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Culture-Centered Approach as Critical Health Practice: The Body as Resistance
(Routledge, 2025-12-02) Dutta M; Kaur-Gill S; Baskey P; Metuamate S; Mandal I; Pokaia V; Sastry S; Zoller HM; Basu A
In this chapter, we offer an overview of the culture-centered approach (CCA) as an embodied critical health communication meta-theory emergent from community struggles for land, food, decent wages, decent work, adequate and safe housing, gender justice, and racial-economic justice. We argue that the interpretive register of the CCA, rooted in the question, “What does health mean to you?” engaged with the materiality of the empirical registers of health, creates a transformative opening for dismantling the whiteness of health communication as a discipline. We demonstrate how the organizing logics of health communication, based on narrow definitions of health rooted in the values of white culture, continue to perpetuate health promotion through dominant theoretical approaches focused on constructs centering individualism, reductionism, and linearity, for the creation, dissemination, and reproduction of messages seeking to produce health behaviors.
An Investigation of the Impacts of Controlled Traffic Farming on Soil Properties
(MDPI AG, 2026-02-03) Raveendrakumaran B; Grafton M; Jeyakumar P; Bishop P; Davies C; Marinella F
Soil compaction caused by uncontrolled machinery traffic is a major constraint to sus tainable crop production. Controlled Traffic Farming (CTF), which restricts machinery movement to permanent lanes, has been practiced in New Zealand for more than a decade but has not been evaluated against Random Traffic Farming (RTF). This knowledge gap limits farmer awareness and adoption. This study hypothesized that CTF reduces soil compaction and improves soil physical properties compared with RTF. A one-year field experiment was conducted at Pukekohe, New Zealand, using annual ryegrass grown under CTF and RTF. Soil penetration resistance (PR), bulk density, total porosity, moisture content, and air-filled porosity were measured to a 40 cm depth. RTF increased soil PR relative to CTF across 10–40 cm. Bulk density was lower under CTF (0.96–1.03 g·cm−3) than RTF (1.11–1.30 g·cm−3), with improved total porosity (0.60–0.62 cm·cm−3) and aeration (12–23 cm·cm−3). CTF achieved a 5.7% higher bed-level yield. When scaled to the whole field context, the productivity of tramlines contributed to 8% greater dry matter yield under CTF than RTF, indicating that the area allocated to tramlines did not negate the system-level productivity. This study provides the first New Zealand-specific empirical comparison of CTF and RTF to support adoption of CTF.
From the agora to the algorithm: Aristotle’s rhetoric as a theoretical framework for understanding social media persuasion
(SAGE Publications, 2026-01-22) Nelson N; Hodgetts D; Chamberlain K
Scott Morrison and Dan Andrews got it wrong. Here are 7 ways to get crisis leadership right
(The Conversation Media Group Ltd, 2026-01-23) Newstead T; Wilson S
Savvy politicians know how to 'perform' authenticity - the Jacinda Ardern doco offers a masterclass
(The Conversation Media Group Ltd, 2025-10-14) Fountaine S