scholarly journals Diverse Complexities, Complex Diversities

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 468-481
Author(s):  
Jenny Ritchie
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Economic Disparities ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Indigenous Ways Of Knowing

This paper highlights considerations for critical qualitative researchers in relation to the need to enact methodologies that are contextually responsive. It outlines a range of intersecting complexities that emerge from a critical reading of the context for research in Aotearoa (New Zealand), which include histories of colonisation of Indigenous peoples, increasing cultural diversity likely to be futher impacted by migration from Pacific Islands to Aotearoa because of the climate change crisis, and increasing economic disparities between rich and poor. It then draws upon scholarship by Māori and Pacific Island scholars that identifies alternative methodologies that arise from Indigenous ways of knowing, being, doing, and relating. It concludes with a series of questions that may be informative for researchers as they design methodologies which engage Indigenous and other diverse perspectives and peoples.

Indigenous Pacific Approaches to Climate Change: Pacific Island Countries, Jenny Bryant-Tokalau (2018)

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-111
Author(s):  
Roy Smith
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Regional Organizations ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Pacific Island Countries

Review of: Indigenous Pacific Approaches to Climate Change: Pacific Island Countries, Jenny Bryant-Tokalau (2018) Cham: Palgrave Pivot, 111 pp., ISBN 978 3 319 78398 7 (hbk), £44.99   Indigenous Pacific Approaches to Climate Change: Aotearoa/New Zealand, Lyn Carter (2019) Cham: Palgrave Pivot, 106 pp., ISBN 978 3 319 96438 6 (hbk), £49.99   Combatting Climate Change in the Pacific: The Role of Regional Organizations, Marc Williams and Duncan McDuie-Ra (2018) London: Palgrave Macmillan, 136 pp., ISBN 978 3 319 88816 3 (pbk), £44.99

scholarly journals Rethinking Freshwater Management in the Context of Climate Change: Planning for Different Times, Climates, and Generations

2021 ◽  
pp. 419-462
Author(s):  
Meg Parsons ◽  
Karen Fisher ◽  
Roa Petra Crease
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Time Shape ◽  
Freshwater Management

AbstractIn this chapter, we explore environmental justice as an intergenerational imperative for Indigenous peoples by examining how different conceptions of time shape responses to climate change. We offer insights into how bringing Māori, Indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand, understandings of time can open new spaces for thinking about and planning for climate change in ways that do not reinforce and rearticulate the multiple environmental injustices (disproportionately experienced by Indigenous peoples because of settler colonialism). We examine how Māori concepts of time (as a spiral) and kaitiakitanga (environmental guardianship) challenge the dominant framing of climate change (premised on anthropometrism and forward-thinking temporality) and provide the opportunity to consider how climate justice (encompassing both mitigation and adaptation) as involving intergenerational responsibilities to both human and more-than-human beings.

scholarly journals Wai Puna: An Indigenous Model of Māori Water Safety and Health in Aotearoa, New Zealand

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chanel Phillips
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Premature Death ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Water Safety ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Core Concepts ◽  
Beliefs And Attitudes

Māori (the indigenous peoples of Aotearoa, New Zealand) are intimately connected to wai (i.e., water) yet are overrepresented in New Zealand’s drowning statistics each year. On average Māori account for 20-24% of all preventable and non-preventable drowning fatalities, despite comprising only 15 percent of New Zealand’s population. Drowning remains a significant issue posing a threat to whānau (i.e., families) through premature death being imminent and whakapapa (i.e., genealogy) being interrupted. There is limited research that has examined Māori and indigenous understandings of water safety within the literature and limited studies that have investigated the issue of Māori drowning from a distinctly Māori or indigenous approach. This paper proposes a theory of Māori water safety depicted as the Wai Puna model and draws on three core concepts pertinent to a Māori worldview: whakapapa, mātauranga (i.e., Māori knowledge and ways of knowing) and tikanga (i.e., customs, practices). Wai Puna provides the foundation for conceptualising Māori water safety in a New Zealand context and a way forward for other indigenous communities around the world to redefine water safety and drowning prevention from their distinct worldviews that reflect their unique beliefs and attitudes to water and thus to water safety.

