L Macdonald
Biographic Data
| ID | 45774 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Macdonald |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Macdonald |
| SIGNATURE | MACDONALD L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University of Wellington |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8929-1366 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Living in the Telling
Stories provide listeners or readers a doorway to understand the storyteller’s context and live in the telling. We, as Māori Indigenous scholars (doctoral students, researchers, and academics), bring together our stories, in the forms of creative nonfiction and poetry located in Aotearoa New Zealand and Te Whenua Moemoeā Australia, to tell the ways we navigate colonial spaces while also imagining our desired future. Centring Indigenous storytelli…
Towards Anti-Colonial Commemorative Landscapes through Indigenous Collective Remembering in Wānanga
Statues and monuments are permanent forms of commemoration that interpret and reconstruct public memory in colonial settler societies. Representation through memorialisation is attributed to a genealogy of Western collective remembering that reflects the values, narratives, and experiences of the dominant settler population. Yet, collective remembering and memory can change. This article reports on Indigenous collective remembering practices that…
Autonomous Genealogies and Indigenous Reclamations
Indigenous communities the world over have their own concepts of genealogy, many of which consider the living and non-living beings that we share time and space with, spanning the earth beneath us to the heavens above [...]
Fragments from a Contested Past
‘What a nation or society chooses to remember and forget speaks to its contemporary priorities and sense of identity. Understanding how that process works enables us to better imagine a future with a different, or wider, set of priorities.’ History has rarely felt more topical or relevant as, all across the globe, nations have begun to debate who, how and what they choose to remember and forget. In this BWB Text addressing ‘difficult histories’, …
Channelling a Haunting
The Aotearoa New Zealand's Histories curriculum will be compulsory in 2023; what and how New Zealand history will be taught is currently up for debate. An innovative approach to engaging key curriculum understandings like colonisation, settlement and power would recognise that settler sensibilities frame national histories, to make visible the ongoing structuring force of colonisation. To this end, we present a model for teaching students how to …
Living, breathing settler-colonialism
Common university spaces are often lauded as inclusive spaces where everyone is welcomed, but is that really the case? Universities in Aotearoa New Zealand receive social, material, and financial benefits from positioning themselves as ethnically and culturally diverse, yet these institutions were established through acts of colonial invasion that severed Indigenous communities from land, language, and culture. The silencing of violent colonial h…
Racism and silencing in the media in Aotearoa New Zealand
Racism in the Aotearoa New Zealand media is the subject of scholarly debate that examines how Māori (Indigenous Peoples of New Zealand) are broadcast in a negative and demeaning light. Literature demonstrates evolving understandings of how the industry places Pākehā (New Zealanders primarily of European descent) interests at the heart of broadcasting. We offer new insights by arguing that the media industry propagates a racial discourse of silenc…
Uncanny pedagogies
In 2022, New Zealand history will shift from an optional to a compulsory subject across all levels of schooling. Teaching about New Zealand’s difficult histories has the potential to reconstitute settler-Indigenous relations to show how historical colonial injustice impacts people today, but it raises questions about whose history will be validated and taught and how settler discomfort about breaking the silences surrounding colonial violence mig…
Surviving academic Whiteness
Native time’ in the white city
This paper is concerned with the chronopolitics of indigenous young people’s life-worlds in settler-colonial space. Drawing on a study about young people’s narratives about the future, we examine how Māori youth in New Zealand navigate competing temporal frames of reference as they move around their towns and cities. In a series of walk-along interviews and group discussions, Māori young people deployed ‘native time’ as a means of negotiating acc…
Whose story counts? Staking a claim for diverse bicultural narratives in New Zealand secondary schools
In 1840, the British Crown and Māori rangatira (chiefs) across Aotearoa New Zealand signed a treaty that promised indigenous Māori sovereignty over their lands. In the 1980s, the government moved towards the view that the treaty signing symbolised two races coming together in ‘partnership’. Partnership is a point of contention in settler-indigenous relations, with claims that state institutions favour the interests of the dominant culture. This p…
Carers' reflections on nursing home and NHS long-stay care for elderly patients
The aim of this study was to compare the perceptions of carers of elderly long-stay care patients who are now in nursing homes in three health districts in a former Regional Health Authority and in remaining long-stay geriatric National Health Service (NHS) wards. One hundred and ninety-eight nursing home carers (78%) and 128 NHS carers (83%) were interviewed by telephone, using a semi-structured questionnaire and open questions. The impact of ca…
Effect of the moon on general practitioner's on call work load
