Neil Lunt
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781447306443
- eISBN:
- 9781447311607
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447306443.003.0014
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
This chapter examines the shift in New Zealand’s discursive articulations of social policy including usage of “welfare” and “welfare state.” Identifying the increased attention to language within ...
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This chapter examines the shift in New Zealand’s discursive articulations of social policy including usage of “welfare” and “welfare state.” Identifying the increased attention to language within social policy analysis, the chapter adopts an historical lens to examine change over the past five decades. It identifies the rise and fall of welfare and the emergence of alternative concepts including social development under Labour-led administrations (1999-2008) and subsequent attempts by the National Party to write a new narrative. Drawing on extensive archival research that spans the establishment of the welfare state to contemporary events, the chapter’s analytical approach serves to question: 1) language use (predicates, phrases, and vocabulary); 2) narratives, binaries, and indexes that invoke relations and values; 3) the uses of metaphors, myths, and naturalizations; 4) pointers that cue readers to make bridging assumptions; and, 5) subject positioning within texts.Less
This chapter examines the shift in New Zealand’s discursive articulations of social policy including usage of “welfare” and “welfare state.” Identifying the increased attention to language within social policy analysis, the chapter adopts an historical lens to examine change over the past five decades. It identifies the rise and fall of welfare and the emergence of alternative concepts including social development under Labour-led administrations (1999-2008) and subsequent attempts by the National Party to write a new narrative. Drawing on extensive archival research that spans the establishment of the welfare state to contemporary events, the chapter’s analytical approach serves to question: 1) language use (predicates, phrases, and vocabulary); 2) narratives, binaries, and indexes that invoke relations and values; 3) the uses of metaphors, myths, and naturalizations; 4) pointers that cue readers to make bridging assumptions; and, 5) subject positioning within texts.
Miranda Johnson
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- October 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190600020
- eISBN:
- 9780190600051
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190600020.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History
Chapter 5 takes the story of indigenous activism to New Zealand where it chronicles how Maori activists contested the terms of their incorporation into a symbolic national story. Beginning with ...
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Chapter 5 takes the story of indigenous activism to New Zealand where it chronicles how Maori activists contested the terms of their incorporation into a symbolic national story. Beginning with protests against the interpretation of the colonial Treaty of Waitangi (1840) as making one people in the settler state, it follows young activists as they joined with older leaders to demand land rights and asserted their distinct identity. The chapter explores the significant reinterpretation of the treaty as recognizing Maori sovereignty in the context of a newly created commission of inquiry, the Waitangi Tribunal, established in 1975 to examine Maori grievances. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the 1987 Lands Case in the context of radical neoliberal reforms to New Zealand’s economy and considers how and why judges in that case recognized Maori as partners with the Crown.Less
Chapter 5 takes the story of indigenous activism to New Zealand where it chronicles how Maori activists contested the terms of their incorporation into a symbolic national story. Beginning with protests against the interpretation of the colonial Treaty of Waitangi (1840) as making one people in the settler state, it follows young activists as they joined with older leaders to demand land rights and asserted their distinct identity. The chapter explores the significant reinterpretation of the treaty as recognizing Maori sovereignty in the context of a newly created commission of inquiry, the Waitangi Tribunal, established in 1975 to examine Maori grievances. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the 1987 Lands Case in the context of radical neoliberal reforms to New Zealand’s economy and considers how and why judges in that case recognized Maori as partners with the Crown.
