Massey Documents by Type

Permanent URI for this communityhttps://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/294

Browse

Filters

2022 - 20254

Settings

Subject: search.filters.subject.decolonization

Search Results

Now showing 1 - 4 of 4
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE): organizing to transform the social determinants of health
    (Taylor and Francis Group on behalf of the National Communication Association, 2025-04-04) Dutta M; Pokaia V; Metuamate S; Mandal I; Baskey P; Mandi R; Elers P; Rahman M; Jayan P; Pattanaik S
    This essay outlines the organizing work of the Center for Culture-Centred Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE) in mobilizing for social justice. Conceptualizing health in relationship to justice, the academic-activist-community partnerships built by CARE explore the organizing processes through which communities at the margins own voice infrastructures in seeking structural transformation.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    Academic-community solidarities in land occupation as an Indigenous claim to health: culturally centered solidarity through voice infrastructures
    (Frontiers Media S.A., 2023-05-25) Elers C; Dutta M; Kaur-Gill S
    In this work, we explore the role of land in Indigenous theorizing about health, embodied in a land occupation that resisted a climate-adaptive development project imposed on the community from the top down by the local government. The proposed development project of building a stop bank on the Oroua River sought to alienate Māori from the remnants of the land. Embedded in and emerging from a culture-centered academic-community-activist partnership, an advisory group of Māori community members om the “margins of the margins” came together to participate in the occupation of the land to claim it as the basis for securing their health. This study describes the occupation and the role of our academic-activist intervention in it, theorizing land occupation as the root of decolonizing health emerging from Indigenous struggles for sovereignty (Tino rangatiratanga). The community advisory group members brought together in a culture-centered intervention, collaborated in partnership with the academic team, generated video narratives that resisted and dismantled the communicative inversions produced by the settler colonial state to perpetuate its extractive interests and produced communicative resources that supported the land occupation led by the broader Whānau. This study concludes by arguing that the culture-centered approach offers a meta-theory for decolonizing health communication by building voice infrastructures that support Indigenous land struggles.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    Resisting an unfolding genocide: reflections from radical struggles in the Global South
    (Taylor and Francis Group on behalf of the National Communication Association, 2024-03-20) Dutta MJ
    This essay theorizes radical struggles at the world’s end, emergent from registers of organizing against colonial–imperial–capitalist violence in the Global South. Working through the ongoing genocidal violence carried out by Israel in Gaza, I explore the role of voice infrastructures in the Global South as the spaces where Global South theories are imagined, tested, and continually transformed. The tenets of the culture-centered approach (CCA), reflected in the everyday organizing work of the Center for Culture-centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE), guide the conceptualization of the relationship between theorizing and struggle as embodied practice. For radical organizing to materialize at the world’s end, I argue the urgency of reorganizing the relationship between struggles and theorizing, cultivating a rhetoric and politics of suspicion, enacting sovereignty, forging connections, and sustaining a politics of preparation.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    Drum song and spirit mask : a multiple-eyed seeing Indigenous methodological framework for ethical documentary filmmaking ; Drum song : the rhythm of life : documentary trailer, treatment one sheet, and slide deck : a thesis and exegesis submitted to Te Kuenga Ki Pūrehuroa (Massey University) in Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington) on Te Āti Awa (traditional Māori lands) of Aotearoa (New Zealand) in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Creative Enterprise (MCE) within Te Rewa o Puanga (the School of Music and Creative Media Production)
    (Massey University, 2022) Moneymaker, Kelly
    This thesis explores cultural meaning-making in documentary filmmaking as a process that places storytelling in local hands by positioning the filmmaker as a listener-facilitator to find a space for mutual knowing between Western and Indigenous worldviews. The critical analysis applies an Indigenous, comparative decolonial lens to Multiple-eyed Seeing as it relates to creative arts practice and Indigenous methodologies that empower local Native voices to challenge popular conventions in documentary production. Creative arts pedagogies are studied while working with a transcultural framework, drawing upon Indigenous guiding principles of Inupiat, Māori, and Samoan peoples. Research methods include community-based participatory action research (CB-PAR), autoethnography, narrative reflection; and co-creative processes of collaborating with Elders, localhost, and crew members. This all grounds the ethical pursuit of cultural restoration, empowerment, self-determination, reciprocity, and agentic representation. This work is meant to support others wishing to co-create media with Indigenous communities. I submit this thesis to reclaim Indigenous voices through the process of documentary filmmaking.