Fiona Mccormack
Biographic Data
| ID | 3637469 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fiona Mccormack |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fiona |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccormack |
| SIGNATURE | MCCORMACK F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waikato |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7068-3538 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Raising a Public Health Concern: Women Overlooked in UK Drug Policy and Disadvantaged in Mixed-Gender Community Services
The British From Harm to Hope drugs strategy seems limited in gender responsiveness. Evidence is presented from a West Midlands case study where a qualitative participatory methodology with thematic analysis was employed. The project was co-designed by academics, women with lived-experience and third-sector research leaders. To identify community drug and alcohol treatment issues and solutions, interviews and focus groups were conducted with fema…
Marine Inequality, Borderization, and the Radical Potential of Kinship
This article utilizes scholarship on borders to interpret the persistence of inequality in Indigenous seascapes, irrespective of moves to redress colonial wrongs or the growing anthropocenic recognition of human-nature interconnectedness. I examine border politics in the context of Māori claims for marine title and rights and the post-settlement development of aquaculture. Drawing on Harsha Walia’s concept of “border imperialism” and Achille Mbem…
Women, Addictions, Mental Health, Dishonesty, and Crime Stigma: Solutions to Reduce the Social Harms of Stigma
British drug policies could underserve women with treatment needs, and this paper provides evidence that communication through the words and actions of professionals across drug and alcohol services, health and mental health, social work and the criminal justice sector can leave women feeling stigmatised and failed. Women live with the stigma of 'the lying addict'; however, documents and courtroom statements provided by professionals can misrepre…
Building legal literacy in organisations that support people experiencing multiple disadvantage
We present a case study of specialist welfare advice and advocacy for people experiencing multiple disadvantage (i.e. a combination of homelessness, contact with the criminal justice system, substance misuse, mental ill health). Drawing primarily on qualitative interviews with staff and stakeholders, we demonstrate the need for, and success of, specialist benefits advice for this customer group. Substantial financial gains were awarded, providing…
Afterword: Kinship Possibilities in Water Futures
This special issue of Oceania interrogates the material and cultural factors underpinning water socio-economies in Australia; a critical project given the wet and dry crises now unfolding in the Anthropocene. Three themes inform the collection - materialities, imaginaries and temporalities - each of which animates a diverse array of ethnographic inquiry into transformative water futures. The radical potential of kinship is also a cross-cutting th…
Applying situational analysis to examine the impact of Voices on people experiencing multiple disadvantage
Purpose This paper reports the use of situational analysis as a systems methodology to evaluate the voices of independence change and empowerment in the Stoke-on-Trent (VOICES) partnership project. Design/methodology/approach Using situational analysis and drawing on a range of secondary data sources, a three-stage conceptual mapping process provided a detailed picture of both the non-linear interlinkage and complexity of the local system that VO…
Homelessness, hospital discharge and challenges in the context of limited resources: A qualitative study of stakeholders' views on how to improve practice in a deprived setting
Hospital discharge for people experiencing homelessness is a perennial challenge. The Homeless Reduction Act 2017 (HRA) places new responsibilities on hospitals, but it remains unknown whether this has affected discharge practices. This qualitative study explores stakeholders' views on the challenges around hospital discharge for people experiencing homelessness, in the context of a deprived English city. Semi-structured interviews were conducted…
Epilogue: Immanence, relationality, connectivity
Interdependent Kin in Māori Marine Environments
This paper explores ascriptions of dependence and independence in Māori marine environments alongside the entrenchment of colonial constructions of hierarchical kinship organisation. The modelling of independence on liberal understandings of individualism is apparent in the development of the Treaty of Waitangi settlement of Māori commercial fisheries, wherein attributes of self‐reliance enabled through accumulation prevail. This articulates with…
The impact of the transition to Personal Independence Payment on claimants with mental health problems
This paper examines the impact of major social security reform on mental health claimants by analysing the transition to Personal Independence Payment in the UK. Personal Independence Payment was introduced in April 2013, replacing Disability Living Allowance as the main non-means tested disability benefit intended to assist with the additional costs associated with disability or long-term health conditions. It is important to gain a better under…
The Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary: Terraqueous Territorialization and Māori Marine Environments
This paper interprets the disrupted establishment of the Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary, a 620,000 square kilometre marine protection area, as a crucial moment in Pacific frontier making. The development of large-scale protected marine areas is a politically charged frontier tool, in which states garner international recognition and environmental renown by setting aside large swathes of their exclusive economic zones. In the Kermadec Sanctuary, this en…
Fishing
The anthropology of fisheries is a core focus of maritime anthropology. Scholarship in this field is multifaceted, exploring fishing ways of life, fishing knowledge, marine tenures and economies, the gendered nature of fishing, how people cope with danger and risk, and the specificities of how this particular watery nature is manifested in social, political, and cultural systems. Fishing can be defined as a productive activity that takes place in…
Māori Saltwater Commons: Property, wealth, and inequality
This article draws on Māori claims to fisheries in Aotearoa New Zealand as well as their opposition to the establishment of a large scale marine protected area, to question whether commoning, as a conceptual frame, can account for indigenous resistances in ocean environments. It argues that the theorisation of horizontal collective activism, an emphasis on a politics of relationality encompassing humans and non-humans and the potential for transf…
Private Oceans: The Enclosure and Marketisation of the Seas
The Struggle for Māori Fishing Rights: Te Ika a Māori
"The Struggle for Māori Fishing Rights: Te Ika a Māori." The Journal of Pacific History, 52(2), pp. 257–258
Response to 'Māori Indigeneity and Commodity Fetishism' by Steven Webster
The utility of the concepts of use-value and exchange-value, compared with gift and commodity are debated via a comparison of Hawaiian and Māori fisheries, in this response to Webster's article in this issue of Sites
Indigenous Claims: Hearings, Settlements, and Neoliberal Silencing
This article investigates the double-edged potentiality of the Waitangi Tribunal, an indigenous claims forum in New Zealand, and combines an ethnographic background to a recent claim with an anthropological interpretation of the meanings and outcomes of this encounter. I suggest that the legal justice framework of the claims proceedings and the political aspect of settlements are distinct yet contingent phenomena. Both are inherently embedded in …
Mauss, Interestedness, and Disinterestedness: Hawaiian and Maori Fisheries
This article uses Mauss's thesis on The Gift as a lens through which to critically compare Hawaiian and Māori fisheries. I focus, in particular, on the specific and paradoxical blending of interestedness and disinterestedness in the subsistence sector in Hawaii, and the historical separation of these phenomena in the context of fisheries management in New Zealand. As emergent financial commodities fish symbolises a new type of disjuncture between…
Engaging with Capitalism: Cases from Oceania
"For several decades people have been grappling with how to retain the material safety and cultural richness of indigenous non-capitalist societies and economies, but also gain the health, wealth, education and life opportunities the modern capitalist world offers. This book brings together examples of attempts to forge locally appropriate versions of modernity; development that suits the aspirations and circumstances of particular groups of peop…
Max Rimoldi, 6 May 1937 – 9 June 2012
Indigeneity as process: Māori claims and neoliberalism
In this article I use ethnographic material drawn from research with Māori to focus critical attention on the structural conditions that both enable and disable the reproduction of indigeneity in New Zealand. I conceptualize indigeneity as process, as intertwined with property struggles, as dynamically constituted and reconstituted in relation to the prevailing political economy, as facilitated and inhibited by state institutions, and as both pri…
The Reconstitution of Property Relations in New Zealand Fisheries
This article discusses structural transformations in small-scale fisheries in a New Zealand community. Expressions of fishing practice and the people who pursue these practices are subject to three different management regimes-Commercial, Recreational and Customary Regulations-each of which is rooted in a particular model of ownership. The community is simultaneously subject to globalization as represented by the local fish processing plant, a bu…
Levels of indigeneity: The Maori and neoliberalism
Indigeneity is a multi-faceted phenomenon, and for analytical purposes three different levels of practice may be identified: global, national, and local. This framework is used to illustrate the complex nature of recent negotiations between two Maori tribes and the government in New Zealand concerning the ownership and cultural use of coastal spaces. Indigenous claims-making is intimately bound up with neoliberal practices which, since the 1970s,…
Fish is My Daily Bread: Owning and Transacting in Maori Fisheries