River Co-governance and Co-management in Aotearoa New Zealand: Enabling Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Being

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 455-480
Author(s):  
Karen Fisher ◽  
Meg Parsons
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Ontological Pluralism ◽  
Knowledge Processes ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Indigenous Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Negative Material ◽  
Epistemological Pluralism

AbstractLegislation emerging from Treaty of Waitangi settlements provide Māori, the Indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand, with new opportunities to destabilize and decolonize the colonial knowledge, processes and practices that contribute towards negative material and metaphysical impacts on their rohe [traditional lands and waters]. In this article we focus our attention on the Nga Wai o Maniapoto (Waipa River) Act 2012 and the Deed of Settlement signed between the Crown (the New Zealand government) and Ngāti Maniapoto (the tribal group with ancestral authority over the Waipā River) as an example of how the law in Aotearoa New Zealand is increasingly stretched beyond settler-colonial confines to embrace legal and ontological pluralism. We illustrate how this Act serves as the foundation upon which Ngāti Maniapoto are seeking to restore, manage, and enhance the health of their river. Such legislation, we argue, provides a far higher degree of recognition of Māori rights and interests both as an outcome of the settlement process and by strengthening provisions under the Resource Management Act 1991 regarding the role of Māori in resource management. We conclude by suggesting that co-governance and co-management arrangements hold great potential for transforming river management by recognizing and accommodating ontological and epistemological pluralism, which moves Aotearoa New Zealand closer to achieving sustainable and just river futures for all.

Juvenile Fiction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mavis Reimer ◽  
Clare Bradford ◽  
Heather Snell
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
British Literature ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Indigenous Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Juvenile Fiction

This chapter focuses on the juvenile fiction of the British settler colonies to 1950, and considers how writers both take up forms familiar to them from British literature and revise these forms in the attempt to account for the specific geography, politics, and cultures of their places. It is during this time that the heroics associated with building the empire had taken hold of British cultural and literary imaginations. Repeatedly, the juvenile fiction of settler colonies returns to the question of the relations between settlers and Indigenous inhabitants—sometimes respecting the power of Indigenous knowledge and traditions; often expressing the conviction of natural British superiority to Indigenous ways of knowing and living; always revealing, whether overtly or covertly, the haunting of the stories of settler cultures by the displacement of Indigenous peoples on whose land those cultures are founded.

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 Zero Carbon Building Practices in Aotearoa New Zealand

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (15) ◽  
pp. 4455
Author(s):  
Thao Thi Phuong Bui ◽  
Suzanne Wilkinson ◽  
Niluka Domingo ◽  
Casimir MacGregor
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Building Projects ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Zero Carbon

In the light of climate change, the drive for zero carbon buildings is known as one response to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Within New Zealand, research on climate change mitigation and environmental impacts of buildings has received renewed attention. However, there has been no detailed investigation of zero carbon building practices. This paper undertakes an exploratory study through the use of semi-structured interviews with government representatives and construction industry experts to examine how the New Zealand construction industry plans and implements zero carbon buildings. The results show that New Zealand’s construction industry is in the early stage of transiting to a net-zero carbon built environment. Key actions to date are focused on devising a way for the industry to develop and deliver zero carbon building projects. Central and local governments play a leading role in driving zero carbon initiatives. Leading construction firms intend to maximise the carbon reduction in building projects by developing a roadmap to achieve the carbon target by 2050 and rethinking the way of designing and constructing buildings. The research results provide an insight into the initial practices and policy implications for the uptake of zero carbon buildings in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Indigenous Peoples

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Te Paa-Daniel
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Anglican Church ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Treaty Of Waitangi ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Constitutional Revision

In 1992 the Anglican Church in Aotearoa New Zealand and Polynesia, which owed its origin ultimately to the work of Samuel Marsden and other missionaries, undertook a globally unprecedented project to redeem its inglorious colonial past, especially with respect to its treatment of indigenous Maori Anglicans. In this chapter Te Paa Daniel, an indigenous Anglican laywoman, explores the history of her Provincial Church in the Antipodes, outlining the facts of history, including the relationship with the Treaty of Waitangi, the period under Selwyn’s leadership, as experienced and understood from the perspective of Maori Anglicans. The chapter thus brings into view the events that informed and influenced the radical and globally unprecedented Constitutional Revision of 1992 which saw the creation of the partnership between different cultural jurisdictions (tikanga).

scholarly journals Fostering sustainable tribal economies in a time of climate change

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ema Maria Bargh ◽  
SL Douglas ◽  
Annie Te One
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Management ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Geographical Society ◽  
Local Resources ◽  
Energy Needs ◽  
Management Plans

In this article, we explore how Maori tribal organisations are responding to calls by other Indigenous peoples to become more sustainable in a time of climate change. From a close examination of tribal Environmental Management Plans, we move to a specific case study in the Bay of Plenty area, Ngati Kea/Ngati Tuara. Ultimately, we suggest that many tribal organisations are seeking to respond to climate change and transition to becoming producers of their own food and energy needs, and are often articulating these responses in relation to specific local resources and contexts. © 2014 New Zealand Geographical Society.

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