scholarly journals Multidisciplinary Research Collaborations, Vision Mātauranga Science, and the Potential of Anthropology in Aotearoa-New Zealand

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Marama Muru-Lanning
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Social Anthropology ◽  
Multidisciplinary Research ◽  
Research Collaborations ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
New Knowledge

Vision Mātauranga policy has been created to commodify and globalise Māori knowledge that belongs to Māori communities, and is now the expected mechanism for all engagement between university researchers and Māori communities. However, much of the risk associated with forming new collaborations rests with Māori communities, and even more so with the Māori researchers who act as intermediaries and brokers between these communities and the research team. In this new knowledge landscape what opportunities and spaces for action does Vision Mātauranga hold for social anthropology? Furthermore, how does Vision Mātauranga force anthropology to be more inclusive of the descendants of Maori ancestors on whose backs the discipline was built?

scholarly journals Sensitive Heritage: Ethnographic Museums, Provenance Research, and the Potentialities of Restitutions

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Philipp Schorch
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
The People ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Ethnographic Museums ◽  
Provenance Research ◽  
Further Development

This introduction lays out this special issue, which juxtaposes articles on approaches to provenance research, conducted at German museum and university institutions, with articles on past, present and future potentialities of restitutions to originating societies in Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and Namibia. In doing so, the issue makes the argument that provenance research and processes of restitution, and their underlying ethical and sensitive considerations, generate, rather than restrict, new knowledge. They are brimming with epistemic and ontological potentialities: for the people related to the material entities concerned, for the (anthropological) knowledge about them, and for the institutions involved. The ultimate goal pursued is the establishment and further development of provenance research and processes of restitution as ethnographic work and an integral dimension of ethnographic museums in the 21st century.

scholarly journals Manalagi Talanoa A Community-Centred Approach to Research on the Health and Wellbeing of Pacific Rainbow LGBTIQA+ MVPFAFF Communities in Aotearoa New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 474-480
Author(s):  
Patrick Thomsen ◽  
Phylesha Brown-Acton
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Community Consultation ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Health Research Council ◽  
Community Practitioner

The talanoa reported in this paper explores the way the Manalagi Project – recently funded by the Health Research Council of New Zealand – has been designed to empower the health and wellbeing of our Pacific Rainbow LGBTIQA+ MVPFAFF communities. Community-driven, co-designed and embedded, the Manalagi Project adopts a Pacific-centred holistic approach to wellbeing and research. Positioned at the beginning of its community consultation phase, this talanoa between the two lead researchers, one who is an academic and the other a community practitioner, documents the genealogy of the project embedded in lived experiences and relationality through talanoa. It speaks to the importance and timeliness of the project; the suitability of the research team; and intervenes in conversations around how we can activate Pacific research methodologies and praxis to empower our communities to achieve their health and wellbeing aspirations. The findings from this talanoa demonstrate the criticality in adopting intersectional approaches to understanding the differentiated and contextualised health and wellbeing needs of diverse Pacific communities.

scholarly journals A Collaborative Indigenous–non-Indigenous Partnership Approach to Understanding Participant Experiences of a Community-Based Healthy Lifestyles Program

2021 ◽  
pp. 104973232199864
Author(s):  
Cervantée E. K. Wild ◽  
Ngauru T. Rawiri ◽  
Donna M. Cormack ◽  
Esther J. Willing ◽  
Paul L. Hofman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Indigenous Research ◽  
Healthy Lifestyles ◽  
Research Partnership ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Modern Family ◽  
Kaupapa Māori ◽  
Partnership Approach

We describe the approach of an Indigenous–non-Indigenous research partnership in the context of a qualitative study which aimed to understand barriers and facilitators to engagement in a community-based healthy lifestyles program in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Informed by Kaupapa Māori research principles and by “Community-Up” research values, this collaborative approach between the mixed Māori–non-Māori research team effectively engaged with Māori and non-Māori families for in-depth interviews on participant experience, including with non-service users. “Community-Up” research principles allowed for a respectful process which upheld the mana (status, dignity) of the interview participants and the research team. Challenges included maintaining flexibility in our conceptions of ethnicity to reflect the complexity of modern family life in Aotearoa/New Zealand. We were committed to ongoing communication, awareness, and attention to the relationships that formed the basis of our research partnership, which allowed effective navigation of challenges and was critical to the study’s success.

Book Review: Feminist Judgments of Aotearoa New Zealand – Te Rino: A Two-Stranded Rope

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 413
Author(s):  
Suzanne Robertson
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand

Book review of Elisabeth McDonald, Rhonda Powell, Māmari Stephens and Rosemary Hunter (eds) Feminist Judgments of Aotearoa New Zealand – Te Rino: A Two-Stranded Rope (Hart Publishing, Portland, 2017).

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