CEAD - Full Abstract
-
Upload
ajuntrasook -
Category
Documents
-
view
231 -
download
1
Transcript of CEAD - Full Abstract
1 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
CEADHUI17–19November2010UniversityofWaikato
NewZealand
FULLSCHEDULEOFABSTRACTS
Documentupdated8September2010
2 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
1. HollandWilde
CulturalFarming:CriticalTVEthnographyandCivicMediaturgy
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveFormsAbstract:Atelevisionmediaturgisfulsomelyknowledgeableofthehistory,theoryandpracticeofTV/mediacommunication.Inshort,theyembodynotonlyLiteracy'scredoof"readingandwriting",butarealsocapableofdirectingphilosophicalreflexivityandcriticalcraftsmanship.Asanindependentfunctionary,amediaturgmustbebothpartoftheinterpretationalteamofcontentcreatorsandabridgingmechanismtotheaudience,andthus,aprimarythinkeraboutthepoliticalandsocialobjectivesofTV/media.Unfortunately,therearenomediaturgsinexistence.yet.Thisfact,however,doesnotdenythedevelopmentofamorepublicapproachtocivicmediaturgy.CulturalFarmingismysix‐yearethnographicprojectthatpurposefullyinvestigateshowweintentionallymakeourmediacommunicate,ratherthansimplyinterpretingwhatcontent"says".Indeed,ourintentionbehindcontentcreationisalwaysthefirststepinmeaningmakingandconditionswhatcanbesociallyproduced,performedandreceived.CulturalFarming'slongitudinalandethnographicmethodsofarchiving‐and‐responseexaminethese"conditionings",sinceallmediaproductionchoicesareexpressionsofpower,andthuspolitical.Throughsurrealcomparativeappropriationandremix,CulturalFarmingisanattemptto"shock"intopublic/corporateawarenessthenotionoftoolsandtechniquesastheoriginating"mouthpiece"ofethicalmediacommunication.FollowingWalterBenjamin(auraticinnervation),BertoltBrecht(pedagogicaldistanciation),andSergeiEisenstein(criticalmontage)alongwithanthropologicalfilmtheory,CulturalFarmingismypersonal‐civicattempttomaterializeDenzin(1995:200),"Thechallengenowistothinkvideo,tothinkcinematically,tovisualize,notonlytheoryandcultureasproductsofacomplexvisualcinematicapparatus,buttoshowhowthatapparatusentanglesitselfwiththeverytellingswetell."(www.culturalfarming.com)
3 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
2. AileenDavidson
CouncilforInternationalDevelopmentTalkingandlistening:questioningthewhyandhowofresearchwithindigenouspeoplesEmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveFormsAbstract:Whydoweundertakeresearchwithpeoplefromotherethnicorculturalgroups?Isittodiscovermoreaboutourselves?Foralongtime,indigenouspeoplehavespokenoftheneedforresearchtobe'withus,notaboutus'.Howdowenegotiatethis?Wheredoesthistypeofapproachbeginandtherequirementsofacademiaend?Howdoweknowwearelistening,notjusthearingwhatwearetold?ThesequestionsarisefromrecentresearchaspartofOtagoUniversityMasterofIndigenousStudiesprogramme.TotrytoensureIwaslisteningtowhatIwastold,IusedelementsofakaupapaMaoriresearchmethodologybyhavinginputandagreementfromtheparticipantsaboutthequestionstobeusedinasemi‐formalconversationstyleofinterview.Ispokewith5peopleIknewpersonallyaboutthewaystheyidentifyasMaori.Theparticipantsalsoreviewedtranscriptsoftheirinterviewsandthefinaldraftofthecompletedresearchproject.Inthispaper,IwilldiscussthescopeoftheresearchandhowIwentaboutworkingthroughtheissuesImentioned.Oneoftheparticipantsintheresearchprojectwillalsotalkaboutherexperiencebeingpartoftheresearchprojectandherresponsetomyconcerns.ThepresentationwillbereviewedbyVaughanBidois,Ngatiranginui,NgaitaiandTuhoe.VaughaniscurrentlytheChairpersonfortheNgaitaiIwiAuthority(NIA)whichisbasedinTorere,BayofPlenty,VaughanisalsoaPhDcandidateatOtagoUniversity,scheduledtocompleteMay/June2011;andhisthesistitleisCultureandIdentity:PostcolonialReflectionsinAoteroa/NewZealand.
4 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
3. HelenMacdonald
UniversityofCapeTownNegotiatingsafeandunsafespace:Participation,discomfortandresponseabilityinHigherEducationInstitutetransformationinSouthAfrica
SocialJusticeandTransformation:TheoreticalEthnographicVisionsAbstract:
StudiesoninstitutionalcultureconductedinSouthAfricanHigherEducationInstitutesdateasfarbackas1994,markingtheofficialterminationofapartheid.UsingtheUniversityofCapeTownasamicrocosm,manyofthepreviouslymarginalisedgroupscontinuedtoexpressdissatisfactionwiththeUniversity'scommitmenttodiversityandthespeedatwhichtransformationwastakingplace.BuildingupontheViceChancellor'sdesiretocreate'openandsafespaces'fordialogueanddebateontransformationanddiversityissues,managementinitiatedtheKhulumaproject('tospeakout'inisiXhosa).RetreatingfromthefamiliarityoftheworkenvironmentforthreedaysinordertoenteraprotectedspaceinwhichtoengagewithSouthAfrica'sapartheidpast,theinstitutionalcultureandwitheachother,Khuluma'skeyobjectivewastoeffectasustainablesetofchanges.'Safespace'hasemergedasapopularmetaphor,particularlyasavitalclassroomatmospherewithineducationoratherapeuticspaceinpsychotherapy,yetacademicenquiryremainslimited.Literatureprovideslittledetailaboutwhatismeantbysafespaceorhowitiscreated;evenfewerscholarshavequestionedtheutilityofaimingforsafety.Thispaperarguesthatsafespacecanbeacknowledgedtoexistonlyasanideal;aneverfullyattainablesituation.Ifhurtandstrugglearepartoftransformationthenwhatdoes'safety'signify?Paradoxically,Khulumachallengedparticipantstoembrace,nottoavoid,theuneasinessofparticipation,theshocksofawarenessandthedangersofvulnerability.MyresearchshowedthatKhulumaparticipantsimplicitlyunderstoodtheparadoxical'unsafety'locatedinthemetaphoric'safespace'
5 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
4. AnnetteBlum
OntarioCollegeofArt&DesignVoicesofWomeninPostApartheidSouthAfrica:VisualNarrative,SocialJusticeandEmpowerment
SocialJusticeandTransformationAbstract:MyresearchislocatedattheheartofthestrugglebymarginalizedblackSouthAfricanwomenwhoemployartasameansofdealingwiththeaftermathofpoliticalviolenceandtraumainpost‐apartheidSouthAfricaintheirpursuitofsocialjusticeandtransformation.Inthispaper,Iargueforthesignificanceofcontemporaryethnographythroughanexaminationofwaysinwhichthesewomenareempoweredthroughvisualnarrativeingivingvoicetotheirexperiencesoftrauma,violenceandHIV/AIDS.Focusingonthreeoftheruralart‐makingprojectswhichhaveemergedinSouthAfricasincetheearly1990sinresponsetothecomplexchallengesofthepost‐apartheidera‐theAmazwiAbesifazaneor"VoicesofWomen"projectinKwaZulu‐Natal,theMapulaEmbroideryProjectintheWinterveld,andtheBambananiWomen'sGroupinKhayelitsha‐thispaperexaminestheroleofvisualnarrativeintheprocessofuncoveringthetruththrough"remember[ing]whatonemostwantstoforget"(Becker2004:117),ingivingvoicetothepreviouslyvoiceless,andthepotentialofferedbyvisualcultureforbothsocialandeconomicempowermentofwomenwithinthecontextofthecomplexrelationshipofmarginalization,poverty,andrepresentation.Throughtheirengagementwithartisticpracticesindealingwithhistoricizedharm,IarguethattheseextraordinarywomenareenablingnarrativeexpansiontotherestrictivetestimonialpracticesoftheTruthandReconciliationCommission(TRC)whichhasbeenwidelyacknowledgedasafailureforwomenbecauseofitsnarrowfocusonindividualphysicalformsofharm.
6 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
5. GeorgeBradleyJennings
St.Mary'sUniversityCollegeEmbodimentandtheSensesRepresentationsfromaBritishKungFuEthnography
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveformsAbstract:ConsideringthatthevariouswaystorepresentethnographyhaveexpandedsinceVanMaanen´s(1988)initialformulation,thispaperoffersreflectionsontherepresentationofembodiedandsensualexperiencesofpractitionerswithinaBritishWingChunKungFuAssociation(seeJennings,Brown&Sparkes,forthcoming2011).Indoingso,itfollowsvariouscallsfortheacademicfocusonthebodythroughsensuousscholarship(Stoller,1997),carnalsociology(Crossley,1995),phenomenologyofthesportingbody(Hockey&AllenCollinson,2007)andmorerecently,sensualethnography(Sparkes,2009).Firstly,consideringthe´Western´world´sfocusonthevisualsense(Classen,1993),weofferinsightsintotheembodiedexperiencesofaWingChunresearcher‐practitionerthroughtwooftensociologicallyoverlookedsenses:Touchandkinaesthesia,throughthetraditionalformofwrittenrepresentationofethnographicfieldnotesandinterviews.Wearguethatthesesensesformthebasisofthelivedpracticeoftheart,embodiedsensitivityandforthecreationofwhatSamudra(2008)terms´memoryinourbody´.Secondly,byexpandingonrecentinnovationsinrepresentingqualitativeresearchinsportandexercise(seeSparkes,2002),weattempttocommunicatethesefindingsthroughalternativeformsofrepresentationincludingvideoandaudiomaterialalongsideaccessiblemartialexercisesdesignedtoinvokeanunderstandingofsuchinter‐sensoryexperiencesbeyondthenormallydominantvisualsense.Overallwethereforeattempttocommunicateexperiencethoughofferingsomealternativemethodstoaddressbothdoingandrepresentingethnographicresearchinnewembodiedways.
7 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
6. LouisaAllen
UniversityofAuckland'Snapped':ResearchingtheSexualCulturesofSchoolsUsingVisualMethods
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,Transgressiveforms
Abstract:
Visualmethodsareoftenmarginalisedineducationalresearchandhavenotbeenemployedtocollectinformationaboutsexualityatschool.Thispaperexaminestheviabilityandeffectivenessofconductingresearchaboutthe'sexualcultures'ofschoolsinNewZealandusingphoto‐diariesandphoto‐elicitation.'Effectiveness'isjudgedbywhatthevisualmethodologiesliteraturepurportsarethebenefitsofthesemethods.Theseadvantagesincludeprovidingparticipantswithgreaterautonomyoverwhatandhowdataiscollected.Thepaperarguesitisfeasibletoemployvisualmethodstoresearchsexualityinschools.Suchmethodsofferparticipantsalternativemeansofrecountingtheirstories,canhelpilluminateanesotericobjectofinvestigationlike'sexualcultures'andengageparticipantslesslikelytovolunteerforsexualityresearch.Theuseofvisualmethodsisnotwithoutchallengeshowever.Securingethicsapprovalandschoolparticipationalongwithproblemswithcameraretrievalandprotectingparticipantagencyweresomedifficultiesencounteredinthecurrentstudy.Forthosewishingtopursuelessconventionalresearchmethodologiesineducationalsettings,thisdiscussionhighlightspotentialbenefitsandstruggles.
8 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
7. DaphneRickson
NewZealandSchoolofMusicCriticalTheory,ActionResearch,andMusicTherapySchoolConsultation
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGround
Abstract:
Thispaperwilldiscussalargescaleactionresearchprojectinvolvingfourschools,whichresultedinthedevelopmentofamusictherapyschoolconsultationprotocol.Theprimaryaimoftheresearchwastoempowereducatorswhoworkwithstudentswhohavespecialneeds,toincreaseorimprovetheirplanneduseofmusictosupportstudents’developmentandlearning.Participants’initialcautiousand/ornegativeself‐statementsreflectedthedominantWesternworldviewthatonlythosewhoaretrainedorexperiencedintheuseofmusiccanbe‘musicians’.Thusmanydidnotattempttousemusicwiththeirstudentsbecausetheydidnotviewthemselvesas‘musicians’. Byrecognisingtheconceptof‘musician’asasociallyconstructedview,participantsweremorereadilyabletoengageinmusicmakingwiththeirstudents.Themusictherapistconsultantfacilitatedtheirdevelopingconfidence,andenabledthemtodrawontheirnaturalmusicality.Participantsbecameincreasinglyoptimisticandmotivatedastheyrecognisedthevalueofwhattheywereabletodowithmusic,andastheyobservedtheirstudents’positiveresponsestotheintroductionofthecollaborativelyplannedmusicstrategies.Thustheywereenergisedandenthusedbytheconsultations,andvaluedtheprocesshighly.
9 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
8. PaulWhitinui
FacultyofEducation,SportandLeisureStudies,UniversityofWaikatoNavigatingandNegotiatingIdentityinSport:Insights,ReflectionsandLearningsfromaRangatahiMaoriPerspective
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyoftheGround
Abstract:
Thecurrentneedtounderstandtheimportanceofsportinthelivesofrangatahi(youngpersonbetweentheagesof12‐24)Maorihasneverbeengreater.In2001SPARC(SportandRecreationNewZealand)surveyedaround160,000rangatahiMaoriabouttheirlevelsofparticipationinsport.ThefindingshighlightedthatalthoughrangatahiMaoriarethemostactiveethnicgroupinAotearoaNewZealand,therehasbeenanoticeabledeclineintheirlevelofparticipationinphysicalactivitybyalmost10percent(SPARC,2001).GiventhedearthofliteraturepertainingtorangatahiMaoriinsport,researchexamininghowrangatahiMaorinegotiateornavigatetheiridentitywithinthesportingexperienceisrelativelylimited(Whitinui,2001).In2001,myMaster'sdissertationexploredtheprofoundimpactofsportonmysearchforidentityasarangatahiMaori.KaupapaMaori(Bishop,1997;Smith,1997)wascentraltoinformingthisauthoethnographicinvestigation,concludingthatnotonlydidsportfosterapositivesenseofself‐worthandbelonging,italsohelpedtodevelopastrongerinnercuriositytosearchthemeaningofsportinrelationtomyidentityasMaori.Thiscurrentpaperwilldrawonsomeofthosekeyinsights,reflectionsandlearningsandwillconsidertheimplicationsofthoseexperiencesascultural'triggers'necessaryforengagingrangatahiMaoriinthesportingarena.Moreover,creatingopportunitiesforrangatahiMaoritoreflectonhowsportconnectssociallyaswellasculturallywithwhotheyareasMaoriismorelikelytodevelopadeeperappreciationofselfasculturalhumanbeings.Thepaperconcludesthatduetoanever‐increasingpressureonyoungpeopletobesedentary,researchonunderstandingsportanditsrelationtodevelopingastrongandsecureidentityforrangatahiMaoriisurgentlyrequired.
10 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
9. TonyWhincup
MasseyUniversityTheGalleryasaSiteforVisualEthnography
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForms
Abstract:
Thispaperreflectsuponthestrategies,advantagesanddisadvantagesofamulti‐mediapresentationinthesiteofamuseumgalleryforthecommunicationofethnographicwork.Discussionfocusesupontwooriginalexhibitionswhichareusedascasestudies:'TeWa,theroleoftraditionalcanoesincontemporaryKiribati'and'WateronWater,KiribatiinCrisis?'‐theeffectofchangingweatherconditionsupontheindigenousknowledgesystemsofKiribati.Diltheymadecleartheproblematicnatureofthe'partsandwhole'tensioninwhichapartcanonlybeunderstoodinrelationtothewholeandthewholeonlyunderstoodasasumoftheparts.Toengagewiththisproblemitwillbearguedthatthegalleryprovidestheopportunitytointegratenumerousactivitiessuchassound,movingandstillimage,text,catalogues,floortalksandliveperformanceforthevisualethnographer.Theinstallationswhichcomprisethesecasestudieswereconstructedapplyingthetheoryofhermeneuticsinanattempttoexpanduponthelineardeliveryoftextbaseproductionsandtoprovideamoreinteractiveandindividualengagementwiththeethnographicmaterial.10. WithdrawnJulieGalloway
11 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
11. EdgarBurnsLaTrobeUniversityDeconstructinginterviewaccounts'temporality:Multipletimeflownarrativesinmakingcareertransitions
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGroundAbstract:Thispaperexploreshowtimeandtimeflowaffectindividuals'processofcareertransition,andasaconsequencethetransitionnarrativestheypresentininterviews.Deconstructinganunproblematictemporalitythatismostlyincidentaltothemeaningofthesecareertransitionsyieldsabountifulharvestofinsightintotheaccountsoffered,aswellaslocatingtheinterview/eraspartoftheoverallnarrative.Sixaspectsoftimeareconsidered:the'when'ofmid‐career;viewingyoungercolleaguesandones'ownyoungerself;issuesof'lateness'incareerchange;historictimeflowandpersonalchronology;careerchangesas'dislinear'timenarrative;andanemergentquestionabout'interstitial'time.12. WITHDRAWNCharleneRajendran
12 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
13. RobertE.RinehartUniversityofWaikatoRallyNewZealand,2010:Standpointepistemologyataroadrally
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveFormsAbstract:ThisvisualethnographywilllocatetheRallyNewZealand,2010,fromasingular,yetvariably‐informed,standpoint.Iintendtodiscusssomeoftheproblematicsofvisualresearchfromapracticalpositionality,withmyvoluntarypositionasamarshalattheRallyasanexemplarofaccessandlackofaccesstovisualethnographies.??AsLaurelRichardsonremindsus,ourknowledgesare,indeed,partial,andtheacknowledgementofthesepartialknowledgesisbothcriticalandnecessary.Thepartialand'snapshot'locationofthisroadrally,frommypositionintheRaglanlegofit,frommylimitedaccess,willjuxtaposewiththemovementofthecarspastmyownpointofreference.Iintendtowritethisupemulating‐anddiscussing‐HunterS.Thompson's'gonzojournalism'style.
13 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
14. PaulE.PitreWashingtonStateUniversityTheMythofLowAchievement:ExploringtheMisEducationoftheUrbanAfricanAmericanMalePracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGround
Abstract:
ThisethnographicstudyseekstounderstandtheeducationalperspectivesofAfricanAmericanmalehighschoolstudents,aculturalgroupthathasbeenlabeledaschronicunderachievers(Noguera,2009).Boundedbyacasestudyof5highschoolsintwomajormetropolitanareasintheWesternUnitedStates,thisstudyseekstogainabetterunderstandingofschooling,education,andtheroleofdemocracythroughtheexperiencesofanAfricanAmericanculturalgroup.Utilizingdigitalvideo,thisstudywillseekanddemonstratebothoralandvisualevidenceofhowinformantsexperienceschooling,education,andtheirroleindemocracy.Additionalinsightswillbesoughtonhowthesestudentsviewtheroleandstatureofeducationintheirlives,theperceivedviewsoftheirpeers,theroleofcollegeintheirfuture,andhowtheybelieveeducationcanbeimprovedtopromoteacademicengagement.Additionally,datacollectionthroughthemediumofdigitalvideowillbediscussed.Noguera,P.A.(2003).TheTroublewithBlackBoys:TheRoleandInfluenceofEnvironmentalandCulturalFactorsontheAcademicPerformanceofAfricanAmericanMales,UrbanEducation,38,431—459
14 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
15. KennosukeTanakaHoseiUniversityAdvancedMarginalizationandRecriminalizationofUndocumentedImmigrantsinthePostNeoliberalState,US.
SocialJusticeandTransformation:TheoreticalEthnographicVisions
Abstract:
RethinkingRegulatingthePoor,whicharguesfortheshiftfromregulatingcivildisordertoregulatinglaborinindustrialcapitalism(Piven&Cloward,1993),Wacquantstatesthatthe"centralroleofreliefintheregulationofmarginallaborandinthemaintenanceofsocialorder"isdisplacedanddulysupplementedbythevigorousdeploymentofthepolice,thecourtsandtheprisoninthenetherregionsofsocialspace(Wacquant,2008).In"PunishingthePoor",Wacquantindicates"thepenalizationofpovertyhasprovedtobeavectorfortheconstructionofsocialrealityandforthereengineeringofthestategearedtowardtheorderingofsocialinsecurityintheageofderegulatedcapitalism"(Wacquant,2008).
Previousstudiesaboutthispunitiveturndemonstratethatitiscausednotbylatemodernity(cf.,Young,Zimring,&Tonry)butratherbyneoliberalism,aprojectthatcanbeindifferentlyembracedbypoliticiansoftheRightortheLeft.ThisstanceisarguedbyAmerica'sprecariousurbanproletariat.However,thesestudieshavenotscrutinizedtheglobalregimeofneoliberalism,whichhasproducedandreproducedtheundocumentedsocialconditionsimmigrantsliveinintheUnitedStates.
Basedon"observantparticipation"(Idonotjustmean"participantobservation")since2006,thispaperwilldemonstratetheprocessandstructureunderminingtheprecarioussocialnetworkandquasi‐convertiblebodilycapitalofundocumentedworkersintheUS. Thisfielddataandanalysisbringustheopportunityfordevelopingtheperspectiveofadvancedmarginalizationandre‐criminalizationofundocumentedworkersasanewagendaof"immigrant'sstudies"inapost‐neoliberalpunitiveera.
15 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
16. AnjaHeatherJojeReidCurtinUniversityHumanitiesPhilately,CulturalPatinaandEthnography:Usingthepasttoevaluatethepresentandcontemplatethefuture
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForms
Abstract:Whilstnumismaticshaslongbeenconsideredusefulinsocialscienceresearch,fewscholarshavepursuedsimilaranalysesofphilately.Yet,thestudyofpostagestampsisnotjustthedomainofprofessionaloramateurcollectors.Noristhesaleofstampssimplyameansforgovernmentstorecovercostsforprovidingapublicutility.Asmaterialculture,stampsprovidelongitudinalethnographicaccesstotherepresentationofstates'andnations'society,culture,politicsandeconomy.Issuesrangingfromgender,health,education,sport,commerce,sustainabledevelopment,folk‐ways,tourismandeveninternationalrelationsareaddressedthroughsymbolicappropriationinphilatelyatdifferentmomentsintime.Stampsareastate‐fundedhistoricalarchiveendorsedbyUNESCOasnationalheritage.Inamuseumcontext,thetermpatinahasbeenusedtodenotetheartofthesenses,theethnographicappealoftheuniquehistoricaltexturingofartefacts.Anengagementwithphilatelicartrevealsitsowncapacityforsensibilities.HereIdevelopthenotionof"culturalpatina"inordertointerrogatethechemistryunderlyingthelayeredrichnessacrossallspheresofpeople'slives.Ratherthanobjectifyingculture,itgivesrecognitiontothecomplexdialogicrelationsbetweenculturalpoliticsandsymbolicappropriation.Individuals,groups,nationsandstatesareinescapablypartofthatprocess.Iwillexamineseveralpostagestampstodemonstratephilately'spotentialusesinethnographicresearchacrossdisciplines.Throughcriticallythinkingaboutculturalpatinainrelationtophilately,Iexposethetensions,strengthsandweaknessesofdiversepublicaswellasprivateunderstandingsandagendas.
16 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
17. BruceMacfarlaneZarnovichCohenUniversityofAucklandNarrativesofMentalIllness:Fromtheorytopractice
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveFormsAbstract:Thispresentationinvestigatesthe'narrativeturn'insociologyasawayofempoweringmarginalizedgroupsintheresearchprocess.AnarrativestudyofusersofmentalhealthservicesinBradford(UK)willbeoutlinedtodemonstrateonewayinwhichsocialresearcherscanmovefromtheoreticalapproachestoapractical'narrativemethod'inthefield.Indoingso,somecompetingconceptualisationsof'narrative'usedinthesocialsciencesaswellasbyhealthprofessionalswillbeexplored.AnimportantquestionhasbeenraisedbyinterpretativeethnographerssuchasNormanDenzin,CarolynEllisandArthurBocknerastowhetherresearchersareindangerofdistancinganddevaluingthestoryof'theOther'throughfurtheranalysisofagivennarrativeandmakinggeneralisationsacrossnarratives(seeforexampletheAugust2006editionoftheJournalofContemporaryEthnographyonAutoethnography).Whilesuchpost‐structuralwritingshadadeepresonanceinthedevelopmentofthenarrativemethodcarriedoutwithmentalhealthusersinthecurrentstudy,itwillbedemonstratedthattheresultingnarratives/storiesstillcalledforfurtheranalysis,suggestingaconflictwiththeimmediacyofpersonalmeaningsofillnessandrecoveryrecorded.Thepresentationwillconcludebyarguingthatgivingprimacytousernarrativesdoesnotnegatetheworldinwhichthesenarrativestakeform:inthiscase,thepowerstructuresofpsychiatryandmedicineremainanimportant‐ifnotcrucial‐factorwithinuseraccounts.
17 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
18. HollyThorpeandRebeccaOliveUniversityofWaikatoFeministReflectionsintheWavesandontheSlopes:ThePleasures&PerilsofDoingEthnographyinBoardSportCultures
Emergingmethods:Traditional,experimental,transgressiveformsAbstract:
Inthispaperweadoptaplayfulandperformativeauto‐ethnographicapproachtorevealsomeoftheperilsandpleasuresofconductingfieldworkinthemale‐dominatedphysicalculturesofsnowboardingandsurfing.Offeringnumerousexamplesfromourownlivedexperiences,weraiseanumberofcriticalquestionsregardingtheethicsofdoingovertandcovertethnographyinvarioussurf‐andsnow‐relatedspacesandplaces(e.g.,waves,beaches,snow‐parks,lift‐lines,bars)both'athome'and'away'.DrawinguponrecentfeministextensionsofPierreBourdieu'soriginalconcepts(e.g.,McNay,1999,2000;Thorpe,2009),wediscusssomeofthepre‐reflexiveandcognitivestrategieswehaveemployedtonegotiatespacewithinlocal,globalandvirtualsurfandsnowboardingfields,andnavigateourmultidimensionalanddynamicidentities(e.g.,researcher,surfer,snowboarder,friend,academic)withinandacrosssocialfields(e.g.,localsurforsnowcommunity,personalblogs,universitycampus).Insodoing,weillustratethepotentialofBourdieu'sconceptualschema,andparticularlythehabitus‐fieldcomplex,forrecognizingtheagencyandreflexivityofthecontemporaryethnographer.
18 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
19. DrNicholasRoweandAssociateProfessorRalphBuckUniversityofAucklandOurDanceStories
SocialJusticeandTransformation:TheoreticalEthnographicVisionsAbstract:Danceplaysmultiplerolesinfosteringandmaintainingculturalvaluesandrelationships.TheOurDanceStoriesresearchprojectinvestigatesthecreativepractices,learningapproachesanddiversestoriesofindigenousdanceartistsandteachersaroundtheworld,astheynegotiateculturalmodernityandglobalization.Thisethnographicresearchprojectaimstodevelop12books,collectingpersonalnarrativesofdancefromdiverseartists,teachersandstudents.Eachbookislocatedinaparticulargeographicareadefinedbyabodyofwater,asameansofchallengingrepresentationsofdanceandculturalpracticeswithinnational/continental/ethnic/religiousboundaries.Reflectingbothdiversityandcommonalitieswithineachregion,thefirstthreebooksintheseriesareentitledOurDanceStories:TheSouthPacificOurDanceStories:TheSouthMediterraneanOurDanceStories:TheSouthChinaSeaThispaperdiscussestheinitialaimsoftheresearchandhighlightemergingstoriesthatspeaktodiversepractices,valuesandapproachestoartsknowledgewithinTheSouthPacific.Thepaperreflectsuponstoriesofhowdanceiscurrentlybeingcreatedwithindiversecommunities,andhowtheseprocessesmightreflectlocalnotionsofart,moralsandcodesofconduct.Itfurtherreflectsuponthediversewaysdanceiscurrentlybeingtaught/learntwithinspecificcommunities,andhowtheseprocessesmightreflectuniquevaluesandapproachestoknowledge,educationandtheorganisationofinformation.
19 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
20. NicholasRoweUniversityofAucklandDance,CulturalTraumaandVictimArt
SocialJusticeandTransformation:TheoreticalEthnographicVisionsAbstract:Contemporarytheoriesofculturaltraumasuggestthatcollectiveidentitycanbeformedorreinforcedthroughculturally‐mediatedrepresentationsofatraumaticevent(Alexanderetal,2004).Throughsuchartisticandculturalexperiences,thepainfeltbytheactualvictimsoftraumaticevents(suchastheenslavingofancestors,anunfoldingmilitaryaction,thethreatofachangeinclimate)areprojectedontoanempatheticpopulation,suchasatown,nationorrace,fosteringsolidarityandasenseofcollectivetrauma.Academicinvestigationsintothisprocessofculturaltraumahavepredominantlyfocusedonthewaysthatmusic,literature,oralstory‐telling,filmandtelevisionhavebeenusedtoprojectpainacrossagroup(Sztompka2000;Eyerman2001;Alexanderetal2004).Thispaperconsidershowsuchtheoriesofculturaltraumaintersectwithdance,asaperformedartandasocialactivity.BasedonphenomenologicalandethnographicresearchundertakeninPalestine,ThePhilippines,AustraliaandTheNetherlands,thepaperfurtherexamineshowdanceartistsareforcedtonavigatearoundreactionsofpity,contemptandthepopularlabel'victimart'whenpresentingtheirtrauma‐dancesatinternationalfestivalsandotherinter‐culturalcontexts.Whentraumatizedcommunitiespresenttheirdancestoothersoutsidetheirsphereofcollectiveidentity,whatchallengesdoesthispresenttotheartistsandtheaudience?
20 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
21. JacquieKiddUniversityofAucklandSoIhavethisdata...nowwhat?Usingpoetrytoanalyseautoethnographyandportraynuance
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveFormsAbstract:Autoethnographicalstoriesarerichwithemotion,mess,metaphorandsilence.Achallengeforresearchersworkingwithsuchdataistotreadlightlyamongthestories,nottamingortidyingorreframing,butportrayingtheiressencewithintegrity.Traditionalmethodsofanalysis,intheirdrivetouncovermeaning,tendtotrampleoverthenuanceofstories.ArthurFrank(2002)suggestsanalysingstoriesby'thinkingwithstories',andLaurelRichardson(1992)hasdemonstratedusingpoetrytointerpretdata.Thispresentationoffersadescriptionoftheprocessusedtoanalyseadoctoralprojectconsistingof19autoethnographicalstoriesfromnurseswhohaveexperiencedmentalillness.Poetryandshortstorieswereusedasameanstoillustratethemesandtoportraythesilences,hesitationsandcontradictionsinherentinthestories.
21 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
22. PatriciaTeArapoWallaceMacmillanBrownCentreforPacificStudies,UniversityofCanterburyTheHumptyDumptyfactor:extractingindigenoustechnologyfromcrushedeggshells
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForms/PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGround
Abstract:
NotedMaoriacademicsBruceBiggsandHiriniMeadusedtheHumpty‐DumptyanalogytodescribethefateofMaoriculture.WhilecertainelementsofMaoriculturalpracticeendured,somewerelostintheprocessofsurvivingcolonialism;andconsciouslyorunconsciously,othersadaptedastheymetthechangingworld.Emergingexperimentalmethodsofresearchcombinedwithinterdisciplinaryanalysisofitemsofmaterialculturecanenablefragmentsofearlierculturalpracticetobepiecedtogetheragain.However,thecontemporaryethnographercannotassumethat21stcenturymembersofindigenoussocietieswholivegroundedinafamiliarculture,willenthusiasticallyreceiverecoveredinformationaboutthetechnologiesoftheirancestors.Newwaysofworkingtogetherareneeded.Onenewmethodwastriedearlierthisyear.AsmallgroupofskilledMaoriweaversrespondedtoapraxis‐orientedchallenge,undertakinganexperimentinordertoinvestigatetheresearcher'sperceptionofaneighteenthcenturyweavingtechnique.Thispaperdiscussestheprocess,challengesandpotentialoutcomesofthisundertaking;andseekswaystobroadensuchresearchpracticetoassisttherecoveryofindigenoustechnology.23. WITHDRAWNLavChintapalli
22 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
24. HamishCrocketUniversityofWaikatoRearticluatinggoalsoftransformationin"modernitywithoutillusions":Postmodernethicsandvisionsofchange.
SocialJusticeandTransformation:TheoreticalEthnographicVisionsAbstract:ZygmauntBauman(1993)summarizedpostmodernethicsas"modernitywithoutillusions....Theillusionsinquestionboildowntothebeliefthatthe'messiness'ofthehumanworldisbutatemporaryandrepairablestate,soonerorlatertobereplacedbytheorderlyandsystematicruleofreason"(p.13).Contemporaryethnographyhasembracedmanyaspectsofpostmodernitywithoutfallingpreytothenihilismpredictedbyreactionarymodernists.However,adequatelyexpressinganethicalagendawithoutfallingbackintomodernistlanguageandthoughtcanoftenbechallenging.Isuggestthatfurtherexplorationofpostmodernethicsmightallowustobetterconceiveourethicalgoalsandprioritiesforconductingethnographicresearch.InthispaperIdrawontheethicsofEmmanuelLevinas,andtwoLevinasiantheorists:JacquesDerridaandZygmauntBauman.Indoingso,IarguethatLevinasianethicscanhelpethnographersrearticulateanethicsthatisfreefromthebindsofmodernism.IbeginbyexaminingBauman'srejectionoftraditionalformsofethics.Followingthis,IexaminetheformofethicsthatBaumandidnotreject:Levinas'conceptualizationofethicsasanon‐reciprocalobligationforanOther.Finally,IconsiderhowDerrida'snotionofaporiaallowsustoaccountforouractionsinthefaceofmultipleirreconcilableethicalobligations.Iarguethesethreeinsightsareusefultoolsforacontemporaryethnographythatismotivatedtoproduceabetterworld,yetreluctanttoworkfromaplatformofnormativityanduniversality.
23 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
25. ChongFengandXiyaoChenNZSchoolofTraditionalChineseMusic&PerformingArtsIdentityConstructioninMulticulturalNewZealand:EastmeetsWestviaMusic
Abstract:TraditionalChinesemusicisanessentialcomponentofChinesecultureandhasbeendevelopedasauniquesystemtoclassifyChinesemusicalphilosophies,theories,instrumentsandtechniques.TraditionalChinesemusicisnotsimplyaboutastringofnotes.Instead,eachnotehasitsownlifeandspirit.Musichasaspecialcapacitytoevokeandsymbolizetheemotionalandsemanticallyexperienceddimensionsofpeople'slives.Musicnotonlyexpressesorreflectswhatpeoplearelike,butalsocreatesandconstructspeople.Interculturalmusicalpracticescanberenderedintodevelopingasenseofbelonginginanewculture.ThispaperexploresidentityconstructionthroughintegratingtheChinesemusicintotheWesternmusic.Theethnographyinvestigatestheimportanceofculturalgraftinginidentityconstruction.Participantobservationwasconductedthroughthreekeymusicalgenres‐traditionalChineseinstruments,Westernsymphony,andheavymetalmusic.AconcertwasorganisedtografttraditionalChinesemusictosymphonyorchestra,whileaheavymetalbandwaspracticedtoblendtraditionalChinesemusicandheavymetalmusic.Thefindingssuggestthatsuchpracticesserveasaninterculturalcommunicationplatformonwhichmulticulturalidentitiesareconstructed.
