Public Policy and Ethnicity: The Politics of Ethnic Boundary Making

Roger Openshaw

Oct 2006 · Springer

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Has ethnicity become institutionalized as a political category? Drawing on international studies, including New Zealand, the book shows that this process of public policymaking creates artificial divisions that can become permanent and detrimental as well as being at odds with the social fluidity of modern societies. Preface by Jonathan Friedman.

About the author

ALAIN BABADZAN Professor of Anthropology, University of Montpelier, France GRAHAM BUTTERWORTH Independent Public Historian, specializing in Maori History, New Zealand PAUL CALLISTER Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University, New Zealand, and Visiting Research Fellow, Cornell University, USA JOHN CLARK Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy of Education, School of Educational Studies, Massey University, New Zealand LORRAINE CULLEY Reader in Health Studies, Faculty of Health and Community Studies, De Montford University, Leicester, UK JACK DEMAINE Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, UK MARTIN DEVLIN Professor, Department of Management, Massey University, New Zealand ERICH KOLIG Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Otago University, New Zealand ROY NASH Professor of Education, Massey University, New Zealand ROGER OPENSHAW Chair in the History of Education, Department of Social and Policy Studies in Education, Massey University College of Education, New Zealand ELIZABETH RATA Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education and Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Political Studies, University of Auckland, New Zealand CHRISTOPHER TREMEWAN Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Auckland, New Zealand TOON VAN MEIJL Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and Development Studies, and Secretary, Centre for Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands