LEGISLATION AND HONOURING THE TREATY OF WAITANGI Introduction My name is Elizabeth Rata. I am a professor of education at the University of Auckland. This  submision draws on my expertise in education and in …

1st June 2022 The article was published in The Australian, 25th May 2022 New Zealand’s constitution is currently undergoing a major heart and lung transplant via co-governance arrangements between Māori corporate tribes and the government. It beggars …

This paper was published as An Overview of Neotribal Capitalism in Ethnologies Comparees. Oceanie, debut de siecle. No 6, Spring, 2003. Author: Elizabeth Rata I have updated the article slightly and re-named it ‘Neotribal Capitalism’ (June …

This paper was published in Public Sector, The Journal of the Institute of Public Administration New Zealand, Vol 26, No 3 September, 2003, pp. 2 – 6 The Treaty of Waitangi has become a talisman for …

This article was first published in The Democracy Project, 23 April 2022 Revolutionary moves to decolonise mainstream education are outlined in two Ministry of Education documents.  ‘Te Hurihanganui  A Blueprint for Transformative Systems Shift’ …

This article was published as a chapter in: Rata, E. (2020). The History of an Intellectual Dispute at Auckland’s School of Education. In Bonal, X., Coxon, E., Novelli, M.& A. Verger. Education, globalisation and …

Rata, Elizabeth (2004) ‘Marching through the Institutions’: The Neotribal Elite and the Treaty of Waitangi Published in Sites, New Series, WINTER  2004 VOLUME 1 NO. 2 https://sites.otago.ac.nz/Sites From the Editorial ARTICLES Jacqueline Leckie                                                                       1 …

How cultural essentialism threatens intellectual freedom in the New Zealand tertiary education sector Roger Openshaw and Elizabeth Rata A version of this paper was published in the New Zealand Journal of Tertiary Education Policy …

A version of the article ‘History of Kaupapa Matauranga Māori at Auckland University in the 1990s’ was later published as a chapter: Rata, E. (2020). The History of an Intellectual Dispute at Auckland’s School …

My recent article about the role that the concept of a Treaty ‘partnership’ has played in the development of ethno-nationalism provoked a critical response from Professor Andrew Geddis. We obviously have different opinions about the value of …