scholarly journals Spatial Justice—Decolonising Our Cities and Settlements

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 123-135
Author(s):  
Jade Kake
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Spatial Justice ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Sustainable Use And Management

In my recently published book Rebuilding the Kāinga, I championed the idea of kāinga in a contemporary sense: integrated housing; cultural and communal facilities; sustainable use and management of whenua, awa, and moana; and sustainable economic activities. If implemented widely, the kāinga model will also have profound impacts on how we in Aotearoa New Zealand (Māori, Pākehā, and Tauiwi—all of us) plan our homes, towns, and cities. In this intervention, I expand on, and seek to further develop, this idea in relation to current discourse regarding economics, decolonisation, and, in particular, urban planning in Aotearoa New Zealand.

scholarly journals Coastal Communities, Leisure and Wellbeing: Advancing a Trans-Disciplinary Agenda for Understanding Ocean-Human Relationships in Aotearoa New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 450
Author(s):  
Belinda Wheaton ◽  
Jordan Te Aramoana Waiti ◽  
Rebecca Olive ◽  
Robin Kearns
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Leisure Activity ◽  
Marine Ecosystems ◽  
Coastal Ecosystems ◽  
Human Wellbeing ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Vantage Points

Commentators are advocating for research to better understand relationships between healthy coastal ecosystems and human wellbeing. Doing so requires inter- and transdisciplinary approaches across humanities, arts, social sciences, and science and technology disciplines. These approaches include culturally diverse knowledge systems, such as indigenous ones, that locate sustainable use of and relationships to marine ecosystems. This paper contributes to this agenda through a case-study of relationships between coastal ecosystems and human wellbeing in Aotearoa New Zealand. This article highlights interconnected cultural and wellbeing benefits of, and socio-ecological relationships between, these coastal ecosystems drawing on a case study of one ocean-based, ‘immersive’ leisure activity, surfing. Further, it examines how these relationships impact human physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing, and the wellbeing of communities and ecosystems. The research illustrates that surfing creates strong bonds between practitioners and coastal places, linking the health of marine environments and people. We demonstrate the value of a transdisciplinary place-based approach that integrates research across the humanities and social sciences and engages with Indigenous knowledge (Mātauranga Māori). This argument for multicultural co-learning shows the value of Western and Māori vantage points for how we understand coastal blue spaces. Indigenous perspectives, we conclude, deepen appreciation, as well as equity considerations, of how we understand place, wellbeing, and long-term sustainable relationships with marine ecosystems.

Engaging complexity theory to explore partnership structures: Te Tiriti o Waitangi/The Treaty of Waitangi as a structural attractor for social innovation in Aotearoa-New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Billie Lythberg ◽  
Jamie Newth ◽  
Christine Woods
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Indigenous Worldviews ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Treaty Of Waitangi ◽  
Illustrative Case Study

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how a complexity informed understanding of Indigenous–settler relationships helps people to better understand Indigenous social innovation. To do this, this paper uses the attractor concept from complexity thinking to explore both the history and possible futures of Indigenous Maori social innovation as shaped by Te Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of Waitangi. Design/methodology/approach This paper frames Te Tiriti as a structural attractor for social innovation in Aotearoa-New Zealand and explores the dynamics at play in the social and economic activities related to Te Tiriti and the ongoing settlement process in Aotearoa-New Zealand. This paper outlines this as an illustrative case study detailing the relevant contextual spaces and dynamics that interact and the emergence of social innovation. Findings This paper suggests that the convergent, divergent and unifying dynamics present in a structural attractor provide a useful framework for building ongoing engagement between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people whereby Indigenous worldviews are given space to be articulated and valued. Originality/value In spite of the increase in research into social innovation, including in Indigenous contexts, the “context” of “postcolonial” context remains under-theorised and people’s understanding of the power dynamics at play here limits the understanding of how the mechanisms of Indigenous–settler partnerships structure social innovation and its impact.

From value as theoretical object to rent as political project

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Lewis
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Theoretical Language ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
New Politics ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
The World ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Directing Attention ◽  
Nonhuman Species

Directing attention to ‘value’ and ‘valuing’ as objects of scholarly research offers a promising platform for building a new politics of geography and of livelihoods in relation to economic activities involving the commons, nonhuman species, and environmental resources. This paper responds to Kay and Kenny-Lazar’s survey of recent debates in this regard. It makes the claim that while refocusing scholarship on the materiality of value is a welcome intervention, the challenge is to covert this attention to a new politics in the world by escaping the narrow theoretical language and framings they deploy. I refer to my own work in Aotearoa New Zealand to suggest that this may be achieved in part by extending ‘value thinking’ to ‘rent thinking’ and mobilizing both sets of ideas in enactive, applied research.

The life-course of methamphetamine users in Aotearoa/New Zealand: School, friendship and work

2021 ◽  
pp. 263380762110171
Author(s):  
Trent Bax
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Life Course ◽  
School Transitions ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Interactional Theory ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Bullying Victimisation

As part of the first qualitative-based research on the life-course of methamphetamine users in Aotearoa/New Zealand, this paper analyses the life domains of school, friendship and work. Through application of interactional theory, this paper increases understanding of the situational contexts and interpersonal factors that influence drug use trajectories and the transition from one life domain to another by identifying the patterns within each domain and the influence school, friendship and work exerts on drug use and, conversely, how drug use impacts on school, friendship and work. The analysis discovered 20 commonly shared adverse experiences that hindered educational and employment success and contributed to drug use, including: negative school transitions, significant turning point events, weak commitment to school, poor school attitude and performance, low academic achievement, low school and work ambition, low parental expectations, and high levels of mental health issues, delinquency, delinquent peer involvement, bullying victimisation, work victimisation, unstable careers and illegal economic activities. Specifically, it was common for interviewees to ‘track backwards’ in high school. This study highlights the importance of the educational domain for altering drug use trajectories, especially high school.

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