Steve Matthewman
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 245271 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Steve Matthewman |
| PRENOMES | Steve |
| SOBRENOME | Matthewman |
| ASSINATURA | MATTHEWMAN S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7497-5877 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 102 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Whanaungatanga and social capital
This article examines the experiences of Māori unpaid caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on whanaungatanga (relationships, kinship) as crucial components of social capital. Through 35 in-depth interviews conducted between May 2023 and April 2024, we explore how the disruption of familial gatherings due to lockdowns impacted participants in our study, but also how digital technology and strong whānau (family) and community connectio…
Don't send us a cake, and then let us drown again’
We present a critical analysis of news coverage during the one‐year anniversary of Cyclone Gabrielle in Aotearoa New Zealand. This disaster raised important questions surrounding emergency preparedness, infrastructural vulnerability, climate change, adaptation, future land‐use policies and managed retreat. In the immediate aftermath, Cyclone Gabrielle was repeatedly framed as a ‘wake‐up call’ demanding serious attention be given to the increasing…
Disastrous futures? Confronting the scale, urgency and complexity of our crises
The severity of a disaster is a function of social arrangements. Social science scholars identify concentrations of population and wealth as the two great drivers of disaster risk. Aotearoa New Zealand is one of the most urbanised (Department of Internal Affairs Citation2021), unequal (Rashbrooke Citation2021) and, consequently, disaster-prone countries in the world (Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery Citation2021). London-based …
Cultural expectations, tensions and support systems for Māori carers in Aotearoa New Zealand during the pandemic
The qualitative study reported here explored the experiences of Māori carers in Aotearoa New Zealand during the COVID-19 global pandemic. Drawing on 35 in-depth interviews, the research examined how Māori caregiving responsibilities intersected with Māori cultural values. Using thematic analysis, findings identified that carers navigated complex cultural responsibilities while facing systemic barriers, social injustices and limited external suppo…
A tale of two cities
Is adoption an environmental threat? Domestication fantasies in Swedish adoption narratives
In 2017 Ghassan Hage published Is Racism an Environmental Threat? The book's question misleads. For Hage does not seek to show that the former leads to the latter, rather, he elucidates the logics of domination that are common to both. Hage states that 'generalised domestication' is the clearest optic through which to see both racism reproducing and revitalising itself and violence towards the environment. This is a way of being in the world that…
Standing upright here
This article seeks to reinvigorate disaster scholarship, given the disastrous times we find ourselves in. In order to do so, we extend the spatial and temporal horizons of disasters, and consider them as normal processes as well as aberrant events. Knowledge need not exclusively emanate from the metropolitan centres of the Global North. We begin by examining the field's ‘threshold concepts’, subjecting them to an urgent Indigenous evaluation. Sec…
Understanding older Māori informal caregivers’ experiences during the Covid‐19 pandemic through Te Whare Tapa Whā
Drawing upon Tā Mason Durie’s Te Whare Tapa Whā model, this research explores the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on the health and wellbeing of older Māori informal caregivers in Aotearoa New Zealand. Utilising information from 35 in‐depth interviews conducted with Māori informal/whānau caregivers, this study identifies that the pandemic impacted the physical and mental health of Māori informal caregivers, facing challenges due to lockdown measu…
Reinvestigating social vulnerability from the perspective of Critical Disaster Studies (CDS)
This article argues that resilience has been overemphasised in popular and scholarly discourse, while social vulnerability has been comparatively overlooked. We therefore need to shift the focus from resilience and adaptation towards vulnerability and the various structures that engender and maintain systemic inequality and disadvantage. This necessitates a shift from strict hazard management and resilience building to considerations of social ju…
Understanding risk-taking behaviours through the practice-oriented risk habitus and multiple-capital model (P-HAC)
There is a scant literature discussing how risk-taking behaviour is influenced by the interplay of agency and social structures. This article seeks to fill this void by utilising Bourdieu's theory of practice to develop the Practice-Oriented Risk Habitus and Multiple-Capital Model (P-HAC) to account for Vietnamese farmers' risk-taking practice. Risk habitus is the durable organising principles of risk-relating practice. Drawing on a qualitative c…
Preparing multilingual disaster communication for the crises of tomorrow
This paper offers a conceptual discussion about how multilingualism can provide an unusual yet effective disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategy in multilingual societies. Language barriers (or disaster linguicism) in disasters can be deadly. The general approach to respond to, and solve, this issue is to disseminate disaster information in multilingual formats or to use bi-/multilingual interpreters and (automated) translators. However, this pape…
Paranirvar mānis (dependent people)? Rethinking humanitarian dependency syndrome
Disaster survivors are often criticised for being dependent on humanitarian (and development) assistance. This dependency is perceived pejoratively by civil servants and other elites, including non-governmental organisation staff. Officials offered up such narratives in relation to the disaster response and recovery programmes following the Nepal earthquake of 2015. Using a Bourdieusian framework, and undertaking qualitative inquiry in four earth…
A Decade of Disaster Experiences in Ōtautahi Christchurch
Nayã Ghar (A new house)
Rahat-Sahayog (relief support)
Purpose This paper aims to critically examine the post-disaster emergency response amongst marginalised and disadvantaged social groups following the 2015 Nepal Earthquake (7.8 Mw). Design/methodology/approach A qualitative research method was employed by conducting interviews with disaster survivors from marginalised and ethnic social groups, humanitarian aid workers and government officials in the four districts worst hit by the 2015 Nepal Eart…
Air-conditioning in New Zealand
Policies, codes, standards and voluntary ‘green’ assessments have exacerbated cooling demand in New Zealand’s commercial buildings. Building codes allow designs to use single glazing on the facade, voluntary ‘green’ criteria are not higher than the legal minimum in the code and inexpensive energy for commercial buildings all contribute to an increasing use of air-conditioning. Legal standards for the energy efficiency of the building envelope of …
Social Science in the Time of Covid-19
This article discusses the role of the social sciences in the time of COVID-19. The pandemic has led to a renewed appreciation of the social and with this comes the prospect for the social sciences to gain greater relevance. We note the reasons why disasters lead to an increase in sociality and the activities that social scientists are well-placed to undertake: speaking truth to power, calling out lies and sectional advantage, separating fact fro…
Conceptualising disaster social capital
Social capital discourse occupies an important place in disaster studies. Scholars have adopted various inflections of social capital to explain how those with greater amounts of this crucial resource are generally more resilient to disasters and experience speedier recovery. Disaster scholars have also discovered that people typically display altruistic tendencies in the wake of disasters and develop novel networks of mutual support, known as 'c…
Theorizing disaster communitas
Disaster scholars have long complained that their field is theory light: they are much better at doing and saying than analyzing. The paucity of theory doubtless reflects an understandable focus on case studies and practical solutions. Yet this works against big picture thinking. Consequently, both our comprehension of social suffering and our ability to mitigate it are fragmented. Communitas is exemplary here. This refers to the improvisational …
A sociology of Covid-19
The Covid-19 pandemic presents the profoundest public health and economic crisis of our times. The seemingly impossible has happened: borders have closed, nations have locked down, and individuals have socially isolated for the collective good. We find ourselves involved in an unprecedented social experiment. This living laboratory is ripe for sociological analysis. In this introductory article, we provide a broad sociology of Covid-19, paying at…
Populist resistance and alternative transitions
Key Sociological Thinkers
Climate Change as Social Drama
The evidence that global warming stems from human origins is overwhelming.It is often said that the only scientific statements to find greater professional assent are Newton's laws of motion
Towards a strong program in the sociology of war, the military and civil society
In this article we make the case for a strong program of sociological research into war, the military and their symmetry with civil society, pointing to the ways in which sociology has failed to appreciate their relationship as a central feature of modernity. We particularly emphasize the need for a multi-dimensional comprehension of militarization and the relationships between representation, belief and action in conflict and post-conflict envir…
Cultural Studies in Aotearoa New Zealand
This collection is the first to break into the unexplored field of cultural studies in New Zealand. Ranging from such disciplines as sociology, film, television, and fine arts, the contributors provide slices of everyday life in New Zealand using both contemporary and historical examples.
