کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1001753 937242 2008 24 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The walrus, carpenter and oysters: Liberal reform, hypocrisy and expertocracy in Maori land loss in New Zealand 1885–1911
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی مدیریت، کسب و کار و حسابداری حسابداری
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
The walrus, carpenter and oysters: Liberal reform, hypocrisy and expertocracy in Maori land loss in New Zealand 1885–1911
چکیده انگلیسی

This paper considers the Liberal Governments’ reformist agenda and resultant hypocrisy surrounding wealth confiscation from Maori in New Zealand from 1885 to 1911. Through an analysis of official records, ledger accounts and other historical documents, it shows how the government compulsorily acquired land from Maori and resold it at considerable profit, thus supplying a means of increasing state revenues. Supplementing these revenues were exorbitant survey fees, government commissions from Native Reserves and local government rates in which accounting expertise made it possible to enclose, price and levy charges. The calculative process enabled parliamentarians to argue that given the poor returns to Maori, their assets should be put into the hands of land-selling councils. Maintaining a figurative distance from the mechanism of exploitation, all the while responsible for its enactment, successive Liberal administrations throughout the period made much of past injustices and expressed considerable sympathy for Maori. Maori were largely dispossessed of their land by the end of this period—a period of relative calm where public appeasement and niceties presented a more benign façade to the disproportionately heavy taxation burden on, and ultimate pillage of Maori.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Critical Perspectives on Accounting - Volume 19, Issue 8, December 2008, Pages 1239–1262
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