Political Expression and Ethnicity - Statecraft and Mobilization in the Maori World

Hazlehurst explores the political importance of ethnicity for a minority indigenous population, the Maori of New Zealand. Drawing on close ethnographical observation and extensive interviews with key participants, Kayleen Hazlehurst provides a comprehensive narrative and analysis of the creation of the Mana Motuhake party and its formative electoral experiences. Hazlehurst places the emergence of the party in the early 1980s in the context of historical patterns of resistance and cooperation with the European majority. Modern political networks, leadership styles, mobilization strategies, ideologies, political rhetoric and symbology are examined. The study provides an overview of the contested nature of Maori ethnicity and of conflicting modern and traditional loyalties.

List of contents

Introduction
From Resistance to Co-existence
The Structure of Maori Political Life
From Labour to Independent
The Foundation of Mana Motuhake
The Battle of the By-Election
A Campaign of Hope and Vision
A Distinctive Alternative
The Meaning of Mana Motuhake
Glossary
Bibliography
Postscript
Index

About the author

KAYLEEN M. HAZLEHURST is Senior Lecturer in Cross-Cultural Studies in the Faculty of Arts at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia./e She is the author of Political Expression and Ethnicity: Statecraft and Mobiliation in the Maori World (Praeger, 1993) and A Healing Place: Indigenous Visions of Personal Empowerment and Community Recovery (1994).

Product details

• Authors: Kayleen M. Hazlehurst, Hazlehurst Kayleen M.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.1993
• EAN: 9780275944582
• ISBN: 978-0-275-94458-2
• No. of pages: 248
• Weight: 595 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Australian & Oceanian, Political structure & processes, New Zealand, Human rights, civil rights, Political structure and processes, New Zealand / Aotearoa, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Politics, Law, and Government: Comparative Politics