24 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
26. TeaTorbenfeldtBengtssonTheDanishNationalCenterforSocialResearchThinkingoutoftheboxdoingethnographyinadefiantenvironment
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveFormsAbstract:DrawingonarecentfieldworkinaDanishsecurecareinstitutionforpredominantlycriminalboys,thispaperdiscussestherestraintsofgainingdataanddoingmeaningfulanalysesoftheboys'everydaylifeintheinstitution‐aneverydaylifemarkedbydefiantnessandboredom.Thepurposeofthepaperistodevelopareflexivemethodologicalapproachwhereanapparentfailuretoobtainmeaningfuldataisredefinedbyreflexivewideningtheunderstandingofwhatconstitutesethnographicaldata.Arguing,thatdataisnotalonewrittenfieldnotesortranscribedinterviewsthepaperadvocatesforanunderstandingofethnographicdataasacomplexmixtureoftheresearchcontext,theresearchersexperience,andthesituationalmeaningconstructionsofbothparticipantsandresearcher.Hereby,thepaperraisestheneedforaclearepistemologicalfoundedunderstandingofwhatconstitutesethnographicaldata.
25 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
27. RuthGibbonsTheHypertextualSelfScape:CrossingtheBarrieroftheSkin
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgresiveFormsAbstract:Illnessisalivedsensoryexperiencethatmayormaynotbevisibletoothers.ThisisthecasewiththeillnessesMyalgicEncephalomyelitis/ChronicFatigueSyndrome,FibromyalgiaandMultipleChemicalSensitivityasthebodydoesnotdisplaythechronicityoftheinternalexperience.Workingwithaparticipantgroup,thesehiddenexperiencesweremadevisualthroughethnographicmethodbycreating"MeBoxes"andmaskswhichshowedboththeexternalandembodiedinternalexperiencesofchronicillnessthroughtheuseofobjectsasvisualmetaphors.Outofthisethnographicworkevolvedthenewconceptofhypertextualself‐scapes;myfocusforthispresentation.Myparticipantswereabletotaketheexperiencesofillnesshiddenwithinthebarrieroftheirskinandmakethemavisualnarrative.Ialsowantedtofindawaytocaptureandhonourtheirexperienceinawaythatwouldallowtheaudience/viewertounderstandthemulti‐sensorynatureoflivingwithanon‐visiblechronicillness.TodothisIdevelopedandappliedahypertextualself‐scape,anewmodelthatculminatesinanexperientialportrait.Theseportraitswerecreatedthroughacollaborativeprocesswithparticipants.Theimagesdevelopedcommunicatesensoryexperienceandalsochallengetheboundariesofresearchparticipation,meaningthatthevieweralsobecomesaparticipant.Throughmypresentation,Ishowthatthesehypertextualimagestraversethebarriersoftheskinexaminingwhatitmeanstounderstandillnessaslivedsensoryexperience.
26 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
28. ShaunNicholson(POSTERPRESENATIONScreen&MediaStudies‐WaikatoUniversityCombiningAnalyticandEvocativeModesintoaVisualAutoethnography
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForms Abstract:Theposterwilldemonstrateavisualtechniqueusedforanautoethnographyproject.Theprojectsituatedthetechnology‐enabledpracticeofreflexiveself‐presentationwithincontemporaryinternettrends;wheretheselfisaninternetpeerofotherswhocreateandconsumesharedphotogalleriesandblogs.TheprojectcombinedthecontrastingmodesofAnalyticandEvocativeAutoethnography(Anderson,2006;Denzin,2006;Ellis&Bochner,2006;Atkinson,2006).Thecombinationofmodessupportedananalyticalandinterpretiveengagementwithbiographicalvisualandverbaltravelnarratives.Theposterwillillustratetheoverwhelmingchallengeofdealingwith2,200familiartravelphotographs.Theposterwillrevealthebenefitofretrospectivetextualnarratives,anoutcomethatwasironicallyrevealedinavisualisation.TheAnalyticmodeencouragedthereconstructionofavisualchronologyandtheEvocativemodereinforcedthevisualchronologywithverbalanecdotesofsocialencounters.ThevisualchronologywasanexperimentalvisualisationthatextendedLatham'sphotographicdiary(2004)andplottedphotographsbasedontheirtimestampandlensfocallength.Theposterwillpresentthevisualisationtorevealadrawbackofvisualanalysis:chronologicalgapswhennophotographsaretaken.Theposterwilldemonstratehowanecdotesfromtheverbaljournalcomplementedthevisualgaps,andasPinksuggests,investedthephotographswithnewretrospectivemeaningsandre‐situatedthephotographswithintheautoethnography(Pink,2007,p.124).TheposterwillvisuallydemonstratethebeneficialsynthesisofAnalyticandEvocativemodesofautoethnography.ReferencesAnderson,L.2006,'AnalyticAutoethnography',JournalofContemporaryEthnography,vol.35,no.4,pp.373‐395.Atkinson,P.2006,'RescuingAutoethnography',JournalofContemporaryEthnography,vol.35,no.4,pp.400‐404.
27 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
29. ReginaMcMenomyWashingtonStateUniversityJustTweetIt:UsingOnlineSocialMediatoRecruitandPerformEthnographicResearchorHow140CharactersChangedMyLife.
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveFormsAbstract:Asonlinetechnologieshaveemerged,theopportunitiesopentoqualitativeresearchershaveblossomed.Whilemanyscholarswereoncelimitedtorecruitingontheircampuseswithpostersorthroughnetworksoffriendsandcolleaguesbywordofmouth,nowlargeinterviewgroupscanbeopenedupwithasingleTweetoflessthan140characters.Socialmediahastheabilitytochangethe"snowball"effectthesamewaythejetenginechangedairtravel.TheviralnatureofsocialnetworkingsiteslikeFacebookandapplicationslikeTwitter,whichoftenlinktogetherpeoplewithsimilarinterests,allowresearchersawaytocommunicatewithlargergroupsofpeopleandtogathermoreextensivekindsofqualitativedata.Thiskindofexposurecanbeablessingandacursetoresearchers;havingtoomanyresearchsubjectscanbejustasproblematicashavingtoofew.Thispresentationwilldiscussusingsocialmediatorecruit(viaTwitter)andinterviewsubjects(viaSkype).Throughthatdiscussion,Iwillsharesomeofmydissertationresearchaboutwomenvideogamersandonlineidentitycreation.Lastly,Iwillexplorewaystomanagethechallengesandjoysthesetypesoftechnologycancreatefortheresearcher,aswellashownewepistemologieschangeandevolve.
28 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
30. BevinWilliamYeatmanUniversityofWaikatoConcept/tool:thinkingethnographythroughaudiovisualmedia
Emergingmethods:Traditional,experimental,transgressiveformsAbstract:Ifweunderstandconceptsastoolsthatallowustoengagewithourworldthenethnographycouldbeenergisediftheaudiovisualbecomesamajorcomponentinourresearchengagement,notonlyasavehicleforthedocumentationofresearchencountersandavehicleforthedistributionofideas,butmorefundamentallyasaplatformthroughwhichnewconceptualtoolscanbedevelopedandutilized.Thispaperexploressomeofthepossibilitiesofconceptualizationthroughtheaudiovisualbyexaminingtheconstructionsofspaceandtime;theimportanceofaffectexpressedthroughpaceandrhythm;aswellasthepossibilitiesofconnectionsinalloftheirvariety.Underlyingthisexaminationisanunderstandingofassemblage,asexpressedthroughManuelDeLanda'swork,andhowthisisausefulconceptualapproachforbothaconsiderationoftheaudiovisualandacomplementaryengagementwithethnography.Theaudiovisualasassemblageisanemergingmethodologicalapproachofferingnewopportunitiestoenhanceethnography.
29 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
31. JayMarloweTheUniversityofAuckland,SchoolofCounselling,HumanServicesandSocialWorkAccessing'Authentic'Knowledge:AnethnographicengagementwithaSudanesecommunityresettledinAustralia
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGround
Abstract:
Comingfrombackgroundswhereissuesoftrusthaveoftenbeenviolated,accessingreliableinformationfromresettlingrefugeepopulationscanbefraughtwithdilemmas.ThispaperreportsonathreeyearresearchprojectandthenecessityofelevatingthevoicesofSouthernSudanesemenresettlinginAdelaide,Australiatobetterunderstandhowtheyhaverespondedtotraumaticexperiences.ThestudyisinformedthroughanethnographicengagementwiththisSouthernSudanesecommunityandsemi‐structuredinterviewswithtwentyfourmen.Contexualisingthisresearchthroughthecontestedperspectivesontrauma,resettlementandrecovery,itfurtherhighlightstheimportanceofethnographicinquiryintothelivedexperiencesofsomeofAustralia'smostrecentarrivals.Theprocessofaccessing'authentic'knowledgeisdiscussedbyforwardinganimperativetoestablisharelationshipwiththerefugeecommunityandreflexivelyengagingwiththeprocessofsharingstoriesofprofoundsignificance.Thisrelationshipisfurtherqualifiedbydifferentiating'being'and'doing'forthosewantingtosupportandbetterunderstandresettlingrefugeepopulations.
30 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
32. YonnieKyounghwaKIMTheUniversityofTokyoAn"insider'sview"inmediastudies:Caseanalysisofperformanceethnographyinmobilemediastudies
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForms
Abstract:
Oneofemergingissuesinmediastudiesishowtodevelopanintegralmethodologytodescribeadigitalmediaphenomenon,whereasconventionalmethodssuchasalarge‐scaledsurveyandstatisticalanalysisencounterdifficultiesintheirattemptstoaddressmultiplycontextsoftheuseofdigitaldevices.Thispaperreflectsonperformanceethnographyasamethodologicalperspectivetoinvestigatedigitalmedia,lookingspeciallyattheculturalpracticesofmobiletechnologyinSouthKorea.Afterabriefdiscussiononrecentattemptstointroducenewapproachesininvestigatingmultimodalandhighlypersonalizedmobilemedia,thispaperwillpresentandanalyseaworkshoptitled"Performingtypicalmobilelandscape@Seoul",conductedbythepresenterinMay2009.Theworkshop,whereseveralyoungparticipantscreatedandperformedskitsdescribingtypicalusingscenesofmobilephonesinSeoul,wasdesignedinordertoexploreSouthKoreanyoungsters'mobilemediapracticesintheir"natural"settings.Fromanintegratedanalysisoftheworkshopprocess,itsoutput‐skitsperformedbyparticipantsandtheresearcher'sobservation,thepaperwilltrytorevealhowSouthKoreanyoungsterssituateahigh‐techmobilityintheirculturalpracticesand,howthosepracticesarelinkedtotherepresentationofmobiletechnologyincommunities.Finallyitwillsuggestanemicframework,thatistosay,"insider'sview"asapossiblenewperspectiveinmediastudies,thus,toclarifypotentialcontributionofperformanceethnographicmethodstothestudyofdigitalmedia.
31 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
33. JacquelineDreessensWildMoves"ChildrenoftheBlueLight":Bringingintransculturalvoicesashealingthroughmusicanddance.
SocialJusticeandTransformation:TheoreticalEthnographicVisions
Abstract:
Across‐culturalcollaborationbetweenWildMoves,AustraliaandAsantidancetheatre,Ghana.FilmedonlocationintheslavedungeonsoftheCapeCoastCastle,Ghana,WestAfrica.Thismusicaldocumentarycelebratesemancipationandreconciliationbetweenculturesandbetweenpastandpresenttimeswithrespecttoandinhonouroftraditionalculture,AncestorsaswellastheRockthatthefortresswasbuiltupon.TheinspirationforthecontemporarydanceritualreflectsthestoriesoftheAustralianandGhanaianperformersaswellasthe'LivingMemory'containedwithinthewallsofthefortress.Thefilmisinhonourofallmixedracechildrenandisatestimonytothestrengthandenduranceofthehumanspirit.A'bucket'ofcommunalpain,anguishandlossreceivesthesilentwrithingofwomentouchingtheirswollenbelliesof'mixed'blood.the'BlueLight'gentlyholdsthem.Tunnelsofdarkeneddrainsandstainedwallsfromyearsofbodyfluids,hardenedwiththeflowofa"bloodyhistorythatisforeverlost".thesolidrockfoundationsof'sacredground'gentlyholdsthis"livingmemory".Condemnedtodeathforthebeliefintheirdignity,theemasculatedwarriorssharetheshrilloftheirrebelliousbehaviour.the'BlueLight'hearstheircry.TheGovernor'sroomis'swept'and'cleansed'frominnocencelosttopowerandcontrol.tobereleasedtothe'BlueLight'forhealingoftimeandspace.As'capturedcommodities',theAncestralspiritsgentlyguidetheirpeopletosearchforthe'spacesoffreedom'whilstburriedinthedepthsoftheirdarkenedtombsofdespair.Enshroudedwithprotective'BlueLight',the'Children'reclaimtheirplacewheretheirbodiesweresoldtothehungryeyeswithintheauctionhall.LibationcallstheAncestorstobepresentasthetraditionaldancerevealsthesecretsofthe'gift'fromtheCreator,inhonourofthespiritthatresidesinthe'blood'oftheirbodies.Themusicandthedanceholdthe'safehaven'toexpressatimepast,releasingitfromtheshacklesofconfusionandcontrol.The"DoorsofNoReturn"areonceagain'opened'towelcomeallthathavejourneyedintheirdarknesstoarriveinacelebrationofhopeforsustaininglifeinbalanceandharmony.
32 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
34. KarenBarbourTheUniversityofWaikato,FacultyofEducationStandingcentrestage:Autoethnographicwritingandsolodanceperformance
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForms
Abstract:
Inthisperformance,Iembodyamethodologicalfusionbetweenautoethnographicwritingandsolocontemporarydancepractices.AsafeministresearcherandcreativepractitionerIhaveanagendatoexplore,demonstrateandarticulatenewmethodsandrepresentationsofresearchthatbringthefemaleperformertothecenteroftheresearchstage.Inparticular,Iammotivatedtospotlightembodiedwaysofknowing,validatingepistemologicalalternativestothosetraditionallyacceptedwithinWesternacademies.AcknowledgingtheworkofTamiSpry(2001),Iarguethatautoethnographicperformancebecomesamethodofinquiryintomylifeindanceperformance,allowingmetoengagewithissuesofreflexivity,identity,embodiment,culturalcommentary,transformationandempowerment.Significantly,thismethodofinquiryisbasedupondanceperformanceexperience,encompassingchoreographicandtheatricalknowledges,andmovementtraining,thusmovingpastthe'performanceturn'inethnographyandtowardsthemorerecentdevelopmentsof'creativepracticeasresearch'.Consequently,Iamabletoembodythroughautoethnographicperformance,thatwhichIamunabletowriteonthepage,andpromotenewformscontemporaryethnography.
33 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
35. SynthiaSydnorandRobertFagenUniversityofIllinoisatUrbana‐ChampaignPlotlessness,Ethnography,Ethology
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForm
Abstract:
Plotlessness,Ethnography,Ethology.nottext,buttexture;notthedreamButtopsy‐turvicalcoincidence,Notflimsynonsense,butawebofsense.VladimirNabokov,PaleFireEthnographyandethologyhaveofferedparallelmodernistresponsestothechallengeposedbyothernessandtothetheories/methodsoftheresearchtextsthemselvesthatareproducedandperformedintheseareasofstudy.Forexample,ethnographytypicallypromisedasuprememomentofinsight,anintellectualepiphany,whenthetrainedethnographer'spatientandpainstakingfieldworkfinallycrackedthecodeofthealienculturetorevealthephilosophicalandmetaphysicalessencethatconstitutedthatculture'spreviously‐bafflingotherness.Similarly,fieldstudiesofanimalbehaviorpromisedaroyalroadtotheUmweltenofnaturesandculturesfarmorealienand"other"thaneventhemostexoticformsofthehumancondition.Scholarsin20thcenturyethnographyandethologywentontolongquestionthesephilosophicalandmethodologicalbasesandbythebeginningofthe21stcenturytheircriticismsandanswerstosuchdilemmasurgedarangeofinterrelatedresponsesincluding:epistemologicaldecenteringandrecontextualizingofinquiry;illuminationofthetensionsbetween,andexperimentationwithtraditionalandavant‐garderhetorical,statistical,evidence‐based,performanceandliteraryformsnecessaryforpresentationofresearch;andreturntoand/orfinerarticulationofthegoalsofethologyandethnography.Withintheseresponsesweareparticularlyinterestedinunderstanding"plotlessness"aconceptthatsurfacesinrecentethnographyandethology,butthatweseektofurtherexploreandrefine,especiallyinregardtotheinterminglingofworkinethologyandethnography.
34 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
36. RichardPringleUniversityofAucklandThemoralproblematizationofhypermasculinesport
SocialJusticeandTransformation:TheoreticalEthnographicVisions
Abstract:
Numerousresearchershaveraisedconcernsabouttheconstructionofdangerousorproblematicmasculinitieswithinsportingfratriarchies.Yetlittleisknowabouthowmalesportenthusiastswhoarecriticalofselecthypermasculineperformancesnegotiatetheircontinuedinvolvementinsport.Theaimofthispaperwastoexaminehowpurposefullyselectedmaleintervieweesnegotiatedsportingtensionsassociatedwithhypermasculineperformancesandhowthesenegotiationsshapedtheir(masculine)selves.IdrawonFoucault's(1992)theorizingonthemodesofsubjectivationtoanalyzehowmyintervieweesproblematizedtheirrespectivesportculturesinspecificrelationtothesexualizationorabuseoffemales,publicactsofdrunkennessandexcessivetrainingdemands.Resultsillustratedhowtheintervieweesproducedselves,viathemoralproblematizationofsportingpleasuresandspecifictechnologiesofself,thatrejectedthevaluesormoralcodesofhypermasculinityinanattempttocreateethicalmasculinities.Althoughnotarevolutionarysolution,Isuggestthataproliferationoftechniquesofselfthatstruggleagainsthypermasculineformsofsubjectioncouldbeoneformofethicalresponsetothewell‐documentedproblemssurroundingmasculinitiesandsport.
35 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
37. LillianTaiririShorterAUTUniversityMaoriMaleExInmatesandtheDevelopmentofHealingProgrammes
SocialJusticeandTransformation:TheoreticalEthnographicVisionsAbstract:ThisresearchseekstoidentifythecharacteristicsofaneffectivehealingprogrammeforMaorirecidivists.ThedatasharedfromafocusgroupoffourMaoriex‐inmateswithahistoryofrepeatoffendinginthehopeofdevelopingamodelofhealingprogramsforMaoricurrentlyinprison.ItisexpectedthattheinvolvementofMaoriinthedevelopmentofahealingprogrammewillencourageandempowerthemtobecomemoreinvolvedinprisonreform,andinthefacilitationofprogramsaimedatasuccessfulandsafetransitionofMaorioffendersfromprisonbacktotheirwhanau,hapu,iwiandcommunity.
36 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
38. DorothySpillerTDU,UniversityofWaikatoAdvocatesforteaching:reconceptualisingthepracticeofteachingdevelopmentinauniversity
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGroundAbstract:TeachingdevelopmentunitshavebeenprovidedatmostAustralasianandBritishuniversitiesoverthelastthirtyyears.typically,unitshaveprovidedworkshops,coursesandindividualconsultationsinavarietyofformats.Theseunitshavealwaysattractedenthusiasts,buthaveoftenstruggledtobringaboutafundamentalshiftinorganisationalthinkingaboutteaching.Atthesametime,externalpressuressuchasPerformanceBasedResearchFundingdrawacademicsawayfromteachingconcernsandcreateadditionalchallengesforstaffdevelopers.TheTeachingDevelopmentUnitattheUniversityofWaikato(TDU)isreconceptualisingitsapproachwithaviewtobuildingacultureinwhichadvocatesforteachingcanhelptobuildcapabilityandcapacityinteachingacrosstheorganisation.Thegoalistopromoteanddevelop"solidaritynetworks"ofpeoplewhovalueteachingacrosstheacademiccommunityandtoreinforcethiswithteachingadvocacyatthestrategicandpolicylevelssothatinstitutionalnorms,processesandpoliciesindicateahighregardforteachingandrequireaccountabilityfromacademicsinrelationtoteachingmatters.TheTDUhasbeenbuildingacultureofadvocacyinanumberofwaysandindifferentforumsTheseincludeinvolvementinthedesignofkeyteaching‐relatedpoliciesandparticipationontheTeachingQualityCommittee.Otherinititivesincludeacrosscampusteachingnetwork,apostgraduatesupervisors'conversationnetwork,andthesettingupoffacultyadvocatestoco‐ordinateteaching‐relatedinitiatives.TheTDUisusinganactionresearchmodeltomonitorandevaluatetheeffectivenessoftheseinitiativesandtoinformmodificationsandrefinements.Inthisoralpresentation,wepresentourfindingstodateandreflectonthesuccessesandlimitationsofourmodelof"solidaritynetworks"instrentheningorganisationalcultureandcapabilityaroundteaching.
37 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
39. KataFulopUniversityofCanterburySomethingold,somethingnew,somethingborrowedandsomethingblue:Combiningtraditionalethnography,artsbasedmethodsandPasifikamethods
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveFormsAbstract:ThispresentationdiscusseshowPasifikamethods,basedlooselyonKaupapaMaori,andartsbasedmethodscanbewoventogetherwith'traditional'ethnographyinresearch.Whatarethechallenges,processesandadvantagesofsuchacombination,andwhataretheimplicationsforethnographicmethods?Thesequestionswillbediscussedfrommultipleperspectives,exploringthisuniquecombinationofemergingmethods,andtakingexamplesfromtheexplorationofhowPasifikapeopleinNewZealandperformtheirculturalidentity.PasifikamethodsstronglyrelatetothetopicofindigenousknowledgeandKaupapaMaori.WhereasPolynesianwaysofapproachingknowledgehavebeenaroundforcenturies,theirrecognitioninresearchhasonlytakenplaceinrecenttimes.FollowingtheassumptionthatisitessentialtodoresearchaccordingtoPasifikavalueswhenresearchingwithandonPasifikapeopleandissues,Pasifikamethodswillbediscussedasaguidingprinciple.Theuseofartsbasedmethodshasemergedinthelastdecadesandallowedresearchersandparticipantstoexploreknowledgeindifferent,richerways.Thispaperarguesthatarts,andinthiscaseperformance,areanorganicpartofpeople'slives,andsowhencombinedwithethnographyandPasifikamethodsartsbasedmethodscanleadtouniqueunderstandings.IntheexplorationofhowPasifikapeopleinNewZealandperformtheirculturalidentity,marryingthesethreemethodsisessential,foritcanleadtoricherdata,deeperunderstanding,betterrelationshipswithparticipants,andbeaguidetoethicalissuesaswell.
40. WITHDRAWNTomGibbons41. WITHDRAWNWendyWenLi
38 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
42. VivienneElizabethUniversityofAucklandMovedtohear?Poeticrepresentationsoflossandstruggleinmothers'storiesofcustodydisputes
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForms
Abstract:
SeveralyearsagoI(VE)satdowninthekitchenofanordinaryAucklandhometohearthestoryofErica,awomanwhowasdisputingthecareandcontactarrangementsforhersmallchildrenwithherex‐husband,Jason.Herswasoneof21storiesthatwe(VE,NG&JT)collectedaspartofourresearchintowomen'sexperiencesofdealingwithdisputesoverpost‐separationparentingarrangementsthroughlegalorquasi‐legalprocesses.However,Erica'sstorywasradicallydifferentfromtheothersinonesignificantrespect:shehadlosttheday‐todaycareofherchildrenandwasstrugglingtobecomearesidentmotheragain.Lacedwiththepainofunjustloss,Erica'sstorycriesoutforthekindofrepresentationenvisagedbyPelias'(2004)methodologyoftheheart‐'scholarshipthatfostersconnections,opensspacesfordialogue,heals'(Pelias,2004,p.2).AsPeliasandothers(forexample,LaurelRichardson,1994,2000,2002)havesuggested,poeticrepresentationsareeminentlysuitableforsuchscholarshipbecausepoetictextsworkatthelevelofourmindsaswellasourhearts;apoemasksustorespondwithfeeling.Inthispaper,weexplorethesignificanceofpoetryforthesocialsciencesthroughpoeticrepresentationsofthestoriesofthewomeninourstudy,withaparticularfocusonErica.Wecontendthatpoetryandothernewrepresentationalformatshaveanimportantroletoplayinenablingaudiencesofourresearchtohearwiththeirheartsandtobemoved.
39 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
43. AlysLongleyTheUniversityofAucklandMovementInitiatedWritinginDanceEthnography
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForms
Abstract:
Acentralissueincontemporarydanceethnographyisthatofwritingthesomatic‐theattempttoarticulatekinesthetic,bodilysensationsthatemergeinaparticularcultureorcontext,withinaresearchformat(Ness,1992;Sklar,2000).Emergingmethodsincludingperformancemakingandpoetic,narrative,experimentalorperformativewritingcreatespaceforrecognitionofchoreographicandsensoryknowledgeswithinethnographicresearch.ThispaperpresentsacasestudythatillustrateswhatIterm'movement‐initiatedwriting'‐writingthatemergesthroughdancemaking,whereinthedanceethnographerisaparticipant‐observerinstudiopractice.Thisemicapproachattemptstotranslatethefeltaffectsofaspecificworldofmovementintoperformancessitedintheterrainsofpages.ThismodeofwritingdrawsonRolandBarthes(1977)notionofthe'grainofthevoice',GillesDeleuze'sconceptofthe'minorliterature',(DeleuzeandGuattari,1986,1987)HélèneCixous'sdiscussionofécriturefeminine(Cixous,1975)andthefieldofperformancewriting.
40 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
44. LorenaGibsonMasseyUniversityTeachinganthropologyandlearningabouthopeatTalimiHaqSchool
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForms
Abstract:
Hopeisafascinatingconcepttothinkaboutasananthropologist.Hope,asawayofengaginginthepresentwithaworldthatisnotyethere,revealsmuchaboutmodesofbeingintheworld.Philosophersandtheologianshavelongbeenconcernedwithhope,anditisalsoofinteresttomedicalpractitionersandpsychologists,butuntilrecentlyhopehasreceivedrelativelylittleattentioninothersocialsciences.JohnLawsuggeststhatthisisbecausesocialsciencemethodsdon'treallycatch"complex,diffuseandmessy"phenomenasuchashope,andthatnewmethodsareneededtounderstandthem(2004:2).Iarguethatethnographicmethodsareeminentlysuitedtocapturethiskindofphenomena.Iusedarangeofethnographicmethodstounderstandtherelationshipbetweenhope,agency,anddevelopmentinmyresearchintowomenorganisingforsocialchangeatthegrassrootslevelinurbanpoorareasofIndiaandPapuaNewGuinea.InthispaperIdiscussmyinvolvementasateacheratTalimiHaqSchool,anon‐formalschoolforchildrenlivinginPriyaMannaBasti(acentury‐oldjuteworkers'sluminHowrah,WestBengal,India).Inconjunctionwiththeschool'svolunteerteachers,Itaughtashortcourseinsocialanthropologybasedontheirphilosophyof"learningbydoing"and,intheprocess,learntmuchaboutlifeinthispredominantlyMuslimslum.Ireflectonmyexperiencestodiscussthetypesofknowledgethatethnographicmethodscanproduceabout"messy"conceptssuchashope.
41 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
45. CharisBrownMinistryofPacificIslandAffairsVideoDiaryMethodforVisualEthnography
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForms
Abstract:
ThispresentationdescribesthecharacteristicsandbenefitsofavisualethnographymethodcalledVideoDiary.Videodiariesareparticipant‐generatedvideodocumentationofaparticipant'slife.Scholarshaveusedthemmostlyinconjunctionwithothermethods‐inactionresearchorinstudiesofidentityperformance.Althoughinfrequentlyused,themethodishighlysuitableforstudyingaspectsofcultureasparticipantsliveandperformit.ThewayweusedtheVideoDiariesprovidesexceptionallyrichdata.Participantsreview,reflect,construct,deconstruct,andcollaboratewiththeresearchertoco‐constructmeaningofselectedcomponentsoftheirlives.RelativetopriorapplicationsoftheVideoDiarymethod,ourapproachdemandsmoreresearcherinvolvementthroughouttheprocess.Researcherandparticipantcreateandmaintainacloserelationship.Theirlivesnecessarilyintertwine.Collaborativeanalysisoccursthroughouttheengagement.Researchparticipantsbenefitfromthecontrol,voiceandpowerthatVideoDiariesgivethem.Thus,VideoDiariesareespeciallysuitableforminoritycultures.WeillustratethespecialfeaturesofthemethodbasedonourexperiencesinusingittounderstandconsumeracculturationofPacificPeopleinNewZealand.
42 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
46. NaomiSimmondsTheUniversityofWaikatoWeavingmultiplemethods:integratingqualitativeandmanawahine(Maorifeminist)methodologiestoexaminethechildbirthexperiencesofMaoriwomeninAotearoaNewZealand.
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForms
Abstract:
Childbirthisaprofoundandlifechangingexperience.Yet,women'snarrativesandexperiencesofchildbirtharerarelysharedoutsideoftheirimmediatefamilyandfriends.Giventheintimateandverypersonalnatureofthiseventitisnotsurprisingthatthisisthecase.FormanyMaoriwomencolonisationisaddedtothemix,theimpactsofwhichhavebeendevastatingforMaoriwomen'sbirthingnarratives.InthispaperIexaminetheneedforculturallysafeandappropriateresearchmethodologieswhenengagingwithMaoriwomen'snarrativesabouttheirembodied,spatialandspiritualexperiencesofchildbirthinAotearoaNewZealand.IchartthemethodologicaljourneyofmyPhDresearchanddiscusshowIhaveusedqualitativemethodologies(suchasin‐depthinterviews,soliciteddiariesandself‐directedphotography)embeddedwithinamanawahine(Maorifeminist)frameworkinanattempttotransformthespaces(physical,ideologicalandmethodological)ofresearch.Iarguethatindigenousmethodologies,suchasmanawahine,arenecessaryinordertochallengethehegemonyofWestern,masculinistandcolonialideologiesandresearchpractices.Furthermore,auniquelymanawahinemethodologyholdsontothelivedexperiencesofwomenanditenableselementssuchasemotion,wairua(spirituality)andcontradictionsandtensionstobewrittenintothetext.
43 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
47. BradMcKennaUniversityofAucklandAnetnographicapproachtothreedimensionalvirtualworlds
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForms
Abstract:
Virtualworldsareonline,threedimensional,computergeneratedworlds,whereuserscreateavatarsandusethemtointeractwithotheravatarsandobjectswithinvirtualworlds.Thesevirtualworldsprovidenewformsofcollaborationandsocialinteraction.AmongthemostwellknownvirtualworldtodayisSecondLife(secondlife.com),a3Dvirtualworldwhereuserscansocialise,collaborate,andconductbusinessusingvoiceandtextchatthroughpersonalavatars.VirtualworldshavealsoreachedthegamingindustryandareknownasMassivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGames(MMORPGs),withthemostwellknownbeingWorldofWarcraft(WOW).MMORPGsareattractingscholarlyattentionasanimportantsocialphenomenon.GamessuchasWOWofferalternativeworldswheresocialfunctions,learning,andthedevelopmentofsocialskillscanbepracticedinavirtualenvironment.Associalinteractionsmoveintothevirtualarena,researchmethodstostudythemneedtobeadapted.ThispaperwillpresentanetnographicapproachtoexaminingthesocialstructureswhichexistinSecondLifeandWorldofWarcaft.Netnography(Kozinets,2010)adaptsethnographicresearchtechniquestothestudyofculturesandcommunitiesemergingthroughcomputer‐mediatedcommunications.Ourgoalistodiscussnetnographyanditsuseinthestudyofthreedimensionalvirtualworlds,alongwithaconsiderationofvariousethicalissues.
44 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
48. MarySimsponUniveristyofWaikatoWorkingwithrealpeople:Recognition,reciprocity,andbalancewithinaresearchteamparticipantorganisationrelationship
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGround
Abstract:
ThePrinciplesoftheTreatyofWaitangi/TeTiritioWaitangi‐partnership,participation,protection‐canbeappliedtoinformresearchpracticeinAotearoaNewZealand(e.g.,Authors,2009).However,researchconcerningandinvolvingPakeharesearchersandMaoriparticipants,hasalsobeendescribedas'trickyground'(Smith,2005,p.85).Inthiscontext,researchinvolvingMaorirequiresappropriateconsultationprocesses;jointdecisionsonhowrespect,recognition,andinvolvementareenacted;andclearidentificationoftheexpectedbenefits(includingresearchbenefits)forallparties(Smith,2005).Allofthesehavepracticalimplicationsforindividualresearchersandparticipatingorganisations.ThispaperexploresthechallengesandhighlightsinworkingtoestablishaneffectiveresearchrelationshipbetweenaPakeharesearchteam‐thePositiveAgingResearchTeam‐andRauawaawaKaumatuaCharitableTrustBoard.Foundedonasharedinterestinthewellbeingofelders(persons65‐yearsandover)generally,andkorouaandkuia(kaumatua)specifically,effortstoestablisharelationshipwereguidedbyvaluesassociatedwithrecognitionofeachparty'scontributionstotheresearch,reciprocityofresources,andbalanceofagencyintheprocess.Wedescribehow,inthis(ongoingprocess),theResearchTeamandRauawaawawereabletodealwithemergingissues‐suchastheimpactofinstitutionalconstraintsandtheinfluenceofdifferingworldviews‐andmeettheirown,aswellaseachother'spriorities.Wedemonstratethatestablishingaclearrelationshipenablesopennessandresponsivenesswithintheresearchprocess,andinturnbenefitspracticeandadvocacygoalsofbothparticipantorganisationandresearchteam.
45 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
49. MarySimspon,TongaKelly,RangimahoraReddy,YvonneWilson,
MargaretRichardson,andTedZorn
UniveristyofWaikatoWorkingwithrealpeople:CocreationofdatagatheringmethodsforresearchonKaumatuainteractionswithorganisationalrepresentatives
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGround
Abstract:
InAotearoaNewZealand,therolesofkaumatua(Maorielders)havereceivedattentionwithinthecontextofbothtraditionalandchanging,MaoriandNewZealandsocieties(e.g.,Durie,1999;2003).However,aswithelders(people65‐yearsandover)generally,waysinwhichkaumatuaengagewithorganisationsinsociety,ascustomers,consumers,members,orinvestors,isopenterritoryintermsofresearch.Thisterritoryincludesboth'mainstream'organisationssuchasbanks,supermarkets,andsocialservices,aswellasMaoriorganisationssuchasmarae,culturalgroups,andhealthservices.Thispaperreportsonaresearchprojectfocusedonkaumatua,andinvolvingthePositiveAgeingResearchTeamandtheRauawaawaKaumatuaCharitableTrustBoard.Theprojectispartofawiderthree‐yearstudywhichaimstoexaminetheinteractionsbetweeneldersandorganisationalrepresentatives,andhowthoseinteractionsmightbeimpactedbyageism(positiveandnegative).ThisabstractfocusesonhowtheresearchdesigncateredfortheneedsofkaumatuaandRauawaawa,aswellasmetthegoalsoftheResearchTeam.WebeginbydescribingtheprocessandtheoutcomesoftheResearchTeamandRauawaawa'sco‐creationofdata‐collectionmethods.Wethendiscusskaumatuaresponsestothemethods,whichincludedindividualandgroupinterviews‐conductedinEnglishandTeReo‐aswellasrecordinginteractionswithorganisationalrepresentativesoverafewweeks.Thepaperhighlightswaysinwhichjointworkbetweenresearchersandparticipantorganisationscanhelptobroadenthescopeofresearchtoworkcreativelywith'realpeople'.
