Browsing by Author "Mika, Carl Te Hira"

• “BODY-SNATCHING”: Changes to coroners legislation and possible Māori responses 

  Mika, Carl Te Hira (Nga Pae o te Maramatanga, 2009)

  The term body-snatcher has enjoyed a renaissance in the media recently, as various Māori have moved to reclaim their deceased relations. From a Māori perspective, the claiming of bodies has nothing to do with body-snatching, ...

  

• A chance for ontology 

  Mika, Carl Te Hira (Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, 2010)

  This paper speaks to Hook’s thesis that a National Māori University needs to be established. However, it sets about this task by designating Hook’s intended central concerns to the outer reaches of his article’s limits, ...

  

• Lost in translation: western representations of Māori knowledge 

  Mika, Carl Te Hira; Stewart, Georgina Marjorie (Routledge, 2017)

  We recently attended a conference at which a non-Māori presenter, drawing on a particular metaphor already established by Māori writers, related Māori natural world features to a research method. The presentation was ...

  

• Maori thinking with a dead white male: Philosophizing in the realm of Novalis 

  Mika, Carl Te Hira (Addleton Academic Publishers, 2014)

  In this paper I shall discuss my experiences of referring to Novalis in the context of Maori postcolonialism and metaphysical philosophy. As with other methods of research, from a Maori perspective one always alights on ...

  

• Overcoming ‘Being’ in Favour of Knowledge: The fixing effect of ‘mātauranga’ 

  Mika, Carl Te Hira (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)

  It is common to hear Māori discuss primordial states of Being, yet in colonisation those very central beliefs are forced into weaker utterances. In this process those utterances merely conform to a colonised agenda. ...

• 'Seeing' play through the virtual looking glass: A metaphysical laboratory for de-framing and re-framing play for ECE 

  Novak, Rene (The University of Waikato, 2021)

  In this thesis I address the ambiguous nature of play by interrogating alternative ways of ‘seeing’ play beyond what I assert to be its contemporary Enframed state. I argue that to gain alternative insight into the basic ...

  

• 'No-body' is my friend: Cultural considerations of young children's 'imaginary companions' 

  Hayes (Bluett), Shilo Jane (The University of Waikato, 2020)

  The variegated relationships young children may have during their early childhood education (ECE) years have long been of interest to theorists and teachers alike. Relationships, and understandings of companionship, can ...

  

• Re-presenting Māori and Indigenous understandings of Being: Deconstructing the notion of mental illness 

  Southey, Kim Marie (The University of Waikato, 2020)

  This thesis examines metaphysics in order to re-present Māori and indigenous understandings of Being and deconstruct the notion of mental illness. A holistic understanding of Being is crucial to Māori and indigenous ...

  

• Rangatahi and complex entanglements of sexuality, sexuality education and secondary school: A material-discursive exploration 

  Chalmers, Jade (The University of Waikato, 2019)

  This research is an exploration with rangatahi (young Māori), of complex materially-discursive webs of sexuality education, sexuality, and secondary school education in Aotearoa. These research areas have commonly produced ...

  

• Indigenous knowledges in health policy in Aotearoa New Zealand and Saskatchewan Canada: A comparative study 

  Green, Jane Alison (The University of Waikato, 2018)

  For more than two decades, components of Māori knowledges in the form of Māori words and concepts have been part of health policy in Aotearoa New Zealand. Health policy that engages Māori words and concepts resonates with ...

  

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