Public Policy and Ethnicity

The Politics of Ethnic Boundary Making
2006. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-230-00338-5
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 217 mm, Gewicht: 390 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Openshaw, Roger

Rata, E.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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