The Shapeshifting Crown: Locating the State in Postcolonial New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the Uk - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108733859 ISBN 13: 9781108733854

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

The Crown is the bedrock of Westminster-style democracies, yet its meanings, powers and effects are opaque and little understood.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Cris Shore is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Auckland and Guest Professor of Public Management at Stockholm University's Centre for Organisational Research. Previously, he was the Head of Department and founding director of the Europe Institute, University of Auckland and taught at Perugia University (1986), Oxford Brookes University (1987-90) and Goldsmiths College (1990-2003). His research specialisms include political anthropology, organisations, higher education, the anthropology of policy, corruption, and Europe. He is author/co-editor of 140 articles and 14 books including Building Europe (2000); Corruption: Anthropological Perspectives (2005); Policy Worlds: Anthropology and the Analysis of Contemporary Power (2011); Up Close and Personal: Peripheral Perspectives and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge (2013) and Death of the Public University? (2017). He has held visiting appointments at the universities of Harvard, Bristol, Aarhus, Sussex, University College London, Malta and the European University Institute, Florence. In 2017, he was awarded the Royal Society of New Zealand's Mason Durie medal for contributions to the social sciences.

David V. Williams is a Professor of Law at the University of Auckland. He has taught and researched at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and then the University of Auckland since 1972. He has been an independent researcher and barrister specialising in research relevant to Treaty of Waitangi claims by indigenous Maori concerning historic acts or omissions of the Crown. He has authored 5 books including 'Te Kooti tango whenua': The Native Land Court 1864-1909 (1999) and A simple nullity? The Wi Parata case in New Zealand Law and History (2011). Additional publications include 18 book chapters, 37 refereed journal articles and 10 major technical reports submitted to the Waitangi Tribunal. He has held visiting appointments at Exeter College, St John's College and Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, and at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In 2017, he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the American Society for Legal History.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1108733859
• ISBN 13: 9781108733854
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 290
• Herausgeber: Shore Cris
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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