Browsing by Author "Goldsmith, Michael"
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Reforming women in the United States and Aotearoa/New Zealand: A comparative ethnography of welfare reform in global context
(American Anthropological Association, 2001)Historically, the United States and Aotearoa/New Zealand symbolize opposite poles of an individualist-collectivist welfare state continuum. Until recently, Aotearoa/New Zealand was known as a "cradle-to-grave" welfare ... -
Theories of governance and pacific microstates: The cautionary tale of Tuvalu.
(Blackwell Publishing, 2005)This paper questions the popularity of governance frameworks in explaining development failures and proposing new models of development for Pacific states. Such popularity is attributed to how problems are selected and ... -
Translated identities: 'Pakeha' as subjects of the Treaty of Waitangi
(Association Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa New Zealand, 2005)The politics of translation is clearly a perennial focus of debate in New Zealand, as shown by thematic links between the New Zealand social anthropology conferences at Waikato in 1990 and Auckland in 2004. Of the many ... -
Vot Long Pati Ia! (Your vote, our party)
(2001)Review of the film "Vot Long Pati Ia!" The film is made by Wan Smolbag Theatre in Vanuatu and is a fascinating dramatization of political and developmental dilemmas in the South Pacific. -
Who owns native nature? Discourses of rights to land, culture, and knowledge in New Zealand
(Cambridge University Press, 2009)Michael Brown famously asked ‘Who owns native culture?’ This paper revisits that question by analyzing what happens to culture when the culturally defined boundary between it and nature becomes salient in the context of ...
