My first post-graduate degree was in marine ecology at James Cook University of Queensland Australia. My research interests include nature-culture discourses (onto-epistemologies, practices, ecosystem-based, environmental management policy) and intersectionality research in ecosystem management, restoration practices and problematising challenges. I have been a practitioner in this space both in New Zealand and Australia and I am still working alongside Indigenous peoples and communities to assist with implementing their ideology of ecosystem management and restoration. My PhD research utilised decolonising, feminist and morethanhuman methodologies and geo-creative methods/practices. I am a trans-disciplinary researcher working across marine sciences and social geographies. Understanding how social change interacts with ecosystem change and understanding how this nature and culture relationship is recognised in natural resource management and issues such as climate change, sedimentation pollution, biodiversity loss etc.
We examine the ecosystem degradation of the Kaipara moana as an example of the nexus of settler c... more We examine the ecosystem degradation of the Kaipara moana as an example of the nexus of settler colonialism and slow violence. Settler colonialism is a type of domination that violently interrupts Indigenous people’s interactions and relationships with their land-, sea-, and water-scapes. Slow violence provides a conceptual framework to explore the slow and invisible erosion of ecosystems and to make visible how unseen violence inflicted upon nature (such as deforestation and sedimentation pollution) also unfolds at the intimate scale of the Indigenous body and household. Here, we present how the structural violence of settler colonialism and ecological transformations created a form of settler colonial slow violence for humans and more-than-humans which highlights the ethical and justice features of sustainability because of the link with settler-colonialism. We argue for the need to include local knowledge and lived experiences of slow violence to ensure ethical and just ensuring ...
Ecosystem-based management (EBM) is a holistic approach to managing marine environments that can ... more Ecosystem-based management (EBM) is a holistic approach to managing marine environments that can potentially reconcile cross-sectoral conflicts, scale mismatches, and fulfil sustainability objectives. In Aotearoa New Zealand (Aotearoa NZ), the operationalisation of EBM has been uneven; however, a set of principles to guide EBM in Aotearoa NZ provides a useful foundation to enable and enhance its uptake and to support governance approaches that attend to the rights, values, interests, and knowledges of Māori, the Indigenous peoples of Aotearoa. In acknowledging the need to give attention to the governance of marine environments, we apply insights from the ‘relational turn’ in social sciences and sustainability science to explore the ontological and epistemological broadening of ‘governance’ to identify opportunities for alternative forms of governance that accommodate Indigenous ways of knowing. We propose four pou (or enabling conditions) that generate alternatives to governance mod...
Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-ene-10.1177_25148486211026845 for 'Thinking with Kaipara'... more Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-ene-10.1177_25148486211026845 for 'Thinking with Kaipara': A decolonising methodological strategy to illuminate social heterogenous nature–culture relations in place by Leane Makey in Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space
Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 2021
Decolonising methodologies continue to be critically developed to disrupt the marginalising appro... more Decolonising methodologies continue to be critically developed to disrupt the marginalising approaches to knowledge production. By privileging Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing, relations with nature are a more-than-human entanglement and a relational pursuit. Ecosystems such as estuaries and rivers are connected through kin-based relationships and treated as (or are) ancestors and family members. Such embodiment connects the body–mind–spirit to maintain relations with the mauri of ancestral beings and Deities. Within this ontology, nature is indistinguishable from culture. Our research responds to the call of how method might proceed to de-centre the human and make bodily and material encounters with the nonhuman matter. ‘Thinking with Kaipara’ is a methodological strategy that is a deliberate attempt to pursue embodied ways of producing knowledge. To work with situated knowledges, place and social difference to address the crisis of representation of such in ecosystem-ba...
This report sets out the findings of a cross-cultural collaborative project to develop an underst... more This report sets out the findings of a cross-cultural collaborative project to develop an understanding of the role that the Integrated Kaipara Harbour Management Group (IKMHG) plays in enabling mātauranga-informed management of the Kaipara Harbour. Moving towards a truly integrated and mātauranga-informed approach requires monitoring the extent to which mātauranga Māori sits alongside western science within the IKHMG, and the strengthening of Ngāti Whātua position in resource management decision making.
We examine the ecosystem degradation of the Kaipara moana as an example of the nexus of settler c... more We examine the ecosystem degradation of the Kaipara moana as an example of the nexus of settler colonialism and slow violence. Settler colonialism is a type of domination that violently interrupts Indigenous people’s interactions and relationships with their land-, sea-, and water-scapes. Slow violence provides a conceptual framework to explore the slow and invisible erosion of ecosystems and to make visible how unseen violence inflicted upon nature (such as deforestation and sedimentation pollution) also unfolds at the intimate scale of the Indigenous body and household. Here, we present how the structural violence of settler colonialism and ecological transformations created a form of settler colonial slow violence for humans and more-than-humans which highlights the ethical and justice features of sustainability because of the link with settler-colonialism. We argue for the need to include local knowledge and lived experiences of slow violence to ensure ethical and just ensuring ...
Ecosystem-based management (EBM) is a holistic approach to managing marine environments that can ... more Ecosystem-based management (EBM) is a holistic approach to managing marine environments that can potentially reconcile cross-sectoral conflicts, scale mismatches, and fulfil sustainability objectives. In Aotearoa New Zealand (Aotearoa NZ), the operationalisation of EBM has been uneven; however, a set of principles to guide EBM in Aotearoa NZ provides a useful foundation to enable and enhance its uptake and to support governance approaches that attend to the rights, values, interests, and knowledges of Māori, the Indigenous peoples of Aotearoa. In acknowledging the need to give attention to the governance of marine environments, we apply insights from the ‘relational turn’ in social sciences and sustainability science to explore the ontological and epistemological broadening of ‘governance’ to identify opportunities for alternative forms of governance that accommodate Indigenous ways of knowing. We propose four pou (or enabling conditions) that generate alternatives to governance mod...
Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-ene-10.1177_25148486211026845 for 'Thinking with Kaipara'... more Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-ene-10.1177_25148486211026845 for 'Thinking with Kaipara': A decolonising methodological strategy to illuminate social heterogenous nature–culture relations in place by Leane Makey in Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space
Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 2021
Decolonising methodologies continue to be critically developed to disrupt the marginalising appro... more Decolonising methodologies continue to be critically developed to disrupt the marginalising approaches to knowledge production. By privileging Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing, relations with nature are a more-than-human entanglement and a relational pursuit. Ecosystems such as estuaries and rivers are connected through kin-based relationships and treated as (or are) ancestors and family members. Such embodiment connects the body–mind–spirit to maintain relations with the mauri of ancestral beings and Deities. Within this ontology, nature is indistinguishable from culture. Our research responds to the call of how method might proceed to de-centre the human and make bodily and material encounters with the nonhuman matter. ‘Thinking with Kaipara’ is a methodological strategy that is a deliberate attempt to pursue embodied ways of producing knowledge. To work with situated knowledges, place and social difference to address the crisis of representation of such in ecosystem-ba...
This report sets out the findings of a cross-cultural collaborative project to develop an underst... more This report sets out the findings of a cross-cultural collaborative project to develop an understanding of the role that the Integrated Kaipara Harbour Management Group (IKMHG) plays in enabling mātauranga-informed management of the Kaipara Harbour. Moving towards a truly integrated and mātauranga-informed approach requires monitoring the extent to which mātauranga Māori sits alongside western science within the IKHMG, and the strengthening of Ngāti Whātua position in resource management decision making.
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