Unchecked mitogenic signals due to the overexpression of epidermal growth factor (EGF) and its receptor (EGFR) is implicated in the promotion and progression of cancer. In addition, β-adrenoceptor is involved in the control of cancer cell proliferation. This study sought to elucidate whether a functional connection exists between these two disparate receptor systems. EGF was used to stimulate HKESC-1 cells, an esophageal squamous cancer cell line…
Responses to the institution among elderly patients in hospital long-stay care
Community Mental Health Services from the User's Perspective
Stigma in patients with rectal cancer
A self-rating measure of stigma and several supplementary questions were devised in order to assess perceived stigma in a community survey of the quality of life in 420 rectal cancer patients, of whom 265 had a permanent colostomy. Half the patients felt stigmatised, higher proportions being observed among younger patients and among those with a colostomy. Feelings of stigma were associated with poor health, particularly emotional disorders, with…
Aggression, crying and physical contact in one-to three-year-old children
In a longitudinal study in which 59 first-born middle class children were observed in the company of other children of the same age and with their mothers, a high frequency of attacks on other children by children nearly two years old was correlated with absent or delayed response by the mother to the child's crying after falls, etc. Other aspects of mother's or child's behaviour were examined but all failed to explain away this correlation. Some…
Native time’ in the white city
This paper is concerned with the chronopolitics of indigenous young people’s life-worlds in settler-colonial space. Drawing on a study about young people’s narratives about the future, we examine how Māori youth in New Zealand navigate competing temporal frames of reference as they move around their towns and cities. In a series of walk-along interviews and group discussions, Māori young people deployed ‘native time’ as a means of negotiating acc…
Stigma in patients with rectal cancer
A self-rating measure of stigma and several supplementary questions were devised in order to assess perceived stigma in a community survey of the quality of life in 420 rectal cancer patients, of whom 265 had a permanent colostomy. Half the patients felt stigmatised, higher proportions being observed among younger patients and among those with a colostomy. Feelings of stigma were associated with poor health, particularly emotional disorders, with…
Whose story counts? Staking a claim for diverse bicultural narratives in New Zealand secondary schools
In 1840, the British Crown and Māori rangatira (chiefs) across Aotearoa New Zealand signed a treaty that promised indigenous Māori sovereignty over their lands. In the 1980s, the government moved towards the view that the treaty signing symbolised two races coming together in ‘partnership’. Partnership is a point of contention in settler-indigenous relations, with claims that state institutions favour the interests of the dominant culture. This p…
Uncanny pedagogies
In 2022, New Zealand history will shift from an optional to a compulsory subject across all levels of schooling. Teaching about New Zealand’s difficult histories has the potential to reconstitute settler-Indigenous relations to show how historical colonial injustice impacts people today, but it raises questions about whose history will be validated and taught and how settler discomfort about breaking the silences surrounding colonial violence mig…
Towards Anti-Colonial Commemorative Landscapes through Indigenous Collective Remembering in Wānanga
Statues and monuments are permanent forms of commemoration that interpret and reconstruct public memory in colonial settler societies. Representation through memorialisation is attributed to a genealogy of Western collective remembering that reflects the values, narratives, and experiences of the dominant settler population. Yet, collective remembering and memory can change. This article reports on Indigenous collective remembering practices that…
Carers' reflections on nursing home and NHS long-stay care for elderly patients
The aim of this study was to compare the perceptions of carers of elderly long-stay care patients who are now in nursing homes in three health districts in a former Regional Health Authority and in remaining long-stay geriatric National Health Service (NHS) wards. One hundred and ninety-eight nursing home carers (78%) and 128 NHS carers (83%) were interviewed by telephone, using a semi-structured questionnaire and open questions. The impact of ca…
Aggression, crying and physical contact in one-to three-year-old children
In a longitudinal study in which 59 first-born middle class children were observed in the company of other children of the same age and with their mothers, a high frequency of attacks on other children by children nearly two years old was correlated with absent or delayed response by the mother to the child's crying after falls, etc. Other aspects of mother's or child's behaviour were examined but all failed to explain away this correlation. Some…
Stigma in patients with rectal cancer
A self-rating measure of stigma and several supplementary questions were devised in order to assess perceived stigma in a community survey of the quality of life in 420 rectal cancer patients, of whom 265 had a permanent colostomy. Half the patients felt stigmatised, higher proportions being observed among younger patients and among those with a colostomy. Feelings of stigma were associated with poor health, particularly emotional disorders, with…
Community Mental Health Services from the User's Perspective
Responses to the institution among elderly patients in hospital long-stay care
Effect of the moon on general practitioner's on call work load
