Michael Goldsmith
Biographic Data
| ID | 109783 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Goldsmith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Goldsmith |
| SIGNATURE | GOLDSMITH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waikato |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9333-6731 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 127 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
An Exploratory Study of Cybersecurity in Working from Home: Problem or Enabler
This article explores the implications of a shift to working from home (WFH) in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The literature and news coverage of this topic focuses on rising concerns over cybersecurity. Based on in-depth exploratory interviews with cybersecurity experts, it is apparent that cybersecurity problems do arise, but the advances in cybersecurity have enabled this shift and the scaling up of WFH. This qualitative research sugge…
Missionaries and other emissaries of colonialism in Tuvalu
This paper examines the similarities and differences between the forms of external rule established in nineteenth-century Tuvalu first by the London Missionary Society and then by the British government through its imperial outreach. These raise the question of whether or not the two forms can be characterised as essentially the same and, if so, what implications are posed for the periodisation of history in Tuvalu and other Pacific societies
Diplomatic Rivalries and Cultural One-upmanship: New Zealand’s Long Quest to Become More Pacific than Australia
New Zealand's governmental and non-governmental agencies, academic commentators and media have long framed the country as uniquely and favourably positioned on cultural grounds to be a strategic diplomatic actor in the South Pacific. Justifications for the framing stem from two linked complexes: the history of New Zealand's colonial and post-colonial involvement in a number of Polynesian territories in the Pacific; and the related history of rela…
The big smallness of Tuvalu
This paper considers the question of how it is that the independent Polynesian microstate of Tuvalu has managed to place itself at the centre of worldwide discussion about global climate change and possible sea level rise. It argues that much of the publicity Tuvalu has accrued derives from its leaders’ long established statecraft in which assertions of agency and claims to vulnerability can be deployed in complementary ways to further Tuvalu’s i…
Size and Local Democracy
How large should local governments be, and what are the implications of changing the scale of local governments for the quality of local democracy? These questions have stood at the centre of debates among scholars and public sector reformers alike from antiquity to the present. This monograph offers the first systematic cross-national investigation of these questions using empirical evidence gathered specifically for this purpose. Results provid…
Strange Whakapapa: Colliding and Colluding Claims to Ancestry and Indigeneity in Aotearoa
Forthcoming
The colonial and postcolonial roots of ethnonationalism in Tuvalu
The articles collected in this issue were first presented at an international workshop about colonial grievances, justice and reconciliation held in 2005 at the 6th Conference of the European Society for Oceanists in Marseille, France. Contributors to this issue were determined to publish some of the papers together to demonstrate the similarities in the legacy of colonialism in various Pacific societies and also to show the complexities of resol…
Introduction: Colonial Grievances, Justice and Reconciliation
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…
Party Politics and Decentralization in France and Japan ‐ by Nakano Koichi
Historicising Gerd Koch's Ethnographic Films on Tuvalu
Gerd Koch is probably best known for his studies of Tuvalu in the early 1960s, when it was still part of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony. In the process of recording aspects of material and expressive culture on Niutao, one of the northernmost islands, he shot a series of black-and-white silent films. Fifteen of these films were archived at IWF Wissen und Medien in G ttingen, Germany, formerly the Institut f r den Wissenschaftlichen Film, a…
Modern Local Government Janice Morphet
Who Owns Native Nature? Discourses of Rights to Land, Culture, and Knowledge in New Zealand
Michael Brown famously asked 'Who owns native culture?' This paper revisits that question by analyzing what happens to culture when the culturally defined boundary between it and nature becomes salient in the context of disputes between indigenous and settler populations. My case study is the dispute between the New Zealand government and Maori tribal groupings concerning ownership of the foreshore and seabed. Having been granted the right to tes…
Explaining Local Government: Local Government in Britain Since 1800 ‐ by j.a. Chandler
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 …
Leading the Localities: Executive Mayors in English Local Governance ‐ by Colin Copus
Translated Identities: 'Pakeha' As Subjects of the Treaty of Waitangi
The politics of translation is clearly a perennial focus of debate in New Zealand, as shown by thematic links between the New Zealand social anthropology conferences at Waikato in 990 and Auckland in 2004. Of the many issues of translation swirling around ongoing attempts to interpret the Treaty of Waitangi, a surprisingly neglected one concerns the identities of the people on behalf of whom the Crown signed the Treaty. The term ‘Pakeha’ appears…
