The Tourist State: Performing Leisure, Liberalism, and Race in New Zealand

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the tourist state This page intentionally left blank the tourist state Performing Leisure, Liberalism, and Race in New Zealand Margaret Werry A Quadrant Book u nivers ity of minnesota press minneapolis • london Quadrant, a joint initiative of the University of Minnesota Press and the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota, provides support for interdisciplinary scholarship within a new, more collaborative model of research and publication. Sponsored by Quadrant’s Environment, Culture, and Sustainability Group (advisory board: Bruce Braun and Dan Philippon) and by the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota. Quadrant is generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Publication of this book has been supported by an annual award from the University of Minnesota Provost’s Office, Imagine Fund for the Arts, Design, and Humanities. An earlier version of chapter 1 was previously published as “Tourism, Race, and the State of Nature: On the Bio-Poetics of Government,” Cultural Studies 22, no. 3/4 (2008): 391–411. An earlier version of chapter 3 was previously published as “Translate, Translocate, Perform,” in “On the Road,” special issue, Performance Research 12, no. 2 (2007): 125–37. An earlier version of chapter 3 was previously published as “The Greatest Show on Earth: Spectacular Politics, Political Spectacle, and the American Pacific,” Theatre Journal 58, no. 3 (2005): 4–35. An earlier version of chapter 5 was previously published as “National Cinema, Global Markets, and the Politics of Post-Ethnicity: Notes from Middle Earth” (Occasional Papers on Globalization, vol. 1, no. 5, Globalization Research Center, University of South Florida, Tampa, 2004). Copyright 2011 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 http://www.upress.umn.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Werry, Margaret. The tourist state : performing leisure, liberalism, and race in New Zealand / Margaret Werry. p. cm. — (A Quadrant book) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-8166-6605-8 (hc : alk. paper) — isbn 978-0-8166-6606-5 (pb : alk. paper) 1. Tourism—Social aspects—New Zealand. 2. Tourism—Political aspects—New Zealand. 3. Leisure—New Zealand. 4. National characteristics, New Zealand. 5. Maori (New Zealand people)—Social conditions. 6. Liberalism—New Zealand. 7. New Zealand—Race relations. I. Title. G155.N5W47 2011 306.4´8190993—dc23 2011017086 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ...