Edmond S Fehoko
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 143189 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Edmond S Fehoko |
| NOMBRES | Edmond S |
| APELLIDO | Fehoko |
| FIRMA | FEHOKO E S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Otago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1809-5856 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Sexual and Reproductive Health Experiences in the Global Pacific Diaspora
Talanoa Faikava
Qualitative research has often priviledged Western ways of knowing, which can marginalise Indigenous knowledge and limit how research is done with Pacific communities. While methods such as Talking Circles in Native American communities and Yarning Circles in Aboriginal Australian communities are now recognised as valid research approaches, the potential of talanoa faikava (a kava-based dialogic practice grounded in Tongan and wider Pacific cultu…
Online Pressures, Offline Impacts
Social media is a central arena where Indigenous and minority populations negotiate cultural identity, belonging and wellbeing. For young Pacific men in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ), these digital spaces intersect with long‐standing cultural expectations of masculinity, creating both opportunities for connection and risks to mental health. Although Pacific communities are among the most digitally engaged in NZ, they continue to face disproportionate…
Digital Taboo
Pornography use among young Pacific males in New Zealand remains an under‐explored and culturally sensitive issue. This qualitative article explores how Pacific men view and experience porn use, with a focus on how their cultural values and spiritual beliefs influence those experiences. Employing the Talanoa research method, we conducted six kava‐based focus groups with 50 Pacific males (18–30 years), fostering relational spaces for open dialogue…
Exploring the interface of religion, infertility and assisted reproduction
Religion contributes to the identity, well-being, and life satisfaction of many people globally, however, its traditional stance on infertility and assisted reproductive technologies (ART) can conflict with individuals' personal reproductive aspirations and desire for a family. As the fertility rates of certain ethnic and religious groups decline, it is essential to discuss the interface between religion, infertility and ART, to understand how to…
Our Search for Intergenerational Rhythms as Tongan Global Scholars
Our search for collective meaning-making across spaces and places as Tongan global scholars carries intergenerational rhythms. This article is a diasporic collaboration between members of the Tongan Global Scholars Network (TGSN), an online cultural collective drawn together through creatively critical rhythms and a desire to make space for ongoing criticalities through Tongan concepts, knowledge, and approaches. Employing the art of e-talanoa in…
Social Identity Mapping With Justice‐Involved Young People
Social groups and the environments they create play a prominent role in the desistance versus persistence of young peoples' criminal offending. Social Identity Mapping (SIM) provides a quantitative method for understanding the social network of young offenders. This exploratory study was guided by two broad research questions: (1) using the SIM task, we wanted to investigate the experiences of young people moving through the Youth Justice System …
The interface of gambling and cultural practices
Strategies and recommendations around raising cultural awareness with treatment providers are critical to understanding Tongan gambling in New Zealand
Epistemic injustice and Body Mass Index
The availability and uptake of assisted reproductive technologies is increasing across the globe yet delays and disparities continue to exist for many Indigenous and minority ethnic groups in terms of outcomes and access to fertility treatment and reproductive services. In this article, we examine the fertility stories of nine Māori (Indigenous people of Aotearoa) and Pacific cisgender women living in Aotearoa who were interviewed as part of a la…
The most difficult time of my life’ or ‘Covid’s gift to me’? Differential experiences of Covid-19 funerary restrictions in Aotearoa New Zealand
In 2020, the government of Aotearoa New Zealand imposed some of the most stringent funerary restrictions in the world as part of its efforts to eliminate COVID-19. This article explores how people experienced this situation, asking why restrictions that some described as precipitating ‘the most difficult time of their lives’ were described by others as a ‘relief’, ‘blessing’, or ‘gift’. Much existing literature frames funerary restrictions as a d…
Community healthcare workers' experiences during and after Covid‐19 lockdown
Shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic reached Aotearoa New Zealand, stringent lockdown measures lasting 7 weeks were introduced to manage community spread of the virus. This paper reports the findings of a qualitative study examining how lockdown measures impacted upon the lives of nurses, midwives and personal care assistants caring for community-based patients during this time. The study involved nationwide surveys and in-depth interviews with 15…
Digital Vā
The emergence of the COVID-19 virus has significantly shifted the lives of Pacific families and communities from face-to-face communal settings to digital spaces. While there has been a multitude of opportunities for Pacific people to express themselves in digital spaces, little is known about the impacts of this on social life, including on quality time within families, exposure to misinformation, and the adoption of online addictive behaviours.…
The Research Imagination During Covid-19
This article explores some of the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has served as a collective critical event for anthropologists and other social scientists, examining how it has promoted new configurations of the research imagination. We draw on our own experiences of participating in a team of 17 researchers, hailing from anthropology and anthropology-adjacent disciplines, to research social life in Aotearoa/New Zealand during the pandemic, …
