Culture-specific ideologies undermine collective action support: Examining the legitimizing effects of postcolonial belief systems

Ideologies can legitimate inequality and undermine collective action. Yet research overlooks the effects culture-specific ideologies—ideologies that develop within a specific sociohistorical context—have on collective action support. We address this oversight by arguing that two culture-specific ideologies that deny the contemporary relevance of past injustices (historical negation) and reject Indigenous culture from the nation’s identity (symbolic exclusion) undermine support for collective action on behalf of the disadvantaged (namely, Māori—New Zealand’s Indigenous population). As predicted, historical negation and symbolic exclusion had independent negative cross-lagged effects on collective action support amongst Māori ( N = 561) and New Zealand European ( N = 4,104) participants. The cross-lagged effects of collective action support on historical negation and symbolic exclusion, however, were nonsignificant. Thus, the relationships these culture-specific ideologies have with collective action support are unidirectional. Our results highlight the need to incorporate culture-specific ideologies into models of collective action.

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The epigenetic etiology of cardiovascular disease in a longitudinal Swedish twin study

Clinical Epigenetics ◽

10.1186/s13148-021-01113-6 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Xueying Qin ◽

Ida K. Karlsson ◽

Yunzhang Wang ◽

Xia Li ◽

Nancy Pedersen ◽

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Keyword(s):

Cardiovascular Disease ◽

Dna Methylation ◽

Cvd Risk ◽

Significance Level ◽

Latent Trajectory ◽

Lagged Effects ◽

The Cross ◽

Level 2 ◽

Cardiometabolic Traits

Abstract Background Studies on DNA methylation have the potential to discover mechanisms of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. However, the role of DNA methylation in CVD etiology remains unclear. Results We performed an epigenome-wide association study (EWAS) on CVD in a longitudinal sample of Swedish twins (535 individuals). We selected CpGs reaching the Bonferroni-corrected significance level (2 $$\times$$ × 10–7) or the top-ranked 20 CpGs with the lowest P values if they did not reach this significance level in EWAS analysis associated with non-stroke CVD, overall stroke, and ischemic stroke, respectively. We further applied a bivariate autoregressive latent trajectory model with structured residuals (ALT-SR) to evaluate the cross-lagged effect between DNA methylation of these CpGs and cardiometabolic traits (blood lipids, blood pressure, and body mass index). Furthermore, mediation analysis was performed to evaluate whether the cross-lagged effects had causal impacts on CVD. In the EWAS models, none of the CpGs we selected reached the Bonferroni-corrected significance level. The ALT-SR model showed that DNA methylation levels were more likely to predict the subsequent level of cardiometabolic traits rather than the other way around (numbers of significant cross-lagged paths of methylation → trait/trait → methylation were 84/4, 45/6, 66/1 for the identified three CpG sets, respectively). Finally, we demonstrated significant indirect effects from DNA methylation on CVD mediated by cardiometabolic traits. Conclusions We present evidence for a directional association from DNA methylation on cardiometabolic traits and CVD, rather than the opposite, highlighting the role of epigenetics in CVD development.

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What future for school business leadership? Recent change and looming possibilities

Management in Education ◽

10.1177/0892020620969855 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 089202062096985

Author(s):

Karen Starr

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

International Research ◽

Recent Change ◽

Business Leaders ◽

Business Leadership ◽

School Communities ◽

The Cross ◽

School Business ◽

Developed World ◽

Policies And Practices

Fundamental widespread changes affecting education’s purposes, policies and practices have had transformational repercussions for school business across the developed world. Subsequently, school business demands and accountabilities continue to escalate in scope and complexity and governments, education authorities and school communities are acknowledging the primacy and imperative of proficient school business leadership. International research chronicling the subsequent rapid professionalisation of school business leaders demonstrates pervasive policy moves that have re-focused school business priorities. Drawing on research conducted in Australia, USA, UK, Canada and New Zealand this article describes recent widespread changes before discussing issues and trends portending future professional adaptation for school business leaders whose work lies at the cross hairs of macro pressures and micro necessities.