46 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
50. MargGillingMasseyUniversity'Family'whatdoesitmean?
SocialJusticeandTransformation:TheoreticalEthnographicVisions
Abstract:
Thereisnothingmoreunequalthantreatingunequalsequally."Family',howeverdefined,isneveraboutequalityforpowerrelationships,notionsofinfluence,dutyandaccountability...areintegral.Myargumentisthatinthiscountrygovernment,andpakehamiddleclassideology,i.e.hegemony,have,still,animplicitnormative'model'of'family'astwoparentspluskids.Fix‐itmeasuresi.e.welfareschemes,decileloadingsforschools,whanauora...areeitherpredicatedonthisthinking,orattemptsto'patch'things‐up,and/ordealwithproblems.Thenotionofdifferentworldviews,waysofthinking,being,structure‐ingones'world...areneitherconsidered,nor,therefore,accepted,notevenacknowledged.Nearlythirtyyearsagoilivedwithsix'different'familiesforeightdaysformydoctoralresearch,aformofethnographicresearchwhichwouldprobablynotgetthroughhumanethicscommitteestoday.itriedtojuxtaposetheirdefinitions,theirpraxis,withgovernmentaldefinitionsandpraxis,inordertodevelopatheoryofparentinginwesternwhitesociety.Todayiamwritingabookofcriticalessays‐askingquestionsaboutthemeaningof'family';ofconceptssuchas'self',belonging,caring,responsibility,power...itakeUlrichBeckseriouslywhenhesaysthat'thefamily'istherubbishbinofthewesternworld.'Family'isfundamentalformosthumanbeings‐yet,iclaim,oneofthemajorissuesindealingwithsocialjusticeisthisimplicitubiquitousmodel.Weneedchange.
47 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
51. SteveK.W.LangMasseyUniversityPoeticautoethnographyinnervoices
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForms
Abstract:
Iusefreeformpoeticnarrativestogenerateautoethnographicvignetteswhichillustrateandinformmyexperiences.MyPhDusedthismethod,alongsidearelectivejournaland'academic'writing,inordertoexplorethedevelomentofaKaupapaPakeha,orcriticalmethodology,whichmightrendermycounsellingpracticebiculturallyresponsive.NowIturntofacemyaddictions...InsidetheredriversrunTwistingConstrainedandbackingupCloggedFromtoomanywitheredPromisesTonotsuckonanotherWhite‐stick.ButyouCANbreatheSanjisaidAndIbelievehimToday.WhatIwritewithoutpreflection,becomesthesourceforreflection.
48 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
52. AdisornJuntrasookHigherEducationDevelopmentCentre,UniversityofOtagoUnpackingtheComplexitiesofLeadershipinAcademicLifethroughtheMultipleLensesofNarrativeAnalysis
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForms
Abstract:
ThispaperisbasedonmystudyofacademicleadershipasitisexperiencedandunderstoodbyacademicsinAotearoaNewZealand,withaparticularfocusonhowbroadersocialandpersonalcontextsintersectwiththeirprofessionalnarratives.Byshiftingthefocusfrom'leadershipofacademicwork'to'leadershipinacademiclife',Iattempttodisruptdominantdiscoursesinhighereducationthatoftenemphasise'whatworks'over'whatmakessense'.Accordingly,narrativeinquiry,whichaimstoexplorethesystemsandstructuresofmeaningsthatpeopleassigntotheirexperiences,isemployedasmyresearchmethodology.Thefieldofnarrativeinquiry,however,isbroadandambiguousespeciallywithitsrangeofanalyticalapproaches.Somenarrativeinquirers(storyanalysts)areinterestedinthe'what'(thematicandstructuralanalysis),andthe'how'(performativeanalysis)ofthenarratives.Others(storytellers)areinterestedinconstructingnewnarrativesasaformofanalysisinitself.Multipleanalyticalandreflexiveapproachessuggestedbysomecontemporaryscholars(e.g.Alvesson,Hardy&Harley;Sparkes&Smith)canrevealmorecomplexityofthephenomenon.Inthispaper,Ipresentapreliminaryanalysisthatillustratessomeofthepossibilities,meritsandproblemsofutilisinganalyticdiversity.53. WITHDRAWNBrandyAnnSato
49 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
54. AmandaM.YoungHauserStoriesthatnobodywantstohear:Researchingatabootopic
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGround
Abstract:
Thisethnographicstudydealswithahighlyemotivetopic.Iexplorethecharacterizationofmenwhosexuallyabuse(d)childrenacrossinstitutional,publicandprivatenarratives.Theseincludeofficialandarchivalmaterials,newsmediareports,focusgroupdiscussionswithmembersofthepublic,afocusgroupdiscussionbetweensupportpersonsofmenwhohavesexuallyoffendedagainstchildren,andconversationswithtenmenwhosexuallyabusedchildrenpre‐andpost‐prisonrelease.Anarrativeframeworkprovidesthemortarforcombiningthevariouselementsoftheresearchintoacoherentwhole.Findingsillustrateaproclivityfordualisticconceptualisationsof'us'(thepublic)and'them'(childsexoffenders)thatcreatesandmaintainssocialdistance,andextendourunderstandingsandresponsestothispressingsocialissue.
50 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
55. CaroleChristineTeague,ProfessorLeliaGreen,DrDavidLeithEdithCowanUniversityFOUNDINTHEFIELD:APersonalJourneytotheOtherSide
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGround
Abstract:
Thispaperaddressestheexperienceofamanagerturnedethnographer,andcelebratesthenewunderstandingsfoundinthefieldbuthiddenwhenviewedthroughthelensesofeverydaycorporatelife.Inaradicalapproachtotheinvestigationofsafetyculture,thismanagerresignedfromtheorganisationbeforebeingtrainedasapublictransporttransitofficerwithaviewtocarryingoutethnographicresearchaspartofthetransitofficerworkforce.Beginningwithatwelveweekmetamorphosisinaninductionandtrainingworkshop,theethnographergraduallylearnedwaysofworkingwithintheranksofthismarginalisedminority.Isolatedbyarulekeepingrolewhichincludestheauthoriseduseofforce,transitofficersnonethelessexperiencethestigmaofbeing'plasticcops''wannabecops'andtransitpigs'.Thistransitionfrommanagertotransitofficercadrewasnoteasy.Ittooktimefortransitofficerstoacceptthemanagerintheirmidstasoneofthem.Ittooknerveforothermanagerstoacceptthatoneoftheirownwouldbesafeonthelineandwouldstillsupportthemifsystemfailureswerediscovered.Thispapercelebratesthesuccessfulnegotiationoftheseconflictedfearsandhopes.
51 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
56. ToniBruceTheUniversityofWaikatoBatteredbytheMedia:TheValueofTheoryasaMethodforLesseningthePainofLivedExperience
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForms
Abstract:
Academicresearchersoftenutiliseethnographyasamethodformakingsenseoflivedexperience.Inthispresentation,myintentionistocomeatethnographyandmethodologyfromaslightlydifferentpositionasIconsiderthepossibilitiesofferedbyconsideringtheoryasamethodfordealingwithadifficultlivedexperiencerelatedtomyprofessionalacademicrole.Iexplorehowtheory‐asmethod‐providedthenecessaryspacetore‐frameanepiphanicmediaencountersounexpectedandemotionallydrainingthatIinitiallystruggledtodealwithit.
52 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
57. VictoriaParaschakUniversityofWindsorTransformingWhileBeingTransformed:Walkingonthe"BrightSideoftheRoad"
SocialJusticeandTransformation:TheoreticalEthnographicVisions
Abstract:
Doingethnographicresearchhastaughtmetobeagoodobserver,tolistenandbeopentosurpriseandgrowth,toturntoothersasthe"experts".Theseskillshavehelpedmeasateacher,researcherandpractitionerworkingtowardssocialjusticeandthetransformationofthoseIinteractwith,whethertheyarestudents,otherresearchersorresearchco‐participants.Particulartheoreticalframeworkshaveemergedformeasusefulwaystodothiswork.Onefoundationalapproachtomyresearch/teaching/advocacyhasbecometheStrengthsPerspective.Keyprinciplesincludetheassumptionthatallindividuals,regardlessoftheircircumstances,havestrengths.Thesestrengthsmustbeidentified,andwaystofurtherstrengthenthemthroughtheuseofavailableresourcesintheirenvironmentaredeterminedandpursued.Thisapproach,whichundercutsthe'deficitperspective'usuallyappliedtomarginalizedindividuals/groups/communities,hasbecomecentraltomyteaching,totheparticipatoryactionresearchIdowith"atrisk"youthofpromiseinlocalhighschools,andtothewaysIworkwithAboriginalwomentounderstandandcreatetheirvisionforsport.IthastransformedthewaysIviewtheworld,thewaysmystudentslearnabout/seetheworld,andthewaysmyco‐participantsdescribeandapproachtheworld.InthispresentationIwillspeaktothe"strengths"ofusingtheStrengthsPerspectivetogenerateethnographicunderstandingsthattransformtheresearcheraswellastheresearchco‐participants.58. WITHDRAWNStephenD.Mosher
53 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
59. LisaMareeMauriceTakereiManukauInstituteofTechnologyOccupationalIdentity
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForms
Abstract:Thetaskofestablishingidentitywithinthemessyandoftenchangingrealmoftertiaryvocationaleducationischallengingandcomplex.Forvocationaleducatorsinvolvedinthemultifacetedandongoingdailytaskofteaching,thenotionofidentityandpurposeisoftenunexploredandunarticulated.Engagingwitheducatorsabouttheirworkisasteptowardsestablishingacollectivevoicethatwillcontrastwiththecurrentnarroweconomicinvocationaleducation.Inthissessionparticipantswillengagewithamethoddesignedto'letpeopletalk'and'makemeaning'oftheirwork.Followingaperiodoffocusseddiscussionparticipantswillbeinvitedtoselectfromavarietyofmaterialstobuildanartefactthatrepresentstheirwork.Theresultwillbe'models'oftheirwork,a'conceptualtool'(WillisandTrondman,2002,p.399)whichwillengenderfurtherdiscussionasparticipantsdescribetheirartefact,exploretheirworldofwork,andunpacktheirplacewithinthatwork.TheresearchmethodisinfluencedbyWillisandTrondman'sManifestoforEthnography(2002).ItdrawsonWillisandTrondman's(2002)referencetoBourdieu'squotingPascal,"Icannotjudgeofmywork,whiledoingit.Imustdoastheartist,standatadistance;butnottoofar"(p.399).Thegoalofthemethodistocast'maximumillumination'(p.400)ontheworkofeducatorsbyengagingwithaconcreterepresentationoftheirwork.Aperiodofdiscursivemeaningmakingwillfollowtheexerciseasparticipantsandresearcherworkwiththeconceptualtoolstoproducenewknowledge.
54 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
60. ElaineBlissandJanelleFisherSchoolofSocialSciences,UniversityofWaikatoTheJourneytoaGoodLife:PreliminaryreflectionsonalongitudinalevaluationofPersonDrivenPracticesfromtheperspectivesofpeoplewithdisabilitiesandacommunityorganisationusingdigitalstorytellingmethodology
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGround
Abstract:
Digitalstorytellingisanewmediaformthatwasdevelopedoriginallyinrelationtoperformanceart,socialjusticeandactivism.Thispaperexploresdigitalstorytellingnotonlyasaformofcreativework,butalsoasaparticipatoryresearchmethodologythatbridgesthegapbetweenresearcherandpractitioner,andasamethodforevaluatingcommunitydevelopment.Interactionz,aHamilton‐basedcommunityorganisationthatworkswithpeoplewithdisabilities,hasdevelopedacustomisedmodelcalledPersonDrivenPractice(PDP).PDPisafacilitativemodelofservicedeliverybasedonthecitizenshipmodelofdisability,inwhichpeoplewithdisabilitieshavechoiceandcontroloverthesupportstheyreceiveandthelivestheyleadasvaluedcitizensintheirowncommunities.ThispaperexplorestheusefulnessofdigitalstorytellingasanevaluationmethodinthecontextofPDP.Theresearchersreportonthecapabilityofdigitalstorytellingasamethodology:tocaptureandevaluatethequalityoflifeofthepeopleservedbyInteractionz;toassistinthedevelopmentofbest‐practiceguidelinesofPDP;todocumentandanalysetheorganisationaltransitionofInterantionzfromaservicedrivenmodeltoapersondrivenmodel;andtofacilitatethecreationofanempoweringcommunitynarrativeforpeoplewithdisabilities.Thepaperconcludeswithacriticalreflectionontheresearchmethodology.Theauthorsdiscusshowthemixedmethodsofdigitalstorytellinginafacilitatedworkshop,interviewsandparticipantobservationhavebeenparticularlyappropriatewheresocialrelationships,beliefandmeaningsarethemainfocusoftheresearch.
55 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
61. BevanCGrantandMaryAnnKlugeUniversityofWaikatoUsingFilmtoTellaTale:ANiceStoryBUT!
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveFormsPresenters:BevanCGrant,MaryAnnKluge
Abstract:
Inspiteofournovicestatuswithusingthevisualtocollectinformationandrepresentfindings,wedecidedtocreateavideodocumentarytellingwhatitwaslikeforLinda(age65)tochangefromlivingasedentaryexistencetobecominganathlete.Thisprojectwasframedasaphenomenologicalstudyandresonateswithacallforresearchers(ingerontologyatleast)topaymoreattentiontowhatoccursineverydaylife.Overatwelve‐monthperiodLindakeptadiaryofeventsandfeelings,andwevideo‐recordedmanyofhereverydayexperiencesofbecominganathlete.Themesemergedfromtheensuinganalysisandtheseprovidedthebasisfora23‐minutefilmtitledTheStartingLine:BecomingaSeniorAthlete.Thefilmwasusedasacentrepieceduringasymposiumatarecentinternationalconferenceonageing,healthandphysicalactivity.Ourpurposewastoargue(older)peoplearenotbodieswithoutstories,andthesestoriesareasmysteriousasthebody.Bio‐graphicalageingisasintricateasthebiologicalageing.Afterthemorestandardpresentationthefilmshownasawaytocapturethelivedexperiencesofan'older'womanundertakinganewactivity‐becominganathlete.Afterthefilmwasshownanunearthly‐andslightlyuncomfortable‐silencefilledtheroom.Wesuspecttheaudiencehadapreferenceformore'objective'informationaboutphysicalactivityderivedfromthepositivistparadigm.Havingbrokenthesilence,oneofthefirstquestionswas,"That'sveryinteresting‐alovelystory‐butwhere'sthedata?"Inthispresentationwewilldiscussourreasonsforandreflectontheexperiencesofusingvisualmethodologiesinresearch,showthefilm,andcommentonusinganalternativewayofrepresentingresearchtoanuninformedaudience.
56 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
62. MargaretKitchenTheGraduateDiplomainTESSOL,TheUniversityofAucklandExploringcoperformanceinparentinvolvementinschoolpolicyandplanning:Theresearcher,theKoreancommunity,andonesecondaryschool.
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGround
Abstract:
TherhetoricofTheNewZealandCurriculum(MinistryofEducation,2007)putsstudentsandtheircommunitiesatthecentreofteachingandlearning.Somewouldargue,however,thatstudentandparentinvolvementinschoolinghasdecreasedsince'Tomorrow'sSchools'(Olssen&MorrisMathews,1997;Bolstad,2004,forexample).CollaboratingwiththeirKoreanadultandstudentcommunityiscertainlyanewexperienceforthesecondaryschoolwherethisstudyislocated.InthispresentationIwilldrawondatafrommyfieldworkandfocusgroupinterviewswiththeKoreanadultcommunitythatarepartofalargerethnographicschool‐basedstudy.InparticularIwillexploreissuesof'coperformance'and'positionality'(Bhattacharya,2008)fromthiscollaborativeresearchproject.Iwilllookatthegeneral'socialandprocessual'natureoftheexperienceoflearningfromeachother(Tedlock,2003),especiallylearningpracticalwaysofcoperformingculturallyappropriateinvolvementinschoolpolicyandplanning.Bhattacharya,H.(2008).Newcriticalcollaborativeethnography.InS.Hesse‐Biber,N&P.Leavy(Eds.),Handbookofemergentmethods(pp.303‐322).NewYork:TheGuilfordPress.Bolstad,R.(2004).School‐basedcurriculumdevelopment:Principles,processes,andpractices.Wellington,NewZealand:NZCER.MinistryofEducation.(2007).TheNewZealandcurriculumforEnglishmediumteachingandlearninginyears1‐13.Wellington,NewZealand:MinistryofEducation.Olssen,M.,&MorrisMatthews,K.(Eds.).(1997).EducationpolicyinNewZealand:The1990sandbeyond.PalmerstonNorth,NewZealand:DunmorePress.
57 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
63. LisaHunterandErinFlanaganTheUniversityofQueenslandYouspeak,Ispeak,butisanyonelistening?Dilemmasinrepresentationandaudiencewithteacherworkplacelearningresearch
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGroundAbstract:
SinceAndrewSparkesdiscussedhis'qualitativejourney'of'tellingtalesinsportandphysicalactivity'(2000),thefieldofresearchassociatedwithreceivingandtellingofstoriesinsport,physicalactivityandeducationhasdevelopedenormously.The'narrativeturn'hasbroughtaboutgreaterdiscussionofissuesofdataconstruction,researcherposition,datarepresentation,meaningmaking,withmanydifferentformsanddefinitionsaboutwhatconstitutesnarrativeresearch(e.g.Bamburg,2005;Clandinin&Connelly,2000;andReissman,1993).Notonlyhasitfoundedfamiliesofthoughtaroundnarrative,buthasalsoencouragedgreaterexperimentationinethnographicpraxiswithdevelopmentsinthelikesofdigitaldiaries,photographicstimulus,ethnodramaandfictionalrepresentation.Inthispaperweconsiderandexploreourownresearchaboutteacherworkplacelearningthroughnotionsofvoice,reflexivity,representation,audienceandadvocacytoquestionthelogicofour(political,theoretical,ethical,advocacy)workasresearchers.Wepresentseveralexperimentalartifactsfromourresearchofbeginningteachersinstaffroomstoinstigatefurtherdiscussionaboutourownqualitativejourneyandthevalueofsuchwaysofrepresentationandunderstanding.Bamberg,Michael.(2005).NarrativeDiscourseandIdentities.InJ.Meister,T.Kindt,&W.Schernus(Eds.),NarratologybeyondLiteraryCriticism.Mediality,Disciplinarity(Berlin,NewYork:deGruyter.p.213‐238.Clandinin,D.J.,&Connelly,F.(2000).Narrativeinquiry‐experienceandstoryinqualitativeresearch.SanFrancisco,Calif.:Jossey‐BassInc.ReissmanC.(1993)NarrativeAnalysis.Sage,London.Sparkes,A.(2000).Tellingtalesinsportandphysicalactivity:Aqualitativejourney.Champaign,Illinois:HumanKinetics.
58 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
64. DawnGarbett,RenaHeapandAlanOvensFacultyofEducation,UniversityofAucklandFindingtheEthnographerinSelfStudyofTeacherEducationPractices
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForms
Abstract:
Self‐studyhasgrowninlegitimacyandpopularityasanorientationtostudyingteachereducationpracticesinthepasttwentyyears.Formany,thechallengehasbeentofindwaystoinvestigatethesimultaneousactsofteachingandresearchingthatteachinginwaysthatcanarticulate,inmeaningfulways,knowledgeofteachingaboutteaching.Fivemethodologicalfeaturesaretypicallykeyinself‐studies.Theyareimprovementaimed;haveevidenceofreframedthinkingandtransformedpractice;areinteractiveorcollaborative;employmultiple,primarilyqualitativemethods;areself‐initiatedandself‐focused;andaremadepublicforpeerscrutiny.Thispresentationexploreshowself‐studydemonstratesanethnographicsensibilitythathelpsdeepentheintegrityofhowoneinvestigatestheproductionofone'sownpracticeinteachereducation.Wedrawonthreeself‐studiestohelpillustratethispoint.Firstly;howimplementingpeerteachinghasledtolessonstudyinourattempttoengagestudentsinauthenticandrelevantlearningaboutteaching.Secondly;howrepositioningselfasalearnerimpactedonrelatingtostudentteachersmoreeffectively.Thirdly;howteam‐teachingenabledustoreframeassumptionsthatcentreonthesimplisticandmisleadingideathatteachereducationisthemodelingofexemplarypractice.Thecommonthreadintheseexampleshasbeenourdeepeningunderstandingofwhatitistobeateachereducator,teachinginacommunitythathasonlyjustbeguntoappreciatethesignaturepedagogiesthatmaketeachereducationunique.
59 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
65. AnomieWAAcademyofPerformingArts,EdithCowanUniversityEthnographyandCollaborativeStorytelling:Asocialrealistcinemaproject
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,Transgressiveforms
Abstract:
Socialrealistcinemaemphasisesthedialoguebetweencommunityandfilmmakerandisexperimentalinitsnegotiationtofindastory.Offeringa'sliceoflife',socialrealistfilmsgeneratemeaningthroughthesocial,ratherthanpsychologicaloraesthetic,positionoftheircharacters(Bazin).Whilethemovementembracesapluralityofstylesandhybridisations,methodologiesinclude;immersionofthefilmmakerwithinacommunity,useoflocalnon‐actors,improvisation,realworldlocationsandpresenttimesettings.Thispresentationwillanalysetheconceptualandpracticalpremisesofasocialrealistprojectthroughthelensofvisualanthropology,consideringRouch'sprojectsof'sciencefiction'andrecentRouchianethnofictions,theMacDougall'scollaborationsandBoal'sinvisibletheatre.Theaimistoenrichbothethnographicpracticeandfilmproductionintheexaminationoftheethics,methodologyandobjectivesofselectedhistoricalandinternationaltenetsofsocialrealism,acinematicmovementthathascorrespondencestotheanthropologicalvoice.TheprojectisaPhDinvolvingawrittenanddirectedfeature‐lengthfilm.ProducedinthecontextoftheAustralianfilmindustry,theproject'spurposeistoestablishafilmmakingpractice,viaapracticaltoolkit,thatmaycaptureaworldcomposedofpatternsofdisempowermentandprivilegemarginalizedsectorsofAustraliansocietywhomayrarelyhaveavoiceinAustralianmedia.ThefilmwillbelocatedinalowincomesuburbofPerth,WesternAustralia,andwillexploretheemergentsocialissuesoftwocommunities:SudaneserefugeesandReturnedServicepersons.
60 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
66. MaureenFayLeggeUniversityofAucklandAutoethnography:ReflexivitythroughstoriedaccountsofpersonalandprofessionalexperiencewithMaoritanga
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnograhyontheGround
Abstract:
IamafemalePakehaNewZealander.Asaphysicaleducationteachereducator[PETE]IhaveworkedtowardsincludingMaoritangainthecurriculumcontentofpre‐serviceteachereducationinphysicaleducationandoutdooreducation.MyeffortshavebeentoincreasePETEstudents'experienceandconfidencewithMaoricontenttostrengthentheirteachingoftereokori(NewZealandMinistryofEducation,1999).MyintentinthispaperistoshowhowIusedwritingasamethodofinquiry(Richardson,2000)inmydoctoralresearchtocomposeanautoethnographicnarrativeinvestigatinghowPETEstudents,colleaguesandmyselfinterpretedorreinterpretedpersonalandprofessionalexperienceswithMaoritanga.Mycompositionofsixdescriptive'snapshotstories',derivedfromlivedexperiencesover11yearsofcloseandprolongedencounterswithPETEstudentsintertiaryclassroomsandcourserelated3‐5daymaraestays(Legge,2006),becameasetofdatathatframedissuesconfrontingmeinmyendeavourstointegratewithMaoriculture.Thestorytellingprocessofpersonalexperiences;portrayedthepracticecontextwithinwhichIinvestigatedexperienceswithMäoriculture;shapedmyself‐reflexivityandenabledme,throughseparateinterpretiveandexplanatorysub‐stories,tobroadenmyunderstandingofthepedagogical,socialandculturalimplicationsinherentineachdescriptivesnapshotstory.
61 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
67. BrianMorrisTraditionalmethods,andideasuniquetoNarrativetherapyinexploringgenderandrelationalsubjectivityinheterosexualrelationships.
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForms
Abstract:
IamcurrentlycompletingaPhDongenderandrelationalsubjectivitywithinheterosexualrelationshipsattheUniversityofWaikato.Thedataforthisresearchwasgeneratedusingthetraditionalmethodsoffocusgroupsandinterviews,andcomplementedwithlesstraditionalresearchmethodsintheutilizationofideasfromthefieldofNarrativetherapy‐narrativetherapydocumentsandoutsider‐witnesspractices.Thefirststageofthisresearchwasthreeseparatefocusgroupmeetingswithsixwomendiscussingtheirexperienceoftheirheterosexualrelationship(s).Thesefocusgroupmeetingswerelinkedtogetherbynarrativetherapydocumentswhichhighlightedcontributionsfromeachparticipant,andsuggestedquestionsfordiscussionatthenextmeeting,thusmakingpossiblecontinuityanddevelopmentofdiscussionpointsoverthethreemeetings.Thesecondstageoftheresearchwasinterviewswithmenwhichnotonlyactedasatooltoexploretheirexperienceofheterosexualrelationship,butalsoasanoutsider‐witnesstothefirststage.Outsider‐witnessquestionsareauniquetoolofNarrativetherapythatenablerespondentstohonourtheexperiencesofthosetheyarewitnessingtoo,andwhenansweredauthenticallycantakethewitnesstoaplaceoflearningandpotentialtransformation.Thethirdandfinalstageoftheresearchwasaoneofffocusgroupwithwomenwhichactedasanaccountabilitygroupforthemaleresearcher,andalsoservedasanoutsider‐witnessgrouptothefirsttwostagesoftheresearch.68. 'WithdrawnAlaimaluloaTamihere,MelenaiteTaumoefolau
62 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
69. OjeyaCruzBanksUniversityofOtago/SchoolofPhysicalEducationOfWaterandSpirit:LocatingDanceEpistemologiesthroughEthnographyinAotearoaandSenegal
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGround
Abstract:
Usingmemoirsofdance,land,musicandsong,thispaperisanethnographicinvestigationintotwodiversedanceculturesandidentifiestheculturalknowledgethatisembodiedinmovement.ThedanceethnographyexaminescontemporaryexpressionsofMaoridanceasdonebyAtamiraDanceCollectiveinpartnershipwithOrotokareProject:Art,StoryandMotion,anorganizationpromotingMaoriandindigenousepistemologiesthroughtheperformingarts.InadditionWolofsabardanceastaughtbyTackoSissokoandfamily,sabardancer/teacherextraordinaireinDakar,Senegalisalsoconsidered.Datawascollectedthroughethnographicfieldnotes,dancepractice,informal/formalinterviews,photography,andvideorecordings.Theportraitsprovideawindowintotheepistemologiesembeddedanddisseminatedwithintheuniquemovementliteracies.Usingapostcolonialanddecolonizingtheoreticalpracticesandautoethnographicalexperiencesofdancingwiththesecommunities,Iexplorethelinksbetweendance,water,musicandidentity.Danceasembodimentsofgenealogy,environmentalrelationshipsanduniqueaffirmationsofhumanity.TheresearchandanalysisstrivestohighlighttheintersectionsbetweenmethodologyofethnographyandthefieldsofIndigenousStudies,DanceStudies,AfricanStudies,andPostcolonialStudies.
63 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
70. FelicityGracePerryUniversityofAucklandProductiveTensions:validityandtruthdifferencesbetweentheresearcherandtheresearched
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForms
Abstract:
Traditionalresearchpracticesposittheresearcherasthe'knower',abletomeasuretheresearchedaccordingtotheresearcher'schosensystemofmeasurement.Thisoftenoccursattheexpenseoftheself‐categorizationsoftheresearched.Thispaperexaminesthetensionthatarisesinethnographicresearchbetweenthedescriptionsandcategorizationsoftheresearchparticipantsandtheresearcher'sclassifications.Itasks,howcantheresearcherpresentdifferingviewswithoutofferingherownpositionassuperior?Thisquestionisgroundedintheauthor'sownworkwithhighschoolstudentsinAotearoa/NewZealand,whichexaminestherelationshipbetweenidentityanddress.Drawingontheconflictbetweenherviewofidentityasdiscursiveandthepositioningofidentityasbiologicalbysomeoftheresearchparticipants,theauthorasks,howcanthistensionbestbeworkedthroughwithoutpositioningtheparticipantsas'duped'bydiscoursesthat'falsely'positionidentity‐categoriessuchasgenderasbasedinbiology?Thispaperarguesthatknowledge‐constructionisanexclusionaryactthatworkstonaturalisecertainrelationsofpower.Itispositedthatthequestioningofwhatcountsas'knowledge'throughtheunpackingofthenotionofvalidityisnecessaryinworkingtocreateresearchwhichdoesnotpresentknowledgewithintheconstrictingbinaryof'true'and'false'.UtilisingtheworkofJean‐FrancoisLyotard(1979)onparalogyandDonnaHaraway's(1988)notionofsituatedknowledges,thispaperasks,howcantruthsbepositedasmultipleinawaythatdoesnotcontinuetopromoteonetruth‐regimeas'better'thanothers?Inotherwords,howcanthenotionofvaliditybeexpandedsothatitundermines,ratherthansupports,powerhierarchies?
64 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
71. DebbieBrightUniversityofWaikatoRepresentingthelivedexperienceofartmakers
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGround
Abstract:
Art‐makersoftencommunicatetheirlivedexperienceinwaysthatembracegender,culture,spiritualityandtheirunderstandingofcreativity.Theircommunicationcanbeverbalbutismorelikelytobethroughtheverbal,non‐verbalandnon‐verbalisableformsinherentinembodiedknowingandart‐making.Inresearch,thechallengeposedbysuchdiversitycanbeaddressedthroughacombinationoffacilitatedreflectivepracticeandaflexibleunderlyingphilosophicalframework.Aninterweavingofthreeworldviews‐feminist,participatoryandindigenouspeoples'worldviews‐providestherangeoflensesnecessaryfortheexplorationofthelivedexperienceofreflectivepracticeinart‐making.Icallthisapproachafeministparticipatoryworldview.Iamadance‐makerwhoisalsoanexperiencedreflectivepractitionerandadulteducator.Asafellowart‐makerIcanengageinfacilitatedreflectivepracticewithotherart‐makers.AfeministparticipatoryapproachmeansthattheyandIcan'know'throughavarietyofwayssuchascollaborative,constructed,cultural,embodied,experiential,indigenous,practical,presentational,propositionalandspiritualknowingandwritingasawayofknowing.However,forme,asresearcher,thefinalchallengeconcernsthemeansthroughwhichthelivedexperienceofart‐makersmayberepresented.Therefore,inthispresentation,Irepresentthelivedexperiencesoftenadultfemalesoloart‐makersofvaryingethnicitiesandart‐makingareasthroughspeech,journalentries,drawings,photographs,animagenarrative(ablendingofdance‐making,stillimagesandpoetry),avideomontage(movingimages,musicandothersounds)andadancenarrative(livespeechanddance).
65 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
72. SitaVenkateswarMasseyUniversityThe“WilltoKnowledgeandAnthropologicalPractice:Towardsanethicalpraxis.”
SocialJusticeandTransformation:TheoreticalEthnographicVisions
Abstract:
Anthropology's"willtoknowledge"derivesfromEnlightenmentrationalityandliesatthecoreofthediscipline'sepistemologicalunderpinnings.DrawingonmyongoinginvolvementwiththeindigenousgroupsintheAndamanIslands,thispaperconsidersthecontextswhenthatimpulsetowardsknowledgeasconstitutedbyanthropologyisethicallyunsustainable.Igoontomapaprovisionalanthropologicalpraxisthatisresponsivetothecontemporarysituationoftheindigenousgroupsintheislandswhich,inturn,becomesunsustainablewithinthecurrentinstitutionalconjunctureinacademia.
66 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
73. JulieBarbourUniversityofWaikatoAnethnographicapproachtosustainablelinguisticfieldwork
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForms
Abstract:
Spokeninuniqueenvironmental,culturalandtechnologicalsettings,atleasthalfoftheworld'slanguagesareasyetun‐described(Crystal2000:5).Traditionally,themethodologyoflanguagedescriptionhasfocussedstronglyontheelicitationoflinguisticdata,withlittleornoexplicitrecognitionofthehumanparticipantsinvolved(cf.Lehmann1972).In1998,languagedescriptionwasreconceptualisedasasub‐partofamuchbroaderactivitycalledlanguagedocumentation(Himmelmann1998).Gradually,theroleofthelanguagespeakerhasbecomemoreovertlyacknowledged,withClaireBowern(2008:5)recentlyobservingthatfieldworkcanbethoughofas'acollaborativeeffortbetweenthelinguistandthelanguagespeaker(s)'.Crucially,languagedocumentationrequireslinguiststomakeexplicittheirdatasources(i.e.speakersofthelanguage),toconsidermultipleusesandusersofthedata,andtoconsiderthecontextandmannerinwhichdataiscollectedamongotherthings(cf.Dwyer2006,Himmelmann2006andWoodbury2003,).Implicitintheactivityoflanguagedocumentationisengagementbythelinguistwithacommunityofspeakers.InthispaperIexplorethecontributionthatanethnographicapproachcanmaketolanguagedocumentationanddescription.Iconsiderthisfromavarietyofperspectives,includingparticipantrelationships,datatypesandcollection,anddatauses.SpecificallyIdescribe,withreferencetomyownfieldexperiences,howanethnographicapproachtolinguisticfieldworkfostersopportunistic,participant‐drivendatacollectionwhichinturnenhancesthesustainabilityoftheprojectfrombothcommunityandresearcherperspectives.ReferencesBowern,Claire.2008.Linguisticfieldwork:Apracticalguide.Basingstoke[England];NewYork:PalgraveMacmillan.Crystal,David.2000.Languagedeath.Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress.Dwyer,Arienne.2006.Ethicsandpracticalitiesofcooperativefieldwork.InJostGippert,NikolausP.Himmelmann&UlrikeMosel(eds.),Essentialsoflanguagedocumentation,31‐66.Berlin&NewYork:MoutondeGruyter.Himmelmann,Nikolaus.1998.Documentaryanddescriptivelinguistics.Linguistics36:161‐195.Himmelmann,Nikolaus.2006.Languagedocumentation:Whatisitandwhatisitgoodfor?InJostGippert,NikolausP.Himmelmann&UlrikeMosel(eds.),Essentialsoflanguagedocumentation,1‐30.Berlin&NewYork:MoutondeGruyter.
