Linda Waimarie Nikora
Biographic Data
| ID | 3615225 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda Waimarie Nikora |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda Waimarie |
| FAMILY NAME | Nikora |
| SIGNATURE | NIKORA L W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waikato |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0514-4236 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 373 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Te manu huna o te pō: The kākāpō’s cultural legacy
The kākāpō, a nocturnal parrot native to Aotearoa New Zealand, embodies resilience and rarity. Once found across the country, this taonga species is now critically endangered, threatened by habitat loss and predators, and requiring major conservation efforts. This article is an attempt to retrieve mātauranga Māori about the kākāpō by exploring its role in cosmology, material culture and oral traditions. Our search of the literature, mōteatea and …
The Who, What and Why in the Provision of Non-Government Services to Koeke and Kaumātua
Little is known about non-government services (hereafter “service providers”) for elderly Māori. As part of the research project Kaumātua Futures, a case study of kaumātuatanga in Ngāti Whakaue—an iwi from the Rotorua District of Aotearoa New Zealand—a service provider scoping exercise was undertaken in the summer of 2019–2020. The purpose of the exercise was to garner an understanding of the number of service providers and their services availab…
Māori Health, Wellbeing, and Disability in Aotearoa New Zealand: A National Survey
Māori, the Indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand, experience wide-ranging inequities compared with non-Māori. This survey aimed to explore the holistic health, wellbeing, and disability experiences of New Zealand's Indigenous Māori population from a Māori worldview, addressing gaps in culturally relevant data often overlooked by standard health surveys. A robust cross-sectional survey was conducted with 7359 participants of Māori descent usin…
Measuring Māori Health, Wellbeing, and Disability in Aotearoa Using a Web-Based Survey Methodology
High-quality evidence on the prevalence and impact of health, wellbeing, and disability among Māori, and other Indigenous peoples, is crucial for mitigating health inequities. Current surveys are predominantly centred within a biomedical paradigm, with the constructs mismatched with Indigenous worldviews. We aimed to develop and deploy an accessible and culturally grounded survey exploring Māori health, wellbeing, and disability using a Kaupapa M…
Karanga rua, karanga maha: Māori with lived experience of disability self‐determining their own identities
For Indigenous Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand, the impact of disability can be pervasive yet often invisible due to considerable gaps in the accuracy and interpretations of disability data and information for Māori. We present findings from a kaupapa Māori qualitative study that centres perspectives of Māori with lived experience of disability, exploring how they define and negotiate their identities within the context of health and wellbeing. Our…
The Multidimensional Impacts of Inequities for Tāngata Whaikaha Māori (Indigenous Māori with Lived Experience of Disability) in Aotearoa, New Zealand
People with lived experience of disability have poorer health and socioeconomic outcomes than people without it. However, within this population, certain social groups are more likely to experience poorer outcomes due to the impacts of multiple intersecting forms of oppression including colonisation, coloniality and racism. This paper describes the multidimensional impacts of inequities for Indigenous tāngata whaikaha Māori (Māori with lived expe…
Indigenous community psychologies, decolonization, and radical imagination within ecologies of knowledges
As the American Psychological Association Taskforce on Indigenous Psychology acknowledges, fidelity to the inalienable right to self‐determination is the ethical foundation of Indigenous psychology. The task of decolonizing psychology is not only about divesting from Eurocentric paradigms that have controlled and limited Indigenous wellbeing, but producing new paradigms founded on Indigenous knowledges. The Indigenous paradigm of social and emoti…
This isn't a fairy tale we're talking about; this is our real lives”: Community‐orientated responses to address trans and gender diverse homelessness
Globally, trans and gender diverse people contend with day‐to‐day exclusion, discrimination, and marginalisation, often culminating in experiences of poverty and homelessness. In this discussion article, we outline a bricolage research orientation rooted in liberation and Indigenous approaches brought into dialogue with the broader cannon of community psychology for meaningful research with homeless trans and gender diverse people. Such an approa…
The case of a change in meaning and its impact
