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We Don’t Need Another Hero
Get PDFEthnographic work occupies an uneasy spectrum of experiences, and in this timely discussion where ethnographic challenges are being given their rightful place – my arguments join the discussion by urging a slowing down, a stopping and taking stock about what counts as good work in our current professional environment. I attempt a reflection on immersed anthropologists, and in some ways, on those amongst whom we immerse. The base queries that animate these reflections are – who, what, where and how will ‘good’ anthropological work be decided. The curious fascination with heroic, ideologically driven, ‘difficult’ ethnography is a point of departure here. Once again, they lead to questions about the allocations of labor and power in ethnographic work and in disciplinary knowledge production practices
a body writing
Get PDFThis article is a meditation on how the body fights to write about experiences of gendered risk and discomfort in anthropology. It details the sensorium of trauma and risk in fieldwork and how writing is central to processing traumas and but also curating future methodological directions. Responding to the demands placed on knowledge production in the discipline, anthropologists are often trained to seal up and bury these kinds of vulnerable writings. However, feminist writing praxes of disobedience and survival encourage anthropologists to do fieldwork and write not to survive a "trial by fire" or preserve an anthropology tested and known but to treat the body and writing as mutual sites of re-visioning more ethical engagements in their fields of work
Should Surrogate Pregnancy Arrangements be Enforceable in Aotearoa New Zealand?
Get PDFAotearoa New Zealand has no unified regulatory system governing the ethical and legal issues that arise with surrogate pregnancy arrangements. Accordingly, legal scholars and moral philosophers have recently called for revision to parentage and payment around surrogacy. Several academics have additionally suggested making surrogate pregnancy arrangements enforceable under New Zealand law. This discussion combines empirical research with key informants and experts working in the field of assisted reproduction with interview data from surrogate mothers and ovarian egg donors about their experiences of donating reproductive materials and services. The aim of the article is to expand the conceptual toolkit of assisted human reproduction to better understand the donative acts of women who share their reproductive materials and services, and to critically examine calls to introduce a regulatory model that makes surrogacy enforceable in light of concerns about the relational complexities of these arrangements
Downsizing property among the older generation: a means to free up New Zealand’s housing stock
Get PDFNew Zealand experiences widespread intergenerational housing inequalities. Millennials are far less likely than previous cohorts to access affordable housing and to own property. Large dwellings which are often more suited to young and expanding families are arguably underutilised by the older generation. Retirees are living longer and often stay in homes that they have lived in for most of their lives. This is exacerbated by distortions in our tax system which leave owner-occupied housing free from a capital gains tax. One way to phase out this generational discrepancy is motivating older generations to move to smaller homes towards the end of their life cycle. This would free up larger properties for first home buyers and ensure that retirees live in more suitable dwellings
Trashing Waste: unlocking the wasted potential of New Zealand’s Waste Minimisation Act
Get PDFTen years on from the enactment of the Waste Minimisation Act 2008, New Zealand’s waste policy remains sorely neglected. Successive governments have left the act largely unimplemented, allowing market failures, path dependence and fragmentation to deepen throughout New Zealand’s waste and recycling system. In 2017 a new minister assumed the waste portfolio, declaring an intention to use the Waste Minimisation Act to reverse New Zealand’s ‘rubbish record on waste’. This article outlines a range of policy solutions available to the government, analyses why these policy tools have been underutilised to date, and proffers a roadmap for overcoming the identified obstacles
Transforming the Economy: why a‘green recovery’ from Covid-19 is vital
Get PDFThe global ecological crisis poses much greater risks to humanity than Covid-19. At the same time, the pandemic provides a unique opportunity for governments to pursue a ‘greener’ and more sustainable future, for example through large-scale investments in clean energy sources, energy efficiency, waste reduction technologies, climateresilient infrastructure, regenerative agriculture and biodiversity protection. Yet, despite the urging of leading economists, ecologists and investors, measures to enhance ecological sustainability have not been prioritised in most governmental fiscal and regulatory responses to the pandemic. This article briefly summarises the nature of the current ecological crisis and, with particular reference to New Zealand, the policy measures required for an effective response. Fundamentally, a step change is needed from the current linear economy (based on finite energy sources and other non-renewable natural resources) to a more circular economy (based on renewable energy sources, the minimisation of waste and the efficient use of natural resources)
Trade and Economic Integration in the Asia-Pacific Region
Get PDFIn 2021 New Zealand will chair APEC within a very different AsiaPacific economy than was the case when New Zealand last chaired APEC in 1999. The Asia-Pacific production network is now much more intensive, covers more economies and is a much larger and more influential part of the international economy than was the Japan-led ‘flying geese’ model of the years before 1999. The single most important change is China’s increasingly pivotal role in both the Asia-Pacific and the global economy, despite continuing challenges. United States dominance of the international framework is more constrained. Adaptation, which has always characterised global and regional governance, will continue as China and the US contest technological leadership and the formulation of international rules and norms, especially in response to the digital revolution
Can Deliberative Democracy Put an End to Neoliberalism in Settler-Colonial States?
Get PDFReview of Max Rashbrooke, Government for the Public Good. Deliberative democracy as a cure for the ills of neoliberalism in a settler-colonial state?
 
Mātauranga and Science II – Introduction
No full textHaere mai te ihihaere mai te wehi,haere mai te mana,haere mai te tapu.‘Draw near o excellent ones,draw near o awesome ones,draw near o charismatic ones,draw near o sacred ones’ (Marsden, 2003, p. 3)This second edition offers additional definitions and examples of mātauranga and science in practice, and advances the basis of such scholarship, across a range of contexts. The papers highlight the relevance, innovation, and dynamism of mātauranga. It questions the taken-for-granted assumptions of scientific thought which are deeply entrenched in modern society and rather encourage us to seek ‘a passionate, inward subjective approach’ (Marsden, 2003, p. 22–23) as perhaps ‘abstract rational thought and empirical methods cannot grasp the concrete act of existing which is fragmentary, paradoxical and incomplete’ (Marsden, 2003, p. 22–23). The contributing authors reflect the breadth of experiences in mātauranga and the need for research that is written by those knowledge holders and practitioners of mātauranga. This Special Issue offers a hopefulness to Smith’s (1999) caution that, too often, Māori and indigenous peoples were the subject of study as the ‘other’. This caution was seen too frequently in scientific study historically, but sadly, still occurs today, at societal, systemic, political, community, and individual levels. Yet, despite these circumstances, we are reminded of a whakatauākī a prominent chief to Ngāti Whātua¹, Ihenga uttered in the context of an ongoing battle:Me whakapakari ki te hua o te kawariki ‘Leave us and we will mature like the fruit of the kawariki’This is an oft-heard remark at marae in Ngāti Whātua referring to the ongoing strength of our whānau as, like the resilient kawariki, a plant that can survive and flourish in an ever changing environment
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