Elizabeth Smythe
Biographic Data
| ID | 199520 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Smythe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Smythe |
| SIGNATURE | SMYTHE E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Auckland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0714-7908 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Industrial meat in Canada, growth promoters and the struggle over international food standards
This article focuses on differing national regulations and standards regarding how meat for human consumption is produced and what is permissible in that production process. Attempts to harmonize these regulations at the global level to facilitate international trade have proven to be challenging. Such harmonization of regulations is especially important to countries exporting meat, such as Canada. The conflict at the global level reflects a rang…
The lived experiences of children/young people in the Aotearoa‐New Zealand family court system
This qualitative study explores the experiences of young people with professionals as they traverse the family court in Aotearoa‐New Zealand. A hermeneutic phenomenological lens, based on the writings of Heidegger, Gadamer, van Manen and Buber, explored this phenomenon, which was embedded in the notion that young people need to have agency, the ability to act, to speak and to share their thoughts in matters that affect them. Six young people aged…
The Role of Religion in Struggles for Global Justice: Faith in Justice?
Faith Groups and Justice: A Source of Solidarity or Division in the Global Justice Movement? The World Social Forum and Occupy Wall Street as Case Studies
This article examines the role of faith groups in transnational movements of protest and resistance to neo-liberalism and whether they are a source of division or solidarity within those movements. Drawing on the ideas of Nancy Fraser, we investigate whether different conceptions of justice, including distributive, recognitive, political and environmental, are at the root of tensions between faith and non-faith groups. Using case studies of the W…
Faith in Justice? The Role of Religion in Struggles for Global Justice
Struggles for global justice are being fought by civil society groups across the globe, addressing global inequalities, challenging neoliberal globalization, and demanding to remedy its negative im
Crafting Stories in Hermeneutic Phenomenology Research: A Methodological Device
Hermeneutic phenomenology, as a methodology, is not fixed. Inherent in its enactment are contested areas of practice such as how interview data are used and reported. Using philosophical notions drawn from hermeneutic phenomenological literature, we argue that working with crafted stories is congruent with the philosophical underpinnings of this methodology. We consider how the practical ontic undertaking of story crafting from verbatim transcrip…
Freedom and Exile in Gerhard Richter's Early Photo Paintings
The recent reception of Gerhard Richter's early photo paintings has been marked by two key developments. The first of these was Richter's revelation in the mid-1980s that he had not chosen the subject-matter of these works at random, as had previously been assumed, but had instead selected them for personal reasons, a fact he had hitherto concealed.1 In the wake of this disclosure, the emphasis of commentary on the series began to shift. Whereas …
Revealing Tact Within Postnatal Care
In this article, we explore the nature of good postnatal care through a hermeneutic unpacking of the notion of tact, drawing on the philosophical writings of Heidegger, Gadamer, and van Manen. The tactful encounters considered were from a hermeneutic research study within a small, rural birthing center in New Zealand. Insights drawn from the analysis were as follows: the openness of listening, watching and being attuned that builds a positive mod…
The Sounds of Silence—A Hermeneutic Interpretation of Childbirth Post Excision
Four women who had been excised were interviewed about their experiences of giving birth. Using hermeneutic phenomenology we analyzed their narratives to more fully understand their experiences of childbirth in the context of excision. Childbirth is characterized by silence related to excision. To ensure safe care, increased communication is needed. The onus for opening channels of communication rests with health professionals whose aim is to pro…
The Meaning of Occupation: A Hermeneutic (Re)view of Historical Understandings
This article reports the findings of an analysis of historical and contemporary literature which explored how the meaning of occupation has changed over time. A hermeneutic approach, based on the work of Gadamer, focuses on changes of meaning. The core idea of reviewing literature published over a very wide and ancient span of time was to bring the notion of occupation to the fore and shed light on how meanings of occupation are culturally embedd…
Re-Viewing Literature in Hermeneutic Research
