Critical Tiriti Analysis: A Prospective Policy Making Tool from Aotearoa New Zealand

aut.relation.endpage146879682311716
aut.relation.journalEthnicities
aut.relation.startpage146879682311716
dc.contributor.authorCame, Heather
dc.contributor.authorO'Sullivan, Dominic
dc.contributor.authorKidd, Jacquie
dc.contributor.authorMcCreanor, Tim
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-09T22:40:15Z
dc.date.available2023-08-09T22:40:15Z
dc.date.issued2023-04-19
dc.description.abstractRestrictions on Indigenous peoples’ contributions to policymaking pervade post-settler societies like Australia, Canada and Aotearoa. Such effects are observed in spite of agreements like Te Tiriti o Waitangi in Aotearoa and the United Nations’ Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Te Tiriti, negotiated between the British Crown and Māori (Indigenous peoples of Aotearoa), may have been entered into honourably by both parties, but the Crown has consistently resisted its implementation. Contemporary colonialism is characterised by the entrenched and on-going displacement of Indigenous people’s authority by settler states, rationalised by race as a determinant of human worth. Impacts include land alienation, unsustainable resource exploitation and marginalising Indigenous voices from opportunities to make policy consistent with Indigenous values and preferred ways of living. Colonialism normalises institutional racism so that public policy outcomes are persistently unjust. This article describes Critical Tiriti Analysis (CTA), an original contribution to transforming colonial policy, which retrospectively evaluates whether any specific policy document is consistent with Te Tiriti. Substantial interest in CTA from policymakers, practitioners, and scholars led to the development of the tool as a prospective guide to making policy that is consistent with authoritative interpretations of Te Tiriti, and therefore, more likely effective in producing public policies which eliminate inequities. CTA was initially focused on health policy and built on a series of questions that arise from our interpretations of the text of Te Tiriti, contemporary Tiriti scholarship and jurisprudence, and our observations of the ways in which the method is being used by ourselves and others. Although deeply grounded in Aotearoa, we argue that CTA may be transferable to other colonial contexts, such as the Australian where treaties between First Nations and the state are being contemplated, and Canada which has passed legislation to implement the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
dc.identifier.citationEthnicities, ISSN: 1468-7968 (Print); 1741-2706 (Online), SAGE Publications, 146879682311716-146879682311716. doi: 10.1177/14687968231171651
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/14687968231171651
dc.identifier.issn1468-7968
dc.identifier.issn1741-2706
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10292/16523
dc.languageen
dc.publisherSAGE Publications
dc.relation.urihttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14687968231171651
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccess
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subject4407 Policy and Administration
dc.subject4408 Political Science
dc.subject44 Human Society
dc.subject16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
dc.subject16 Studies in Human Society
dc.subject20 Language, Communication and Culture
dc.subjectSociology
dc.subject44 Human society
dc.subject47 Language, communication and culture
dc.titleCritical Tiriti Analysis: A Prospective Policy Making Tool from Aotearoa New Zealand
dc.typeJournal Article
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