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Red Internacional de Estudios sobre Sociedad, Naturaleza y Desarrollo
2004
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- Empowerment in a Neo-Liberal Climate: The Maori Experience Sally Collins Estudios Culturales Empowerment in a Neo-Liberal Climate: The Maori ExperienceSally CollinsThis paper critically reflects upon the many uses and abuses of the term empowerment by governments, corporations, and pressure groups. Since the 1970s, the concept of empowerment has been central to development strategies aimed at combating global poverty and social exclusion. The ideological roots of the notion of empowerment stem from the end of the 1960s with the global rise of neo-liberal ideology. It is assumed that empowerment is achieved through increased community involvement in the cultural and socio-economic structures of society, which in theory is a good idea. However, rather than empowering the people, community-based development merely takes responsibility for individuals welfare away from the state and places it onto the people themselves. Instead of becoming empowered, communities that lack the means to bring about social transformation remain dependent on institutional structures. This is illustrated in the Maori political struggles in New Zealand, particularly since the 1970s, in their attempt to re-secure tribal control over confiscated resources and for self-determination. This paper examines the way in which Maori social problems have been exacerbated by a programme of policies, put in place during the 1980s, aimed at devolving power to Maori tribal authorities in a bid to find long-term solutions to Maori social and economic inequality. However, the governments neo-liberal discourse of empowerment through democracy has masked a prevailing colonial Enlightenment ideology that not only underlies such strategies, but also justifies the dominance of the colonial, settler society in New Zealand. 2004 artículo científico 1666-2830 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=12400910 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=124 Theomai application/pdf Red Internacional de Estudios sobre Sociedad, Naturaleza y Desarrollo Theomai (Argentina) Num.9