The diverse stories of Māori political agency: a Q method study
| dc.contributor.author | Sheed T | |
| dc.contributor.author | MacDonald, Lindsey Te Ata o Tū | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Vowles J | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-11-25T22:07:02Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-11-25T22:07:02Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
| dc.description.abstract | While there is much research and writing on Māori self-determination, little of it focuses on how Māori individuals and organisations conceive the necessary antecedent to self-determination; Māori political agency. To remedy this research gap, we explored the political aspirations of Māori individuals with a research method built to study such subjective topics: Q method. Combining Q method with some practical innovations from Kaupapa Māori Research method, we developed a unique way of researching the stories our participants tell themselves about politics. Our results suggest some Māori individuals do think of politics as a collective endeavour as the self-determination literature suggests, but just as often Māori collective forums and other non-Māori political institutions are seen as barriers to Māori individual and collective political agency and thus to Māori self-determination. We also found that Māori view the political autonomy and participation necessary for self-determination as possible in numerous diverse spaces, suggesting the focus on low voter turnout amongst Māori in the literature is missing the point: the stories told by this research suggest Māori individuals perceive their political agency to be hindered, not by majoritarian politics of non-Māori, but by Māori and non-Māori elites. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Sheed T, MacDonald LTAOT (2017). The diverse stories of Māori political agency: a Q method study. Political Science. 69(3). 214-226. | |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://doi.org/10.1080/00323187.2017.1414572 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0032-3187 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2041-0611 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10092/107501 | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | Informa UK Limited | |
| dc.rights | All rights reserved unless otherwise stated | |
| dc.rights.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651 | |
| dc.subject | Maori politics | |
| dc.subject | tino rangatiratanga | |
| dc.subject | indigenous politics | |
| dc.subject | indigenous self-determination | |
| dc.subject | political agency | |
| dc.subject.anzsrc | 44 - Human society::4408 - Political science::440809 - New Zealand government and politics | |
| dc.subject.anzsrc | 45 - Indigenous studies::4511 - Ngā tāngata, te porihanga me ngā hapori o te Māori (Māori peoples, society and community)::451123 - Ngā mahi tōrangapū Māori (Māori politics) | |
| dc.subject.msh | Tāngata whenua | Indigenous people (Aotearoa); Māori people; People, Māori | |
| dc.subject.msh | Tōrangapū | Politics | |
| dc.title | The diverse stories of Māori political agency: a Q method study | |
| dc.type | Journal Article | |
| uc.college | Faculty of Arts | |
| uc.department | Language, Social and Political Sciences |