Nobody knows me even though I’m always there: Why Māori men do exist - in all the wrong places

Stanley, Paul

Nobody knows me even though I’m always there: Why Māori men do exist - in all the wrong places

dc.contributor.author	Stanley, Paul
dc.date.accessioned	2008-06-13T03:28:52Z
dc.date.available	2008-06-13T03:28:52Z
dc.date.issued	2003
dc.description.abstract	In the study of psychology, Māori men are often only seen as the perpetrators of the problems. There is very little focus on finding solutions for Māori men, with Māori men. In the top eight causes of death for Māori males aged 15 to 24 are car crashes, homicide, and suicide. With respect to car crashes, there is a close link between alcohol-related car crashes and suicide. As a nation, we should be concerned with all of the above issues, as each of them is preventable. Invariably, we fail see the deaths of these young men as warning signs of much wider issues about why they wanted to die, or why they felt the need to kill someone close to themselves. The argument tendered in this paper is that the same way in which Māori as a group have been researched, as being “the problem”, equally applies to the way in which Māori men have continued to be have been researched: Māori men are only ever portrayed as “the problem” and are never portrayed as part of a solution subjected to this process as well. The lyrics of a well known song by UB40, One in Ten, exemplify this notion of being unknown, even though Māori men do exist in Aotearoa.	en_US
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dc.identifier.citation	Stanley, P. (2003). Nobody knows me even though I’m always there: Why Māori men do exist - in all the wrong places. In Nikora, L.W., Levy, M., Masters, B., Waitoki, W., Te Awekotuku, N., and Etheredge, R.J.M. (Eds). The Proceedings of the National Māori Graduates of Psychology Symposium 2002: Making a difference. Proceedings of a symposium hosted by the Māori & Psychology Research Unit at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, 29-30 November 2002 (pp.81-86). Hamilton, New Zealand: Māori and Psychology Research Unit, University of Waikato.
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10289/867
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Maori and Psychology Research Unit, University of Waikato	en_US
dc.rights	© 2003 Maori and Psychology Research Unit, University of Waikato	en_US
dc.subject	Maori	en_US
dc.subject	psychology	en_US
dc.subject	men	en_US
dc.subject	males	en_US
dc.title	Nobody knows me even though I’m always there: Why Māori men do exist - in all the wrong places	en_US
dc.type	Conference Contribution	en_US