H Moewaka Barnes
Biographic Data
| ID | 46076 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H Moewaka Barnes |
| GIVEN NAMES | H Moewaka |
| FAMILY NAME | Barnes |
| SIGNATURE | BARNES H M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massey University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6649-4646 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 98 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Wairua in the everyday: Māori speak about meaning and experience
Wairua (spirituality) is central to being Māori (Indigenous people of New Zealand), but there is little research that explicitly explores such experience. In Western framings, it has been relegated to uncanny and shamanistic domains. Many Māori scholars write about concepts intertwined with wairua, and interest in wairua research is increasing. Limited, but growing discussions, guidance and examples of how to approach wairua in research are emerg…
New immersive alcohol marketing and commerce in metaverse environments
Healthy Islands at 30: Revitalising an ecological framework for planetary health
Estimating the alcohol‐related burden of child maltreatment among Māori in Aotearoa, New Zealand
Climate change and mātauranga Māori: Making sense of a western environmental construct
Te ao Māori approaches to restoring wellbeing in relation to people and te taiao are proliferating in Aotearoa New Zealand. While climate change is a critical lever nationally and globally, it sits in the background of Māori initiatives and worldviews. Drawing on participant interviews, this paper follows the work needed for Māori to reconcile with the concept of climate change. Considerable ‘work’ was needed to move through various processes in …
Māori in Unexpected Places: Watching Māori on Television
This paper draws on a study of audience responses, prompted by understandings of the power exerted by representations in television dramas. The wider study explored Māori and non-Māori meaning-making, emotions, feelings, and affective practices that arise when viewing Māori representations on locally produced television dramas. Findings from focus group responses to an episode of the local television drama The Brokenwood Mysteries are organised h…
Wairua in memories and responses to Anzac Day
Although research acknowledges wairua (spirituality) as a key component of Māori understandings, experience and practice, few studies include wairua as an explicit analytical theme or domain. Utilising the A Wairua Approach to research, we explore the experiences of two participants on Anzac Day. Through A Wairua Approach analysis of video recordings, we explored the meanings and connections related to whakapapa (genealogy) and the mana (prestige…
Indigenous-led environmental research in Aotearoa New Zealand: Beyond a transdisciplinary model for best practice, empowerment and action
Complex multidimensional challenges have prompted a transformational shift towards holistic research integration with knowledge systems differing from conventional science. Embracing diverse ontological and epistemological approaches through new styles of collaboration, dialogue and practice enables durable solutions and desired outcomes. As societal and global issues become more urgent, complex and challenging, recognition of the intersection of…
Tension without tikanga: The damaging face of the treaty claims settlement system
In Aotearoa New Zealand, the arrival of imperial ideologies in the 19th century led to devastating land-loss and cultural marginalisation for Māori at the hands of settlers and successive governments. This article examines the damaging effects of a Crown-imposed treaty claims settlement system designed to address injustices inflicted on Māori. Interview data from a Taranaki-based (a West Coast region, central North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand)…
New normal - Same inequities or engaged Te Tiriti partnership
The Covid-19 lockdown over March to May 2020 meant households became their own "bubbles", with residents physically interacting only with those in their household and staying close to home.Mäori leaders recognised the potential of the lockdown to exacerbate whänau vulnerability due to confinement, financial hardship and, depending on their household, issues of crowding or isolation.Steps were quickly taken to support households with care packages…
Supporting Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Research Partnerships
This commentary discusses the framing of the production of a series of online text-based and visual resources aimed at researchers embarking on Indigenous and non-Indigenous research partnerships, and in particular supporting non-Indigenous researchers to think about our/their methods, assumptions and behaviour. We identify the tension in mainstream funding for such partnerships, and discuss the implications of Northern epistemological claims to …
Pissed Off and Confused’/‘Grateful and (Re)Moved: Affect, Privilege and National Commemoration in Aotearoa New Zealand
This article explores affect, colonial privilege, and the cultural politics of national commemoration in Aotearoa New Zealand. Based on focus‐group interviews around two major national days, we examine means through which feelings and emotions are deployed in ways that enable the reproduction of social advantage. Situating affect within patterns of relationship, four interrelated affective‐discursive practices are explored. In relation to Waitang…
Colonisation, hauora and whenua in Aotearoa
Colonisation has deeply harmed Maori communities, seriously and consistently undermining their vitality, aspirations and potentials, particularly since the 1860s, at inestimable cost to the entire nation. The British arrival in Aotearoa commenced a relationship between two very different peoples that has profoundly influenced their distinct and collective fortunes ever since. Despite manifest breaches of te Tiriti o Waitangi, this relationship ha…
Enhancing drinking water quality in remote Māori communities
This article reports the findings of a two-year transdisciplinary research project that explored the implications of climate change for the security and safety of drinking water supplies in three communities in Te Hiku o te Ika in Aotearoa New Zealand. In this region, potable water comes mainly from "roof and tank" systems. The project was designed as integrative Kaupapa Mori
Health literacy in action: Kaupapa Māori evaluation of a cardiovascular disease medications health literacy intervention
The healthcare system is complex and challenging to virtually everyone but more so to those who are marginalised, impoverished, and isolated—all factors that exacerbate health literacy barriers. This article reports on an analysis of qualitative data collected for a kaupapa Māori evaluation of a Cardiovascular Disease Medications Health Literacy Intervention. The evaluation study involved a kaupapa Māori evaluation of the effectiveness of the int…
“We are not privileged enough to have that foundation of language”: Pasifika young adults share their deep concerns about the decline of their ancestral/heritage languages in Aotearoa New Zealand
Focus group interviews conducted with Aotearoa New Zealand–born Pasifika young adults aged 18–25 years highlighted their intense apprehension about the diminishing abilities of New Zealand–born Pasifika people to speak their ancestral/heritage Pasifika languages in Aotearoa. Some Pasifika languages are also declining at their homeland wellsprings. There has been no comprehensive strategic national language policy developed in New Zealand where Pa…
New light; friendly soil: Affective–discursive dimensions of Anzac Day commemorations in Aotearoa New Zealand
This paper investigates affective–discursive dimensions of nation‐building via commemorations of nationhood within Aotearoa New Zealand to ask about how these assemblages construct feeling trajectories for citizen participants. We report auto‐ethnographic analyses of participation in specific Anzac Day war remembrance events that occurred in the capital city Wellington. Analyses point to the ways in which engagement in the choreographies of comme…
Colonization, whenua and capitalism: Experiences from Aotearoa New Zealand
The English Laws Act, passed in 1858, declared the Laws of England applicable in New Zealand and cemented the hitherto alien ideology of land as property. Part of this ideology was the separation of tangata from whenua along with the separation of ownership of land from ownership of water. Māori, as tangata whenua – people of the land, made no such distinctions. Ownership affects how people ‘manage’ whenua (land), make decisions and account to th…
Conceptualising historical privilege: The Flip Side of Historical Trauma, a Brief Examination
Historical trauma is an important and growing area of research that provides crucial insights into the antecedents of current-day inequities in health and social wellbeing experienced by Indigenous people in colonial settler societies. What is not so readily examined is the flip side of historical trauma experienced by settlers and their descendants, what might be termed "historical privilege". These historic acts of privilege for settlers, parti…
Doing Affect Around National Days: Mundane/Banal Practice or the Call of ‘Another Space’?
The intense choreography of a nation’s identity is often exhibited through national days. In Aotearoa, New Zealand, national events such as Waitangi Day (6 February) and Anzac Day (25 April) provide affective public spaces that engage identity, belonging and inclusion while evoking dissent, reverence, unity and division. In this chapter, we analyse the choreography of affect and discourse related to Waitangi Day through media, observational video…
Imagining an emotional nation: The print media and Anzac Day commemorations in Aotearoa New Zealand
This article explores affect, discourse and emotion in national life. Drawing on recent thinking on discourse and affect, alongside previous work on nation and communities of practice, we focus on the print media’s use of Anzac Day in Aotearoa New Zealand, as a site through which settler identity and cultural hegemony are reproduced. One hegemonic interpretive repertoire is observed throughout, that Anzac Day is a sacred day of respectful remembr…
Reflective commentaries
Feeling and spirit: Developing an Indigenous Wairua Approach to Research
Wairua, a Maori (indigenous peoples of Aotearoa New Zealand) concept, somewhat restrictively translated as spirit or spirituality, resonates with many indigenous peoples globally. While spirit is recognised as an important human dimension, the denigration of non-western spiritual understandings means that indigenous peoples often choose to remain silent. Transferring these concerns to research approaches, we edit our voices, with a view to what w…
Ko Tāngonge Te Wai: Indigenous and Technical Data Come Together in Restoration Efforts
Facebook and the Fun of Drinking Photos: Reproducing Gendered Regimes of Power
