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Responding to climate change in Aotearoa New Zealand: Universities, neoliberalism and narratives of change N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Danielle Lomas, Sophie Bond
This article investigates how the eight universities in Aotearoa New Zealand are responding to climate change. It employs a mixed methods approach and involves a detailed analysis of the documentation that universities have produced in relation to climate change, supported by a critical discourse analysis and interviews with key actors in universities' climate change response. All universities in Aotearoa
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A missed opportunity for health promotion? Perceptions of large-scale housing developments in Aotearoa New Zealand N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Mirjam Schindler
Large-scale housing developments (LHD) are increasingly being used to accommodate population growth in (sub)urban Aotearoa, but their market-oriented and delivery-focused approach raises questions about whether resulting housing supplies meet residents' expectations for a healthy living environment. Based on a mixed-methods survey with expert and non-expert residents in the Wellington Region, this
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Gendered geographies of resistance, resilience and reworking in Aotearoa feminist geography scholarship N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Gail Adams-Hutcheson, Lynda Johnston, Sandi Ringham
Aotearoa New Zealand feminist geographies involve alliances of connected and vibrant researchers who pay close attention to the politics of knowledge production, power, intersectionality and decolonisation. Safe spaces to speak and write together have been nurtured over time ‘down under’ due to a collective politics of care and mentoring. This special issue demonstrates the strength of collective thinking
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Racism in paradise: Being migrants in urban agriculture in Aotearoa New Zealand N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Marcela Palomino-Schalscha, Maria Teresa Braga Bizarria, Isabella Sánchez-Bolívar
Research on urban agriculture (UA) has revealed that alongside the opportunities these spaces open for community building, UA can also (re)produce exclusionary practices, especially towards minority groups. Engaging with critical debates, we conducted a collective autoethnography project to explore the nuances of joining UA as Latin American migrant women of colour in Wellington, Aotearoa. We discuss
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Doing leadership differently as resistance: Care-fully reworking Aotearoa New Zealand's research system N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Bethany Cox, Kirsten Locke, Emma Sharp, Aisling Rayne, Leilani Walker, Tammy Steeves
The ‘research system’ in Aotearoa New Zealand is rife with obstacles for entry and retention of diversity. The research system's complexity and longevity gives the impression of stability and fixity, but we argue it is characterised by a lack of imagination around leadership that generates change. In this article, we examine the embodied experiences of research leadership, as encountered by participants
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Street food pantries as gendered sites of labour and home: Suburban geographies of food (in)securities in Kirikiriroa, Aotearoa New Zealand N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Lynda Johnston, Gail Adams-Hutcheson
Open street food pantries are a community-led response to food insecurity, food waste, poverty and climate action. They are at the centre of a dynamic interplay of material, cultural, spatial and embodied relations. This article explores the gendered and spatial politics of home, labour and food in suburban communities through examining street food pantries in Kirikiriroa Hamilton, Aotearoa New Zealand
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Mana Wahine reworking the power to name taonga N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Sandi Ringham
The capacity of Indigenous peoples to officially name taonga species (flora and fauna) within taxonomy signifies resilience and a reworking of western scientific processes and institutions. This article explores the ways in which Ngāti Kuri women contribute to environmental justice through the naming of taonga species. Ngāti Kuri were the first tribe in the world to install a tribal name into the co-authorship
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A child play-and-learn area contributing to urban regeneration: A case in Christchurch, New Zealand N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Yuying Huang, Ning (Chris) Chen, C. Michael Hall
This study regards a Child Play-and-Learn Area (CPLA) in a library as a third place and investigates its relationships with visitors through the concept of place attachment. To understand the influence of the CPLA, the study examined the relationships among visitors' place attachment, servicescape and behavioural intentions involving place scales. A survey was conducted in a CPLA in Christchurch, New
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An examination of the growth of Airbnb in New Zealand and its impact on the private rental housing market: 2016–2021 N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2023-10-08 Caroline Fyfe, Lucy Telfar Barnard, Philippa Howden-Chapman, Julie Bennett
Airbnb is an online platform connecting private hosts with visitors looking for short-term accommodation. The aim of this paper is to examine the impact of Airbnb on long-term rental housing availability and cost in Aotearoa New Zealand before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Regional growth patterns in Airbnb properties were measured and their impact on the private rental market investigated. An
