Moeata Keil
Biographic Data
| ID | 175722 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Moeata Keil |
| GIVEN NAMES | Moeata |
| FAMILY NAME | Keil |
| SIGNATURE | KEIL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5870-6124 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Beyond the agentic individual: Rethinking agency in transnational collectivist Filipino families
Operating in the margins”: Pacific researchers’ reflections on positionality in Pacific research
Positionality is central to Pacific research, shaping its ontological and epistemological foundations. It requires researchers to remain critically aware of how their identities and social positioning influence research design, implementation, analysis, and outcomes. Reflexivity, as an ongoing process of self-awareness, is essential to ethical, inclusive, and culturally grounded Pacific research. Drawing on roundtable talanoa, this paper shares i…
From the F-Word to a Samoan Feminism: Cultivating Samoan Feminist Thought
Through the colonial period in Sāmoa, Christian morality was embedded into Samoan culture. This transformed gender relations, introducing a new, well-disciplined figure of the Samoan woman. Because of this shift, we argue for the need to develop Samoan feminist thought, which is as much a development of new thinking as it is a return to and restoration of Samoan feminist thought already in existence within Indigenous Samoan cosmologies. We contex…
Collectivist Relationality and Individualistic Relationality: Pacific Mothers and Fathers Negotiating Agency and Identity in Post-Separation Care Arrangements for Children
The degree to which agency and identity are experienced as individualised or relational constructs have been widely debated in the sociological literature. Yet, at the centre of these debates are Western notions and understandings of individualisation and relationality, including in family research. They have relied on individualised and nuclearised understandings and approaches to being a family that more closely approximate the lives of white W…
Promiscuous Possibilities: Regenerating a Decolonial Genealogy of Samoan Reproduction
Most of the common ways of thinking about genealogical reproduction are influenced by colonialism and capitalism, which emphasize the importance of the nuclear family, heterosexuality and reproducing future citizens. Under colonialism and capitalism, Samoan women are disciplined into good reproductive laborers who reproduce the moral family and also wider society. This paper looks to Indigenous feminist discourse of regeneration to place Samoan r…
The care of children when Pacific parents live apart: A case of mothers and othermothers caring together
Shared post-separation parenting has become legally and culturally idealised across many Western jurisdictions. Shared parental responsibility is often accompanied by a presumption that parents will share care time as well as a cultural imaginary of involved shared parental care for children. However, little is known about how care work is organised and enacted following separation. Drawing on interviews with 15 separated Pacific parents, 10 moth…
‘Pillars of the colonial institution are like a knowledge prison: The significance of decolonizing knowledge and pedagogical practice for Pacific early career academics in higher education
For Pacific early career academics (PECA) in Aotearoa, there is a tension between the Indigenous knowledges inherited from our Pacific ancestors and those we have been taught within the western education system. As Pacific educators teaching an increasingly Pacific student-body, we have sought to define our own spaces within the lecture theatre where we can prioritize our knowledges and counter standard didactic western pedagogical practices. Thi…
It is important that my kids see us all spending time together and that we do spend time together’: Pacific mothers and fathers displaying post-separation family connections
In this article, we draw on Finch’s (2007) concept of family display to examine how collectivist understandings of family intersect with gender to shape mothers’ and fathers’ post-separation displays of family life. Drawing on interviews with fifteen separated Pacific parents (ten mothers and five fathers), we explore how mothers and fathers navigate how, when, with and for whom they display family relationships and family life following separati…
It’s not like I ever use the money for me to go out and live the café lifestyle’: Pacific mothers talk about child support money
Much of the sociological literature on how child support is allocated and used engages with normative white Western understandings of family structure, the organization of gender relations, and the distribution and management of financial resources within that structure. There has been an absence of an examination of how mothers and fathers from ethnic minority communities navigate and negotiate uses of child support money. Drawing on interviews …
“We're all in it together”: Māori and Pacific student voices on ethnic-specific equity programmes in a New Zealand university
Ethnic-specifi c equity (ESE) programmes are a common feature in New Zealand universities, aimed at ameliorating the educational disadvantage experienced by Mori and Pacifi c students at tertiary level. Despite the prevalence of ESE programmes, research has seldom used student voices to critically analyse programme practices. In this study, which conducted focus groups with 90 high-achieving Mori and Pacifi c students from a New Zealand universit…
“You've Gotta Set a Precedent”: Māori and Pacific voices on student success in higher education
A substantial body of literature has examined the challenges that indigenous students face in higher education. Across Aotearoa New Zealand, the indigenous Māori population is under-represented at the university level, as are ethnically diverse Pacific students who trace their ancestries to neighbouring Pacific nations. This study relies on focus group interviews with high-achieving Māori and Pacific students (N = 90) from a large New Zealand uni…
Collectivist Relationality and Individualistic Relationality: Pacific Mothers and Fathers Negotiating Agency and Identity in Post-Separation Care Arrangements for Children
The degree to which agency and identity are experienced as individualised or relational constructs have been widely debated in the sociological literature. Yet, at the centre of these debates are Western notions and understandings of individualisation and relationality, including in family research. They have relied on individualised and nuclearised understandings and approaches to being a family that more closely approximate the lives of white W…
The care of children when Pacific parents live apart: A case of mothers and othermothers caring together
Shared post-separation parenting has become legally and culturally idealised across many Western jurisdictions. Shared parental responsibility is often accompanied by a presumption that parents will share care time as well as a cultural imaginary of involved shared parental care for children. However, little is known about how care work is organised and enacted following separation. Drawing on interviews with 15 separated Pacific parents, 10 moth…
It is important that my kids see us all spending time together and that we do spend time together’: Pacific mothers and fathers displaying post-separation family connections
In this article, we draw on Finch’s (2007) concept of family display to examine how collectivist understandings of family intersect with gender to shape mothers’ and fathers’ post-separation displays of family life. Drawing on interviews with fifteen separated Pacific parents (ten mothers and five fathers), we explore how mothers and fathers navigate how, when, with and for whom they display family relationships and family life following separati…
It’s not like I ever use the money for me to go out and live the café lifestyle’: Pacific mothers talk about child support money
Much of the sociological literature on how child support is allocated and used engages with normative white Western understandings of family structure, the organization of gender relations, and the distribution and management of financial resources within that structure. There has been an absence of an examination of how mothers and fathers from ethnic minority communities navigate and negotiate uses of child support money. Drawing on interviews …
“You've Gotta Set a Precedent”: Māori and Pacific voices on student success in higher education
A substantial body of literature has examined the challenges that indigenous students face in higher education. Across Aotearoa New Zealand, the indigenous Māori population is under-represented at the university level, as are ethnically diverse Pacific students who trace their ancestries to neighbouring Pacific nations. This study relies on focus group interviews with high-achieving Māori and Pacific students (N = 90) from a large New Zealand uni…
“We're all in it together”: Māori and Pacific student voices on ethnic-specific equity programmes in a New Zealand university
Ethnic-specifi c equity (ESE) programmes are a common feature in New Zealand universities, aimed at ameliorating the educational disadvantage experienced by Mori and Pacifi c students at tertiary level. Despite the prevalence of ESE programmes, research has seldom used student voices to critically analyse programme practices. In this study, which conducted focus groups with 90 high-achieving Mori and Pacifi c students from a New Zealand universit…
It’s not like I ever use the money for me to go out and live the café lifestyle’: Pacific mothers talk about child support money
Much of the sociological literature on how child support is allocated and used engages with normative white Western understandings of family structure, the organization of gender relations, and the distribution and management of financial resources within that structure. There has been an absence of an examination of how mothers and fathers from ethnic minority communities navigate and negotiate uses of child support money. Drawing on interviews …
‘Pillars of the colonial institution are like a knowledge prison: The significance of decolonizing knowledge and pedagogical practice for Pacific early career academics in higher education
For Pacific early career academics (PECA) in Aotearoa, there is a tension between the Indigenous knowledges inherited from our Pacific ancestors and those we have been taught within the western education system. As Pacific educators teaching an increasingly Pacific student-body, we have sought to define our own spaces within the lecture theatre where we can prioritize our knowledges and counter standard didactic western pedagogical practices. Thi…
It is important that my kids see us all spending time together and that we do spend time together’: Pacific mothers and fathers displaying post-separation family connections
In this article, we draw on Finch’s (2007) concept of family display to examine how collectivist understandings of family intersect with gender to shape mothers’ and fathers’ post-separation displays of family life. Drawing on interviews with fifteen separated Pacific parents (ten mothers and five fathers), we explore how mothers and fathers navigate how, when, with and for whom they display family relationships and family life following separati…
The care of children when Pacific parents live apart: A case of mothers and othermothers caring together
Shared post-separation parenting has become legally and culturally idealised across many Western jurisdictions. Shared parental responsibility is often accompanied by a presumption that parents will share care time as well as a cultural imaginary of involved shared parental care for children. However, little is known about how care work is organised and enacted following separation. Drawing on interviews with 15 separated Pacific parents, 10 moth…
Promiscuous Possibilities: Regenerating a Decolonial Genealogy of Samoan Reproduction
Most of the common ways of thinking about genealogical reproduction are influenced by colonialism and capitalism, which emphasize the importance of the nuclear family, heterosexuality and reproducing future citizens. Under colonialism and capitalism, Samoan women are disciplined into good reproductive laborers who reproduce the moral family and also wider society. This paper looks to Indigenous feminist discourse of regeneration to place Samoan r…
From the F-Word to a Samoan Feminism: Cultivating Samoan Feminist Thought
Through the colonial period in Sāmoa, Christian morality was embedded into Samoan culture. This transformed gender relations, introducing a new, well-disciplined figure of the Samoan woman. Because of this shift, we argue for the need to develop Samoan feminist thought, which is as much a development of new thinking as it is a return to and restoration of Samoan feminist thought already in existence within Indigenous Samoan cosmologies. We contex…
Collectivist Relationality and Individualistic Relationality: Pacific Mothers and Fathers Negotiating Agency and Identity in Post-Separation Care Arrangements for Children
The degree to which agency and identity are experienced as individualised or relational constructs have been widely debated in the sociological literature. Yet, at the centre of these debates are Western notions and understandings of individualisation and relationality, including in family research. They have relied on individualised and nuclearised understandings and approaches to being a family that more closely approximate the lives of white W…
Beyond the agentic individual: Rethinking agency in transnational collectivist Filipino families
Operating in the margins”: Pacific researchers’ reflections on positionality in Pacific research
Positionality is central to Pacific research, shaping its ontological and epistemological foundations. It requires researchers to remain critically aware of how their identities and social positioning influence research design, implementation, analysis, and outcomes. Reflexivity, as an ongoing process of self-awareness, is essential to ethical, inclusive, and culturally grounded Pacific research. Drawing on roundtable talanoa, this paper shares i…
Sociology (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Collectivism (4 works) · Ethnic group (4 works) · Indigenous (4 works)