A-Chr Engels-Schwarzpaul
Biographic Data
| ID | 5110015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A-Chr Engels-Schwarzpaul |
| GIVEN NAMES | A-Chr |
| FAMILY NAME | Engels-Schwarzpaul |
| SIGNATURE | ENGELS-SCHWARZPAUL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Auckland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1382-6621 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Vā Moana
Oceania’s crucible effect, Moana Cosmopolitans and the reinvention of vā
[From Publisher's description of the book] Vā may be a small word, but it carries expansive meaning. Rooted in Indigenous Pacific knowledges—Samoan vā, Tongan tā-vā, Māori and Hawaiian wā—this concept of relational space binds people, ancestors and cosmologies across time and place. Since the late 1990s, vā has become a powerful framework in academic and cultural contexts, energising conversations across Oceania and beyond. As the world grapples …
Crafting Aotearoa
Review of: Crafting Aotearoa: A Cultural History of Making in New Zealand and the Wider Moana Oceania , Karl Chitham, Kolokesa U. Māhina-Tuai and Damian Skinner (eds), researched by Rigel Sorzano (2019) Wellington: Te Papa Press, 496 pp., ISBN 978 0 99413 627 5 (hbk), NZ$85.00
Vā at the time of Covid-19
In 2019, the Vā Moana–Pacific Spaces research group at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) began to investigate how core Moana and Māori values can be translated from onsite, embodied engagements into digital environments. This was prompted by our wish to provide access to all those who could not travel to attend a conference in late 2021 for our Marsden-funded research project, ‘ Vā Moana: Space and relationality in Pacific thought and ident…
Iconicity and appropriation
The Call for Papers invokes a history of thinking about images in terms of Western traditions, culminating in the ‘apocalyptic discourses of today’s cultural climate’ Jacques Rancière describes in The future of the image (2007, p. 1). Not considered in this scenario are other ways of looking at, being moved by, thinking about, going with and feeling through images, which I will unfold in this paper.Starting with filmmaker Merata Mita from Aotearo…
Traveling Houses
The paper explores the mutual impact of Pacific houses and people in diasporic relationships. Tracing the fates of several whare and fale now located in Europe, it explores changes over time that resulted from different degrees of closeness or distance between the people gathered around them. Three houses feature prominently in the paper: Hinemihi o te Ao Tawhito in Clandon Park (close to London, UK); Rauru at the Museum für Völkerkunde (Hamburg,…
The Ignorant Supervisor
When postgraduate researchers’ interests lie outside the body(ies) of knowledge with which their supervisors are familiar, different supervisory approaches are called for. In such situations, questions concerning the appropriateness of traditional models arise, which almost invariably involve a budding candidate’s relationship with a knowing-established researcher/supervisor. Supervisory relationships involving creative practice-led research in p…
The Offerings of Fringe Figures and Migrants
‘The Western tradition’, as passe-partout, includes fringe figures, émigrés and migrants. Rather than looking to resources at the core of the Western tradition to overcome its own blindnesses, I am more interested in its gaps and peripheries, where other thoughts and renegade knowledges take hold. It is in the contact zones with strangers that glimpses of any culture’s philosophical blindness become possible and changes towards a different unders…
Globalised Desktop Skirmishes? Reporting from the Colonies
The Ignorant Supervisor
When postgraduate researchers’ interests lie outside the body(ies) of knowledge with which their supervisors are familiar, different supervisory approaches are called for. In such situations, questions concerning the appropriateness of traditional models arise, which almost invariably involve a budding candidate’s relationship with a knowing-established researcher/supervisor. Supervisory relationships involving creative practice-led research in p…
The Offerings of Fringe Figures and Migrants
‘The Western tradition’, as passe-partout, includes fringe figures, émigrés and migrants. Rather than looking to resources at the core of the Western tradition to overcome its own blindnesses, I am more interested in its gaps and peripheries, where other thoughts and renegade knowledges take hold. It is in the contact zones with strangers that glimpses of any culture’s philosophical blindness become possible and changes towards a different unders…
Globalised Desktop Skirmishes? Reporting from the Colonies
The Ignorant Supervisor
When postgraduate researchers’ interests lie outside the body(ies) of knowledge with which their supervisors are familiar, different supervisory approaches are called for. In such situations, questions concerning the appropriateness of traditional models arise, which almost invariably involve a budding candidate’s relationship with a knowing-established researcher/supervisor. Supervisory relationships involving creative practice-led research in p…
The Offerings of Fringe Figures and Migrants
‘The Western tradition’, as passe-partout, includes fringe figures, émigrés and migrants. Rather than looking to resources at the core of the Western tradition to overcome its own blindnesses, I am more interested in its gaps and peripheries, where other thoughts and renegade knowledges take hold. It is in the contact zones with strangers that glimpses of any culture’s philosophical blindness become possible and changes towards a different unders…
Traveling Houses
The paper explores the mutual impact of Pacific houses and people in diasporic relationships. Tracing the fates of several whare and fale now located in Europe, it explores changes over time that resulted from different degrees of closeness or distance between the people gathered around them. Three houses feature prominently in the paper: Hinemihi o te Ao Tawhito in Clandon Park (close to London, UK); Rauru at the Museum für Völkerkunde (Hamburg,…
Iconicity and appropriation
The Call for Papers invokes a history of thinking about images in terms of Western traditions, culminating in the ‘apocalyptic discourses of today’s cultural climate’ Jacques Rancière describes in The future of the image (2007, p. 1). Not considered in this scenario are other ways of looking at, being moved by, thinking about, going with and feeling through images, which I will unfold in this paper.Starting with filmmaker Merata Mita from Aotearo…
Vā at the time of Covid-19
In 2019, the Vā Moana–Pacific Spaces research group at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) began to investigate how core Moana and Māori values can be translated from onsite, embodied engagements into digital environments. This was prompted by our wish to provide access to all those who could not travel to attend a conference in late 2021 for our Marsden-funded research project, ‘ Vā Moana: Space and relationality in Pacific thought and ident…
Crafting Aotearoa
Review of: Crafting Aotearoa: A Cultural History of Making in New Zealand and the Wider Moana Oceania , Karl Chitham, Kolokesa U. Māhina-Tuai and Damian Skinner (eds), researched by Rigel Sorzano (2019) Wellington: Te Papa Press, 496 pp., ISBN 978 0 99413 627 5 (hbk), NZ$85.00
Vā Moana
Oceania’s crucible effect, Moana Cosmopolitans and the reinvention of vā
[From Publisher's description of the book] Vā may be a small word, but it carries expansive meaning. Rooted in Indigenous Pacific knowledges—Samoan vā, Tongan tā-vā, Māori and Hawaiian wā—this concept of relational space binds people, ancestors and cosmologies across time and place. Since the late 1990s, vā has become a powerful framework in academic and cultural contexts, energising conversations across Oceania and beyond. As the world grapples …
Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Aotearoa (2 works) · Artistic and Creative Research (2 works)