For 11 years, virtual coursework between Alaska and Aotearoa has provided a shared space for stud... more For 11 years, virtual coursework between Alaska and Aotearoa has provided a shared space for students to explore some of the most pressing social and environmental challenges at the cultural interface of Indigenous Knowledges. In this session we discuss an annual virtual exchange that engages Māori, Alaskan, Native and non-Indigenous students, including undergraduate and graduate students from different universities, nations, hemispheres and continents. The course is co-taught by two Indigenous scholars - Ocean Mercier, of Māori descent, and Beth Leonard, of Dene’/Athabascan descent, and draws students and their interests into conversation, using online forums, synchronous videoconferencing, and small group discussions. As Indigenous faculty we are engaged interested in a transformative, critical ‘shaping of spaces’ that serves students from marginalized groups. In addition, our ongoing research examines the influence of Indigenous studies in culture-, value- and land-based educatio...
MEDIANZ: Media Studies Journal of Aotearoa New Zealand, 2007
37 Ocean MercierClose EncountersNZJMS 10: 2, December 2007 Close encounters of the Maori kindT... more 37 Ocean MercierClose EncountersNZJMS 10: 2, December 2007 Close encounters of the Maori kindTalking interaction in the films of Taika Waititi Ocean Mercier Introduction Aspects of encounters between people on the marae provide useful metaphors for exploring ...
... A big Shout-Out to the Hacky Sackers: Jonathon Whittle, Brent Walker, David Stewart, Iain Mat... more ... A big Shout-Out to the Hacky Sackers: Jonathon Whittle, Brent Walker, David Stewart, Iain Matcham, Irina Chamritskaya, Hamish Edgar, Nigel Ross, and regular ses-sions have helped keep mind and body fit, and life in perspective. ...
The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2011
ABSTRACT Māori and other Indigenous scholars have been calling for the Indigenisation of academic... more ABSTRACT Māori and other Indigenous scholars have been calling for the Indigenisation of academic space for decades. But what is the day-to-day experience of Māori academics within Aotearoa–New Zealand universities, and how does this experience reveal or enact the commitments to claim space? We interviewed 12 Māori academics and analysed and organised their experiences in the following way: the university can be understood as a site of (1) mobilisation of Māori staff and students; (2) sit-in, or infusing the institutional system with Indigenous values; (3) speaking out, thereby educating not only students, but staff and the public about Indigenous issues; and (4) at which confrontation is part of the academic terrain. The most common outcome of confrontation was negotiation and reclamation of space for Māori people, norms and values. In spite of this apparent willingness of the university to compromise, we find that capitulation (being moulded to the norms of the academy) and (self-)eviction (reconciling difference by leaving the university) are ever-present possibilities for Māori academics. In shaping and presenting the Māori academic occupation as a 4-stage commitment to affirm Māori identity, norms and scholarship, we present a framework within which Indigenous and minority academic work may be understood.
This work presents infrared reflectance measurements that have been made on single crystals of La... more This work presents infrared reflectance measurements that have been made on single crystals of La_1-xCa_xMnO3 at two different doping levels; x=0.1, (T_C ~ 120K) and x=0.265 (T_C, MI ~ 208K); and at temperatures between 70K and 300K. We have observed that the reflectance is sensitive to the quality of the crystal surface. Two sets of temperature dependent reflectance measurements will be discussed: one measured from polished surfaces and one after annealing. Optical conductivities were then obtained by a Kramers-Kronig transform of the reflectance, which was measured in the energy range 0.006-6eV. The low temperature conductivity of the x=0.265 doped sample is dominated by the low energy Drude absorption feature expected of a metal. The phonon at 0.075eV, corresponding to the stretching mode of the Mn-O bond in the MnO6 octahedra, shows a double peak, which becomes single below the transition temperature. This result will be discussed in the context of electron-phonon interactions.
... Mercier* School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box ... more ... Mercier* School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand RG Buckley and A ... the reflectance at the low-energy end of the spectrum was extrapolated to zero frequency using a Hagen-Rubens HR dependence for ...