67 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
Lehmann,Winfred.1972.Descriptivelinguistics:Anintroduction.NewYork:RandomHouse.Woodbury,Anthony.2003.Definingdocumentarylinguistics.Languagedocumentationanddescription1:35‐51.
68 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
74. CarolineAllbonTheUniversityofWaikato,WaikatoManagementSchoolEthnographyonthemove...'Venturingintotheshadowsideoftheselfwhoobserves"
Emergingmethods:Traditional,Experimental,Transgressiveforms
Abstract:
"Intensemethodologicalawareness,ifengagedintooseriouslycancreateanxietiesthathinderpractice,butiftakeninsmalldosesitcanhelptoguardagainstmostobviouserror'.(Seale,1999:ix)Inthedemarcationbetween'self'and'other'asdiscretebeingsliesapuzzleIamaddressingasresearcher,nurse,andpersonwithMultipleSclerosis(MS).Mystoryisaboutembodimentofprofoundchangesinmy'being'thataccompaniedthediagnosisofMS.Questionsthatsurfaceareaboutidentity.Whoam'I'?What/whois'we'?Isitpossibletoproducetextfromthefieldthatisboth'self'and'other'orientated?Inmyfieldofpracticelivinginquiryengagesselfwithcomplexlayersofpersonalexperience(Behar1996)andwithacriticalintimacyintegraltoapraxisthatenhancesunderstandingsinwhichtheethnographicselfhasnotbeenexcludedordiminished.Iexplorewaysofbeingthroughtechniquesofshadowing(Czarniawska2007)andreflexivitySchon(1983)toaddresscomplexityandthere‐organisingselfinthefield.Bourdieu's(1977)Habituspermitsanon‐interiorisedautoethnographythatallowsanembodiedpraxistoportrayrelevanceofthesetechniquestoproductionofknowledgeandforadvancingknowledgeforourinterlocutors,ourreaders,andusasresearchers.Idemonstratethevalueofthisapproachtoenquirywithexamplesfrommylifestoryasself‐inquiry(Ellis2003).Ipresentawayofbeingwithaneyeonthevariousshadowsthatinvolverelational,intersubjectiveaspectsofknowledgeproductionthatadd,notshake,confidenceintheknowledgeproduced.
69 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
75. JulianaMansveltSchoolofPeople,EnvironmentandPlanning,MasseyUniversityGrowingOlder:Thestuffofeverydaylife
SocialJusticeandTransformation:TheoreticalEthnographicVisions
Abstract:
Recentyearshaveseenincreasedattentioninthesocialsciencestotheroleofthematerialinshapingsociallife.Thispaperconsidersthesignificanceofthecirculationofmaterialthingsthroughhouseholdsinshapingidentitiesandspacesofolderpeople.Theresearchinvolvedaseriesofthreein‐depthinterviewsundertakenoveraperiodoffourmonths,withtwelveparticipantsaged55‐70livingintheirown,orrentedhomes.Participantswereselectedacrossarangeoflivingstandards,withtheresearchaimingtoexplorethemeaningandsignificanceofconsumptionpracticesandexperiencesinmidtolaterlife.Acrossthespectrumoflivingstandards,thepurchase,use,re‐use,anddisposalofmaterialthingsplayedacriticalroleinshapingbothfamilialandindividualidentities.Moreoveratboththehighandthelowendofthelivingstandardindex,theacquisitionanddivestmentofmaterialthingshadasignificantroleinconstructingdiscoursesofproductivityandcopingandofresistingnegativediscoursesofwastefulness,excessandunproductivity.Theresearchdemonstratesthatthepossessionanddispossessionofthe'stuff'ofeverydaylifematters,activelycontributingtoasenseofautonomyandcontrolandprovidingameansofretainingmeaningandvalueasoneages.
70 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
76. TelesiaKalaviteTheUniversityofWaikatoToungaue(coperative)model:ATongan/Pasifikaresearchmethodology
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForms
Abstract:
MostcurrentTonganandPasifika(PacificIsland)researchershavesuggestedthatifaresearchistomakeameaningfulcontributiontoPasifikasocieties,thenitsprimarypurposeistoreclaimPasifikaknowledgeandvaluesforPasifikapeoples.TheyalsostatedthatresearchconcerningPasifikapeoplesandeducationmustgobeyondtheassumptionsthatunderpinEurocentric,westernstructures,institutions,andknowledge.TheybelievedthatthereisaneedforPasifikaresearcherstocreatetheirownpedagogyandsymbolicorders,theirownsourcesofidentity,authority,mediatingstructuresandappropriatestandardsindevelopmentandeducationthatarerootedtotheirownPasifikavalues,assumptions,knowledge,processesandpractices.ThemodelsshoulddevelopresearchthatreflectsPasifikaworldviewsunderpinnedbyPasifikavalues,beliefsystems,andwaysofsharingknowledge.ThispaperpresentsaTongan/Pasifikaemergingresearchmethodology,Toungaue(co‐operative)model.Toungaueisco‐operativeworkwithinagroupofpeopleinTongancommunities.Allthemembersofthegroupworkforonememberonetime/day,thenforanotherpersonatanothertime/day,andsoonuntileveryonehashadtheirturntobehelpedbythegroup.Theworkrotatesthroughouttheyear.Toungaueisameansoffetokoni'aki(helpingeachother)amongsttheTonganpeoplesothattheycanproducethingsmoreeasilyandquickly.Thisisawellknowngroupworkmodelforwomenwhentheyaremakingmatsorfala(toulalanga),andtapaclothorngatu(toulanganga).Formen,itiscalledkautahatoungaueorlauhouawhentheyworktogetherasagroupintheirplantations.
71 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
77. SarahCornerUniversityofWaikato,HamiltonKeepingithushhush:Researchprotocolsinsmallcommunities
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGround
Abstract:
Thispresentationexaminesissuesrelatingtoconfidentialityandanonymityinethnographicresearch.Employingmultiplemethodsproblematisestheethicalconcernsforundertakingresearchinasmallcommunity‐especiallyonewheretheresearcherlives.Specifically,Iintendtoaddresssomedebatessurroundingethicsinfocusgroupworkandhowthismethodcanworktoenhancethequalityofethnographicresearch,butcanalsoworktohinderthenatureofhowwepracticeit.Asresearchers,westrivetoreassureparticipants'confidentiality;however,thereareendemicethicaldilemmasbecausetherearefewethicalassurances.Canwe,infact,assureconfidentiality?Howcanweassurethatsubjects'narrativesaresafe?Whydowesteerclearofnegativeconversations?Howdoesthisadvantageordisadvantagetheresearchprocess?Whydofocusgroupsworktoreveal'better'qualityofresearch?Canresearchersworkinginthecommunitiesinwhichtheyliveproduceandcreatetruly'safe'spacesforfocusgroupresearch?
72 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
78. ElizabethMaryProctorUniversityofWaikatoToitutewhenua,Toitutetangata:AholisticMaoriapproachtofloodmanagement
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGround
Abstract:
ThelossassociatedwithfloodingissymbolicofthelossassociatedwithourhistoryourTupunaandourtaongatukuiho.InasmallMaoricommunityinNorthland,severefloodinghasimpactedonthepeopleandtheirenvironment.Myaimwastoinvestigatehowthepeopleinthiscommunityrespondedtoseverefloods,andexploretheroleoftikangaintheirresponse.InaseriesofhuiIusedvideotofosterdiscussionabouthowpeoplehadrespondedtopastevents.Participantswereabletotelltheirstoriesofhowtheydealtwithfloods,butwereslowtorecognisehowtheiractionsexpressedtheirtikangabecausetothemitwassotakenforgranted.Thefindingsshowedhowasmallpopulationofpeoplesurvivebysimplydoingwhatneedstobedone,andwhenitcomestofloodingonanyscaletheydoalltheworkthemselveswithleadershipfromwithinthecommunity.Arohaandwhanaungatangaweretheunderlyingvaluesdemonstratedthroughtheiractions.IntheAotearoaregulatoryenvironmentoflegislationandcouncilpolicies,localauthoritiesoftenfailtorecognisethepracticalusefulnessofsuchvalues,andinthepasthavemadedecisionsforthecommunitywithoutreferencetothem.Thiscommunitycouldshowpracticaltoolsbasedintikangathatcanenhanceourrelationshipswithinstitutionsandthenaturalenvironment.Outcomesfromthisresearchhavebeengreatercommunityrecognitionoftheirresilienceandstrengths,andacomprehensivefloodmanagementplangroundedinhapuvalues.
73 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
79. JoeMacdonaldOtagoUniversityTransgenderPersonhood:PrivilegingPersonalNarrativesWithinTransStudies
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgresiveForms
Abstract:TransStudiesisanemerginginterdisciplinaryfielddescribedbytheoristStephenWhittleas"thetruelinkingoffeministandqueertheory"(TheTransgenderStudiesReader(TSR),Routledge:2006,xii).Iwillarguethatsocialconstruction,asabroadmethodologicalframework,isthemostwidelyandeffectivelyusedtheoreticalbasisforaddressingtransexperience,embodimentandethics.Iwillalsoargue,inagreementwithSusanStryker,that"ultimately,itisnotjusttransgenderphenomenapersethatareofinterest,butratherthemannerinwhichthesephenomenarevealtheoperationsofsystemsandinstitutionsthatsimultaneouslyproducevariouspossibilitiesofviablepersonhood,andeliminateothers"(TSR,3).Transstudiesemphasizesspecificaspectsofsocialconstruction:thelivedembodiedexperienceofgender,theintersectionsofrace/ethnicity/disability/sexuality/gender/class,therealeffectsofdiscourseorideologiesonpeople,andthevoices,the"counter‐discourse,"oftranspeopleandtheirallies.WithinmyresearchinthecontemporaryNewZealandcontextofpakehaFTMs(female‐to‐males),thequeeringoftransmasculinitiesemergesasacommontheme.Iexaminequeertransmasculinityasaformoftransgendercounter‐discourse.MyMAthesisconsistsofinterwovenliteraryreviewandpersonalnarratives.Contextualizingnarrativeswiththeoryisabettergoal,Iargue,thanusingpersonalstoriesasfuelforacademicdeconstruction.ThenewlyemergingprinciplesofTransStudiesitself,asdescribedbyStephenWhittleandSusanStrykerintheirintroductiontoDeanSpade's"MutilatingGender,"providesomemethodologicalguidanceformyproject:"Spadecombinesintellectuallylegitimatedformsofanalysisandcritiquewithanarrativeaccountofhisownquestfornonnormativizingbody‐alteration.Hisrefusaltofeignadisinteresteddistancefromthetopicofhisanalysis,hisexplicitarticulationofhisembodiedstakeinthematterathand,andtheknowledgegainedfromhisownembodiedsituationallexemplifyimportantmethodologicalhallmarksoftransgenderstudies"(TSR,315).IconcludebyofferingasummaryofthekeyaspectsofmethodologywithinTransStudies,andshowhowtheserelatetothepoliticalmovementsfortransrightsinNewZealand.
74 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
80. JulianGrantFacultyofHealthSciences,FlindersUniversityLocatingthe'critical'natureofethnographywhenvideojoinsthearmoury.
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForms
Abstract:
Thispaperreportsonthetheoreticalstrugglesofarticulatingethnographyasbothamethodandamethodologyforcriticalinquiry,particularlywhenvideoisusedasasubstantivetoolfordatacollection.Thequestionsarisefromethnographicresearchthatexplored,withchildhealthprofessionalsinaSouthAustralianprimaryhealthcaresetting,howtheycommunicatedwithparentswhowereculturallydifferenttothemselves.Videowasacoreaspectofdatacollectionusedtoengageparticipantstoreflectonthecognitiveandaffectiveaspectsoftheirbiculturalinteractions.Asaculturalstudytheresearchwasinherentlycriticalwithadecolonisingagenda.Findingatheoreticalplaceforthisresearchwithintheconstructsofcriticalsocialscience,criticaltheory,andcriticalethnographyischallenging.Labelsofvideoethnographyandphoto‐voicefurtherconfoundclassification.Thispaperdetailsanunpackingofthesetermsandhighlightsthefeaturesofcontemporaryethnographythatcanbeclaimedascritical.
75 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
81. LeeAnnALexandraMeyenbergResearch,RelationshipsandSocialChange:transformationalworkandcontemporaryethnography
SocialJusticeandTransformation:TheoreticaEthnographicVisions
Abstract:
InthispresentationIwilldiscussthepotentialvalueofengagedethnographicpracticeasitrelatestocareerdevelopment.Thetalkwillhaveaparticularfocusondevelopingeffectivemeansforengagingwithandbeinginformedbypeoplethathavefoundithardtoproductivelyengagewithgovernmentinstitutionsorprogrammesforsocialimprovement,andwillbedrawnarounddevelopingeffectiveandethicalpractice.Thetemporaryandnegotiatednatureofcommunicationinthissituationis,Iwillassert,anessentialingredientindeterminingchangeinthefutureactionsofboththe"subject"andthe"researcher";itisaprocessthatchangestheunderstandingofbothparties.Thepresentationwilldiscusstheauthenticandtransientrelationshipswhichsatisfya"subject's"requirementsforrelationshipsthathelptodefinemeaningandaction.Thisdiscussionwillcentreontheexperiencesof6‐7peoplethathave,bytheirownjudgement,foundtransformativechangeasarealandongoingprocesstobedeterminedthroughtheirtransientandinformalrelationships.From"difficult"and"challenging"backgroundscomes,incertaincontexts,changeatanindividuallevelthatisalsosociallyproductive.Suchrelationshipsareattheheartofcareerdevelopmentprofessionalpracticeaswellascontemporaryqualitativeresearch,andhavethepotentialtoacttoprovidebotharichsourceofinformationandasiteoffromwhichislaunchedtransformationfortheindividualandfortheresearcherinpractice.
76 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
82. RobertWhitbourneUniversityofAucklandNavigatingFourWorlds:HowtoEat,Drink,DanceandDrivelikeaLocal.
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForms
Abstract:
Asindigenousresearchersincreasinglyworkwithotherindigenousresearchers/communitiesfromaroundtheworldwearechallengedwithmovingacrossincreasinglycomplex'culturalworlds'.Notonlymustwe'moveacross'theseworldsbutwemustliveinsidethem,embracingtheexperiencestheybringandhopefullyemergingwithsomethingenduringandmeaningful.Fromthispositionof'embracingexperiences'theideaisofferedthatthepathtounderstandingemergeserratically,indefianceofresearchmethodologiesandoftenwithneithertheordernorlogicresearchinstitutesfavour.Partpresentation,partbiographicexpositionwithahintofhaka,thesessionreflectsonmyexperiencesasaMaoriworkinginaPakehainstitutiondoingresearchinaSpanishcolonizedcountrywithQuechuancommunities.ThesessionwilldiscussindigenousorganizationalethnographybetweenindigenouscommunitiesinPeruandAotearoa(NewZealand)andthepracticalchallengesofsuchwork.Thesessionwillfocusontheuniqueelementsof'inter‐Indigenouscommunity'ethnography,thecontingencyofindigenousethnographyonfactorsoutsideourcontrol,thepotentialforthislackofcontroltoinspireinvolvementwiththebroadercommunity,andthebenefitsof'inter‐Indigenouscommunity'ethnographywhichfalloutsidenotionsof'researchoutputs'.Finallythesessionpresentsthepossibilitythatindigenousapproachestoethnographyofferasetofuniquepossibilitiesforforgingrelationships,developinginsight,supportingactionandbeingpartofthelifeofthoseweworkwith.
77 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
83. ITO,YasunobuJapanAdvancedInstituteofScienceandTechnology(JAIST)Prohibitedcreativity:Ethnographicstudyonnurses'ingenuityathospitalsinJapan
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForms
Abstract:
Thispaperfocusesonhumancreativityinasituationwherebeingcreativeisprohibited.Foracoupleofyears,Ihavebeenconductingethnographicresearchinahospitalwiththecollaborationofmedicaldoctors,researchersofmanagementandofengineeringwhoattempttoaddsomeexperimentalfunctionstotheelectronicmedicalrecords(EMR)system.Icarefullyobservednotonlyhownurses,inseveraldepartmentsofdiagnosisandtreatment,areusingfunctionsnewlyintroducedtotheexistingEMRsystem,butalsoalltheinformationtheyarehandlingattheirworkplace:worksheetsprintedfromtheEMRsystem,oralandwrittenreportshandedoverfromnursestonurses,evennumbersaboutthevitalsignsofpatientsscribbledtemporarilyonthebackoftheirhands.NursesshowflexibilityincustomizingandprintingformatswhichareintheEMRsystem,andeveninusinghiddenmanualspassedonfromseniorstonovices.Headnursesdonotevenknowoftheirexistence.Althoughwecanconsidertheabove‐mentionedbehaviorastheiringenuityorcreativeability,amedicalorganization,whichissometimesconsideredasaHighReliabilityOrganization(HRO),isaplacewherearbitraryactionsarestrictlyprohibitedinordertopreventmedicalerrorsandincidents.Nurses'behaviorsinwhichtheyuseresourcesflexiblyareusuallyconsideredtoconstitutebadhabits,sonursesareaptatkeepingsecrets.Thesefindingstaughtusthat,notonlyisthereatensionbetweenbeingcreativeandtheriskofmalpractice,butalsothataclosednatureofdepartmentsofmedicalorganizationsinJapanprevails.I,asananthropologist/ethnographer,alsotouchonsomeproblemsinvolvingmulti‐andinterdisciplinaryresearchwithscholarsofotherdisciplines.
78 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
84. JennyRitchie,Sandral.Morrison,TimoteVaioleti,andTeWhaiwhaia
Ritchie
TeWhareWanangaoWairakaAnexplorationofrecentexperiencesofdeathritualsinAotearoafromarangeofpersonalandculturalperspectives.
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForms
Abstract:
Thedeathofalovedoneisadefiningandanintensetime.Aswellasthepersonalemotionalupheaval,theprocessofdeathrequiresritualstobeenactedwhichareculturallyandcontextuallybound.Thisoccursnomatterwhatculture.InAotearoaNewZealand,deathritualshavebeeninfluencedstronglybythecultureoftheindigenouspeopleortangatawhenua,Maori,whoseoriginsarePolynesian.Thisworkshopoffersfourdifferentauto‐ethnographicperspectivesofrecentexperiencesoffunerals/tangihangathatoccurredduringthepassingofdifferentpeoplecloselyrelatedtothepresenters,inAotearoaNewZealandin2009.Methodologically,theresearchershaveexploredindividuallyandcollectively,themeaningsandfeelingsthataccompaniedtheirrespectivejourneysduringthisperiodofbereavement.Auto‐ethnography,KaupapaMaori,andnarrativemethodologieshavemergedastheresearcherssharetheirunderstandingsoftheseexperiencesthroughaprocessoftalanoa,wherebyconversationsallowrichcomplexsharedunderstandingstoemerge(Tomaselli,Dyll,&Francis,2008,Smith,1999,Vaioleti,2006).Thisprocesswilldemonstratethepowerofthecollectivehealingprocessenactedatatimewhenourdiversepopulationattemptstodefineitselfinthe21stcenturyworldasayoungnationofmanynationsbuildsonoldtraditionsofPolynesia.85. WihdrawnDebashishMunshi
79 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
86. IngridL.M.HuygensWaikatoInstittuteofTechnology&TamakiTreatyWorkersEthnographicresearchwiththePakehaTreatymovement:"Beingagroupthatischanging"
SocialJusticeandTransformationORPracticeandAdvocacy
Abstract:
Analternativeuseofethnographicmethodsistoinvestigatenew,aspirationalconstructionsofthesocialworlddevelopedwithincounter‐hegemonicsocialmovements.SociologistsEyerman&Jamison(1991)considerthattounderstandsocialmovements"intheirownterms...[is]animportant,evencrucialtaskforsocialtheory".ThelocalmovementofactivistTreatyworkerssharea30yearhistory,alongsideMaoriactivists,ofchallengingandeducatingPakehatorevisitandhonourtheTreatyofWaitangi.AsaPakehaTreatyeducator,Ipositionedmyselfasan'insiderresearcher'abletousemethodsofrecordingandresearchingthatfollowedtheethicsandprotocolsofourmovement.Ourcommitmenttodevelopingknowledgecollectivelyledtoaninnovativemethodwherebygroupscreatedvisual'theories'ofPakehachange,andthensharedthesesuccessivelywithothergroupsofTreatyeducatorsaroundthecountry,andeventuallyatanationalgathering.Wetherebyfollowedactionprinciplesusedincommunitypsychologyandradicaladulteducationtocreatevaluablepracticalresources(imagery,booksandvideos)forongoingwork.Wealsoaffirmedcommonpraxis,settleddifferences,andlearntnewskillstosustainourselvesandeachother,aspectsvitaltoallminority'culturalwork'.Iwilldisplayanddiscussthisprocessofcumulative'visualtheorising'asanethnographicmethodsuitableforexploringandstrengtheningcollectiveknowledgesthataresuppressedormarginalisedindominantculture.
80 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
87. DrMadeleineMurtaghandDrDuikaBurgesWatsonUniversityofLeicesterManagingtheagenda:healthcaredecisionmakinginaprimarycareorganisation
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGroundAbstract:
CurrentUKgovernmentpolicychampionstheinvolvementofpatientsandthepublicinmultiplelevelsofhealthcaredecisionmakinginwhatitcallsa'patient‐ledNHS'.Howthisinvolvementisenactedinhealthcareorganisationsisthesubjectofmuchscrutiny.Adoptinganethnographicanddiscourseanalyticapproach,inthispaperweexaminethepracticesofoneaspectofdecision‐makingwhichisstructuredtoincludepublicandhealthprofessionalinvolvementindecisionmakinginonePrimaryCareTrust(PCT)inthenorthofEngland.Wedemonstrateparallelsbetweenthedifficultiesfacedbypatientsandthepublicintakinganactivepartinhealthcaredecisionmaking,inthiscaseprioritysettingdecisions,andtheconstraintsexperiencedbyhealthcareprofessionalsinthisprocess.WedetailanalysisofprioritysettingtodemonstratetherhetoricalstrategiesusedbyPCTmanagerstomanagediscussionanddebateandtoensurethecompletionofanalwaysfullagenda.Wealsodetailattemptsbyhealthcareprofessionalsandlaymemberstowresttheagendafromprofessionalmanagers.Whileonepossibleanalysisofthisagendamanagementisthatpowerrelationshipsbetweenpatientanddoctorareherereproducedinrelationshipsbetweenfrontlineprofessionalsandhealthcaremanagersthiswouldbetooverlooktherelationshipsthathealthcaremanagersarethemselvesnegotiatingwithanapparentlymonolithiccentralgovernment,itselfengagedinmultiplerelationsofpower.Moreover,wearguethattheserelationsareacollectiveco‐production,notsimplytheoutcomeofresistance.
81 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
88. JamesBurfordDesecreationDefacingmyresearchbywritingwiththemargins.
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForm
Abstract:
Thispaperpresentstheissuesofnegotiationandre‐presentationinpostgraduateresearch.Byusingmystudyexamininginterventionsofthedevelopmentindustrywithgender/sexualminoritygroupsinBangkok,Isharesomeinsightsintothepossibilitiesforhowsubjectspositionedasvulnerableandpassivecananddoasserttheiragency.Whileparticipant'saccountswereframedbytherestrictionsofdonorfunding,manyempahsisedtheirrolesasactiveco‐constructorsofreciprocalrelations,enablingthemspacetoaddresstheirowngoalsalongsidetheirdonorsexpectations.Mypositionasapostgraduatestudentundertakingqueerresearchinthedevelopmentfieldhassomeparallelstothisphenomenon.BeginningwiththeinitialsenseofpowerlessnessIfelt,torepresentmyresearchasamonovocal'straight'text,Ilearnedtonegotiatemyagency,incorporatingbothwhatwasexpectedofmebymyinsitution,andinnovativeaspectsthatfeltauthentictomyresearchfindingsandexperience.Atthecoreofthenegotiatedresearchtextwasanideaofdesecreation,adestablisingofaspectsofTheThesisthataregenerallyheldtobesacred.TodothisIutilised'graffiti'asametaphoricalformofprotest,whichregistersmydiscontentwiththehomophobicreactionsofthedisciplinaryfield,aswellasmydissatisfactionwithhegemonicstylesofpresentationinthegenerallywhite,andtrouble‐freemargins.BygraffitiingthemarginsIpresentanalternativenarrativethatdialogueswith,andchallenges,the'master'textrequiredbyinstitutions.Thesemarginscelebratethesubversive'gutters'wheremuchoftheknowledgethatthisresearchdrawsonhasbeenhistoricallyheld.Italsorestorestheplaceofmybodyandmyemotionsinthisresearch.
82 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
89. TinaKenyon,ACSWNHDartmouthFamilyMedicineResidencyTeachingaPersonCenteredApproachtoPhysiciansinTraining
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGround
Abstract:
Thegoalofthisinteractivepresentationistoprovideanoverviewofapraxis‐orientedresearchproject,andelicitparticipantexpertiseassuggestionsforimprovement.Thepresenterwilldrawonparticipants'experienceaspatients,aswellastheirprofessionalperspectives.Thisprojectcentersonatransformationallearningprocess,whichfacilitatesbehaviorandattitudechangethroughreflectionandexperience.AlthoughUSmedicaleducationfocusesonteachingphysicianshowtocareforpeople,thisdoesnotalwaystranslateintoperson‐centeredcare.TransformationallearningiseffectiveforsocializingUSfamilyphysicianstoorientpracticetowardpeopleasuniqueindividuals.Duringthethree‐yearpostmedicalschoolresidencytrainingprogram,knowledge,skillsandattitudesundergoauniquemetamorphosisforeachlearner.Partofthatmulti‐dimensionalchangeinvolvesdesigningandimplementingprojectsthatstartwith"apatientofinterest".Theresidentphysician'scuriosityaboutwhypeoplemakecertainchoices,theirgoalsforhealthandlife,andtheirfamilystoriessustainstheirenergyforthislearningovertime.Ifaphysicianistocollaborativelyformulateaneffectivecareplan,itiscrucialthattheyconducttheirownethnographicstudyofapatient'ssituation.Thepresenterwilldescribeastructuredprocessforexperientialacquisitionofperson‐in‐situationskillsfornewphysicians.Thequalitativeobservationsofthepresenteraddressthechangesintheworkofphysiciansandinthelivesofpatientsthroughthiseducationalprogram.
83 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
90. JacquelineDreessensDeakinUniversity,FacultyArts&EdAwriteofpassage:astoryofawhitewomandancinginblackculture
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForms
Abstract:
Writingandreflectingonthisstoryhasledtheauthortocriticallyexaminetherelationshipofidentity,danceandculturemuchmorethanwhenshelivedit.UsingcontemporaryandAfricandanceasapersonalhealingpracticeaswellasanexpressiveartforminaprofessionalandeducationalcontext,hasgivenrisetoariteofpassagethatalsoservedasanawakeningandempowermentofherownidentityasawomanlivinganddancingbetweencultures.Thisawarenessistheresult.Havinglivedwithchildhoodtrauma,theauthorhasalwaysfoundarefugewithinthedance.Hatingtheimageofherownbody,shelearnedtorespect"thebody"asapowerfulinstrumentofexpressionthroughthestudyofdancetechnique.Shealsolearnedhow"a"dancer'sbodywouldsafelychannelherexplosiveangerandcreativelyredirecthersuppressedvolatileemotionsthroughcarefullycontrolled,aestheticallyarrangedandorganisedpatternsofmovementthatcouldbeperfectlyexecutedbydancers,intothematicchoreographicform.TheattractionandstudyoftraditionalAfricandancetechniqueofferedtheopportunitytolearnabouttheempowermentofwomanthroughmovementexplorationsthatexploredtheconnectiontoearthasMother,cyclesofnature,cyclesofthebodyandthroughdanceritualcelebratingthemysteriesoflifebyhonouringthefemalebodyastheportaloftheDevine.Thisbecameameaningfulframeworktoliveherlife.Bydescribingaselectedseriesofpublicdanceperformancesascasestudies,anautoethnographicapproachwasappliedtoreflectupontheauthor'smovementpracticeasamicrocosmofunconsciousbeliefpatterns.Bycreatingnewdanceworksforyoungpeople,migrantsandcommunitygroupsfromtheinspirationofAfricandancenotonlyprovidedaframeofreferenceforathematicapproachincross‐culturaldancebutfacilitatedapositiveselfimageforthegroupsinvolvedandguidedtheauthortoreclaimandhonourherownsenseofselfworthasawoman.
84 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
91. BradenTeHiwiPositioningIndigenousresearcherreflexivityinacademicknowledgeproduction.
SocialJusticeandTransformation:TheoreticalEthnographicVisions
Abstract:
ThegrowthanddevelopmentofIndigenousresearchinrecentdecadesposesasignificantchallengetocolonialintereststhathavemarginalizedIndigenousresearchinacademicinstitutions(Smith,1999).Itismyconcernhowever,thatitmaybetheveryneedfortheemplacementofIndigenousresearch,andtheverypotentialofIndigenousresearchagendasthatdrawattentionawayfromcriticallyreflectingontheplaceofthisresearchwithintheacademy.ThecrucialissuecentersonpositioningIndigenousresearcherreflexivity;areflexivitythatseekstoacknowledgenotonlytheresearcher'srelationshiptoherorhispersonalhistory,tothestudyandtheparticipants,butalsoofIndigenousethnographies'locationwithinthesystemofacademicknowledgeproductionthatenablesthem.ThisformofreflexivityisproposedbyPierreBordieu's(2003)conceptof"participantobjectivation".ItoffersastartingpointtoexamineIndigenousresearcherreflexivityunderthecontingenciesofacademicknowledgeproduction.Asapreliminaryinvestigationofthisissue,IwillexploremyownpositionasanIndigenousresearcher.ThispresentationseekstoexaminethedifficultarticulationofacademicknowledgewithIndigenousknowledges.Eventhoughtheycontaindifferentphilosophiesandcriteria,theynecessarilystillengageeachotheratthepointofappliedpracticeofIndigenousresearch.Thisengagementhasbothmaterialconsequences,sinceitdefinesadominantsiteofresearchpractice,andtheoreticalconsequences,inthattheyalsodefineaspacethatisconceptuallygroundedwithinacademicwaysofknowing.Inthispaper,Iwillexaminethecomplexityoftheseissuesastheyaffectmyownpositionintheprocessofknowledgeproduction.
85 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
92. KerryAnnWhitePolytechnicInstituteofNYUAnExperimentalEmergingEthnographyofaBrooklynFarmer'sMarket
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForms
Abstract:
ThisethnographicworkexaminesTheBoroughHallFarmer'sMarket(BHFM),whichisapartofNewYorkCity'sGreenmarkets.TheGreenmarketsoriginallybegantopromotelocalfarmersandtheirproductsintheNYpopulationbecausefarmerswerelosingmoneyhavinglimitedwaystomarketanddelivertheirgoods.CustomersvisitFarmer'sMarketsfornumerousreasons,including:thequalityoftheproduct;varietyofproducts;theexperienceofvisitingthemarket;andrelationship/connectionwiththefarmers.GenerallythetenvendorsatBHFMarewellawareoftheirimmediatecompetition,butrelyonthefactthattastesvarybyfarmandthateachvendorhastheirownsetofloyalcustomers.Thisresearchwillexplorehowthevendorsenticedthecustomerstospendmoney(attract),andcreatedadesirefortheiraudiencetoreturn(retain).Myoriginalpremisewasthatthemarketingstrategiesusedtoattractandretainthecustomersarenoteasilyidentifiedorcategorized.Somevendorsrelyonloyalcustomerswhileotheractivelymarketandpromote.Thebestresearchquestionforthisstudyis:Howdothevendorsattractandretaincustomers?Thisresearchdiscussescertaindimensionsofattractionandretention.Eachmethodhasspecificstrategiesandtactics;eachcanbecategorizedinthreespecificways:product,physicalarrangement‐‐sincetheproductistheitembeingsold,physicalarrangementisobviouslyimportant‐‐andcustomerrelationship.TherearesometheorieswhichcanbederivedandapplicabletomanyotherFarmer'sMarkets‐possiblyinotherlocationsintheNewYorkCityarea.
86 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
93. DurellMauriceCallierUniversityofIllinoisatUrbana‐Champaign AttheMournersBench:QueerLitaniesinSearchofSelf,Spirit,andCommunity
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForms
Abstract:
Thissessionsobjectiveistoutilizeperformanceasatooltoshareautoethnographicresearchtoexaminetheintersectionsofrace,sexualityandspirituality.Utilizingthemethodologyofautoethnodramaandotherperformativebasedmethods‐inclusiveofbutnotlimitedtopoetry,framing,monologue,anddialogue‐thissessionre‐imaginesandrecoversthequeerindividualsrelationshiptohis/herself,theircommunity,andtothesocietyatlarge.Throughtheusageofperformancemethod,andcriticalengagementwithThirdWorldfeminism(seeAlexander2005;hooks2004;Lorde1984),thissessionoffersforbothperformerandaudienceachancetofindlove,affirmation,createwholeandboundlessself‐identitiesandillustratethewaysinwhichrecovery‐restoringhealingandthewholenessoftheindividual‐isenactedbytheperformer,andtheninterpretedbythosewhoattend.94. WithdrawnJoyTakakoTaylor
87 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
95. JamieSimpsonSteeleHawaiiPacificUniversityTheMayDayshow:PerformancesofcultureonHawaii'selementaryschoolstages
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForms
Abstract:
ManyelementaryschoolsinHawai'ihostMaycelebrationsshowcasingchildperformancesofHawaiiansonganddance;MayDayisknownasLeiDayinHawai'i.Overtheyears,theeventhascometoincludetheperformancetraditionsofvariousotherethnicgroupsthatpopulatetheislands.ThisstudyrevealsavarietyofmeaningsstakeholdersascribetoMayDayandcreatesdialogueamongtheperspectives.Tothatend,aresearchteamoffourindividualsengagedincollaborativeinquiry,attendingMayDayprogramsatelementaryschoolsthroughoutthestateandcollectingstoriesfromparticipants.Theteamexploredcriticalissuesinpersonaltermsbywritingshortautoethnographicreactionstotheirresearchactivities.Finally,theresearcherscollaborativelydevelopedandperformedaseriesofdramaticvignettesthatsynthesizedtheseethnographicobservations,interviews,andself‐reflections.Theensembledevisedthroughplaybuildingstrategiessuchasphysicalbrainstorming,improvisationandimagerytheatre.Theperformanceaddressedthreebroadthemes;a)thethemeofcurriculumincludedpositivelearningoutcomes,mixedperceptionsofcurricularcontinuity,andpressuresagainstMayDayinthecurrenteducationclimateofHawai'i'sschools;b)thethemeofthespectator'sgazeaddressedcriticalquestionsabouttheproductionofspectacle,cuteness,andgenderedstereotypes;andc)contrastingperspectivesaboutidentityformationagainstthebackdropofstrugglesforbelonginginHawai'ireferencedAmericanization,tourism,Hawaiianpreservation,globalbelonging,andresistancetoneocolonialism.Theresearchteamsubmitsacalltobecomemoreconsciouslyawareofthechoiceswemakewheninscribingchildren'sbodieswithperformancesofculture.
