A Political Economy of Neotribal Capitalism

by Rata, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780739100684
• ISBN10: 0739100688
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-03-09
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Among the unintended and largely unforeseen consequences of globalization are the fundamental transformations of local relationships, both economic and cultural, that occur within communities drawn into the predominantly capitalist world economy. Democracy, once considered the essential political mode of regulation for successful capitalist economies, is being replaced by nondemocratic modes of social organization as localized responses to global forces, such as Maori retribalization in New Zealand, are subverted and transformed.

A Political Economy of Neotribal Capitalism looks at the past three decades in New Zealand and the shifts in the relationship between the indigenous Maori people and the dominant Pakeha (white) society to illustrate these fundamental changes to national political, social, and economic structures. The book includes a case study of a Maori family, a theoretical exploration of the concept of "neotribal capitalism", and discussions of themes such as changing socioeconomic relations, new social movements; the indigenization of ethnicity;

Author Biography

Elizabeth Rata completed her Ph.D. at the University of Auckland in 1996. She lectures in educational sociology at the Auckland College of Education and lives in Auckland with her two sons.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Preface	xv
Part One
Introduction	1	(16)
Localisation, the New Zealand Experience	17	(16)
Theorising Neotribal Capitalism	33	(10)
Neotraditionalism, the Ideology of Retribalisation	43	(10)
The Emergence of Neotribal Capitalism	53	(22)
A Critique of Culturalism	75	(18)
Part Two
The Research Studies	93	(18)
Maori and Pakeha, the Bicultural Project	111	(26)
Kinship Revival and Retribalisation	137	(18)
The Ngati Kuri Tribe	155	(26)
A Family Marine Farm	181	(18)
Tribal Fisheries	199	(26)
The Threat to Democracy	225	(8)
Notes	233	(8)
Glossary of Terms	241	(2)
Bibliography	243	(18)
Index	261	(4)
About the Author	265