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Understanding prison violence in Aotearoa New Zealand using machine learning N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Lars Brabyn, Andrew Day, Randolph Grace, Armon Tamatea
Prison violence is a major safety issue for people in prison and staff. In Aotearoa New Zealand, all prison incidents are recorded on the Department of Corrections (Ara Poutama Aotearoa) COBRA database. An analysis of prison violence at the unit level is applied using machine learning to provide a prediction model of prison violence as well as identify important factors associated with violence. The
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Thinking with soils: Can urban farms help us heal metabolic rifts in Aotearoa? N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Sasha Goburdhone, Kelly Dombroski
In this commentary, we reflect on our work with an urban youth farm where young people (re)connect to the food system. Participating in everyday soil creation and care activities nurtured new relationships with more-than-human ecologies and beings at an urban farm called Cultivate Christchurch. In this farm, participants engaged with soils and the process of making and regenerating soil from food waste
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Coloniality and Indigenous ways of knowing at the edges: Emplacing Earth kin in conservation communities N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Elaina J. W. Weber, Elizabeth S. Barron
Participation of Indigenous peoples and local communities is encouraged in calls for sustainable transitions and transformations. The term ‘community’ is widely used yet nebulously defined. Conservation that removes people from their communities of land invokes epistemological authority and displaced relationships. We relate our work to the articles in this special issue to rethink the relationship
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Antipodean more-than-human geographies: From the edges N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Nikolai Siimes, Kenzi Yee, Alice McSherry, Emma L. Sharp
To be more-than-human is to be relational, to no longer see the human as a discrete individual and to recognise the multivalent agency and import of the non-human in bio-physical, socio-economic and cultural worlds. This Special Issue galvanises an interest by Aotearoa New Zealand geographers in non-human–human relations and delivers more-than-human research from the edges: of the discipline, from
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Addendum: Central-Auckland rainfall, 1853–2020—Sites histories and implications for developing a long-term rainfall record N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2023-07-30 Anthony M. Fowler
Fowler (2021a, New Zealand Geographer, 77, 16–31) supplemented the site histories of four central-Auckland climate observatories by mining two searchable online historical archives (Papers Past, DigitalNZ). Photographic and map evidence was found for three of the sites, but not for the Auckland Domain observatory. Additional information (a map) has now been found which allows a more accurate determination
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Managing ubiquitous ‘forever chemicals’: More-than-human possibilities for the problem of PFAS N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Eleanor Buttle, Emma L. Sharp, Karen Fisher
We provide a perspective on the ubiquity of PFAS (a suite of unique per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or ‘forever chemicals’) as toxic, pervasive and environmentally persistent more-than-human agents. We situate our discussion of these more-than-human contaminants in our location of Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ), a post-production, post-consumption contaminated site. We therefore make an Antipodean
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Complexities of care in insect-human relations N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Kenzi Yee, Emma L. Sharp
What ethico-politics are we complicit in when we eat insects? Or produce them for feed? In this article we think through underexplored ideas of human-insect response-abilities, or ‘care’ in the acts of ‘producing’ insects that are to be: eaten by humans or non-humans; or, enrolled in eating other species for environmental ‘management’. Rather than merely passive recipients of human care, we think through
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Having a drink with awkward Brett: Brettanomyces, taste(s) and wine/markets N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Nikolai Siimes
Brettanomyces (Brett) is an awkward, a yeast subject to much debate in the wine world. Brett changes taste profiles, but not in any simple or stable way. In doing this, Brett is an active agent in the making of wine, the social construction of taste/quality and the social experience of wine drinking/expertise. This article draws on ongoing ethnographic and auto-ethnographic research to argue that Brett's
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Restoration as reconnection: A relational approach to urban stream repair N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Logan Samuelson, Brendon Blue, Amanda Thomas
Urban stream environments have been significantly altered through processes of colonisation and urbanisation. In Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, there is growing interest in peeling back layers of the city to reconnect with waterways. More-than-human geographies can play a critical role in contributing to these efforts, guiding understandings of what it means to restore and live
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Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) and field-based observations of rainfall-triggered landslides from the November 2021 storm, Gisborne/Tairāwhiti, New Zealand N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Matt Cook, Martin Brook, Murry Cave