A sociology of Covid-19
The Covid-19 pandemic presents the profoundest public health and economic crisis of our times. The seemingly impossible has happened: borders have closed, nations have locked down, and individuals have socially isolated for the collective good. We find ourselves involved in an unprecedented social experiment. This living laboratory is ripe for sociological analysis. In this introductory article, we provide a broad sociology of Covid-19, paying at…
Conceptualising disaster social capital
Social capital discourse occupies an important place in disaster studies. Scholars have adopted various inflections of social capital to explain how those with greater amounts of this crucial resource are generally more resilient to disasters and experience speedier recovery. Disaster scholars have also discovered that people typically display altruistic tendencies in the wake of disasters and develop novel networks of mutual support, known as 'c…
Theorizing disaster communitas
Disaster scholars have long complained that their field is theory light: they are much better at doing and saying than analyzing. The paucity of theory doubtless reflects an understandable focus on case studies and practical solutions. Yet this works against big picture thinking. Consequently, both our comprehension of social suffering and our ability to mitigate it are fragmented. Communitas is exemplary here. This refers to the improvisational …
Populist resistance and alternative transitions
Climate Change as Social Drama
The evidence that global warming stems from human origins is overwhelming.It is often said that the only scientific statements to find greater professional assent are Newton's laws of motion
Towards a strong program in the sociology of war, the military and civil society
In this article we make the case for a strong program of sociological research into war, the military and their symmetry with civil society, pointing to the ways in which sociology has failed to appreciate their relationship as a central feature of modernity. We particularly emphasize the need for a multi-dimensional comprehension of militarization and the relationships between representation, belief and action in conflict and post-conflict envir…
What Happened to Postmodernism
Some things never made it into the 21st century. Postmodern social theory seems to be one of them. In this article we ask the all important questions: what was it and what happened to it? We argue that postmodernism existed in the plural and in many of its forms as proxy. Postmodernism was always a term of convenience for critics, and paradoxically it is they who elevated a disparate group of thinkers into a coherent intellectual project.That is …
Standing upright here
This article seeks to reinvigorate disaster scholarship, given the disastrous times we find ourselves in. In order to do so, we extend the spatial and temporal horizons of disasters, and consider them as normal processes as well as aberrant events. Knowledge need not exclusively emanate from the metropolitan centres of the Global North. We begin by examining the field's ‘threshold concepts’, subjecting them to an urgent Indigenous evaluation. Sec…
Don't send us a cake, and then let us drown again’
We present a critical analysis of news coverage during the one‐year anniversary of Cyclone Gabrielle in Aotearoa New Zealand. This disaster raised important questions surrounding emergency preparedness, infrastructural vulnerability, climate change, adaptation, future land‐use policies and managed retreat. In the immediate aftermath, Cyclone Gabrielle was repeatedly framed as a ‘wake‐up call’ demanding serious attention be given to the increasing…
Paranirvar mānis (dependent people)? Rethinking humanitarian dependency syndrome
Disaster survivors are often criticised for being dependent on humanitarian (and development) assistance. This dependency is perceived pejoratively by civil servants and other elites, including non-governmental organisation staff. Officials offered up such narratives in relation to the disaster response and recovery programmes following the Nepal earthquake of 2015. Using a Bourdieusian framework, and undertaking qualitative inquiry in four earth…
Accidentology
This article surveys the work of one of the most prominent theorists of accidents today, Paul Virilio. Particular focus is given to the May 6, 2010, Flash Crash. This event is used to measure the worth of Virilio's accidentology, as it is viewed as a harbinger of the integral accident, a catastrophic incident that is experienced simultaneously and universally. While Virilio is supported for drawing attention to the technologically mediated accide…
Disastrous futures? Confronting the scale, urgency and complexity of our crises
The severity of a disaster is a function of social arrangements. Social science scholars identify concentrations of population and wealth as the two great drivers of disaster risk. Aotearoa New Zealand is one of the most urbanised (Department of Internal Affairs Citation2021), unequal (Rashbrooke Citation2021) and, consequently, disaster-prone countries in the world (Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery Citation2021). London-based …
