A commentary on “Confronting storms, fires and pestilence: Meaningful evaluation for a hazardous ... more A commentary on “Confronting storms, fires and pestilence: Meaningful evaluation for a hazardous world” by Juha I. Uitto
Tapu and noa are key cultural constructs that were central to traditional Māori society, and cont... more Tapu and noa are key cultural constructs that were central to traditional Māori society, and continue to inform thinking and practice in Māori society today. The intent of this document is to provide some insight, generic language and frameworks about how these concepts might be considered in biowaste management – with a particular focus on biosolids. Importantly, this is to guide non-Māori towards knowing how to ask the right questions in their conversations and engagement with local hapū and Iwi. The report is based upon qualitative research and community engagement work undertaken by the CIBR1 programme to explore the social and cultural feasibility of the beneficial reuse of biosolids2 and effluent from municipal and smaller scale on-site waste and wastewater treatment systems. <br>Here the application of the concepts of tapu and noa to human biowastes (biosolids) has been explored using explanations and examples of tapu and noa and a model of how objects of tapu interact ...
International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2021
Background: The effects of waste on the environment and human health continue to increase despite... more Background: The effects of waste on the environment and human health continue to increase despite behavioral, technological and policy actions for the management and minimization of waste. We plan to undertake a realist review of waste management and minimization interventions within New Zealand to inform effective approaches to waste minimization and management interventions. This protocol paper describes the steps of the realist review, including the objectives, theoretical frameworks and steps used. Methods: Realist review is a theory guided approach that seeks to understand the context-mechanism-outcome configuration of an intervention and generate insights on what works for whom, under what conditions and how. The protocol presents an integrated working theoretical framework comprising of three social theories (Social Learning Theory, Collective Action Theory and Social Practice theory), set within an indigenous Māori implementation framework, He Pikinga Waiora. The initial pro...
Purpose This study aims to understand the engagement between an indigenous social service provide... more Purpose This study aims to understand the engagement between an indigenous social service provider and marginalised clients deemed “hard-to-reach” to gain an insight into how to improve the client’s engagement and well-being through transformative value co-creation. Design/methodology/approach The exploratory study’s findings draw on primary data employing a qualitative research approach through document analysis and in-depth interviews with clients, social workers and stakeholders of the focal social service provider in New Zealand. Findings The findings indicate that there are inhibitors and enablers of value or well-being co-creation. The lack of client resources and a mismatch between client and social worker are primary barriers. Other actors as well as cultural practices are identified as enablers of well-being improvement. Research limitations/implications This research reports on a single social service provider and its clients. These findings may not be readily transferrabl...
This slender book is packed with old world charm. The tenor of parchment coloured, old fashioned ... more This slender book is packed with old world charm. The tenor of parchment coloured, old fashioned typeset cover with a delicately sketched mosquito is extended in the content of the early letters exchanged between subsequent Nobel laureates Alphonse Laveran (1845 1922) and Ronald Ross (1857 1932). Author Edwin Nye has translated their original letters from French to English, and his insightful commentary on this correspondence invokes further the reverence and delicacy of their gentlemanly exchange. Nye’s introduction and footnotes are discerning and informative, especially in the later period of correspondence. The letters are grouped into three time periods: the first, 1896 1898, shows a tentative and growing scholarly friendship; the second, 1889 1902, a more impassioned exchange where both scholars work together to position Ross’s claim of priority of discovery to the Academies, in a race against an Italian contemporary who has published a paper ‘in which he appears to claim the mosquito theory for himself’ (46). The period 1903 1908 offers more scant correspondence, mainly letters from Laveran which are supplemented by comments from Nye. It is easy to underestimate the challenge of assembling such a rich archive and commentary when we can now, so easily, retrace and reproduce recent records through email and computer technologies. The letters in this book lay bare the scientific methods of a foundational study into the aetiology of malaria; the discovery of the lifecycle of the malaria parasite and transmission pathways between the mosquito vector and various hosts. The book gives a fascinating insight into the relationship between two scholars and their engagement with the scientific conventions and establishments of the day. Coloured with delicate courtesies, their scripted exchanges exemplify the early production of scientific knowledge; the search for ‘truth’ and certainty through experimental design, reductionism, systematic inquiry and observation. There is also further testing, guidance and validation through peer review and engagement with the wider scientific academy. This historical account shows scientific research pared back to its most elemental in pencil sketched diagrams and careful fieldnotes. Specimens, photographs and microscope slides (smears) are painstakingly prepared and sometimes sent by mail, often incurring postal delays. Resplendently illustrated are Laveran and Ross’s respective tools of the trade, two personalized brass-embellished microscopes. As both ‘objects d’art’ and functional instruments of practice, these brightly gleaming artefacts envelop two comparatively dusty and austere studio photographs of the men themselves, suggesting two men very much defined and illuminated by their pursuit of science. Underlying this charming and nostalgic journey is a serious lifework on the transmission and ecology of disease. As the later period of letters between Ross and Laveran faded in frequency and urgency, so did the sense of the significance of this discovery in making a difference to human health and shaping the Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand Vol. 41, No. 4, December 2011, 287 288
Biosolids management has been largely overlooked as an issue for environmental co-management, col... more Biosolids management has been largely overlooked as an issue for environmental co-management, collaborative learning and public participation. This paper summarises four research projects on facilitating community involvement in biosolids management in New Zealand. The authors situate these studies both in relation to the New Zealand institutional and policy context for the management of biosolids and in relation to the themes of public participation and social learning in the literature on community involvement in environmental management. From the studies it can be concluded that: the incorporation of the knowledge and views of Māori is important from both public-participation and social-learning perspectives; both public-participation and social-learning approaches must consider the role of issue-definition in relation to willingness to participate; democratic accountability remains a challenge for both approaches; and locating biosolids management within an integrated water-and-wastewater or sustainable waste-management strategy may facilitate wider community participation as well as better-coordinated decision-making.