In contemporary Aotearoa/New Zealand, Maori indigenous claims to fisheries have resulted in an uneasy compromise in which private property in fisheries coexists with an important element of common ownership. Individual Transferable Quotas and the bundle of rights encoded in Customary Fisheries Regulations are the expression of this compromise. At the legal level, these reflect the major property paradigms of private and communal. In practice, nei…
Moral Economy and Maori Fisheries
In this article I argue that the separation of commercial and customary fishing, which was a result of the 1992 Treaty of Waitangi Fisheries Settlement Act, denies their essential integration in the practices of small-scale fishers across time and space. Theorists who have analysed the moral economy and petty commodity production invariably conclude that commercial production (for money and/or profit) and customary production (for subsistence and…
Levels of indigeneity: The Maori and neoliberalism
Indigeneity is a multi-faceted phenomenon, and for analytical purposes three different levels of practice may be identified: global, national, and local. This framework is used to illustrate the complex nature of recent negotiations between two Maori tribes and the government in New Zealand concerning the ownership and cultural use of coastal spaces. Indigenous claims-making is intimately bound up with neoliberal practices which, since the 1970s,…
Fish is My Daily Bread: Owning and Transacting in Maori Fisheries
In contemporary Aotearoa/New Zealand, Maori indigenous claims to fisheries have resulted in an uneasy compromise in which private property in fisheries coexists with an important element of common ownership. Individual Transferable Quotas and the bundle of rights encoded in Customary Fisheries Regulations are the expression of this compromise. At the legal level, these reflect the major property paradigms of private and communal. In practice, nei…
Indigeneity as process: Māori claims and neoliberalism
In this article I use ethnographic material drawn from research with Māori to focus critical attention on the structural conditions that both enable and disable the reproduction of indigeneity in New Zealand. I conceptualize indigeneity as process, as intertwined with property struggles, as dynamically constituted and reconstituted in relation to the prevailing political economy, as facilitated and inhibited by state institutions, and as both pri…
The impact of the transition to Personal Independence Payment on claimants with mental health problems
This paper examines the impact of major social security reform on mental health claimants by analysing the transition to Personal Independence Payment in the UK. Personal Independence Payment was introduced in April 2013, replacing Disability Living Allowance as the main non-means tested disability benefit intended to assist with the additional costs associated with disability or long-term health conditions. It is important to gain a better under…
Indigenous Claims: Hearings, Settlements, and Neoliberal Silencing
This article investigates the double-edged potentiality of the Waitangi Tribunal, an indigenous claims forum in New Zealand, and combines an ethnographic background to a recent claim with an anthropological interpretation of the meanings and outcomes of this encounter. I suggest that the legal justice framework of the claims proceedings and the political aspect of settlements are distinct yet contingent phenomena. Both are inherently embedded in …
The Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary: Terraqueous Territorialization and Māori Marine Environments
This paper interprets the disrupted establishment of the Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary, a 620,000 square kilometre marine protection area, as a crucial moment in Pacific frontier making. The development of large-scale protected marine areas is a politically charged frontier tool, in which states garner international recognition and environmental renown by setting aside large swathes of their exclusive economic zones. In the Kermadec Sanctuary, this en…
Māori Saltwater Commons: Property, wealth, and inequality
This article draws on Māori claims to fisheries in Aotearoa New Zealand as well as their opposition to the establishment of a large scale marine protected area, to question whether commoning, as a conceptual frame, can account for indigenous resistances in ocean environments. It argues that the theorisation of horizontal collective activism, an emphasis on a politics of relationality encompassing humans and non-humans and the potential for transf…
The Reconstitution of Property Relations in New Zealand Fisheries
This article discusses structural transformations in small-scale fisheries in a New Zealand community. Expressions of fishing practice and the people who pursue these practices are subject to three different management regimes-Commercial, Recreational and Customary Regulations-each of which is rooted in a particular model of ownership. The community is simultaneously subject to globalization as represented by the local fish processing plant, a bu…
Moral Economy and Maori Fisheries
In this article I argue that the separation of commercial and customary fishing, which was a result of the 1992 Treaty of Waitangi Fisheries Settlement Act, denies their essential integration in the practices of small-scale fishers across time and space. Theorists who have analysed the moral economy and petty commodity production invariably conclude that commercial production (for money and/or profit) and customary production (for subsistence and…