Unchecked mitogenic signals due to the overexpression of epidermal growth factor (EGF) and its receptor (EGFR) is implicated in the promotion and progression of cancer. In addition, β-adrenoceptor is involved in the control of cancer cell proliferation. This study sought to elucidate whether a functional connection exists between these two disparate receptor systems. EGF was used to stimulate HKESC-1 cells, an esophageal squamous cancer cell line…
Carers' reflections on nursing home and NHS long-stay care for elderly patients
The aim of this study was to compare the perceptions of carers of elderly long-stay care patients who are now in nursing homes in three health districts in a former Regional Health Authority and in remaining long-stay geriatric National Health Service (NHS) wards. One hundred and ninety-eight nursing home carers (78%) and 128 NHS carers (83%) were interviewed by telephone, using a semi-structured questionnaire and open questions. The impact of ca…
Native time’ in the white city
This paper is concerned with the chronopolitics of indigenous young people’s life-worlds in settler-colonial space. Drawing on a study about young people’s narratives about the future, we examine how Māori youth in New Zealand navigate competing temporal frames of reference as they move around their towns and cities. In a series of walk-along interviews and group discussions, Māori young people deployed ‘native time’ as a means of negotiating acc…
Whose story counts? Staking a claim for diverse bicultural narratives in New Zealand secondary schools
In 1840, the British Crown and Māori rangatira (chiefs) across Aotearoa New Zealand signed a treaty that promised indigenous Māori sovereignty over their lands. In the 1980s, the government moved towards the view that the treaty signing symbolised two races coming together in ‘partnership’. Partnership is a point of contention in settler-indigenous relations, with claims that state institutions favour the interests of the dominant culture. This p…
Living, breathing settler-colonialism
Common university spaces are often lauded as inclusive spaces where everyone is welcomed, but is that really the case? Universities in Aotearoa New Zealand receive social, material, and financial benefits from positioning themselves as ethnically and culturally diverse, yet these institutions were established through acts of colonial invasion that severed Indigenous communities from land, language, and culture. The silencing of violent colonial h…
Racism and silencing in the media in Aotearoa New Zealand
Racism in the Aotearoa New Zealand media is the subject of scholarly debate that examines how Māori (Indigenous Peoples of New Zealand) are broadcast in a negative and demeaning light. Literature demonstrates evolving understandings of how the industry places Pākehā (New Zealanders primarily of European descent) interests at the heart of broadcasting. We offer new insights by arguing that the media industry propagates a racial discourse of silenc…
Uncanny pedagogies
In 2022, New Zealand history will shift from an optional to a compulsory subject across all levels of schooling. Teaching about New Zealand’s difficult histories has the potential to reconstitute settler-Indigenous relations to show how historical colonial injustice impacts people today, but it raises questions about whose history will be validated and taught and how settler discomfort about breaking the silences surrounding colonial violence mig…
Surviving academic Whiteness
Fragments from a Contested Past
‘What a nation or society chooses to remember and forget speaks to its contemporary priorities and sense of identity. Understanding how that process works enables us to better imagine a future with a different, or wider, set of priorities.’ History has rarely felt more topical or relevant as, all across the globe, nations have begun to debate who, how and what they choose to remember and forget. In this BWB Text addressing ‘difficult histories’, …
Channelling a Haunting
The Aotearoa New Zealand's Histories curriculum will be compulsory in 2023; what and how New Zealand history will be taught is currently up for debate. An innovative approach to engaging key curriculum understandings like colonisation, settlement and power would recognise that settler sensibilities frame national histories, to make visible the ongoing structuring force of colonisation. To this end, we present a model for teaching students how to …
Living in the Telling
Stories provide listeners or readers a doorway to understand the storyteller’s context and live in the telling. We, as Māori Indigenous scholars (doctoral students, researchers, and academics), bring together our stories, in the forms of creative nonfiction and poetry located in Aotearoa New Zealand and Te Whenua Moemoeā Australia, to tell the ways we navigate colonial spaces while also imagining our desired future. Centring Indigenous storytelli…
Towards Anti-Colonial Commemorative Landscapes through Indigenous Collective Remembering in Wānanga
Statues and monuments are permanent forms of commemoration that interpret and reconstruct public memory in colonial settler societies. Representation through memorialisation is attributed to a genealogy of Western collective remembering that reflects the values, narratives, and experiences of the dominant settler population. Yet, collective remembering and memory can change. This article reports on Indigenous collective remembering practices that…
Autonomous Genealogies and Indigenous Reclamations
Indigenous communities the world over have their own concepts of genealogy, many of which consider the living and non-living beings that we share time and space with, spanning the earth beneath us to the heavens above [...]
Sociology (12 works) · Indigenous (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Colonialism (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · History (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works)