Young adults regularly engage in heavy drinking episodes with friends and share these practices via digital images and ongoing interactions on social media. This study explored the meanings and values that young adults attach to Facebook social media photo-sharing practices around drinking and socializing, and how these practices were gendered, in what ways, and with what effects. We conducted 24 friendship discussion groups (64 females, 41 males…
Feeling and spirit: Developing an Indigenous Wairua Approach to Research
Wairua, a Maori (indigenous peoples of Aotearoa New Zealand) concept, somewhat restrictively translated as spirit or spirituality, resonates with many indigenous peoples globally. While spirit is recognised as an important human dimension, the denigration of non-western spiritual understandings means that indigenous peoples often choose to remain silent. Transferring these concerns to research approaches, we edit our voices, with a view to what w…
Creating intoxigenic environments: Marketing alcohol to young people in Aotearoa New Zealand
Kaupapa Maori Action Research to improve heart disease services in Aotearoa, New Zealand
Action Research can be a powerful tool for change and improvement in health services for indigenous people when utilised within an appropriate framework. The project Maori Utilisation & Experience of Ischaemic Heart Disease Management illustrates this convergence in its use of Kaupapa Maori Action Research methods in its efforts to improve the health and well-being of Maori within the northern region of Aotearoa/New Zealand. We outline the resear…
Hostility Won’t Deter Me, Says PM: The Print Media, the Production of Affect and Waitangi Day
This paper explores affect, discourse and emotion in national life. We focus on the print media’s use of Waitangi Day as an affective-discursive distribution channel maintaining and reinforcing the hegemony of settler culture. Applying new thinking around affect, we consider how the cultural production of emotion in print media privileges settler identity, whilst simultaneously devaluing indigenous struggle. One hegemonic interpretive repertoire …
Pissed Off and Confused’/‘Grateful and (Re)Moved: Affect, Privilege and National Commemoration in Aotearoa New Zealand
This article explores affect, colonial privilege, and the cultural politics of national commemoration in Aotearoa New Zealand. Based on focus‐group interviews around two major national days, we examine means through which feelings and emotions are deployed in ways that enable the reproduction of social advantage. Situating affect within patterns of relationship, four interrelated affective‐discursive practices are explored. In relation to Waitang…
New light; friendly soil: Affective–discursive dimensions of Anzac Day commemorations in Aotearoa New Zealand
This paper investigates affective–discursive dimensions of nation‐building via commemorations of nationhood within Aotearoa New Zealand to ask about how these assemblages construct feeling trajectories for citizen participants. We report auto‐ethnographic analyses of participation in specific Anzac Day war remembrance events that occurred in the capital city Wellington. Analyses point to the ways in which engagement in the choreographies of comme…
Colonization, whenua and capitalism: Experiences from Aotearoa New Zealand
The English Laws Act, passed in 1858, declared the Laws of England applicable in New Zealand and cemented the hitherto alien ideology of land as property. Part of this ideology was the separation of tangata from whenua along with the separation of ownership of land from ownership of water. Māori, as tangata whenua – people of the land, made no such distinctions. Ownership affects how people ‘manage’ whenua (land), make decisions and account to th…
Imagining an emotional nation: The print media and Anzac Day commemorations in Aotearoa New Zealand
This article explores affect, discourse and emotion in national life. Drawing on recent thinking on discourse and affect, alongside previous work on nation and communities of practice, we focus on the print media’s use of Anzac Day in Aotearoa New Zealand, as a site through which settler identity and cultural hegemony are reproduced. One hegemonic interpretive repertoire is observed throughout, that Anzac Day is a sacred day of respectful remembr…
The Blame Game: Constructions of Māori medical compliance
This paper draws on a qualitative action research investigation of the treatment of Māori with ischaemic heart disease, in the course of which interview data were gathered from individual patients and health care providers. Thematic analysis is used to describe clinicians' discourses around uptake of medical advice by Māori patients. We contrast these views with the experiences of Māori users of health care to highlight differences in the ways th…
Conceptualising historical privilege: The Flip Side of Historical Trauma, a Brief Examination
Historical trauma is an important and growing area of research that provides crucial insights into the antecedents of current-day inequities in health and social wellbeing experienced by Indigenous people in colonial settler societies. What is not so readily examined is the flip side of historical trauma experienced by settlers and their descendants, what might be termed "historical privilege". These historic acts of privilege for settlers, parti…
Precarious Popularity: Facebook Drinking Photos, the Attention Economy, and the Regime of the Branded Self
