The political dimensions of coexistence  

Oleh:

Gagné, Natacha

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Theory vol. 09 no. 01 (Mar. 2009), page 33–58.
Topik: biculturalism; colonial heritage; essentialism; identity politics; indigenous; Maaori; New Zealand; political arrangement; state; symbolic competition
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This article was written partly in response to the denunciation by social scientists, in recent years, of the essentialism of indigenous elites. It looks at the multiple and dialogically interconnected factors that have contributed to the present-day essentialist tendencies among indigenous peoples and particularly among indigenous leaders, taking the Maaori of New Zealand as a case study. The article shows that the ‘problems’ as well as the solutions relating to coexistence between Maaori and non-Maaori in New Zealand are mainly political, a fact that is often underestimated or minimized by social scientists and which seems relevant in rethinking many other cases of coexistence within nation-states around the world. The discussion is in part based on an article by Elizabeth Rata titled ‘Rethinking Biculturalism’ (2005), in which she examines the shifting meanings of biculturalism in New Zealand that have implied an ethnicization and essentialization of Maaori identity and politics.

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