In academia there seems to be a taken for granted assumption that there is one way to do a literature review. This paper argues that the manner of reviewing literature needs to be congruent with the particular research methodology. As an example, the authors explicate reviewing literature in hermeneutic research. The paper begins by discussing philosophical assumptions. The authors then offer personal accounts of their experiences of working with…
Caesarean-section, my body, my choice: The construction of ‘informed choice’ in relation to intervention in childbirth
The notion of choice, especially of informed choice, is a central tenet of maternity services in most western countries; it also underpins debate about rising rates of intervention that are now a feature of childbirth in many of these countries. Our study investigated the shaping of understanding and practice in relation to these rising rates of intervention in childbirth in the New Zealand context. Critical hermeneutics was used to analyse the d…
Hermeneutics of Self as a Research Approach
Circumstances shaped the decision to engage in a hermeneutics of self. In contrast to a common research approach, the researcher became the participant. The purpose of the research was to reveal interpretive meaning of that experience toward the view of becoming a global coworker. Philosophical insights informing the methodological approach and the analysis were drawn from Heidegger, Gadamer, and theological authors. Twelve people drawn from a va…
The interconnected meanings of occupation: The call, being‐with, possibilities
While a range of literature has explored the meaning of occupation, the lived experience of occupation has been relatively neglected. In this hermeneutic phenomenological study 12 New Zealand adults who had experienced a disruption to their occupations were interviewed, on the assumption that disruption reveals things that are usually overlooked. The data were analysed by identifying key themes and engaging in a hermeneutic process informed by th…
(In)Fertile Ground? Social Forum Activism in its Regional and Local Dimension
Since its inception in 2001 World Social Forum (WSF) has grown in numbers and drawn activists from all areas of the globe. It has also spawned a myriad of social forums around the world. But the pattern of participation within the WSF global event or within other forums has not been evenly spread in geographic or spatial terms. This chapter examines how and why social forum activism emerged in some places and not others. We map the social forum f…
From the Global to the Local: Social Forums, Movements, and Place (Introduction to Special Issue)
World Social Forum Activism in Belem and Beyond
A young man dressed as a clown shelters under our umbrella in the center of Belém in the downpour before the opening march begins while a group of people with painted bodies and feathered headdresses chant and charge up the middle as thousands of marchers push apart to let them pass to the front. The words save the Amazon are spelled out with human bodies. Union members are present in force, all donning shirts with their syndicate s name and logo…
Open Spaces, Open Sources: The World Social Forum and international communication rights in a digital world
This article addresses open source software development and the open source movement and critically examines their utility as a metaphor for conceptualizing the new politics of networked organizations. We apply the open source metaphor to the World Social Forum (WSF), which in terms of its Charter of Principles, and its notion of open, horizontal and inclusive space appears, as a new form of civil society, to embody the ethos of the open source m…
International Humanitarian Nursing Work: Facing Difference and Embracing Sameness
This article explores the experience of humanitarian disaster and emergency nursing, asking the question, “How is difference (and sameness) in being a nurse revealed when working in a disaster/relief context?” The articles discusses interviews with seven nurses, plus the primary researcher, who tell their stories of humanitarian nursing. Stark differences are revealed: extent of injuries, limits of treatment, and overwhelmingness of need. Alongsi…
Thinking as Leadership/Leadership as Thinking
Heidegger challenges that as the world becomes more thought provoking, we are still not thinking. Yet, the very nature of being human is to think. This article presents the findings of a research project exploring the nature of thinking as described by 14 leaders using hermeneutic phenomenological research methodology. The findings are presented in a visual representation which describes how leaders think through the coming of a call to lead. The…
Hermeneutic Reflections from Visiting a Project in Dumaria, India
When people from one culture visit the transformational development work in another country the question of 'understanding' is raised. This paper draws on the philosophical writings of Heidegger and Gadamer to show how interpretations are made in an experience of 'being there'. We argue that understanding is always on-the-way, influenced by past experience, interest, and mood. 'Being-there' affords an opportunity to move beyond taken-for-granted …