Page 1. 1 The Theory and Practice of Boundary Critique Foote, Gregor, Hepi, Baker, Houston & ... more Page 1. 1 The Theory and Practice of Boundary Critique Foote, Gregor, Hepi, Baker, Houston & Midgley The Theory and PracTice of Boundary criTique: an aPPlicaTion To communiTy involvemenT in WaTer conservaTion PLENARY PAPER ...
ABSTRACT This paper claims that participatory approaches to water resource management in New Zeal... more ABSTRACT This paper claims that participatory approaches to water resource management in New Zealand are highly influenced by how institutional and community actors understand and practise democracy, including indigenous Māori rights under the Treaty of Waitangi. Drawing on case study analysis from a six-year research programme in which the aim was to evaluate existing and new methods for participatory decision-making, we highlight how different but co-existing democratic beliefs and practices, referred to as democratic logics can shape relationships between governance/decision-making bodies and affected communities. One particular case is examined in detail to illustrate how the various “logics” were strengthened, extended and challenged through participatory research methodologies. Our key message is that revealing and articulating existing democratic logics for participation can help promote and facilitate new participatory approaches, as well as increase robustness and community buy-in to local government decision-making.
Abstract In systemic intervention, boundary critique is important. This means explicitly explorin... more Abstract In systemic intervention, boundary critique is important. This means explicitly exploring the inclusion, exclusion and marginalization of both people and issues. Most of the practitioner&amp;amp;#x27;s attention in boundary critique is usually focused on relationships between ...
A commentary on “Confronting storms, fires and pestilence: Meaningful evaluation for a hazardous ... more A commentary on “Confronting storms, fires and pestilence: Meaningful evaluation for a hazardous world” by Juha I. Uitto
Tapu and noa are key cultural constructs that were central to traditional Māori society, and cont... more Tapu and noa are key cultural constructs that were central to traditional Māori society, and continue to inform thinking and practice in Māori society today. The intent of this document is to provide some insight, generic language and frameworks about how these concepts might be considered in biowaste management – with a particular focus on biosolids. Importantly, this is to guide non-Māori towards knowing how to ask the right questions in their conversations and engagement with local hapū and Iwi. The report is based upon qualitative research and community engagement work undertaken by the CIBR1 programme to explore the social and cultural feasibility of the beneficial reuse of biosolids2 and effluent from municipal and smaller scale on-site waste and wastewater treatment systems. <br>Here the application of the concepts of tapu and noa to human biowastes (biosolids) has been explored using explanations and examples of tapu and noa and a model of how objects of tapu interact ...
International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2021
Background: The effects of waste on the environment and human health continue to increase despite... more Background: The effects of waste on the environment and human health continue to increase despite behavioral, technological and policy actions for the management and minimization of waste. We plan to undertake a realist review of waste management and minimization interventions within New Zealand to inform effective approaches to waste minimization and management interventions. This protocol paper describes the steps of the realist review, including the objectives, theoretical frameworks and steps used. Methods: Realist review is a theory guided approach that seeks to understand the context-mechanism-outcome configuration of an intervention and generate insights on what works for whom, under what conditions and how. The protocol presents an integrated working theoretical framework comprising of three social theories (Social Learning Theory, Collective Action Theory and Social Practice theory), set within an indigenous Māori implementation framework, He Pikinga Waiora. The initial pro...
Purpose This study aims to understand the engagement between an indigenous social service provide... more Purpose This study aims to understand the engagement between an indigenous social service provider and marginalised clients deemed “hard-to-reach” to gain an insight into how to improve the client’s engagement and well-being through transformative value co-creation. Design/methodology/approach The exploratory study’s findings draw on primary data employing a qualitative research approach through document analysis and in-depth interviews with clients, social workers and stakeholders of the focal social service provider in New Zealand. Findings The findings indicate that there are inhibitors and enablers of value or well-being co-creation. The lack of client resources and a mismatch between client and social worker are primary barriers. Other actors as well as cultural practices are identified as enablers of well-being improvement. Research limitations/implications This research reports on a single social service provider and its clients. These findings may not be readily transferrabl...
