The Journal of the Polynesian Society SPECIAL ISSUE: RECOGNITION, REDISTRIBUTION AND RECONCILIATION IN POSTCOLONIAL SETTLER NATION-STATES VOLUME 112 No.3 SEPTEMBER 2003 THE POLYNESIAN SOCIETY THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND NEW ZEALAND
THE JOURNAL OF THE POLYNESIAN SOCIETY Volume 112 SEPTEMBER 2003 Number 3 Special issue POSTCOLONIAL DILEMMAS: REAPPRAISING JUSTICE AND IDENTITY IN NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA Edited by TOON VAN MEIJL & MICHAEL GOLDSMITH The articles in this Special Issue had their origin in a workshop on Multiculturalism that was convened by Toon van Meijl at the Fifth Conference of the European Society for Oceanists, Recovering the Past: Resources, Representations, and Ethics of Research in Oceania, held in Vienna, Austria, 4-6 July 2002.
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Volume 112 SEPTEMBER 2003 Number 3 CONTENTS Notes on Contributors... 204 TOON VAN MEIJL and MICHAEL GOLDSMITH Introduction: Recognition, Redistribution and Reconciliation in Postcolonial Settler Societies... 205 ANN SULLIVAN Effecting Change through Electoral Politics: Cultural Identity and the Mäori Franchise... 219 JOHN MORTON Abortive Redemption? Apology, History and Subjectivity in Australian Reconciliation... 238 TOON VAN MEIJL Conflicts of Redistribution in Contemporary Mäori Society: Leadership and the Tainui Settlement... 260 MICHAEL GOLDSMITH Culture, For and Against: Patterns of Culturespeak in New Zealand... 280 SENKA BOZIC-VRBANCIC One Nation, Two Peoples, Many Cultures: Exhibiting Identity at Te Papa Tongarewa... 295 References... 314
CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE Senka Bozic-Vrbancic is currently completing her Ph.D. in social anthropology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her thesis addresses the relationship between Mäori and Croats in New Zealand. Michael Goldsmith is Senior Lecturer in anthropology at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand. He studied anthropology and history at the University of Auckland and in 1989 he completed a Ph.D. thesis in anthropology at the University of Illinois on Church and Society in Tuvalu. He publishes on Pacific history and politics as well as on issues of welfare, citizenship and cultural identity in New Zealand. Toon van Meijl is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Pacific and Asian Studies at the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He studied social anthropology and philosophy at the University of Nijmegen and the Australian National University in Canberra, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1991. His main interests are issues of cultural identity and the self, and socio-political questions concerning property rights of indigenous peoples. John Morton is Senior Lecturer in anthropology and Aboriginal studies in the School of Social Sciences at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Before completing his Ph.D. in anthropology from the Australian National University in 1985, he studied at Sussex and Oxford. He has conducted fieldwork with Aboriginal communities in central Australia and elsewhere since 1981 and has written extensively in the areas of religion, land rights and public Aboriginality. Ann Sullivan is a member of the northern Ngä Puhi iwi (tribe). She is Associate Professor in the Department of Mäori Studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She studied political science in the Department of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Waikato, where she also taught until recently. Her main research interests are Mäori and indigenous politics, with a particular focus on the study of electoral behaviour, public policy and Mäori development. 204