Maori retribalization and treaty rights to the New Zealand fisheries.

From: The Contemporary Pacific | Date: September 22, 2002| Author: Webster, Steven | Copyright information

By the end of the 1980s Maori had regained a treaty right to a share of New Zealand's lucrative commercial fisheries. The case history of the continuing struggle to distribute its benefits among factions of retribalized and urban Maori, through a Maori commission set up as a state-owned enterprise, raises issues of cultural renaissance and identity politics in capitalist differentiation. After more than a century of Crown disregard of commercial and restriction of customary fishery rights, ...

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