Understanding older Māori informal caregivers’ experiences during the Covid‐19 pandemic through Te Whare Tapa Whā
Drawing upon Tā Mason Durie’s Te Whare Tapa Whā model, this research explores the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on the health and wellbeing of older Māori informal caregivers in Aotearoa New Zealand. Utilising information from 35 in‐depth interviews conducted with Māori informal/whānau caregivers, this study identifies that the pandemic impacted the physical and mental health of Māori informal caregivers, facing challenges due to lockdown measu…
Reinvestigating social vulnerability from the perspective of Critical Disaster Studies (CDS)
This article argues that resilience has been overemphasised in popular and scholarly discourse, while social vulnerability has been comparatively overlooked. We therefore need to shift the focus from resilience and adaptation towards vulnerability and the various structures that engender and maintain systemic inequality and disadvantage. This necessitates a shift from strict hazard management and resilience building to considerations of social ju…
Social Science in the Time of Covid-19
This article discusses the role of the social sciences in the time of COVID-19. The pandemic has led to a renewed appreciation of the social and with this comes the prospect for the social sciences to gain greater relevance. We note the reasons why disasters lead to an increase in sociality and the activities that social scientists are well-placed to undertake: speaking truth to power, calling out lies and sectional advantage, separating fact fro…
Risk society revisited, again
What Happened to Postmodernism
Some things never made it into the 21st century. Postmodern social theory seems to be one of them. In this article we ask the all important questions: what was it and what happened to it? We argue that postmodernism existed in the plural and in many of its forms as proxy. Postmodernism was always a term of convenience for critics, and paradoxically it is they who elevated a disparate group of thinkers into a coherent intellectual project.That is …
Being Sociological
Being Sociological is a concise and original thematic introduction to sociology that will help lecturers inspire their students and act as a springboard into the wider literature.
Key Sociological Thinkers
From the Publisher: This second edition of a popular and successful text offers an easily understood introduction to the theorists who have made a key contribution to the discipline of sociology. Its carefully formulated structure places the writers' passions in their social and intellectual context, summarizes the central issues dealt with in their work and sketches out the intellectual legacy they have left behind them. With four new chapters o…
Technology and Social Theory
Technology is not a new development; the novelty lies in its total domination of our social lives. This book uses social theory to make sense of the growing role of technology in our lives at home, at work or at leisure
Accidentology
While the unintended consequences of social action have exercised the sociological imagination since the discipline’s inception, sociology is yet to fully develop a systematic study of accidents and disasters. Leading figures in the field criticise current work on accidents for being piecemeal and isolated from mainstream sociology, for lacking theoretical innovation, for being blind to differential suffering and for being largely silent on quest…
Michel Foucault, Technology, and Actor-Network Theory
While Michel Foucault’s significance as a social theorist is undisputed, his importance as a technological theorist is frequently overlooked. This article considers the richness and the range of Foucault’s technological thinking by surveying his works and interviews, and by tracking his influence within Actor-Network Theory (ANT). The argument is made that we will not fully understand Foucault without understanding the central place of technology…
Accidentology
This article surveys the work of one of the most prominent theorists of accidents today, Paul Virilio. Particular focus is given to the May 6, 2010, Flash Crash. This event is used to measure the worth of Virilio's accidentology, as it is viewed as a harbinger of the integral accident, a catastrophic incident that is experienced simultaneously and universally. While Virilio is supported for drawing attention to the technologically mediated accide…
Disasters, Risks and Revelation
Exergy and the City
Blackouts—the total loss of electrical power—serve as a reminder of how dependent the modern world and particularly urban areas have become on electricity and the appliances it powers. To understand them we consider the critical nature of electrical infrastructure. In order to provide general patterns from specific cases, a large number of blackouts have been analyzed. Irrespective of cause, they display similar effects. These include measurable …
Disasters, Risks and Revelation
Disasters are part of the modern condition, a source of physical anxiety and existential angst, and they are increasing in frequency, cost and severity. Drawing on both disaster research and social th