Like everything else, language does not remain static; it changes over time to reflect the current environments (Rewi 2012. An active and functional language. In: D. Keenan, editor. Huia histories of Māori: Ngā Tāhuhu Kōrero. Wellington: Huia Publishers; p. 73–92). The Māori language is no exception (Professor Poia Rewi, Dean of Te Tumu, School of Māori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies, University of Otago, provided advice during the writing of th…
Changing the acculturation conversation: Indigenous cultural reclamation in Australiaand Aotearoa/New Zealand
In constructing this chapter the authors make a claim for an Indigenous perspective that is grounded in decolonisation, the struggle for social justice, cultural reclamation and the development of Indigenous kowledges. This offers the opportunity to view acculturation and the associate research through a different lens. In taking this stance, a critical psychology, Indigenous standpoint approach is adopted, while also acknowledging earlier schola…
The Cambridge Handbook of Acculturation Psychology
Research and practice in the field of acculturation psychology is continually on the rise. Featuring contributions from over fifty leading experts in the field, this handbook compiles and systemizes the current state of the art by exploring the broad international scope of acculturation. The collection introduces readers to the concepts and issues; examines various acculturating groups (immigrants, ethnic minorities, indigenous peoples, expatriat…
Fia Ola: Grief Recovery Following a Tsunami Disaster in Samoa
Natural disasters provide humanity with a setting in which to examine core dimensions of life. How people respond to and make sense of their experiences due to the ruptures of trauma and devastation remains vital in grief recovery. An earthquake of 8.3 magnitudes on October 29, 2009 triggered a galulolo (tsunami wave) that devastated parts of Samoa, American Samoa, and Tonga. This calamity provided an ideal setting for a case study examination of…
Beyond Ethics to Morality: Choices and Relationships in Bicultural Research Settings
As community and applied social psychologists, it is crucial that we know ourselves as cultural beings, appreciate the values and beliefs of those with whom we work and understand the history of relations among those in our work settings. In New Zealand, research by non‐Māori involving Māori has often mirrored the harmful colonising practices of the nation's wider history. In response, several frameworks have been developed setting out conditions…
Dreaming Ourselves and Aspirations Into Places of Higher Education
Dreams and aspirations are at the core of what higher education is about. Students and scholars alike, the world over, are engaged in the realization of dreams that bring forth new opportunities, new ways of seeing and being and of changing the world. Many Maori students dream of making a difference and see the pursuit of higher education as a way to bring their dreams into reality. Often their dreams reflect family and community aspirations brin…
Drifting Along or Dropping into Homelessness: A Class Analysis of Responses to Homelessness
Prominent assumptions about street homelessness and how it should be addressed originate primarily from middle class domiciled worldviews. This article draws on interviews with 58 street homeless people to develop a typology for explaining different forms of homelessness resulting from differences in class of origin. The concepts of social distance and abjection are used to illustrate how class politics manifests in street homelessness and in res…
A Humanistic Approach to Addressing the Needs of Maori Homeless People With Mental Health Concerns
Homelessness is a human tragedy that is often associated with mental illness. Maori people are overrepresented in the homeless population and among people experiencing mental illness in New Zealand. Little is known about the mental health experiences of Maori homeless people or the efforts of practitioners who render assistance. The authors explore the experiences of six Maori homeless people and six mental health professionals. Findings highligh…
Final Arrangements Following Death: Maori Indigenous Decision Making and Tangi
Death is a universal event. It will happen to all of us, yet how we respond to death is particular and influenced by our cultural worlds. This study offers an investigation of the idiographic, of how one woman responded to, and made arrangements to, mourn and bury her mother. Specifically, we explore how she and her whanau (family) under pressure of time and grief and in the absence of clear final wishes met to consider issues and make decisions …
Māori and Medications: What happens when the pills go home
Chronic illnesses are a feature of many Māori homescapes. These illnesses are often managed at home through the use of health technologies, particularly medications. This article explores the meanings given to medications and the use of this health technology in four Māori households. We use a range of qualitative methods to engage with householders and to document how medications are acculturated into Māori homescapes and everyday lives. From ou…