Holding Tightly onto Land and People During a Pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic has affected the livelihoods of Pacific peoples, including partaking of the ancestral elixir of kava and the associated social gatherings and ritual ceremonies. The cultural practice of kava-drinking has adapted over the years and is very diverse, yet it remains a major form of social engagement in the lives of most Pacific communities. These challenging and unprecedented times connected communities have become physically is…
‘Safer communities … together’? Plural policing and Covid-19 public health interventions in Aotearoa New Zealand
International media have praised Aotearoa New Zealand for its response to the coronavirus pandemic. While New Zealand Police played a fundamental role in enforcing pandemic control measures, the policing landscape remained plural. This article employs Loader [2000. Plural policing and democratic governance. Social and legal studies, 9 (3), 323–345] model of plural policing to understand responses to public health emergencies. It identifies two fo…
(Alter)narratives of ‘winning’
COVID-19 stories, especially from Aotearoa New Zealand as one of the leading nations ‘winning’ over the virus will be important historical documentation. The ‘team of 5 million’ is writing its narratives of life with/out COVID-19 – stories of ‘living in bubbles’, of ‘being kind’ and ‘being in it together.’ These are narratives of success which need to be examined alongside the narratives that have been absent from public national discourse but co…
Exploring the progression from games to gambling in Tonga
Until recently there has been little research on gambling in Tongan communities. While it is not clear when and how games with elements of gambling were introduced to Tonga, the longstanding presence of competitive gaming in Tonga is evident. This paper explores traditional games that were played by noble chiefs, like sika and lafo, and the introduction of Western games by missionaries, such as card games and darts. These include Tongan people’s …
The Research Imagination During Covid-19
This article explores some of the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has served as a collective critical event for anthropologists and other social scientists, examining how it has promoted new configurations of the research imagination. We draw on our own experiences of participating in a team of 17 researchers, hailing from anthropology and anthropology-adjacent disciplines, to research social life in Aotearoa/New Zealand during the pandemic, …
(Alter)narratives of ‘winning’
COVID-19 stories, especially from Aotearoa New Zealand as one of the leading nations ‘winning’ over the virus will be important historical documentation. The ‘team of 5 million’ is writing its narratives of life with/out COVID-19 – stories of ‘living in bubbles’, of ‘being kind’ and ‘being in it together.’ These are narratives of success which need to be examined alongside the narratives that have been absent from public national discourse but co…
Exploring the interface of religion, infertility and assisted reproduction
Religion contributes to the identity, well-being, and life satisfaction of many people globally, however, its traditional stance on infertility and assisted reproductive technologies (ART) can conflict with individuals' personal reproductive aspirations and desire for a family. As the fertility rates of certain ethnic and religious groups decline, it is essential to discuss the interface between religion, infertility and ART, to understand how to…
Epistemic injustice and Body Mass Index
The availability and uptake of assisted reproductive technologies is increasing across the globe yet delays and disparities continue to exist for many Indigenous and minority ethnic groups in terms of outcomes and access to fertility treatment and reproductive services. In this article, we examine the fertility stories of nine Māori (Indigenous people of Aotearoa) and Pacific cisgender women living in Aotearoa who were interviewed as part of a la…
Digital Vā
The emergence of the COVID-19 virus has significantly shifted the lives of Pacific families and communities from face-to-face communal settings to digital spaces. While there has been a multitude of opportunities for Pacific people to express themselves in digital spaces, little is known about the impacts of this on social life, including on quality time within families, exposure to misinformation, and the adoption of online addictive behaviours.…
Holding Tightly onto Land and People During a Pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic has affected the livelihoods of Pacific peoples, including partaking of the ancestral elixir of kava and the associated social gatherings and ritual ceremonies. The cultural practice of kava-drinking has adapted over the years and is very diverse, yet it remains a major form of social engagement in the lives of most Pacific communities. These challenging and unprecedented times connected communities have become physically is…
‘Safer communities … together’? Plural policing and Covid-19 public health interventions in Aotearoa New Zealand
International media have praised Aotearoa New Zealand for its response to the coronavirus pandemic. While New Zealand Police played a fundamental role in enforcing pandemic control measures, the policing landscape remained plural. This article employs Loader [2000. Plural policing and democratic governance. Social and legal studies, 9 (3), 323–345] model of plural policing to understand responses to public health emergencies. It identifies two fo…
(Alter)narratives of ‘winning’
COVID-19 stories, especially from Aotearoa New Zealand as one of the leading nations ‘winning’ over the virus will be important historical documentation. The ‘team of 5 million’ is writing its narratives of life with/out COVID-19 – stories of ‘living in bubbles’, of ‘being kind’ and ‘being in it together.’ These are narratives of success which need to be examined alongside the narratives that have been absent from public national discourse but co…
Exploring the progression from games to gambling in Tonga
Until recently there has been little research on gambling in Tongan communities. While it is not clear when and how games with elements of gambling were introduced to Tonga, the longstanding presence of competitive gaming in Tonga is evident. This paper explores traditional games that were played by noble chiefs, like sika and lafo, and the introduction of Western games by missionaries, such as card games and darts. These include Tongan people’s …