Fish is My Daily Bread: Owning and Transacting in Maori Fisheries
In contemporary Aotearoa/New Zealand, Maori indigenous claims to fisheries have resulted in an uneasy compromise in which private property in fisheries coexists with an important element of common ownership. Individual Transferable Quotas and the bundle of rights encoded in Customary Fisheries Regulations are the expression of this compromise. At the legal level, these reflect the major property paradigms of private and communal. In practice, nei…
Levels of indigeneity: The Maori and neoliberalism
Indigeneity is a multi-faceted phenomenon, and for analytical purposes three different levels of practice may be identified: global, national, and local. This framework is used to illustrate the complex nature of recent negotiations between two Maori tribes and the government in New Zealand concerning the ownership and cultural use of coastal spaces. Indigenous claims-making is intimately bound up with neoliberal practices which, since the 1970s,…
Max Rimoldi, 6 May 1937 – 9 June 2012
Indigeneity as process: Māori claims and neoliberalism
In this article I use ethnographic material drawn from research with Māori to focus critical attention on the structural conditions that both enable and disable the reproduction of indigeneity in New Zealand. I conceptualize indigeneity as process, as intertwined with property struggles, as dynamically constituted and reconstituted in relation to the prevailing political economy, as facilitated and inhibited by state institutions, and as both pri…
The Reconstitution of Property Relations in New Zealand Fisheries
This article discusses structural transformations in small-scale fisheries in a New Zealand community. Expressions of fishing practice and the people who pursue these practices are subject to three different management regimes-Commercial, Recreational and Customary Regulations-each of which is rooted in a particular model of ownership. The community is simultaneously subject to globalization as represented by the local fish processing plant, a bu…
Engaging with Capitalism: Cases from Oceania
"For several decades people have been grappling with how to retain the material safety and cultural richness of indigenous non-capitalist societies and economies, but also gain the health, wealth, education and life opportunities the modern capitalist world offers. This book brings together examples of attempts to forge locally appropriate versions of modernity; development that suits the aspirations and circumstances of particular groups of peop…
Mauss, Interestedness, and Disinterestedness: Hawaiian and Maori Fisheries
This article uses Mauss's thesis on The Gift as a lens through which to critically compare Hawaiian and Māori fisheries. I focus, in particular, on the specific and paradoxical blending of interestedness and disinterestedness in the subsistence sector in Hawaii, and the historical separation of these phenomena in the context of fisheries management in New Zealand. As emergent financial commodities fish symbolises a new type of disjuncture between…
Response to 'Māori Indigeneity and Commodity Fetishism' by Steven Webster
The utility of the concepts of use-value and exchange-value, compared with gift and commodity are debated via a comparison of Hawaiian and Māori fisheries, in this response to Webster's article in this issue of Sites
Indigenous Claims: Hearings, Settlements, and Neoliberal Silencing
This article investigates the double-edged potentiality of the Waitangi Tribunal, an indigenous claims forum in New Zealand, and combines an ethnographic background to a recent claim with an anthropological interpretation of the meanings and outcomes of this encounter. I suggest that the legal justice framework of the claims proceedings and the political aspect of settlements are distinct yet contingent phenomena. Both are inherently embedded in …
Private Oceans: The Enclosure and Marketisation of the Seas
The Struggle for Māori Fishing Rights: Te Ika a Māori
"The Struggle for Māori Fishing Rights: Te Ika a Māori." The Journal of Pacific History, 52(2), pp. 257–258
Māori Saltwater Commons: Property, wealth, and inequality
This article draws on Māori claims to fisheries in Aotearoa New Zealand as well as their opposition to the establishment of a large scale marine protected area, to question whether commoning, as a conceptual frame, can account for indigenous resistances in ocean environments. It argues that the theorisation of horizontal collective activism, an emphasis on a politics of relationality encompassing humans and non-humans and the potential for transf…
Fishing
The anthropology of fisheries is a core focus of maritime anthropology. Scholarship in this field is multifaceted, exploring fishing ways of life, fishing knowledge, marine tenures and economies, the gendered nature of fishing, how people cope with danger and risk, and the specificities of how this particular watery nature is manifested in social, political, and cultural systems. Fishing can be defined as a productive activity that takes place in…
Interdependent Kin in Māori Marine Environments
This paper explores ascriptions of dependence and independence in Māori marine environments alongside the entrenchment of colonial constructions of hierarchical kinship organisation. The modelling of independence on liberal understandings of individualism is apparent in the development of the Treaty of Waitangi settlement of Māori commercial fisheries, wherein attributes of self‐reliance enabled through accumulation prevail. This articulates with…