This slender book is packed with old world charm. The tenor of parchment coloured, old fashioned ... more This slender book is packed with old world charm. The tenor of parchment coloured, old fashioned typeset cover with a delicately sketched mosquito is extended in the content of the early letters exchanged between subsequent Nobel laureates Alphonse Laveran (1845 1922) and Ronald Ross (1857 1932). Author Edwin Nye has translated their original letters from French to English, and his insightful commentary on this correspondence invokes further the reverence and delicacy of their gentlemanly exchange. Nye’s introduction and footnotes are discerning and informative, especially in the later period of correspondence. The letters are grouped into three time periods: the first, 1896 1898, shows a tentative and growing scholarly friendship; the second, 1889 1902, a more impassioned exchange where both scholars work together to position Ross’s claim of priority of discovery to the Academies, in a race against an Italian contemporary who has published a paper ‘in which he appears to claim the mosquito theory for himself’ (46). The period 1903 1908 offers more scant correspondence, mainly letters from Laveran which are supplemented by comments from Nye. It is easy to underestimate the challenge of assembling such a rich archive and commentary when we can now, so easily, retrace and reproduce recent records through email and computer technologies. The letters in this book lay bare the scientific methods of a foundational study into the aetiology of malaria; the discovery of the lifecycle of the malaria parasite and transmission pathways between the mosquito vector and various hosts. The book gives a fascinating insight into the relationship between two scholars and their engagement with the scientific conventions and establishments of the day. Coloured with delicate courtesies, their scripted exchanges exemplify the early production of scientific knowledge; the search for ‘truth’ and certainty through experimental design, reductionism, systematic inquiry and observation. There is also further testing, guidance and validation through peer review and engagement with the wider scientific academy. This historical account shows scientific research pared back to its most elemental in pencil sketched diagrams and careful fieldnotes. Specimens, photographs and microscope slides (smears) are painstakingly prepared and sometimes sent by mail, often incurring postal delays. Resplendently illustrated are Laveran and Ross’s respective tools of the trade, two personalized brass-embellished microscopes. As both ‘objects d’art’ and functional instruments of practice, these brightly gleaming artefacts envelop two comparatively dusty and austere studio photographs of the men themselves, suggesting two men very much defined and illuminated by their pursuit of science. Underlying this charming and nostalgic journey is a serious lifework on the transmission and ecology of disease. As the later period of letters between Ross and Laveran faded in frequency and urgency, so did the sense of the significance of this discovery in making a difference to human health and shaping the Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand Vol. 41, No. 4, December 2011, 287 288
Biosolids management has been largely overlooked as an issue for environmental co-management, col... more Biosolids management has been largely overlooked as an issue for environmental co-management, collaborative learning and public participation. This paper summarises four research projects on facilitating community involvement in biosolids management in New Zealand. The authors situate these studies both in relation to the New Zealand institutional and policy context for the management of biosolids and in relation to the themes of public participation and social learning in the literature on community involvement in environmental management. From the studies it can be concluded that: the incorporation of the knowledge and views of Māori is important from both public-participation and social-learning perspectives; both public-participation and social-learning approaches must consider the role of issue-definition in relation to willingness to participate; democratic accountability remains a challenge for both approaches; and locating biosolids management within an integrated water-and-wastewater or sustainable waste-management strategy may facilitate wider community participation as well as better-coordinated decision-making.
Page 1. 1 The Theory and Practice of Boundary Critique Foote, Gregor, Hepi, Baker, Houston & ... more Page 1. 1 The Theory and Practice of Boundary Critique Foote, Gregor, Hepi, Baker, Houston & Midgley The Theory and PracTice of Boundary criTique: an aPPlicaTion To communiTy involvemenT in WaTer conservaTion PLENARY PAPER ...
ABSTRACT This paper claims that participatory approaches to water resource management in New Zeal... more ABSTRACT This paper claims that participatory approaches to water resource management in New Zealand are highly influenced by how institutional and community actors understand and practise democracy, including indigenous Māori rights under the Treaty of Waitangi. Drawing on case study analysis from a six-year research programme in which the aim was to evaluate existing and new methods for participatory decision-making, we highlight how different but co-existing democratic beliefs and practices, referred to as democratic logics can shape relationships between governance/decision-making bodies and affected communities. One particular case is examined in detail to illustrate how the various “logics” were strengthened, extended and challenged through participatory research methodologies. Our key message is that revealing and articulating existing democratic logics for participation can help promote and facilitate new participatory approaches, as well as increase robustness and community buy-in to local government decision-making.
Abstract In systemic intervention, boundary critique is important. This means explicitly explorin... more Abstract In systemic intervention, boundary critique is important. This means explicitly exploring the inclusion, exclusion and marginalization of both people and issues. Most of the practitioner&amp;amp;#x27;s attention in boundary critique is usually focused on relationships between ...
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