Yvonne Underhill‐sem
Biographic Data
| ID | 3518508 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yvonne Underhill‐sem |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yvonne |
| FAMILY NAME | Underhill‐sem |
| SIGNATURE | SEM Y U |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland Auckland Aotearoa New Zealand |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Fertility
Fertility is understood most widely in geography as one of the three determinants of population change, alongside migration and mortality. Everyone is born, everyone moves geographically in some manner, and everyone eventually dies. Such self‐evident understanding belies the importance of the conceptual framing of these processes, and none more so than fertility. There have been longstanding calls for the analysis of fertility to move beyond meth…
Integrating research, policy and practice
Changing market culture in the P acific
Addressing the multiple dimensions of gender inequality requires commitments by policy‐makers, practitioners and scholars to transformative practices. One challenge is to assemble a coherent conceptual framework from diverse knowledges and experiences. In this paper, we present a framework that emerged from our involvement in changing market culture in the P acific, which we name a radical empowerment of women approach. We draw on detailed narrat…
Community‐university collaborations
In this article we explore the politics of community‐university collaborative research and activism. We are scholars based in universities as well as members of various ‘communities’—queer, Pasifika and Māori—hence we regularly venture beyond the formal research spaces of the academy and enter into critical collaborative research with others working in ‘the community’. In what follows we first outline collaborative community‐based research litera…
Filling hollowed out spaces with localised meanings, practices and hope
The contracting out to private providers of services previously delivered within the state has been framed critically as ‘hollowing out’ and read for its erosion of social democracy, social justice and welfare, as well as its inefficiencies in practice. It is commonly dismissed as neoliberalism. In this paper, we highlight the gains made through this new contractualism by Te Oranga, the Family, Health and Education division of Te Runanga o Te Rar…
Asset mapping and Whanau action research
Te Runanga o Te Rarawa is the tribal council representing the interests of the marae (tribal commons) and hapu (a subtribal kin group) that make up the iwi (a Maori tribe) of Te Rarawa in the far north of Aotearoa/New Zealand. In April 2005, officials approached us to help them secure a valuable funding stream tagged to marshalling resources for material development in the area. They sought curriculum vitae and assistance in reframing the funding…
Culture and Development in a Globalising World
Maternities in ‘out‐of‐the‐way’ places
This paper argues that theories of embodiment have particular epistemological importance in the way population geography analyses fertility. This is because such theories remind us that knowledge is produced by sexually embodied subjects in particular places and times. The paper discusses the epistemological importance of interrogating the unproblematic view of embodiment, and of motherhood as a natural given in population geography. It reviews h…
Of social construction, politics and biology
Sustained challenges by third world, black and feminist scholars have unsettled the established agenda of the social sciences in the 1990s. Unfortunately, population geographies in the Pacific have failed to engage with these debates. By avoiding the metaphysical challenges posed by contemporary theoretical debates, often by people from previously marginalised groups, population geographies have failed to provide the spark necessary for the dynam…
Changing market culture in the P acific
Addressing the multiple dimensions of gender inequality requires commitments by policy‐makers, practitioners and scholars to transformative practices. One challenge is to assemble a coherent conceptual framework from diverse knowledges and experiences. In this paper, we present a framework that emerged from our involvement in changing market culture in the P acific, which we name a radical empowerment of women approach. We draw on detailed narrat…
Maternities in ‘out‐of‐the‐way’ places
This paper argues that theories of embodiment have particular epistemological importance in the way population geography analyses fertility. This is because such theories remind us that knowledge is produced by sexually embodied subjects in particular places and times. The paper discusses the epistemological importance of interrogating the unproblematic view of embodiment, and of motherhood as a natural given in population geography. It reviews h…
Community‐university collaborations
In this article we explore the politics of community‐university collaborative research and activism. We are scholars based in universities as well as members of various ‘communities’—queer, Pasifika and Māori—hence we regularly venture beyond the formal research spaces of the academy and enter into critical collaborative research with others working in ‘the community’. In what follows we first outline collaborative community‐based research litera…