The impact of the transition to Personal Independence Payment on claimants with mental health problems
This paper examines the impact of major social security reform on mental health claimants by analysing the transition to Personal Independence Payment in the UK. Personal Independence Payment was introduced in April 2013, replacing Disability Living Allowance as the main non-means tested disability benefit intended to assist with the additional costs associated with disability or long-term health conditions. It is important to gain a better under…
The Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary: Terraqueous Territorialization and Māori Marine Environments
This paper interprets the disrupted establishment of the Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary, a 620,000 square kilometre marine protection area, as a crucial moment in Pacific frontier making. The development of large-scale protected marine areas is a politically charged frontier tool, in which states garner international recognition and environmental renown by setting aside large swathes of their exclusive economic zones. In the Kermadec Sanctuary, this en…
Applying situational analysis to examine the impact of Voices on people experiencing multiple disadvantage
Purpose This paper reports the use of situational analysis as a systems methodology to evaluate the voices of independence change and empowerment in the Stoke-on-Trent (VOICES) partnership project. Design/methodology/approach Using situational analysis and drawing on a range of secondary data sources, a three-stage conceptual mapping process provided a detailed picture of both the non-linear interlinkage and complexity of the local system that VO…
Homelessness, hospital discharge and challenges in the context of limited resources: A qualitative study of stakeholders' views on how to improve practice in a deprived setting
Hospital discharge for people experiencing homelessness is a perennial challenge. The Homeless Reduction Act 2017 (HRA) places new responsibilities on hospitals, but it remains unknown whether this has affected discharge practices. This qualitative study explores stakeholders' views on the challenges around hospital discharge for people experiencing homelessness, in the context of a deprived English city. Semi-structured interviews were conducted…
Epilogue: Immanence, relationality, connectivity
Building legal literacy in organisations that support people experiencing multiple disadvantage
We present a case study of specialist welfare advice and advocacy for people experiencing multiple disadvantage (i.e. a combination of homelessness, contact with the criminal justice system, substance misuse, mental ill health). Drawing primarily on qualitative interviews with staff and stakeholders, we demonstrate the need for, and success of, specialist benefits advice for this customer group. Substantial financial gains were awarded, providing…
Afterword: Kinship Possibilities in Water Futures
This special issue of Oceania interrogates the material and cultural factors underpinning water socio-economies in Australia; a critical project given the wet and dry crises now unfolding in the Anthropocene. Three themes inform the collection - materialities, imaginaries and temporalities - each of which animates a diverse array of ethnographic inquiry into transformative water futures. The radical potential of kinship is also a cross-cutting th…
Women, Addictions, Mental Health, Dishonesty, and Crime Stigma: Solutions to Reduce the Social Harms of Stigma
British drug policies could underserve women with treatment needs, and this paper provides evidence that communication through the words and actions of professionals across drug and alcohol services, health and mental health, social work and the criminal justice sector can leave women feeling stigmatised and failed. Women live with the stigma of 'the lying addict'; however, documents and courtroom statements provided by professionals can misrepre…
Raising a Public Health Concern: Women Overlooked in UK Drug Policy and Disadvantaged in Mixed-Gender Community Services
The British From Harm to Hope drugs strategy seems limited in gender responsiveness. Evidence is presented from a West Midlands case study where a qualitative participatory methodology with thematic analysis was employed. The project was co-designed by academics, women with lived-experience and third-sector research leaders. To identify community drug and alcohol treatment issues and solutions, interviews and focus groups were conducted with fema…
Marine Inequality, Borderization, and the Radical Potential of Kinship
This article utilizes scholarship on borders to interpret the persistence of inequality in Indigenous seascapes, irrespective of moves to redress colonial wrongs or the growing anthropocenic recognition of human-nature interconnectedness. I examine border politics in the context of Māori claims for marine title and rights and the post-settlement development of aquaculture. Drawing on Harsha Walia’s concept of “border imperialism” and Achille Mbem…
Political science (17 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Fishing (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works) · Anthropology (5 works)