
On the morning of Wednesday, 13 February 2008, we were standing alongside thousands of others in the grounds of the Australian parliamentary complex in Canberra (Gemes 2008). The fortuitous timing of a conference that had brought us from the Netherlands and New Zealand, respectively, had unexpectedly also given us the opportunity to attend the apology to indigenous Australians that newly elected Prime Minister Kevin Rudd had promised a few months…
Māori Intellectual Property Rights and the Formation of Ethnic Boundaries
This article questions and contextualizes the emergence of a discourse of intellectual property rights in Māori society. It is argued that Māori claims regarding intellectual property function primarily to demarcate ethnic boundaries between Māori and non-Māori. Māori consider the reinforcement of ethnic boundaries necessary since they experience their society and distinctive way of life as endangered both by the foreign consumption or misappropr…
Linking Migration Aspirations to Integration Prospects
In this article, we examine the shifting role of aspirations in migration and integration processes by focusing on the experiences of a group of Syrian refugees settling in Sweden. We demonstrate that aspirations and capabilities may be used to study the lives of refugees (and immigrants) before, during, and after migration and that through a sequential study of aspirations it is possible to determine how refugees come to envision possible life t…
Multiple identifications and the dialogical self
The renaissance of Maori culture and tradition has played a significant role in the political campaigns of New Zealand's indigenous population over the past few decades. At the same time, however, it has brought to light that many Maori youngsters are unable to construct a cultural identity in terms of the discourses of culture and tradition that dominate the political arena. This article analyses the experience of urban Maori youngsters in cerem…
Māori Intellectual Property Rights and the Formation of Ethnic Boundaries
This article questions and contextualizes the emergence of a discourse of intellectual property rights in Māori society. It is argued that Māori claims regarding intellectual property function primarily to demarcate ethnic boundaries between Māori and non-Māori. Māori consider the reinforcement of ethnic boundaries necessary since they experience their society and distinctive way of life as endangered both by the foreign consumption or misappropr…
Doing Indigenous Epistemology
Indigenous peoples around the world are exploring indigenous epistemology with the aim to reassert the validity of their own ways of knowing and being. This assertion is taking place not only among indigenous scholars in the academy but it is also happening among people with little or no schooling. In this context, indigenous people often think of themselves as having "inside knowledge" or being '"inside knowledge." This raises the question wheth…
The Critical Ethnographer as Trickster
In this paper, I explore and elaborate similarities between the identity of mythological tricksters and ethnographic field researchers. As tricksters have multiple identities to mediate the unmediated (Basso 1996), so anthropologists adopt different identities in the field to reconcile the irreconcilable demands that are essential to ethnography. Participant observation reinforces the need to be flexible and to operate contextually. It requires a…
Modern Morals in Postmodernity
This article provides a critical analysis of the topical debate about the revision of anthropological codes of ethics in the 1990s. Ethical codes are approached from the viewpoint of postmodern ethics, which rejects the foundation of morality in a hierarchy of values on which professional codes of ethics are based. Whereas ethical codes are founded on the proposition that morality is non-ambivalent and universal, in postmodern ethics it is argued…
Culture versus class
Interrogating why class has been demoted as a useful concept within anthropology, the author examines the ways in which issues of inequality and ethnicity have been used to explain both the enduring impact of settler colonialism on, and contemporary forms of discrimination against, New Zealand Māori. He weighs up the impact of the cultural turn in academia, the Māori Renaissance, the impact of neoliberalism, and the assumption that class coincide…
Pacific Discourses About Cultural Heritage and Its Protection
The articles collected in this special issue aim at addressing the debate about the protection and use of cultural heritage in the Pacific within the context of globalization. Contributions aim specifically at analyzing the tension that exists between, on the one hand, political, legal and economic discourses of Pacific peoples who wish to retain control and who seek protection of the use of their cultural heritage, and, on the other hand, the vi…
Doing policy
This article explores how public policies regarding domestic violence aim at assembling a fragmented domain of views, attitudes and practices in a coherent manner. We propose to approach policy from an object-oriented anthropology, which makes it necessary to understand how objects come into being and to explore their ontology. We argue that policy objects, such as domestic violence, become real and multiply in practice when they associate in an …
Introduction; Politics, tradition and social change in the Pacific
This special issue 1 contains a selection of papers that were originally presented at the First European Colloquium on Pacific Studies, which was organized by the newly established Centre for Pacific Studies at the University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands, in December 1992.The colloquium aimed to bring together European scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds who are engaged in research in the Pacific.The conference attracted 150 people, mo…
Environmental Management of Coal Mining Areas in Indonesia
This article examines the complexity of supervising the environmental management of coal mining operations in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. We found that the current cross-sectoral and multi-level arrangement of mining supervision leads to uncertain regulations on supervising the environmental management of coal mining operations. This study also shows that incomplete provisions lead to a legal vacuum at the implementation level. Inconsistent, ambi…
Domestic violence policies in the Netherlands
