Theorising Māori health and wellbeing in a whakapapa paradigm : voices from the margins : a thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Communication and Journalism at Massey University, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa, Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE)

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dc.contributor.advisorDutta, Mohan
dc.contributor.authorElers, Christine
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-25T22:13:31Z
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-06T23:56:00Z
dc.date.available2023-06-25T22:13:31Z
dc.date.available2023-07-06T23:56:00Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores communication infrastructures at the margins of Indigeneity to understand Māori health and wellbeing meanings, challenges, strategies and solutions, articulated by whānau whose voices have been ignored, or not sought. Māori health and wellbeing understandings, forged amidst ongoing colonial processes of socioeconomic and health inequities, are best articulated by Māori with these lived experiences. The communication platforms established by the settler colonial state are infused with power dynamics that determine the communication rules including who can speak, what can be said and how that should be delivered. The privileging of communicative spaces to experts, leaders, and community champions, shaped by the underlying ideology of whiteness that organises the settler colonial state, forecloses the space to those not fitting these categories. Māori health and wellbeing meanings emphasise the totality of Whakapapa as a basis for communicating health and wellbeing. Kaupapa Māori theory, and Whakapapa as a super-connector of relationships both in the spiritual and physical domains, anchored the research. Rooted in Māori epistemology, the enduring intergenerational relationship between health and land formed the basis for the participants’ understandings of health and wellbeing. Positioned also in dialogue with the Culture-Centered Approach (CCA), we foreground whānau voices through the co-creation of voice infrastructures at the margins of Indigeneity, with whānau members candidly sharing lived experiences navigating health and wellbeing through the establishment of the Feilding advisory group. The interplay of land, rivers and health is a dominant theme. Strategies for improving health and wellbeing include co-creating communicative infrastructures, such as platforms for voices to emerge at the margins of Indigeneity. The campaigns documented buttress the importance of regaining stolen land, (re)connecting to land through the collective establishment of māra kai with the advisory group. Indigenous communication infrastructures disrupt hegemonic, top-down configurations of health and wellbeing campaigns, providing the impetus for localised strategies to emerge into mainstream communicative spaces. Voice and the right for the “margins of the margins” to be listened to by the Crown are also included as taonga in article two, Te Tiriti o Waitangi. The co-creation, resource sharing and decision-making about communicative infrastructures can be harnessed to drive health equity.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10179/18386
dc.publisherMassey Universityen_US
dc.rightsThe Authoren_US
dc.subjectMāori (New Zealand people)en
dc.subjectHealth and hygieneen
dc.subjectSocial conditionsen
dc.subjectCommunicationen
dc.subjectNew Zealanden
dc.subjectTāngata whenuaen
dc.subjectHauoraen
dc.subjectĀhuatanga pāporien
dc.subjectWhakawhitiwhitinga kōreroen
dc.subjectWhakapapaen
dc.subjectMāori Doctoral Thesisen
dc.subject.anzsrc451003 Ngā tokoingoa ahurea o te hauora o te Māori (Māori cultural determinants of health)en
dc.subject.anzsrc451018 Ngā tokoingoa pāpori o te hauora o te Māori (Māori social determinants of health)en
dc.subject.anzsrc470101 Communication studiesen
dc.titleTheorising Māori health and wellbeing in a whakapapa paradigm : voices from the margins : a thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Communication and Journalism at Massey University, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa, Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE)en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
massey.contributor.authorElers, Christineen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineCommunication and Journalismen_US
thesis.degree.grantorMassey Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen_US
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophyen_US
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