Book Chapter

Concepts of Engagement in Aotearoa New Zealand

Atkinson, Jeanette

2014

Overview

This chapter introduces the research location Aotearoa New Zealand. The country has a long pre-colonial history under Mori settlement, but since European colonization Mori culture has faced severe acculturation, which has only slowly been changing since the mid to late 1960s. The date of Mori occupation of Aotearoa New Zealand has long been disputed. From the late 1970s onwards, as Mori culture and language began to undergo resurgence, and there was a move towards bicultural relations. In 1835, representatives of the British Crown drew up the Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand in Waitangi. The Treaty of Waitangi was to prove a key factor both in legitimizing colonial rule in Aotearoa New Zealand and in the subsequent process of decolonization of the country. In the decades after the signing of the Treaty, Europeans increasingly settled in Aotearoa New Zealand. The resistance movements coincided with the changing relationship between Aotearoa New Zealand and the United Kingdom. This chapter begins with an exploration of the contested notions of universal values and sets international developments in the context of postcolonial and cultural colonial debates. It examines how international heritage organizations, including International Council of Museum (ICOM), International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (IIC) and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), approach values and ethics. The chapter considers other regional and inter-governmental organizations' impact on cultural heritage from the economic domain, the bearing that the deliberations of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) might have on cultural expression found in the commercial practices of traditional knowledge, sometimes referred to as folk knowledge or tribal knowledge.

• Publisher: Routledge,Taylor & Francis Group
• Subject: LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCES / Moral & social purpose of education / Museums & museology
• ISBN: 9781409428954, 1409428958, 9780815399568, 0815399561, 9781472408211, 1472408217