Young people are often accused of being foolhardy for posting photos on Facebook that depict drinking and intoxication. However, in this article, we argue young people's predilection for posting Facebook drinking photos must be understood in relation to Facebook's specific architecture and affordances, and is symptomatic of new forms of online sociality and 'required' aspects of identity work which are tied to imperatives for self-promotion in th…
Drink a 12 box before you go’: Pre‐loading among young people in Aotearoa New Zealand
The practice of pre‐loading—drinking large amounts of alcohol rapidly in private spaces prior to socialising in the night‐time economy—has come to notice recently in the study of alcohol‐related harm, but no studies have explored these phenomena in Aotearoa New Zealand. We used a theoretical framework developed with public health alcohol studies for understanding drinking cultures that conceptualises patterns of behaviours as arising within a dyn…
Theorising the structural dynamics of ethnic privilege in Aotearoa: Unpacking “this breeze at my back” (Kimmell and Ferber 2003)
Colonial praxis has been imposed on the culture, epistemologies and praxis of indigenous Maori in Aotearoa, entrenching the settler cultural project that ensures the continuation of the colonial state, producing damaging disparities. This article theorises ways in which settler privilege works at multiple levels supporting settler interests, aspirations and sensibilities. In institutions, myriad mundane processes operate through commerce, law, me…
Supporting Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Research Partnerships
This commentary discusses the framing of the production of a series of online text-based and visual resources aimed at researchers embarking on Indigenous and non-Indigenous research partnerships, and in particular supporting non-Indigenous researchers to think about our/their methods, assumptions and behaviour. We identify the tension in mainstream funding for such partnerships, and discuss the implications of Northern epistemological claims to …
A qualitative investigation of responses to televised alcohol advertisements
February 1992 saw the introduction of new rules governing alcohol advertising in New Zealand. Prior to this date there had been limited alcohol advertising on television, with only sponsorship and corporate advertising permitted (Casswell et al., 1989). The new rules allowed for alcohol brand advertising to be shown after 9 p.m., and this resulted in a fourfold increase in televised alcohol advertising in the two-year period between 1991 and 1993…
Climate change and mātauranga Māori: Making sense of a western environmental construct
Te ao Māori approaches to restoring wellbeing in relation to people and te taiao are proliferating in Aotearoa New Zealand. While climate change is a critical lever nationally and globally, it sits in the background of Māori initiatives and worldviews. Drawing on participant interviews, this paper follows the work needed for Māori to reconcile with the concept of climate change. Considerable ‘work’ was needed to move through various processes in …
Reflective commentaries
Facebook and the Fun of Drinking Photos: Reproducing Gendered Regimes of Power
Young adults regularly engage in heavy drinking episodes with friends and share these practices via digital images and ongoing interactions on social media. This study explored the meanings and values that young adults attach to Facebook social media photo-sharing practices around drinking and socializing, and how these practices were gendered, in what ways, and with what effects. We conducted 24 friendship discussion groups (64 females, 41 males…
Youth Drinking Cultures in Aotearoa
Consuming alcohol to intoxication is a commonplace leisure-time activity among young people in Aotearoa New Zealand, producing a formidable suite of harms and consequences that are proving challenging to redress. Youth drinking cultures are similar to those observed in Western Europe, where processes of globalization are increasingly “homogenizing” practice. The current study employed in-depth qualitative methods to explore micro-cultures of youn…
Māori and pain: A literature review
Pain is subjective and is therefore a complex and difficult health issue to address. In-depth understanding is required for improvements to be made in how it is managed. Research suggests that culture plays a role in pain experiences, but very little such research has been conducted in Aotearoa (New Zealand). Significant health disparities exist between Māori (the indigenous people) and Pākehā (New Zealanders of European descent), and could also …
Maori and the New Zealand Values Survey: The importance of research relationships
Requirements for non‐Maori researchers to consult with Maori compete with “by Maori for Maori” research agendas. Nevertheless, Maori provide varying forms of consultation, with Maori perspectives rarely being entered into the literature. Following an invitation from the Centre for Social Health Outcomes Research and Evaluation (SHORE), members of the Whariki Research Group agreed to take a consultative role, providing Maori input into the New Zea…
Research and Methodology
Journal Article RESEARCH AND METHODOLOGY: A REVIEW OF 100 DISCHARGES FROM A SPECIAL HOSPITAL Get access C. E. GATHEROOLE, C. E. GATHEROOLE 1 Principal Psychologist, Rainhill HospitalLiverpool Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar M. J. CRAFT, M. J. CRAFT 2 Medical Superintendent, Oakwood Park HospitalConway Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J. MCDOUGALL, J. MCDOUGALL 3 Medi…
A qualitative investigation of responses to televised alcohol advertisements
