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Author Sharp, Andrew, 1940-

Title Justice and the Maori : the philosophy and practice of Maori claims in New Zealand since the 1970s / Andrew Sharp
Edition Second edition
Published Auckland, [N.Z.] : Oxford University Press, 1997

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 MELB  323.11994 Sha/Jat 1997  AVAILABLE
Description viii, 346 pages ; 24 cm
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
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
Analysis Cultural identity
Equality
Ethnic relations
History
Jurisprudence
Maoris
New Zealand
Overseas item
Sovereignty
Notes First ed. published 1990
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-340) and index
Subject New Zealand. Waitangi Tribunal.
Equality before the law -- New Zealand.
Maori (New Zealand people) -- Civil rights.
Maori (New Zealand people) -- Claims.
Maori (New Zealand people) -- Government relations.
Maori (New Zealand people) -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Maori (New Zealand people) -- Politics and government.
SUBJECT New Zealand -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116351
Author Sharp, Andrew, 1940- Justice and the Maori : Maori claims in New Zealand political argument in the 1980s
LC no. 97200053
ISBN 0195540247
0195583825 (paperback)
9780195540246
9780195583823 (paperback)