The Neoliberal State, Recognition and Indigenous Rights: New Paternalism to New Imaginings(40 Centre for Indigenous Policy Research (CIPR))

The impact of neoliberal governance on indigenous peoples in liberal settler states may be both enabling and constraining. This book is distinctive in drawing comparisons between three such states—Australia, Canada and New Zealand. In a series of empirically grounded, interpretive micro-studies, it draws out a shared policy coherence, b

Table of Contents:
From new paternalism to new imaginings of possibilities in Australia, Canada and Aotearoa/New Zealand: Indigenous rights and recognition and the state in the neoliberal age Part 1: The connection between the act of governing, policy and neoliberalism Privatisation and dispossession in the name of indigenous women's rights Resisting the ascendancy of an emboldened colonialism A flawed Treaty partner: The New Zealand state, local government and the politics of recognition Expressions of Indigenous rights and self-determination from the ground up: A Yawuru example Part 2: Pendulums and contradictions in neoliberalism governing everything from Indigenous disadvantage to Indigenous economic development in Australia Missing ATSIC: Australia's need for a strong Indigenous representative body Neoliberalising disability income reform: What does this mean for Indigenous Australians living in regional areas? Indigenous peoples, neoliberalism and the state: A retreat from rights to 'responsibilisation' via the cashless welfare card Ideology vs context in the neoliberal state's management of remote Indigenous housing reform Fragile positions in the new paternalism: Indigenous community organisations during the 'Advancement' era in Australia The tyranny of neoliberal public management and the challenge for Aboriginal community organisations Aboriginal organisations, self-determination and the neoliberal age: A case study of how the 'game has changed' for Aboriginal organisations in Newcastle Part 3: The dynamic relationship Maori have had with simultaneously resisting, manipulating and working with neoliberalism in New Zealand Maori, the state and self-determination in the neoliberal age Indigenous peoples embedded in neoliberal governance: Has the Maori Party achieved its social policy goals in New Zealand? Indigenous settlements and market environmentalism: An untimely coincidence? Maori political and economic recognition in a diverse economy