Browsing by Author "McKinnon K"

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    Ethnography In and With Bodies: Embodied Learning and the Academic Life
    (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019-12-19) McKinnon K; Dombroski K
    The body is a vital part of ethnographic experience and learning. This essay reflects on the complex work that the body does during ethnography, not just as an instrument for data collection, but as a means of collaboration, a site of embodied learning, and a conduit for connection and communication that is more-than-verbal. In this contribution we reflect on research engagements that have been profoundly embodied, involving deep embodied learning and communication, touch and connection in the contexts of childbirth, infant care, and midwifery. Building on experiences in China, Laos, New Zealand, and Australia, we discuss the richness and the challenges of consciously collaborating with, in, and via bodies and embodied communications. We also explore what might be learned from the embodied experience of ethnography that we can bring back into academic life: are there lessons we can learn from collaborating with bodies that can help us to thrive amongst the challenges of the neoliberal university?
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    From absences to emergences: Foregrounding traditional and Indigenous climate change adaptation knowledges and practices from Fiji, Vietnam and the Philippines
    (Elsevier B.V., 2024-04-01) See J; Cuaton GP; Placino P; Vunibola S; Thi HD; Dombroski K; McKinnon K
    The differential impacts of climate change have highlighted the need to implement fit-for-purpose interventions that are reflective of the needs of vulnerable communities. However, adaptation projects tend to favour technocratic, market-driven, and Eurocentric approaches that inadvertently disregard the place-based and contextual adaptation strategies of many communities in the Global South. The paper aims to decolonise climate change adaptation guided by the critical tenets of ‘Decolonising Climate Adaptation Scholarship’ (DCAS). It presents empirical case studies from Fiji, Vietnam, and the Philippines and reveals the different ways that Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) and strategies are devalued and suppressed by modernist and developmentalist approaches to climate adaptation. The paper then foregrounds some of the adaptive techniques that resist and remain, or have been re-worked in hybrid ways with ILK. Ultimately, this paper combats the delegitimisation of ILK by mainstream climate change adaptation scholarship and highlights the need for awareness and openness to other forms of knowing and being.
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    Surviving well together: post development, maternity care and the politics of ontological pluralism
    (Routledge, 2019) McKinnon K; Healy S; Dombroski K; Klein, E; Morreo, CE
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    Surviving well: From diverse economies to community economies in Asia-Pacific
    (John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2022-04) Dombroski K; Duojie C; McKinnon K
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    The Diverse Economy: Feminism, Capitalocentrism, and Postcapitalist Futures
    (Edward Elgar, 2018) McKinnon K; Dombroski KF; Morrow O; Elias, J; Roberts, A