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    Re-sensing economies: Artistic and embodied knowing for more-than-capitalist futures.
    (Tampere University Press, 2025-06-01) McLean H; Mullen M; Kruglanski A; Hwang L; Dombroski K; Kangas A; Gataulina M; Poutanen M; Rajala AI; Ventovirta H-E
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    Thinking with soils: Can urban farms help us heal metabolic rifts in Aotearoa?
    (John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2023-08-17) Goburdhone S; Dombroski K
    In this commentary, we reflect on our work with an urban youth farm where young people (re)connect to the food system. Participating in everyday soil creation and care activities nurtured new relationships with more-than-human ecologies and beings at an urban farm called Cultivate Christchurch. In this farm, participants engaged with soils and the process of making and regenerating soil from food waste via composting. We ask whether such activities can begin to help participants think with soil rather than about it, and to heal the ‘metabolic rift’, the socioecological disconnect from food growing and nutrient cycles.
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    Testing practices for testing times: Exploring Indigenous-led governance
    (SAGE Publications, 2023-07-12) Dionisio R; Dombroski K; Yates A
    In this author response, we further reflect on pluriversal and prefigurative approaches to research, centred on Indigenous Māori knowledge, while opening space for cross-cultural perspectives and co-creation methods. We address the responses authored by Meg Parsons, Wendy Steele and Wendy Harcourt, starting by summarising what we took from each contribution. We discuss key questions raised by each of the authors in the context of the evolving research programme and broader developments on wellbeing governance in Aotearoa. Pluriversal and prefigurative experimental approaches are key to testing and iteratively advancing the research agenda in disruptive times.
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    Emerging transitions in organic waste infrastructure in Aotearoa New Zealand
    (John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2023-04-01) Diprose G; Dombroski K; Sharp E; Yates A; Peryman B; Barnes M
    Aotearoa New Zealand is at a critical juncture in reducing and managing organic waste. Research has highlighted the significant proportion of organic waste sent to landfills and associated adverse effects such as greenhouse gas emissions and loss of valuable organic matter. There is current debate about what practices and infrastructure to invest in to better manage and use organic waste. We highlight the diversity of existing organic waste practices and infrastructures, focusing on Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. We show how debates about organic waste practices and infrastructure connect across three themes: waste subjectivities, collective action in place and language.
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    When Cultivate Thrives: Developing Criteria for Community Economy Return on Investment
    (University of Canterbury, 2018-04) Dombroski K; Diprose G; Conradson D; Healy S; Watkins A
    Urban communities around the world are using farming and gardening to promote food security, social inclusion and wellbeing. For Christchurch-based Cultivate, urban farms are not only physical places but also incorporate an innovative community economy premised on using common resources such as vacant urban land and green waste, to offer care for urban youth. Cultivate’s two urban farms are an important aspect of this care, for it is here that supportive and informally therapeutic environments are co-created and experienced by youth interns, urban farmers, trained social workers and volunteers. Cultivate’s urban farms are innovative examples of creative urban wellbeing initiatives that may be valuable for other organisations seeking to promote youth wellbeing and social development, both across New Zealand and further afield. To document and measure the holistic impact of Cultivate, we used a collaborative approach with Cultivate stakeholders to further develop an existing assessment tool: the Community Economy Return on Investment (CEROI). The project will finish in November 2018 with a series of workshops with urban designers to test and promote the use of the tool as a method for communicating the non-monetary return on investment to a wider community involved with other urban wellbeing projects.
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    Community economies: Responding to questions of scale, agency and indigenous connections in Aotearoa New Zealand
    (Counterfutures, 2017) Diprose GJ; Dombroski K; Healy S; Waitora J