The sovereignty game
Subtitle: power, knowledge and reading the Treaty
By: Peter Cleave.
Contributors: Victoria University of Wellington. Institute of Policy Studies.
Publisher: Institute of Policy Studies for Victoria University Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Wellington
Language: eng; mao
Number of pages: 92
Subjects: Treaty of Waitangi (1840); Maori (New Zealand people) -- Government relations.; New Zealand -- Race relations.
Description: This book examines sovereignty issues in Aotearoa. Articles One and Two of the Treaty of Waitangi are explored and there is a breakdown of attitudes to the Treaty from various positions within New Zealand society. Peter Cleave presents a linguistic analysis of the texts of the Treaty and shows the lines of power and sovereignty as they have evolved over the last 150 years. The book looks forward, also, to the ways in which the Treaty might be read in the development of New Zealand's race relations and in future interpretations of the Treaty.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 86-92.