scholarly journals Transformation as reversion to fitrah: Muslim Māori women's self-transformation through reflexive consumption

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Djavlonbek Kadirov ◽  
N Allayarova ◽  
AW Boulanouar
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Ontological Security ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Consumption Habits

© 2015 Elsevier Inc.. There is a dearth of research on the role of fitrah, the innate receptiveness to goodness, uprightness, and justice as Muslims understand it, and how it is expressed in and through consumption experiences, practices, and choices. The objective of this research is to study Muslim Māori women, the indigenous people of New Zealand, who have faced significant historical and personal fracturing of their identity narrative, and the reformulation and continuity of the narrative upon reversion to Islam (Islamic fitrah). Through participant observation, personal interviews, and immersion in the field, this study takes an ethnographic approach to uncovering the consumption habits and meanings of these new Muslims. We find that our informants are extraordinarily successful in "rewriting" the format of their lives and of securing for themselves ontological security and active, even vibrant, presentation and performance of themselves as Muslim women.

scholarly journals Transformation as reversion to fitrah: Muslim Māori women's self-transformation through reflexive consumption

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Djavlonbek Kadirov ◽  
N Allayarova ◽  
AW Boulanouar
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Ontological Security ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Consumption Habits

© 2015 Elsevier Inc.. There is a dearth of research on the role of fitrah, the innate receptiveness to goodness, uprightness, and justice as Muslims understand it, and how it is expressed in and through consumption experiences, practices, and choices. The objective of this research is to study Muslim Māori women, the indigenous people of New Zealand, who have faced significant historical and personal fracturing of their identity narrative, and the reformulation and continuity of the narrative upon reversion to Islam (Islamic fitrah). Through participant observation, personal interviews, and immersion in the field, this study takes an ethnographic approach to uncovering the consumption habits and meanings of these new Muslims. We find that our informants are extraordinarily successful in "rewriting" the format of their lives and of securing for themselves ontological security and active, even vibrant, presentation and performance of themselves as Muslim women.

scholarly journals Māori Performing Arts and the Weaving Together of Local, National and International Communities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jonathon Avery
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
School Of Music ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Performance Context ◽  
And Performance

<p>Māori performing arts provides a valuable contribution to Aotearoa New Zealand society. Māori performing arts has an intrinsic link to Māori culture and is used to connect 1) Māori who are disengaged from iwi/hapu/whanau, as well as 2) non-Māori, in New Zealand and around the world with Māori culture. Performance genres such as waiata-a-ringa, haka and mōteatea contain a body of knowledge that communicate Māori ways of being and doing and provide participants with an opportunity to become connected to a culturally literate and informed community. Using ethnographic techniques of participant observation, interviews and performance, this thesis examines the experiences of individuals who engage with Māori performing arts and the meaning they attribute to their engagement with the art form. Drawing on contemporary ideas of community and meaning, this thesis also investigates how Māori performing arts builds and strengthens relationships and whanaungatanga by connecting participants to local, national and international Aotearoa New Zealand communities. This thesis draws on two contexts in Wellington where people engage with Māori performing arts - The Ngāti Pōneke Young Māori Club at Pipitea marae and Te Kōkī New Zealand School of Music. Along with exploring two Māori performance context in detail, this these explores how Māori performing arts is used as a platform to educate participants about Māori knowledge, language and culture while also discussing how Māori performing arts is used to symbolise and represent Aotearoa New Zealand nationally and internationally.</p>

scholarly journals "Thank you, your English is very good also": Asian Panethnicity and its Performance in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Sophia Edwards
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Asian Identity ◽  
Creative Artists ◽  
Asian People ◽  
Diverse Groups

