Book Launch of Public Policy and Ethnicity

1 November 2006

4:00pm

Venue: Conference Room 1, R Block, Gate 4, 76 Epsom Avenue, Epsom
Contact: Kimberley King on 6238899 ext 48619

The School of Social and Policy Studies warmly invites you to attend the book launch of

PUBLIC POLICY AND ETHNICITY

THE POLITICS OF ETHNIC BOUNDARY MAKING

Edited by ELIZABETH RATA, University of Auckland and ROGER OPENSHAW, Massey UniversityWith a preface by Jonathan Friedman

H/B ISBN 0-230-00338-9, NZ$79.95 (November 2006) Palgrave Macmillan Publishers UK Limited

Public Policy and Ethnicity is a response to the growing concern in many democracies that ethnicity has become institutionalised as a political category. The book draws on a number of international studies, including New Zealand, to show that this process of public policymaking creates permanent divisions and boundaries.
These artificial boundaries are fundamentally at odds with the social fluidity of modern societies and actually undermine the conditions required to promote social justice.

Speakers

Speaker at Wednesday’s book launch will be the Rt. Hon. Helen Clark, Prime Minister of New Zealand. The School of Social and Policy Studies is delighted to have her support and recognition of our contributions to both academic research and public debate in New Zealand.

Contents

Introduction: Of Mohammed, Murals and Maori Ceremony; E. Rata and R. Openshaw
Freedom, Identity Construction and Cultural Closure: The Taniwha, the Hijab and the Wiener Schnitzel as Boundary Makers; E. Kolig
The Politics of Ethnic Boundary Making; E. Rata
Culturalism, Neoliberalism and the State: The Rise and Fall of Neotraditionalism Ideologies in the South Pacific; A. Babadzan
The Paradox of Indigenous Rights: The Controversy Around the Foreshore and Seabed in New Zealand; T. van Meijl
Ethnicity in Business: The Case of New Zealand Maori; M. Devlin
Re-politicising Race: The Anglican Church in New Zealand; C. Tremewan
Putting Ethnicity in 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; Paul Callister
Challenging Ethnic Explanations for Educational Failure; R. Nash
Dogmas of Ethnicity; J. Clark
Historical Revisionism in New Zealand: Always Winter and Never Christmas; Graham Butterworth

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