February 1992 saw the introduction of new rules governing alcohol advertising in New Zealand. Prior to this date there had been limited alcohol advertising on television, with only sponsorship and corporate advertising permitted (Casswell et al., 1989). The new rules allowed for alcohol brand advertising to be shown after 9 p.m., and this resulted in a fourfold increase in televised alcohol advertising in the two-year period between 1991 and 1993…
Consuming identities: Alcohol marketing and the commodification of youth experience
Marketing has successfully used the postmodern turn in conceptualisations of the human subject and incorporated contemporary theorising of identities and self into its understanding of the key drivers of consumption. Such developments clearly converge in alcohol marketing practices that target young people where commercialized youth identities available for consumption and engagement are a significant element. This paper reports data from young p…
Youth identity formation and contemporary alcohol marketing
This paper considers linkages between contemporary marketing theory and practice, and emerging conceptualizations of identity, to discuss implications for public health concerns over alcohol use among young people. Particular attention is paid to the theorizing of consumption as a component of youth identities and the ways in which developments of marketing praxis orients to such schemata. The authors’ analyses of exemplars of marketing materials…
Maori and the New Zealand Values Survey: The importance of research relationships
Requirements for non‐Maori researchers to consult with Maori compete with “by Maori for Maori” research agendas. Nevertheless, Maori provide varying forms of consultation, with Maori perspectives rarely being entered into the literature. Following an invitation from the Centre for Social Health Outcomes Research and Evaluation (SHORE), members of the Whariki Research Group agreed to take a consultative role, providing Maori input into the New Zea…
Creating intoxigenic environments: Marketing alcohol to young people in Aotearoa New Zealand
Kaupapa Maori Action Research to improve heart disease services in Aotearoa, New Zealand
Action Research can be a powerful tool for change and improvement in health services for indigenous people when utilised within an appropriate framework. The project Maori Utilisation & Experience of Ischaemic Heart Disease Management illustrates this convergence in its use of Kaupapa Maori Action Research methods in its efforts to improve the health and well-being of Maori within the northern region of Aotearoa/New Zealand. We outline the resear…
Kids in the city study: Research design and methodology
This study is one of the first internationally to examine the association of specific urban design attributes with child independent mobility. Using robust, appropriate, and best practice objective measures, this study provides robust epidemiological information regarding the relationships between the built environment and health outcomes for this population
The Blame Game: Constructions of Māori medical compliance
This paper draws on a qualitative action research investigation of the treatment of Māori with ischaemic heart disease, in the course of which interview data were gathered from individual patients and health care providers. Thematic analysis is used to describe clinicians' discourses around uptake of medical advice by Māori patients. We contrast these views with the experiences of Māori users of health care to highlight differences in the ways th…
Youth drinking cultures, social networking and alcohol marketing: Implications for public health
Alcohol consumption and heavy drinking in young adults have been key concerns for public health. Alcohol marketing is an important factor in contributing to negative outcomes. The rapid growth in the use of new social networking technologies raises new issues regarding alcohol marketing, as well as potential impacts on alcohol cultures more generally. Young people, for example, routinely tell and re-tell drinking stories online, share images depi…
Māori and pain: A literature review
Pain is subjective and is therefore a complex and difficult health issue to address. In-depth understanding is required for improvements to be made in how it is managed. Research suggests that culture plays a role in pain experiences, but very little such research has been conducted in Aotearoa (New Zealand). Significant health disparities exist between Māori (the indigenous people) and Pākehā (New Zealanders of European descent), and could also …
Theorising the structural dynamics of ethnic privilege in Aotearoa: Unpacking “this breeze at my back” (Kimmell and Ferber 2003)
Colonial praxis has been imposed on the culture, epistemologies and praxis of indigenous Maori in Aotearoa, entrenching the settler cultural project that ensures the continuation of the colonial state, producing damaging disparities. This article theorises ways in which settler privilege works at multiple levels supporting settler interests, aspirations and sensibilities. In institutions, myriad mundane processes operate through commerce, law, me…
Youth Drinking Cultures in Aotearoa
Consuming alcohol to intoxication is a commonplace leisure-time activity among young people in Aotearoa New Zealand, producing a formidable suite of harms and consequences that are proving challenging to redress. Youth drinking cultures are similar to those observed in Western Europe, where processes of globalization are increasingly “homogenizing” practice. The current study employed in-depth qualitative methods to explore micro-cultures of youn…