88 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
96. JarrodHaarandDavidBroughamUniversityofWaikatoStoriesoftheworkfamilyinterfaceamongstmaoriemployees
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGroundAbstract:
Theliteraturesurroundingthework‐familyinterfaceiswellestablished.Pastresearchhasfoundtheinteractionsbetweenworkandfamilycanbedetrimental(conflict)orbeneficial(enrichment).However,thereisadistinctlackofresearchonMaoriandtheinfluenceofcultureonthisinterface,andthisissurprisinggiventheculturalimportanceoffamily.Consequently,thepresentstudyexplorestheinfluenceofculturalfactorsonthework‐familyinterfaceofMaoriemployees.Furthermore,NewZealandemployeesfromacollectivisticcultureareexpectedtotop40%by2026furtherhighlightingtheimportanceofsuchastudy.Thispaperreportsonthestoriesof30Maoriemployeesrelatingtotheirworkandfamilyrolesandtheinfluencethatculture(inparticularwhanau)playsonthisinteraction.ThestoriestellusthatthedynamicsofworkandfamilybetweenMaoriaremorecomplexthanthecurrentWesternliteraturesuggests.OnonehandMaoritendtohavehighlevelsofconflictduetohighdemandsfromtheworkplaceandtheirfamilies.However,theyappeartobeabletodealwiththisconflictmoreeffectivelyduetostrongsupportivetieswithrespecttochildcareandfamilysupportfromtheirwhanau.Consequently,wefindwhanaucanhavebothpositiveandnegativeinfluencesonwork‐familybalance.However,ultimately,thebenefitstoculturalbeliefsfromstrongwhanauinteractionsarehighlyvaluedbyMaoriemployees.97. WithdrawnMariaNakhshina
89 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
98. MaryBrehenyandDrChristineStephensMasseyUniversityAgeinginthecontextofdisparitiesinmaterialcircumstances
SocialJusticeandTransformation:TheoreticalEthnographicVisions
Abstract:
Theexperienceofageingisshapedbysociallocation.Forthoseoflowersocioeconomicstatus,theeffectsofalifetimeofdisadvantagetendtoaccumulateinlaterlife.ThereisasignificantminorityofeldersinNewZealandwhocurrentlyreporthardshipandthismayincreaseinthefuture.Afocusonpositiveandsuccessfulageingexcludesandmarginalisesdisadvantagedolderadults,andalthoughthishasbeenrecentlyacknowledgedintheliterature,thereisnoresearchthatfocusesonthequalitativeexperienceofageinginthecontextofmaterialconstraints.Thisprojectanalysedinterviewandsurveydatafrom48peopleaged55to70years.Withintheseinterviews,olderadultsdiscussedtheirconcernswithhealth,finances,andageinginthecontextofconsiderabledisparitiesinlifecircumstances.Thistalkwasanalysedincombinationwithanassessment(usingmeasuresofincome,occupation,andeconomiclivingstandards)oftheirmaterialcircumstances.Thisanalysisrevealshowtherhetoricalaccountsofageingweregroundedinthematerialcircumstancesofparticipants'livesandalsoshapedbysocietaldemandstoagewellandpositively.Thesefindingswillbediscussedtopromoteanunderstandingofhowaccesstomaterialresourcesenablesorconstrainsolderadultsfromageinginwaysthatarevaluedinsociety.
90 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
99. LorraineFriend,CarolynCostley,CarlEbbersEmilyMeese,Nikita
WilsonandCourtneyTravis
WaikatoManagementSchool PicturingHappiness:APhotoEssay
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForms
Abstract:
Throughtheuseofauto‐photographyandphenomenologicalinterviews,weadvanceacross‐disciplinaryunderstandingofsourcesofhappinessandtherolematerialthingsplayinpersonalconstructionsofhappiness.WeaskedyoungNewZealandmenandwomentotakeanddiscussphotosofwhatrepresentshappinessandunhappinessintheirlives.Thethingstheseyoungpeoplephotographedandtalkedaboutdovetailwiththeliteratureonhappiness.Weadvanceunderstandingabouttheimportanceofhomeandachievingtohappiness.Andwecontributeinsightsintothedifferencesbetweenmenandwomeninthesesourcesofhappiness.Inparticular,weexamineevidenceofvaluesandgenderrolesincapitalistsocietyastheyrelatetohappiness.Thephotoessaycontainsaselectionofphotosandtextorganisedaroundthethemes.Picturesallowedtheresearchers‐aswellasthemenandwomen‐‐to'see'takenforgrantedaspectsoftheirhappinessthroughanalternativelens.Intalkingwiththeseyoungpeople,weidentifiedsourcesofhappinessthatwereunnamedintheirphotos.Thephotoessayrepresentsthethemesvisuallysoothersmightbetterunderstandthephenomenonofhappiness.
91 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
100. ChristineStephensandRachaelPond
MasseyUniversityHealthPromotionandAgeing:Olderadults’pursuitofhealth
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGroundAbstract:
Healthpromotiondiscoursehasproducedapervasivesocio‐culturalemphasisonrisksandindividualresponsibilityforhealth,andaresponsiblecitizenwhochoosestoengageinconstantworkofself‐evaluationandself‐mastery.Thisstudyexaminedtheeffectsofthisdiscourseonthepracticesandaspirationsofyoung‐oldadultsinNewZealand.Semi‐structuredlongitudinalinterviews(oneyearapart)wereconductedwith60olderadults(55‐70yearsatfirstinterview)aboutissuesaroundageingandretirement.Thispresentationdescribesthewaysinwhichtheseparticipantsdrewonthepracticesandpromisesofhealthpromotiontotalkabouttheirhealthandageing.Theymanagedtheirhealththroughexercise,gooddiet,andotherpractices.Engagingin(orplanningtoengagein)theidealbehavioursof'healthpromotion'counteractedanxietiesaboutageingbyprovidingasenseofcontrolofthebodyanddemonstratingthatthesubjectwasavirtuouscitizen.Althoughtheidealsofhealthpromotionwereresistedincomplexwaysthisdidnotcounteracttheirdominanceamongthehealthbehavioursandexpectationsofthese'babyboomers'.Oneproblemofthisdominanceforolderpeoplewasasenseofbetrayalwhenthepromisesofhealthpromotiondidnotfittheactualexperiencesoftheageingbody.Adangerforthe'babyboomer'generationastheymovetowardoldageisamorallandscapeinwhichtobecomeunhealthyisasignofindividualirresponsibility.Thereareothermoralimperativesassociatedwithageingthatwemaybelosingsightof.Therighttorest,careandresponsibilityforelders,andreciprocity,mayalsobedrawnuponbyhealthpromoterstooffsetthetyrannyofazealousapproachtohealthrelatedbehavioursasthemainfocusofelderhealth.
92 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
101. AnnetteWoodhouse
MonashUniversityDeptRuralandIndigenoushealth/GileadDownsfamilytherapycentreTapestriesofRuralFamilyTherapyPractice:Interweavingstrandsofresearchtheoryalongsidefamilytherapypracticewithprofessionalruralcolleagues
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGround
Abstract:
AslittleisknownaboutruralfamilytherapiststhisPhDprojectseekstoincreasetheknowledgeandunderstandingofourpracticeexperiencesinAustralia.InbeginningthisprojectIreflectedonhowtoengageandcollaboratewithparticipantsasaninsidertothisresearch.Idrewuponsocialconstructionist,feministandnarrativeresearchalongsidefamilytherapytheoryandpracticetoguideme.Isoughttodeveloparesearchplanwhichwouldmaketheresearchaccessibleandmeaningfultoparticipants,whileattendingtoethicalconsiderationsofpowerandrurality.OnequestionIhadinmymindwas:'HowdoIworkwithresearchtheoryandmethodologiesinwayswhichmakethemavailableandmeaningfultoparticipants,asco‐researchers,whileremainingrespectfulandjusttotheirpracticesandexperiencesasruralfamilytherapists?'Thispresentationattemptstoanswerthisquestionbyoutliningmytheoreticalframeworkforthisproject,includingresearchmethodologies,practicesandprocessesdevelopedwithmyco‐researchers,strategiesofresearchertransparencyandreflexivityandaproposedanalysis.Anethicalframeworkdevelopedwithonefocusgroupispresentedasanexampleofemergentfeministparticipatoryactionresearch,includinghowwewouldvaluediversityanddifferencebetweenus.Myhopeinsharingthisresearchisthattheextraordinarypracticesofruralfamilytherapistswillbecomemoreknownandunderstoodinbothruralandurbancommunities.
93 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
102. LyndaJohnston
UniversityofWaikatoThespatialpoliticsofqueeractivism
SocialJusticeandTransformation:TheoreticalEthnographicVisions
Abstract:
InthispresentationIexaminethespatialpolitics,pleasuresandperilsofsocialactivismarisingfrommyrolesasresearcherandsocialactivist.BywayofintroductionIpresentsomeofmyownworkasbotharesearcherof,andparticipantin,queercommunitygroupsthatadvocateforpositivesocialchange.Inparticular,Ibringtogetherthescholarshipthatpositiongeographersatthecentreofcommunityactivism,sexualityandplace.Inthesecondpartofmypresentation,materialfrommyinvolvementasco‐chairperson/activist/researcherinandwiththequeercommunitygroup'HamiltonPride'areusedtoexamineboththeinternalandexternalpoliticsofthisorganisation.Iusetheconceptof'anethicsofcare'tofocusattentiononhowcommunityorganisationsrespondtounequalpowerrelationsandmovetowardconstructionsofnewformsofrelationships,institutions,andactionthatenhancediversity,mutualityandwellbeing.103. WithdrawnYolandaNieves,Ed.d
94 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
104. TiinaAlinen
Language Rhythms: Making Finnish connections with Aboriginal landthroughdanceThis research uses emerging methods in non‐traditional ethnography to offerinsight about identity through a practice‐led performance project LanguageRhythms.LanguageRhythmswill examineFinnishconnectionswithAboriginallandthroughdance.Howcanconnectiontolandfromanindigenousperspectiveinform and support the creative process for dance making and performance? How can this understanding, embedded in dance, contribute to interculturalunderstanding and social awareness? This presentation will include visualimages and footage from recentwork. Tiina is a professional choreographer,teacher, performer, community artist, massage therapist, photographer andfilmmaker embracing the embodied book, the connectionwith culture, peopleandlandthroughdance. SheiscurrentlyundertakinganMAResearchinDanceatQueenslandUniversityofTechnology.
95 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
105. CarolHamiltonandPaulFlannigan
UniversityifWaikato,departmentofHumandevelopmentandCounsellingAuthethnographiesofSexualityResearch:twopersonalaccounts
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGroundAbstract:
Researchingsexualityandsexualbehaviourcanbeatrickybusiness,evenmoresowhenitincludesmembersoftwovulnerablesocialgroups‐childrenandintellectuallydisabledpeople.StatisticaldatasuggeststhatbothcanexperiencesignificantproblemsinthisareainNewZealand,yetfewin‐depthqualitativestudiescanbefoundrelatingtothesometimesseveredifficultiestheyface.Implementingqualitativeresearchthatproducesverifiabledatawhilesuccessfullynegotiatingtheculturalcomplexitiesthatsurroundissuesofsexualityandmembersofthesegroupspresentsasizablebarriertoanywould‐beresearcher.Perhapsunsurprisingly,scholarlyarticlesdetailingwhatdrawsresearcherstothistopicarealsohardtofind.Reasonsforthislackremainlargelyspeculative,butincludetheideathatresearchersthemselvesmaynotfeelcomfortablewritinginapersonalwayaboutasubjectstillconstruedasstigmatizingorincriminating,inanareaoftendeemedprivate,stressfulorsacred.Throughautoethnographicnarrativeweweavetogetherkeyscenesanddialoguesinfluentialtothefocusofouracademicinvestigationsintheareasexuality,vulnerabilityandchildrenandintellectuallydisabledpeople.Weusevisual,writtenandoraltextstoillustratehowthesecircumstanceshaveshapedthedirectionwehavetakeninourwork.Makingthesenarrativespublichelpsustostepbackandethicallyaffirmthevalidityofourownresearch.Wealsohopethatthisexplorationmightprovideinterestedotherswithaclearerunderstandingofhowtheymightengagewiththepersonalandcontextualdilemmasacademicstudyinthisareacancreate.
96 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
106. PhilippaHunter
FacultyofEducation,TheUniversityofWaikatoStoryingProblematisedHistoryPedagogyinTeacherEducationasDesireandDisturbance
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForms
Abstract:Thepresentationintroducesacriticalpedagogy(PhDinprocess)inthecontextofhistorycurriculumworkinteachereducation.Theproblematisedhistorypedagogyasphenomenonandmethodisassembledasnarrativeresearch.Themessyandprovisionalnatureoftheresearchinvolvescrossingsofdisciplinaryboundariesandculturalsites,mediatingtheoriesandpractice,andunderstandingintertextualityasacreativeprocess.Thepresentationfocusesonrecurrentthemesofdesireanddisturbanceintheproblematisedpedagogy'sstorying.Idrawonvignettesemployedinthenarrativetobringmultiplevoicesintoplay,andtomoveacrosstimeandspace.Thesecolourandtexturetheresearchstorying.Desireisconceivedasprivatetheorisingandre‐imaginedspacesforhistorypedagogy.Disturbanceisrevealedasresistance,boundarycrossings,andcriticalshifts.
97 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
107. EthnographyCulture:SymposiumThissymposiumstreambringstogetheragroupofestablishedandemergingresearchersengagedinculturally‐focusedethnographicresearchinpsychology.Particularattentionisgiventoissuesofethnicity,migration,everydaypracticeandpoverty.ThissessionreflectsallthreemajorthemesfortheCEADhui:
1. EmergingMethods2. PracticeandAdvocacy3. SocialJusticeandTransformation
Affiliations:Maori&PsychologyResearchUnit,UniversityofWaikatoChair:AssociateProfessorDarrinHodgettsPart1. BridgetteMastersAwatereTalkingandwalkingculturalconcepts–reflectionsfromthefieldAbstract:Evaluation’sformalhistoryistiedtothescientificparadigmofinquiryinthestudyofsocialphenomena.ExperiencesofevaluationinAotearoaNewZealandreflectaprocessalignedtomanagingTreatyrelationshipsandthedeliveryofMāoriappropriateservices.Thefocusofmyresearchhasbeenonunderstandinghowevaluationhascapturedtheculturalconceptsembeddedwithinprogrammesderivedfromanindigenousepistemology.UtilizingcasestudysitestoengageinaphenomenologicalstudyexperiencesofprovidersandwhānauinvolvedwithKaupapaMāoriProgrammesaswellasevaluationpractitioners,wetalkedaboutthewayspeoplenavigatethesetwosystemsofaccountability.Acrossparticipantgroupstherewasclearcommitmenttomaintainthevaluesandphilosophythatderivedfromanindigenousontology.MypresentationwillfocusonsomeexamplesfrommyfindingsasameanstodescribehowthoseworkingwithinandaroundKaupapaMāoriProgrammesensurethattheirworkcapturesthevalues,principlesandpracticesderivedfromtheirlocalindigenousontology.Part2.MohiRuaSustainabilityissuesinaruralMaoricommunity
Abstract:
Businesses,not‐for‐profitorganisations,communitygroupsandgeneralhouseholdsareconfrontedwithenvironmentallyfriendlychoiceseverydaylikerecycling,lowcarbontechnologies,savingpowerandreducingone’secologicalfootprint.MyPhDstudyseekstoinvestigatesustainabilitypracticesacrossdiverseMaoriorganizations(relatedthroughservicesandpersonalrelationships)inarural,iwicommunity. Acomponentofthisresearchistheexplorationofinter‐organsationalrelationshipsandhowtheycaninfluenceservicedelivery.
98 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
Thatis,theleveragingofnon‐workrelatedrelationships(kinship)toadvancesustainabilitypractices.Theknock‐on‐effectsmaywellbegreaterthanifgroupsaren’trelated.IintendworkingwithMaoriorganisationswillingtoexploresustainabilityissuesthroughonetooneinterviewswithkeystakeholdersintargetedorganisations.ItisdifficulttoreallyknowwhattheendresultofthisPhDresearchwillbeandIammindfulthatalotofresearchintosustainability,sustainabledevelopment,energyefficiency,globalwarmingandtheclimatehasoccurred,myPhDresearchispartofthatoverallconversation.However,shouldMaoriorganizationsmovetowardssustainablepracticesandbehaviours,thengovernmentcampaignstowardsustainabilitycouldtargetMaoriorganizationsasinterventionsitesforexpandingexistinginitiativesordevelopingfuturepoliciestowardsustainableuseofresources.IfMaoriorganizationsdonothavesustainablepracticesandbehaviours,psychologicaltheoriesmayexplainhowthiscouldoccur. Part3.LindaWaimarieNikora&NgahuiaTeAwekotuku
Tangi:Treatingsensitivelywithour‘selves’
Abstract:
Tangi,theMaoriexperienceofdeathandmourning,offeravehiclefortheritualisedarticulationandperformanceofgriefandloss,andapathfornewwaysofrememberingandconfiguringthedepartedintothecontinuinglivesofthoseleftbehind. Inthispresentationwediscusstheuseofautoethnographicapproachestoexploringtangi,griefandloss,ourselves,ourcommunitiesandchange. TheteamofresearchersinvolvedinthisprojectareMaoriacademicstaffandseniorresearchstudentsworkingincollaborationwithkeypeopleinmaraecommunities.Thesekeypeopleareoftenthefirsttobecontactedwhenadeathoccurs.Throughouttheirlifetimes,alltheteammembershaveattendedtangiaspartoftheirordinaryeverydayactivity. Ourapproachtothistopicisthroughtheexperiencesofthisteamwheretheyareaskedtorecount,criticallyreflectandtheorisetheirtangiexperiencesandthoseofotherteammembers.Withfreshtheoreticalperspectivesgroundedinpersonalexperience,theteamproposesaninnovativeandrigorousapproach.ThisstudyaimstoconsiderandextendthecurrentcanonbyinvestigatingaspectsofMaorideathritualfromthepre‐contactperiodtocontemporarytimes.Specificobjectivesofthestudyare:(i)toinvestigatethetransitionfrompre‐contacttangihangapracticetocontemporarytangihangapractice,consideringwhathaschanged,declined,andprevailedinselectediwicasestudies,withsomereferencetoarchival,oral, artefactualandelectronicsources.(ii)torecordthecontemporaryMaoriexperienceofdeath,reflectingonthetangihangaasaneffectivevehicleofculturalidentitywhichinitiates,denies,challengesorreinforcesdiverserelationships.
99 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
Part4.JadeLeGrice
Hepepihetaonga:MaoriexperiencesofreproductionandparentingAbstract:Māoriperspectivesonfertilityandreproductiontendtobeabsentfromacademicandmediaaccountsoffertility.Whathasbeenwrittentendstobefromanessentialist,non‐Māoriperspective,andoftenpathologisesdifferenceanddiversityfrommainstreamwesternnorms.Thispresentationwilladdressthisgap,andpresentpreliminaryfindingsfromaMāori‐centredqualitativeinterviewstudywithMāoriwhohavechildren.Participantsspokeabouttheirpersonalexperienceshavingchildren,andsharedthejoysandchallengestheyhavefaced.Thepresentationwilloutlinethevariouswayssocietalandwhanauinfluenceson,andculturalandpersonalvaluesmanifestin,participantsexperiences,providingarich,Māori‐centredaccountofreproductionandparenting.Implicationsforhowmental,reproductiveandsexualhealthservicescanbettercaterforMāoriwhoareintendingto,expectingto,orwhoalreadyhavechildrenwillbediscussed.Part5.ShilohGroot,DarrinHodgettsandLindaNikoraAhomelessman’spursuitofahomeAbstract:Home‐makingiscommonlyassociatedwithdomiciledlife.Inthisresearchweexploreahomelessman’seffortstomakeahomeonthestreetsandbeyond.OuranalytictaskwastoencourageDanieltocommunicatehowheconductshislifebyshowingandtellingusaboutrelationshipsanddailypracticesofimportancetohim.Drawingonthreephoto‐productionprojectsandthreephoto‐elicitationinterviews,wewillexploreDaniel’sprofoundsenseoflonelinessandeffortstoimagineahome.WewillalsoconsideractionresearchaspectsofthisstudywherewecollaboratedwithsocialworkersinanefforttoassistDanieltoovercomehislonelinessandhouselessness. Part6.WendyWenLiShiftingSelves:HomebeyondtheHouseAbstract:Theproportionofnationalandinternationalpopulationintheolderagescontinuestoincrease.Suchapopulationtrendtowardsageingaroundtheworldhasevokedgreatdiscussionsonageingandagedcare.Forexample,thenotionofpositiveageingpromotesideasthatolderpeoplehaveskills,knowledgeandexperiencetocontributetosocietyandtheexpectedgrowthintheproportionofolderpeopleprovidessocietywithavaluableresource.Whileitappreciatesaspectsofolderagethatpeopleshareincommon,thispaperhighlightsthewaysinwhichpeoplemightagedifferentlybyfocusingonexperiencesofagroupof
100 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
olderChineseimmigrantswhomovetoNewZealandintheirlaterlife.Themethodsofdatacollectionandanalysisareinformedbyanarrativeapproach.Initialandfollow‐upinterviewswereconductedwiththirtytwoolderChinesemigrantsfromApril2008toSeptember2009.ThispaperexploresolderChineseimmigrants’livedhousingexperiencesandinvestigatestherolefilialpietyplaysintheirageinginplaceinNewZealand.Stressingtheculturalinfluencesonageingexperiences,thispaperconsidersthehybridandshiftingselvesandidentitiesthattheolderChineseimmigrantsdevelopastheygrowolderinaWesternculture.Thesocial,culturalandmaterialcontextsofeverydaylifeprovidethebasesfortheseconsiderations. Specificemphasisisplacedonfourthemes: home‐making,acculturation,evolutionoffilialpietyandageinginnewplace.Part7.OttilieStolte,DarrinHodgettsandShilohGrootTheimportanceofrelationshipsandethicsinactionresearchintostreethomelessnessAbstract:Forsometimepsychologistshavecontemplatedtheimportanceof'evidence‐basedpractice'andtheethicsofpraxisindoingresearchWITHratherthanONpeople.Intheprocessoftryingtoimprovethehumanconditionbylinkingresearchtoaction,issueshavebeenraisedsurroundingrelationshipsbetweenresearchersandstakeholders,whatcountsasevidence,howinsightsfromresearchcanbemadeaccessibletoend‐users,andhowevidencecanbetransformedmosteffectivelyintoappropriateactions.Thispresentationconsiderscase‐basedworkshopswithsocialworkerswhoareengagedinhelpingstreethomelesspeopleinAuckland.Particularattentionisgiventotheneedforcultivatingtrust,arelaxedatmosphere,anddialogueasabasisforextendingcooperationbetweenacademicpsychologistsandsocialworkers.Theworkshopshaveemergedfromarelationshipthathasbuiltoverthecourseofafour‐yearresearchprojectonthelifeworldsofhomelesspeople.Wewilldocumenthowtheseworkshopscanbecomeincreasinglyinformalandintheprocessmoreenjoyable,productiveandhelpfulinaddressingtheprofessionalofsocialworkersandthehumanneedsofhomelesspeople.Part8.NicolaGavey,AlexAntevska,MelanieGovender,WilliamPollard,AnaRavlich,AlyssaTanzer,GarethTerry,KellyWoodsDancingincagesinpostfeministbliss?Reflectionsongender,identity,andsexualityatanAuckland‘afterball’Abstract:InAugust2009,accordingtoaNewZealandHeraldreport,boysandtheirparentsfromanAucklandsecondaryschoolhired“sexilydressedprofessionalcagedancers”foranafter‐ballparty(Smith,2009).Fromthisbriefmedia
101 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
accountitseemedliketheoccasionmighthavebeenanexampleparexcellenceofthekindoftrendthatUKandUSscholarsandculturalcommentatorshavevariouslydescribedas‘raunch’(Levy,2005)or‘hypersexual’(Walter,2010)or‘striptease’(McNair,2002)culture,orthe‘pornographicationofthemainstream’(McNair,2002).Thatis,the‘mainstreaming’–proliferation,normalization,andnaturalization–ofanaesthetic,popularculturalfashions,stylesofembodiment,modesofsexualengagementandotherpracticesassociatedwithprofessional,industrializedsex(pornographyandthesexindustry).Weconductedsemi‐ethnographicresearchincludinginterviewswithkeyinformantswhoattendedthepublicizedafter‐ballparty,tounderstandmoreaboutwhatwenton,whetheritcouldbeseenaspartofthiskindofbroadersexualisationofyouthculture,andwhattheimplicationsmightbeforyoungwomen’sandmen’sgenderedidentitiesandsexualities.Inthispaper,wewilldiscusswhatwefoundoutabouttheparty,andthewaysinwhichsomeofthe‘girlsandguys’presentviewedit.Wewillalsodiscusssomeofthe‘backstory’ofworkingasateamofpeopledifferentlysituatedinrelationtothephenomenonweareinvestigating,includingreflectionsonwhatitisliketobecriticallyengagedwiththegenderorderinourownbackyard.Part9.JamesH.Liu
TheIntegrativePotentialofAsianEpistemologies:CrossingBoundariesandSmashingMethodolatries
SchoolofPsychology,VictoriaUniversityofWellingtonAbstract:
Inrecentyears,internationalmovementsincross‐culturalandindigenouspsychologyhavebothaugmentedandchallengedWesterntheoriesandmethodsandinjectedsomevitalityintothedisciplineofAsiansocialpsychology,whichinconjunctionwiththerisingpowerofAsiansocietieshasresultedinthedevelopmentofAsiansocialpsychologyasbothascientificdisciplineincross‐culturaldialoguewithAmericansocialpsychology,andahotbedforthedevelopmentofAsianindigenouspsychologiesassystemsofthoughtandpracticerootedinaparticularculturaltraditionandexpressedinthelanguageofthatculture.DifferentAsianindigenouspsychologieshaveemphasizeddifferentelementsofpraxis:thePhilippinesfocusesonethnographicallyorientedandcommunity‐basedresearch,whileTaiwanfocusesonindigenoustheorydevelopmentusingempiricistmethods.AhighlypragmaticapproachtomethodologycanbesaidtocharacterizeAsianindigenouspsychology,whereresearchersroutinelymovebetweenqualitativeandqualitativemethods,andusescientificmethodstoaddresssocialconstructionistissues.ThisappearstobecharacteristicofAsianepistemologiesthatarerootedinhighlyholisticandhumanisticphilosophicaltraditions.IintroducetheworkofMouZongshan,themostimportantamongcontemporaryneo‐Confucianistphilosophersin
102 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
constructinganon‐dualistepistemology,andthetheoreticalworkofDharmBhawuk,whohasbeenpushingIndianmeta‐physicalpsychologyasscience,andpointtopossiblepathwaysforwardforthetheoryandpracticeofculture‐orientedresearch.
103 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
108.CarolynCostleyandstudentsofMKTG55507BUniversityofWaikatoTheBigOE
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveFormsAbstract:
In2007,studentsofagraduate‐levelpaperonconsumerbehaviourinvestigatedtheconceptofoverseasexperiencesamongyoungNewZealanders.Colloquiallyknownas"theBigOE,"theoverseasexperienceisanimportantpartofNewZealandculture.ThirteenstudentssetouttolearnwhatanOEmeanstoyoungNewZealanders.Whatisitsessence?Ultimately,theyextendedunderstandingaboutconsumptionexperiences.Takingaphenomenologicalapproach,thestudentsinterviewedtwentyNewZealandersundertheageof25‐eitherinpersonorviae‐mail‐andvideotapedmostinterviews.Interviewscoveredanticipated,current,orpastoverseasexperiences.Theydiscussedmotivations,expectations,andexperiencesbeforeduringandaftertheOE.Thestudentsrepeatedlyviewedtheinterviews,familiarisingthemselveswitheachpersonandcollaboratingtoidentifycommonthemes.ParticipantsconsideredtheOEariteofpassage,motivatedbydesirestoexploreone'sheritage,growpersonally,andpostponeresponsibility.TobeanOE,atripshouldbeasignificantdistancefromAustralasiaandlastfromseveralmonthstoseveralyears.Itrequiresimmersionintoaforeignculture,includingworkingorstudying,alongwithsightseeingandintentiontoreturnhome.TheOEincorporatesmanycharacteristicsofextraordinaryexperience‐e.g.,vagueexpectations,bondingwithpeople,difficultyarticulating,andintenseemotion.OEsarelife‐changingexperiences.Considerationalongsidetheconsumptionliteratureproducedinsightsintoextendedconsumptionexperiences.Specifically,theOEisanextendedextraordinaryexperienceinwhichBOTHordinaryandextraordinaryexperiencesoccur.Theinclusionofordinarywithinanextraordinaryexperienceaddstopreviouslyidentifiedcharacteristicsofextraordinaryexperiences.ThisVideoEssaypreparedbythestudentsfeaturesacartooncharacter,namedBob,theintervieweestellingabouttheirexperiencesandtwoofthestudentsexplainingthecontribution.Don'tmissthiseighteen‐minutevideographicpresentation.
104 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
109.JayneCaudwell
UniversityofBrightonPhysical(andCultural)CapitalandWhitenessTheCaseofRowing
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForms
Abstract:
InthispaperIunpackmyownsportingculturalcapitalinthesportingcontextofrowing.Iadoptfeministreflexivityasanauto‐ethnographicmethodologytoexplorethewaysinwhichmywhitenessandclasshaveenabledentrytovariousrowingsubculturesintheUKandmorerecentlyinNewZealand.Iaimtomeldageneralhistoryofthesportinthesetwocountries,whicharelinkedbyaCommonwealth(andmedalsuccessesatOlympic‐levelcompetitivesport),andmyownpersonalhistoryofinvolvement(1980s‐present).InBritainandNewZealand,rowingbecameorganisedthroughrowingclubs,whichwereestablishedinbothcountriestowardthesecondhalfofthe1800s.Membershipoftheseclubswasexclusivelymaleandtendedtoreflectmiddle‐toupper‐classvalues.Aswithotherboys'public‐schoolsports,theintroductionofcompetitiverowingreproducesaspectsofmuscularChristianityandthesporthelpedproduceidealssurroundingmen,classandmasculinity.Myfirstrowingexperiencewasasateenagegirl‐aged15‐in1981,atarowingclubinasmalltownontheRiverSevern(UK).Inmy20sand30sIrowedatvariousclubsincludingclubsontheRiverThames(Kingston,Surrey),RiverLea(UpperClapton,EastLondon),RiverAire(Saltaire,Yorkshire)andRiverAdur(Shoreham,EastSussex).MymostrecentrowingexperienceisasaMasters(veteran)rowerataclubontheRiverWaikato,NewZealand.AsIre‐tellpartsofthehistoriesofrowingandmyrowinghistory,Iconsidertheoperationofwhitenessandcolonialism,andthefunctioningofclass.Moreover,Iadoptacriticalfeministtheoreticalframetoexplorethepersonalandpoliticalaspectsofculturalandphysicalcapitalinrowingcontexts.
105 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
110.PippaRussell,CarolynCostleyandLorraineFriend
UniversityofWaikatoRespect
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveFormsAbstract:
Respectisanimportantvaluetosociety.Thephilosophyliteraturedevelopstheconcept of respect in depth and asserts that respect shapes personal, politicalandbusinessrelationships.However, there is littleempiricalevidenceforwhatrespect means to ordinary people, how they experience and practice it. Thepurposeofourresearchistounderstandhowordinarypeopleexperience,givemeaning,andvaluerespect.Weusevideoethnographytoexamineperspectivesonthemeaningandconductofrespectacrossgenerations.WhatdoesrespectmeantoBabyBoomers?Whatdoes respect mean to Generation Z? How do they differ? How have theyexperiencedrespectdifferently?Howdotheyvalueitdifferently?Thispresentation isavideo"documentary" that reportsanarrativeanalysisofparticipants' interpretations of respect in popularmedia (e.g., film,magazines,TV).Participants'construalsofrespectperformedinthemediagiveinsightintohowtheyunderstandtheconcept.
106 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
111.RichardHill
UniversityofWaikatoRethinkingEnglishinMaorimediumeducation
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGroundAbstract:The place of English language instruction in Maori medium schools iscontroversial, with many schools choosing to either exclude it from theircurriculumorpaylipservicetoit.How schools support students' academic English language growth is an issuethatremainsunresolvedandunder‐researched.Thispaperreportsonaresearchproject that investigated the English transition programmes of three Maorimediumschools. Itused interviewsandobservationsofkeypersonnelof theseschools to explore how they arrange their English transition programmes andwhat issues they face. It also assessed the literacy achievement of the Year 8studentsofeachschool.The project found that there is a direct relationship between the quantity andqualityofexposuretoEnglishinstructionandstudentachievement.TheschoolsthatincludedamoresignificantEnglishtransitionprogramme,andwerestaffedbyteacherswhowereknowledgeableabouttheneedsofbilingualstudentsandhow to attend to them, had more effective programmes and more satisfiedstudents.Thispaperargues that it isessential toplan for theEnglish languageoutcomes of Mäori medium students, and that planning should consider theirlanguageskillsacquisitionoverthefull13yearsoftheirformaleducation.
107 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
112. Hyacinth Mae Skervin NorthWestUniversityDialogicAnalysisofNarrativeResultsfromaGenderbasedStudy:LessonsforTransformativeResearch
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGroundAbstract:This paper is a critique of a gender study aimed at social and culturaltransformationwithinalargelySouthAfricacontext.Againsttheassumptionthatsubject participants had knowledge of universal human rights values andprinciples in the cultural and ethnically diverse societies in which they lived,primaryactivityinthestudywasanarrativewritingexerciseinwhichthegroupof fourteenpre‐teenagegirls in SouthAfrica, and for comparativepurposes anundeterminednumber from theNetherlands, responded toaquestionon theirown cultural and religious practices that made them comfortable anduncomfortable.Resultsofthestudywerefoundunacceptablewithonlytenuouslinksbetweenrightsviolations,cultureandreligionbutmarkedlystrongerlinksbetweenrightshumanviolationandgenderasaconstitutivelydiscriminatingsetof 'socio‐cultural' roles. This paper posits that these results were foundunacceptable due to a proposition‐result dialectic that exposed differentstructures of thought and meaning‐making between researchers and subjectparticipants. A central premise of the paper is that the dissonance incommunication is rooted in historical and socio‐cultural antecedents that areaversetoeachotherandirreconcilableinapublicsphereinwhichtheycontinueto have import. A second conclusion is that cultural meanings and thesignificationattachedtothemarekeyedintohistoricalexperiencesratherthanto any universal ideals. The main recommendation is for a philosophicalapproach toresearch that finds itssubstantivearguments in thecontemporaryexperiences,hopesanddreamsofthedisparatesocialgroups.
108 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
113.PhilippaMiskelly
WaikatoDHB/VictoriaUniversityCanyouhearme?Thenursingvoiceinorganisationalchange.