In a number of countries, domestic violence is represented as a governable phenomenon that is amenable to policy interventions. Over the past 40 years in the Netherlands, however, this approach has not resulted in a reduction of domestic violence. Yet new policy strategies continue to be designed to improve existing interventions. In this article, we focus on a Dutch policy measure that aims to detect early signals of violence and abuse. We argue…
Changing property regimes in Māori society
This article examines controversies around the representation of Maori in the process that aimed at settling colonial grievances about the dispossession of their land in the 19th century. The analysis of contemporary questions is situated in a historical perspective on the nature of property rights in the past: who used to own the land then and what does it mean now? A legal anthropological perspective is used to disentangle historical and contem…
Fractures culturelles et identités fragmentées. La confrontation avec la culture traditionnelle dans la société maori post-coloniale
Van Meijl Toon. Fractures culturelles et identités fragmentées. La confrontation avec la culture traditionnelle dans la société maori post-coloniale. In: Journal de la Société des océanistes, 109, 1999-2. pp. 53-70
The Political Potential of Urban Informality in the Global North
In recent years, a growing number of scholars have highlighted the presence of urban informality in the Global North. Although we applaud this development, we deplore that this body of literature is characterized by analytical ambiguity and fragmented discussions. More specifically, the literature often reduces or repudiates the political potential of urban informality by (a) integrating it into the formal, (b) mobilizing it for policy purposes, …
Second chance education for Maori school ‘dropouts’
Performing as a professional
Migrant integration policies in the Netherlands have become increasingly restrictive over the past two decades. This development has been prompted chiefly by the strong politicization of the subject of integration and, as a consequence, a growing political interference with policymaking. Policy design and construction is predominantly carried out by policy officials in state bureaucracies. Some of these actors, however, have great difficulties wi…
Changing Contexts, Shifting Meanings
This book sheds new light on processes of cultural transformation at work in Oceania and analyzes them as products of interrelationships between culturally created meanings and specific contexts. In a series of inspiring essays, noted scholars of the region examine these interrelationships for insight into how cultural traditions are shaped on an ongoing basis.The collection marks a turning point in the debate on the conceptualization of traditio…
Colonial grievances, justice and reconciliation in the Pacific
The paradox of the decolonization process in the Pacific is that colonial grievances seem to have proliferated in the recent past. Indeed, anticolonial sentiments often seem to be more directly spurred by the process of decolonization than by the practices of colonial regimes revelling in earlier peaks of power. This workshop was concerned with the question how to address this contemporary form of counter-hegemonic resistance in the Pacific. The …
Maori hierarchy transformed
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The Maori king movement; Unity and diversity in past and present
The indigenous people of New Zealand did not have a name for themselves as a people before European explorers and traders arrived in the late eighteenth century. The New Zealand 'Maori' people did not collectively distinguish themselves from other peoples. Distinctions were only made between various tribal groups and, accordingly, a multiplicity of tribal names existed. Colonial interaction, however, brought about the abstraction The Maori. Some …
Broadening Millenarianism
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The Maori king movement; Unity and diversity in past and present
The indigenous people of New Zealand did not have a name for themselves as a people before European explorers and traders arrived in the late eighteenth century. The New Zealand 'Maori' people did not collectively distinguish themselves from other peoples. Distinctions were only made between various tribal groups and, accordingly, a multiplicity of tribal names existed. Colonial interaction, however, brought about the abstraction The Maori. Some …
Introduction; Politics, tradition and social change in the Pacific
This special issue 1 contains a selection of papers that were originally presented at the First European Colloquium on Pacific Studies, which was organized by the newly established Centre for Pacific Studies at the University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands, in December 1992.The colloquium aimed to bring together European scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds who are engaged in research in the Pacific.The conference attracted 150 people, mo…
A Maori perspective on health and its politicization
The establishment of primary health care centers in Maori communities has been justified in terms of a Maori cultural perspective on health. It is argued that this tradition-oriented Maori view on health has been constructed chiefly to substantiate the call for affirmative action to improve Maori health standards as well as to reacquire control of health delivery to Maori people
Second chance education for Maori school ‘dropouts’
Maori hierarchy transformed
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Maori Socio‐Political Organization in Pre‐ and Proto‐History
At present it is widely assumed that the socio‐political organisation of Maori society is made up of four structural levels: the ‘extended family’, the ‘sub‐tribe’, the ‘tribe’ and the ‘super‐tribe’, each of which, in turn, corresponds with a certain type of Maori leader. It is rarely realised that a consensus about this framework for understanding Maori socio‐political organisation did not emerge until the 1930s, approximately 150 years after co…
Fractures culturelles et identités fragmentées. La confrontation avec la culture traditionnelle dans la société maori post-coloniale
Van Meijl Toon. Fractures culturelles et identités fragmentées. La confrontation avec la culture traditionnelle dans la société maori post-coloniale. In: Journal de la Société des océanistes, 109, 1999-2. pp. 53-70
Modern Morals in Postmodernity
This article provides a critical analysis of the topical debate about the revision of anthropological codes of ethics in the 1990s. Ethical codes are approached from the viewpoint of postmodern ethics, which rejects the foundation of morality in a hierarchy of values on which professional codes of ethics are based. Whereas ethical codes are founded on the proposition that morality is non-ambivalent and universal, in postmodern ethics it is argued…