Gisborne/Tairāwhiti is particularly susceptible to rainfall-triggered landslides on account of (1) steep slopes, (2) young, soft geology, (3) landuse change effects. The interplay of these factors led to a particularly damaging rainfall-induced landsliding event during 3–7 November 2021, following >200 mm of rainfall. This caused a Multiple Occurrence Regional Landslide Event, impacting residential
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Plants out of place: How appreciation of weeds unsettles nature in New Zealand N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Abbi Virens
Weeds are known as ‘plants out of place’, but how do we come to understand what belongs in place and what does not? Organisms that thrive beyond boundaries of control threaten life that is ‘in place’, or nature. As a threat to life and nature, weeds are transformed into objects of hate and elimination. Exploring the collective hate of weeds helps to untangle the affective dimensions of colonisation
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Finding our place at the table: A more-than-human family reunion N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Alice McSherry, Georgia McLellan
Indigenous worlds are and always have been sites of more-than-human (MTH) agency and relationship, despite their largely marginalised status within geographic scholarship to date. The return to cosmologically-informed earth-oriented Indigenous Lifeworlds holds transformative power for mobilising collective action toward life-affirming MTH futures for all. In this commentary, we, as two Indigenous PhD
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Plucking the ‘golden goose’, alive: The impacts of ‘supercity’ governance on a small island community N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Pam Oliver, Robin Kearns, Peter R. Wills
1 PLANNING FOR SMALL COMMUNITIES: WHO KNOWS BEST? The myriad lessons for our nation's central and local governments from 2023's devastating Auckland Anniversary weekend floods and Cyclone Gabrielle were quickly acknowledged following those events, most of them focused on a chronic failure to upgrade infrastructure to meet climate change impacts. What also became apparent in the immediate aftermath
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How many seasonal workers from the Pacific have been employed in New Zealand since the RSE scheme began? N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Richard Bedford, Charlotte Bedford
This Research Note provides the first reliable figures on the numbers of seasonal workers from the Pacific Islands who participated in the Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) scheme between July 2007 and June 2022. The method for deriving these figures is explained briefly before examining the frequency of return by men and women for employment in subsequent seasons from the nine participating Pacific
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Reflections on post-pandemic university teaching, the corresponding digitalisation of education and the lecture attendance crisis N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Shinya Uekusa
This short commentary discusses effective university teaching in the context of the pandemic, the corresponding digitalisation of tertiary education, and the recent lecture attendance crisis. By critically reflecting on my own experience as a university educator and as a student in a teacher education course, I suggest that the attendance crisis presents an opportunity to explore effective teaching
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Emerging transitions in organic waste infrastructure in Aotearoa New Zealand N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Gradon Diprose, Kelly Dombroski, Emma Sharp, Amanda Yates, Bailey Peryman, Martine Barnes
Aotearoa New Zealand is at a critical juncture in reducing and managing organic waste. Research has highlighted the significant proportion of organic waste sent to landfills and associated adverse effects such as greenhouse gas emissions and loss of valuable organic matter. There is current debate about what practices and infrastructure to invest in to better manage and use organic waste. We highlight
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Refashioning place and new-build gentrification: The material and symbolic redevelopment of Three Kings, Auckland N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Larissa Naismith, Laurence Murphy
Auckland's post-suburban landscape is associated with new mixed-use apartment developments. When located in former industrial sites, these emergent residential and retail spaces constitute new-build gentrification and carry the potential to rupture existing people/place dynamics. This article examines material and socio-cultural processes associated with the redevelopment of an industrial quarry in
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Participatory biosecurity practices: Myrtle rust an unwanted pathogen in Aotearoa New Zealand N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Gradon Diprose, Robyn Kannemeyer, Peter Edwards, Alison Greenaway
Managing unwanted pests and diseases is a growing concern. Recent shifts in state-led biosecurity policy have seen a movement towards ‘shared responsibility’ between government, industry and communities. We use social practice theory to show how materials, skills and meanings come together to shape how people understand the spread of myrtle rust (Austropuccinia psidii), an unwanted disease in Aotearoa
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Blue days: A mid-20th century war memorial swimscape and the persistence of memory N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Gretel Boswijk
War memorials were intended to console the living, honour the dead and remind future generations of duty and sacrifice. In living memorials, the combination of remembrance with celebrating life introduces a tension between the sacred and the profane, affecting the memory work of the memorial. Here, the persistence of memory in living memorials is explored using the 1956 Onehunga War Memorial Swimming
