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The Shapeshifting Crown: Locating the State in Postcolonial New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the UK

Name: The Shapeshifting Crown: Locating the State in Postcolonial New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the UK
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781108733854
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Author: Cris Shore; David V. Williams
ISBN: 9781108733854

Edited by Cris Shore · David V. Williams

Cambridge University Press November 2020

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ISBN-13: 9781108733854
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: November 2020
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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The Crown stands at the heart of the New Zealand, British, Australian and Canadian constitutions as the ultimate source of legal authority and embodiment of state power. A familiar icon of the Westminster model of government, it is also an enigma. Even constitutional experts struggle to define its attributes and boundaries: who or what is the Crown and how is it embodied? Is it the Queen, the state, the government, a corporation sole or aggregate, a relic of feudal England, a metaphor, or a mask for the operation of executive power? How are its powers exercised? How have the Crowns of different Commonwealth countries developed?

The Shapeshifting Crown combines legal and anthropological perspectives to provide novel insights into the Crown's changing nature and its multiple, ambiguous and contradictory meanings. It sheds new light onto the development of the state in postcolonial societies and constitutional monarchy as a cultural system.

1. Introduction: a shapeshifting enigma: the Crown in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom Cris Shore

Part I. The Nature and Development of the Crown:

2. Genealogies of the modern Crown: from St Edward to Queen Elizabeth II

David V. Williams

3. The Crown as metonym for the state? The human face of Leviathan

Cris Shore

4. Indigenous peoples and the Crown: the sacred duty

Sally Raudon

Part II. The Crown as an Embodied Entity:

5. The rituals of Crown and state in New Zealand

Jai Patel

6. Locating the Crown in Australia: the swag of Camp Gallipoli

Sally Raudon

7. Localising the Crown: Royals and (re)patriation

Jai Patel and Sally Raudon

Part III. The Crown and Constitutional Reform:

8. The Republican move: cutting colonial ties

Jai Patel

9. Constitutional reform and the politics of public engagement

Cris Shore and David V. Williams

10. Crown prerogative: reining in the powers

David V. Williams

11. The Queen is dead, long live the King?

Sally Raudon

12. Conclusion: the future of the Crown in an age of uncertainty: sempiternal or crumbling foundation?

Cris Shore, David V. Williams and Sally Raudon.

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