A matter of personal and national identity – a note on revitalising Māori culture

Colin James is a political journalist of more than 40 years experience and political columnist of the year in 2003. He is a senior associate of the Institute for Governance and Policy Studies at Victoria University of Wellington and makes presentations on the strategic political, policy and political-economy environment to companies, industry associations, government departments and other groups.

This paper A matter of personal and national identity – a note on revitalising Māori culture provides his perspective as one who is “looking in from the outside.”

This is the second in a series of papers Te Puni Kōkiri commissioned to contribute to the development of our work around Oranga Māoritanga – Cultural Vitality.