New Zealand: Discursive Strategies Of The Maori Tribal Elite

New Zealand: Discursive Strategies Of The Maori Tribal Elite   Elizabeth Rata, 2011   The Maori tribal elite are identified and their political and economic ambitions discussed with reference to recent strategic documents. Framing and supporting those ambitions is an indigenous discourse that has been crucial to the elite’s success. Five discursive strategies are analysed: (1) constructing the indigenous collective as tribal Maori; (2) constructing indigeneity as ‘the logic of the...

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