Join Jay as he canvases his project to trace how shifting Māori-Pākehā relations impact Aotearoa New Zealand’s Pacific diplomacy.
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Te Whakahaumanu (or, the Māori Renaissance) is a social, political, and cultural revitalisation and resurgence of the indigenous Māori people of Aotearoa New Zealand that began in the 1970s. It is a rejection of their colonisation and a process of reclaiming (taumanu) and restoring (haumanu) what was taken from them in effort to rebalance relations with the settler Pākehā population. Its impact has been studied in many fields – art, literature, language, politics – all of which are connected by their representative quality: how people express who they are, what they believe, and how they see the world. One representative field that study of this intergroup rebalancing has missed is diplomacy: how Aotearoa represents itself to and in interactions with the world.
Join Jay as he canvases his project to trace how shifting Māori-Pākehā relations impact Aotearoa New Zealand’s Pacific diplomacy. This whirlwind talk covers highlights from his research:
· Learn about his tūātea (breaking wave) and paewīra (axle) models that map how domestic ethnic friction can affect external diplomacy
· Follow the story of how Aotearoa’s Pacific diplomacy went from constancy to flux, illustrated through several case studies, and
· Hear about identity decolonisation, a concept for making sense of this trend in a context broader than New Zealand itself.
