scholarly journals Culture versus class: towards an understanding of Māori poverty

Race & Class ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-96
Author(s):  
Toon van Meijl
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Cultural Turn

Interrogating why class has been demoted as a useful concept within anthropology, the author examines the ways in which issues of inequality and ethnicity have been used to explain both the enduring impact of settler colonialism on, and contemporary forms of discrimination against, New Zealand Māori. He weighs up the impact of the cultural turn in academia, the Māori Renaissance, the impact of neoliberalism, and the assumption that class coincides with ethnicity and hence the emphasis on affirmative action in education. The assumption that poverty is either class- or ethnicity-based is false. Māori themselves have been affected by social change: a few making it into a middle class, while, despite growing intermarriage, identification as Māori, appears enhanced by both enduring poverty and racism.

New Labour, Class, and Social Change

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Wide Distribution ◽  
Social Attitudes ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Trade Unionism ◽  
New Middle Class ◽  
The Impact

This chapter examines how ideas about class, community, and individualism figured in the modernization of the Labour Party in the 1980s and 1990s. It examines the development, under Kinnock and Blair, of a new imagined constituency for Labour—a ‘new working class’ or, as Blair put it, ‘new middle class’. The sources of this vision lay partly in academic theorizing, but also in the backgrounds of key modernizers, and in new polling and focus group techniques for researching social attitudes. Modernizers understood the new majoritarian constituency in society as united by aspirations, and reoriented socialism to emphasize the use of community action—through the state—to secure a wide distribution of opportunity and security throughout society, in order to enable individuals to achieve those aspirations. The chapter concludes by examining the impact of these beliefs on policy relating to poverty, inequality, trade unionism, and community.

scholarly journals "It's not as bad as there"... but it is bad enough here: Microaggression in New Zealand based on stories of Asian New Zealanders.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Daniel Kim
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Predominant Type ◽  
Online Spaces ◽  
Sense Of Identity ◽  
The Impact ◽  
New Zealanders

<p>This thesis explores microaggression in New Zealand based on stories of lived experiences written and shared by Asian New Zealanders. It examines how Asian New Zealanders are able to express their feelings, thoughts, and experiences of microaggression through stories in online spaces, and how such narratives are used as performative elements for social change and activism against racism. I show how incredibly hurtful and damaging microaggressions are, by focusing on the stories of my participants, where they expressed feelings of hurt, disappointment, frustration, and anger as well as significant impacts on their sense of identity and belonging in New Zealand. These were largely effects of experiencing multiple, constant, and ongoing acts of microaggression; I argue that this is the predominant type of racism that Asian New Zealanders are facing. The stories and the act of storytelling allowed Asian New Zealanders to initiate discussion and awareness to strive for social change against issues of racism that had persisted and distressed them for so long. Listening to and analysing their voices and the stories has allowed me to deeply engage with the impact of casual racism and also to detect new voices that use storytelling as an empowering device and to gather strength for resistance and speaking back.</p>

scholarly journals "It's not as bad as there"... but it is bad enough here: Microaggression in New Zealand based on stories of Asian New Zealanders.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Daniel Kim
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Predominant Type ◽  
Online Spaces ◽  
Sense Of Identity ◽  
The Impact ◽  
New Zealanders

<p>This thesis explores microaggression in New Zealand based on stories of lived experiences written and shared by Asian New Zealanders. It examines how Asian New Zealanders are able to express their feelings, thoughts, and experiences of microaggression through stories in online spaces, and how such narratives are used as performative elements for social change and activism against racism. I show how incredibly hurtful and damaging microaggressions are, by focusing on the stories of my participants, where they expressed feelings of hurt, disappointment, frustration, and anger as well as significant impacts on their sense of identity and belonging in New Zealand. These were largely effects of experiencing multiple, constant, and ongoing acts of microaggression; I argue that this is the predominant type of racism that Asian New Zealanders are facing. The stories and the act of storytelling allowed Asian New Zealanders to initiate discussion and awareness to strive for social change against issues of racism that had persisted and distressed them for so long. Listening to and analysing their voices and the stories has allowed me to deeply engage with the impact of casual racism and also to detect new voices that use storytelling as an empowering device and to gather strength for resistance and speaking back.</p>

Overseas Development Administration. A Guide to Social Analysis for Projects in Developing Countries. London: HMSO. 1995. viii+248 pages. Hardbound. £18.95.

1996 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-190
Author(s):  
Mir Annice Mahmood
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Social Analysis ◽  
Economic Perspective ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Overseas Development

This book, hereinafter referred to as the Guide, has been developed for those social analysts (e.g., anthropologists, sociologists, and human geographers) who have had little or no practical experience in applying their knowledge as development practitioners. In the past, development projects would be analysed from a narrow financial and economic perspective. But with the evolution of thinking on development, this narrow financial and economic aspect has now been broadened to include the impact on society as the very meaning of development has now come to symbolise social change. Thus, development is not restricted only to plans and figures; the human environment in its entirety is now considered for analysis while designing and implementing development projects.

“Jumble Sales Are the Same the World Over”

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Watson
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
West African ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Lesbian Relationships ◽  
Female Friendship ◽  
The World ◽  
Female Headed Households

This chapter analyzes the novels of the British writer Barbara Pym, which are often read as cozy tales of English middle-class postwar life but which, I argue, are profoundly influenced by the work Pym carried out as an editor of the journal Africa at the International African Institute in London, where she worked for decades. She used ethnographic techniques to represent social change in a postwar, decolonizing, non-normative Britain of female-headed households, gay and lesbian relationships, and networks of female friendship and civic engagement. Pym’s novels of the 1950s implicitly criticize the synchronic, functionalist anthropology of kinship tables that dominated the discipline in Britain, substituting an interest in a new anthropology that could investigate social change. Specific anthropological work on West African social changes underpins Pym’s English fiction, including several journal articles that Pym was editing while she worked on her novels.

scholarly journals Emotions in Aotearoa New Zealand: Reflexive emotionalisation in a colonised context

2021 ◽  
pp. 026858092199530
Author(s):  
Mary Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
State Formation ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Ongoing Process ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Novel Concept ◽  
Feeling Rules

Reflexive emotionalisation means increased thinking about and acting on emotional experiences in response to major changes to social life, such as those accompanying colonisation. This article explains and develops this novel concept, assessing its usefulness through an exploratory assessment of reflexive emotionalisation in the formation of Aotearoa New Zealand as a colonised settler state. It is argued that as cultures met and sought to coexist, emotions were vital. Focusing on reflexive emotionalisation in Aotearoa reveals how differences in feeling rules were navigated, sometimes in violent ways, as power shifted towards the colonisers. Feelings of belonging are important in that ongoing process of reflexive emotionalisation, the elucidation of which provides a new understanding of social change and settler state formation that avoids casting colonised peoples as passive objects of ‘progress’ brought by colonisers.

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