%0 Journal Article
%T Social Injunctions and an Unsuccessful Attempt at Chasing Fog
%A Layne Waerea
%J Law, Culture and the Humanities
%@ 1743-9752
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1743872115615501
%X This article examines how socio-legal performance in the public realm might operate to question, expose and exploit social and legal norms that can exist in the everyday. With the tactical deployment of humor ¨C and a particular focus on how the Treaty of Waitangi (1840) may continue to operate as a cultural/political force in Aotearoa/New Zealand today ¨C this article explores the contribution that socio-legal artistic performance might make to reveal the tensions, inherent in the 1840 agreement between British colonizers and M¨¡ori, as continuing to affect the very foundations of law in Aotearoa/New Zealand and its everyday contemporary articulations
%K Intervention
%K socio-legal performance
%K humor
%K Treaty of Waitangi (1840)
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1743872115615501