scholarly journals Community resilience demonstrated through a Te Ao Māori (Ngāti Manawa) lens: The Rāhui

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leila-Dawn Ngaroimata Kauri Rewi ◽  
Jeanette Louise Hastie
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Health Planning ◽  
Community Survey ◽  
Conservation Measure ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Public Health Planning ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Negative Impacts

INTRODUCTION: This research project is associated with a small rural community utilising the Te Ao Māori (Ngāti Manawa) understanding of Rāhui, as a means of decreasing the possibility of negative impacts for their mostly Māori population, during the Covid-19 pandemic that was experienced in March 2020 in Aotearoa New Zealand. Rāhui is a conservation measure shrouded in tapu designed to limit, restrict or prevent access to the natural environment. For example, Te Wao Tapu nui a Tāne protecting in the process the mauri of our rivers, lakes, streams following a mishap or misfortune such as a drowning. Equally as important, Rāhui was used as a proactive means of conservation.METHOD: Using mixed methods, this study highlights both positive and challenging experiences in the statistical and thematic analysis that may inform future public health planning for the inevitable and ongoing effects of pandemic responses in Aotearoa New Zealand which are potentially transportable beyond Aotearoa New Zealand.IMPLICATIONS: This research identified how Nga ̄ti Manawa of Murupara, utilised Rāhui as a mechanism of resilience in order to keep local residents thriving and healthy during and after the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown by setting up checkpoints on the borders of their rohe, and restricting the vehicle and human traffic into Murupara. Support for the Rāhui was significant from five hapū leaders and from the community survey illuminating a sense of safety that the checkpoints offered to a vulnerable and mostly Māori rural community.

scholarly journals Promoting positive interactions between midwives and obstetricians at the primary/secondary interface

2021 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 41-48
Author(s):  
Rachel Cassie ◽  
Christine Griffiths ◽  
George Parker
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Maternity Care ◽  
Interprofessional Collaboration ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Positive Interactions ◽  
Health Board ◽  
District Health ◽  
Interprofessional Communication ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand

Background: Interprofessional communication is a critical component of safe maternity care. The literature reports circumstances in Aotearoa New Zealand and overseas when interprofessional collaboration works well between midwives and obstetricians, as well as descriptions of unsatisfactory communication between the two professions. Aim: To explore and define effective collaboration between midwives and obstetricians at the primary/secondary interface in maternity care, in order to generate suggestions to foster positive collaboration. Method: Eight primary care midwives, three obstetricians and two obstetric registrars from a single District Health Board in Aotearoa New Zealand were interviewed about their interactions at the primary/secondary interface and their understanding, and use, of the Referral Guidelines. The theoretical perspective was Appreciative Inquiry. Data were analysed using thematic analysis. Findings: Results indicate usually positive interprofessional interactions. Dominant emergent themes are the need to negotiate differing philosophies, to clarify blurred boundaries that sometimes lead to lack of clear lines of responsibility, and the importance of three-way conversations. Of the three themes, this article focuses on three-way communication between midwife, obstetrician/registrar and woman. Participants reported that, when effective three-way communication between woman, midwife and obstetrician occurred, philosophical difference could be negotiated, blurred boundaries clarified and understanding of the respective roles of the LMC midwife and the obstetric team promoted. Participants value the Referral Guidelines but report some limitations to their applicability. Conclusion: Effective three-way communication promotes good maternity care. This study has identified ways to support optimal communication.

scholarly journals Reconstructing dancer identities

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Cosgrave
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Sense Of Security ◽  
Practice Performance ◽  
The Way

The Coronavirus (Covid-19) continues to reshape many lives socially, politically, and economically. Choreographic practice, performance, and those involved in dance are also affected in different ways. This article investigates the research question: How might the event of Covid-19 prompt the transformation of freelance dancers’ identities? Through a qualitative narrative inquiry, three freelance contemporary dancers from Aotearoa/New Zealand were interviewed. From a thematic analysis of the data, the theme of alienation and adaptability were drawn out. This research reveals that the event of Covid-19 has caused freelance dancers to question their identity and precarity within their communities and shifted their position to advance a sense of security. The stories shared by the dancers revealed that industry practices and conditions for freelance contemporary dancers in Aotearoa/New Zealand need redevelopment for greater sustainability, relevance and inclusion, which could pave the way for industry changes to occur post-covid-19.  

scholarly journals WAI 1909 – The Waitangi Tribunal Gambling Claim

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-150
Author(s):  
Ruth Ann Herd
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Problem Gambling ◽  
Public Health Approach ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Extended Families ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Kaupapa Māori ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Waitangi Tribunal ◽  
Warrior Women

In 2008, I lodged a claim with the Waitangi Tribunal in regard to problem gambling and its negative impacts on Māori people. The Tribunal is tasked with hearing grievances related to Te Tiriti o Waitangi (The Treaty of Waitangi) signed in 1840 between Māori and the British Crown.  It is a historical claim focused on the lack of adequate protection of taiohi Māori (young people of Māori descent) and the intergenerational harm caused by problem gambling among their whānau, hapū, iwi (extended families and relatives) and urban Māori communities. However, this begs the question how can a Treaty claim improve the health outcomes of a generation of taiohi Māori who have been exposed to commercial gambling and its aggressive and targeted expansion and marketing?  This paper frames the WAI-1909 claim as a Kaupapa Māori (Māori research approach) derived from the research of three wahine toa (warrior women) supporting the claim; and refers to epistemological standpoints of Māori women working in the gambling research space. I demonstrate how the gambling claim challenges the New Zealand government to honour the promises in the articles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and to protect the rights of its citizens, especially taiohi Māori. The WAI-1909 gambling claim concludes that whilst the New Zealand Gambling Act (2003) includes a public health approach to problem gambling, it has not adequately addressed the rights of tangata whenua (Māori, the first people of Aotearoa/New Zealand) under Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

scholarly journals Māori social workers’ experiences of care and protection: A selection of findings

