ABSTRACT

This paper emerges from a Marsden project, Let the River Speak, focused on the Waimatā River in Gisborne, bringing insights from mātauranga and wānanga together with a wide range of disciplines to produce innovative and engaged understandings of ki uta ki tai-the life of rivers from the mountains to the sea. In Te Ao Māori, waterways are relational knots/nodes/strands in a meshwork of whakapapa that arises from exchanges between earth and sky, land and sea. This approach acknowledges the relations between the atmosphere, surface water and groundwater, vegetation cover, land use, water quality and quantity, the sea, plants, animals, micro-organisms and people; and rivers as beings in their own right, with their own rights. Let the River Speak is codeveloped with the river by a team including iwi researchers, scholars from earth system science, geomorphology, microbiology and infectious diseases, forest ecology, anthropology, creative practice, and business studies. It is holistic, working across different knowledge systems to understand the full complexity of waterways in relationship with people and other life forms over time. At the same time, it is hopeful, providing a relational framework for actions to restore river and estuarine communities to a state of ora (health, well-being, flourishing).

摘要

本文来自马斯登项目，让河流说话，重点关注吉斯伯恩的怀马塔河，将 mātauranga 和 wānanga 的见解与广泛的学科结合起来，对 ki uta ki tai（河流的生命）产生创新和参与的理解从山到海。在 Te Ao Māori，水道是 whakapapa 网络中的相关结/节点/股线，源于地球与天空、陆地与海洋之间的交流。这种方法承认大气、地表水和地下水、植被覆盖、土地利用、水质和水量、海洋、植物、动物、微生物和人之间的关系；和河流作为自己的生命，拥有自己的权利。Let the River Speak 由 iwi 研究人员、地球系统科学学者、地貌学、微生物学和传染病、森林生态学、人类学、创意实践和商业研究。它是整体的，跨不同的知识系统工作，以了解随着时间的推移与人和其他生命形式关系的水道的全部复杂性。同时，它充满希望，为将河流和河口社区恢复到 ora 状态（健康、福祉、繁荣）的行动提供了一个关系框架。