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Engaging, Standing, and Stepping: Evaluating Anthropological Activism on an Amazonian Petro-Frontier
Get PDFAnthropologists and activists portray the lives and lands of Ecuador’s Indigenous Cofán people as a case study of the damage caused by petroleum extraction. Yet during my fieldwork on the issue, I began to question the nature of the Cofán-oil encounter when the community in which I worked decided to allow oil companies onto their land. In this article, I examine my own involvements with Cofán oil politics in dialogue with Stuart Kirsch’s concept of ‘engaged anthropology’ and Kim TallBear’s call for researchers to ‘stand with’ their research subjects. I argue that anthropological activism is necessarily a complex and shifting affair, especially when our collaborators’ perspectives diverge from our own regarding the best possible paths to their wellbeing. I suggest that the most ethical option is for anthropologists to commit themselves to continuous, co-con-structed partnerships in which they are perpetually prepared to transform their most basic political and intellectual positions
New Zealand: Country Report on Human Rights
Get PDFThis article provides a country report on the status of human rights in New Zealand. The article covers New Zealand's adherence to the rule of law, culture and language, education system, health system and environmental rights. The authors draw conclusions from each section: New Zealand's commitment to the rule of law is generally strong, albeit with concerns regarding access to justice. Positive developments were undertaken regarding language but disappointing in its indigenous rights. The right to education is generally secure, but some vulnerabilities remain. New Zealand has a generally favourable health services system. Finally, although New Zealand's legal framework does not recognise the right to an environment of a particular quality, the Resource Management Act 1991 provides a strong participatory framework.  
Institutional Design Issues and Policy Challenges: Reflections From Former Chair of the Commerce Commission, Dr Mark Berry
Get PDFI was asked by the Law and Economics Association of New Zealand to reflect tonight on my time as Chairman of the Commerce Commission (NZCC). I expect that the conference organisers may have wished that I revisited some of the key decisions during my ten year tenure. However, I fear that a retrospective of such cases would be dated, provide no new insights and would most likely be excruciatingly boring for this audience
International Commercial Arbitration Put to the Test in the Commonwealth
Get PDFThe article discusses the Commonwealth Study on international commercial arbitration conducted in 2019. The importance of the availability of international commercial arbitration as a dispute resolution mechanism lies in the link between trade and the accessibility of a dispute resolution mechanism that reflects the needs of cross-border trade. Given that the Commonwealth has a unique legal and trade ecosystem the Study provides a rare opportunity to consider what a best practice modern international commercial arbitration framework should look like to encourage cross-border trade
Reforming capital income taxation to improve housing affordability
Get PDFNew Zealand’s distortionary tax environment for housing imposes large costs on young people. Since 1989, New Zealand has taxed owner-occupied housing more lightly than other forms of capital income. In contrast, retirement savings have been taxed heavily. This combination has created a bias towards owner-occupied housing, encouraging homeowners to live in higher quality properties than they would under a neutral tax system, and bid up the price of land located near desirable amenities.
While existing, often older homeowners have enjoyed high land and house values, our generation has faced artificially inflated house prices. Distortionary capital income taxation has contributed to New Zealand’s housing affordability crisis
Using Scenarios in Public Policy
Get PDFFutures thinking is a field rich in a wide range of tools and techniques. Of these, scenario development has perhaps the most potential to assist future-focused policy development. This article seeks to stimulate discussion and inform practice in New Zealand, first, by exploring the history of scenarios, and second, by investigating a past scenario development process which sought to guide nationalhealth policy
The Covid-19 pandemic: what happened? Was New Zealand Prepared?
Get PDFThis introductory article traverses the basic events since the outbreak of Covid-19 in China in December 2019, through its arrival in New Zealand and the nationwide lockdown and collective effort to eliminate it, up until the end of May 2020. The government acted decisively, with considerable public support and cooperation, and the overall response was therefore a success, albeit a very costly one
Doubling Down on Children and Young People’s Aspirations Post-lockdown
Get PDFChildren and young people experienced the Covid-19 lockdown differently from adults, and we need to consider these impacts as part of the recovery measures. Prior to Covid-19, cracks in our social system were already evident. At that time, children and young people told us what they wanted in order to create better future. The aspirations they shared are even more relevant post-Covid-19. Their views shaped the Child and Youth Wellbeing Strategy, and our best approach to supporting child wellbeing as part of the recovery is to double down on implementing this strategy. This will ensure that the recovery response is child-centred, holistic and aspirational
Imagining the Feminist Revolution
Get PDFReview of Victoria Margree, Neglected or Misunderstood. A case for the enduring relevance of Shulamith Firestone.
 
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