Amanda Yates
Biographic Data
| ID | 3709296 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda Yates |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda |
| FAMILY NAME | Yates |
| SIGNATURE | YATES A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Auckland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1087-6984 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mauri‐Centred Care Methodologies and Tools for Regenerative Urbanism
How can we practice urbanism care‐fully, with an attention to the wellbeing and vitality of the more‐than‐human? Such a question is fundamental now if we are to counter current Anthropocenic processes and actively transition to urban cultures of care. In this text I review recent work on a tool designed to support a care‐based ethical attention to urban and wider living systems wellbeing. With diverse communities future‐focused ‘compasses’ were c…
Community actions to revitalize urban blue and green capitals
This study aims to investigate the revitalization of blue-green capital in urban communities, to enhance local well-being and social-ecological resilience at the neighborhood scale. Fostering more-than-human well-being can play a central role in maintaining overall health in cities. The study first investigates what are the key priorities recognized to enhance blue-green capital. Second, what are key challenges and opportunities for community-led…
Testing practices for testing times
In this author response, we further reflect on pluriversal and prefigurative approaches to research, centred on Indigenous Māori knowledge, while opening space for cross-cultural perspectives and co-creation methods. We address the responses authored by Meg Parsons, Wendy Steele and Wendy Harcourt, starting by summarising what we took from each contribution. We discuss key questions raised by each of the authors in the context of the evolving res…
Cultivating commoners
In this paper, we investigate how infrastructure and care shape commoner subjectivities. In our research into an urban youth farm in Aotearoa New Zealand, we heard and observed profound tales of growth and transformation among youth participants. Not only were our interviewees narrating stories of individual transformation (of themselves and others), but they also spoke of transformations in the way they engaged with the world around them, includ…
Emerging transitions in organic waste infrastructure in Aotearoa New Zealand
Aotearoa New Zealand is at a critical juncture in reducing and managing organic waste. Research has highlighted the significant proportion of organic waste sent to landfills and associated adverse effects such as greenhouse gas emissions and loss of valuable organic matter. There is current debate about what practices and infrastructure to invest in to better manage and use organic waste. We highlight the diversity of existing organic waste pract…
Inclusive and collective urban home spaces
Housing and urban development in Aotearoa New Zealand. • Response to Government Policy Statement on Housing and Urban Development (GPS-HUD). • Wellbeing benefits of collectively-oriented housing and transport models. • Co-housing and papakāinga as transformational housing typologies. • Multi-year and multi-scale community-based research programmes
A Transformative Architectural Pedagogy and Tool for a Time of Converging Crises
The institutional frameworks within which we conceive, design, construct, inhabit and manage our built environments are widely acknowledged to be key factors contributing to converging ecological crises: climate change, biodiversity loss, environmental degradation, and social inequity at a global scale. Yet, our ability to respond to these emergencies remains largely circumscribed by educational and professional agendas inherited from 20th-centur…
Dialogues for wellbeing in an ecological emergency
At a time of ecological emergency there are pressing reasons to develop more responsive wellbeing-led governance frameworks that engage with both human and more-than-human wellbeing. Attempts to incorporate wellbeing indices into wellbeing-led governance include the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations, the Gross National Happiness index of Bhutan, and a variety of emerging wellbeing-led governance frameworks in the Organisation fo…
Transforming geographies
This paper explores how spatial governance models oriented to the well‐being of the more‐than‐human might better enable Indigenous peoples' capacity to live‐well‐with and care for our more‐than‐human whanaunga (kin). The discussion positions Indigenous more‐than‐human ontologies as a cultural framework that supplants human‐centrism with a focus on holistic ecological well‐being. The paper considers how a culture of holistic ecological well‐being …
Mauri-Ora
Architecture and urban design are particularly powerful Anthropocenic agents as they rework the geosphere and, as intensities of energy usage, contribute to climate change. The indigenous New-Zealand Maori concept of Mauri is engaged as an immanence for its inherent force within a living-world-assemblage, where sky, sea, mountains, trees, people are part of a relational whakapapa. The concept of mauri operates within an intricate assemblage of re…
Transforming geographies
This paper explores how spatial governance models oriented to the well‐being of the more‐than‐human might better enable Indigenous peoples' capacity to live‐well‐with and care for our more‐than‐human whanaunga (kin). The discussion positions Indigenous more‐than‐human ontologies as a cultural framework that supplants human‐centrism with a focus on holistic ecological well‐being. The paper considers how a culture of holistic ecological well‐being …
Cultivating commoners
In this paper, we investigate how infrastructure and care shape commoner subjectivities. In our research into an urban youth farm in Aotearoa New Zealand, we heard and observed profound tales of growth and transformation among youth participants. Not only were our interviewees narrating stories of individual transformation (of themselves and others), but they also spoke of transformations in the way they engaged with the world around them, includ…
Emerging transitions in organic waste infrastructure in Aotearoa New Zealand