Theories of governance and Pacific microstates: The cautionary tale of Tuvalu
This paper questions the popularity of governance frameworks in explaining development failures and proposing new models of development for Pacific states. Such popularity is attributed to how problems are selected and framed (the doomsday scenario of demographic and environmental collapse, weakening of the state, and an upsurge in corruption) but also, and most importantly, to the recent hegemony of neo-liberal theory in political economy. Takin…
Culture in Safety and in Danger
In late 1999, Michèle Dominy and Laurence Carucci announced a session on ‘critical \nethnography’ at the forthcoming conference of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania to be held in Vancouver. The notice came at a critical moment in my own professional life. Rumours had begun to spread that the University of Waikato, where I teach anthropology, had allowed Hans Joachim Kupka, a German Holocaust denier, to enrol in a PhD supposedly i…
Size and Democracy
Central Control over Local Government - A Western European Comparison
This article reviews the way in which central government control over municipal government has changed across Western Europe over the last 30 years. Having outlined the different ways in which central governments can exercise control over local government both formally and informally, the article examines the changing experience in unitary, federal and quasi- federal countries in Western Europe. It also considers the impact on intergovernmental r…
Reimagining the American Pacific: From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond
In this compelling critique Rob Wilson explores the creation of the Rim in the American imagination and how the concept has been variously adapted and resisted in Hawai'i, the Islands, New Zealand, and Australia. Reimagining the American Pacific ranges from the nineteenth century to the present and draws on theories of postmodernism, transnationality, and post-Marxist geography to contribute to the ongoing discussion of what constitutes 'global' …
Reforming Women in the United States and Aotearoa/New Zealand: A Comparative Ethnography of Welfare Reform in Global Context
Historically, the United States and Aotearoa/New Zealand symbolize opposite poles of an individualist-collectivist welfare state continuum. Until recently, Aotearoa/New Zealand was known as a "cradle-to-grave" welfare state, with "universal" employment and coverage in health and education. U.S. history, in contrast, is marked by an unabashed individualism and a residualist approach to welfare. Recent neoliberal reforms, however, have engendered a…
Radio Happy Isles: Media and Politics at Play in the Pacific
This text provides an insight at the mediascape of the Pacific. Focusing on radio from the Solomon islands to Vauatu, Fiji, Tonga and Hawaii, the author presents anecdotes and information collected from the managers, broadcasters and listeners
The Textual Lives of Pacific Islanders
Jurg Wassmann. ed. Pacific Answers to Western Hegemony: Cultural Practices of Identity Construction. Oxford: Berg, 1998. vii. 449 pp
From Local Government to Local Governance—and Beyond
This article presents an overview of local government studies and particularly of recent developments. It looks first of all at the changing social and economic factors which influence the operation of local government. Globalization, political and institutional changes, demographic trends—all these structure the environment of local government. The article then looks at the changes in local government, best understood as a movement towards local…
From Local Government to Local Governance—and Beyond
This article presents an overview of local government studies and particularly of recent developments. It looks first of all at the changing social and economic factors which influence the operation of local government. Globalization, political and institutional changes, demographic trends—all these structure the environment of local government. The article then looks at the changes in local government, best understood as a movement towards local…
Central Control over Local Government - A Western European Comparison
This article reviews the way in which central government control over municipal government has changed across Western Europe over the last 30 years. Having outlined the different ways in which central governments can exercise control over local government both formally and informally, the article examines the changing experience in unitary, federal and quasi- federal countries in Western Europe. It also considers the impact on intergovernmental r…
Reforming Women in the United States and Aotearoa/New Zealand: A Comparative Ethnography of Welfare Reform in Global Context
Historically, the United States and Aotearoa/New Zealand symbolize opposite poles of an individualist-collectivist welfare state continuum. Until recently, Aotearoa/New Zealand was known as a "cradle-to-grave" welfare state, with "universal" employment and coverage in health and education. U.S. history, in contrast, is marked by an unabashed individualism and a residualist approach to welfare. Recent neoliberal reforms, however, have engendered a…
Time, Parties and Budgetary Change: Fiscal Decisions in English Cities, 1974–88
The ideological differences between the Labour and Conservative parties in the 1980s are greater than at any time in the postwar era. Consequently one would expect party control at the local level to have an increasing effect on local government decisions. Using an approach to cross-time analysis that avoids some of the major shortcomings of other studies, the relationship between party control and local fiscal decisions in English cities between…