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Tracing Opuatia: Repatriating and repurposing colonial land data N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2022-07-31 Tahu Kukutai, Jesse Whitehead, Heeni Kani
Māori land data produced through colonial systems of dispossession lack interoperability, preventing kin-based communities from tracking their land. Our novel approach to repatriate and harmonise historic land data traces the history of the 45,500 acre Opuatia Block allocated to hapū Ngāti Tiipa in 1866, following the confiscation of 1.2 million acres of Waikato land. Ngāti Tiipa resisted Crown and
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Global studies and human geography: A view from Aotearoa New Zealand N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2022-07-15 Jamie Gillen
This article introduces global studies to an Aotearoa New Zealand audience with the goal of thinking through what human geographers might learn by comparing elements of global studies with their own discipline. It begins by reviewing global studies and its establishment at The University of Auckland and then considers how global studies relates to human geography. A number of areas of mutual benefit
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Ben Garnier and geography at the University of Otago, 1945–1951 N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Michael Roche
Ben Garnier was appointed to teach geography at the University of Otago in 1945. The circumstances by which Garnier accepted the appointment and his role as a teacher, researcher and officer of the New Zealand Geographical Society until his departure in 1951 are examined.
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Performing encounters (and encountering performance) at Auckland Zoo N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Linda Madden, Robin Kearns
1 INTRODUCTION Encounters between humans and animals are the raison d'etre of zoos. In earlier scholarship by geographers, the zoo has been examined as a key site within which strategies for domestication and mythologising of the animal world are enacted (Anderson, 1995). This transformation of ‘nature’ into a cultural backdrop is examined by Hallman and Benbow (2007) as facilitative of family interactions
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New horizons in the politics of water governance N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2022-04-10 Edward Challies, Marc Tadaki
The governance of water encapsulates fundamental choices about how to mediate struggles between core values and interests across society. This Special Issue illustrates how New Zealand is driving frontiers of experimentation in water governance as well as theoretical innovation in water governance research. This scholarship pushes forward global thinking about the epistemological politics of water
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Stream or discharge? Analysing hydrosocial relations in the Waimapihi Stream to innovate urban water politics N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2022-04-05 Sylvie McLean
In Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, 95% of the length of urban streams are piped and buried, leaving them hidden. Technocratic management regimes separate streams into discrete parts, and thus overlook important relationships that can improve or maintain the state of streams. This paper takes a hydrosocial perspective on urban streams, exploring connections between water flow,
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A change of plan: Collaborative ambitions meet institutional realities for the Waikato River N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2022-04-03 Heather Paterson-Shallard, Brendon Blue, Karen Fisher
Aotearoa New Zealand has shifted towards more collaborative decision-making for freshwater in recent years, as national and local authorities seek new ways of working with communities. While the potential benefits of collaboration are well established, the messiness of collaborative processes can challenge institutional imperatives to develop formally justified, implementable plans. This paper explores
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Decolonising cultural environmental monitoring in Aotearoa New Zealand: Emerging risks with institutionalisation and how to navigate them N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Marc Tadaki, Jenna-Rose Astwood, Jamie Ataria, Morry Black, Joanne Clapcott, Garth Harmsworth, Jane Kitson
Cultural monitoring of the environment has emerged in Aotearoa New Zealand as a mechanism to revitalise Indigenous knowledge and support Treaty-based governance. While cultural monitoring is increasingly salient in environmental policy, there is a need to proceed with awareness about how institutionalisation of cultural monitoring can modify or constrain its intent. Here, we dissect the genealogies
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Navigating towards Te Mana o te Wai in Murihiku N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Jane Kitson,Ailsa Cain
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Learning from Aotearoa: Water governance challenges and debates N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2022-03-27 Leila M. Harris
The New Zealand experience continues to make an outsized imprint in water governance scholarship globally. The articles collected here press forward frontiers in hydrosocial and narrative approaches to water politics, reporting much-needed grounded accounts of governance experimentation and providing critical insight into approaches towards decolonizing environmental governance. Although the contributions
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Stop drinking the waipiro! A critique of the government's ‘why’ behind Te Mana o te Wai N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2022-03-26 Lara B. Taylor
He rā ki tua. Better times are coming.
