Open AccessReconciliation, Representation and Indigeneity: 'Biculturalism' in Aotearoa New Zealand
Author(s) -
Aroha Harris
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of new zealand studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.102
0eISSN - 2324-3740
pISSN - 1176-306X
DOI - 10.26686/jnzs.v0i24.4060
Subject(s) - aotearoa , biculturalism , representation (politics) , sociology , argument (complex analysis) , politics , project commissioning , publishing , media studies , law , gender studies , political science , psychology , biochemistry , chemistry , neuroscience , neuroscience of multilingualism
Reconciliation, Representation, and Indigeneity begins with the claim that it ‘offers an up-to-date analysis of the reconciliation process between Māori and the Crown’ (7). The editors do not stop at up-to-date analysis. They push the edited collection of thirteen essays that were once conference papers into more complicated territory, inviting a range of ontologies, nestled in the links between ‘contemporary politics, the notion of activist research and historical and anthropological analysis’ (7). This introduction seemed a lot for me to take in, though I fully appreciated the intellectual care the editors took as they combed through the argument, organisation, themes, and academic approaches and positions of the book.