SocialJusticeandTransformation:TheoreticalEthnocgraphicVisions
Abstract:
ChangewithintheNewZealandhealthsectorisongoingandonegroupwhichhasbeen‐andcontinuestobe‐affectedbythis,isnursing.Thereformsofthe90simpactedontheprofessionandadecadelateranotherroundofchangemeansthatyetagainnursesfacefurtherdisruptionanduncertainty.Thesechangesoftentakeplacewithinlargeorganisationalenvironmentsinvolvingaplethoraofhierarchiesandconflictingagendas.Myobservation,asananthropologistworkingwithinamainlyhospitalenvironmentandemployedtoresearchnursingwork,isthatthevoiceofnursingduringchangeprocessesremainslargelyabsentandignoredorisdisregardedasemotional.StephenWright(ChangingNursingPractice[2ndedition]London:ArnoldPublishers,1998:4)argues".itisnoaccidentthatnursesarerarelytaughttomasterchange.Thestatusquoofthesocialorder,bothinsideandoutsidenursing,mightfeelalittleuncomfortableattheprospect."Myethnographicresearchendorsesthissentimentbecauseitrevealsthecomplexitiesofinitiatingchangemanagementprocessesinanenvironmentprivilegingdiscoursesandpoliciessteepedinneo‐liberalideologieswhichconstruenursesas'costcentres'asopposedtoorganisationalassets.ThispresentationdetailsresearchIundertookintoachangemanagementprojectwithinanacutein‐patientsettinganddrawsattentiontothewayethnographycouldbeusedtoinformpracticeaswellasprovideatheoreticalframeworkenablingnursestoraisetheirvoicetoensureitisheardinprofessionalandpoliticalspheres.
109 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
114.KatieFitzpatrick
UniversityofAucklandPoetryandrepresentationinethnographicresearch
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveFormsAbstract:Althoughstillmarginalinacademicwritinggenerally,poetryhasforsometimebeenrecognisedasavalidformofrepresentationinqualitativeresearch.Poetrycanprovidearich,evocativeandaestheticmeansofcommunication,whichultimatelyenhancesethnographicwork.Likenarrative,however,theuseofpoetrytorepresentresearchdataalsoraisesethicalquestions.Issuesofculture,authorialvoice,languageuse,accessibilityandpoeticlicenseneedtobeaddressed.Drawingonaschool‐basedcriticalethnographyofyouthinNewZealand,thispaperdiscussesthepossibilitiesandlimitationsofpoetryasameansofrepresentation.
110 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
115.WendyTalbot
UniversityofWaikatoPerformingresearcherreflexivity:Reflexiveaudiencinginpractice
Emergingmethods:Traditional,experimental,transgressiveformsAbstract:Emphasising an orientation of curious, appreciative inquiry thisperformance‐based presentation will reach into theatre and performance toshowreflexivity throughasocialconstructionist lens. Itwillenactanemergingstoryofresearcherreflexivityasarelationalproduction.IhaveinvestigatedreflexiveaudiencingaspartofadoctoralprojectundertakenthroughtheUniversityofWaikatoinNewZealand.Participantswerecouplesinintimaterelationships.Eachcouplevideo‐tapedaconversationtheyhadtogetheras a couple and then took up third‐person positions to audience the recordedconversation. Through this process of spect‐acting, partners made visible thediscursive territory their conversations traversed. Engaging in analysis of theeffects of this spect‐acting process, I found myself negotiating the samediscursive territory as I had invited research participants into, as I positionedmyselfasanaudiencetotheresearchprocess.Reflexiveaudiencingprovidesapracticalandtheoreticalperspectivefromwhichtoinvestigateandshapearangeofpersonalandprofessionalrelationships.Thispresentationisintendedforthosewhoseinterestsmayincludereflexivepracticeinresearch,teaching,socialpractice,supervisionandpersonalrelationships.
111 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
116. Katey Thom UniversityofAucklandUsingethnographictechniquestoexplorementalhealthlaw'upclose'and'inaction'
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGround
Abstract:
NewZealand'slegislationisunderpinnedbypolicyaimedatbalancingthepromotionofindividualrightswiththeprotectionofthepublic'ssafety.Wherepeoplearebeingcompulsorilytreatedfortheirmentalillness,balancingindividualrightswithpublicsafetybecomesacorechallenge.Thispaperwilldiscussthedevelopmentofaprojectthataimstoexplorethisphilosophicaltensioninaction,asmembersoftheMentalHealthReviewTribunal('theTribunal')grapplewithdecision‐makingregardingthelegalstatusofindividualssubjecttomentalhealthlegislation.Itwillfocusontheuseofethnographictechniquesofnon‐participantobservation,qualitativeinterviewsanddocumentanalysistogenerateinsightsintotheTribunalmembers'rolesandthedifficultiestheyfaceinbalancingindividuals'rightswiththeState'sobligations.Inparticular,thepotentiallypositiveoutcomes,aswellasthedifficultiestheresearcherhasfaced,inundertakinganethnographyofausually'hidden'phenomenonwillbedetailed.
112 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
117.E.JayneWhite
UniversityofWaikato Whosethedummynow?:Dialogicmethodologyanditschallengeto ventriloquisation
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForms
Abstract:
Dialogicmethodologyoffersachallengetoresearchpracticethatclaimstoconveyauthentic'voice'.MihkailBakhtin'sphilosophicaltenetsuggeststhatvoiceisalwaysanechoofother,andthatindividualsportraymultiplevoicesdependingontheircontext.InthispresentationIdrawondatafromadialogicstudyofateacher,atoddlerandaresearchertosuggestthatanypresentationofvoiceinresearchismerelyamirroroftheideologiesinplay.Henceitisimpossibletopresentvoicewithoutalsopresentingtheplayers,theirideologiesandtheirimpactonwhat(andhow)wordsareconveyed.Thequestionremains,however,astowhoisthedummyandwhoistheventriploquist,sincetheadultisalwaysconstrainedbyideologicalpersuasionsandthetoddlerdrawsfromasophisticatedrepertoireoflanguageformsbeyondthedomainofasinglevoice.
113 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
118.MereBerryman,ItiJoyce,DannielleJaram
TeKotahitanga TeKotahitanga:TransformingtheschoolingexperiencesofMaoristudentsin NewZealand'ssecondaryschools
SocialJusticeandTransformation:TheoreticalEthnographicVisions
Abstract:
EvidenceofMaoristudents'achievementinNewZealandsecondaryschoolshasshownhistoricaldisparitywhencomparedwiththeirnon‐Maoripeers.TeKotahitangaisakaupapaMaori,researchanddevelopmentproject,aimedatcreatingamoresociallyjusteducationsystemandthustransformingtheeducationalexperiencesandoutcomesofMaoristudents.Theprojectbeganin2001bytalkingwithMaorisecondaryschoolstudents,andwithothersinvolvedintheireducation,aboutwhatlimitedand/orimprovedtheirschoolingexperiences.Fromthesenarrativesofexperience,theprojectdevelopedanEffecitveTeachingProfilethatidentifiedthetheorisingandpracticesthatwouldenableMaoristudentstoachievetotheirpotentialinmainstreamclassrooms.Subsequently,professionaldevelopmentwasdevelopedtosupportteacherstointroducetheEffectiveTeachingproifle.Thisprofessionaldevelopmentpromotesthedevelopmentofculturallyresponsivecontextsforlearningthatareembeddedinrelationships.IncontextssuchastheseteachersaresupportedtoshowthattheycareforMaoristudentsandfortheirlearningoutcomes.TeKotahitangaiscurrentlyworkingin50schoolsacrossphases3,4and5.Throughtheuseofnarrativepedagogy,thispaperdetailstheexperiencesofMaoristudentsinphase1,priortotheintroductionofTeKotahitanga.ItthencontraststhesewiththediscoursesofMaoristudentsattendingaPhase3schoolaftersixyearsintheproject.Thesediscoursesaresupportedbysurveydatafromawidersampleofstudentsinthesameschool.
114 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
119.PaulWoller
PoutamaPounamuEducationalResearchandDevelopmentCentre,SpecialEducation,MinistryofEducation UnderstandingmataurangaMaoribyparticipatingincommunitiesofpractice: KaupapaMaoriResearchandthenonMaoriresearcher
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForms
Abstract:
ThegrowingrecognitionandreassertionofmataurangaMaoriasavalid,legitimateanduniqueworldviewhasledtoincreasingsupportforkaupapaMaoriresearchasaresearchmethodologythatisbothcomplementarytoMaorivaluesandtheneedsoffutureMaorigenerations.Aswhanau,hapuandiwiincreasinglylookatformsofself‐sufficiencyandselfdetermination(tinorangatiratangaandmanamotuhake)inordertosurvivebotheconomicallyandsociallyasMaoriinaneverchangingworld,theneedforwhanau,hapuandiwispecificresearchisbeinghighlighted.ItisnolongertenabletoacceptresearchthatfailstotakeintoaccounttheuniquevaluesofthesegroupsorresearchthatdoesnotrecognizethediversitythatexistswithinteaoMaori.Inthesecircumstancesitisimportanttoclarifywhohastherightandthecredentialstoconductresearchthatinvolveswhanau,hapuandiwiandtoaskifthereaplacefornon‐MaoriresearcherswithinkaupapaMaoriresearch?WhilefirmlybasedinteaoMaorimuchkaupapaMaoriresearchutilisesknowledgeandtoolsfromteaoPakehabytakingandadaptingwesternmethodologiesandmethods.Thispaperwillhighlightthejourneyofanon‐MaoriresearcherinvolvedinkaupapaMaoriresearchbyusingtheconceptofcommunitiesofpractice(Wenger,1998)toexaminetheinclusionandparticipationofanon‐MaoriresearcherinresearchactivitiesinvolvingMaoriparticipantsandkaupapaMaoriresearchmethodologies.
115 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
120.RoelWijland
UniversityofOtagoRequiemforaTimelessBrand:MiningtheSituatedRhythmofPoeticTimescapes
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGround
Abstract:
Thereisextensiveliteratureandresearchrelatedtopeople'sperceptionsofthebrandingofspaces.Ithasbeenelegantlyarguedhoweverthatlandscapesalsohavetheirowntemporalityandthattime‐relatedmeaningsaregatheredfromit.Thisentailsthatembodiedtemporalrhythmsmatterasmuchasplaceassociationstoabrand.Temporalityisrelevantintheexpressionforabrandinthetellingoftime:howthebrandembodiesandrepresentstimeaspartofitsparticularmentalmake‐up;howitsdifferentiatedinternalrhythmmaterialises.Thispoeticethnographyproposesthatspatialbrandscapesmaybeappraisedandrepresentedinthesensibilityof'vertical'poeticdiscontinuity,andassuchcomplementmorecommonethnographicrepresentationsbasedon'horizontal'narrativecontinuity.ThepresentationaimstocriticallyexplorethethreatenedtemporalpraxisofCentralOtagoasthe'TimelessLand'.Sincethebrandwasbuiltonthecontroversialappropriationoftheauraoflocalartandpoetry,theevocationofitsbrandculturecallsforanethnographicanalysisthatmirrorspoeticreflexivity.Thislongterm(2005‐2010)holisticreconnaissanceofCentralOtago'stimelessiconicityisbuiltonthethreeperspectivesofcollectiveculture,individualparticularityandmaterialmattering.Theexperimentalinquiryconcludeswithadialogicimagination,intheformofapoeticconversationbetweentwoconsumersthatinhabittheirversionoftheTimelessLandinadjacentvalleys:thepoetBrianTurnerandtheacademic.Ithasthegroundedaimofrenunciatingtheblessèdfaceofbranding'sintentionsandsimultaneouslyexpressingtheactivistpotentialofartfulacademictexts.
116 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
121.HelenGremillion
UnitecInstituteofTechnologyDe/reconstructingConceptsofGenderwithinFeministandMen'sMovementsInAotearoa/NewZealand
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGroundAbstract:Feministandmen'smovementsarediverse,yettheytendtobestereotypedastwoopposing"camps."Arguably,manyofthebroadsocio‐politicalgoalsof(strandsof)thesemovementsareshared,involvingtransformationsindominantconstructionsofgenderidentity.InthispaperIwillarguethatmembersofthesegender"movements"talkpastoneanotherwhentheyunknowinglyengageinhegemonicconceptsofgenderthatrepresentidentityinessentialistways.AsanAnthropologist,GenderStudiesscholar,andfeministactivistwhorecentlymovedtoNewZealandfromtheUnitedStates,IhavebeensurprisedbyrelativelynarrowdiscoursesofgenderinnewZealand,evenin"progressive"circles,thatappeartodichotomizemen'sandwomen'sexperiences.Thispaperexploresessentialistconceptsofgenderwhichappearindifferentformswithinmen'sandfeministmovementsandbecomethefocusofcritiquefrom"theotherside,"eventhoughtheseconceptssharesomebasicassumptionsthatcanbedeconstructed.Iaminterestedindevelopinganethnographic,praxis‐orientedresearchprojectthatwillhelpunpackandrefigurethemeaningsofgenderinthesecontexts.Whatpossibilitiesfordialogueandrapprochementmightopenupbetweenfeministandmen'smovementsifunderstandingsofgenderareshiftedforboth"sides"?Whataretheeffectsandpossibilitiesofpostcolonialandindigenousstruggleson"alternative"andactivistgenderformationsinNewZealand?Thispresentationwillproposebothmethodologicalandtheoreticalapproachestoaddressingthesequestions,withtheaimofstimulatingnewideasinthepreliminarystagesofalong‐termresearchproject.
117 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
122.TaleiAlaniJoanaSmith
MasseyUniversityPolyculturalindividualsinamonoculturalworldgrowingupinsideout
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveFormsAbstract:The paper is concernedwith an examination of the concept of hybrid identityconstruction within the new concept of 'polycultural individuals' as thosepersons with a multiplicity of cultural and racial origins, as compared to'multicultural'definedasmanydiverse cultures co‐existing in the same location. The research is undertakenthrough an autoethnographic study by a Fijian‐Chinese‐Kiribas‐Europeanresearcher who examines a polycultural individual through music, dance andembodiment of place. Themethodologyused includespersonal narratives, aswellasoralfamilyhistories,andpersonalexperiencesofmusicanddancewithinthe various cultural traditions found within the researcher's family. Thepurpose of the research is to discover the implications of the findings foreducational process within multi‐cultural Pacific Island contexts especially astheyrelatetothesemigrantgroupswithintheNewZealandeducationalsystemwhere they are classifiedbymonocultural or bi‐cultural classifications such as'Samoan' or 'half‐caste'. The findings show how the previous researchundertakeninthisfield,failstoaddresstheissueofthespecificwaysinwhichpolyculturalperspectivesareimportantbeyondwhathaspreviouslybeenfound. In addition, there is no educational research which looks at Pacific Islandidentities and the implications of having to 'learn to be'withinmore thanoneculturegiventherealityofamultiplicityofculturalinfluenceswithinindividuals.In this way, the research breaks new ground by constructing a new mode of analysis based on the personal life experiences of polycultural individuals who live in monocultural or multicultural environments.
118 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
123.ElmarieKotze
DeptHumanDevelopment&Counselling,FoE,UniversityofWaikatoAfricanwomenandmourningpractices:"Mosadiotswarathipakabogaleng"awomanholdstheknifeatthesharpend
SocialJusticeandTransformation:TheoreticalEthnographicVisionsAbstract:Africanmourningof lossof liveshasbeenshapedbydiscursivepractices fromboth traditional African cultures and the socio‐political developments underApartheidandinPost‐apartheidSouthAfrica.Thispapersharesthechanges inmourning practices of six professional African women as they navigate theintersectionofculturalandgenderedissuesrelatingtobereavement.Ahopewasthat Post‐apartheid South Africa would bring calmer waters after the painfulchallengesof racist oppression and the stormywaters of political changes andtransitions that African women navigated. However, everyday experiences oflossoflifeduetoviolenceandHIV/AIDSrequirewomentotakeupmultipleandshiftingpositionsongenderedmourning rituals. "Holding the sharpendof theknife" became the group's metaphor that represented "standing strong" evenwhentheburdenoflossandmourningseemedoverwhelming.This paper focuses on the following mourning practices: "sittings", ukuzila(traditional one year period of mourning), dress and shaving their hair, and"aftertears"parties.ThegroupofsixwomenclaimculturalidentitiesintheZulu,Xhosa, Tswana, Southern and Northern Sotho traditions. They storied theirpositionswithinthesefourmourningpracticesthroughcaringsolidarityandby"makinglivescountaslives",therebyprovidingforalifetobe"grievable".
119 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
124.KathieCrocketandEugeneDavisUniversityofWaikatoThepoliticsandartistryofoutsiderwitnessingpracticesasresearch
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGroundAbstract:Thispaper'sfocusisthepoliticsandartistryofoutsiderwitnessingpracticesasasite and process of data generation. Translated into narrative therapy fromMyerhoff's ethnographic work on definitional ceremony and identity, theemphasis of outsider witnessing is on the therapeutic performance of self incommunity. This study employed outsider witnessing as social action, byprovidingacontextandprocessforagroupmadeupofrugbyleagueteam‐matestoparticipatein[research]conversationsaboutbeingaman.Theauthorssuggestthatbyinterweavingknowledgeandskillfromethnographyand narrative therapy, outsider witnessing offered this study of masculinity aresearch practice that was immediately meaningful to participants,transformativeoftheirlives,andenactedsocialjustice.
120 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
125.JoostdeBruin
VictoriaUniversityofWellingtonNewZealandmigrantsandpopularmediause:anethnographicstudy?
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveFormsAbstract:Inrecentyears,anincreasingnumberofpeoplehavemigratedfromAotearoa/NewZealandtoAustralia.Thisraisesquestionsabouthowthesepeoplestayconnectedwiththeirhomecountryandhowtheyhaveintegratedintothecountrythattheyhavemigratedto.Existingresearchhasshownthatmediacanplayaroleinhowpeoplerelatetotheirhomeandhostcountries.ThispaperreportsonaninterviewstudywithfifteenNewZealandmigrantscurrentlylivinginBrisbane.IntervieweeswerecontactedattheKiwiFineFoodsStoreinBrisbaneandinterviewswerecarriedoutatthestoreandatpeople'shomes.Thecontextofthestoreisimportant:itisaplacewheretheinformantsengagewithculturalproductsfromAotearoa/NewZealandandwheretheyfeelasenseofbelonging.Theinterviewswereaimedatfindingoutif,andhow,theseNewZealandmigrantsusepopularmediasuchastelevision,radioandInternettostayintouchwith'home'.Therelationshipbetweenmediaaudiencestudiesandethnographyisaproblematicone.AsMarieGillespiehascommented,manymediaaudiencestudiesprojectslabelthemselvesas'ethnographic'"intheapparentabsenceofanawarenessofwhatvalidatesethnographyasagenre"(1995:54).InthispaperIcriticallyevaluatemyownstudyintermsofitsethnographicpotential.
121 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
126.DusaneeSuwankhong;PraneeLiamputtong
SchoolofPublicHealthBeingathome:EthnographicmethodandtheexperienceofdoingresearchwithtraditionalhealersandtheircustomersinSouthernThailand
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGroundAbstract:Ethnography addresses themost important issue in sociology research; that ishowindividualsperceivetheirworld.Thefocusonthedynamicnatureofpeopleacrosstimesandplacesistheessenceofethnography.Therefore,itisasuitablemethodology for observing changes in the daily lives of the researchedparticipants. Although traditionally ethnography is undertaken in a culturalgroup of a village or small town of a 'primitive' or 'non‐literate' or'underdeveloped' society, it can also be applied in health care and sociologyresearchincontemporarysocieties.Manyresearchsettingscanbeconsideredas'a cultural group'. Nursing homes, maternity wards, labour wards, ultrasoundclinics,IVFclinics,intensivecareunits,footballclubs,schools,churches,prisons,andsooncanbetreatedaslegitimateculturalgroups.In this chapter,wewilldiscuss theexperienceof carryingoutanethnographicresearchwith traditionalhealersand their customers in the southofThailand.Wearguethatethnographerstendnottowriteabouttheirexperiencesofdoingresearchintherealworld.TheydonotwishtoprovidewhatVanMaanen(1988)calls the 'confessional tale'; that isaconfessionabouttheirrealexperiences,asthis may be seen by other researchers that their research is not sufficientlyscientific.However,wecontendthatthisreallifeexperienceiscrucialfornoviceresearchers who wish to embark on their research in different societies. Thechapterwill captureourembodiedexperienceof carryingout anethnographicresearchintherealworld.Itwillcontributenewknowledgetotheliteratureonresearch in sociology, which can be valuable to many new and experiencedresearchers.
122 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
127.HollyThorpe
UniversityofWaikatoDoingTransnationalEthnography:UnderstandingaGlobalYouthCultureinandacrossLocalContexts
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveFormsAbstract:Inlightoffundamentaltransformationsofspace,place,andtime,anthropologistsandsociologistsareincreasinglycallingintoquestiontraditionally‐definedethnography‐asan'intensively‐focused‐uponsinglesiteofethnographicobservationandparticipation'(Marcus,1995,p.96).Theyurgescholarstoembracemorebroad‐basedresearchstrategies,whatsomevariouslyrefertoas'globalizingmethods'(Stoller,1997),'mobileethnography'(Marcus,1995;Fincham,McGuinness&Murray,2010),multi‐site'transnationalfieldwork'(Knowles,1999),and'globalethnography'(Burawoyetal,2000;Hendry,2003).Toillustratethepotentialoftransnationalethnographyforstudyingcontemporaryphysicalyouthcultures,Iofferadescriptionoftheglobalethnographicmethodsemployedinmyresearchontransnationalsnowboardingculture.Withthegoaloffurtherexaminingthevalues,practices,andinteractionsofsnowboardersinlocalsnowboardingcultures,aswellasregional,national,andglobalflowsofpeople,objects,valuesystems,information,andimageswithinandacrosstheseplaces,Iconductedfifteen'ethnographicvisits'‐rangingfromoneweektoonemonth‐inanarrayofsnowboardingcommunitiesandskiresortsinCanada,France,Italy,NewZealand,Switzerland,andtheUnitedStates,between2004andearly2010.Eachofthelocationsvisitedforthisprojectposeddifferentopportunitiesandchallenges(e.g.,language,localism,culturalaccess,accommodation,pre‐existingcontactsinthefield,funding).InthispaperIdiscusssomeoftheethicalandreflexiveconsiderationsandstrategiesemployedduringmytransnationalethnographicresearch.
123 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
128.SefuluAnneMarieSIOPE
UniversityofWaikatoChildrenoftheMigrantDreamers
SocialJusticeandTransformation:TheoreticalEthnographicVisionsAbstract:Sincetheearly1970sPasifikapeopleshavebeendiscriminatedagainst.AlongwithMaoritheysharethesamedisparity,especiallyinEducationandinHealth.'ChildrenoftheMigrantDreamers'referstothePacificIsland‐bornimmigrantsandfirst‐tofourth‐generationNZ‐bornPasifikachildrenwhoseparents,grandparentsandgreatgrandparents(theMigrantDreamers)cametoAotearoaNewZealandinthehopesofabetterlifewithEducationbeingthattickettohappiness.Therealityofadominanceculturehassouredmanyoftheireducationalhopesanddreamsthroughthemismatchofculturesbetweenhomeandschooleventuatingintoalossofislandhomelandlanguageandculturalidentity.'ChildrenoftheMigrantdreamers'isalsothenameofmymaster'sthesiswhichinvestigatedtheexperiencesofPasifikastudentsintwoschoolsattemptingtobeculturallyresponsivetoMaoristudentsculminatinginsuccessforallstudents.IncomparingthePasifikastudents'experiencesofthesetwoschoolstominefromoveragenerationago,IhopedtogaugeatruepictureofwhatschoolingrealitylookslikeandtoseeifandhowtheeducationalaspirationsoftheMigrantDreamerswerebeingmanifestedorrealised.WhatIfoundinsteadwasapicturethatallthoseinvolvedwitheducationneedtosee.Bothinter‐andintra‐discriminationasaresultahegemoniccultureofdominanceandabuseasthesestudentscompeteagainsteachotherandagainstMaorifordiminishingresources,perpetuatingthestatusquo.
124 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
129.NickHopwood
UniversityofTechnology,SydneyIntercorporealethnographyforpractice
Practiceandadvocacy:doingethnographyontheground
Abstract:
Ethnographymightbroadenitsscopeofworkingwithrealpeopleifitisengagedasinter‐corporealpractice.BythisImeanthatthebodyispositionedatthecentreoftheethnographer'srelationswithbodilyothers,understandingsofrelationshipsbetweenotherbodiesandtheirsetting,andrepresentationsofresearch.Todres(2009)urgesresearcherstodevelopembodiedrelationalunderstandingsthatstandamongratherthanapartfrompractitionersandpractices.Ethnographybecomesaquestionofbodilybeing‐in‐the‐worldand‐with‐othersinordertohelppractitionersre‐orientorre‐relatethemselvestotheirsurroundingsinthecourseofpractice(Shotter2004).Thequestforunknownfactsisreplacedwithabodilypracticethatisrelationalandsituated,drawingonallsenses,emotions,imagination,priorexperience,background,andbringingwithitintimacyandopennessintheunfamiliarityandstrangenessoftheother.Thebody'splacinginrepresentationsofresearchiscritical,too.Shotterfavoursevaluativeandanticipatory1stpersontellingsover3rdpersonreportsreferringtoaclosedpast.Todresexploresrepresentationsthatevokeconcrete,embodiedoccasions(written,poetic,performedetc.)andopenup'other'possibilities,resonantwithHeidegger'snotionsofthrownnessandprojection.Ethnography'sconnectionwithandresponsetothespecificbecomesinterwovenwiththefuture,acastingofwhatmightbe(different)basedonbodilyinter‐relationsandtheirrepresentation.Thiscountersthesilencinganddeligitimisingofthebodyorparticularformsofit(alonglinesofgender,race,ethnicity,age,disability,sexuality),andthusformsthebasisformorebroadlypoliticalethnography(Ellingson2006).
125 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
130.ArmonTamatea
DepartmentofCorrections(NZ)"Youshould'vepulledthef*****trigger":'LessonslearnedfrommenwholeavegangsinNewZealand
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGroundAbstract:Inconjunctionwithprocriminalthinkingstylesandpersonalityvariables(suchasimpulsivityandpsychopathy),antisocialassociationsareconsideredtopresentmajorrisksforoffendingbehaviour(Andrews&Bonta,2006).Widespreadandorganisedantisocialgroups(or'gangs')presentasanespeciallysalientissueforalargeproportionofoffendersinNewZealand,withmanymensustainingmembershipinthesegroupswellintotheiradulthood.Furthermore,gangaffiliationpresentsissuesformembersthatarelargelycriminogenicandareconsideredtohavesevereimpactsontheirabilitytosuccessfullydesistfromoffending.ConsiderableworkhasbeenconductedwithintheDepartmentofCorrections(NewZealand)toascertaintheproportionandaffiliationofgangmembersinprison,aswellaspoliciesdirectedtowardsgangmanagementinprisonandcommunitysettings.However,littleresearchappearstoexistregardingtheroleofgangsinthelivesofoffendersorexaminestheprocessthatsomeofthesementakewhogravitatefromorchoosetoleavethesegroups.Assuch,gangspresentasalargelyunder‐researcheddomainofenquirywhenaddressingmanagement,treatmentandreintegrationneedsofoffendersinthecommunity.Thecurrentpresentationdiscussesfindingsfromanexploratorystudythatinvestigatedchallengesandsuccessesofover20formergangmembersfromaroundNewZealand.Criticalexperiencesinganglifeandfactorscontributingtothesemen'sdecisiontoleavearecentralareasofexplorationandinsightsintonon‐offendingaspectsofgangmembershipthatmayinformdesistancefromcrimearediscussed.
126 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
131.EdwardHowardPrebble
ATransdisciplinaryEthnography?
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveFormsAbstract:According to Colemen (2005) churches can be useful research places foranthropologistsorethnographerswhospecialiseinsmall‐scalestudyofboundedgroups through in‐depth, participant observation techniques aimed atunderstanding group culture. Inmyview the studyof churches opensus to atleasttwootherdisciplines,OrganisationStudies,andTheology;thefirstbecauseChristians behave similarly to any other groups of humans organised aroundcommongoals,andthesecondbecausechurchmembersseetheirgatheringsnot(ornot simply)ashumancreationsbutasdivineones.Thus theEthnographermust take into account spiritual understandings that fall well outside secularanthropologicalororganisationstudiesdisciplines.Advocatesforatransdisciplinaryapproach,(e.g.Max‐Neef,2005;Nicolescu,2008)refer to such understandings as "levels of reality", and argue that researchersmustmoveoutofstrictdisciplinaryconfines, toexplorethatwhichisbetween,across, and beyond all disciplines. This requires researchers to be, notuninvolvedbystanders,butactiveparticipants,"beings‐in‐the‐world".Pursuitofthiskindofunderstandingleadsinevitablytoconsiderationofvalues,spirituality,andthetranscendental.Considerationsoftheselevelsofrealityarerelevanttoanyorganisationorgatheringofhumans.ButIsuggestthatthestudyofchurchesmaybeausefulareaforexploringtransdisciplinaryapproaches,asconsideration of the transcendental is alreadypart of their self‐understanding.Mycurrentprojectwithfivechurchesusesanevolvingmethodologicalapproach,regarding churchmembers as co‐researchers, andprogressively allowing theirprioritiestoshapetheissuestoberesearched,andthemethodsused.
127 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
132.AmyMarfell
WaikatoUniversityPlayingNetballacrossFourGenerations:UsingFocusGroupstoCaptureNewZealandWomen'sSportingExperiences
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveFormsAbstract:Recognisingthesignificanceofsocio‐culturalcontext,timeandsocialchangeforunderstandingwomen'ssportingexperiences,thispaperadoptsapost‐structuralfeministapproachtoexamineaselectionofNewZealandwomen'sexperiencesofplayingnetballduringfourdifferenthistoricalconjunctures.InthisprojectIemployedaseriesoffocusgroupstohelpcaptureandexploretheuniquestoriesandlivedexperiencesofwomenwhoplayednetballduringthe1940's,1970's,1990's,and2010's.InthispaperIreflectcriticallyupontheuseoffocusgroupsasanemergingmethodwithinintergenerationalresearch.Morespecifically,IsharesomeinsightsintotheprocessofconductingfocusgroupswithNewZealandwomenofdifferentages,particularlyissuesrelatingtomemory,rapport,andmyfamilialandsocialrelationshipswithparticipants,aswellastherelationshipsexistingbetweenparticipants.Aswellasofferingsomereflectionsonmyattemptstofacilitatefocusgroupswithwomenintheirteens,early20s,late40s,andlate70's,Ialsodiscusshowthismethodologicalapproachallowedmetoexaminetheaffectsoftime,socialchange,andthebroadersocio‐cultural‐politicalcontextofNewZealandwomen'snetballexperiences.
133Abstract133waswithdrawnandresubmitted–seeabstractnumber143.
128 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
134.OwainMareduddGwynne
UniversityofOtagoThereandBackAgain:StudyingFanResponsetoTheHobbitfilmadaptation.
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Exerimental,TransgressiveFormsAbstract:Mytopicinvolvesstudyingfanreactiontotheupcomingfilm,TheHobbit.MymethodologyconsistsofsurveyingfanwebsitesanddiscussionforumsleadinguptothereleaseofTheHobbit.Iamlookingforpatternsthatemergeindiscussionsandidentifykeytalkingpoints.Iamalsointerestedinthewaysinwhichproducersareactivelymakinguseofthesewebsitesduringtheproductionofthefilms.Iwillbeanalysingfanresponsetokeypointsinthedevelopmentofthefilm,suchasthereleaseofofficialteasersandtrailers,circulationofinformationandspoilers,thereleaseofmerchandise,aswellastheriseoffan‐fictionandotherformsoffanparticipation(fan‐madetrailersonYoutube,forexample).TheHobbitpresentsanintriguingnewchallengeforproducerswhohavealreadybeenseentorelyheavilyuponexistingfanbasesandreachingouttothoseaudiencesthroughwebsites.IfTheLordoftheRingstrilogywasseenassomewhatuniqueinthesensethatitcateredtoapre‐existingfanbase‐Tolkien'snovels,thenTheHobbitcanbeseenasdoingsomethingdifferentagain‐drawinguponfansofthebookwhilealsoprovidingconsistencywithJackson'sdiegetic'MiddleEarth'todrawinfansofthetrilogy(manyofwhomwillhaveneverreadthebooks).Thisprovidestheopportunityforafreshoutlookonfancommunities,thetechnologyavailabletotheminmakingtheirvoicesheard,andthewaythistechnologyisbeingusedbythosecreatingthemovies.
129 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
135.AnnaCoxandMariaHumphries
UniversityofWaikatoThere,withinus,isthechange
SocialJusticeandTransformation:TheoreticalEthnographicVisionsAbstract:
Asresearchersoursharedaspirationsaretoexplorethetransformationofthepressuretoprioritizeeconomicconsiderationsinthevariousspheresofourlives.Asweeachchoosetoliveaspectsofourlifeas'lifeasenquiry'asarticulatedbyMarshall(1999),wereflectandnoticeouractionsandourwordsandtheirrelationshiptothemaintenanceofthedominantsocialorder,anorderweviewasinconsistentwithsociallyespouseddemocraticaspirationstovaluesofjusticeandinclusion.Throughourresearchweseektocontributetothetransformationofthisordertooneofinclusivenessandjustice.Wenotice,bothseparately(autoenthographically)andtogether(inourco‐enquiry)whenmarketbasedactivityisprofferedasasaviourtocureallsocialills,evenwhenthismarketisdemonstrablyharmfulforbothpeopleandplanet.Attimes,wetalktogetheraboutournoticing.Wegrapplewithhowtolivedifferentlyourselves.Wenoticewheninourconversationsweare'stuck'foratransformativeresponsetoourinsights.Wealsonoticethatwehavetheprivilegeoftimeandsecurityofpositiontoexploretherelationshipbetweeninjusticeandharmswroughtbyanexploitativeeconomyandincomenecessity.Ourquestionsincludehowcanweenliventhehopeandpossibilityofmoresociallyorientatedorganization?Howcanweencourageboththoughtandactionthatistransformativeofthedominanteconomicsystem?Andsowetalk,act,reflectandcontinuetolive'lifeasenquiry'‐there,withinus,isthechange.
130 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
136.RachaelBurke
MasseyUniversityAucklandUsingvideoasanethnographictoolincrossculturalresearch
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForms
Abstract:
Anthropologistshavetraditionallyregardedlengthyperiods'inthefield'asthekeymeansofgatheringethnographicdata.Asitbecomesmoredifficultforresearcherstosustainlong‐termfieldworkthispaperdiscussestheuseofvideoasaneffectiveandaffordableethnographictool.Basedonresearchcarriedoutin2009atonekindergarteninsuburbanNewZealandandonepreschoolinruralJapan,thestudyfollowseducationalanthropologistJosephTobin'sPreschoolinthreeculturesmethodologywhichutilisedfilmtopresentcomparativeviewsofpreschoolsthroughtheeyesofteachers.FollowingobservationofkindergartensessionsinNewZealandandJapan,a'typical'daywasfilmedineachcountry,theneditedandscreenedbacktoteacherstocheckthe'typicality'ofthescenes.Membersofeachculturewerethen(re)filmedastheycriticallyanalysedboththeirowncountry'searlychildhoodpracticeandmadejudgementsabouttheothercentreinthestudy.Thismethodviewsfilmlessasdatabutmoreasameansofexploringandstimulatingdiscussionaroundhowearlychildhoodcentresincorporateimplicitculturalvaluesintopedagogyandpractice.Suchanapproachalsoremovestheanthropologistfromthepowerfulroleof'allseeingnarrator'commoninearlyethnographicfilm,yetrecognisesthesubjectivenatureofeditedvideotapes.Whilestillinprogress,thisstudyaimstoofferaviewofculturallyinformedpracticeinbothNewZealandandJapaneseearlychildhoodcontextsandtoactasastimulusfordialoguebetweenmembersoftheearlychildhoodcommunityinbothcountries.
