Public Policy and Ethnicity: The Politics of Ethnic Boundary Making [Hardcover]

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.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 IndexALAIN BABADZAN Professor of Anthropology, University of Montpelier, FranceGRAHAM BUTTERWORTH Independent Public Historian, specializing in Maori History, New ZealandPAUL CALLISTER Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University, New Zealand, and Visiting Research Fellow, Cornell University, USAJOHN CLARK Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy of Education, School of Educational Studies, Massey University, New ZealandLORRAINE CULLEY Reader in Health Studies, Faculty of Health and Community Studies, De Montford University, Leicester, UKJACK DEMAINE Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences, Ll³¥