Te Turangawaewae o te Whakaohooho Mauri: The Conceptual Home-Place of the Re-Awakening Indigenous Spirit
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2012
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School of Psychology, Massey University
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Abstract
Resilience of Indigenous identities, life-ways
and knowledge is the topic of my doctoral
thesis. To enable the holistic unity of Indigenous
being, feeling, thinking, and doing to become
visible and meaningfully viable to Indigenous
and non-Indigenous people within and
without the empirically dominated domain of
academic positivism, a cosmologically sourced,
ethnographically supported turangawaewae or
conceptual home-place has been developed. An
Indigenous space of meaning to investigate and
provoke a discursive continuum of Indigenous
resilience that enables resilient Indigenous
identities, and the multiple phases they embody
to be conceptualised and incorporated, while
also embracing notions of Eurocentric resilience
and the comparative psychological implications
these unearth. To illumine the global process of
re-emerging Indigenous identity resilience by
exploring how Indigenous people experience the
process of personal and collective reconnection
to their ancestral Indigenous identities, tikanga
Māori, Mana Wahine philosophies, and kaupapa
Māori methodologies complete the home-place
developed to receive and care for the research
collaborators, and question. A place that enables
ethical and congruent cultural interpretations
of Indigenous identities and the liberation of
Indigenous thought, practices, and discourse.
This paper traces the developmental terrain of this
turangawaewae or conceptual home-place.
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Keywords
Indigenous resilience, Māori, Ancestors, Mana wahine, Kaupapa Māori