The big smallness of Tuvalu
This paper considers the question of how it is that the independent Polynesian microstate of Tuvalu has managed to place itself at the centre of worldwide discussion about global climate change and possible sea level rise. It argues that much of the publicity Tuvalu has accrued derives from its leaders’ long established statecraft in which assertions of agency and claims to vulnerability can be deployed in complementary ways to further Tuvalu’s i…
Centralisation and decentralisation: Changing Patterns of Intergovernmental Relations in Advanced Western Societies ‐an Introduction by the Editors
The colonial and postcolonial roots of ethnonationalism in Tuvalu
The articles collected in this issue were first presented at an international workshop about colonial grievances, justice and reconciliation held in 2005 at the 6th Conference of the European Society for Oceanists in Marseille, France. Contributors to this issue were determined to publish some of the papers together to demonstrate the similarities in the legacy of colonialism in various Pacific societies and also to show the complexities of resol…
Who Owns Native Nature? Discourses of Rights to Land, Culture, and Knowledge in New Zealand
Michael Brown famously asked 'Who owns native culture?' This paper revisits that question by analyzing what happens to culture when the culturally defined boundary between it and nature becomes salient in the context of disputes between indigenous and settler populations. My case study is the dispute between the New Zealand government and Maori tribal groupings concerning ownership of the foreshore and seabed. Having been granted the right to tes…
Public Participation in Planning Within a Representative Local Democracy
Within the present system of local government in Britain there is great variation of public involvement. Major elites are often involved and consulted, while minor elites occasionally enjoy that position. For the public at large there is little collective involvement. The obvious challenge which these facts offer to conventional democratic notions is recognised in the recent requirement for public participation in planning introduced in 1971. Suc…
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 …
Theories of governance and Pacific microstates: The cautionary tale of Tuvalu
This paper questions the popularity of governance frameworks in explaining development failures and proposing new models of development for Pacific states. Such popularity is attributed to how problems are selected and framed (the doomsday scenario of demographic and environmental collapse, weakening of the state, and an upsurge in corruption) but also, and most importantly, to the recent hegemony of neo-liberal theory in political economy. Takin…
Culture in Safety and in Danger
In late 1999, Michèle Dominy and Laurence Carucci announced a session on ‘critical \nethnography’ at the forthcoming conference of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania to be held in Vancouver. The notice came at a critical moment in my own professional life. Rumours had begun to spread that the University of Waikato, where I teach anthropology, had allowed Hans Joachim Kupka, a German Holocaust denier, to enrol in a PhD supposedly i…
Introduction: The Theme of Local Governance
Central‐local Government Relations: A Bibliographical Summary of the Esrc Research Initiative
Politics, Planning and the City
1. Political theory, political practice and public policy in the city 2. Analysing city politics 3. Environmental change and the city 4. Changes in city politics 1: the reactions of the political community 5. Changes in city politics 2: the regime and the authorities 6. Policy arena 1: housing 7. Policy arena 2: planning 8. Policy arena 3: social services 9. Policy consequences and policy solutions
Pressures within Pressures
Pressures within Pressures
Criminal Redistribution of Stolen Property: The Need for Law Reform
Our society is permeated by a consciousness of theft: triple-locked doors of city apartments, guard dogs prowling stores and warehouses at night, retail prices and insurance rates based on the assumption that large quantities of merchandise are simply going to disappear.But our consciousness of theft tends to be limited.It is easy to imagine the act itself-the forced lock or smashed window in the dead of night, the hijacker ordering the driver ou…
Public Participation in Planning Within a Representative Local Democracy
Within the present system of local government in Britain there is great variation of public involvement. Major elites are often involved and consulted, while minor elites occasionally enjoy that position. For the public at large there is little collective involvement. The obvious challenge which these facts offer to conventional democratic notions is recognised in the recent requirement for public participation in planning introduced in 1971. Suc…
Politics, Planning and the City
1. Political theory, political practice and public policy in the city 2. Analysing city politics 3. Environmental change and the city 4. Changes in city politics 1: the reactions of the political community 5. Changes in city politics 2: the regime and the authorities 6. Policy arena 1: housing 7. Policy arena 2: planning 8. Policy arena 3: social services 9. Policy consequences and policy solutions
Politics, Planning, and the City
Central‐local Government Relations: A Bibliographical Summary of the Esrc Research Initiative
Haldane Essay Competiton 1987
