Southey, Kim MarieTinirau, Rāwiri2024-12-062024-12-062022Southey, K. (2022). Everyday experiences of racism: Suppressing Māori cultural expressions in mental health. Te Atawhai o Te Ao.978-0-473-64510-6https://hdl.handle.net/10289/17078Tēnā kautau i runga i ngā tini āhuatanga o te wā. This publication has been produced as part of the He Kokonga Ngākau Fellowships, an initiative of Te Atawhai o Te Ao that seeks to support and contribute to our research projects, and grow Māori research capability that promotes Kaupapa Māori research. These fellowships have been established to support Māori postgraduate students, practitioners, community researchers, and writers in their writing on kaupapa that have relevance to our organisation and wider community. Dr Kim Southey (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kuia) draws on her doctoral research on re-presenting Māori and Indigenous understandings of being, and deconstructing the notion of mental illness. This publication focuses on how Māori and Indigenous expressions within the mental (and wider) health system are suppressed and restricted by a dominant (western) worldview. Dr Southey posits that the western insistence on representing things in the world through rational, logical explanations impacts on Māori cultural understandings, limiting how we can express ourselves. This is viewed by Dr Southey as a form of institutional racism.en© 2021 Te Atawhai o Te Ao Charitable Trust. Used with permission.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Report