Public Policy and Ethnicity The Politics of Ethnic Boundary Making

by Rata, Elizabeth; Openshaw, Roger

• ISBN13: 9780230003385
• ISBN10: 0230003389
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-12
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This study examines how ethnicity has become institutionalized as a political category to show that rather than enhancing democratic values and practices, recognizing ethnicity in public policy increases social divisions and does little to alter patterns of social inequality.

Author Biography

ELIZABETH RATA is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Political Studies, University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is a founding member of the Politics of Social Regulation Research Group and author of A Political Economy of Neotribal Capitalism.

ROGER OPENSHAW is Chair in the History of Education at Massey University, New Zealand. He is co-editor of Struggles Over Difference: Curriculum, Texts and Pedagogy in the Asia-Pacific which was awarded the 2006 American Education Research Association Outstanding Book of the Year: Curriculum Division.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	p. vii
Notes on the Contributors	p. viii
Preface	p. xi
Introduction: Of Mohammad, Murals and Maori Ceremony	p. 1
Freedom, Identity Construction and Cultural Closure: The Taniwha, the Hijab and the Wiener Schnitzel as Boundary Markers	p. 25
The Political Strategies of Ethnic and Indigenous Elites	p. 40
Culturalism, Neo-liberalism and the State: The Rise and Fall of Neotraditionalist Ideologies in the South Pacific	p. 54
The Paradox of Indigenous Rights: The Controversy around the Foreshore and the Seabed in New Zealand	p. 66
Ethnicity in Business: The Case of New Zealand Maori	p. 81
Re-politicising Race: The Anglican Church in New Zealand	p. 95
Putting Ethnicity into Policy: A New Zealand Case Study	p. 113
Race and Ethnicity in United Kingdom Public Policy: Education and Health	p. 128
Ethnic Measurement as a Policy Making Tool	p. 142
Challenging Ethnic Explanations for Educational Failure	p. 156
Dogmas of Ethnicity	p. 170
Historical Revisionism in New Zealand: Always Winter and Never Christmas	p. 185
References	p. 201
Index	p. 221
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