Political anger in New Zealand is anger in a postcolonial society. The emotions that circulate around perceptions of injustice and inequality, and which are framed through constructions of ethnic difference, significantly colour social and political life. In New Zealand, historical processes of colonization and settlement have created conjunctions of ethnic identity which shape the law and may ultimately determine when and how human rights legislation is used in this society. The search for justice in relations between Maori and Pakeha in New Zealand involves anger, played out in a variety of social, political and legal contexts. Members of the two principal ethnic groups become angry about many of the same things but in ways whose difference reflects the differences of ethnic identity.
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