Centralisation and decentralisation: Changing Patterns of Intergovernmental Relations in Advanced Western Societies ‐an Introduction by the Editors
Localautonomy as a Meaningful Analytic Concept: Comparing Local Government in the United States and the United Kingdom
Local autonomy is a common term in urban politics, but it has a variety of meanings, some quite ambiguous. A conceptually meaningful definition of local autonomy is constructed and then used to compare local government systems in the United States and the United Kingdom. Local autonomy is the ability of local governments to have an independent impact on the well-being of their citizens. We examine the nonlocal government determinants of well-bein…
Post-Industrial Cities: Politics and Planning in New York, Paris, and London. H. V. Savitch
Time, Parties and Budgetary Change: Fiscal Decisions in English Cities, 1974–88
The ideological differences between the Labour and Conservative parties in the 1980s are greater than at any time in the postwar era. Consequently one would expect party control at the local level to have an increasing effect on local government decisions. Using an approach to cross-time analysis that avoids some of the major shortcomings of other studies, the relationship between party control and local fiscal decisions in English cities between…
Conversion and Church formation in tuvalu∗
New Politics in the South Pacific
From Local Government to Local Governance—and Beyond
This article presents an overview of local government studies and particularly of recent developments. It looks first of all at the changing social and economic factors which influence the operation of local government. Globalization, political and institutional changes, demographic trends—all these structure the environment of local government. The article then looks at the changes in local government, best understood as a movement towards local…
Introduction: The Theme of Local Governance
The Far East and Australasia 1997
Radio Happy Isles: Media and Politics at Play in the Pacific
This text provides an insight at the mediascape of the Pacific. Focusing on radio from the Solomon islands to Vauatu, Fiji, Tonga and Hawaii, the author presents anecdotes and information collected from the managers, broadcasters and listeners
The Textual Lives of Pacific Islanders
Jurg Wassmann. ed. Pacific Answers to Western Hegemony: Cultural Practices of Identity Construction. Oxford: Berg, 1998. vii. 449 pp
Reforming Women in the United States and Aotearoa/New Zealand: A Comparative Ethnography of Welfare Reform in Global Context
Historically, the United States and Aotearoa/New Zealand symbolize opposite poles of an individualist-collectivist welfare state continuum. Until recently, Aotearoa/New Zealand was known as a "cradle-to-grave" welfare state, with "universal" employment and coverage in health and education. U.S. history, in contrast, is marked by an unabashed individualism and a residualist approach to welfare. Recent neoliberal reforms, however, have engendered a…
Size and Democracy
Central Control over Local Government - A Western European Comparison
This article reviews the way in which central government control over municipal government has changed across Western Europe over the last 30 years. Having outlined the different ways in which central governments can exercise control over local government both formally and informally, the article examines the changing experience in unitary, federal and quasi- federal countries in Western Europe. It also considers the impact on intergovernmental r…
Reimagining the American Pacific: From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond
In this compelling critique Rob Wilson explores the creation of the Rim in the American imagination and how the concept has been variously adapted and resisted in Hawai'i, the Islands, New Zealand, and Australia. Reimagining the American Pacific ranges from the nineteenth century to the present and draws on theories of postmodernism, transnationality, and post-Marxist geography to contribute to the ongoing discussion of what constitutes 'global' …
Translated Identities: 'Pakeha' As Subjects of the Treaty of Waitangi
The politics of translation is clearly a perennial focus of debate in New Zealand, as shown by thematic links between the New Zealand social anthropology conferences at Waikato in 990 and Auckland in 2004. Of the many issues of translation swirling around ongoing attempts to interpret the Treaty of Waitangi, a surprisingly neglected one concerns the identities of the people on behalf of whom the Crown signed the Treaty. The term ‘Pakeha’ appears…
Theories of governance and Pacific microstates: The cautionary tale of Tuvalu
This paper questions the popularity of governance frameworks in explaining development failures and proposing new models of development for Pacific states. Such popularity is attributed to how problems are selected and framed (the doomsday scenario of demographic and environmental collapse, weakening of the state, and an upsurge in corruption) but also, and most importantly, to the recent hegemony of neo-liberal theory in political economy. Takin…
Culture in Safety and in Danger
In late 1999, Michèle Dominy and Laurence Carucci announced a session on ‘critical \nethnography’ at the forthcoming conference of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania to be held in Vancouver. The notice came at a critical moment in my own professional life. Rumours had begun to spread that the University of Waikato, where I teach anthropology, had allowed Hans Joachim Kupka, a German Holocaust denier, to enrol in a PhD supposedly i…
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