Public Policy and Ethnicity: The Politics of Ethnic Boundary Making

by Roger Openshaw, E. Rata (Editor)

Overview

Has ethnicity become institutionalized as a political category? Drawing on international studies, including New Zealand, the book shows that this process of public policymaking creates artificial divisions that can become permanent and detrimental as well as being at odds with the social fluidity of modern societies. Preface by Jonathan Friedman.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230003385
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/10/2006
Edition description:	2006
Pages:	222
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

ALAIN BABADZAN Professor of Anthropology, University of Montpelier, France GRAHAM BUTTERWORTH Independent Public Historian, specializing in Maori History, New Zealand PAUL CALLISTER Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University, New Zealand, and Visiting Research Fellow, Cornell University, USA JOHN CLARK Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy of Education, School of Educational Studies, Massey University, New Zealand LORRAINE CULLEY Reader in Health Studies, Faculty of Health and Community Studies, De Montford University, Leicester, UK JACK DEMAINE Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, UK MARTIN DEVLIN Professor, Department of Management, Massey University, New Zealand ERICH KOLIG Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Otago University, New Zealand ROY NASH Professor of Education, Massey University, New Zealand ROGER OPENSHAW Chair in the History of Education, Department of Social and Policy Studies in Education, Massey University College of Education, New Zealand ELIZABETH RATA Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education and Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Political Studies, University of Auckland, New Zealand CHRISTOPHER TREMEWAN Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Auckland, New Zealand TOON VAN MEIJL Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and Development Studies, and Secretary, Centre for Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Table of Contents

List of Tables Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Of Mohammed, Murals and Maori Ceremony; E.Rata & R.Openshaw Freedom, Identity Construction and Cultural Closure: The Taniwha, the Hijab and the Weiner Schnitzel as Boundary Makers; E.Kolig The Politics of Ethnic Boundary Making; E.Rata Culturalism, Neoliberalism and the State: The Rise and Fall of Neotraditionalist Ideologies in the South Pacific; A.Babadzan The Paradox of Indigenous Rights; T.van Meijl Ethnicity in Business: The Case of New Zealand Maori; M.Devlin Re-politicising Race: The Anglian Church in New Zealand; C.Tremewan Putting Ethnicity into Policy: A New Zealand Case Study; R.Openshaw Race and Ethnicity in United Kingdom Public Policy: Education and Health; L.Culley & J.Demaine Ethnic Measurement as a Policy-Making Tool; P.Callister Challenging Ethnic Explanations for Educational Failure; R.Nash Dogmas of Ethnicity; J.Clark Historical Revisionism in New Zealand: Always Winter and Never Christmas; G.Butterworth References Index