A Māori homeless woman
Indigenous peoples are overrepresented in homeless populations in many countries. As part of a larger ethnographic project, this case study draws upon interviews and photoelicitation projects with a homeless Māori woman, Ariā. The actions of this Māori woman exemplify how Indigenous cultural practices can shape a person's efforts to retain a positive sense of self and place while homeless. Māori cultural concepts relating to caring, leadership, u…
Māori Men and the Indirect Procurement and Sharing of Prescription Medications
Māori men have higher rates of many diseases and lower life expectancy than other population groups in New Zealand. The general consensus is that these health inequalities are due to the inequitable distribution of the social determinants of health; for example, education, employment, income and housing, and were largely driven by colonization and the social and economic marginalization of Māori. Health care factors, including reluctance to consu…
Emplacement and everyday use of medications in domestic dwellings
A trip to the library: Homelessness and Social Inclusion
This article explores homeless men's visits to a public library. It shows how homeless men identified the library as a space for safety and social participation, at a time when the regional newspaper published an item questioning the appropriateness of their presence in the library. The news report promotes universal narratives that would exclude homeless people, showing the intimate relationship between the symbolic space of news, the material s…
Constructing health news: Possibilities for a Civic-Oriented Journalism
Health is a very prominent news category. However, we know little about the production processes of journalists leading to the health stories we encounter on a daily basis. Such knowledge is crucial for ensuring a vibrant public sphere for health. This article draws on interviews with eight health journalists in New Zealand to document what they consider to constitute a health story, their professional norms and practices, their perceptions of au…
Child poverty and government policy: The contesting of symbolic power in newspaper constructions of families in need
News media play a central role in processes of symbolic power through which social issues are defined and solutions legitimized. This paper explores the role of newspaper coverage in the public construction of the New Zealand Government's Working for Families package designed to address child poverty. This package was criticized publicly by the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) for targeting financial support to working families and neglecting fa…
Renewal and resistance: Moko in contemporary New Zealand
Moko is still here, contrary to the widely held belief that the art and custom of moko—Maori skin adornment—had vanished from New Zealand communities. Over the last two decades an increasingly visible number of Maori have revived and renewed the practice, taking colour into their skin. As an indigenous people, re‐taking moko confronts and refutes the myth of a ‘dying race’. It calls on Maori to recommit to strong Maori identities, customs and tra…
The Cambridge Handbook of Acculturation Psychology
Research and practice in the field of acculturation psychology is continually on the rise. Featuring contributions from over fifty leading experts in the field, this handbook compiles and systemizes the current state of the art by exploring the broad international scope of acculturation. The collection introduces readers to the concepts and issues; examines various acculturating groups (immigrants, ethnic minorities, indigenous peoples, expatriat…
A trip to the library: Homelessness and Social Inclusion
This article explores homeless men's visits to a public library. It shows how homeless men identified the library as a space for safety and social participation, at a time when the regional newspaper published an item questioning the appropriateness of their presence in the library. The news report promotes universal narratives that would exclude homeless people, showing the intimate relationship between the symbolic space of news, the material s…
Constructing health news: Possibilities for a Civic-Oriented Journalism
Health is a very prominent news category. However, we know little about the production processes of journalists leading to the health stories we encounter on a daily basis. Such knowledge is crucial for ensuring a vibrant public sphere for health. This article draws on interviews with eight health journalists in New Zealand to document what they consider to constitute a health story, their professional norms and practices, their perceptions of au…
Pasifika in the news: The portrayal of Pacific peoples in the New Zealand press
Pacific Islanders have faced discrimination in New Zealand particularly since the 1960s when communities began to be transplanted from their home nations to Aotearoa as cheap immigrant labour. Subsequently, the New Zealand vernacular has contained references to Pacific Islanders as overstayers , coconuts , bungas and fresh off the boat [FOB]. However, the legacy of a domineering relationship between the Palagi[Note 1] majority group and Pacific m…
