MĀORI  335

Mana Taketake / Indigenous Sovereignty and Public Policy

 Lecture Times Monday 2-4pm

Tutorial Times Thursday 12-1pm and Friday 2=3pm

Lecturer: Charlotte Moore

Course Convenor: Tracey McIntosh

  This course examines the nature of the claims that Indigenous peoples are making and the political strategies that they use to pursue their self-determining agendas in both domestic and international arenas. Concepts of Indigenous and human rights, redistributive justice and others are discussed and explored in relation to contemporary demands of self-determination. The course seeks to develop a contextual awareness of political, social, cultural and economic relationships between Māori and other Indigenous peoples and the settler states. It aims to enable students to develop a capacity to think critically about contemporary practice and policy formation in New Zealand and elsewhere and the way they relate to Indigenous peoples.

The learning aims of the course are to:

• Familiarise students with historical and contemporary issues in regards to Indigenous claims making and expressions of Indigenous sovereignty in national and international contexts.
• Familiarise students with some of the definitional issues and debates pertaining to Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination.
• Familiarise students with the concepts of Indigenous rights, reparative justice, and the interface between Indigenous peoples and public policy.
• Enable students to identify strategies of self-determination that Indigenous peoples have enacted.
• Facilitate students’ understanding of the global context in which Indigenous sovereignty is understood.
• Enable students to critically engage and analyse the literature on Indigenous sovereignty and the way it relates to public policy formation.
• Develop a critical appreciation of the processes that are employed to progress Indigenous rights.

To achieve the course objectives you will need to:

• Attend the weekly lecture.

• Attend and actively engage in the weekly tutorial.
• Read and understand assigned readings.
• Complete all coursework

  

Course Objectives:

To develop a contextual awareness of political, social, cultural and economic relationships between Māori and other Indigenous peoples and the settler state with the aim of enabling students to develop a capacity to think critically about contemporary policies in New Zealand and elsewhere, as they affect Indigenous peoples

 

 

Required Readings

 

The readings for this course are provided through a Talis list accessed through Canvas.  It is a course expectation that you will be familiar with the readings set for this course. They will be essential in supporting you to complete the coursework. You will be expected to do all assigned reading as well as independent reading. What you read will depend on your own research interests and need: the list is not exhaustive but reflects the range of material available in the library. A good place to start in the library is at 306.9 in the main collection.

For university study, you need to draw on peer-reviewed sources. Make sure that on-line sources you use are peer-reviewed.

What does peer reviewed mean?

The following is taken from APUS:

 

Essentially, 'peer review' is an academic term for quality control.  Each article published in a peer-reviewed journal was closely examined by a panel of reviewers who are experts on the article's topic (that is, the author’s professional peers…hence the term peer review).  The reviewers look for proper use of research methods, significance of the paper’s contribution to the existing literature, and integration of previous authors’ work on the topic in any discussion (including citations!).  Papers published in these journals are expert-approved…and the most authoritative sources of information for college-level research papers. 

Articles from 'popular (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.' publications, on the other hand (like magazines, newspapers or many sites on the Internet), are published with minimal editing (for spelling and grammar, perhaps; but, typically not for factual accuracy or intellectual integrity).  While interesting to read, these articles aren’t sufficient to support research at an academic level. 

http://apus.libanswers.com/faq/2154 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

 For more information please see: http://library.sdsu.edu/reference/news/what-does-peer-review-mean (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

  

Tā te Ākonga: Student  Learning Services

 

 

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