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Claiming spaces: Prioritising Maaori worldview
Ohomairangi Trust was established as a provider of early intervention services in February 2002. It is funded and accredited by the Ministry of Education, and is the first Kaupapa Maaori based early intervention service to be accredited by the Ministry of Education. Essentially Ohomairangi was developed because of a need in the community for a service that could focus on developing and providing early intervention in a uniquely Maaori way, without the constraints of a crown agency. The Ohomairangi early intervention team has a commitment to supporting both the positive developments for Maaori within the Ministry of Education, and the continued independent research and development of Kaupapa Maaori services. The primary purpose of Ohomairangi is to develop and provide a Kaupapa Maaori based early intervention service across Taamaki Makaurau, which meets recommended practice guidelines. This evolves from a starting point of Kaupapa Maaori theory
Working Out What to Wear in Papua New Guinea: The Politics of Fashion in Stella
In this article I discuss Stella, a new womenâs magazine in Papua New Guinea. Noting that Stella provides a context for celebrating new Pacific femininities, I argue that the magazineâs representations of fashion are a crucial way in which this refiguring of the feminine occurs. Discussing the significance of what women wear through reference to anthropological insights about the relationship between clothing, gender, and status, I suggest that in PNG, clothing is a focal point of cultural debate. Through its playful politics, Stella intervenes in this debate, thus smuggling a deeply political message between its glossy pages. In addition, I demonstrate that through its selective aestheticization of the âlocalâ and the âtraditional,â the magazine acknowledges educated, young Papua New Guinean womenâs desire to reconfigure âcultureâ in more inclusive ways.In this article I discuss Stella, a new womenâs magazine in Papua New Guinea. Noting that Stella provides a context for celebrating new Pacific femininities, I argue that the magazineâs representations of fashion are a crucial way in which this refiguring of the feminine occurs. Discussing the significance of what women wear through reference to anthropological insights about the relationship between clothing, gender, and status, I suggest that in PNG, clothing is a focal point of cultural debate. Through its playful politics, Stella intervenes in this debate, thus smuggling a deeply political message between its glossy pages. In addition, I demonstrate that through its selective aestheticization of the âlocalâ and the âtraditional,â the magazine acknowledges educated, young Papua New Guinean womenâs desire to reconfigure âcultureâ in more inclusive ways
The environing air: a meditation on communications structures in natural environments.
Any attention paid to the positioning of telecommunications installations in natural landscapes usually relates to the aesthetic impact. However, such paraphernalia, particularly when contrasted with natural surroundings, invites us to think beyond the visible. Through Heideggers accounts of Zuhandenheit and Vorhandenheit, as well as his later articulations on Nature as it is subjected to the ordering principles of Gestell, this paper aims to highlight the overlaps of the natural and the technological worlds inhabited by communications structures, considering the relationship between the human and the natural realms, through the uncertain electromagnetic phenomena that envelops the two. The essay is underpinned by the extended phenomenological description of an encounter with such technology that includes, following Anthony J. Steinbocks outline of a phenomenological approach that might begin with the facts of the everyday sciences, some reference to the basic concepts of physics involved in transmissions technology
Protecting Wild Animals from Unnecessary Suffering
This article compares the protection from unnecessary suffering afforded to wild animals with that afforded to domesticated animals and animals under human control. It considers various species-specific bio-diversity- and conservation-based protection for wild animals, under legislation such as the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010, as well as the general protection from intentionally inflicted unnecessary suffering afforded to wild mammals under the Wild Mammals (Protection) Act 1996. The article then compares the standard of protection afforded to wild animals with that afforded to non-wild animals under section 4 of the Animal Welfare Act 2006, which criminalises unnecessary suffering unreasonably caused to non-wild animals
Developing Young Women's Collective Action in Vanuatu
Over the past year, I have conducted 38 interviews with young, educated women in Papua New Guinea (PNG), Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. Two important findings have already emerged. The first is that young women in Melanesia are subject to intimate forms of control. However educated and able they may be, family members continue to exert or seek to exert control over their behaviour and choices. The second is that young, educated Melanesian women derive solidarity and support from one another. This peer group support appears to be particularly important for women who have made countercultural âchoicesâ â for example, to remain single, leave violent partners or bring up children on their ownAusAI
The treatment of the British military war dead of the Second World War
Almost nothing is known about the treatment of the British military dead of the
Second World War. It is one of the few aspects of the conflict that has not been
afforded attention by scholars. This is remarkable given that death is the most
profound and important consequence of war. Drawing on extensive and previously
unused sources in the National Archives and the Commonwealth War Graves
Commission, the thesis endeavours to correct this oversight by examining the
treatment of the military dead in the European, Mediterranean and African theatres of
the 1939 -45 conflict. It does this in parts, reflecting the three stages of the burial
process. In the first part British burial policy and frontline burial practice are
examined. The operations of the army and air force graves services, which were
responsible for confirming the location and identity of the dead, are studied in the
second part. The third part considers first the manner in which the Imperial War
Graves Commission commemorated the British dead in battlefield cemeteries, and
then the pilgrimages undertaken to these cemeteries by bereaved relatives in the early
post -war period. The successes and failures of the burial process cannot be assessed
without this perspective. The research shows that shortcomings in the planning and
administration of burial and graves operations resulted in the loss of the remains and
identities of thousands of British servicemen. The fact that the bodies of so many
others were recovered, and accorded identified interment, is credit to the work of the
military graves services and the thesis seeks to recognise their contribution to this
hitherto- unexplored aspect of the 'People's War'
"We only Get the Daylight Hours": Gender, Fear and 'Freedom' in Urban Papua New Guinea
Traditional discussions of security are state-centric and ignore individual experience. Presenting a counter-perspective, this article extends existing literature about violence and insecurity by representing the perspectives of those for whom security is a daily concern: young educated Papua New Guinean women living in Papua New Guineaïżœs towns and cities. Drawing on thirty interviews conducted between 2007 and 2013, I explore how young women in Port Moresby and Goroka talk about violence and insecurity. The article highlights the frustration they experience because of their limited mobility and the ways they are forced to manage their sense of security in these context
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