Matariki Reading List 2022: Kia whakahauti e ngā o Pohutakawa
24/6/2022
This Matariki I am sharing my favourite readings on decolonising the state and indigenous public management. This year the Poneketanga has been all about those for and against the bi-cultural state, while those involved in building and running indigenous public institutions have just been getting on with the mahi. It’s been a year of wahahukatanga for some, while others have been getting on with the teatoweltanga. Hopefully, these articles help those of you working in public service and anyone wanting to understand the work of decolonising the state (which is what I study), is not the same as indigenous public policy or indigenous institutions (which is what I work on).
Colonisation, decolonisation and the bi-cultural and co-governed state
Ackerman, J. (2004). Co-governance for accountability: beyond “exit” and “voice”. World Development, 32(3), 447-463.
Alexander, J., & Stivers, C. (2020). Racial bias: A buried cornerstone of the administrative state. Administration & Society, 52(10), 1470-1490.
Alkadry, M. G., & Blessett, B. (2010). Aloofness or dirty hands? Administrative culpability in the making of the second ghetto. Administrative Theory & Praxis, 32(4), 532-556.
Andrews, K. (2021). The new age of empire: how racism and colonialism still rule the world. Penguin UK.
Bacchetta, P., Maira, S., & Winant, H. (Eds.). (2018). Global raciality: Empire, postcoloniality, decoloniality. Routledge.
Bell, A., Yukich, R., Lythberg, B., & Woods, C. (2022). Enacting settler responsibilities towards decolonisation. Ethnicities, 22(5), 605-618.
Devere, H., & Te Maihāroa, K. (2022). Restorative justice: Blending Western and indigenous restorative justice principles. The Palgrave handbook of positive peace, 429-440.
Goldberg, D. T. (2009). The threat of race: Reflections on racial neoliberalism. John Wiley & Sons.
Haque, M. S. (2019). The changing foundations of public administration: from identity to modernity to diversity. International Review of Public Administration, 24(2), 138-145.
Huygens, I. (2011). Developing a decolonisation practice for settler colonisers: A case study from Aotearoa New Zealand. Settler colonial studies, 1(2), 53-81.
Jackson, M. (1990). Criminality and the exclusion of Maori. Victoria U. Wellington L. Rev., 20, 23.
Jackson, M. (2017). Space, race, bodies–a conference theme, a timely reminder. Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, 14(1).
Jacobs, L. A., Hazelwood, S. P., Avery, C. B., & Sangster-Biye, C. (2022). Reimagining US federal land management through decolonization and Indigenous value systems. Journal of Park and Recreation Administration, 40(1).
Jones, R., Reid, P., & Macmillan, A. (2022). Navigating fundamental tensions towards a decolonial relational vision of planetary health. The Lancet Planetary Health, 6(10), e834-e841.
Kiddle, R., Jackson, M., Elkington, B., Mercier, O. R., Ross, M., Smeaton, J., & Thomas, A. (2020). Imagining Decolonisation (Vol. 81). Bridget Williams Books.
Kidman, J. (2020). Whither decolonisation? Indigenous scholars and the problem of inclusion in the neoliberal university. Journal of Sociology, 56(2), 247-262.
Latib, S. (2017). Decolonisation and scholarship through evidence-based research supervision in public administration. Journal of Public Administration, 52(Special Issue 1), 199-210.
Lilley, S. (2021). Transformation of library and information management: Decolonization or Indigenization?. IFLA journal, 47(3), 305-312.
Macedo, D., & Gounari, P. (2015). Globalization of racism. Routledge.
Mahlala, S., & Shai, K. B. (2022). Confronting Challenges and Seizing Opportunities Towards African Indigenous Public Administration. Journal of Public Administration, 57(1), 122-128.
March, J.G. and J.P. Olsen (1995), Democratic Governance, New York: Free Press.
Matsiliza, N. S. (2020). Decolonisation in the field of public administration: The responsiveness of the scholarship of teaching and learning. Teaching Public Administration, 38(3), 295-312.
McDonald III, B. D., Hall, J. L., O’Flynn, J., & van Thiel, S. (2022). The future of public administration research: An editor’s perspective. Public Administration, 100(1), 59-71.
Michael Mintrom & Deirdre O’Neill (2022) Policy education in Australia and New Zealand: towards a decolonized pedagogy, Journal of Asian Public Policy,
Moewaka Barnes, H., & McCreanor, T. (2019). Colonisation, hauora and whenua in Aotearoa. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 49(sup1), 19-33.
Muschik, E. M. (2018). Managing the world: the United Nations, decolonization, and the strange triumph of state sovereignty in the 1950s and 1960s. Journal of Global History, 13(1), 121-144.
Nisar, M. A. (2022). Decolonization and public administration: Frustrated ramblings of a spoilsport. Administrative Theory & Praxis, 1-11.
Nzewi, O. I., & Maramura, T. C. (2021). A big picture perspective of the decolonization of public administration debate in Africa: Looking back and looking forward. South African Journal of Higher Education, 35(5), 204-215.
