Resistance: An Indigenous Response to NeoliberalismResistance: An Indigenous Response to Neoliberalism is a collection of papers from Maori academics, activists and leaders on the connection between global practices of neoliberalism and the diverse forms of Maori resistance that aim to destablize them.Aotearoa is one of the world leaders of neoliberalism. Successive New Zealand governments since 1984 have pursued neoliberal policies with a faith, vehemence and confidence in their success that few other governments appear to possess. |
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Contents
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The Personal Is the Political | 115 |
We Are Everywhere | 125 |
Part Four | 131 |
Maori and the United Nations | 147 |
Globalisation and the Colonising State of Mind | 167 |
Appendix | 183 |
Notes on Contributors | 189 |
Index | 207 |
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Page 10 - Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion — the technique of the army and of the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation of individuals — the technique of the market place.
Page 186 - The chiefs of the Confederation of the United tribes of New Zealand, and the separate and independent chiefs who have not become members of the Confederation, cede to Her Majesty the Queen of England, absolutely, and without reservation, all the rights and powers of sovereignty which the said Confederation or individual chiefs respectively exercise or possess, or may be supposed to exercise or possess, over their respective territories, as the sole Sovereigns thereof.
Page 186 - Waitangi and We the Separate and Independent Chiefs of New Zealand claiming authority over the Tribes and Territories which are specified after our respective names, having been made fully to understand the Provisions of the foregoing Treaty, accept...
Page 187 - Her Majesty the Queen of England confirms and guarantees to the chiefs and tribes of New Zealand, and to the respective families and individuals thereof, the full, exclusive, and undisturbed possession of their lands and estates, forests, fisheries, and other properties which they may collectively or individually possess, so long as it is their wish and desire to retain the same in their possession...
Page 186 - Zealand, and anxious to protect their just rights and property, and to secure to them the enjoyment of peace and good order, has deemed it necessary, in consequence of the great number of Her Majesty's subjects who have already settled in New Zealand, and the rapid extension of emigration both from Europe and Australia...
Page 187 - Fisheries and other properties which they may collectively or individually possess so long as it is their wish and desire to retain the same in their possession; but the Chiefs of the United Tribes and the individual Chiefs yield to Her Majesty the exclusive right of preemption over such lands as the proprietors thereof may be disposed to alienate at such prices as may be agreed upon between the respective Proprietors and persons appointed by Her Majesty to treat with them in that behalf. "ARTICLE...
Page 186 - ... (in consequence of the great number of Her Majesty's subjects who have already settled in New Zealand, and the rapid extension of emigration both from Europe and Australia, which is still in progress,) to constitute and appoint a functionary properly authorized to treat with the aborigines of New Zealand for the recognition of Her Majesty's sovereign authority over the whole or any part of these islands.
Page 61 - imperialism" means the practice, the theory, and the attitudes of a dominating metropolitan center ruling a distant territory; "colonialism^" which is almost always a consequence of imperialism, is the implanting of settlements on distant territory.
Page 142 - The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and • The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR...
Bibliographic information
| Title | Resistance: An Indigenous Response to Neoliberalism |
| Editor | Maria Bargh |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Huia Publishers, 2007 |
| ISBN | 1869692861, 9781869692865 |
| Length | 213 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / Free Enterprise & Capitalism History / Australia & New Zealand History / Modern / 20th Century Political Science / Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism |
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