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Western science and Indigenous wisdom: Is integration possible, practical, plausible?
Get PDFhis article contrasts and compares Western science and Indigenous Knowledge or wisdom, discussing their origins, essential features and how they might engage and speak to each other across cultures. In order to explore this interface, it is necessary to examine the epistemological origins of each knowledge system and the societal drivers that shape them. From this it is possible to examine how science and traditional wisdom have interacted during the processes of colonisation, and how they might better engage entering a time of post-colonisation change. Furthermore, it is possible to see how these knowledge systems might integrate in an ongoing way.
Ka whakatauaro, ka whakataurite hoki tēnei tuhinga i te mātau-ranga taketake ki te pūtaiao Pākehā, me te āta wānanga hoki i ō rāua ake orokohanga mai, i ō rāua ake tino āhuatanga, ka mutu i te huarahi e pōwhiri tahitia ai, e kōrero tahi ai hoki tētahi ahurea ki tērā atu. E wānangahia ai tēnei pōwhiri tahitanga, me tino aromātai ngā orokohanga mai o te mātauranga o tēnā, o tēnā o ngā kete mātauranga me ngā āhuatanga ā-tangata e mirimiri nei i ō aua kete. Mā tēnei e taea ai te āta whakatewhatewha, kua pēhea rānei ngā pōwhiri tahitanga i e wā o te whānako whenua, me te pātai anō ka pēhea rānei ngā pōhiri tahitanga i ēnei rā o muri mai e huri nei te ao. Āpitihia atu ki reira, ka taea te kite ka pēhea rānei te tūhono tahitanga o ēnei puna mātauranga ā haere ake nei
Immigration and ‘Brain Waste’: an analysis of APEC immigrants in New Zealand
No full textWe analyse ‘brain waste’, or underutilisation of immigrant skills in the New Zealand labour market, with specific reference to immigrants from APEC member countries. Using census data, we find wide variation across APEC countries in the likelihood that a typical immigrant from these countries with a tertiary qualification works in a skilled occupation, consistent with brain waste. Our exploration of the drivers of brain waste reveals that GDP per capita of the country of origin of immigrants, its distance from New Zealand, expenditure on education and colonial links to New Zealand are negatively related to brain waste. After accounting for these drivers, there is no evidence that brain waste is mitigated among immigrants from APEC member countries. Our study highlights the need for efforts to facilitate utilisation of immigrant skills in the region, such as cooperation among APEC members in standardising certification requirements and dissemination of information on skills demand and supply and the nature and quality of the education system
Pity, Hate, Resentment, and the Left
Get PDFThis intervention argues that our understanding of negative emotions is underdeveloped due to the urge to expel negativity from the personal and political spheres. By invoking the antagonism of Chantal Mouffe’s philosophy, the article provides a conceptual grounding of pity, hate, and resentment by explaining these emotions based on whether the person feeling them sees the other as inferior, equal, or superior. For the Left, the intervention argues, a better understanding of these emotions will help people think through their own antagonisms, to counter accusations that all Left opposition is mere resentment, and to promote solidarity. Finally, the article seeks to hold open a space for a hatred that is neither pathologised nor eradicated.
 
Sex Workers’ Rights in Aotearoa New Zealand
Get PDFThe New Zealand Prostitutes’ Collective (NZPC) is an organisation founded on the rights, welfare, health, and safety of sex workers in Aotearoa New Zealand and globally. The collective is committed to ensuring the agency of sex workers in all aspects of life. After years of lobbying by the NZPC to overturn an archaic law founded on double standards, whereby sex workers and third parties were prosecuted for acts such as soliciting and brothel keeping, the Prostitution Reform Act 2003 saw the decriminalisation of commercial sex activities and allowed for third parties to operate brothels. Aotearoa New Zealand remains the only country to decriminalise most commercial sex work and endorse the rights of sex workers. Dame Catherine Healy has been with the NZPC since its inception in 1987. As the national coordinator she is a vocal lead activist and advocate for sex workers’ rights. She also publishes extensively on sex workers’ rights. In 2018, Catherine was presented with a Dame Campion to the New Zealand Order of Merit in acknowledgment for working for the rights of sex workers. Dr Denise Blake is an academic and the chair of the NZPC Board. Denise has been involved in the sex industry in a variety of roles for a number of years, and also advocates strongly for the rights of sex workers. In this interview, Catherine talks to Denise and Amanda Thomas about her work and the history of the NZPC.
 
Station to Station: Colin McCahon's Veronica Paintings, 1949-1979
Get PDFThe stations of the cross were a recurrent motif in Colin McCahon’s art. This article focuses on the one station that he singled out for particular emphasis: Station 6, Veronica wipes the face of Jesus. The paper argues that for McCahon the stations were a kind of matrix, grid or armature, a structure within which he could explore various religious and aesthetic ideas. The appeal of Veronica derives from the possibilities inherent in the image of Christ’s face on her veil or handkerchief as a symbol both of religious truth and aesthetic exploration; in McCahon’s work she becomes a kind of patron saint of painters
The Pakaru ‘Pipeline’: Māori and Pasifika Pathways within the Academy
Get PDFWe examine the academic ‘pipeline’ for Māori and Pasifika graduates and illustrate the chronic under-representation of Māori and Pasifika in permanent academic positions in New Zealand universities. We identify areas within higher education where significant opportunities are being lost for the recruitment and retention of Māori and Pasifika. The narratives of Māori and Pasifika post-doctoral researchers, research associates and professional teaching fellows provide further insight into the advantages and disadvantages of these positions. Lastly, we propose a Pacific alternative metaphor ‘Pacific Navigation of Academic Pathways’ based on Pacific navigation, as opposed to the more commonly used term ‘pipeline’, in order to capture the nuances of Pasifika and Māori experiences
Revisiting McKinsey's 'Syntactical' Construction of Modality
Get PDFIn 1945 J.C.C. McKinsey produced a ‘semantics’ for modal logic based on necessity defined in terms of validity. The present papers looks at how to update F.R. Drake’s completeness proof for McKinsey’s semantics by comparing McKinsey ‘models’ with the now standard Kripke models. It also looks at the motivation behind the system McKinsey called S4.1, but which we now call S4M; and use this motivation to produce a McKinsey semantics for that system. One lesson which emerges from this work is an appreciation of the superiority of the current possible worlds semantics based on frames and models, both in terms of an intuitive understanding of modality, and also in terms of the ease of working with particular systems
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