<p>Existing studies suggest that Asian panethnicity is the political mobilisation of diverse groups of people under a new name, to oppose racism and discrimination. Asian panethnicity is shaped by social forces, including those that exclude. As such, it is inherently political. However, it is limiting to think of it only as a kind of intentional, collective action bent towards achieving a predetermined group goal. This thesis expands this understanding of panethnicity, by considering how “Asiannness” is experienced on an intersubjective level and asks what “Asian” means to and for the Asian individual.  Lingering Orientalism perpetuates a sense of Asian people as not quite belonging in the West. Though by now cliché, this narrative of non-belonging continues to determine ideas of Asianness and set the parameters of appropriate Asian behaviour. But, this non-belonging is also the site in and from which Asian actors make their own meanings and seek their own kind of situated belonging. This thesis takes an autoethnographic and ethnographic approach to field sites in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand to observe some of the ways Asian identity is formed. It is inevitable that transnational processes contribute to this identity work, but these global processes are also subsumed by localised structures and contexts.  Drawing from participant observation with social and community groups, and interviews with creative artists, writers, administrators, community workers and activists addressing the question of what it means to be Asian, I argue that Asian panethnicity is constituted by “doing”. It is made up of different acts, repeated over time, and in different settings. As a product of relationships between externally imposed, in group enforced, and self-made conceptions of “Asianness”, Asian panethnicity is both performative and performed. This thesis presents scenarios in which these performances and presentations of the Asian self take place. In considering some of the possible contexts and conventions that give rise to the performative act/s of being Asian, I argue that being Asian is a creative, collaborative, ongoing endeavour. It is a means by which to accomplish belonging in the world.</p>

scholarly journals Good Dances Make Good Guests: Dance, Animation and Sovereign Assertion in ‘Amis Country, Taiwan

2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 337-352
Author(s):  
DJ W. Hatfield
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Cultural Resource ◽  
Ritual Propriety ◽  
Participatory Practices ◽  
Indigenous Sovereignty ◽  
And Performance ◽  
External Forces ◽  
Local Discourses

Within the context of official multiculturalism and the promotion of tourism to improve the economic prospects of Taiwanese Indigenous people, ritual dances of ‘Amis/Pangcah people, known as malikoda, have become sites of conflict concerning ritual propriety and performance. Although as participatory practices, malikoda can never be performed for an audience, they have served to mediate outside power, including but not limited to ancestral spirits and political figures. However, whether and how those outside ‘Amis communities can malikoda remains subject to debate. Malikoda animates a model of Indigenous sovereignty, which can flexibly incorporate external forces that impinge on ‘Amis communities. Yet, the felicity conditions for malikoda are unstable. To resolve this, ‘Amis people have relied upon a combination of heritage and local discourses that define the dance as an act of hospitality. Both types require the alignment of various actors, media and interpretations at multiple scales, often obviating interpretation. Thus, attention to malikoda highlights how Indigenous people engage with indigeneity as a cultural resource under multiculturalism and raises broader questions about the role of animation in sovereign assertion.

scholarly journals Toward equal participation: An auto-ethnography of facilitating consultations in the refugee sector

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 57-67
Author(s):  
Sue Elliot
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
Refugee Community ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Auto Ethnography ◽  
Collaborative Negotiations ◽  
Reflexive Analysis

This article uses an auto-ethnographic approach to exploring how one positions oneself as a facilitator in a layered and power-laden context in the refugee sector in New Zealand to ensure just and collaborative negotiations. It reflects on my facilitation practice based during a series of annual consultations between UNHCR, NGOs and refugee community representatives over a period of five years. The article begins by providing a brief overview of the New Zealand refugee system. This is followed by a review of relevant literature on the role of the facilitator and the role of facilitation within community development, an acknowledged field of social work. Reflections on facilitation practice within an ethnically diverse situation makes up the bulk of the article, which is written from the perspective of a Pakeha woman who has worked in the refugee sector for nearly 35 years, most recently in community development and capacity building of refugee-based organisations. This paper adopts a relatively descriptive style to a personal reflection on facilitating large consultations in the refugee sector in New Zealand. For ease of reading, the term refugee is used throughout, although the consultations focus on both refugee and asylum issues. As presented here, my reflexive analysis is interwoven with research and literature on facilitation and reflects who I am and what I value, in a myriad of tacit and overt ways. It focuses on the facilitation process and the role of the facilitator rather than on the outcomes of the consultations. I have deliberately focused on my own story as I consider this is the story I can ethically tell. 

