scholarly journals Be Kind: Negotiating Ethical Proximities in Aotearoa/New Zealand during COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanna Trnka
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Ethical Reasoning ◽  
States Of Emergency ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Democratic Societies ◽  
Emergency Measures ◽  
New Zealanders

Citizens do not merely respond to states of emergency; in democratic societies, they help constitute them. This essay analyzes New Zealanders’ engagements in ethical reasoning during the country’s first COVID-19 lockdown. Specifically, I examine how we can understand a variety of public responses to emergency measures—including breaching regulations, threatening rule-breakers, sealing off neighborhoods, and recasting citizen-returnees as “strangers”—as negotiations of ethical proximities focused on keeping appropriately close that which is thought should be near, and keeping distanced that deemed best held afar.

Racism and silencing in the media in Aotearoa New Zealand

2021 ◽  
pp. 117718012110154
Author(s):  
Liana MacDonald ◽  
Adreanne Ormond
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Racial Discourse ◽  
European Descent ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Zealanders

Racism in the Aotearoa New Zealand media is the subject of scholarly debate that examines how Māori (Indigenous Peoples of New Zealand) are broadcast in a negative and demeaning light. Literature demonstrates evolving understandings of how the industry places Pākehā (New Zealanders primarily of European descent) interests at the heart of broadcasting. We offer new insights by arguing that the media industry propagates a racial discourse of silencing that sustains widespread ignorance of the ways that Pākehā sensibilities mediate society. We draw attention to a silencing discourse through one televised story in 2018. On-screen interactions reproduce and safeguard a harmonious narrative of settler–Indigenous relations that support ignorance and denial of the structuring force of colonisation, and the Television Code of Broadcasting Practice upholds colour-blind perceptions of discrimination and injustice through liberal rhetoric. These processes ensure that the media industry is complicit in racism and the ongoing oppression of Indigenous peoples.

scholarly journals New Zealanders’ Attitudes towards Biculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Maija McSweeney-Novak
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Racial Bias ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Racial Biases ◽  
Treaty Of Waitangi ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Knowledge Scale ◽  
New Zealanders

<p>New Zealand’s aspiration to be a bicultural nation, has yet to be realised. Māori continue to experience discrimination across all life domains. Research published in 2004, reported New Zealanders as being more supportive of symbolic than resource-based biculturalism. However, socio-political changes, the absence of research examining New Zealanders’ Treaty knowledge, and implicit racial biases towards Māori, suggest an update of this work is needed. Across two studies, this research aimed to investigate New Zealanders’ attitudes towards biculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand. In Study 1, New Zealand born undergraduates (N = 56), completed the Implicit Association Test, a Pākehā Attitudes Towards Biculturalism Scale, a Treaty of Waitangi knowledge scale and estimated their declared Treaty of Waitangi knowledge. Study 2 was designed to replicate Study 1, and address limitations with a larger, more representative sample (N= 100). The Dunning-Kruger effect was also a specific focus. Across both studies, New Zealanders were more supportive of symbolic rather than resource-based biculturalism and showed an implicit racial bias towards Māori. In Study 2, we revealed new empirical evidence for the Dunning-Kruger effect: when estimating their knowledge relative to peers: lower performers over-estimated their knowledge whereas higher performers under-estimated their knowledge. Our results highlight that New Zealanders’ attitudes towards biculturalism have remained relatively unchanged since Sibley and Liu’s (2004) work, and raise concern for the aspirations of New Zealand as a bicultural nation. Implications and future research directions are discussed.</p>

scholarly journals Natural monuments: rethinking arboreal heritage for twenty-first-century Aotearoa New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Susette Goldsmith
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Evaluation Methods ◽  
First Century ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Critical Heritage ◽  
Heritage Discourse ◽  
New Zealanders