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The politics of water governance in Central Otago, New Zealand: Struggling with a nineteenth century legacy N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2022-03-24 Niall Watson, Harvey C. Perkins
Today, in Central Otago, New Zealand, with competing claims for water beyond irrigation, farmers and water conservation interests are at loggerheads, and freshwater management has become a site of intense debate, competition and political action. We comment on the polarised politics of water governance in Central Otago, writing from the perspective of fish and gamebird management. Our commentary is
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Tracing the neglect of lakes in New Zealand's freshwater politics N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2022-03-22 Kiely McFarlane, Charlotte Šunde
This article examines the material, social and legal drivers of contemporary lake politics in Aotearoa New Zealand through semi-structured interviews with freshwater experts. Despite the rise of freshwater as a mainstream political issue, we find that lakes receive limited attention in a national discourse dominated by rivers and streams. We elaborate how the slow accumulation of environmental changes
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Island notes: Finding my place on Aotea Great Barrier IslandTim HighamThe Cuba Press, Wellington, 2021. 162 pp., ISBN 978‐1‐98‐859540‐5 N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2022-03-17 Robin Kearns
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Dam stories: Using narrative analysis to understand the debate over water security and the Waimea Community Dam N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2022-03-17 Nora Lanari, John Overton
In this article we investigate why environmental debates swing in one direction or another by analysing the discursive construction of water security surrounding the Waimea Community Dam in Aotearoa New Zealand. Using narrative policy analysis based on interview and documentary data, we show how an initial dominant rural water security story was reshaped into a new win-win-win metanarrative by absorbing
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Aid and developmentJohn Overton and Warwick E.MurrayRoutledge, Abingdon and New York, 2021. ISBN 978‐0‐367‐41484‐9 N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2022-03-13 Andreas Neef
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Farming inside invisible worlds: Modernist agriculture and its consequencesHugh CampbellBloomsbury Academic, London and New York, 2021. ISBN 978‐1‐350‐12054‐9 N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2022-03-13 Matthew Henry
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Can catchment groups fill the democratic deficit? Catchment groups as a hydrosocial phenomenon in Waikaka, Southland N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2022-03-13 Jessica McIntyre, Sarah Mager, Sean Connelly
New Zealand's freshwater management has traditionally operated under effects-based legislation which neglects socio-political dimensions and a ‘democratic deficit’ persists between government organisations and individual landowners. Frustrated communities have formed catchment management groups to readdress this democratic deficit. We investigated catchment group aspirations to understand their motivation
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Affective dimensions of pandemic life: The mediatised cultivation of outrage N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2021-12-08 David Conradson
The mediatised circulation of narratives that invite or induce strong emotional responses has been a key dimension of the COVID-19 pandemic. These circulations have shaped the affective dimensions of pandemic life—including collective feelings of fear, anger, relief and happiness—while also contributing to polarised debates regarding lockdowns and vaccinations. In this context, this commentary examines
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Participatory research in practice: Understandings of power and embodied methodologies N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2022-01-02 Katherine Hore, JC Gaillard, Tim Davies, Robin Kearns
Participatory research (PR) has been increasingly used by geographers and other social scientists in recent decades. However, in practice PR often departs from the transformative and empowering characteristics that define it. This article uses candid reflections on the first author's attempt at PR to highlight areas where the under-theorisation of the complexities of fieldwork and the co-constitutive
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Provenancing kauri: Reconstructing the supply of kauri timber into Auckland city, 1850–1889 N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Gretel Boswijk, Anthony Fowler
The 4500-year kauri (Agathis australis) chronology includes ring width data from subfossil remains, 19th-century building timbers and live kauri trees. It was assumed that the building timber data set represented a similar geographic spread to modern kauri sites but that assumption has not been tested empirically by provenancing kauri timber to the source region. To support provenancing, timber import