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The Changing Boundaries of Knowledge Between Māori Awareness and Western Science

Leonardo ◽

10.1162/leon_a_00829 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 47 (5) ◽

pp. 513-514

Author(s):

Ian Clothier

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Indigenous Knowledge ◽

Scientific Knowledge ◽

Western Science ◽

Indigenous Culture ◽

Aotearoa New Zealand ◽

Contemporary Life

Conventionally, indigenous knowledge such as that held by Māori (the indigenous culture of Aotearoa New Zealand) is seen as in total contrast to Western scientific knowledge. In this paper the author puts forward instances where ideology is held in common across cultural borders. A general awareness of facets of shared ideology has been refined, extended and given substance through three curatorial projects involving Dr. Te Huirangi Waikerepuru, a highly respected kaumatua (elder). These took place in Istanbul, Albuquerque and Aotearoa New Zealand. Ethically, acceptance of these commonalities leads to considering the shifting boundary of knowledge in contemporary life.

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Indigenous Peoples, Social Movements, and the Legacy of Hugo Chávez’s Governments

Latin American Perspectives ◽

10.1177/0094582x16666013 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 44 (1) ◽

pp. 180-198 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Luis F. Angosto-Ferrández

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

Social Movements ◽

Collective Action ◽

Political Participation ◽

Indigenous People ◽

Social Services ◽

Indigenous Peoples ◽

Indigenous Population ◽

Indigenous Movement ◽

The Way

The unprecedented enfranchisement of Venezuela’s indigenous population is partly a result of the formation of a state-sponsored indigenous movement. This movement prioritizes access to social services, economic development, and political participation in state structures over certain goals of free determination. Other forms of collective action with different priorities are evidence of the existence of diverging interests and goals among indigenous people. These divergences are a reflection of the way in which the indigenous population partakes in the shaping of contemporary Venezuelan politics. La inclusión social de las comunidades indígenas de Venezuela no tiene precedentes y se debe, en parte, a la formación de movimientos indígenas auspiciados por el estado. Estos movimientos le dan prioridad al acceso a los servicios sociales, al desarrollo económico y a la participación política en las estructuras estatales por encima de ciertas metas de libre determinación. Otras formas de acción colectiva con prioridades diferentes revelan la presencia/existencia de intereses y objetivos divergentes entre las comunidades indígenas. Estas diferencias son un reflejo de la manera en que las poblaciones indígenas participan en la formación de la política venezolana contemporánea.

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AGRICULTURAL AVIATION AT THE CROSS ROADS

Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association ◽

10.33584/jnzg.1984.45.1671 ◽

1984 ◽

pp. 9-14

Author(s):

O.G. James

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Aviation Industry ◽

Hill Country ◽

Threefold Increase ◽

Important Development ◽

The Cross ◽

Post War

Thank you for the opportunity to present this address in my home district, from where I started my business career in aviation in 1949. The 34 years have been eventful, stimulating and satisfying, particularly when it has been said so many times that the agricultural aviation industry has been the single most important development in post war years, in arresting the lost production from New Zealand hill country. The main contribution tq,the threefold increase in stock unit numbers has been the service provided by the aviation industry. It is a record that we, who created it, and spent our working lifetime on, can be justly proud.

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Comparative Analysis of Different Spatial Interpolation Methods Applied to Monthly Rainfall as Support for Landscape Management

Applied Sciences ◽

10.3390/app11209566 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (20) ◽

pp. 9566

Author(s):

