New Zealand Politics and Colonialism Quiz

Settler Colonialism

• Indigenous erasure is a key element of settler colonialism, along with mass settlement, land dispossession and clearing land for farming.

Māori Land Dispossession

• The Native Land Court was a primary cause of Māori land dispossession in the 19th century.

Economic Systems

• Keynesian economics focuses on managing the impacts of capitalism through government intervention, while neoliberalism prioritizes facilitating free markets.

New Zealand Politics

• The 1991 National Government budget which slashed benefits was called the 'Mother of all budgets'.

Hegemony

• A hegemonic understanding of the state sees it as creating ideological domination through a mixture of coercion and consent.

Activism

• Eva Rickard, featured in the documentary Inside New Zealand Radicals, was known for her involvement in the 1975 Māori land march to the Parliament.

Citizenship

• T.H. Marshall identified three components of citizenship: civil, political, and social.

Māori Land March

• Māori conducted a land march from Northland to Wellington in 1975.

Racism

• Racism can be instigated by white people and used to justify various forms of racism.
• Racism is not a biological reality.

Intersectionality

• Intersectionality refers to how different marginalities intersect and compound each other.

Class Inequality

• Class inequality is made invisible, represented as 'natural' and maintained through ideological and repressive apparatus.

Statistics

• Over 50% of New Zealanders believe in the 'naturalness' of class inequality.

Political Leaders

• Winston Peters is a New Zealand political leader known for his association with the Act Party.

Identity

• There are four types of identity: self-asserted, out-group, socially assigned and in-group.

Ethnicity

• Ethnicity is a fluid and multifaceted concept.

Inequality

• Maori activism and struggle highlights the ongoing effects of historical injustices.

Domination

• The ways a dominant group can hide its identity by representing itself as the 'norm' is an example of domination.

History

• Jock Phillips is a scholar of New Zealand history.

Privilege

• White privilege is an invisible package of unearned assets.

Filmmakers

• Taika Waititi is a renowned New Zealand filmmaker.

Immigration

• The Chinese Immigrants Act, 1881, was a piece of legislation designed to restrict Chinese immigration to New Zealand.

Social Inequality

• A lack of economic resources can be a contributing factor to social inequality.

Gender

• Androcentric refers to a male-centered perspective.

Gender Inequality

• Women being underrepresented in higher-level jobs is an example of gender inequality.

New Zealand History

• The year 1986 marks the enactment of the Employment Contracts Act, which heavily impacted labour relations in New Zealand.

Political Parties

• The Greens and Labour are two political parties in New Zealand.

Activism

• Organizing a workshop raising issues of justice is an example of activism.

Climate Change

• The Pacific region is particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.

Protest

• 'Act now' is a common message used in climate change protests.