ABSTRACT

Notwithstanding the global praise directed to New Zealand’s approach to COVID-19, the pandemic has intensified harms and inequalities in many areas of national life. The racialised, classed and gendered inequities that percolate through this settler-state have intensified, especially within criminal justice settings. At the same time, the pandemic has illustrated other opportunities for protective and just measures – not least in terms of how Māori asserted self-determination by establishing checkpoints to prevent potential carriers of COVID-19 from reaching rural Māori communities. This article shows how these responses highlighted the fundamental limits of state protection for Māori on health or law and order grounds but they also offered pathways for greater policing autonomy for Māori. From here, and drawing on the example of Watene Māori (Māori Wardens), the article considers how self-policing within and among Māori communities might be more clearly determined and actioned in ways aligned to the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi (the Treaty of Waitangi).

摘要

尽管全球赞扬了新西兰对COVID-19的研究方法，但这种流行病在国民生活的许多领域加剧了伤害和不平等现象。通过这个定居者国家渗透的种族，阶级和性别不平等现象加剧了，特别是在刑事司法环境中。同时，大流行说明了采取其他保护性和公正措施的机会–尤其是在毛利人如何通过建立检查站以防止潜在的COVID-19携带者到达农村毛利人社区来主张自决的方面。本文显示了这些回应如何突显了基于健康或法律和秩序的基础上对毛利人的国家保护的基本限制，但它们也为毛利人维持更大的治安自治提供了途径。从这里，