Legitimacy, Transparency, and Information Technology: The World Trade Organization in an Era of Contentious Trade Politics
The legitimacy of international trade rule making and the World Trade Organization (WTO) have been subjects of increasing debate. Non governmental organizations, in particular, have criticized the lack of democratic accountability and thus the legitimacy of trade policymak ing. This effort has included the development of transnational cam paigns and networks, facilitated by information and communications technologies, to shed light on the trade r…
Book note Resume de liver
Shereen T. Ismael, editor, Globalization: Policies, Challenges and Responses
Just Say No: The Negotiation of Investment Rules at the WTO
clared the meeting adjourned. Among the most severe divisions he identified were the four Singapore issues: investment, competition policy, transparency in government procurement, and trade facilitation. Despite seven years of advocating negotiations on these issues, some of the most powerful WTO members had failed in their efforts to persuade the majority of WTO developing country members to agree. Echoing Nancy Reagan's simplistic advice to you…
International Relations Theory and the Study of Canadian-American Relations
Les spécialistes de la politique étrangère canadienne ont longtemps pensé que la relation entre le Canada et les Elats-Unis était unique. La théorie des relations internationales commence à remettre en cause cette conception. Nous résumons l'évolution de la théorie des relations internationales et nous examinons dans quelle mesure elle se retrouve dans les travaux récents sur les relations canado-américaines. Nous mettons en lumière deux courants…
Crafting Stories in Hermeneutic Phenomenology Research: A Methodological Device
Hermeneutic phenomenology, as a methodology, is not fixed. Inherent in its enactment are contested areas of practice such as how interview data are used and reported. Using philosophical notions drawn from hermeneutic phenomenological literature, we argue that working with crafted stories is congruent with the philosophical underpinnings of this methodology. We consider how the practical ontic undertaking of story crafting from verbatim transcrip…
Re-Viewing Literature in Hermeneutic Research
In academia there seems to be a taken for granted assumption that there is one way to do a literature review. This paper argues that the manner of reviewing literature needs to be congruent with the particular research methodology. As an example, the authors explicate reviewing literature in hermeneutic research. The paper begins by discussing philosophical assumptions. The authors then offer personal accounts of their experiences of working with…
The Meaning of Occupation: A Hermeneutic (Re)view of Historical Understandings
This article reports the findings of an analysis of historical and contemporary literature which explored how the meaning of occupation has changed over time. A hermeneutic approach, based on the work of Gadamer, focuses on changes of meaning. The core idea of reviewing literature published over a very wide and ancient span of time was to bring the notion of occupation to the fore and shed light on how meanings of occupation are culturally embedd…
The interconnected meanings of occupation: The call, being‐with, possibilities
While a range of literature has explored the meaning of occupation, the lived experience of occupation has been relatively neglected. In this hermeneutic phenomenological study 12 New Zealand adults who had experienced a disruption to their occupations were interviewed, on the assumption that disruption reveals things that are usually overlooked. The data were analysed by identifying key themes and engaging in a hermeneutic process informed by th…
Caesarean-section, my body, my choice: The construction of ‘informed choice’ in relation to intervention in childbirth
The notion of choice, especially of informed choice, is a central tenet of maternity services in most western countries; it also underpins debate about rising rates of intervention that are now a feature of childbirth in many of these countries. Our study investigated the shaping of understanding and practice in relation to these rising rates of intervention in childbirth in the New Zealand context. Critical hermeneutics was used to analyse the d…
Legitimacy, Transparency, and Information Technology: The World Trade Organization in an Era of Contentious Trade Politics
The legitimacy of international trade rule making and the World Trade Organization (WTO) have been subjects of increasing debate. Non governmental organizations, in particular, have criticized the lack of democratic accountability and thus the legitimacy of trade policymak ing. This effort has included the development of transnational cam paigns and networks, facilitated by information and communications technologies, to shed light on the trade r…
