In 2022 Emerald Publishing is focusing on Indigenous communities, commissioning content on issues such as stewardship, health and wellbeing, diversifying the curriculum, and diversity within the boardroom. Through this work Emerald Publishing aspires to “…promote everybody's voices, including the voices of Indigenous people, bring new insights, learn from each other, and develop more equitable publisher–researcher relationships”. Whakauae Research features in this months indigenous voices issue, with an article and video (links below).
Dr Tanya Allport and Dr Amohia Boulton shared an article titled “Can Aotearoa's (New Zealand's) Indigenous communities achieve sustainable health equity in the absence of widespread cultural reform?”. The article discusses how the major restructure underway of the New Zealand health system and with the launch of a Māori Health Authority (MHA), Māori and Pākehā alike are sceptical of the reforms ability to affect true transformational change. They say “The missing part of the puzzle is a Te Ao Māori (Māori worldview) lens at the very heart of the health system and the acceptance of this lens by the wider public.”
Tom Johnson (PhD candidate) shared a video summation of his article “Hauk?inga – Bro Ora: revitalising tāne Māori wellbeing through an awa lens” which explored Māori wellbeing pre and post colonisation. He suggests that whilst Māori wellbeing is a highly complex issue with no one single solution, there is great potentiality in capturing the accounts of Tāne Māori (Māori men) and the conditions which allow their wellbeing to thrive in connection with te taiao (the environment) and with each other.