For 11 years, virtual coursework between Alaska and Aotearoa has provided a shared space for stud... more For 11 years, virtual coursework between Alaska and Aotearoa has provided a shared space for students to explore some of the most pressing social and environmental challenges at the cultural interface of Indigenous Knowledges. In this session we discuss an annual virtual exchange that engages Māori, Alaskan, Native and non-Indigenous students, including undergraduate and graduate students from different universities, nations, hemispheres and continents. The course is co-taught by two Indigenous scholars - Ocean Mercier, of Māori descent, and Beth Leonard, of Dene’/Athabascan descent, and draws students and their interests into conversation, using online forums, synchronous videoconferencing, and small group discussions. As Indigenous faculty we are engaged interested in a transformative, critical ‘shaping of spaces’ that serves students from marginalized groups. In addition, our ongoing research examines the influence of Indigenous studies in culture-, value- and land-based educatio...
MEDIANZ: Media Studies Journal of Aotearoa New Zealand, 2007
37 Ocean MercierClose EncountersNZJMS 10: 2, December 2007 Close encounters of the Maori kindT... more 37 Ocean MercierClose EncountersNZJMS 10: 2, December 2007 Close encounters of the Maori kindTalking interaction in the films of Taika Waititi Ocean Mercier Introduction Aspects of encounters between people on the marae provide useful metaphors for exploring ...
... A big Shout-Out to the Hacky Sackers: Jonathon Whittle, Brent Walker, David Stewart, Iain Mat... more ... A big Shout-Out to the Hacky Sackers: Jonathon Whittle, Brent Walker, David Stewart, Iain Matcham, Irina Chamritskaya, Hamish Edgar, Nigel Ross, and regular ses-sions have helped keep mind and body fit, and life in perspective. ...
The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2011
ABSTRACT Māori and other Indigenous scholars have been calling for the Indigenisation of academic... more ABSTRACT Māori and other Indigenous scholars have been calling for the Indigenisation of academic space for decades. But what is the day-to-day experience of Māori academics within Aotearoa–New Zealand universities, and how does this experience reveal or enact the commitments to claim space? We interviewed 12 Māori academics and analysed and organised their experiences in the following way: the university can be understood as a site of (1) mobilisation of Māori staff and students; (2) sit-in, or infusing the institutional system with Indigenous values; (3) speaking out, thereby educating not only students, but staff and the public about Indigenous issues; and (4) at which confrontation is part of the academic terrain. The most common outcome of confrontation was negotiation and reclamation of space for Māori people, norms and values. In spite of this apparent willingness of the university to compromise, we find that capitulation (being moulded to the norms of the academy) and (self-)eviction (reconciling difference by leaving the university) are ever-present possibilities for Māori academics. In shaping and presenting the Māori academic occupation as a 4-stage commitment to affirm Māori identity, norms and scholarship, we present a framework within which Indigenous and minority academic work may be understood.
This work presents infrared reflectance measurements that have been made on single crystals of La... more This work presents infrared reflectance measurements that have been made on single crystals of La_1-xCa_xMnO3 at two different doping levels; x=0.1, (T_C ~ 120K) and x=0.265 (T_C, MI ~ 208K); and at temperatures between 70K and 300K. We have observed that the reflectance is sensitive to the quality of the crystal surface. Two sets of temperature dependent reflectance measurements will be discussed: one measured from polished surfaces and one after annealing. Optical conductivities were then obtained by a Kramers-Kronig transform of the reflectance, which was measured in the energy range 0.006-6eV. The low temperature conductivity of the x=0.265 doped sample is dominated by the low energy Drude absorption feature expected of a metal. The phonon at 0.075eV, corresponding to the stretching mode of the Mn-O bond in the MnO6 octahedra, shows a double peak, which becomes single below the transition temperature. This result will be discussed in the context of electron-phonon interactions.
... Mercier* School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box ... more ... Mercier* School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand RG Buckley and A ... the reflectance at the low-energy end of the spectrum was extrapolated to zero frequency using a Hagen-Rubens HR dependence for ...
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