Research Catalog

Title

Justice and the Māori : the philosophy and practice of Māori claims in New Zealand since the 1970s / Andrew Sharp.

Author

Sharp, Andrew, 1906-

Publication

Auckland ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

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Description

viii, 346 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Should Maori, the indigenous people of New Zealand, be compensated for past wrongs at the hands of the colonising Pakeha? Should special programs be set up that treat Maori and Pakeha differently - either because Maori have been wronged or because they are worse off than Pakeha? Or should there be one law, one way of treating both peoples, one 'justice' for all? Justice and the Maori records New Zealanders' debates about these questions since the 1970s. It is at once a history book, and a book on the philosophy of identity, sovereignty, and justice. It is not just a book about Aotearoa/New Zealand. It speaks to universal questions of justice in the distribution of authority and property: what it is to be a member of an ethnic group, and whether such membership can justify special claims against those not of the group. It speaks to anyone interested in these matters, not just to New Zealanders.

Subject

• New Zealand. Waitangi Tribunal
• Māori (New Zealand people) > Claims
• Māori (New Zealand people) > Legal status, laws, etc
• Māori (New Zealand people) > Government relations
• New Zealand > Race relations

Genre/Form

• Claims
• Claims.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-340) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The social and conceptual conditions for claims to justice -- Reparative justice and its limits -- Equity, equalities and Maori independence -- Justice and sovereignty -- Justice and agency.
• Pt. 1. The social and conceptual coditions for claims to justice. Ch. 1. The Maori demand justice 1966-1988 -- Ch. 2. Justice and reparations: a conceptual analysis -- Ch. 3. Distinction and indistinction: the conditions for justice -- Pt. 2. Reparative justice and its limits. Ch. 4. The Waitangi Tribunal: the history of a growing reputation 1975-1988 -- Ch. 5. The Treaty of Waitangi and justice in contract -- Ch. 6. The difficulties with reparations for past wrongs in the Case of the Maori v the Pakeha -- Ch. 7. The Waitangi Tribunal and the jurisprudence of justice in reparation for breach of contract -- Ch. 8. The Waitangi Tribunal and the political world: moderation and the eye to future prospects -- Ch. 9. The foundations of the politics of compromise and the jurisprudence of the Wairua.
• Pt. 3. Equity, equalities, and Maori independence. ch. 10. Inequalities amd government policies 1960-1988 -- Ch. 11. The Pakeha ideology, distributive multiculturalism, and the cloudy rhetoric of equity -- Ch. 12. The bicultural distributive claim and the Maori code -- Pt. 4. Justice and sovereignty. Ch. 13. Absolute Maori sovereignty -- Ch. 14. Putting bounds to the Wairua, to Mana and Rangatiratanga: the assertion of state sovereignty -- Ch. 15. The construction of justice and sovereignty -- Pt. 5. Justice and agency. Ch. 16. Justice and agency 1989-1996.

ISBN

0195583825

OCLC

• 38221049
• SCSB-10146109

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library