Faith Groups and Justice: A Source of Solidarity or Division in the Global Justice Movement? The World Social Forum and Occupy Wall Street as Case Studies
This article examines the role of faith groups in transnational movements of protest and resistance to neo-liberalism and whether they are a source of division or solidarity within those movements. Drawing on the ideas of Nancy Fraser, we investigate whether different conceptions of justice, including distributive, recognitive, political and environmental, are at the root of tensions between faith and non-faith groups. Using case studies of the W…
(In)Fertile Ground? Social Forum Activism in its Regional and Local Dimension
Since its inception in 2001 World Social Forum (WSF) has grown in numbers and drawn activists from all areas of the globe. It has also spawned a myriad of social forums around the world. But the pattern of participation within the WSF global event or within other forums has not been evenly spread in geographic or spatial terms. This chapter examines how and why social forum activism emerged in some places and not others. We map the social forum f…
World Social Forum Activism in Belem and Beyond
A young man dressed as a clown shelters under our umbrella in the center of Belém in the downpour before the opening march begins while a group of people with painted bodies and feathered headdresses chant and charge up the middle as thousands of marchers push apart to let them pass to the front. The words save the Amazon are spelled out with human bodies. Union members are present in force, all donning shirts with their syndicate s name and logo…
Revealing Tact Within Postnatal Care
In this article, we explore the nature of good postnatal care through a hermeneutic unpacking of the notion of tact, drawing on the philosophical writings of Heidegger, Gadamer, and van Manen. The tactful encounters considered were from a hermeneutic research study within a small, rural birthing center in New Zealand. Insights drawn from the analysis were as follows: the openness of listening, watching and being attuned that builds a positive mod…
Just Say No: The Negotiation of Investment Rules at the WTO
clared the meeting adjourned. Among the most severe divisions he identified were the four Singapore issues: investment, competition policy, transparency in government procurement, and trade facilitation. Despite seven years of advocating negotiations on these issues, some of the most powerful WTO members had failed in their efforts to persuade the majority of WTO developing country members to agree. Echoing Nancy Reagan's simplistic advice to you…
Faith in Justice? The Role of Religion in Struggles for Global Justice
Struggles for global justice are being fought by civil society groups across the globe, addressing global inequalities, challenging neoliberal globalization, and demanding to remedy its negative im
From the Global to the Local: Social Forums, Movements, and Place (Introduction to Special Issue)
Thinking as Leadership/Leadership as Thinking
Heidegger challenges that as the world becomes more thought provoking, we are still not thinking. Yet, the very nature of being human is to think. This article presents the findings of a research project exploring the nature of thinking as described by 14 leaders using hermeneutic phenomenological research methodology. The findings are presented in a visual representation which describes how leaders think through the coming of a call to lead. The…
International Relations Theory and the Study of Canadian-American Relations
Les spécialistes de la politique étrangère canadienne ont longtemps pensé que la relation entre le Canada et les Elats-Unis était unique. La théorie des relations internationales commence à remettre en cause cette conception. Nous résumons l'évolution de la théorie des relations internationales et nous examinons dans quelle mesure elle se retrouve dans les travaux récents sur les relations canado-américaines. Nous mettons en lumière deux courants…
Just Say No: The Negotiation of Investment Rules at the WTO
clared the meeting adjourned. Among the most severe divisions he identified were the four Singapore issues: investment, competition policy, transparency in government procurement, and trade facilitation. Despite seven years of advocating negotiations on these issues, some of the most powerful WTO members had failed in their efforts to persuade the majority of WTO developing country members to agree. Echoing Nancy Reagan's simplistic advice to you…
Book note Resume de liver
Shereen T. Ismael, editor, Globalization: Policies, Challenges and Responses
Legitimacy, Transparency, and Information Technology: The World Trade Organization in an Era of Contentious Trade Politics
The legitimacy of international trade rule making and the World Trade Organization (WTO) have been subjects of increasing debate. Non governmental organizations, in particular, have criticized the lack of democratic accountability and thus the legitimacy of trade policymak ing. This effort has included the development of transnational cam paigns and networks, facilitated by information and communications technologies, to shed light on the trade r…