Nature, Culture and History
Explores the changing ways in which Pacific Islanders have been seen and represented by outsiders over the last 200 years. The Pacific Islands has been a testing ground for various Western ideas and ideologies and the author looks at this long intellectual history as an artifact of the Western imagination. Of particular concern is to see how concepts of nature, culture and history have defined Western perceptions of Pacific Islanders
The Critical Ethnographer as Trickster
In this paper, I explore and elaborate similarities between the identity of mythological tricksters and ethnographic field researchers. As tricksters have multiple identities to mediate the unmediated (Basso 1996), so anthropologists adopt different identities in the field to reconcile the irreconcilable demands that are essential to ethnography. Participant observation reinforces the need to be flexible and to operate contextually. It requires a…
Changing Properties of Property
Multiple identifications and the dialogical self
The renaissance of Maori culture and tradition has played a significant role in the political campaigns of New Zealand's indigenous population over the past few decades. At the same time, however, it has brought to light that many Maori youngsters are unable to construct a cultural identity in terms of the discourses of culture and tradition that dominate the political arena. This article analyses the experience of urban Maori youngsters in cerem…
Colonial grievances, justice and reconciliation in the Pacific
The paradox of the decolonization process in the Pacific is that colonial grievances seem to have proliferated in the recent past. Indeed, anticolonial sentiments often seem to be more directly spurred by the process of decolonization than by the practices of colonial regimes revelling in earlier peaks of power. This workshop was concerned with the question how to address this contemporary form of counter-hegemonic resistance in the Pacific. The …
Māori Intellectual Property Rights and the Formation of Ethnic Boundaries
This article questions and contextualizes the emergence of a discourse of intellectual property rights in Māori society. It is argued that Māori claims regarding intellectual property function primarily to demarcate ethnic boundaries between Māori and non-Māori. Māori consider the reinforcement of ethnic boundaries necessary since they experience their society and distinctive way of life as endangered both by the foreign consumption or misappropr…
Pacific Discourses About Cultural Heritage and Its Protection
The articles collected in this special issue aim at addressing the debate about the protection and use of cultural heritage in the Pacific within the context of globalization. Contributions aim specifically at analyzing the tension that exists between, on the one hand, political, legal and economic discourses of Pacific peoples who wish to retain control and who seek protection of the use of their cultural heritage, and, on the other hand, the vi…
Multicultural adolescents between tradition and postmodernity
This chapter builds on Dialogical Self Theory to investigate the identity development of adolescents growing up in multicultural societies. Their cultural identity is not only compounded by the rapid cultural changes associated with globalization, but also by the paradoxical revival of cultural traditions which the large-scale compression of time and space has incited at local levels of society. Dialogical Self Theory, which is based on the metap…
Changing property regimes in Māori society
This article examines controversies around the representation of Maori in the process that aimed at settling colonial grievances about the dispossession of their land in the 19th century. The analysis of contemporary questions is situated in a historical perspective on the nature of property rights in the past: who used to own the land then and what does it mean now? A legal anthropological perspective is used to disentangle historical and contem…
Introduction
On the morning of Wednesday, 13 February 2008, we were standing alongside thousands of others in the grounds of the Australian parliamentary complex in Canberra (Gemes 2008). The fortuitous timing of a conference that had brought us from the Netherlands and New Zealand, respectively, had unexpectedly also given us the opportunity to attend the apology to indigenous Australians that newly elected Prime Minister Kevin Rudd had promised a few months…
Maori–Pasifika relations
Maori people maintain ambiguous relations with the rest of the Pacific. Genealogical relationships continue to be celebrated in ongoing connections across a wide range of domains and discourses, but the colonial history of New Zealand has also turned Maori into a community of indigenous people that has been eclipsed by European settlers over the past two centuries. As a corollary, Maori are embroiled in an intense struggle for recognition of thei…
Special Issue
Migration and the dialogue of multiple identifications
This article examines the cultural dilemmas proceeding from the multiple identifications of Kurdish migrants working in the multicultural environment of Istanbul’s tourist industry. Since identifications invariably multiply when migrants enter multicultural environments, the question emerges how migrants cope with increasing identifications? How are multiple identifications related within the self? In this article, these questions are addressed, …
Treasured Possessions
This book presents a compelling analysis of the redefinition of cultural and intellectual property by Indigenous peoples in Vanuatu and New Zealand. Alternative notions of culture, heritage and pro
The W aikato R iver
In M āori cosmology, rivers and other waterways are conceptualised as living ancestors, who have their own life force and spiritual strength. The special status of rivers in M āori society also explains why they are sometimes separated from other M āori claims to natural resources of which they were dispossessed in the 19th century. Until recently, M āori were often eager to contend that ownership of rivers is not their prime interest, but instea…
Doing policy
This article explores how public policies regarding domestic violence aim at assembling a fragmented domain of views, attitudes and practices in a coherent manner. We propose to approach policy from an object-oriented anthropology, which makes it necessary to understand how objects come into being and to explore their ontology. We argue that policy objects, such as domestic violence, become real and multiply in practice when they associate in an …
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