A Māori homeless woman
Indigenous peoples are overrepresented in homeless populations in many countries. As part of a larger ethnographic project, this case study draws upon interviews and photoelicitation projects with a homeless Māori woman, Ariā. The actions of this Māori woman exemplify how Indigenous cultural practices can shape a person's efforts to retain a positive sense of self and place while homeless. Māori cultural concepts relating to caring, leadership, u…
Emplacement and everyday use of medications in domestic dwellings
Drifting Along or Dropping into Homelessness: A Class Analysis of Responses to Homelessness
Prominent assumptions about street homelessness and how it should be addressed originate primarily from middle class domiciled worldviews. This article draws on interviews with 58 street homeless people to develop a typology for explaining different forms of homelessness resulting from differences in class of origin. The concepts of social distance and abjection are used to illustrate how class politics manifests in street homelessness and in res…
Renewal and resistance: Moko in contemporary New Zealand
Moko is still here, contrary to the widely held belief that the art and custom of moko—Maori skin adornment—had vanished from New Zealand communities. Over the last two decades an increasingly visible number of Maori have revived and renewed the practice, taking colour into their skin. As an indigenous people, re‐taking moko confronts and refutes the myth of a ‘dying race’. It calls on Maori to recommit to strong Maori identities, customs and tra…
Indigenous community psychologies, decolonization, and radical imagination within ecologies of knowledges
As the American Psychological Association Taskforce on Indigenous Psychology acknowledges, fidelity to the inalienable right to self‐determination is the ethical foundation of Indigenous psychology. The task of decolonizing psychology is not only about divesting from Eurocentric paradigms that have controlled and limited Indigenous wellbeing, but producing new paradigms founded on Indigenous knowledges. The Indigenous paradigm of social and emoti…
Final Arrangements Following Death: Maori Indigenous Decision Making and Tangi
Death is a universal event. It will happen to all of us, yet how we respond to death is particular and influenced by our cultural worlds. This study offers an investigation of the idiographic, of how one woman responded to, and made arrangements to, mourn and bury her mother. Specifically, we explore how she and her whanau (family) under pressure of time and grief and in the absence of clear final wishes met to consider issues and make decisions …
A Humanistic Approach to Addressing the Needs of Maori Homeless People With Mental Health Concerns
Homelessness is a human tragedy that is often associated with mental illness. Maori people are overrepresented in the homeless population and among people experiencing mental illness in New Zealand. Little is known about the mental health experiences of Maori homeless people or the efforts of practitioners who render assistance. The authors explore the experiences of six Maori homeless people and six mental health professionals. Findings highligh…
Child poverty and government policy: The contesting of symbolic power in newspaper constructions of families in need
News media play a central role in processes of symbolic power through which social issues are defined and solutions legitimized. This paper explores the role of newspaper coverage in the public construction of the New Zealand Government's Working for Families package designed to address child poverty. This package was criticized publicly by the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) for targeting financial support to working families and neglecting fa…
Maori, Pakeha and New Zealander: Ethnic and national identity among New Zealand students1
Rangatiratanga-Kawanatanga: Dealing with Rhetoric
Numbered among the few Maori appointed to an academic position during the late 1980s, I have seen our discipline and profession, in all its awkward self-consciousness, make genuine attempts to grapple the respond to questions and challenges delivered by Maori and Pakeha alike. For example, Where is the Maori content in courses? Why aren’t Maori graduating from professional training programmes? Why are there not more Maori academics? Where is the …
Karanga rua, karanga maha: Māori with lived experience of disability self‐determining their own identities
For Indigenous Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand, the impact of disability can be pervasive yet often invisible due to considerable gaps in the accuracy and interpretations of disability data and information for Māori. We present findings from a kaupapa Māori qualitative study that centres perspectives of Māori with lived experience of disability, exploring how they define and negotiate their identities within the context of health and wellbeing. Our…