Thinking as Leadership/Leadership as Thinking
Heidegger challenges that as the world becomes more thought provoking, we are still not thinking. Yet, the very nature of being human is to think. This article presents the findings of a research project exploring the nature of thinking as described by 14 leaders using hermeneutic phenomenological research methodology. The findings are presented in a visual representation which describes how leaders think through the coming of a call to lead. The…
Hermeneutic Reflections from Visiting a Project in Dumaria, India
When people from one culture visit the transformational development work in another country the question of 'understanding' is raised. This paper draws on the philosophical writings of Heidegger and Gadamer to show how interpretations are made in an experience of 'being there'. We argue that understanding is always on-the-way, influenced by past experience, interest, and mood. 'Being-there' affords an opportunity to move beyond taken-for-granted …
Open Spaces, Open Sources: The World Social Forum and international communication rights in a digital world
This article addresses open source software development and the open source movement and critically examines their utility as a metaphor for conceptualizing the new politics of networked organizations. We apply the open source metaphor to the World Social Forum (WSF), which in terms of its Charter of Principles, and its notion of open, horizontal and inclusive space appears, as a new form of civil society, to embody the ethos of the open source m…
International Humanitarian Nursing Work: Facing Difference and Embracing Sameness
This article explores the experience of humanitarian disaster and emergency nursing, asking the question, “How is difference (and sameness) in being a nurse revealed when working in a disaster/relief context?” The articles discusses interviews with seven nurses, plus the primary researcher, who tell their stories of humanitarian nursing. Stark differences are revealed: extent of injuries, limits of treatment, and overwhelmingness of need. Alongsi…
The interconnected meanings of occupation: The call, being‐with, possibilities
While a range of literature has explored the meaning of occupation, the lived experience of occupation has been relatively neglected. In this hermeneutic phenomenological study 12 New Zealand adults who had experienced a disruption to their occupations were interviewed, on the assumption that disruption reveals things that are usually overlooked. The data were analysed by identifying key themes and engaging in a hermeneutic process informed by th…
(In)Fertile Ground? Social Forum Activism in its Regional and Local Dimension
Since its inception in 2001 World Social Forum (WSF) has grown in numbers and drawn activists from all areas of the globe. It has also spawned a myriad of social forums around the world. But the pattern of participation within the WSF global event or within other forums has not been evenly spread in geographic or spatial terms. This chapter examines how and why social forum activism emerged in some places and not others. We map the social forum f…
From the Global to the Local: Social Forums, Movements, and Place (Introduction to Special Issue)
World Social Forum Activism in Belem and Beyond
A young man dressed as a clown shelters under our umbrella in the center of Belém in the downpour before the opening march begins while a group of people with painted bodies and feathered headdresses chant and charge up the middle as thousands of marchers push apart to let them pass to the front. The words save the Amazon are spelled out with human bodies. Union members are present in force, all donning shirts with their syndicate s name and logo…
Caesarean-section, my body, my choice: The construction of ‘informed choice’ in relation to intervention in childbirth
The notion of choice, especially of informed choice, is a central tenet of maternity services in most western countries; it also underpins debate about rising rates of intervention that are now a feature of childbirth in many of these countries. Our study investigated the shaping of understanding and practice in relation to these rising rates of intervention in childbirth in the New Zealand context. Critical hermeneutics was used to analyse the d…
Hermeneutics of Self as a Research Approach
Circumstances shaped the decision to engage in a hermeneutics of self. In contrast to a common research approach, the researcher became the participant. The purpose of the research was to reveal interpretive meaning of that experience toward the view of becoming a global coworker. Philosophical insights informing the methodological approach and the analysis were drawn from Heidegger, Gadamer, and theological authors. Twelve people drawn from a va…
The Meaning of Occupation: A Hermeneutic (Re)view of Historical Understandings
