Public Policy and Ethnicity

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxv

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2. Introduction: Of Mohammad, Murals and Maori Ceremony

   • Elizabeth Rata, Roger Openshaw

   Pages 1-24

3. Freedom, Identity Construction and Cultural Closure: The Taniwha, the Hijab and the Wiener Schnitzel as Boundary Markers

   • Erich Kolig

   Pages 25-39

4. The Political Strategies of Ethnic and Indigenous Elites

   • Elizabeth Rata

   Pages 40-53

5. Culturalism, Neo-liberalism and the State: The Rise and Fall of Neotraditionalist Ideologies in the South Pacific

   • Alain Babadzan

   Pages 54-65

6. The Paradox of Indigenous Rights: The Controversy around the Foreshore and the Seabed in New Zealand

   • Toon van Meiji

   Pages 66-80

7. Ethnicity in Business: The Case of New Zealand Maori

   • Martin Devlin

   Pages 81-94

8. Re-politicising Race: The Anglican Church in New Zealand

   • Christopher Tremewan

   Pages 95-112

9. Putting Ethnicity into Policy: A New Zealand Case Study

   • Roger Openshaw

   Pages 113-127

10. Race and Ethnicity in United Kingdom Public Policy: Education and Health

    • Lorraine Gulley, Jack Demaine

    Pages 128-141

11. Ethnic Measurement as a Policy Making Tool

    • Paul Callister

    Pages 142-155

12. Challenging Ethnic Explanations for Educational Failure

    • Roy Nash

    Pages 156-169

13. Dogmas of Ethnicity

    • John A. Clark

    Pages 170-184

14. Historical Revisionism in New Zealand: Always Winter and Never Christmas

    • Graham Butterworth

    Pages 185-200

15. Back Matter

    Pages 201-222

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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.

• education
• identity
• Ideologie
• Institution
• Nation
• neoliberalism
• policy-making
• policymaking
• politics
• research

• Faculty of Education, University of Auckland, New Zealand

  Elizabeth Rata

• Department of Educational Studies, Massey University College in Education, New Zealand

  Roger Openshaw

• Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France

  Jonathan Friedman

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

Policies and ethics