<p>The twenty-first century is imposing significant challenges on nature in general with the arrival of climate change, and on arboreal heritage in particular through pressures for building expansion. This thesis examines the notion of tree heritage in Aotearoa New Zealand at this current point in time and questions what it is, how it comes about, and what values, meanings and understandings and human and non-human forces are at its heart. While the acknowledgement of arboreal heritage can be regarded as the duty of all New Zealanders, its maintenance and protection are most often perceived to be the responsibility of local authorities and heritage practitioners. This study questions the validity of the evaluation methods currently employed in the tree heritage listing process, tree listing itself, and the efficacy of tree protection provisions. The thesis presents a multiple case study of discrete sites of arboreal heritage that are all associated with a single native tree species—karaka (Corynocarpus laevigatus). The focus of the case studies is not on the trees themselves, however, but on the ways in which the tree sites fill the heritage roles required of them entailing an examination of the complicated networks of trees, people, events, organisations, policies and politics situated within the case studies, and within arboreal heritage itself. Accordingly, the thesis adopts a critical theoretical perspective, informed by various interpretations of Actor Network Theory and Assemblage Theory, and takes a ‘counter-’approach to the authorised heritage discourse introducing a new notion of an ‘unauthorised arboreal heritage discourse’. The thesis introduces alternative examples of arboreal heritage to the contemporary heritage canon paving the way for other forms of heritage that may remain mired in the expectations of the twentieth century’s authorised heritage discourse. In doing so it elevates arboreal heritage as a valid part of physical heritage and a worthy topic for further critical heritage study. The research findings show that in contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand trees have been active in forging links between the past, the present and the future in new and powerful ways transcending the received evaluation methods and establishing a new rhetoric of arboreal indigeneity. Through the lens of tree registers, the research contributes to a better understanding of both natural heritage and heritage in general and, while firmly placed in the New Zealand context, provides a basis for critical heritage studies of related subjects elsewhere. 2 Little has been written about arboreal heritage in Aotearoa New Zealand. As the first academic study of the topic, the thesis fills gaps in academic and professional knowledge of the tree heritage process. It introduces interdisciplinary ideas, from both the sciences and the humanities, and draws attention to tree heritage as a significant historical, social, economic, cultural and environmental contributor to the well-being of New Zealanders. The case studies demonstrate that effective, contemporary stewardship requires a revised ‘tree sense’ that acknowledges that arboreal heritage is founded on complex and various values, meanings and understandings, and is manifest in many different forms. Drawing on the archival, documentary and empirical research undertaken, the thesis proposes a democratisation of arboreal heritage decision-making, and contributes a set of principles to facilitate the negotiation of arboreal heritage acknowledgement and protection by communities, local authorities and heritage practitioners.</p>

scholarly journals Ka Rangona te Reo: The Development of Māori-language Television Broadcasting in Aotearoa New Zealand

Te Kaharoa ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Middleton
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Television Broadcasting ◽  
Privately Held ◽  
New Zealanders

New Zealanders today can hear Māori language broadcast in a variety of contexts:  on Māori Television and to a lesser extent on state-owned TV1, TV2 and privately-held TV3, on digital platforms and via broadcasters' programmes-on-demand internet sites.  However, these opportunities are a relatively recent development spurred by years of agitation by Māori about the decline of te reo Māori in an English-saturated world and the recognition that the powerful medium of television broadcasting could help promote, protect and enhance reo and tikanga.

scholarly journals Punishment on arrival: New Zealand’s Returning Offenders Act 2015

2021 ◽  
pp. 146247452199991
Author(s):  
Claudia McHardy
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Differential Treatment ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Criminal Offending ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Vulnerable People ◽  
Migration Law ◽  
New Zealanders

Australia’s detention-deportation regime is setting the agenda for New Zealand’s domestic criminal justice system, with implications for criminological understandings of ‘crimmigration’ and ‘bordered penality’. In response to recent changes in Australian migration law which have seen an increased number of deportations to Aotearoa New Zealand, the New Zealand government introduced legislation, the Returning Offenders (Management and Information) (“ROMI”) Act 2015, which created a monitoring regime for returning New Zealanders convicted of criminal offending in an overseas jurisdiction. The sentence an individual is subject to in Australia is extended, both geographically and temporally, creating multiple punishments for this particular group of offenders. While ostensibly modelled from domestic parole arrangements, in practice the ROMI regime entails greater restriction while offering less in the way of legal protection. The differential treatment of returning New Zealanders is sustained through their discursive construction as both “criminals” and de facto “aliens”. By treating returnees as threatening outsiders to be contained, rather than vulnerable people to be supported, the New Zealand state also extends the risk logics underpinning the Australian regime. Although the ROMI Act is novel, the regime conforms to the racialised patterns of exclusion and criminalisation which have persisted in Aotearoa New Zealand since colonisation.

