Donna Awatere on Whiteness in New Zealand: Theoretical Contributions and Contemporary Relevance

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dc.contributor.authorNorris AN
dc.contributor.authorDe Saxe J
dc.contributor.authorCooper, Garrick
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-22T20:44:39Z
dc.date.available2023-08-22T20:44:39Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.date.updated2023-07-30T00:01:09Z
dc.description.abstractIn June 2022, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern designated the US-based neo-fascist groups The Base and the Proud Boys as terrorist organisations. This designation marks one of the few times white supremacy entered the national political discourse in New Zealand. Discourses of whiteness are mostly theorised in the North American context. However, Donna Awatere’s 1984 examination of White Cultural Imperialism (WCI) in her book Māori Sovereignty advanced an analysis of whiteness in New Zealand that has received limited scholarly attention and is essentially unexplored. This paper reintroduces Awatere’s conceptualisation of WCI. It offers core tenets of WCI and theoretical insights into contemporary discussions of white supremacy that move beyond the focus of individuals and groups to a broader national framework of New Zealand. Two interrelated features of WCI, as defined by Awatere, are the minimisation and normalisation of whiteness and white racial hostility – inherent features that maintain, protect, and reproduce the white institutionalised body as the primary beneficiary of Western European domination that will always thwart Indigenous sovereignty and equality. This paper concludes that Awatere’s articulation of WCI links whiteness in the New Zealand context to the broader network of global white supremacy that offers insight into contemporary criminal justice scholarship.
dc.identifier.citationNorris AN, De Saxe J, Cooper G Donna Awatere on Whiteness in New Zealand: Theoretical Contributions and Contemporary Relevance. Decolonization of Criminology and Justice. 5(1). 31-50.
dc.identifier.doihttp://doi.org/10.24135/dcj.v5i1.55
dc.identifier.issn2703-1861
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10092/106023
dc.publisherAuckland University of Technology (AUT) Library
dc.rightsAll rights reserved unless otherwise stated
dc.rights.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651
dc.subjectwhiteness
dc.subjectMāori Sovereignty
dc.subjectAotearoa
dc.subjectDonna Awatere
dc.subjectIndigenisation
dc.subjectThey Are Us
dc.subject.anzsrc44 - Human society::4402 - Criminology::440213 - Race/ethnicity and crime
dc.subject.anzsrc44 - Human society::4402 - Criminology::440204 - Crime and social justice
dc.subject.anzsrc45 - Indigenous studies::4511 - Ngā tāngata, te porihanga me ngā hapori o te Māori (Māori peoples, society and community)::451115 - Te ture me te tika Māori (Māori law and justice)
dc.subject.anzsrc48 - Law and legal studies::4804 - Law in context::480413 - Race, ethnicity and law
dc.subject.anzsrc43 - History, heritage and archaeology::4303 - Historical studies::430312 - Histories of race
dc.subject.anzsrc43 - History, heritage and archaeology::4303 - Historical studies::430313 - History of empires, imperialism and colonialism
dc.subject.anzsrc43 - History, heritage and archaeology::4303 - Historical studies::430320 - New Zealand history
dc.subject.anzsrc45 - Indigenous studies::4511 - Ngā tāngata, te porihanga me ngā hapori o te Māori (Māori peoples, society and community)::451120 - Ngā iwi Māori me te ture (Māori peoples and the law)
dc.subject.anzsrc45 - Indigenous studies::4511 - Ngā tāngata, te porihanga me ngā hapori o te Māori (Māori peoples, society and community)
dc.subject.anzsrc44 - Human society::4408 - Political science::440809 - New Zealand government and politics
dc.subject.mshTāngata whenua | Indigenous people (Aotearoa); Māori people; People, Māori
dc.subject.mshTōrangapū | Politics
dc.titleDonna Awatere on Whiteness in New Zealand: Theoretical Contributions and Contemporary Relevance
dc.typeJournal Article
uc.collegeFaculty of Arts
uc.departmentAotahi School of Maori and Indigenous Studies
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