Tommaso Caloiero ◽

Gaetano Pellicone ◽

Giuseppe Modica ◽

Ilaria Guagliardi

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Spatial Interpolation ◽

Cross Validation ◽

Landscape Management ◽

Monthly Rainfall ◽

Rainfall Data ◽

The Other ◽

Geostatistical Methods ◽

The Cross ◽

Almost All

Landscape management requires spatially interpolated data, whose outcomes are strictly related to models and geostatistical parameters adopted. This paper aimed to implement and compare different spatial interpolation algorithms, both geostatistical and deterministic, of rainfall data in New Zealand. The spatial interpolation techniques used to produce finer-scale monthly rainfall maps were inverse distance weighting (IDW), ordinary kriging (OK), kriging with external drift (KED), and ordinary cokriging (COK). Their performance was assessed by the cross-validation and visual examination of the produced maps. The results of the cross-validation clearly evidenced the usefulness of kriging in the spatial interpolation of rainfall data, with geostatistical methods outperforming IDW. Results from the application of different algorithms provided some insights in terms of strengths and weaknesses and the applicability of the deterministic and geostatistical methods to monthly rainfall. Based on the RMSE values, the KED showed the highest values only in April, whereas COK was the most accurate interpolator for the other 11 months. By contrast, considering the MAE, the KED showed the highest values in April, May, June and July, while the highest values have been detected for the COK in the other months. According to these results, COK has been identified as the best method for interpolating rainfall distribution in New Zealand for almost all months. Moreover, the cross-validation highlights how the COK was the interpolator with the best least bias and scatter in the cross-validation test, with the smallest errors.

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The Evangelical Discovery of History

Studies in Church History ◽

10.1017/s0424208400002229 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 49 ◽

pp. 330-364 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

David W. Bebbington

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Church Of England ◽

Churches Of Christ ◽

England And Wales ◽

Evangelical Protestantism ◽

Protestant Churches ◽

The Bible ◽

The Subject ◽

The Cross ◽

The Church

‘From some modern perspectives’, wrote James Belich, a leading historian of New Zealand, in 1996, ‘the evangelicals are hard to like. They dressed like crows; seemed joyless, humourless and sometimes hypocritical; [and] they embalmed the evidence poor historians need to read in tedious preaching’. Similar views have often been expressed in the historiography of Evangelical Protestantism, the subject of this essay. It will cover such disapproving appraisals of the Evangelical past, but because a high proportion of the writing about the movement was by insiders it will have more to say about studies by Evangelicals of their own history. Evangelicals are taken to be those who have placed particular stress on the value of the Bible, the doctrine of the cross, an experience of conversion and a responsibility for activism. They were to be found in the Church of England and its sister provinces of the Anglican communion, forming an Evangelical party that rivalled the high church and broad church tendencies, and also in the denominations that stemmed from Nonconformity in England and Wales, as well as in the Protestant churches of Scotland. Evangelicals were strong, often overwhelmingly so, within Methodism and Congregationalism and among the Baptists and the Presbyterians. Some bodies that arose later on, including the (so-called Plymouth) Brethren, the Churches of Christ and the Pentecostals (the last two primarily American in origin), joined the Evangelical coalition.

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Pandemic leadership: Lessons from New Zealand’s approach to COVID-19

Leadership ◽

10.1177/1742715020929151 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

pp. 279-293 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Suze Wilson

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Collective Action ◽

Leadership Practices ◽

Prime Minister ◽

Complete Control ◽

Good Practices ◽

The World ◽

The Government ◽

Leadership Lessons

This case study analyses the leadership approach and practices of the New Zealand government, led by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, in the response thus far to the COVID-19 pandemic. It reports on how a shared sense of purpose has been established, that of minimizing harm to lives and livelihoods, for which the government has sought – and secured – New Zealanders’ commitment. Key leadership practices comprise the government’s willingness to themselves be led by expertise, its efforts to mobilise the population, and to enable coping, all of which serve to build the trust in leadership needed for transformative, collective action such as the pandemic demands. At the time of writing, New Zealand appears well on track to achieve its ambitious goal of achieving rapid and complete control over the COVID-19 outbreak – not just ‘flattening the curve’ as other countries are struggling to do – at least in part due to these leadership contributions. A framework of good practices for pandemic leadership is offered drawn from this case study, in the hope transferable lessons can be taken to aid others in the continuing struggle to limit the harm COVID-19 poses to lives and livelihoods throughout the world.

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