Hostility Won’t Deter Me, Says PM: The Print Media, the Production of Affect and Waitangi Day
This paper explores affect, discourse and emotion in national life. We focus on the print media’s use of Waitangi Day as an affective-discursive distribution channel maintaining and reinforcing the hegemony of settler culture. Applying new thinking around affect, we consider how the cultural production of emotion in print media privileges settler identity, whilst simultaneously devaluing indigenous struggle. One hegemonic interpretive repertoire …
Alcohol and social media: Drinking and drunkenness while online
Our New Zealand-based research provides new insights, drawn from focus group and interview data gathered from 18- to 25-year-olds, about how alcohol use and technology converge in drinking and drunkenness while online. Alcohol consumption is a key source of harm and damage to population health, particularly for young people whose engagement with web-based communications may be exacerbating problems. Participants’ talk around alcohol and SNS use i…
Drink a 12 box before you go’: Pre‐loading among young people in Aotearoa New Zealand
The practice of pre‐loading—drinking large amounts of alcohol rapidly in private spaces prior to socialising in the night‐time economy—has come to notice recently in the study of alcohol‐related harm, but no studies have explored these phenomena in Aotearoa New Zealand. We used a theoretical framework developed with public health alcohol studies for understanding drinking cultures that conceptualises patterns of behaviours as arising within a dyn…
Ko Tāngonge Te Wai: Indigenous and Technical Data Come Together in Restoration Efforts
Facebook and the Fun of Drinking Photos: Reproducing Gendered Regimes of Power
Young adults regularly engage in heavy drinking episodes with friends and share these practices via digital images and ongoing interactions on social media. This study explored the meanings and values that young adults attach to Facebook social media photo-sharing practices around drinking and socializing, and how these practices were gendered, in what ways, and with what effects. We conducted 24 friendship discussion groups (64 females, 41 males…
Precarious Popularity: Facebook Drinking Photos, the Attention Economy, and the Regime of the Branded Self
Young people are often accused of being foolhardy for posting photos on Facebook that depict drinking and intoxication. However, in this article, we argue young people's predilection for posting Facebook drinking photos must be understood in relation to Facebook's specific architecture and affordances, and is symptomatic of new forms of online sociality and 'required' aspects of identity work which are tied to imperatives for self-promotion in th…
Doing Affect Around National Days: Mundane/Banal Practice or the Call of ‘Another Space’?
The intense choreography of a nation’s identity is often exhibited through national days. In Aotearoa, New Zealand, national events such as Waitangi Day (6 February) and Anzac Day (25 April) provide affective public spaces that engage identity, belonging and inclusion while evoking dissent, reverence, unity and division. In this chapter, we analyse the choreography of affect and discourse related to Waitangi Day through media, observational video…
Imagining an emotional nation: The print media and Anzac Day commemorations in Aotearoa New Zealand
This article explores affect, discourse and emotion in national life. Drawing on recent thinking on discourse and affect, alongside previous work on nation and communities of practice, we focus on the print media’s use of Anzac Day in Aotearoa New Zealand, as a site through which settler identity and cultural hegemony are reproduced. One hegemonic interpretive repertoire is observed throughout, that Anzac Day is a sacred day of respectful remembr…
Reflective commentaries
Feeling and spirit: Developing an Indigenous Wairua Approach to Research
Wairua, a Maori (indigenous peoples of Aotearoa New Zealand) concept, somewhat restrictively translated as spirit or spirituality, resonates with many indigenous peoples globally. While spirit is recognised as an important human dimension, the denigration of non-western spiritual understandings means that indigenous peoples often choose to remain silent. Transferring these concerns to research approaches, we edit our voices, with a view to what w…
Colonization, whenua and capitalism: Experiences from Aotearoa New Zealand
The English Laws Act, passed in 1858, declared the Laws of England applicable in New Zealand and cemented the hitherto alien ideology of land as property. Part of this ideology was the separation of tangata from whenua along with the separation of ownership of land from ownership of water. Māori, as tangata whenua – people of the land, made no such distinctions. Ownership affects how people ‘manage’ whenua (land), make decisions and account to th…
Conceptualising historical privilege: The Flip Side of Historical Trauma, a Brief Examination
Historical trauma is an important and growing area of research that provides crucial insights into the antecedents of current-day inequities in health and social wellbeing experienced by Indigenous people in colonial settler societies. What is not so readily examined is the flip side of historical trauma experienced by settlers and their descendants, what might be termed "historical privilege". These historic acts of privilege for settlers, parti…
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