Searching for Ontological Security via Homeland Media Use: The Case of Korean Temporary Visa-Status Migrants in the United States

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 404-422
Author(s):  
Claire S. Lee
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ontological Security ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Ethnographic Approach

Temporary visa-status migrants initially might be perceived as emancipated mobilities who are privileged enough to enter and exit the United States without taking any major risks. This article examines the struggles involved in the experiences of the Korean temporary visa-status migrants living in the United States, and especially the role of media in their transnational everyday lives. Using a quasi-ethnographic approach by conducting qualitative interviews with 40 Korean visa-status migrants, this article argues that the homeland media, both television and Internet, sustain “ontological security” throughout the radical transitions, feeling of “existential outsideness,” and transnational insecurities and precariousness. The study offers a helpful insight in both understanding the contemporary dispersed audiences and contextualizing different migrant positions within the easily lumped category of mobile elites or cosmopolitans.

scholarly journals The relationship between dynamic capabilities, the firm’s resource base and performance in a post-disaster environment

2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Battisti ◽  
David Deakins
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Small Firms ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
High Volatility ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Post Disaster ◽  
Practical Implications

This article draws on quantitative survey evidence to explore the role of dynamic capabilities in a post-disaster environment, that of Christchurch in New Zealand after the 2010 and 2011 series of major earthquakes. We develop a model to examine the relationship between dynamic capabilities, disaster-related changes to the firm’s resource base and its performance. The hypotheses are tested using a sample of 545 small firms that have been affected by the earthquakes. Results highlight the importance of a firm’s proactive posture and capability to integrate resources in recognising new opportunities in an environment characterised by high volatility and increased uncertainty. These findings offer important theoretical and practical implications.

scholarly journals Irish Music in Wellington: a Study of a Local Music Community

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Donna Thurston
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Musical Training ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Cultural Experience ◽  
Individual Session ◽  
Irish Music ◽  
Music Community ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Individual

<p>The Irish session is a musical, social and cultural experience that has emerged from international popularisation and globalisation. In New Zealand today, communities of Irish music enthusiasts maintain links to an international arena, and the session is valued as a context for musical enjoyment and the affirmation of Irish identity. Throughout my research I immersed myself in Wellington's vibrant Irish music scene with fieldwork techniques that included participant observation, sound recordings, and performance. The major part of this study took place in two local Wellington pubs - Molly Malone's and Kitty O'Shea's - but I also observed sessions in other New Zealand cities and in Ireland. The similarities and differences between the two Wellington sessions were examined in detail and my research included extensive interviews with the participants. In addition to exploring Irish essions in the context of two Wellington pubs, this thesis explores session instrumentation and repertoire, and aspects of cultural identity that include the participant's experiences with Irish music. This thesis also examines how individual session members actively contribute and link their musical training and background to a transnational Irish music community. By studying the individual and musical identities of those actively involved in the community, this thesis reveals that Irish music in Wellington is an active and dynamic scene made up of enthusiasts with a variety of musical and cultural backgrounds. With music as its heart, the Wellington session community, is simultaneously localised in New Zealand but extends outward and connects with Irish communities globally.</p>

scholarly journals Komunitas Berbaju Hitam: Sejarah, Perempuan, dan Pendidikan dalam Masyarakat Adat Tana Towa Kajang, Sulawesi Selatan

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-67
Author(s):  
Sarkawi B. Husain ◽  
Lina Puryanti ◽  
Adi Setijowati
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Economic Aspect ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Family Economy ◽  
Traditional Structure ◽  
The Family ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Selection Of

Studies on the Ammatowa indigenous people have been carried out by several researchers. Unfortunately, none of these studies have focused on the role and position of women in the Ammatowa people, both in their daily lives and in regard  to education. Therefore, this study fills that void. This study aims to identify the position and role of women in the life of the Ammatowa people; what specific roles are performed by women in customary areas; and how the traditions are still firmly held provide space for women to express themselves. As a study of a unique community, this study uses an ethnographic approach, by collecting, classifying, and analyzing the various positions of women in the Ammatowa Kajang community. In the traditional structure of Tana Towa, women have an important, strategic and respected position. In the structure of these customs, there is an important role played by a woman called Angrota who has the task and responsibility of preparing all the needs for traditional ceremonies, facilitating the selection of Ammatowa and inaugurating them. In the economic aspect, women have an important role in supporting the family’s financial, such as weaving, selling in the market, and farming. Meanwhile, education for Tana Towa women is still a major issue that needs serious attention. It is because the education world is related to issues of customs, and the family economy.

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