This isn't a fairy tale we're talking about; this is our real lives”: Community‐orientated responses to address trans and gender diverse homelessness
Globally, trans and gender diverse people contend with day‐to‐day exclusion, discrimination, and marginalisation, often culminating in experiences of poverty and homelessness. In this discussion article, we outline a bricolage research orientation rooted in liberation and Indigenous approaches brought into dialogue with the broader cannon of community psychology for meaningful research with homeless trans and gender diverse people. Such an approa…
The case of a change in meaning and its impact
Like everything else, language does not remain static; it changes over time to reflect the current environments (Rewi 2012. An active and functional language. In: D. Keenan, editor. Huia histories of Māori: Ngā Tāhuhu Kōrero. Wellington: Huia Publishers; p. 73–92). The Māori language is no exception (Professor Poia Rewi, Dean of Te Tumu, School of Māori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies, University of Otago, provided advice during the writing of th…
Beyond Ethics to Morality: Choices and Relationships in Bicultural Research Settings
As community and applied social psychologists, it is crucial that we know ourselves as cultural beings, appreciate the values and beliefs of those with whom we work and understand the history of relations among those in our work settings. In New Zealand, research by non‐Māori involving Māori has often mirrored the harmful colonising practices of the nation's wider history. In response, several frameworks have been developed setting out conditions…
Māori and Medications: What happens when the pills go home
Chronic illnesses are a feature of many Māori homescapes. These illnesses are often managed at home through the use of health technologies, particularly medications. This article explores the meanings given to medications and the use of this health technology in four Māori households. We use a range of qualitative methods to engage with householders and to document how medications are acculturated into Māori homescapes and everyday lives. From ou…
Māori Men and the Indirect Procurement and Sharing of Prescription Medications
Māori men have higher rates of many diseases and lower life expectancy than other population groups in New Zealand. The general consensus is that these health inequalities are due to the inequitable distribution of the social determinants of health; for example, education, employment, income and housing, and were largely driven by colonization and the social and economic marginalization of Māori. Health care factors, including reluctance to consu…
Maori, Pakeha and New Zealander: Ethnic and national identity among New Zealand students1
Rangatiratanga-Kawanatanga: Dealing with Rhetoric
Numbered among the few Maori appointed to an academic position during the late 1980s, I have seen our discipline and profession, in all its awkward self-consciousness, make genuine attempts to grapple the respond to questions and challenges delivered by Maori and Pakeha alike. For example, Where is the Maori content in courses? Why aren’t Maori graduating from professional training programmes? Why are there not more Maori academics? Where is the …
Pasifika in the news: The portrayal of Pacific peoples in the New Zealand press
Pacific Islanders have faced discrimination in New Zealand particularly since the 1960s when communities began to be transplanted from their home nations to Aotearoa as cheap immigrant labour. Subsequently, the New Zealand vernacular has contained references to Pacific Islanders as overstayers , coconuts , bungas and fresh off the boat [FOB]. However, the legacy of a domineering relationship between the Palagi[Note 1] majority group and Pacific m…
Child poverty and government policy: The contesting of symbolic power in newspaper constructions of families in need
News media play a central role in processes of symbolic power through which social issues are defined and solutions legitimized. This paper explores the role of newspaper coverage in the public construction of the New Zealand Government's Working for Families package designed to address child poverty. This package was criticized publicly by the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) for targeting financial support to working families and neglecting fa…
Renewal and resistance: Moko in contemporary New Zealand
Moko is still here, contrary to the widely held belief that the art and custom of moko—Maori skin adornment—had vanished from New Zealand communities. Over the last two decades an increasingly visible number of Maori have revived and renewed the practice, taking colour into their skin. As an indigenous people, re‐taking moko confronts and refutes the myth of a ‘dying race’. It calls on Maori to recommit to strong Maori identities, customs and tra…
A trip to the library: Homelessness and Social Inclusion