O’Sullivan, D., Came, H., McCreanor, T., & Kidd, J. (2021). A critical review of the Cabinet Circular on Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the Treaty of Waitangi advice to ministers. Ethnicities, 21(6), 1093-1112.
Ostrom, E. (1990), Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
O’Sullivan, D. (2022). Colonial ideas have kept NZ and Australia in a rut of policy failure. We need policy by Indigenous people, for the people. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/colonial-ideas-have-kept-nz-and-australia-in-a-rut-of-policy-failure-we-need-policy-by-indigenous-people-for-the-people-188583
Paine, S. J., Li, C., Wright, K., Harris, R., Loring, B., & Reid, P. (2022). The economic cost of Indigenous child health inequities in Aotearoa New Zealand-an updated analysis for 2003-2014. The New Zealand medical journal, 136(1568), 23-45.
Pal, L. (2012). Frontiers of governance: The OECD and global public management reform. Springer.
Pandey, S. K., Cheng, Y., & Hall, J. L. (2022). Epistemic decolonization of public policy pedagogy and scholarship. Public Administration Review, 82(6), 977-985.
Paquette, J. (2012). From decolonization to postcolonial management: Challenging heritage administration and governance in New Zealand. Public Organization Review, 12, 127-138.
Reid, P., Paine, S. J., Te Ao, B., Willing, E. J., Wyeth, E., Vaithianathan, R., & Loring, B. (2022). Estimating the economic costs of Indigenous health inequities in New Zealand: a retrospective cohort analysis. BMJ open, 12(10), e065430.
Richardson, L., & Crawford, A. (2020). COVID-19 and the decolonization of Indigenous public health. Cmaj, 192(38), E1098-E1100.
Roberts, A. (2020). Bearing the white man’s burden: American empire and the origin of public administration. Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, 3(3), 185-196.
Simon, H. (2021). The importance of settler/invader responsibilities to decolonisation and the collective future as highlighted in Ngoi Pēwhairangi’s “Whakarongo”. Journal of Global Indigeneity, 5(3), 1-22.
Smith, L. T. (2021). Decolonizing methodologies: Research and indigenous peoples. Bloomsbury Publishing.
Strakosch, E. (2019). The technical is political: Settler colonialism and the Australian Indigenous policy system. Australian Journal of Political Science, 54(1), 114-130.
Torfing, J., B.G. Peters, J. Pierre and E. Sørensen (2012), Interactive Governance: Advancing the Paradigm, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Tuck, E. (2013). Commentary: Decolonizing methodologies 15 years later. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 9(4), 365-372.
Von Eschen, P. M. (2014). Race against empire. In Race against Empire. Cornell University Press.
Indigenous public policy and indigenous ways of thinking about institutions
Durie, M. (2009, June). Towards social cohesion: The indigenisation of higher education in New Zealand. In Vice Chancellor’s Forum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Lindsey Te Ata o Tu MacDonald. (2009). The Political Philosophy of Property Rights: A Critique of Contemporary Liberalism, VDM Publishing.
Toni Sheed and Lindsey Te Ata o Tu MacDonald (2017) The diverse stories of Māori political agency: a Q method study, Political Science, 69:3, 214-226,
Lindsey Te Ata O Tu MacDonald & Paul Muldoon (2006) Globalisation, neo-liberalism and the struggle for indigenous citizenship, Australian Journal of Political Science, 41:2, 209-223.
Sørensen, E. and P. Triantafillou (2009), The Politics of Self-governance, London: Ashgate.
Tauri, J. (1998). Family group conferencing: A case study of the indigenisation of New Zealand’s justice system. Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 10(2), 168-182.
Tauri, J. (1999). Explaining recent innovations in New Zealand’s criminal justice system: Empowering Maori or biculturalising the state?. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 32(2), 153-167.
Hoskins, T. K., & Jones, A. (2022). Indigenous inclusion and indigenising the University. New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 1-16.
Dwyer, J., Boulton, A., Lavoie, J. G., Tenbensel, T., & Cumming, J. (2014). Indigenous peoples’ health care: new approaches to contracting and accountability at the public administration frontier. Public Management Review, 16(8), 1091-1112.
Howard‐Wagner, D. (2018). “Moving from transactional government to enablement” in Indigenous service delivery: The era of New Public Management, service innovation and urban Aboriginal community development. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 53(3), 262-282.
Howard‐Wagner, D. (2018). “Moving from transactional government to enablement” in Indigenous service delivery: The era of New Public Management, service innovation and urban Aboriginal community development. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 53(3), 262-282.
Boulton, A., Simonsen, K., Walker, T., Cumming, J., & Cunningham, C. (2004). Indigenous participation in the “new” New Zealand health structure. Journal of health services research & policy, 9(2_suppl), 35-40.
Lavoie, J., Boulton, A., & Dwyer, J. (2010). Analysing contractual environments: lessons from Indigenous health in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Public Administration, 88(3), 665-679.
Boulton, A., INNZNATamehana, J., & INNZNABrannelly, T. (2013). Whanau-centred health and social service delivery in New Zealand: the challenges to, and opportunities for, innovation.
Sykes, A. (2021). The myth of tikanga in the Pākehā law. E-Tangata.
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