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"The Māori economy is often defined simply by the contributions of Māori in New Zealand in the areas of farming, fisheries and forestry. This book explores the ways that Māori in the privatised military industry contribute in monetary and non-monetary ways to the Māori economy. Workers in the privatised military industry very rarely, if ever, give interviews about their work or details about their pay. However, this book includes five interviews with Māori who have worked or are still working in the privatised military industry and explores how they articulate themselves as Māori within it, giving a glimpse at this hidden world and how Māori operate in it."--Publisher information

Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Māori and Parliament: the Wider Context -- Kotahitanga -- Lessons from the Māori Parliament -- The Māori Seats -- An Inventory of Parliamentary Seats -- The Origins of the Māori Seats -- Māori and Political Parties -- Labour and Māori -- The National Party and Māori -- Breaking Barriers: Māori and New Zealand First -- Exit, Voice and Loyalty in Action: -- The Changing Times of MMP -- What has MMP Changed? -- Changes From, and the Future of, MMP -- The Māori Electorates and Agency Theory: -- MMP: Perspectives from a Māori Member in a 181 Māori Seat in the Māori Party -- Parliament is Moving On -- Māori in General Seats -- Māori in General Seats -- Diversity Enriches the View -- Generalising Māori: Māori in General Seats 219 in the Future -- Views on the Future -- Māori and Parliament: the Future -- The Need for a Fundamental Change -- The Future: Determined to Survive -- Appendix -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover

For many Indigenous people's questions relating to development and how development should occur are commonplace. In particular, which types of institutions Indigenous peoples should privilege and establish in order to manage resources and maintain cultural and political institutions is of paramount concern. While different models of development are mooted, the notion of a developmental view of humanity is less often unpicked. The aspects of Hindess' work which I would like to explore in this article are those that illuminate the cultural and political biases and bases which underpin the notion of a developmental view of humanity and the consignment of Indigenous peoples, while in the "present," to the "past" less-advanced stage of this continuum. I use Maori corporations as an illustration to argue that they are part of a diverse economy, the existence of which challenges the developmental view of humanity.

Review(s) of: Encircled Lands: Te Urewera 1820-1921, by Judith Binney. Bridget Williams Books, Wellington, 2009, x, 670 pp. ISBN 9781877242441.