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Introduction: Pandemic geographies in Aotearoa New Zealand N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2021-11-29 Robin Kearns, Malcolm Campbell
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Justice, migration, and mercy.Michael Blake. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2020. 266 pp. ISBN 9780190879556 N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2021-11-28 Johanna Thomas‐Maude
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Awareness, attitudes and the environmental engagement of young adults in New Zealand N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2021-11-28 Alice Falloon, Claire Freeman, Yolanda van Heezik
Young adults today will be at the forefront of future biodiversity actions and decision-making, making it vital to understand their attitudes towards engagement in environmental initiatives. An online survey of 286 New Zealand young adults (age 18–25 years) revealed an awareness of relevant conservation issues and positive attitudes towards a range of conservation actions. However, only 25% belonged
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What keeps an island community COVID-19 free in a global pandemic? N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2021-11-28 Pam Oliver, Neil Lindsay, Robin Kearns
The COVID pandemic has offered opportunities for islands and other relatively isolated communities to establish pandemic-protection boundaries. A July 2020 survey of Waiheke Island residents sought views on how the island had remained COVID-19 free, despite proximity to a city of 1.6 million (Auckland, NZ). Many attributed that status to ‘pure luck’ or a ‘moat’ effect. However, many also attributed
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Pandemics and emergent digital inequalities N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2021-11-25 Malcolm Campbell
Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become increasingly apparent that a public health crisis exposes underlying inequalities in society. This commentary focuses on emergent digital inequalities in Aotearoa New Zealand, noting the accelerated use of digital tools and technologies such as smartphone applications, online maps and vaccination booking websites during the pandemic. It argues
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Public health and COVID-19: Leaky bodies and regulated borders N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2021-11-24 Sarah A. Lovell
The adoption of border restrictions is a political act that situates bodies relative to the nation state. Despite its lauded pandemic response, Aotearoa/New Zealand deviated from WHO recommendations in its use of strict border control measures. This commentary seeks to critically situate Aotearoa's adoption of border restrictions within the context of quarantine historically and global policy advice
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COVID-19 stigma in New Zealand: Are we really a ‘team’ of five million? N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2021-11-23 Christina Ergler, Robert Huish, Nichole Georgeou, Jeremy Simons, Olivia Eyles, Yi Li, Tianran Deng, Lilian Tame
The New Zealand government has used public health ordinances to impose restrictions on immigration, movement and social gatherings for managing the pandemic. Yet, this response led to unintended consequences, in particular the stigmatisation of some communities and professions as being ‘diseased’. Such discourse ran contrary to the government's own, and very public assertions, that New Zealand was
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Transport changes and COVID-19: From present impacts to future possibilities N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2021-11-22 Lindsey Conrow, Malcolm Campbell, Simon Kingham
Changes in people's movement and travel behaviour have been apparent in many places during the COVID-19 pandemic, with differences seen at a range of spatial scales. These changes, occurring as a result of the COVID-19 ‘natural experiment’, have afforded us an opportunity to reimagine how we might move in our day-to-day travels, offering a hopeful glimpse of possibilities for future policy and planning
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Trouble with social cohesion: The geographies and politics of COVID-19 in Aotearoa New Zealand N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2021-11-22 Nicolas Lewis, John Morgan
In September 2020, the Centre for Informed Futures (Koi Tū) attributed the success of New Zealand's response to the great lockdown of March 2020 as a triumph of social cohesiveness. In this commentary we examine the use of terms such as ‘society’, ‘resilience’, ‘nation’ and ‘social cohesion’ in the light of the spread of the Delta variant, and the importance of geography and politics. We conclude that
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Temporary migration and regional development amidst Covid-19: Invercargill and Queenstown N. Z. Geogr. (IF 1.348) Pub Date : 2021-11-07 Francis L. Collins
This article examines the relationship between temporary migration and regional development in the context of the Covid-19 global pandemic. Focusing specifically on Invercargill and Queenstown in Aotearoa New Zealand, I outline how temporary migration has become central to population growth and economic prosperity and how this relationship has been disrupted by the onset of border controls in response