131 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
137.RyleeA.Dionigi
SchoolofHumanMovementStudies,CSUBiographicalAgeingintheContextofMastersSport
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForms
Abstract:
Biographicalageingreferstoanindividual'sstoryof(orpersonalmeaningsattachedto)theexperienceofgrowingolder.Ageingandbeing'older'areprimarilypresentedintheliteraturefromaphysicalscienceorbiomedicalperspectivewithanemphasisonthe'decliningbody'.Thispaperarguesthatfocusingonthestoriesofolderpeopleandthe'subjectivebody'willallowforalternativemeaningsofageingtoemergeandamoremeaningfullaterlifetobeenvisaged.ToexplorethisnotionIwillfocusonbiographicalageingwithinthecontextofMasterssport.Howdoolderpeoplemakesenseoftheirparticipationinsportdespitetheirageingbodies?Whatdoesitmeantobegrowingolderandhighlyphysicallyactive?Masterssport(alsoknownasVeteran'sorSeniorsport)hasdevelopedintoasophisticatedfromofcompetitionthatprovidesspaceforolderpeopletobegin,continueorre‐startparticipationinarangeofindividualandteamevents,suchasrunning,tennis,swimming,cycling,hockey,basketballandrugby.Todate,verylittlequalitativeresearchofanykindhasbeenconductedonoldersportspeople.ThefewstudiesthathaveexploredMasterssportparticipationfromaqualitativesocialscienceperspective,however,showcomplex(andattimescontradictory)themesofresistancetoandacceptanceoftheageingprocess,aswellaspresentwaysofredefiningwhatitmightmeantobeanolderperson.Thecollectiveresearchalsodemonstrateshowpersonalstoriesaccessrealbodies,reallivesandrealexperiencesthatinterweavebroaderculturaldiscoursescommonlyassociatedwithsportandageing.
132 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
138.TIANLI
EffectsofLeadershipStylesonSupervisorSubordinateGuanxi,PerceivedControlandPsychologicalOwnershipinChineseOrganizations
SocialJusticeandTransformation:TheoreticalEthnographicVisions
Abstract:
Effectsofleadershipstylesonsupervisor‐subordinateguanxi,perceivedcontrolandpsychologicalownershipinChineseorganizationsThedevelopmentofglobalizationinAsia,especiallyinChina,hasgeneratedagrowingnumberofwesternorganizationsthatengageinco‐operations,jointventures,ordirectinvestmentsinthiscountry.Meanwhile,therearemanyChinesecompaniesthataredevelopingtheireconomiceffortsinwesterncountries.Bothofthesecompaniestradetheirproductionandimposemanagementstyleonforeigncountry.Asaconsequence,theseenterprisesaredealingwithculturaldifferencesandchallengesindifferentleadershipstyles.EventhoughChinahasobviouschangesineconomicindustrialization,itisstillbelievedtobeoneofthemosttraditionalandcollectivistcountriesinAsia.Therefore,themanagementofdifferentculturesisachallengeforwesternorganizationsthatundertakecross‐culturalactivesinChina.Cross‐culturalleadershipstylesareneededtoovercomeculturalbarrierstoavoidmisunderstandingandconflict.Meanwhile,employees'perceivedcontrolandpsychologicalownership(fortheirjobandorganization)havebeenpaidattentionrapidlyaswellinChineseworkcontext.However,Chineseorganizationsstillhavetheirownuniquerequirementforleadership,suchasmanagingsupervisors‐subordinatesguanxiintheworkenvironment.TheprimaryemphasisoftheresearchistodefinethecontentoftheguanxirelationshipwithinaChinesemanagerialcontextbyusingwesternconceptsofpsychologicalownershipandperceivedcontrol.ThisresearchisdesignedtodevelopalongitudinalstudytoatheoreticalmodelinChineseworkcontext;toclearlydemonstratehowmanagers/supervisorssupervisetheirsubordinatestodevelopguanxirelationshipintheworkenvironment,inordertoincreasesubordinates'feelingofownership,andhowitrelatestoindividualworkoutcomes.
133 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
139.DaveSnell
UniversityofWaikatoWhattheydidn'ttellmeinmethodologyclass:Unexpectedissuesinautoethnography
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveFormsAbstract:Socialpsychologistshavepointedtotheimmersionintocommunitylifeandgreaterconsultationwithcommunitiesasbeingameansofbeingmorerespectfultothelivesofparticipantsaswellasawayofobtainingawealthofpersonaldata.Immersionintoacommunitycancreateanumberoftensionsaroundlevelsofparticipation,legitimisingresearchtoothersandissuesrelatingtopersonalsafety.Theseissuesbecomeevenmorecomplexwhentheethnographerisamemberofthatcommunityandisconductinganauto‐ethnographicproject.InthispaperIdiscusssomeofthetheoretical,ethicalandpersonalissuesthattheydidnottellmeinmethodologyclasses‐theunexpectedissuesthatariseasaMetallerstudyingHeavyMetal.
134 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
140.LiseBirdClaiborne
DepartmentofHumanDevelopment,FOE,UniversityofWaikatoBodiesIhaveInhabited:Exploringwaystospeakandseemultiplecompetenciesacrosstimeandspace
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveFormsAbstract:Manymorepeoplestudyatuniversitytodaythandid40yearsago.Andthereisgreaterwillingnesstocountenancethenotionthatbodiesmarkedas'competent'areconstructedbylong‐heldyethistoricallysuspectdiscoursesthatunderpineuro‐westernbeliefsabouthumanpotential.Myresearchhaslinkedthesediscourseswithessentialistnotionsofdifference,whilemyexperiencesasteacher,administratorandsometimecyborgmakemequestionthemodernviewthatwenowoperateinapost‐eugenic,diverselyegalitarianworld.Thispapertellsthestoryofmylongsearchforawaytospeakaboutnewconstructionsofthebodyineverydayconversationaboutperformanceandpotential.Itellthisstoryfromthepointofviewofanacademicofthebabyboomgenerationtakingalineofflightacrosstime,asIattempttodeconstructfutureandpastselves.Tohelpinterruptmystockofclichédstorylines,Ibuildavisualassemblagetotellastorythatisbothpersonalanddis‐assembled.Ialsodrawonmypuzzlementinpastinterviewswitheducationalpsychologistswhoweretornbetweenconstructingcoherentnarrativesforfamiliesoftroubledyoungpeoplewhileallowingincoherencethespacetotroublenormativenarratives.AsIrevisitculturalidentitywork,IamencouragedbyDeleuzianmisgivingsaboutthelinearlifetrajectory,insteadpayingmoreattentiontothesidelinesandconstraintsthathelpedtocreatethebodiesIhaveinhabited.
135 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
141.TeAraniBarrettandNgatiAwa
UniversityofWaikatoInterfacingculturalresponsivenessincontractmanagement
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveFormsAbstract:ThispaperdiscusseshowtheTeKotahitangaOperationsManagerhasbeguntoworkresponsivelywithsecondaryschoolprincipalswhoarefacingthechallengeofraisingMaoristudentachievementintheirschools.Inundertakingthisworkdevelopingrespectfulprofessionalrelationshipshavebeenessentialateverypointwhereleadersareengaging.Thecontextsforprogressvisitmeetingshaveshiftedfromafocusonprojectcompliancerequirementstoco‐constructingmilestonereportsthatwillbetterreflectthedeeper,pedagogicalleadershippracticesthattheyarebeginningtodemonstrate.MilestonereportshavedevelopedintodatarichprofessionallearningconversationsthatprovidetheTeKotahitangateamwithalensintoboththeleadershipandthepedagogyofeachschool.Thesediscussionshaveincludedprincipals'conscientisationaroundimportantaspectsintheirschoolssuchasidentity,socialjustice,transformationalleadershipinpractice,recognizingtheimportanceofevidenceandshiftsintheirteachers'theorizinginpractice.Eachoftheseaspectswillbediscussedinturn.
136 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
142.ElizabethRankin
DepartmentofArtHistory,UniversityofAucklandIntheWakeoftheTaskforceonMuseumsandFirstPeoples:Canadianinsightsintoexhibitingindigenouscultures
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveFormsAbstract:Thedebatesofnewmuseologyhavebeendominatedbyquestionsabouthowtorepresent indigenous peoples in the context of western museums and artgalleries which previously either ignored their culture or relegated it to thecategoryofethnography.AsarecipientofaCanadianFacultyEnrichmentGrant,IwasabletovisitmuseumsandgalleriesacrossCanada, inMontreal(Quebec),Toronto, Brantford and Ottawa (Ontario), Victoria, Vancouver and Alert Bay(British Columbia), including national, provincial and private institutions andmuseums in cultural centres on reserves. My observations were aided bydiscussions of exhibition strategies with curators, both indigenous andnon‐indigenous,whowereworkingintheareaoffirstnationcultures.Afterdiscussing recommendationsof theReport of theTaskforceonMuseumsand First Peoples of 1992, this paperwill consider someof the strategies thathavebeenusedindevelopingexhibitionsthatrepresentthevisualandmaterialculture of indigenous Canadian peoples ‐ various forms of consultation andcollaborationwith communities; promoting access to collections, both directlyand through databases; ways of providing information for museum audiencesthat contextualises work historically but also demonstrates that it belongs toliving traditions; repatriation both of individual items and at national andprovinciallevelthroughlandtreatyclaims.Whileopinionsaboutthesuccessofthesestrategiesvary,manymuseumshave formedvitalpartnershipswith firstnationpeoplesthatgreatlyenrichnotonlyexhibitsonindigenousmaterials,butalsotheoverallrepresentationofCanadianhistoryandculture.
137 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
143. DonnRatanaAperformancesharingthesocio/politicalimagesofemergingandestablishedeasternPolynesianartistscreatedataputahi(gaterhing)
60minutesPerformanceEmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveFormsAbstract:THE PERFORMANCE WILL INVOLVE THE KAIKORERO[story teller]PRESENTING THE VISUAL IMAGES OF A NUMBER OF EMERGING ANDESTABLISHED EASTERN POLYNESIAN ARTIST AND THEIRKORERO[NARRATIVES] THE KAIKORERO WILL DISCUSS THEIRINSPIRATION.THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATIVE PROCESS FOR THEARTWORK.THERESEARCHINVOLVED.THEDEVELOPMENTOFTHEIDEAS.THEEXPLORATIONOFTHEMEDIUM.THERESOLUTIONOFTHEFINALWORK.WILLTHEIMAGEMAKEADIFFERENCETOTHEVIEWER?ORDOESTHEARTWORKONLY BECOME A FOCUS FOR ARTISTS TO SHARE THEIR PERSONALDEVELOPMENT.AS AN INDIGENOUS ARTIST CAN YOU MAKE A STATEMENTTHAT HIGHLIGHTS THE ISSUES OF TINO RANGATIRATANGA. [selfdetermination].THE 'Colanization' OF TAHITI,HAWAII AND NEW ZEALAND.THEMANDUSWHYCAN'TWEALLBETHESAME'ISSUE'BUTWHO'SSAMEMYSAMEORYOURSAME.SOMEARTISTSLOOKATMORELOCALIZEDISSUESTHATARE CLOSER TO THEM.CAN INDIGENOUS ARTISTS MAKE A SLIGHTDIFFERENCE?ARE THEIR IDEAS COMMUNICATED CLEARLY?IS THE WORLDSTILL"Whiteware'?
138 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
144. Jo Straker UniversityofWaikatoMeaningmaking:Who'smeaning?
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGroundAbstract:Storiesareimportantinconstitutingmeaningsaboutpeople'sexperiencesintheoutdoors.ButIsometimesponderonwhosestoriesarebeingtold.AotearoaNewZealand isoftenreferred toasanaturalparadise.Symbolsof 'theoutdoors'as'100% pure, clean and green' resonate with many. These views also have adefiningroleintheconstructionofnationalidentityeventhoughscantattentionhas been given to 'which outdoors' or the different meanings these symbolsrepresent. Suchmattersnever really occurred tomeuntil Iwandered into theworld of research when I was challenged to put aside my own views andconsider?who'smeaning?Onewayinwhichmeaningsarerevealedisthroughstories.Hereonecangetasense for various levels of ambiguity, individuality, emotion, cultural values,alongwithmanyparadoxesassociatedwithexperiences‐intheoutdoors.Inthetelling of a story, the story teller usually remains the dominant character inshapingthemeaning.Insomeresearchhowever,thatbalancecaneasilyshiftsothemeaningfinishesupbecomingthatoftheresearcher. InmyownresearchIsometimes struggle to strike a balance even though wanting to ensure theparticipant'svoiceisthedominateone.InthispresentationIexploreanumberof strategies used in my research to retain focus on the meanings theparticipants,notI,holdabouttheoutdoors.
139 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
145. Rhonda Shaw SchoolofSocial&CulturalStudies,VictoriaUniversityofWellingtonEmotionandethicsininterviewsonorgandonationandtransplantation
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGroundAbstract:Organdonationandtransplantationhasthepotentialtosavelives.Fromtheperspectiveofpublichealthitalsohasacost/benefitadvantage,whichiswhygovernmentsarekeentopromoteitandwhythemediaoftenrelayaccountsofitspositiveandtransformativeeffectsonpeople'slives.Organtransferalsoraisesanumberofethicalandemotionalissues.InthispresentationIaddresstheseissuessociologically,drawingonface‐to‐facein‐depthinterviewsof1to2½hoursdurationundertakenbetween2008‐2010with24tissuerecipients,13livingorgandonorsand9membersofdonorfamiliestoinvestigateperceptionsofpersonhoodandidentityinthecourseoftissueexchange.Inparticular,Iexaminetheconcernsofmyintervieweesaroundanonymityprotocolandthenatureoftherelationshipthatarisesbetweenresearchparticipantsandresearcherswhenemotionalissuesareraisedininterviewsituations.Insodoing,thepresentationwillfocusonthetensionbetweenproceduralethics,asembeddedincodesandprinciples,and"ethicsinpractice"insocialresearchdefinedasbroadlyempathic.
140 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
146.AndreaMaryMilligan,Dr.LiseBirdClaiborne,Dr.SueCornforth,Dr.E,JayneWhite
VictoriaUniversityofWellington.ThemanyfacesofVaria.
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveFormsAbstract:Wearefourresearcherswhotrialledaformofcollectivebiographicalmemoryworkasameansofengagingnewresearcherswiththepossibilitiesofinnovativequalitativemethodologies.Thepresentationtracesthedelightsandchallenges,boththeoreticalandpersonal,thatweexperiencedaswesetoutoverwhatwasforus,newterritory.Ourinterestbeganintheworkofaresearchgroupinwhichweinvestigatedtheoftencontradictoryeducationalthemesofinclusionandmastery.FromthiswasbornVariawhoplayedhideandseekwithinthefoldsofButler'simaginedsubject.Thefourcoreresearchersthentookthenowdevelopedformofcollaborativebiographytofournew,groups‐someofwhomwereteachers,somepractitionersandsomeresearchers.Fromtheoriginalseedingprojectemergedfourdiverseinterpretationsofthemethodology;diversenewsubjectivitiesweremadeavailableforscrutinyeachunsettlingvariousestablishedforms.Wecontinuetoworktogetherandnowreflectonthesurprises,thedifficulties,thedelightsandthedangerswhichweexperiencedinoursearchforamorepleasurable,inclusiveandunsettlingformofresearch.
141 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
147.NicholasPerry
UniversityofAucklandEthnographyofaConcept:RethinkingtheUrbanImaginary
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveFormsAbstract:EversinceGeorgSimmel'sclassic1903essayonTheMetropolisandMentalLife,'the city' has been understood as at once a material physical entity and animaginedenvironment.Evenwhenthepredominantemphasisofurbanstudieswas on the ecology of urban forms, the distribution of populations and thelocation of institutional centres, the notion that the city was also a mentalconstruct was not wholly displaced. Furthermore, those processes ofrestructuring which were, and are, associated with the most recent phase ofglobalisation,haspromptedareconceptualisingof the foundationalcategoryofspace (and of the city)within contemporary social and critical theory(eg LashandUrry1994;Soja1996).Walter Benjamin's account of the flâneur (a.k.a the stroller) and Michel deCerteau's pedestrian, offer classic versions of such an imaginary that haveattracted interest. For the flâneur, the built environment of the city, togetherwith its flows of traffic and peoples, are understood as resources for theconstructionofatext.Initsturn,suchatextisunderstoodasaresponseto,andanexemplaryrepresentationof,thefluxofmodernity.Subsequentdevelopmentshave sought to incorporate the implications of a progressively moremedia‐saturated environment and with it the much enhanced internal andinter‐textual relations within and between representations of the urban. Forwhen notions of urbanity have become so strongly mediated, and when thenotionofcitiesashavingclearlydiscernableandfixedboundariesisatoddswiththe lived experience of its inhabitants, then the textualizing of urbanity is nolongerlimitedtounderstandingthe(presumptivelyunmediated)cityasatextualresource. Urban flânerie has also been interpreted as of relevance to suchmedia‐based practices as channel surfing and the selective appropriation oftelevision texts (Fiske 1987; Tester 1994). Anne Friedberg's (1992) loopingtogetheroftheexperienceofcinema,shoppingmallsandfreewaydrivinginthenotion of the 'virtual mobile gaze' goes beyond the more conventionalmedia‐based versions of flânerie in recognising both the fluidity and thediscourse‐dependent and institutionalised locations of such a cultural matrix.And Bruno Latour's internet ‐based Paris: Ville Invisible nods towards ItaloCalvino'sfabulistfictionininvestingflâneriewithanactornetworkperspective.Takentogether,suchstudiessuggesthowtheurban imaginaryconceptmaybeelucidatedbybeingmapped,not justalong the familiaraxesof timeandplace,butalsointermsofitstechnologiesofrepresentation.1.ThispaperformspartofawiderstudythatissupportedbyagrantfromtheRoyalSocietyofNewZealandMarsdenFund.
142 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
148. Antonio Garcia and Joanna Kidman VictoriaUniversityofWellingtonThecontributionofethnographytoaninterdisciplinaryapproachtosociallyexcludedyouth.AstudyofthenotionofyouthinmothersofyoungpeopleattendedinaPsychosocialPrograminSantiago,Chile.
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGroundAbstract:In Chile, the situation of socially excluded adolescent drug abusers is verycomplex. In this context, some public programs that work with these youngpeople, traditionally dominated by psychological and psychiatric perspectives,haveincludedanthropologistsontheirprofessionalteams.Thisresearchaimstouseanethnographicapproach,toenrichtheperspectiveofthiskindofprogram,inordertoincreaseitslegitimacy,effectiveness,andimpact.The study arises in the context of my work as an anthropologist, in a PublicProgram in chargeof the treatment of youthwith a historyof drug abuse andconflictswiththelaw.Thestudyexploresthenotionofyouthproducedbysevenwomen who attend this program with their sons, all residents in the samesuburb in Santiago. From a critical analysis of traditional developmentalpsychological approaches to adolescence I have constructed a theoreticalframework based on anthropology of age and the notions of social field andgenerationproposedbyPierreBourdieu.The ethnographic approach is based on the use of life stories and participantobservation. The research reconstructs from the biographical experience anddiscourseofonesubject(thewomen)thelifetrajectoryofathirdabsentsubject(their young sons). Thus, using content analysis, it discovers the role of theinstitutionalsystemsandthesocio‐urbanhistoryinformingtheconceptofyouthand defining two main notions within; youth as "autonomy", and youth as"reproduction".
143 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
149. Dr Sue Cornforth, Dr Jeannie Wright and Steve Lang VictoriaUniversityofWellingtonWritingourselvesintoWaikawa
Socialjusticeandtransformation:theoreticalethnographicvisionsAbstract:
Usingaformofcollaborativevisualpoetry,we(thepresenters)explorenewversionsofidentitythatinterweaveselveswithlandscapes.Beginningwithcollectivebiographicalmemorywork.asagroupofmigrantacademics,wesoughttoexploretheinfluenceofthenaturalenvironment,aswerestructuredournewidentitiesinnewlands.Findingconventionalproseinadequatetothepurposeofdescribingoursharedembodiedexperiences,weturnedtofreeformpoetryasawayofescapingthediscursiveconstraintsofrationality.Insodoing,wepresentanethnographicvisionoftheself,whichtracesbackwardsandforwardsacrossbodies,landscapesandtime,producingidentitiesthatarefluid‐alwayslivingingeographicalliminality.Wearguethatthisisanecessary,andethical,conditionforbeingaliveinanenvironmentallychallengedandincreasinglyglobalisedworld;oneinwhichtheseparationofthehumanfromthenaturalhasledtoenvironmentaldegradationandspiritualcrises.
144 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
150.SamStott
FacultyofEducationandSocialWork,UniversityofSydneyThecriticalethnographicmultiplecasestudy:Anemergingmethod
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForms
Abstract:
Thispresentationwillintroducethecriticalethnographicmultiplecasestudyasanemergingmethodologytoaddresscontemporaryresearchquestionsinnon‐traditionalways.Thisapproachtoresearchfacilitatesreflexiveandcollaborativedescriptionandinterpretationofboundedexamplesofaculture.Asamethodology,itprovidesatransferable'opportunitytolearn'fromdifferentlivedmanifestationsofthecultureinquestion,withintimeandresourceconstraints.Apostmoderncriticalresearchperspectiveinformsthecriticalethnographicmultiplecasestudy.Thisperspectivelocatesresearchersandparticipantsinapowerrelationshipconstructedfromtheprivilegeandoppressioneachexperienceonthegroundsofdemographicfactorssuchasage,gender,ethnicity&accesstoeducation.Itthenattemptstodeconstructthesepowerrelationsandchallengethedominanthegemonybyco‐constructingknowledgethroughtheresearchprocess.Theresearchjourneyisdesignedtotransformtheperspectiveofbothresearchersandparticipants.Inthismethodology,dataareprimarilygeneratedbyparticipants,grantingthemgreatercontrolwithrespecttohowtheirexperiencesarerepresentedandcommunicated.Participants'voicesandexperiencesarecentraltothefocusoneachcase.Ethnographictechniquessuchasparticipantobservation,fieldinterviews,detailedfieldnotes,researcherandparticipantreflectivediariesandparticipant‐generatedphotosandvideorecordingsmaybeintegratedintoamoretraditionalcasestudydesign.Thesessionwillexploretheconnectionbetweenresearchperspective,methodologyandmethodandinvestigatetheroleofhybridandemergingmethodologiesinansweringcontemporaryresearchquestions.Researchinprogresswillbepresentedtoelucidatesomeofthecoremethodologicalconcepts.
145 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
151.PeterWilkinson
MasseyUniversityEthnographyandMateriality
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGround
Abstract:
ThispaperistheresultofatwoyearethnographicstudyofthewindsurfinglifestylesportsubcultureinNewZealand.Ibeganmystudyasacompleteparticipant,thenparticipantobserver,finallycompletingformalinterviews.Approachingthestudyfromamaterialculturestandpoint,oneoftheearlyareasoffocuswasthesocialroleplayedbythematerialobjectsoftheactivity.Thusthestudywasnotrestrictedtothewaysthatpeopleacted,andtheirmotivations,butthewaysthatobjects'acted'inthiscontext.Statuswithinthesubcultureisalmostentirelyattributedonthebasisoftheskillleveloftheparticipant.The'kit'(equipment)usedbysailorsisprogressive,thatistosaythatonlythemostskilledparticipantsarecapableofusingthemostadvancedgear.Theexpectationthereforewasthatthekitthatisownedbyanindividualwouldactinasocialmannertocommunicatethelevelofcommitment,skill,andthereforestatustoothersubculturalmembers.Whattheethnographicworkrevealedwasthatthesituationismorecomplexthanthat,althoughthematerialobjectsdidplayasocialrole.Thekitnotonlyactsasanindicatorofstatus,butcanhavetheoppositeeffecttothatdesiredifitisdeemedbyothersubculturalmembersthatthekitdisplayedisbeyondtheabilitiesofthesailor.Italsoactsateverystageofanindividual'sdevelopmentofasubculturalidentity.So,whilstmyethnographicworkwaswithpeople,itwasalsowithmaterialobjectsandtheirabilityto'act'.
146 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
152.MatiuTaiRatima
UniversityofAucklandEthnographyattheinterface:FactorsaffectingthedevelopmentofproficiencyintereoMaoriforadultlearners.
SocialJusticeandTransformation:TheoreticalEthnographicVisions
Abstract:
Ethnographyattheinterface:FactorsaffectingthedevelopmentofproficiencyintereoMaoriforadultlearners.Contemporaryethnographymatterspreciselybecauseotherformsofacademicenquiry(quantitative,positivistic,objective,andscientific)haveeffectivelysilencedthevoicesoftheindigenouspeoplesoftheworld.IwantmyresearchtoempowerMaorivoice.IseektopositionmyPhDstudyattheinterfacebetweentwoworldviews:theWesternacademictraditionandMataurangaMaori.Theethnographicmethodprovidesa"bestfit"formyresearchquestion(WhatfactorsaffectthedevelopmentofhighlevelsofproficiencyforadultlearnersofteReo?)becausetheparticipantsarefreetotelltheirownstories.ContemporaryethnographyalsoprovidestheopportunitytoapplyathematicanalysisofthesestorieswhichwillproduceaframeworkforunderstandingthedevelopmentoftereoMaoriproficiency.MyPhDresearchwillexplorethelearningjourneysof30highlyproficientsecondlanguagespeakersoftereoMaori.ThepurposeoftheresearchistoexamineexemplarsofadultMaorilanguagelearnerstoinformthedevelopmentofaMaorisecondlanguagelearningframework.
147 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
153.PatriciaMcClunieTrustandWendyChileshe
WaikatoInstituteofTechnologyAutoethnographyascriticalinquiry:selfnarrativesofablackforiegneducatednurseworkinginNewZealand
Practiceandadvocacy:doingethnographyonthegroundAbstract:Nurses are involvedwith intimate aspects of otherpeople's lives, in situationsthat often involveprofound vulnerability. Building culturally safe relationshipswithclientswhousehealthservices,andotherhealthprofessionalsinvolvedintheir care, requiresanunderstandingof the self in relation toothers.Focusingattentionontheselfinthesocialcontextofprofessionalpracticeisanimportantaspect of coming to know ourselves as others see us. Autoethnography is aresearch approach that enables nurses to critically engage with their ownhistoricalandculturalbackgrounds,toquestionwhatinfluencestheselftothinkandactincertainways.Itoffersnurseresearchersdeeplyreflexivestrategiestorevealtheculturalhistoryoftheselfthatwebringtoencounterswithclientsandcolleagues.ThispresentationexplorestheculturalhistoryofablackforeigneducatednursewhowasrecruitedfromZambiatoworkinNewZealand.UsingChang's(2008)conceptualisationofautoethnography,itexamineshowherculturalbackgroundinfluenced her passage into nursing in a new social and professional context.This research gives voice to the challenges she experienced in coming tounderstand how the theme of colonisation that emerged in the analysis hadplayedaroleinshapingheridentityasapersonandanurse.Inopeningupherpastforinterrogation,shebecameawareofhowshehadembracedcertainviewsof theworld as the outcomes of interactions between herself and the array ofsocialforcesandculturalpracticesthatsheparticipatedin.
148 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
154. PareshaSinha,DrSuzetteDyer,DrAiHsinHo ManagementSchool,UniversityofWaikatoGlobalisationandSkilledImmigrants:InsightsfromExperiencesofSkilledImmigrantsinNewZealand
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGroundAbstract:Amajorfeatureofglobalisationisthetrendtowardscross‐bordermobilityoflabour.NewZealandhasalsoexperiencedanincreaseinthenumberofskilledimmigrantsfrommanyregionsoftheworld.Becauseofcurrentskillshortagesinthetightlabourmarket,skilledimmigrantsareconsideredasakeyresourcetofillthegaps.Thisresearchinvolved25skilledimmigrantsfromregionsincludingAfrica,Asia,andEuropetoexploretheirexperiencesofcomingto,settlinginandfindingemploymentinNewZealand.Datawascollectedbyemploying'engaged'orqualitativeresearchmethods(Denzin&Lincoln,2005).Patton(1990)suggeststhatqualitativeresearchmethodsaremoreappropriatewhenthepurposeistogaininsightintothesubjectiveexperiencesofparticipants.Tothisend,in‐depthfacetofaceinterviewswereconductedtoexploretheimmigrants'subjectiveexperiencessincemigratingtoNewZealand.Groundedtheorymethodology(Glaser&Strauss,2005)wasemployedtoanalysetheinterviewdata.Throughthreecodingprocedures,includingopen,axialandselectivecoding,theoreticalsaturationwasachieved.Basedontheexperiencesoftheparticipants,emotionallabour(Hochschild,1983)emergedasthecorethemewhichsignifiedavarietyofemotionalstrugglesthatwerecommonlyexperiencedbytheparticipants.Specifically,thisstudyidentifiedthepushandpullfactorsthatdrewtheparticipantstoNewZealandandtheirmismatchedexpectationsandrealities.Thefindingsmovebeyondthecurrentliteratureonworkplaceemotionallabourtoimmigrants'collectiveemotionallabourandtheircopingstrategies.Identifyingthecommonemotionallabourissuesamongstmigrants,thestudydiscusseskeystrategiesforcopingandmanagingmigrants'emotionallabourinturnfacilitatingtheirintegrationintotheNewZealandsoceity.Keywords:Migration,immigration,NewZealand,Migrantexperiences,groundedtheory,emotionallabour
149 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
155.LisaM.Hayes
Dept.Sport&LeisureStudies,UniversityofWaikatoOnewoman,onetoomany
SocialJusticeandTransformation:TheoreticalEthnographicVisionsAbstract:" ... rejected on the grounds that this has been adequately researched andactionedthroughtheHIV/AIDSFoundation,FamilyPlanningandRainbowYouthwithGovernmentinvolvementandfundingbeingmadeavailable."ThisistheresponsereceivedtoaremitcallingforincreasedactiontoresourceHIV&AIDSeducationforNewZealandwomen,especiallyyoungwomen.Howtorespond?This paper uses autoethnography to describe my own personal journey ofdiscovery into theworld ofHIV andAIDS. It describes and explores the socialawarenesses, social attitudes, stigmaanddiscrimination that have existed, andstillprevail,towardsthissilentmenace.ThroughautoethnographyIalsohonourandacknowledgethosewhohavegenerously'given'oftheirtimeandtheirawhito share the ways in which they, as Positive people, have touched my life, toinstillinmethepassionandconvictioneachandeveryonematters.Theaimistonot only enhance the reader's knowledge and understanding of the medicaldiscoursethatsurroundsthisdisease,buttocontextualizethepositionofbeingPositiveina'negative'world.Further,Iattempttodemonstratehowreflexivityof thecontextswithinwhich thisdisease is locatedhindersand/orhelps in itsongoingtransmission.Fromthis'position'Ibegintheresearchprocesstoarguethat'onewoman,isonetoomany'.
150 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
156. Rachael Fabish VictoriaUniversityofWellingtonWhereparallellivesmeet:"Learningtobeaffected"anddecolonisationresearchinAotearoa
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveFormsAbstract:InthispresentationIwilldiscusstheearlystagesofmyPhDproject‐acollaborativeexplorationofhowcolonialismaffectsmyownanarchist/activistcommunity.ThroughoutAotearoaitseemsclearthatmanyMaoristraddletwoculturesineverydaylife,whilePakeharemainlargelymonocultural,yetlittlespacehasbeencreatedforengagementaroundhowthisaffectsourpersonalinteractions.WithintheWellingtonanarchistscene,theseissuescametotheforeafterthe"TerrorRaids"of2007leftourcommunityflounderingtoconfrontitsownissuesaroundcolonisationandactivism.ManyMaorimembersofthesceneweremarginalisedduringthisperiod.AsaPakeha,Iwasforcedtoconfrontmyownignoranceandwhiteprivilege.MyPhDprojectcameoutofthesedifficultrealisations.Thispresentationwillfocusonmystruggletopositionmyselfasaresearcherwithinmyowncommunity‐attemptingtoovercomemy"Pakehaparalysis"through"learningtobeaffected".Inthisjourney,IhavebeeninspiredbyKaupapaMaorimethodology,whichledmetoacollaborativemethodologydrawingonParticipatoryActionResearch,interactiveinterviewingandauto‐ethnography.Tocreatethespaceforethicalresearch,whileattemptingtobringthemarginstothecentre,Iformedasmallwomen'scollectiveofMaori,PakehaandTauIwianarchists.Thiscollectiveprovidesasharedopportunityforreflectionandasitewithinwhichtoworkatshiftingourinteractionstowardssomethingmorejust,fulfillingandsustainable.HereIwilldiscusssomeofthechallengesandrewardsofresearchingourselves‐bothindividuallyandcollectively.
151 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
157.JennyMcMahon
UniversityofTasmaniaUsingnarrativeethnographytochallengepedagogieswhichpervadeAustralianswimmingculture.
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveFormsAbstract:IntroductionThispresentationisbasedonproposedpostdoctoralresearch.PreviousresearchbyMcMahon,Penney,Dinan‐Thompson(in‐press)revealedhowbodypedagogiesoccurredinandthroughtheAustraliaswimmingculture,articulatingalongstandingeffectonswimmers.Recommendationsforfutureresearchemphasisedaneedforattentiontoshiftfromtheexposureandeffectofpedagogy,totheconnectionbetweenacquisitionandpracticeofpedagogy.Thispresentationthusfocusesonthenextphaseofresearchwherenarrativeethnographywillbeutilisedincoacheducationprogrammes,examiningitsusefulnessinchallengingpedagogyacquisition.Aimsoftheprojectorresearchquestionsand/orfocusofenquiryTheproposedresearchwillcentreonwhetherstoriedrepresentations(autoethnographicandnarrativeaccounts)ofeliteandamateurswimmerswillchallengeexistingcoachingpedagogiesoccurringwithintheAustralianswimmingculture.NarrativeethnographywillbeusedtopresentthelivedexperiencesofswimmersfromtheAustralianswimmingculturetothecoaches.Itwillalsobeutilisedasamethodofrecordingtheirresponsesandfeelings,withtheintentionthatthereaderwillbeabletovicariouslyshareintheirresponses.ResearchmethodsInpreviousresearchbyMcMahon,Penney&Dinan‐Thompson(in‐press),narrativeethnography(alsousedbyTedlock,1991;DouglasandCareless,2008)andautoethnographywerefoundtoprovideMcMahonandtwootherparticipantswiththeappropriatespacetorevealtheirlivedexperiencesintheeliteandamateursportingcultureofAustralianswimming.Thesestoriedaccountswillbeusedinthisresearchasatooltorecordtheresponsesofcoaches,investigatingthepotentialimpactthatthesestoriedaccountshaveonthecoaches.Narrativeethnographywillsubsequentlybeused,primarilyto:.foregroundthecoaches'voiceintheresearch;.achieveandmaintainhighlycollaborativerelationsthroughouttheresearchprocess;.enablethereadertotakeonandreadfromthepositionsandperspectivesofthecoaches,vicariouslysharingintheirthoughtsandfeelings;and.ensurethattheresearchprocesshaspurposeforthecoaches,withspecific
152 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
recognitionthattheremaybelearningpotentialcreatedfromthiswork.Inthewritingassociatedwiththisresearch,storiesfromthecoacheswillbeforegroundedastheprimarydata.Researchfindingsand/orcontributiontothefieldThefindingsofthisresearchwillbeimportanttoacademicsandprofessionalsinthefieldsofhealthandphysicaleducation,sportandeducation.Specificallythisresearchwillexaminethepotentialvalueofnarrativeethnographyasatoolinchallengingpedagogicalpractice.Itismyintentiontoseekinpromptingpractitioners(inthiscasesportscoaches)tochallenge'contemporaryandfuturepractices'.