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paora Moyle
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
World Views ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
Family Group Conferencing ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Selection Of

This article explores the challenges faced by seven Māori social workers who are also members of Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers (ANZASW) working within the child protection system in Aotearoa. Their views on what has improved for Māori whānau around recent legislation changes to family group conferencing (FGC) and newer policy initiatives such as Whānau Ora are examined. The study used a Māori-centred research approach and a thematic analysis of participants’ accounts was undertaken. From this analysis it was found that: (a) the participants walked creatively between two world views in order to best meet the needs of their own people; (b) these Māori practitioners felt over-worked and under-valued; and (c) the participants viewed the practices within FGCs as biased, demonstrating a lack of bicultural ability and contributing to significant barriers that whānau Māori experience in care and protection.

scholarly journals Negotiating the hairless ideal in Āotearoa/New Zealand: Choice, awareness, complicity, and resistance in younger women's accounts of body hair removal

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 272-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gareth Terry ◽  
Virginia Braun ◽  
Shanuki Jayamaha ◽  
Helen Madden
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Hair Removal ◽  
Body Hair ◽  
Younger Women ◽  
Qualitative Survey ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Choice Awareness

Hair removal amongst Western women is ubiquitous, and research continues to highlight the ongoing conformity of almost all women with hair removal practices. Often women are presented as either cultural dupes, following the expectations of the Western hairless ideal without question, or highly engaged participants in the rigours of aesthetic labour, using it for their own agentic purposes. This paper seeks to explore the various ways that younger women (18–35) made sense of their own and others’ hair removal practices. We report on a thematic analysis of data generated from an online (mostly) qualitative survey with 299 female-identified respondents. Four themes were constructed: (1) women should do what they want with their body hair, (2) removing hair is socially shaped, (3) begrudging complicity, and (4) resistance to hair removal norms takes a particular kind of woman. We discuss the ways in which women described their practices and thinking where they seemed simultaneously complicit with and resistant to idealised notions of feminine embodiment.

Everyday experiences of post-politicising processes in rural freshwater management

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 1413-1431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda C Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
The State ◽  
Liberal Democracies ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Everyday Experiences ◽  
Freshwater Management

There has been a burgeoning of geography literature that draws on post-politics to make sense of trends in Western liberal democracies. This body of literature argues that consensus is constructed around capitalism, and spaces for dissensus are closed off. However, critiques have focused on the state-centric and totalising nature of some of this literature. This article adds nuance and depth to explorations of post-politicising processes. I do this through an empirical case study that demonstrates how dissensus is disavowed through the construction of community, and highlights gendered and classed experiences of this disavowal. In exploring a rural community in Aotearoa New Zealand engaged in catchment-based decision making, I draw on Nancian critical community scholarship to analyse how neoliberal and rural discourses defined belonging. Boundaries, and who could access the catchment committee, were shaped by expectations of economic consumption, spatial membership, gendered behavioural norms and class. The policing of these boundaries became increasingly antagonistic to the point of threats of violence. Accounts by those who experienced this policing demonstrate the embodied and largely banal nature of post-politicising processes. And yet, this case study illustrates how efforts to depoliticise are entangled with politicisation and raises questions about how change unfolds.

Periods as powerful data: User understandings of menstrual app data and information

2021 ◽  
pp. 146144482110402
Author(s):  
Bryndl Hohmann-Marriott
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Not Given ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Data User ◽  
Menstrual Health ◽  
Using Data

Digital apps for tracking menstruation are widely used. Taking a critical menstruation and critical digital health approach, this research asks how menstrual app users perceive their data. Interviews with 25 menstrual app users across Aotearoa New Zealand, were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis. Some participants only track their period, while others track additional symptoms. They appreciated having a choice of data to track, entering extensive amounts of data. Most participants had not given much thought to their data, viewing it as uninteresting and unproblematic. A small group were concerned by the data risks and managed this in several ways. Participants across both groups supported using data for menstrual health research. This research demonstrates a need for digital literacy and for limits on the use of menstruation information, where menstruators themselves are controlling and benefitting from their data.

scholarly journals DO WE REALLY OFFER REFUGE? Using Galtung's Concept of Structural Violence to Interrogate Refugee Resettlement Support in Aotearoa New Zealand

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Rafferty ◽  
Anna Burgin ◽  
Vivienne Anderson
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Structural Violence ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Legal Frameworks ◽  
Structural Inequities ◽  
The Impact

Although the impact of physical violence on refugees’ lives is well documented, the impact of structural violence on their post-settlement experiences is less clearly recognised and conceptualised. Structural violence refers to harm to human wellbeing caused by social structures such as economic systems, legal frameworks and government institutions. This concept calls into question the quality of ‘refuge’ offered to refugees in societies where they will encounter sharp economic inequalities and multiple barriers to their social participation. We present a case study of Aotearoa New Zealand, a society with low levels of physical violence but significant forms of structural violence, and explore how these structural inequities impact resettled refugees in particular ways. By defining and conceptualising the negative impacts that structural violence can have on refugees’ experience of resettlement, we hope to contribute to future resettlement practices that will recognise not only the physical violence that former refugees have faced in the past, but also better support them to overcome the structural challenges they face in their new home.

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