The River Talks
On 27 February 2013, Mad Ave staged The River Talks, a collation of linked performances in and on the banks of the Omaru River in Glen Innes, Auckland, New Zealand. The event brought together artistic and discursive works that challenged a view of this local river as always and forever degraded. An example of committed ecological performance, The River Talks created time and space for kōrero (dialogue) between people with diverse views and storie…
Risk society revisited, again
Climate Change as Social Drama
The evidence that global warming stems from human origins is overwhelming.It is often said that the only scientific statements to find greater professional assent are Newton's laws of motion
Towards a strong program in the sociology of war, the military and civil society
In this article we make the case for a strong program of sociological research into war, the military and their symmetry with civil society, pointing to the ways in which sociology has failed to appreciate their relationship as a central feature of modernity. We particularly emphasize the need for a multi-dimensional comprehension of militarization and the relationships between representation, belief and action in conflict and post-conflict envir…
Key Sociological Thinkers
Populist resistance and alternative transitions
A sociology of Covid-19
The Covid-19 pandemic presents the profoundest public health and economic crisis of our times. The seemingly impossible has happened: borders have closed, nations have locked down, and individuals have socially isolated for the collective good. We find ourselves involved in an unprecedented social experiment. This living laboratory is ripe for sociological analysis. In this introductory article, we provide a broad sociology of Covid-19, paying at…
Theorizing disaster communitas
Disaster scholars have long complained that their field is theory light: they are much better at doing and saying than analyzing. The paucity of theory doubtless reflects an understandable focus on case studies and practical solutions. Yet this works against big picture thinking. Consequently, both our comprehension of social suffering and our ability to mitigate it are fragmented. Communitas is exemplary here. This refers to the improvisational …
A Decade of Disaster Experiences in Ōtautahi Christchurch
Nayã Ghar (A new house)
Rahat-Sahayog (relief support)
Purpose This paper aims to critically examine the post-disaster emergency response amongst marginalised and disadvantaged social groups following the 2015 Nepal Earthquake (7.8 Mw). Design/methodology/approach A qualitative research method was employed by conducting interviews with disaster survivors from marginalised and ethnic social groups, humanitarian aid workers and government officials in the four districts worst hit by the 2015 Nepal Eart…
Air-conditioning in New Zealand
Policies, codes, standards and voluntary ‘green’ assessments have exacerbated cooling demand in New Zealand’s commercial buildings. Building codes allow designs to use single glazing on the facade, voluntary ‘green’ criteria are not higher than the legal minimum in the code and inexpensive energy for commercial buildings all contribute to an increasing use of air-conditioning. Legal standards for the energy efficiency of the building envelope of …
Social Science in the Time of Covid-19
This article discusses the role of the social sciences in the time of COVID-19. The pandemic has led to a renewed appreciation of the social and with this comes the prospect for the social sciences to gain greater relevance. We note the reasons why disasters lead to an increase in sociality and the activities that social scientists are well-placed to undertake: speaking truth to power, calling out lies and sectional advantage, separating fact fro…
Conceptualising disaster social capital
Social capital discourse occupies an important place in disaster studies. Scholars have adopted various inflections of social capital to explain how those with greater amounts of this crucial resource are generally more resilient to disasters and experience speedier recovery. Disaster scholars have also discovered that people typically display altruistic tendencies in the wake of disasters and develop novel networks of mutual support, known as 'c…
Understanding risk-taking behaviours through the practice-oriented risk habitus and multiple-capital model (P-HAC)
There is a scant literature discussing how risk-taking behaviour is influenced by the interplay of agency and social structures. This article seeks to fill this void by utilising Bourdieu's theory of practice to develop the Practice-Oriented Risk Habitus and Multiple-Capital Model (P-HAC) to account for Vietnamese farmers' risk-taking practice. Risk habitus is the durable organising principles of risk-relating practice. Drawing on a qualitative c…
Sociology (25 obras) · Political science (17 obras) · Disaster Management and Resilience (15 obras) · Law (13 obras) · Geography (11 obras) · Computer Science (9 obras) · Social science (9 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Economics (7 obras) · Politics (7 obras)