Aotearoa New Zealand is at a critical juncture in reducing and managing organic waste. Research has highlighted the significant proportion of organic waste sent to landfills and associated adverse effects such as greenhouse gas emissions and loss of valuable organic matter. There is current debate about what practices and infrastructure to invest in to better manage and use organic waste. We highlight the diversity of existing organic waste pract…
Dialogues for wellbeing in an ecological emergency
At a time of ecological emergency there are pressing reasons to develop more responsive wellbeing-led governance frameworks that engage with both human and more-than-human wellbeing. Attempts to incorporate wellbeing indices into wellbeing-led governance include the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations, the Gross National Happiness index of Bhutan, and a variety of emerging wellbeing-led governance frameworks in the Organisation fo…
Mauri‐Centred Care Methodologies and Tools for Regenerative Urbanism
How can we practice urbanism care‐fully, with an attention to the wellbeing and vitality of the more‐than‐human? Such a question is fundamental now if we are to counter current Anthropocenic processes and actively transition to urban cultures of care. In this text I review recent work on a tool designed to support a care‐based ethical attention to urban and wider living systems wellbeing. With diverse communities future‐focused ‘compasses’ were c…
Mauri-Ora
Architecture and urban design are particularly powerful Anthropocenic agents as they rework the geosphere and, as intensities of energy usage, contribute to climate change. The indigenous New-Zealand Maori concept of Mauri is engaged as an immanence for its inherent force within a living-world-assemblage, where sky, sea, mountains, trees, people are part of a relational whakapapa. The concept of mauri operates within an intricate assemblage of re…
Transforming geographies
This paper explores how spatial governance models oriented to the well‐being of the more‐than‐human might better enable Indigenous peoples' capacity to live‐well‐with and care for our more‐than‐human whanaunga (kin). The discussion positions Indigenous more‐than‐human ontologies as a cultural framework that supplants human‐centrism with a focus on holistic ecological well‐being. The paper considers how a culture of holistic ecological well‐being …
Inclusive and collective urban home spaces
Housing and urban development in Aotearoa New Zealand. • Response to Government Policy Statement on Housing and Urban Development (GPS-HUD). • Wellbeing benefits of collectively-oriented housing and transport models. • Co-housing and papakāinga as transformational housing typologies. • Multi-year and multi-scale community-based research programmes
A Transformative Architectural Pedagogy and Tool for a Time of Converging Crises
The institutional frameworks within which we conceive, design, construct, inhabit and manage our built environments are widely acknowledged to be key factors contributing to converging ecological crises: climate change, biodiversity loss, environmental degradation, and social inequity at a global scale. Yet, our ability to respond to these emergencies remains largely circumscribed by educational and professional agendas inherited from 20th-centur…
Dialogues for wellbeing in an ecological emergency
At a time of ecological emergency there are pressing reasons to develop more responsive wellbeing-led governance frameworks that engage with both human and more-than-human wellbeing. Attempts to incorporate wellbeing indices into wellbeing-led governance include the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations, the Gross National Happiness index of Bhutan, and a variety of emerging wellbeing-led governance frameworks in the Organisation fo…
Testing practices for testing times
In this author response, we further reflect on pluriversal and prefigurative approaches to research, centred on Indigenous Māori knowledge, while opening space for cross-cultural perspectives and co-creation methods. We address the responses authored by Meg Parsons, Wendy Steele and Wendy Harcourt, starting by summarising what we took from each contribution. We discuss key questions raised by each of the authors in the context of the evolving res…
Cultivating commoners
In this paper, we investigate how infrastructure and care shape commoner subjectivities. In our research into an urban youth farm in Aotearoa New Zealand, we heard and observed profound tales of growth and transformation among youth participants. Not only were our interviewees narrating stories of individual transformation (of themselves and others), but they also spoke of transformations in the way they engaged with the world around them, includ…
Emerging transitions in organic waste infrastructure in Aotearoa New Zealand
Aotearoa New Zealand is at a critical juncture in reducing and managing organic waste. Research has highlighted the significant proportion of organic waste sent to landfills and associated adverse effects such as greenhouse gas emissions and loss of valuable organic matter. There is current debate about what practices and infrastructure to invest in to better manage and use organic waste. We highlight the diversity of existing organic waste pract…
Mauri‐Centred Care Methodologies and Tools for Regenerative Urbanism
How can we practice urbanism care‐fully, with an attention to the wellbeing and vitality of the more‐than‐human? Such a question is fundamental now if we are to counter current Anthropocenic processes and actively transition to urban cultures of care. In this text I review recent work on a tool designed to support a care‐based ethical attention to urban and wider living systems wellbeing. With diverse communities future‐focused ‘compasses’ were c…
Community actions to revitalize urban blue and green capitals
This study aims to investigate the revitalization of blue-green capital in urban communities, to enhance local well-being and social-ecological resilience at the neighborhood scale. Fostering more-than-human well-being can play a central role in maintaining overall health in cities. The study first investigates what are the key priorities recognized to enhance blue-green capital. Second, what are key challenges and opportunities for community-led…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Aotearoa (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Indigenous (4 works) · Architecture (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Corporate governance (3 works)