Asset mapping and Whanau action research
Te Runanga o Te Rarawa is the tribal council representing the interests of the marae (tribal commons) and hapu (a subtribal kin group) that make up the iwi (a Maori tribe) of Te Rarawa in the far north of Aotearoa/New Zealand. In April 2005, officials approached us to help them secure a valuable funding stream tagged to marshalling resources for material development in the area. They sought curriculum vitae and assistance in reframing the funding…
Filling hollowed out spaces with localised meanings, practices and hope
The contracting out to private providers of services previously delivered within the state has been framed critically as ‘hollowing out’ and read for its erosion of social democracy, social justice and welfare, as well as its inefficiencies in practice. It is commonly dismissed as neoliberalism. In this paper, we highlight the gains made through this new contractualism by Te Oranga, the Family, Health and Education division of Te Runanga o Te Rar…
Of social construction, politics and biology
Sustained challenges by third world, black and feminist scholars have unsettled the established agenda of the social sciences in the 1990s. Unfortunately, population geographies in the Pacific have failed to engage with these debates. By avoiding the metaphysical challenges posed by contemporary theoretical debates, often by people from previously marginalised groups, population geographies have failed to provide the spark necessary for the dynam…
Of social construction, politics and biology
Sustained challenges by third world, black and feminist scholars have unsettled the established agenda of the social sciences in the 1990s. Unfortunately, population geographies in the Pacific have failed to engage with these debates. By avoiding the metaphysical challenges posed by contemporary theoretical debates, often by people from previously marginalised groups, population geographies have failed to provide the spark necessary for the dynam…
Maternities in ‘out‐of‐the‐way’ places
This paper argues that theories of embodiment have particular epistemological importance in the way population geography analyses fertility. This is because such theories remind us that knowledge is produced by sexually embodied subjects in particular places and times. The paper discusses the epistemological importance of interrogating the unproblematic view of embodiment, and of motherhood as a natural given in population geography. It reviews h…
Asset mapping and Whanau action research
Te Runanga o Te Rarawa is the tribal council representing the interests of the marae (tribal commons) and hapu (a subtribal kin group) that make up the iwi (a Maori tribe) of Te Rarawa in the far north of Aotearoa/New Zealand. In April 2005, officials approached us to help them secure a valuable funding stream tagged to marshalling resources for material development in the area. They sought curriculum vitae and assistance in reframing the funding…
Culture and Development in a Globalising World
Filling hollowed out spaces with localised meanings, practices and hope
The contracting out to private providers of services previously delivered within the state has been framed critically as ‘hollowing out’ and read for its erosion of social democracy, social justice and welfare, as well as its inefficiencies in practice. It is commonly dismissed as neoliberalism. In this paper, we highlight the gains made through this new contractualism by Te Oranga, the Family, Health and Education division of Te Runanga o Te Rar…
Community‐university collaborations
In this article we explore the politics of community‐university collaborative research and activism. We are scholars based in universities as well as members of various ‘communities’—queer, Pasifika and Māori—hence we regularly venture beyond the formal research spaces of the academy and enter into critical collaborative research with others working in ‘the community’. In what follows we first outline collaborative community‐based research litera…
Integrating research, policy and practice
Changing market culture in the P acific
Addressing the multiple dimensions of gender inequality requires commitments by policy‐makers, practitioners and scholars to transformative practices. One challenge is to assemble a coherent conceptual framework from diverse knowledges and experiences. In this paper, we present a framework that emerged from our involvement in changing market culture in the P acific, which we name a radical empowerment of women approach. We draw on detailed narrat…
Fertility
Fertility is understood most widely in geography as one of the three determinants of population change, alongside migration and mortality. Everyone is born, everyone moves geographically in some manner, and everyone eventually dies. Such self‐evident understanding belies the importance of the conceptual framing of these processes, and none more so than fertility. There have been longstanding calls for the analysis of fertility to move beyond meth…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)