Indigenous Rights' or 'Racial Privileges

The Rhetoric of 'Race' in New Zealand Politics

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2174512
AutoresKeith Barber (University of Waikato, autor correspondente)
Ano2008
Volume9
Fascículo2
Páginas141-156
Data de publicação2008-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCanberra Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0314-9099 • E-ISSN: 1740-9314
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14442210802023665
OpenAlexW2095277217
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14
Referências citadas14

The New Zealand parliamentary election campaign of 2005 was marked by a significant break in the consensus between the two major political parties, Labour and National, in the area of Maori affairs: a consensus that had previously been articulated in terms of a shared commitment to ‘biculturalism’ and the Treaty of Waitangi. In January 2004, the National Party launched an attack on government policies, describing them as giving unfair privileges to Maori based purely on ‘race’. The present paper examines the National Party's adoption of the rhetoric of ‘race’ and the conceptual, political and ideological considerations behind it. It also examines attitudinal, social policy and socioeconomic factors to explain the widespread acceptability of this rhetoric among the New Zealand public. These events are considered within the context of a growing academic and political critique of ‘culturalism’ in New Zealand social policy and social science

Aotearoa · Ideology · Indigenous · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Sociology · Treaty · Treaty of Waitangi · Australian History and Society · Canadian Identity and History · Gender Studies · Law · New Zealand Economic and Social Studies · Public Administration