The most difficult time of my life’ or ‘Covid’s gift to me’? Differential experiences of Covid-19 funerary restrictions in Aotearoa New Zealand
In 2020, the government of Aotearoa New Zealand imposed some of the most stringent funerary restrictions in the world as part of its efforts to eliminate COVID-19. This article explores how people experienced this situation, asking why restrictions that some described as precipitating ‘the most difficult time of their lives’ were described by others as a ‘relief’, ‘blessing’, or ‘gift’. Much existing literature frames funerary restrictions as a d…
Community healthcare workers' experiences during and after Covid‐19 lockdown
Shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic reached Aotearoa New Zealand, stringent lockdown measures lasting 7 weeks were introduced to manage community spread of the virus. This paper reports the findings of a qualitative study examining how lockdown measures impacted upon the lives of nurses, midwives and personal care assistants caring for community-based patients during this time. The study involved nationwide surveys and in-depth interviews with 15…
Digital Vā
The emergence of the COVID-19 virus has significantly shifted the lives of Pacific families and communities from face-to-face communal settings to digital spaces. While there has been a multitude of opportunities for Pacific people to express themselves in digital spaces, little is known about the impacts of this on social life, including on quality time within families, exposure to misinformation, and the adoption of online addictive behaviours.…
The Research Imagination During Covid-19
This article explores some of the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has served as a collective critical event for anthropologists and other social scientists, examining how it has promoted new configurations of the research imagination. We draw on our own experiences of participating in a team of 17 researchers, hailing from anthropology and anthropology-adjacent disciplines, to research social life in Aotearoa/New Zealand during the pandemic, …
The interface of gambling and cultural practices
Strategies and recommendations around raising cultural awareness with treatment providers are critical to understanding Tongan gambling in New Zealand
Epistemic injustice and Body Mass Index
The availability and uptake of assisted reproductive technologies is increasing across the globe yet delays and disparities continue to exist for many Indigenous and minority ethnic groups in terms of outcomes and access to fertility treatment and reproductive services. In this article, we examine the fertility stories of nine Māori (Indigenous people of Aotearoa) and Pacific cisgender women living in Aotearoa who were interviewed as part of a la…
Our Search for Intergenerational Rhythms as Tongan Global Scholars
Our search for collective meaning-making across spaces and places as Tongan global scholars carries intergenerational rhythms. This article is a diasporic collaboration between members of the Tongan Global Scholars Network (TGSN), an online cultural collective drawn together through creatively critical rhythms and a desire to make space for ongoing criticalities through Tongan concepts, knowledge, and approaches. Employing the art of e-talanoa in…
Social Identity Mapping With Justice‐Involved Young People
Social groups and the environments they create play a prominent role in the desistance versus persistence of young peoples' criminal offending. Social Identity Mapping (SIM) provides a quantitative method for understanding the social network of young offenders. This exploratory study was guided by two broad research questions: (1) using the SIM task, we wanted to investigate the experiences of young people moving through the Youth Justice System …
Sexual and Reproductive Health Experiences in the Global Pacific Diaspora
Talanoa Faikava
Qualitative research has often priviledged Western ways of knowing, which can marginalise Indigenous knowledge and limit how research is done with Pacific communities. While methods such as Talking Circles in Native American communities and Yarning Circles in Aboriginal Australian communities are now recognised as valid research approaches, the potential of talanoa faikava (a kava-based dialogic practice grounded in Tongan and wider Pacific cultu…
Online Pressures, Offline Impacts
Social media is a central arena where Indigenous and minority populations negotiate cultural identity, belonging and wellbeing. For young Pacific men in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ), these digital spaces intersect with long‐standing cultural expectations of masculinity, creating both opportunities for connection and risks to mental health. Although Pacific communities are among the most digitally engaged in NZ, they continue to face disproportionate…
Digital Taboo
Pornography use among young Pacific males in New Zealand remains an under‐explored and culturally sensitive issue. This qualitative article explores how Pacific men view and experience porn use, with a focus on how their cultural values and spiritual beliefs influence those experiences. Employing the Talanoa research method, we conducted six kava‐based focus groups with 50 Pacific males (18–30 years), fostering relational spaces for open dialogue…
Exploring the interface of religion, infertility and assisted reproduction
Religion contributes to the identity, well-being, and life satisfaction of many people globally, however, its traditional stance on infertility and assisted reproductive technologies (ART) can conflict with individuals' personal reproductive aspirations and desire for a family. As the fertility rates of certain ethnic and religious groups decline, it is essential to discuss the interface between religion, infertility and ART, to understand how to…
Sociology (13 obras) · Aotearoa (12 obras) · Gender Studies (9 obras) · Gender Studies (7 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Medicine (6 obras) · Psychology (6 obras) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 (5 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Qualitative research (5 obras)