The Shapeshifting Crown: Locating the State in Postcolonial New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the UK
- Submitting institution
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Goldsmiths' College
- Unit of assessment
- 22 - Anthropology and Development Studies
- Output identifier
- 3471
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1017/9781108677738
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781108496469
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This book draws together seven years of anthropological research into a fundamental institution of government and key symbol of state authority that stands at the centre of the constitutions of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK. Funded by a major Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Award, this novel collaboration between anthropology and law used historical, archival and legal research, participant observation and over 230 fieldwork interviews with monarchists, republicans, indigenous leaders, Crown officials, civil servants, government ministers and constitutional experts to examine the Crown’s multiple forms and meanings in the Westminster model of government and post-colonial societies._x000D_
Cris Shore was PI for the project and responsible for conceptualizing the project, writing the grant application, managing the research team and leading the fieldwork and interviews in the UK and New Zealand. He also carried out some of the fieldwork interviews in Canada and Australia. Two of the four contributors (Sally Raudon and Jai Patel) were anthropology MA students who Shore co-supervised and mentored with Williams. Shore’s contribution to the book also included planning and conceptualizing the volume, drafting the proposal that won the contract with Cambridge University Press, and writing for Chapter 1 (the Introduction) and Chapter 3 (on the Crown and the State). Shore also co-authored two other chapters and co-edited the entire volume.
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