Coastal blue space and wellbeing research: looking beyond western tides

Wheaton, Belinda; Waiti, Jordan; Cosgriff, Marg; Burrows, Lisette

doi:10.1080/02614367.2019.1640774

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“…The idea of cultural difference and diversity in wellbeing and leisure perspectives is central to the scholarship in this special issue. Wheaton, Waiti, Cosgriff, and Burrows (2019) offer a critical exploration of the extant literature on wellbeing and coastal bluespace, emphasising difference and diversity in experience according to the intersections of space/place, ethnicity, culture and socioeconomic status. Challenging Eurocentric interpretations of wellbeing and bluespace the authors bring a Maori worldview to their discussion and illustrate the significance of their multicultural research team for understanding the complexities of wellbeing and coastal spaces.…”

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“…In contrast to health—often understood as the absence of disease—wellbeing is a broader, more subjective, multidimensional, and holistic notion that encompasses physical, social, environmental, educational, spiritual, affective, and cognitive dimensions of a life (Liamputtong et al, 2012). Although global conceptualisations of wellbeing tend to emphasize it as a “multi-factorial state linked to a nation’s economic, social, cultural and environmental productivity” (Testoni et al, 2018 cited in Wheaton et al, 2019, p. 84), proliferating efforts to measure citizens’ wellbeing have focused on individuals’ subjective sense of feeling “well” or “good.”…”

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“…Waka ama paddling is an important part of indigenous Māori culture, and has seen somewhat of a resurgence in popularity, particularly among women. Māori worldviews embrace different practices and assumptions about what water means, that are fundamentally tied to Māori identity, health, and wellbeing (Jackson et al, 2017; Wheaton et al, 2019). Liu outlines that like other people from the Pacific, Māori have strong attachments to oceanic blue spaces from gathering kaimoana [seafood] to waka-based transportation on the ocean (and inland lakes and rivers).…”

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“…As we identified earlier, a growing body of research is exploring relationships to oceans through diverse cultural ways of knowing and being including research recognizing or using indigenous knowledge systems (see Gilio-Whitaker, 2017; Ingersoll, 2016; Nemani, 2016; Waiti & Awatere, 2019; Wheaton et al, 2019). This work reveals that across places, cultures, and societies it is not only how blue spaces are used that is contested, but the ontologies themselves, impacting the ways sports as meaningful practice links people to individual, community, cultural, and environmental relationships (see also Liu, this volume).…”

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Understanding Blue Spaces: Sport, Bodies, Wellbeing, and the Sea

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This article introduces the special issue on ‘Understanding Blue Spaces’ which examines relationships between blue spaces, sport, physical activity, and wellbeing. The articles progress conversations across humanities, social sciences and inter-disciplinary areas of research on diverse sporting practices, that span local to trans-national contexts. This collection offers new insights into politics, possibilities, and problems of the role of blue spaces in our wellbeing—individually, socially, and ecologically. In addition to outlining the 10 articles in the SI, which include ocean swimming, surfing, sailing/yachting, and waka ama paddling, we contextualize this work, discussing key thematic areas both across these papers, and in the wider interdisciplinary body of work on blue spaces, wellbeing, and sport. Specifically, we outline the role of physical activities and leisure practices in how we access, understand, experience, and develop relationships to seas and oceans, as well as to self, places and communities of human and non-human others. We also discuss the ways in which particular bodies, individuals, and communities (human and more-than-human) are marginalized or excluded, and the need for understanding concepts such as wellbeing, place, and self beyond dominant European traditions. This SI highlights how localised experiences of blue spaces can be, while emphasising the need to recognize diverse cultural, economic, geographic, sociodemographic, and political factors that contribute to a disconnect with, or exclusion from blue spaces, impacting who can use blue spaces, how they can be used, how they can be researched, and how power is reproduced and contested.

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“…Third, Aotearoa New Zealand’s bi-cultural [ 23 ] context, i.e. Indigenous Māori and European settlers (termed Pākehā), provides a revealing cultural context for reassessing the ways in which ‘Western Science’ conceptualises socio-ecological relationships and coastal ‘blue spaces’ as sites of wellbeing [ 31 ], that often drive understandings of sustainability, wellbeing, and ocean health. More widely, the paper demonstrates the value of trans- and inter-disciplinary place-based approaches that integrates research across the humanities and social sciences—including cultural and health geography, sociologies of leisure and sport, and feminist cultural studies—and also engages with Indigenous knowledge [IK], specifically Mātauranga Māori.…”

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Coastal Communities, Leisure and Wellbeing: Advancing a Trans-Disciplinary Agenda for Understanding Ocean-Human Relationships in Aotearoa New Zealand

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Commentators are advocating for research to better understand relationships between healthy coastal ecosystems and human wellbeing. Doing so requires inter- and transdisciplinary approaches across humanities, arts, social sciences, and science and technology disciplines. These approaches include culturally diverse knowledge systems, such as indigenous ones, that locate sustainable use of and relationships to marine ecosystems. This paper contributes to this agenda through a case-study of relationships between coastal ecosystems and human wellbeing in Aotearoa New Zealand. This article highlights interconnected cultural and wellbeing benefits of, and socio-ecological relationships between, these coastal ecosystems drawing on a case study of one ocean-based, ‘immersive’ leisure activity, surfing. Further, it examines how these relationships impact human physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing, and the wellbeing of communities and ecosystems. The research illustrates that surfing creates strong bonds between practitioners and coastal places, linking the health of marine environments and people. We demonstrate the value of a transdisciplinary place-based approach that integrates research across the humanities and social sciences and engages with Indigenous knowledge (Mātauranga Māori). This argument for multicultural co-learning shows the value of Western and Māori vantage points for how we understand coastal blue spaces. Indigenous perspectives, we conclude, deepen appreciation, as well as equity considerations, of how we understand place, wellbeing, and long-term sustainable relationships with marine ecosystems.

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Coastal blue space and wellbeing research: looking beyond western tides

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