This article explores homeless men's visits to a public library. It shows how homeless men identified the library as a space for safety and social participation, at a time when the regional newspaper published an item questioning the appropriateness of their presence in the library. The news report promotes universal narratives that would exclude homeless people, showing the intimate relationship between the symbolic space of news, the material s…
Constructing health news: Possibilities for a Civic-Oriented Journalism
Health is a very prominent news category. However, we know little about the production processes of journalists leading to the health stories we encounter on a daily basis. Such knowledge is crucial for ensuring a vibrant public sphere for health. This article draws on interviews with eight health journalists in New Zealand to document what they consider to constitute a health story, their professional norms and practices, their perceptions of au…
Emplacement and everyday use of medications in domestic dwellings
Māori and Medications: What happens when the pills go home
Chronic illnesses are a feature of many Māori homescapes. These illnesses are often managed at home through the use of health technologies, particularly medications. This article explores the meanings given to medications and the use of this health technology in four Māori households. We use a range of qualitative methods to engage with householders and to document how medications are acculturated into Māori homescapes and everyday lives. From ou…
A Māori homeless woman
Indigenous peoples are overrepresented in homeless populations in many countries. As part of a larger ethnographic project, this case study draws upon interviews and photoelicitation projects with a homeless Māori woman, Ariā. The actions of this Māori woman exemplify how Indigenous cultural practices can shape a person's efforts to retain a positive sense of self and place while homeless. Māori cultural concepts relating to caring, leadership, u…
Māori Men and the Indirect Procurement and Sharing of Prescription Medications
Māori men have higher rates of many diseases and lower life expectancy than other population groups in New Zealand. The general consensus is that these health inequalities are due to the inequitable distribution of the social determinants of health; for example, education, employment, income and housing, and were largely driven by colonization and the social and economic marginalization of Māori. Health care factors, including reluctance to consu…
Drifting Along or Dropping into Homelessness: A Class Analysis of Responses to Homelessness
Prominent assumptions about street homelessness and how it should be addressed originate primarily from middle class domiciled worldviews. This article draws on interviews with 58 street homeless people to develop a typology for explaining different forms of homelessness resulting from differences in class of origin. The concepts of social distance and abjection are used to illustrate how class politics manifests in street homelessness and in res…
A Humanistic Approach to Addressing the Needs of Maori Homeless People With Mental Health Concerns
Homelessness is a human tragedy that is often associated with mental illness. Maori people are overrepresented in the homeless population and among people experiencing mental illness in New Zealand. Little is known about the mental health experiences of Maori homeless people or the efforts of practitioners who render assistance. The authors explore the experiences of six Maori homeless people and six mental health professionals. Findings highligh…
Final Arrangements Following Death: Maori Indigenous Decision Making and Tangi
Death is a universal event. It will happen to all of us, yet how we respond to death is particular and influenced by our cultural worlds. This study offers an investigation of the idiographic, of how one woman responded to, and made arrangements to, mourn and bury her mother. Specifically, we explore how she and her whanau (family) under pressure of time and grief and in the absence of clear final wishes met to consider issues and make decisions …
Dreaming Ourselves and Aspirations Into Places of Higher Education
Dreams and aspirations are at the core of what higher education is about. Students and scholars alike, the world over, are engaged in the realization of dreams that bring forth new opportunities, new ways of seeing and being and of changing the world. Many Maori students dream of making a difference and see the pursuit of higher education as a way to bring their dreams into reality. Often their dreams reflect family and community aspirations brin…
Beyond Ethics to Morality: Choices and Relationships in Bicultural Research Settings
As community and applied social psychologists, it is crucial that we know ourselves as cultural beings, appreciate the values and beliefs of those with whom we work and understand the history of relations among those in our work settings. In New Zealand, research by non‐Māori involving Māori has often mirrored the harmful colonising practices of the nation's wider history. In response, several frameworks have been developed setting out conditions…
