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CITY & COMMUNITY,Vol.17,Issue4,P.1189-1208

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英文

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作者单位

[King, Pita; Hodgetts, Darrin] Massey Univ, Sch Psychol, Private Bag 102-904, Auckland 0745, New Zealand. [Rua, Mohi] Univ Waikato, Sch Psychol, Hamilton, New Zealand. [Morgan, Mandy] Massey Univ, Sch Psychol, Palmerston North, New Zealand. King, P (reprint author), Massey Univ, Sch Psychol, Private Bag 102-904, Auckland 0745, New Zealand. E-Mail: p.r.w.king@massey.ac.nz

摘要

Through processes of colonization, many indigenous peoples have become absorbed into settler societies and new ways of existing within urban environments. Settler society economic, legal, and social structures have facilitated this absorption by recasting indigenous selves in ways that reflect the cultural values of settler populations. Urban enclaves populated and textured by indigenous groups such as Maori (indigenous people of New Zealand) can be approached as sites of existential resistance to the imposition of colonial ways of seeing and understanding the self. In maintaining everyday social practices and ways-of-being that traverse rural and urban locales, Maori preserve and reproduce cultural selves in ways that make aspects of cityscapes more homely for Maori ways-of-being. This article brings issues of place and being to the fore by investigating Maori reassemblage of cultural selves within a low SES urban environment as an ongoing resistance to colonial absorption.