scholarly journals Opening a Discourse on Race Relations in New Zealand: The Fern and the Tiki Revisited

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry A. Kersey
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Seminal Work ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Intellectual Legacy ◽  
New Zealanders

This article discusses the intellectual legacy of David P. Ausubel in Aotearoa-New Zealand. Some forty years after the American academic's provocative work The Fern and the Tiki first appeared in print it still evokes strong and mixed reactions from Pakeha and Maori alike. It certainly had a searing impact among a generation of New Zealanders who were in universities during the tumultuous civil rights dominated era of the 1960s and 1970s. Even those who have never read the book recognize the title, can name its author, and generally accord it some deference as a seminal work that should be read or reread.

Young New Zealanders' Consumption of Television Fiction Programs: An Exploratory Study of Young People's Reception Habits

2014 ◽  
Vol 152 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maddalena Fedele
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
The Internet ◽  
First Year ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Consumption Strategies ◽  
New Zealanders

This article presents part of the findings of an exploratory study of young people's consumption of television fiction programs, carried out in Aotearoa New Zealand. The paper focuses on young people's reception habits, describing those practices within the rest of their leisure activities. A questionnaire was administered to a convenience sample of 225 first-year Victoria University of Wellington students aged 17–30. Among the main results, young people's predilection for television fiction must be emphasised. Even if watching television is not one of the more frequent leisure activities for those surveyed, most of them report watching at least one or two different fiction programs every day, especially by themselves or with friends, and in domestic common spaces. They also show some multimedia and multi-tasking consumption strategies – such as watching fiction programs through different media, such as the TV set, DVDs and the internet – and carrying out simultaneous activities while watching.

scholarly journals Negotiating risks and responsibilities during lockdown: ethical reasoning and affective experience in Aotearoa New Zealand

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Susanna Trnka ◽  
Nicholas J. Long ◽  
Pounamu Jade Aikman ◽  
Nayantara Sheoran Appleton ◽  
Sharyn Graham Davies ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Ethical Reasoning ◽  
Affective Experience ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand

scholarly journals Joining the Aotearoa New Zealand Constitutional Debate: Constitutional Environmental Rights in our Future ‘Constitution’

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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BoHao Li
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Advisory Panel ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
New Zealanders

<p>In 2013, the Constitutional Advisory Panel invited New Zealanders to think about our vision of what New Zealand should look like in the future and to consider how our constitutional arrangements would support that vision. In response, New Zealanders have suggested the inclusion of an environmental protection regime in our future constitutional landscape. The author supports this prevailing opinion. This paper will use the experiences gained from international and regional human rights and environmental law treaties and other countries’ constitutions to explore the best model to achieve that goal. This comparative law analysis will identify the key theoretical and legal issues that must be addressed by Parliament to ensure the successful implementation and enforcement of an environmental protection regime through the courts. While international developments are important, any environmental constitutional framework must reflect New Zealand’s unique and distinctive history, environment, people, and cultural values. With this in mind, this paper will tentatively canvass a new environmental constitutional framework and lay foundations for further legal research and public debate.</p>

scholarly journals Fine job at the interface of Māoridom and journalism

2007 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-202
Author(s):  
Alan Samson
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
European Ancestry ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
New Zealanders

In the introduction to her journalists guide to reporting Māoridom, Pou Kōrero author Carol Archie, a Pākehā and a journalist, agonises over how to describe non-Māori and comes up with 'other New Zealanders'. "Pākehā" won't do,' she says, 'because it has come to mean New Zealanders with European ancestry. 'Non- Māori' is negative and says what we're not, rather than what we are... an tauiwi (meaning foreigner) can offend those who still aren't tangata whenua but who still feel we belong to nowehere else but Aotearoa New Zealand."

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