Using both a theoretical discussion and a demonstrative research study of a Maori family, this article examines the ways in which the concept of indigeneity began as a local response to the disruptive changes of global capitalism but became transformed into a subversion of its people-based prefigurative character. In New Zealand indigeneity, or the repositioning of social groups in relation to place across time, has legitimated the claim of the ruling group of neo-tribal capitalism, rather than all Maori, to the inheritance of the traditional tribes, and to the historical grievance settlements. This subversion of an indigenous movement in the interests of repositioned power relations shows how indigeneity has became part of global capitalism's new mechanisms of dispossession and disenfranchisement.
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Rata, E. (2002). The transformation of indigeneity. Review, 25(2), 173–195.
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