Decolonising mahi : a Kaupapa Māori theory and practice framework : a thesis presented in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Public Health at SHORE & Whāriki Research Centre, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa Massey University, Aotearoa-New Zealand

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dc.contributor.advisorBarnes, Moewakaen
dc.contributor.authorEmery-Whittington, Isla Te Ara o Rehuaen
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-10T21:17:17Z
dc.date.available2024-04-10T21:17:17Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractThe thesis is a narration of a process to reclaim theoretical space where everyday acts are once again regarded as mahi and as māori. It is a philosophical decolonial examination of both Western theories and notions of occupation (activities, acts, work, deeds) and Kaupapa Māori praxis of mahi. The aim of this Kaupapa Māori study is to examine the relationship between ‘colonisation’ and ‘occupation’ and specifically, how this relationship contributes to both the reproduction of colonialism and decolonisation of everyday life for Māori peoples. This provides a basis for formalising the Māori Occupational Therapy Network’s theorising of a Kaupapa Māori theory of mahi and practice model. Kaupapa Māori methodology provided a foundation that privileged tikanga and mātauranga through the study. Wānanga as theory making, writing to understand, publishing to disrupt and building antiracist collectives were the Kaupapa Māori methods utilised. These methods supported a critical examination of the links between occupation and colonisation. Specifically, notions of ‘occupation as a series of separations’, ‘occupations as having’, and ‘occupational justice’ were examined for their utility in reproducing and maintaining colonialism. A taxonomy of human occupations in settler-colonial states captured the observations and is outlined alongside emerging Indigenous and critical occupational therapy and occupational science literature. This study used a ‘thesis with publications pathway’ to collaboratively disrupt colonial reckons about occupation and carved new spaces to share how decoloniality is generated and transforms everyday tasks of life. Guidance for antiracist, Tiriti-based praxis is designed into a Kaupapa Māori Theory of Mahi and a practice framework called Ngā Mahi a Rehua. The study was tasked with noticing, examining and explaining how the ‘colonised’ struggle is lived and transcended in the minutiae of everyday occupations. In so doing, it also highlighted the links between institutionalised dehumanisation practices within occupational therapy and occupational science, and monocultural theorising of occupation. Despite this, the study also highlighted how an Indigenous way of being, is transformative and necessary. Evidently, despite the chronic, multi-layered, and shape-shifting nature of ‘being colonised’, mahi is a potent and abundantly accessible site of decoloniality.
dc.identifier.urihttps://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/69445
dc.publisherMassey Universityen
dc.rightsThe Authoren
dc.subjectMāori (New Zealand people)en
dc.subjectAttitudesen
dc.subjectEmploymenten
dc.subjectWork environmenten
dc.subjectPsychological aspectsen
dc.subjectLaboren
dc.subjectAnthropological aspectsen
dc.subjectWorken
dc.subjectPhilosophyen
dc.subjectCritical race theoryen
dc.subjectWhiwhinga mahien
dc.subjectKaupapa Māorien
dc.subjectAngaen
dc.subjectdecolonisationen
dc.subjectmahien
dc.subjectKaupapa Māori theoryen
dc.subjectoccupationen
dc.subjectpractice modelen
dc.subjectMāori Doctoral Thesisen
dc.subject.anzsrc420104 Occupational therapyen
dc.subject.anzsrc451121 Ngā tirohanga Māori (Māori perspectives)en
dc.subject.anzsrc450720 Ngā tikanga rangahau o te Māori (Māori research methods)en
dc.titleDecolonising mahi : a Kaupapa Māori theory and practice framework : a thesis presented in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Public Health at SHORE & Whāriki Research Centre, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa Massey University, Aotearoa-New Zealanden
thesis.degree.disciplinePublic Health
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.).
thesis.description.doctoral-citation-abridgedIsla's research examined how the everyday tasks of life transmit and disrupt colonisation. Her research was a philosophical examination of western theories that ignored and minimised colonisation. It was also a wānanga that explored and developed a Kaupapa Māori theory of mahi and a clinical practice model for decolonising everyday life.
thesis.description.doctoral-citation-longIsla's research examined how the everyday tasks of life - occupations - transmit and disrupt colonisation. The research was a philosophical examination of western theories that ignored and minimised colonisation within the disciplines of occupational therapy and occupational science. The research was also a wānanga and using Kaupapa Māori methodology, the study explored and developed a Kaupapa Māori theory of mahi. The theory built on Māori, Indigenous and critical perspectives to develop a clinical practice model that supports folk to decolonise everyday life.
thesis.description.name-pronounciationIsla Emery-Whittington EYE LA EM ER EE WHITT ING TON
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