The Critical Juncture in Aotearoa New Zealand and The Collective Future: Policy Issues in Settler/Invader Colonial Zombiism Found in “Biculturalism”

This theoretical Kaupapa Māori writing inquiry study seeks to explore the settler colonial nature of Aotearoa New Zealand. The research finds that biculturalism, as a neo-liberal and settler-colonial construct does not provide for either tino rangatiratanga or mana motuhake. Indeed, biculturalism fails indigenous inclusion actively suppresses recognition Biculturalism is found fit Beck’s definition Zombie Concepts. These are social concepts dead yet kept alive in their use by scholars society describe growing fiction traditional institutions being maintain, this case, power structures. main argument neoliberal public discourse, needs be unpacked then discarded because it rangatiranga