Changing the acculturation conversation: Indigenous cultural reclamation in Australiaand Aotearoa/New Zealand
In constructing this chapter the authors make a claim for an Indigenous perspective that is grounded in decolonisation, the struggle for social justice, cultural reclamation and the development of Indigenous kowledges. This offers the opportunity to view acculturation and the associate research through a different lens. In taking this stance, a critical psychology, Indigenous standpoint approach is adopted, while also acknowledging earlier schola…
The Cambridge Handbook of Acculturation Psychology
Research and practice in the field of acculturation psychology is continually on the rise. Featuring contributions from over fifty leading experts in the field, this handbook compiles and systemizes the current state of the art by exploring the broad international scope of acculturation. The collection introduces readers to the concepts and issues; examines various acculturating groups (immigrants, ethnic minorities, indigenous peoples, expatriat…
Fia Ola: Grief Recovery Following a Tsunami Disaster in Samoa
Natural disasters provide humanity with a setting in which to examine core dimensions of life. How people respond to and make sense of their experiences due to the ruptures of trauma and devastation remains vital in grief recovery. An earthquake of 8.3 magnitudes on October 29, 2009 triggered a galulolo (tsunami wave) that devastated parts of Samoa, American Samoa, and Tonga. This calamity provided an ideal setting for a case study examination of…
The case of a change in meaning and its impact
Like everything else, language does not remain static; it changes over time to reflect the current environments (Rewi 2012. An active and functional language. In: D. Keenan, editor. Huia histories of Māori: Ngā Tāhuhu Kōrero. Wellington: Huia Publishers; p. 73–92). The Māori language is no exception (Professor Poia Rewi, Dean of Te Tumu, School of Māori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies, University of Otago, provided advice during the writing of th…
The Multidimensional Impacts of Inequities for Tāngata Whaikaha Māori (Indigenous Māori with Lived Experience of Disability) in Aotearoa, New Zealand
People with lived experience of disability have poorer health and socioeconomic outcomes than people without it. However, within this population, certain social groups are more likely to experience poorer outcomes due to the impacts of multiple intersecting forms of oppression including colonisation, coloniality and racism. This paper describes the multidimensional impacts of inequities for Indigenous tāngata whaikaha Māori (Māori with lived expe…
Indigenous community psychologies, decolonization, and radical imagination within ecologies of knowledges
As the American Psychological Association Taskforce on Indigenous Psychology acknowledges, fidelity to the inalienable right to self‐determination is the ethical foundation of Indigenous psychology. The task of decolonizing psychology is not only about divesting from Eurocentric paradigms that have controlled and limited Indigenous wellbeing, but producing new paradigms founded on Indigenous knowledges. The Indigenous paradigm of social and emoti…
This isn't a fairy tale we're talking about; this is our real lives”: Community‐orientated responses to address trans and gender diverse homelessness
Globally, trans and gender diverse people contend with day‐to‐day exclusion, discrimination, and marginalisation, often culminating in experiences of poverty and homelessness. In this discussion article, we outline a bricolage research orientation rooted in liberation and Indigenous approaches brought into dialogue with the broader cannon of community psychology for meaningful research with homeless trans and gender diverse people. Such an approa…
Measuring Māori Health, Wellbeing, and Disability in Aotearoa Using a Web-Based Survey Methodology
High-quality evidence on the prevalence and impact of health, wellbeing, and disability among Māori, and other Indigenous peoples, is crucial for mitigating health inequities. Current surveys are predominantly centred within a biomedical paradigm, with the constructs mismatched with Indigenous worldviews. We aimed to develop and deploy an accessible and culturally grounded survey exploring Māori health, wellbeing, and disability using a Kaupapa M…
Karanga rua, karanga maha: Māori with lived experience of disability self‐determining their own identities
For Indigenous Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand, the impact of disability can be pervasive yet often invisible due to considerable gaps in the accuracy and interpretations of disability data and information for Māori. We present findings from a kaupapa Māori qualitative study that centres perspectives of Māori with lived experience of disability, exploring how they define and negotiate their identities within the context of health and wellbeing. Our…
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