This article reports the findings of an analysis of historical and contemporary literature which explored how the meaning of occupation has changed over time. A hermeneutic approach, based on the work of Gadamer, focuses on changes of meaning. The core idea of reviewing literature published over a very wide and ancient span of time was to bring the notion of occupation to the fore and shed light on how meanings of occupation are culturally embedd…
Re-Viewing Literature in Hermeneutic Research
In academia there seems to be a taken for granted assumption that there is one way to do a literature review. This paper argues that the manner of reviewing literature needs to be congruent with the particular research methodology. As an example, the authors explicate reviewing literature in hermeneutic research. The paper begins by discussing philosophical assumptions. The authors then offer personal accounts of their experiences of working with…
The Sounds of Silence—A Hermeneutic Interpretation of Childbirth Post Excision
Four women who had been excised were interviewed about their experiences of giving birth. Using hermeneutic phenomenology we analyzed their narratives to more fully understand their experiences of childbirth in the context of excision. Childbirth is characterized by silence related to excision. To ensure safe care, increased communication is needed. The onus for opening channels of communication rests with health professionals whose aim is to pro…
Freedom and Exile in Gerhard Richter's Early Photo Paintings
The recent reception of Gerhard Richter's early photo paintings has been marked by two key developments. The first of these was Richter's revelation in the mid-1980s that he had not chosen the subject-matter of these works at random, as had previously been assumed, but had instead selected them for personal reasons, a fact he had hitherto concealed.1 In the wake of this disclosure, the emphasis of commentary on the series began to shift. Whereas …
Revealing Tact Within Postnatal Care
In this article, we explore the nature of good postnatal care through a hermeneutic unpacking of the notion of tact, drawing on the philosophical writings of Heidegger, Gadamer, and van Manen. The tactful encounters considered were from a hermeneutic research study within a small, rural birthing center in New Zealand. Insights drawn from the analysis were as follows: the openness of listening, watching and being attuned that builds a positive mod…
Faith Groups and Justice: A Source of Solidarity or Division in the Global Justice Movement? The World Social Forum and Occupy Wall Street as Case Studies
This article examines the role of faith groups in transnational movements of protest and resistance to neo-liberalism and whether they are a source of division or solidarity within those movements. Drawing on the ideas of Nancy Fraser, we investigate whether different conceptions of justice, including distributive, recognitive, political and environmental, are at the root of tensions between faith and non-faith groups. Using case studies of the W…
Faith in Justice? The Role of Religion in Struggles for Global Justice
Struggles for global justice are being fought by civil society groups across the globe, addressing global inequalities, challenging neoliberal globalization, and demanding to remedy its negative im
Crafting Stories in Hermeneutic Phenomenology Research: A Methodological Device
Hermeneutic phenomenology, as a methodology, is not fixed. Inherent in its enactment are contested areas of practice such as how interview data are used and reported. Using philosophical notions drawn from hermeneutic phenomenological literature, we argue that working with crafted stories is congruent with the philosophical underpinnings of this methodology. We consider how the practical ontic undertaking of story crafting from verbatim transcrip…
The Role of Religion in Struggles for Global Justice: Faith in Justice?
Industrial meat in Canada, growth promoters and the struggle over international food standards
This article focuses on differing national regulations and standards regarding how meat for human consumption is produced and what is permissible in that production process. Attempts to harmonize these regulations at the global level to facilitate international trade have proven to be challenging. Such harmonization of regulations is especially important to countries exporting meat, such as Canada. The conflict at the global level reflects a rang…
The lived experiences of children/young people in the Aotearoa‐New Zealand family court system
This qualitative study explores the experiences of young people with professionals as they traverse the family court in Aotearoa‐New Zealand. A hermeneutic phenomenological lens, based on the writings of Heidegger, Gadamer, van Manen and Buber, explored this phenomenon, which was embedded in the notion that young people need to have agency, the ability to act, to speak and to share their thoughts in matters that affect them. Six young people aged…
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