Hybridity in the Third Space: Rethinking Bi-cultural Politics in Aotearoa/New ZealandPosted in Asian Diaspora, Identity Development/Psychology, Media Archive, Oceania, Papers/Presentations, Politics/Public Policy on 2010-07-09 21:33Z by Steven |
Hybridity in the Third Space: Rethinking Bi-cultural Politics in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Paper Presented to Te Oru Rangahau Maori Research and Development Conference
1998-07-07 through 1998-07-09
Massey University
7 pages
Paul Meredith (Ngati Kaputuhi/Pakeha), Research Fellow
Te Matahauariki Institute
University of Waikato, New Zealand
This brief paper joins a growing call for a reconceptualisation of bicultural politics in Aotearoa/New Zealand that draws on an inclusionary and multifaceted identity politics. (Reilly 1996; McClean 1997; Spoonley 1997) The paper argues the need for this conceptualisation to take place in an alternative space that blurs the limitations of boundaries and engenders new possibilities.
In this paper I invoke Homi Bhabha’s notions of hybridity and the third space and offer some introductory comment as to what these concepts might mean for a project that seeks to redesign the laws and institutions for a bicultural Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Read the entire paper here.