ABSTRACT

Underpinned by the notion that community voices should be central to the development of localized communication infrastructures for health and well-being, this study applied Dutta’s culture-centered approach to examine the meanings of health and the navigation of being healthy among 118 people residing in low-income suburban areas in Aotearoa New Zealand. The culture-centered approach is based on dialog between researchers and community members, and it centralizes local contexts by building theories from within the culture and co-creating dialogic spaces of listening, formed at the intersection of structure, culture, and agency. In this study, participants constructed health in relation to food, housing, and health care, underpinned by financial inaccessibility and a deep-rooted cultural conflict between the collectivist norms practiced by the community and the neoliberal individualized structure. The study illuminates how the pathologization of culture by structure constitutes poor health outcomes and how agentic expressions of culture negotiate local structures to regain health and well-being through acts of resistance.

摘要

本研究基于社区声音应成为促进健康和福祉的本地化通信基础设施发展的核心理念，本研究应用 Dutta 以文化为中心的方法来检验健康的含义以及居住在低收入地区的 118 人的健康导航。 - 新西兰 Aotearoa 郊区的收入。以文化为中心的方法基于研究人员和社区成员之间的对话，它通过从文化内部构建理论并共同创建在结构、文化和代理的交叉点上形成的倾听对话空间来集中当地背景。在这项研究中，参与者构建了与食物、住房和医疗保健相关的健康，其基础是经济困难，以及社区实行的集体主义规范与新自由主义个体化结构之间根深蒂固的文化冲突。该研究阐明了文化对结构的病理化如何构成不良的健康结果，以及文化的能动性表达如何协商当地结构以通过抵抗行为重新获得健康和福祉。