Doing Indigenous Epistemology: Internal Debates about Inside Knowledge in Māori Society

Meijl, A.H.M. van

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“…Because MMIR-specific information is unavailable in official vital statistics, we created MMIR-relevant categories drawing from the Sovereign Bodies Institute’s cause-of-death categorization 27 and Indigenous epistemology. 28 Most previous studies disaggregated external causes into three categories (e.g., homicide, suicide, and accidents), plus a heterogeneous residual category [1,2,29] . Potentially MMIR-relevant deaths due to other external causes (e.g., accidental drowning, struck by object, etc.)…”

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The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives Crisis and the Life Expectancy Gap for Native Americans, 2010–2019

2022

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Background:We assessed the role of missing and murdered indigenous relatives (MMIR) relevant causes of death in the life expectancy gap between the American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) and non-Hispanic White populations. Methods: Using 2010-2019 National Center for Health Statistics Detailed Mortality files, we created multidecrement life tables and used the age-incidence decomposition method to identify (1) the causes of death that contribute to the gap in life expectancy between White and AIAN, and (2) the mechanisms through which these causes operate. Results: Causes of death relevant to MMIR constituted 4.0% of all AIAN deaths, but accounted for almost one-tenth (9.6%; 0.74 of 8.21 years) of the overall AIAN-White life expectancy gap. MMIRrelevant causes accounted for 6.6% of the AIAN-White life expectancy gap for women and 11.9% of the for men. Conclusions: This study suggests a critical agenda for research on racial inequities in mortality, with a focus on MMIR.

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The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives Crisis and the Life Expectancy Gap for Native Americans, 2010–2019

2022

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“…There is a gradual difference but no discontinuity between ethnographic knowledge and everyday knowledge and experience. Tearing down this positivist division also opens up the path to incorporating multiple and diverse ways of knowing, as in the debate on Indigenous methodologies (e.g., van Meijl 2019). ( 6) Ethical considerations take precedence over considerations of efficiency in ethnographic research.…”

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Interrogating Datafication

2022

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is a lecturer in the media studies department at the University of Siegen. Together with Karin Knorr Cetina, he heads the project "Agentic Media: Formations of Semi-Autonomy" in the DFG Collaborative Research Centre 1187 "Media of Cooperation". He has a background in media studies, philosophy, and computer science and received his doctorate at Justus-Liebig-University Gießen with a thesis on the media theory of digital databases. His research interests include the history and theory of digital media, especially the logi(sti)cs of database technologies, big data, and algorithmic media as well as digital methods. Daniela van Geenen is a Ph.D. candidate at the DFG Collaborative Research Center 1187 "Media of Cooperation" at the University of Siegen, after receiving her MA from Utrecht University. Her research lies at the interface of media studies and science and technology studies (STS), with particular focus on (critical) data studies, software, device, and infrastructure studies. In her Ph.D. project she investigates the sociomaterial organization, (data) practices, and values in/of urban sensing, paying specific attention to cases of environmental sensing in relation to mobility monitoring and planning. She is also a lecturer in Data Journalism and Visualization at the

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“…Indeed, taniwha may be experienced by Māori in many ways and in many forms (Rangiwai, 2019). For my grandmother, Repora Marion Brown , taniwha, kaitiaki or 'manas' as she sometimes called them, had the power to guide, guard, and protect, or to 'slap', if tikanga was not followed (Rangiwai, 2019 (Ruwhiu, 2009), writing (Sword, 2011), design (Repia, 2018, law studies (Fernando, 2018), resistance to land loss and environmental degradation (van Meijl, 2019;McCormack, 2019;Sissons, 2019), digital leadership (Williams, 2020), and in many other contexts. The metaphor of the taniwha, van Meijl (2019) asserted, is important in Māori narratives as, "Spirituality and images of the taniwha are… central themes in Māori discourses" (p. 165).…”

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Representation, COVID-19, and failed metaphor: A critical analysis of the Bay of Plenty District Health Board vaccine booklet

Rangiwai¹

2021

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This paper will critically analyse the Bay of Plenty District Health Board’s (BOPDHB) controversial vaccine booklet, which featured mataora-adorned cartoon images of the COVID-19 virus. This imagery caused a furore with anecdotal evidence from social media suggesting that Māori were outraged by the portrayal of Māori in this way. This paper will offer two arguments. The first argument builds on Hokowhitu’s (2001) work, which deconstructed representations of Māori as animalistic, savage-barbarian, physical-unintelligent, mythical, bewildered-childlike, and romanticised-noble. The first argument will extend Hokowhitu’s (2001) analysis by deconstructing the representation of Māori as disease-virus. While it is impossible to understand the BOPDHB’s intentions, the second argument posits that the objective might have been to use the concept of taniwha as a metaphor for COVID-19. Though this argument is significantly weaker than the first, it still warrants some exploration, even if only to provide a sense of balance to this paper.

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Doing Indigenous Epistemology: Internal Debates about Inside Knowledge in Māori Society

Cited by 36 publications

References 38 publications

The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives Crisis and the Life Expectancy Gap for Native Americans, 2010–2019

The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives Crisis and the Life Expectancy Gap for Native Americans, 2010–2019

Interrogating Datafication

Representation, COVID-19, and failed metaphor: A critical analysis of the Bay of Plenty District Health Board vaccine booklet

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