Publication Date
July 2020

The lead article by Sierra Hampton, Rights and resurgence in Aotearoa New Zealand: A case study of the united nations declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples role in self determination contributes to the discussion about the Declaration’s effectiveness by analysing its role in advancing Indigenous peoples’ self-determination. This article provides new scholarship on how and why Indigenous activists utilise rights-based and Indigenous-based approaches, finding that no single approach or advocacy method is used alone and that Māori deftly combine the Declaration with Indigenous methods of activism to enhance their self-determination.

The second article in this issue by Jacinta Ruru, Jeanette Wikaira and Angela Wanhalla is titled Te Takarangi: The Significance of curating a sample list of Māori authorised non-fiction books. This article details how we curated this special book list and highlights some of the undeniable themes that emerge when a mass of books are purposely brought to sit together.

The third article in this issue by Kendall Stevenson, Fiona Cram, Sara Filoche, and Beverley Lawtontitled The impact on whānau wellbeing: transferring to secondary or tertiary hospitals following a disruption to the birthing journey explores the impact on whānau wellbeing following wāhine being transferred to either secondary or tertiary care hospitals to receive health care for themselves or their baby during the birthing journey

The next paper in our second issue for 2020 is titled Te Hihiri: A process of coming to know This paper was written by Amber Nicholson and outlines an Indigenous Māori research paradigm that is underpinned by the cosmological whakapapa and describes knowledge creation as a relationship with experience. A Māori methodological framework, Te Hihiri process, is offered as a research tool to keep researchers grounded in Indigenous wisdom, guided by ancestral knowledge and entrenched in spirit.

The fifth article in this issue is authored by Te Kawehau Hoskins, Kimai Tocker and Alison Jones. The title is Provocation: Discouraging children from speaking te reo in schools as a strategic Māori initiative. This article is written as a provocation. We ask: Whose actions and motivations are given most attention in our critiques of Māori experiences? And how are Māori positioned in our writing as a result? It is argued that a Māori-centred narrative focuses on Māori as agents, and gives attention to progressive Māori educational thought, and Māori relationality, strategy, determination and survival.

The next article is co-authored by Leanne Te Karu, Timothy Kenealy, Linda Bryant, Bruce Arroll, Matire Harwood and is titled The long shadow of inequity for Māori with gout. This article aims to highlight barriers and enablers in achieving best practice management of gout as defined by patients in order to inform the development of appropriate pathways and services

The last two pieces in this issue are commentaries. The first is titled Whānau, Tikanga and Tino Rangatiratanga: What is at stake in the debate over the Ministry for Children? and is written by Luke Fitzmaurice. This commentary explores issues relating to the Ministry of Children and the child welfare system within current contexts, where child welfare issues are a matter of considerable public debate.

Our final piece by Ashlea Gillon, Body Sovereignty and Te Matatini explores the ways in which body sovereignty has been illustrated and supported in the sovereign space of Te Matatini (Ki Te Ao). The author proposes that sovereign spaces such as Te Matatini provide an alternative illustration, discourse and narrative to current coloniality that restricts, limits and does not acknowledge body sovereignty.

 

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10.20507/MAIJournal.2019.9.2.1
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