The Ties that Unwind

Civic and Ethnic Imaginings in New Zealand

Bibliographic Data

ID6307019
AuthorsDavid Pearson (0000-0002-2912-0976, Victoria University of Wellington, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume6
Issue1
Pages91-110
Publication date2000-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNations and Nationalism (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1345-5078 • E-ISSN: 1469-8129
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1354-5078.2000.00091.x
OpenAlexW2053206005
LanguageEN
Citations received21
References cited22

This paper argues that examining the interweaving of ethnic and civic elements best explains current tensions in ethnic politics in New Zealand in elite state and nation‐building and how these shape patterns of inclusion or exclusion of aboriginal and immigrant minorities. Theories of ethnic and civic nationalism are discussed briefly and the distinctiveness of settler societies is explored. Recent trends promoting biculturalism and multiculturalism are examined. A discussion of legal citizenship since 1840 reveals the linkages and persistence of three historical trajectories – the decolonising of aboriginal people (Maori), the de‐colonial movement among Pakeha (‘white Europeans’), and the partial de‐alienising of immigration. These trajectories, I conclude, reflect in‐built tensions between different historical and current ethnic and civic representations of the New Zealand nation‐state

Biculturalism · Citizenship · Colonialism · Elite · Ethnic group · Immigration · Inclusion (mineral · Inclusion–exclusion principle · Multiculturalism · Nationalism · Optimal distinctiveness theory · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Anthropology · Australian History and Society · Gender Studies · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Labor Movements and Unions · Law

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