153 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
158.CliveC.Pope
UniversityofWaikatoMerleauPontygoesdigitalattheV8's
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveFormsAbstract:ForthelastthreeyearsHamiltoncityhashostedaV8Supercarsevent.MuchofthepitchfromtheeventorganizersisaimedtoattractsizablecrowdstotheV8experience.Forthreedaystheinnercityislockeddownasnormalbusinessroutinessuccumbtoconcretebarriers,high‐octanefuel,temporarygrandstandsandscreechingrubber.Thecircuitiscossetedsoonlyticketholdersexperiencethesights,soundsandsmellsoftheevent.ThispresentationwillexplorethelivedexperienceoftheV8supercarsspectator.InparticularitwilldrawonMerleau‐Ponty'snotionofsensibilityandmorespecifically,howtheessenceofsuchanexperiencecanberepresented.Iaimtousedigitaltoolstoassimilatethelivedexperiencesofspectatorshipasavicariousfieldworkexercise,takingtheaudiencewithintheconcretepartitionsandintroducingthemtosomeofthesights,soundsandimpressionsexperiencedbytheseautodenizens.Crucialtosuchanexerciseistherecognitionandexplorationofhowthesensesshapeperception.Pink(2009)arguesthatsensoryethnographyhighlightsmultiplewaysofknowing,exploringandreflectingonnewpathwaystoknowledge.Thearrivalofdigitaltoolshasallowedethnographerstoexplorenewroutesintounderstandinghumanexperienceslikeattendingmajorsportingevents.Enjoytheride.
154 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
159.TanjaSchubertMcArthur
VictoriaUniversityofWellingtonThechallengesofethnographicresearchatTePapa
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGroundAbstract:Myresearchfocusesontheimpactofabiculturalframeworkontheemployeesandtheeverydayinteractionsbetweentangatawhenuaandtangatatiritiattheirworkplace.Iusedamixed‐methodsapproachofparticipantobservationandsemistructuredinterviewstoresearch'biculturalisminpractice'behindthescenesatTheMuseumofNewZealandTePapaTongarewa.DuringthecourseofoneyearI'livedwith'17differentteamsacrosstheorganisationandinterviewed60staffmembersabouttheirunderstandingofbiculturalism.AlthoughasacasualemployeeIwasnostrangertoTePapaIhadtoovercomegatekeepersandbuildtrustbeforeIcouldentereachteam.Doingethnographyinalargeorganisationhasitsownchallengesintermsofentrytothefield,observationalbarriersandlogistics.ThetopicofmyPhDresearchandtheethnicmake‐upofTePapastafflendthemselvestoKaupapaMaorimethodologies,howeverbeingaGermanimmigrantIwasseenasaPakehaandconsequentlysomeMaoristafffearedIwouldexploitthem.InthispaperIwillsharemypersonaljourneyofbecomingpartoftheMaoriactivitiesatTePapaandhowthisinvolvementchangedmypositioninginthefield.IwillreflectparticularlyonthemethodofparticipantobservationinanorganisationalsettinganddiscussthebenefitsandlimitsofthemethodasIexperienceditinmyfieldwork.
155 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
160.KellyFrancesDombroski
UniversityofWesternSydneyPoormothersarenotpoormothers:travellingmotheringpracticesandpossibilitiesforjustchange
SocialJusticeandTransformation:TheoreticalEthnographicVisionsAbstract:Becausepovertyisoftenconflatedwithbackwardness,motheringpracticesinundevelopedregionsoftehworldmaybeoverlookedinthinkingaboutpossibilitiesinparentingforglobalchange.Inthispaper,Iseektodisaggregatetheconflationofpovertywithbackwardnessthroughastudyofmotheringpracticestravellingbetweenmarginalisedmothersin'out‐of‐the‐way'northwestChinaandAustralasianmothers'parentingforapeacefulworld'.Iexaminethepracticeofinfanttoilethygieneknownas'eliminationcommunication',apointoffrictionwherenormativebeliefsabouthygieneawkwardlyengagethroughthelearningprocessandthepresenceoftheethnographer.IshowhowthisfrictionproducesaspaceofexperimentationinhygienepracticesformothersinAustralasia,experimentationthathasbroadermaterialpossibilitiesforsocialandenvironmentalchange.
156 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
161.LiteaMeoSewabu
SchoolofHealth&SS,MasseyUniversityTalanoaandtheroleofinsider/outsiderasacontributiontoEthnography.AFijiancasestudy"NaiTalanoamaiNarocivo,Nayau,Lau"(thesharingofconversationsfromNarocivo,Nayau,Lau)
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGroundAbstract:The praxis of ethnography as an indigenous Fijian researcher who is bothinsider/outsiderofferssomevaluablelessonstotheresearchterrain.Thispapersuggeststhatthereisafinebalanceandnegotiationduringtheresearchprocessto ensure the research is culturally appropriate and ethically sound from anindigenous perspective. Examples encountered included gaining access toparticipants, the role of elders, the acquisition of communal discernment,communalrightsvsparticipantsrights,audioandvisualconsentandthenotionofreciprocityorhowmuchisenough?Thispaperalsohighlightstheadvantagesofbeinganinsider,understandingthewaysofbeing,keyrelationshipsorkinship,readingthesilenceandgesturesandmoreimportantlyusingparticipantobservationasatooltogeneratetalanoaorsharingaconversation.Itisclearthataninsiderwillalwayshavetohaveasenseofculturaldiscernmentwhichincludesrecognisingthatactionstakenarecriticaland remainwith the researcher for life. Therefore, itwas crucial in thewholeresearch process that the existing social structures, governance process andculturalprotocolswerehonouredandadheredto.Theresearcherconcludesbydiscussing steps taken in maintaining cultural integrity and balance as aninsider/outsider. Moreover, how adhering to these values and balance trulyoperationlisedthesenseofempowermentamongparticipants.
157 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
162. Kelly Frances Dombroski UniversityofWesternSydneyEmbodyingresearch:Maternalbodies,researchcrises,andknowledgeproductioninQinghai,China
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveFormsAbstract:MyethnographicfieldworkwithethnicminorityandmigrantmothersinQinghai,China,wasfraughtwithcrisisasIstruggledtounderstandthe'boundaries'ofmyresearchsite.Re‐envisioningethnographicresearchasamethodofembodied,relationalengagementwitha'site'or'space'whereamultiplicityoftrajectoriesconverge(toinvokeDoreenMassey)enabledmetorethinktheparametersofmyethnography‐orrather,toreimaginemyethnographyas'unbounded'yetcentredonmyownembodiedengagementwithparticulartrajectoriesofQinghai.Inthispaper,Idetailhowmyown'trajectory'asamaternalbodyinQinghaifacilitatedaparticularkindofengagementwiththesubjects,spacesandpracticeswhichbecamethefocusofmyresearch‐othermaternalsubjectsandbodies,andtheeconomicandphysicalspaceswithinwhichwemovedandlivedandmothered.Ifocusparticularlyonhowmyownpresenceasaphysicallinkbetweenimagined'Western'mothersand'Chinese'mothersshapedourinteractionsanddiscussionsaslocalwomenspoketowhattheysawasthedeficienciesinWesternmotheringpractices.Thispaperexplorestheembodiedaspectoftheethnographicresearchprocesstothinkabouthowknowledgeabout(m)othersinnorthwestChinaisco‐produced.
158 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
163.DagmarSimon
UniversityofAucklandDanceandsustainability:awinningduet?
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGround
Abstract:
EarlythisyearIbeganaPhDresearchprojectonhowdancemightcontributetocreatingstrongandsustainablecommunitiesinthecontextofawiderdiscussionondevelopingsustainablecities.Thisresearchbringstogethertheoriesofsustainability(Hertnon,2009;Bazley,Salmon&Shand,2009),urbandesign(Thrift,2008;Helbrecht,2008;Beasley,2010),culturalgeography(Nash,2000),performancetheory(Schechner,1988;Fischer‐Lichte,2008;Denzin,2003),community(Edge1994;Berlin,1997),philosophyandconceptsofembodiment(Merleau‐Ponty,2003;Best,1999;Martin,1983).Itaimsatvaluingviscerallyfelt,embodiedexperienceofAucklandersequallyasmuchasmentallyconstructingavisionforAucklandasa'dancecity'.Iintendtocapturethequalitiesthatdancebringstopeople'slivesandthequalitiesitbringstothecityanditscommunities,thereforethemethodologiesappliedtomyresearcharequalitative.DuetoAuckland'smulti‐culturalpopulationtheapplicationofethnographicresearchmethodologiesisvital.NormanDenzin'swritingonperformanceethnography(2003)isparticularlyinfluentialhereasIexplorewaystobringtogetherhumanstoriesofdifferentdancecommunitiesinrelationtotheculturalmilieuofAucklandcity.InthispresentationIwilldiscusstheroleethnographyplaysintheinterdisciplinaryresearchmethodologythatunderpinsthisstudy.TheinquirywillencompassthemappingofdanceactivitiesacrossAuckland,andfromtheseseveralcasestudieswillbechosen.Ienvisionmyresearchtoacttwofoldinthatitwillfirstlyinvestigatethesocio‐culturalfunctionsofdanceactivitiesinAucklandandsecondlyquestionwhatdancecommunitiesneedinsupportandnurturingtobehealthyandsustainableinthemselves.IwilladvocateforwaysofidentifyingandunleashingAuckland'sculturalandartisticpotential,whichinmypointofviewisunderratedandunderusedasameansofdevelopingAucklandasaliveable,vibrant,andsustainablecity.
159 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
164.BrianWattchow
MonashUniversityEcopoeticPractice:WritingtheWoundedLand.
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForms
Abstract:
InthispresentationIdiscusstheexperienceofpoeticwritingasaformofauto‐ethnographicpractice.Poeticwriting,morethanothertextualforms,offersconsiderablepotentialtorepresentthejourneytowards'empatheticinsidedness'(Relph,1976,PlaceandPlacelessness)betweenauthor,cultureandasenseofplace.IdrawexamplesfrommyrecentlypublishedcollectionofpoemstitledTheSongoftheWoundedRiver(GinninderraPress,2010),whichtracesanintergenerationalstoryofmigration,settlementandeventualabandonmentoftheWattchowfamilyfarmonthebanksoftheRiverMurray,inAustralia.Thepoemswerefirstdraftedonalongcanoejourneydowntherivertotheoldfarm,ajourneyofdiscoveryandreattachment.Inaneco‐poeticsofplacethewriterstrivestoreconciledifferencesbetweenpast,presentandfuture,andbetweentheirexperiencesofinnerandouterlandscapes(Lopez,1988,LandscapeandNarrative).InanechoofRomanticismtheeco‐poetwritestohealtheworld'swoundsthroughsingingtheland(Bate,2000,TheSongoftheEarth).Seeninthislightpoetryandempathyprovidethecounterbalancetoscienceandrationality.BothareneededtosustainthehumanrelationshipwiththeEarth.Wedamageplacesnotbecausewefailtounderstandthem,butbecauseweareyettofeelforthem,likekin.Thispresentationdrawstogetheranddiscussesthephysicalsearchforplace,theactofpoeticwriting,andtheculturalsignificanceofthiskindofwork.
160 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
165.JaniKatarinaTaituhaWilson
UniversityofAucklandEWhakararurarute"Maori"irotoite"HungaMatakitakiMaori"ProblematisingtheMaoriintheMaoriAudience
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForms
Abstract:
Iwillconveykanorautanga(diversity)withintheNgatiawathroughwaiata(song)andpepeha(thegeographicalconnectionbetweenapersonontheirland).ThisiswiththeaimofdemystifyingandproblematisingwhatiscommonlyknownastheethnographicMaori.Secondly‐andmoreimportantly‐Iwillshare"RopuWhanau",aresearchapproachthatexpandsonNgahuiaTeAwekotukuandLindaTuhiwaiSmith'sethicalresearchprotocolsthatrelyonrespectandsensitivity.UnlikeTeAwekotuku'sandSmith'sapproaches,RopuWhanauarereliantonanexistingrelationshipbetweenkairangahau(researcher)andhungarangahau(researchedaudience),anddependontheresearcherdrivingthewhakawhanaungatanga(establishmentofconnections),whakaututanga(reciprocity)andkaitiakitanga(protectionandguardianship).
161 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
166.DrRoslynKerr
UniversityofCanterburyTheribbonlostmemytitle:AnActorNetworkTheoryaccountofgymnasticsinNewZealand
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForms
Abstract:
ThisstudyreflectsonethnographicpracticeasinformedbyActorNetworkTheory(ANT)asamethodforexaminingsport.ThestudyexaminedthesportofgymnasticsinNewZealandthroughalenswhichviewedthesportassocio‐technical,differingfromtraditionalethnographicmethodsthroughtheattentionpaidtonon‐humans.ThestudyinvolvedapproximatelyfouryearsoffieldworkexaminingthefivetypesofelitegymnasticscompetedinNewZealand:women'sartisticgymnastics,men'sartisticgymnastics,rhythmicgymnastics,trampoliningandaerobics.Inboththetraininggymnasiumsandatcompetitions,equipment,apparatusandothernon‐humantechnologieswerefoundtobecrucialtotheproductionandcreationofthesport.ItissuggestedthatanANTperspectiveallowsfordiscussionaroundtheuseoftechnologiesinsportthatmovesawayfromtheviewoftechnologiesasartificialinvasionsintopureandnaturalbodies.Itisarguedthatextendingethnographytoincludenon‐humansasequalactorsinthecreationofsportallowstheconstituentnatureoftechnologiesinsporttoberecognised.
162 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
167.CamilleNakhid
AUTUniversityTheroleofcommunityadvisorygroupsinresearchwith'hardtoreach'communities
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGround
Abstract:
Ethnographicresearchemphasizesthesignificanceoftherelationshipandnatureofinvolvementbetweentheresearcherandparticipants.Whilethequalityofthisrelationshipandinvolvementimpactsconsiderablyonthevalidityofthedata,gainingaccesstothe'right'participantsprecedesboththesefactors.Researchwith'hardtoreach'communitiesmakessuchaccessdifficultandconsequentlytheeffortsoftheresearchertoprovidevaliddata.Theinclusionofacommunityadvisorygroupinthedevelopmentandconductofresearchwith'hardtoreach'groupsisasignificantmeanstoachievingresearchthatreflectstheethnographicrealitiesofthesecommunities.ThispaperdiscussesthedevelopmentandcontributionofsuchanadvisorygroupinresearchwithPasifikayouthingangsintheSouthAucklandarea.
163 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
168.GöranGerdin
CriticalStudiesinEducation,TheUniversityofAucklandVisualmethodologiesandmasculineperformancesinphysicaleducation
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveForms
Abstract:
Thispaperwillreportoninitialfindingsfromadoctoralstudythatusesvideorecordingstoinvestigateboys'embodiedperformancesofmasculinitiesinschoolphysicaleducation.Manystudieshaveinvestigatedgirls'alienationandlackofparticipationinphysicaleducation(e.g.Hastie,1998;Ennis,1999;Azzarito,Solmon&Harrison,2006).However,fewstudieshavefocusedonboys'experiencesofphysicaleducation.Moreover,aspointedoutbyLundvall(2004),studiesinvestigatinggenderedexperiencesofphysicaleducation,aretypicallycomparativeandrarelylookatdifferenceswithingenders.Additionally,Azzarito(2010)hascalledfortheinclusionofresearchmethods,specificallyvisualmethodologies,which"enableyoungpeopleto"speak"meaningfullyabouttheirexperiencesandwaysofknowingaboutthebodyinphysicalactivitycontexts"(p.155).Mydoctoralresearch,designedinrelationtothisliterature,usesvideorecordingsofboysparticipatinginphysicaleducation,inbothfocusgroupandindividualinterviews,toexploretheparticipants'interpretationsofthemultiple,contradictoryandcompetingnatureofmasculinityperformances.Thevideodatais,thus,usedtopresenttheboys'perspectivesandallowsthemtoprovideaninterpretationofhowtheyexperiencedparticularsituations.IinterpretthedataviaFoucauldianpoststructuralismtohighlightthemultipleandcompetingdiscoursesofmasculinitiesthatboyshavetonegotiateinandthroughschoolphysicaleducation.
164 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
169.DuongKimAnh
SchoolofSocialSciences,TheUniversityofWaikatoTheState,GenderPolicy,andAntitraffickingPolitics:ThecaseofVietnam
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGround
Abstract:
Humantraffickinghasbecomeagloballyprominentissuewhichnotonlyadverselyaffectsindividualdevelopment,national,regionalandglobalsecurity,butalsocontravenesinternationalconventionsonhumanrightsandwomen'srights.Amongthedifferentactorsinvolved,womenandchildrenshoulderthegreatestdevastationofhumantraffickingandarethemostvulnerableinthetraffickingprocess.Preventinghumantraffickinghasbecomeastrongpoliticalcommitmenttomanycountries.Actionstocombathumantraffickingarevarious;however,statesworld‐widehavefailedtoaddresstheissueofhumantraffickingadequately.Legislationandpolicyinitiativesforpushingbackthecrimeremainpoorlydeveloped,evenindevelopedandindustrializedcountries.TraffickinginwomenandchildreninVietnamisreportedtobeontherisewithnewtypesemergingintheformsoffraudulentbrokeredmarriage,deceptivelabourrecruitmentpractices,illegalchildadoption,andchildsextourism.Significantly,casesoftraffickingforremovingorganshavebeenacknowledged.Inrecentyears,combatinghumantraffickinghasbecomeanimportantpoliticalcommitmentoftheVietnamesestate,asithasinmanyothercountries.TheVietnameseofficialresponsetohumantraffickingistheVietnameseNationalActionProgrammeagainstTraffickinginWomenandChildren,2004‐2010(theVNAP).ThispaperturnsaroundtheVNAPandaimsat(1)Addressing"push"and"pull"factorsthatcontributestohumantraffickinginVietnam;(2)IdeologicalfoundationsonwhichtheVNAPhasbeenformulatedandimplemented;(3)Thecollaborativemechanismbetweenstateandnon‐stateactorsinthedevelopmentandimplementationofnationalandregionalanti‐traffickingpolicies?
165 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
170.LisaMHayesandJanCRobertson
Dept.Sport&LeisureStudies,UniversityofWaikatoAUTOETHNOGRAPHYAREFLEXIVETOOLFOREVENT/FESTIVALMANAGERS
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGroundAbstract:
High‐qualityproductionistheeverydayexpectationofpeopleseekingleisureexperiencesthroughsportingeventsand/or(performance)festivals.Peopleparticipateineventsbecause"celebrationcanbeexperiencedindividually,butisrealisedmoreprofoundlyinsignificantsocialsettings"deLisle(2009,p.6).Howeveritisnotonlytheeventitselfthatcontributestotheexperience,itisacombinationoftheeventandtheancillaryservicestogetherthatprovidea'seamless'consumerexperience.Thereareamanystrategiesthatcanbeemployedtoevaluateanevent'ssuccessesand/oridentifyareasforenhancement,suchassurveyingparticipantsduringandpostevent.Thispaperexploresanadditionalstrategy,usingauto‐ethnographyasareflexivetool,toassessanevent'seffectivenessinmeetingconsumerexpectations.TwoeventmanagersattendedWOMAD,Taranaki2010,asparticipants,toexperiencetheeventandancillaryservicesprovided,toidentifytheimpactsancillaryserviceshadontheoverallWOMADexperience.Thispaperwilltaketheformofaconversationbetweenthetwoeventmanagerscritiquing'space',accommodation,parking,access,catering,children'sopportunities,facilities,signageandeventpersonnel.Anaudio‐visualdisplaywillaccompanythispresentationhighlightingsomeofthe'critical'factorsthatwe,asparticipants,identifiedinfluencedourperceptionsoftheevent'ssuccess.
166 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
171.TraceyMihinoaTangihaere(NgatiManiapoto,NgatiPorou)andDr.LindaTwiname
DepartmentofStrategyandHRM,WaikatoManagementSchoolSittingatthefront:GenderanddiversityimplicationsforManagement
SocialJusticeandTransformation:TheoreticalEthnographicVisionsAbstract:
MäoriwereconfirmedassovereigninAotearoaNewZealandin1835.TheirsovereigntyenabledMäoriandtheCrownofEnglandtoenterintotheTreatyofWaitangiof1840asafoundationagreementforprocessesofgovernance.SubsequentcolonialisationdecimatedordroveundercoverMäoriwaysoforganisingthatthreatenedthedominanceofsettlervalues.Asaconsequence,westernculturehasdominatedmostaspectsofAotearoaNewZealandsociety.Nevertheless,contemporarydeterminationtomaintainandreclaimMäoriidentityisvisibleinmanyorganisationalcontexts,themostexplicitofwhichisthemarae(buildingcomplex)encounter,anencounteroftenmisunderstood.Occasionallycriticalincidentscreatenewdebatesregardingprevailingculturalvaluesandrights.ThroughpartialethnographyweexploreanexamplefromtheAotearoaNewZealandDepartmentofCorrectionstoillustratesuchincidentsandopportunitiestoenhanceunderstanding.WediscusstheBullockcaseofperceivedgenderdiscriminationinanencounterofpublicservantswithmaraeprotocolandiwi(tribalgroup)values.ThissituationpittedMäoriculturalvaluesagainstwesternnotionsofgenderthatequatesequalitywithsameness.ThisoralpresentationprovidesinsightstoenhanceunderstandingandclarityofMäorigenderroles,anddeeperappreciationofdiversity.InaccordancewiththeTreatyofWaitangi,MäoripeoplemustregaincontroloverMäoriinterests.WefindthatemployershaveadutytoactivelyprotectMäoriinterestsespeciallywhentheyincludeMäoriprotocolsinworkplacepractices.WearguethatmanagersshouldprovideappropriateculturalknowledgeandcompetenciestoprepareemployeesforMaoriculturalsettingsinwhichMäoriauthorityisparamount. 1 Theviews,opinions,findingsandconclusionsorrecommendationsexpressedinthispublicationarestrictlythoseoftheauthor/s.TheydonotnecessarilyreflecttheviewsoftheMinistryofJustice.TheMinistryofJusticedisclaimsanyandallresponsibilityforanyinaccuracy,error,omission,oranyotherkindofinadequacy,deficiency,orflawin,orinrelationto,theinformation;andfullyexcludesanyandallliabilityofanykindtoanypersonorentitythatchoosestorelyupontheinformation.
167 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
172.R.HelenSmujhUniversityofWaikatoUsingabductionforbusinessresearchtheoryconstructionEmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveFormsAbstract:Researchinformantsmakesenseoftheirsituations,byfilteringthroughexistingmentalmodels,drawingontheexplicitandimplicitmeanings,conceptions,procedures,rules,andnormsthatmakeuptheirculturalknowledge.Further,theytaketacitandlocalknowledge,fromtheirenvironmentandincorporatetheseintotheirstories.Abduction(orretro‐duction),isdescribedbythephilosopherPeirce(1957)asamethodoftheoryconstructionwherebytheunderlyingdynamicsorcontextthatinfluencedtheformationofbehavioursanddiscourseareincorporatedintothesense‐making.Theresultanttheoriesareplausibleandcredibleinterpretationspreparedbydrawingonthedatainthestudyandfromtheliterature,and,offeredbasedontheirabilitytoexplainthedataonhand.Thus,abductionlinkstheorytothepracticesinthefieldandtothedatagathered.Thispaperarguesthatabduction,althoughrarelyusedinbusinessresearch,hasavaluablecontributiontomakebecauseofitsstrengthsindealingwithincompleteregularitiesofthedata,understandingofenvironmentswithrichcultureandcontext,questioningandseekingtogetclosertothetruthbyexplicitlyacknowledgingsuchas:.whatisunsaidaswellaswhatissaid;.inputsbytheresearcher;and.alternativeinterpretations(thatshouldbeconsidered).Abductionasaformoftheoryconstructionhaspowerfulimplicationsforresearchersandtherecipientsoftheirresearchalike.Theemergenttheorymaybesubjectivebutittendstoresonate,particularlyincomplexsituationsofhumanendeavour.173.WithdrawnDr.LindaTwiname
168 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
174.SallyJoCunningham
ComputerScienceDept,UniversityofWaikatoVirtualethnographyofinformationbehavior
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveFormsAbstract:Detailsofhowpeoplesearchfor,access,anduseinformationcanbedifficulttoobtain.Keystrokeandmouseclickrecordsfromweblogsandsystemtransactionlogsprovidevast, indeed intimidating,quantitiesofdataonwhatpeopledo tolocate information,butprovideonlymeagercluesas tomotivations,strategies,intentionsforlateruseoftheinformation,orevenindicationsoftheindividual'ssuccess/failureinfindingusefuldocuments.Conventionalqualitativemethodsfor exploring information behavior are problematic in that they are largelyretrospective(eg,interviewstoelicitanindividual's'usual'informationactivities)orthedatagatheringtechniqueinterfereswithnaturalbehavior(eg,laboratory‐basedthink‐aloudsearchsessions).Information behavior studies are increasingly moving online, analyzing thetracesof informationacquisitionanduseas reflected inonlinecommunitiesofpractice. The research methods are primarily ethnographic (translated to theWeb environment) andqualitative: participant observation of informationuse,content analysis, examination of work artifacts. The research focus is movingfrom studies of text‐based document seeking/use to how people locate andinteractwithmusic, images,andvideos,and frombroadstudiesof informationuse by the general populace to in‐depth studies of specific target groups. Thispresentationwillincludeexamplesof'virtualethnography'asappliedtostudiesofinformationseekinganduseofmusicandofvideoandphotosharing,wherethe insightsgained fromthestudies is to suggestenhancements tomultimediadigitallibraries.
169 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
175. Parag Moni Sarma DepartmentofCulturalStudies,TezpurUniversityEthnicityandAssertion:IdentityPoliticsinContemporaryAssam.
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGround
Abstract:
EthnicityisemergingasafocalconsiderationinthepoliticsofidentityincontemporaryAssam,astateoftheIndianunionintheNorthEastofIndia.OftenidentifiedasaflashpointinthesubversivepoliticsthatquestionthelogisticsoftheIndiannation,NorthEastIndiaisemergingasacartographicdomainthatpositsquestionsofinternalcolonialismandhegemony.Cartographicreorientationofterritorybasedonfactorsoflinguisticandethnicidentityisperceivedassomesortofanutopiandeliverancefromthestrangleholdofanuncompromisingnotionofthenation.Hence,theNorthEastofIndiaisdottedwitharmedinsurrectionforautonomousterritoriesortotalseverance,dependingonthepopulationandthespatialdomainoftheethnicgroupsinquestion.Yet,ethnicity,asunderstoodincontemporarytheoreticalambience,isnoveltoNorthEastIndiaandisbasicallyatakefromthecolonialconstructsofthe'tribal'.Themovementfromtribalismtoethnicityanditslinkageswithquestionsofsocial,culturalandpoliticalmarginalization,aswellaspoliticalassertionprovideinterestingscopeforacademicexploration.ThepresentpaperseekstounderstandandtracesuchassertivemovementsinAssamtoforcesofhistoricalneglectaswellasrhetoricofmarginalizationthatissurfeitincontemporaryassertiveidiomsofethnicgroups.
170 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
176.JudyMcKimm
UnitecInstituteofTechnologyBecomingadoctorinSamoa
Practiceandadvocacy:doingresearchonthegroundAbstract:This paper presents the findings from the preliminary stages of a longitudinalstudy of a cohort of medical students in Samoa aimed at exploring theexperiencesofbecomingaSamoantraineddoctorlivingandworkinginSamoa.Samoa is a politically stable, South Pacific island nation with a population of180,000,heavilydependentonoverseasaidandtourismtosupportitseconomyandhealthinfrastructure.Samoaisseenbymanywesternnationsasafertileandhighlyattractiveresearchareaforanthropologicalandbiomedicalresearch.Thisstudy therefore needed to take account of ethical and value basedconsiderations.In response to a national doctor shortage, a new medical school has beenestablished in collaboration with the Samoan government. In 2009, the firstcohort of seventeen Samoan medical students started a five year MBBSprogramme. This study is an action research, ethnographic study of this firstcohortof'becomingdoctors'.TheresearchersareworkingwithparticipantsandSamoanStudiesacademicstoidentifyissues,craftsolutionsandtesttheseoutindeveloping a culturally safe and competent medical curriculum that weaveswesternbiomedicinewithtraditionalculturaltraditionsandconceptsofhealingandpractice.Reflectingprinciplesof indigenousresearch,greatcarewastakentoworkwiththe Samoan people as co‐creators, to ensure the benefits and meaning of theresearch to Samoa. This presentation explores preliminary findings and issuesencountered.Itproposestheoreticalandmethodologicalapproachestothenextstagesofthestudy,aimingtoexploreandstimulatenewdirectionsandideas.
171 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
177. Margaret Nelson Agee, Nua Silipa, Philip Culbertson UniversityofAucklandExploring Pasifika 'Afakasi Identities as a Crosscultural PasifikaPalagiTeamEmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveFormsAbstract:
The'AfakasiProjecthasbeenacross‐cultural,qualitativeinvestigationintoPasifikapeople'sidentity‐relatedexperiencesofbeing'afakasi(half‐caste,orofmultiethnicculturalheritages).TheinvolvementofEuropeanresearchersinanalysingtheculturaldynamicsandperspectivesofethnicallydifferentparticipantshasbeenstronglycritiqued,andthesensitivityofcross‐culturalresearchisintensifiedwhenitisundertakenwithinhistoricalcontextsofcolonisation.ThiswasthecasewiththisprojectinthecontextofAotearoaNewZealand.Inthispresentation,membersoftheresearchteamwilldiscusstheirexperiencesoftheevolutionoftheproject,asanexampleofinnovative,participant‐driven,cross‐culturalresearch(Gibbs,2001)thatarosefromadiscussionamong'afakasiwomen,facilitatedbyapalagicolleague,abouttheiridentity‐relatedexperiences.TheoriginalgroupbecamearesearchteamofPasifikaandpalagico‐researchers,withtheinclusionofmalepalagiandSamoan'afakasicolleagues,andthesecondauthor,whoisSamoan,contributedasculturalconsultantandindependentdataanalyst.Alldecision‐makingwascollaborative,includingnegotiationoftheresearchagenda,method,andprocedure.Througheveryaspectoftheapproach,theteamtherebyattemptedtominimizethepotentialforcross‐culturalresearchtobecome"re‐colonizing"(Quanchi,2004,p.4).Justasaropeorafinematisstrengthenedbyitsdistinctive,multipleinterwovenstrands,soalsothecross‐culturalresearchteamundertakingthisprojecthasbeenstrengthenedbybothtrustandcreativetensionamongthemembers,aswellasbythedifferentculturaltraditions,knowledgeandexperiencestheywoveintotheresearchprocess.
172 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
178.KitrinaDouglasandDavidCarless
UniversityofBristolEmbodiedresponsestoolderwomenlives:Signalsandsigns
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveFormsAbstract:InwritingaboutthecreativeprocessElliotEisner(2008,p.5),remindsusthat"not only does knowledge come in different forms, the forms of its creationdiffer."Throughourpersonallivesaswellasthroughourresearch,wehaveexperiencedsomeofthewaysinwhichknowledgeandunderstandingcanbecreatedthroughvariedanddiversearts‐informedwritingpractices(seeSparkes&Douglas,2007;Carless&Sparkes,2008;Douglas&Carless,2008a,2008b;Carless&Douglas,inpress). Our tentative steps in this work have been underpinned by poetic,musicalandsongrepresentations.ThisperformancedrawstogetherdifferentcreativemodesasanactofreflectionregardingourethnographicresearchwitholderwomeninaruralareaintheUK.The purpose of sharing some reflections on the creative processes iswith thehopeof stimulatingdialoguewithotherarts‐informed,narrative,performative,and autoethnographic researchers regarding the ways in which these genresmayoffervaluableorevenuniquewaysofunderstandingthesocialworld.
173 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
179. Robin Clarke WaikatoUniversity"Avoiceforemergingeliteathletes"Anexplorationthroughautoethnography,ofmyexperienceasaneliteathleteandwaystoinvitethatperspectiveintomycounsellingpractice.
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGroundAbstract:An exploration through auto‐ethnography ofmy experience as an elite athleteandwaystoinvitethatperspectiveintomycounsellingpractice.CurrentlyaMaster'sofcounsellingstudentatWaikatoUniversitybutpreviouslyaNewZealandrepresentativerower,Ifoundanincreasingneedtoacknowledgethis "voice from the past", this "third person" in the room and inmy practice.After all, the one who experienced those things would be with me in everycounselling situation I encounter. What could she teach me and in turn whatcouldweofferyoungandemergingsportspeople?Iwantedtolocateandexplorepossiblepointsof entry into conversationwith elite andemerging athletes.Byattendingtothisauto‐ethnographicallyitwasmyhopethatmypastexperiencewouldbemademoreaccessibleandtherebyrendereduseful.Myaimwas"totryandrelatethepersonaltothecultural"(Purdy,Potrac&Jones,2008,p321)AhopeIholdformycounsellingpracticeistoenableathletestoreclaimcontrolover their sporting practices and eliminate problem stories that undermineperformance(Denison&Winslade,2006).Coming from a narrative perspective, this remembering conversation, relatedauto‐ethnographically, brought detail that was generative in more than onedirection.
174 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
180. Shilinka Smith AucklandUniversityofTechnologyEthnography:ButNotAsWeKnowIt?
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveFormsAbstract:Ethnography is not a common research method within the discipline ofmanagement accounting or within its sub‐component; organisationalperformance.Indeedscholars,suchasAgar(2010)havesuggestedthatthestudyof organisations might be "too abbreviated ... [and] too constrained" to beethnography. Drawing from my early PhD research and my experience as along‐term public service practitioner, I begin this paper by questioning Agar'sunderstanding of ethnography. I startwith the premise that if themeaning ofwords and concepts are only determined by the context, then what is themeaningofethnographyinthestudyoforganisationalperformance?Myaimisto compare management accounting studies of the public service, which areconsideredtobeethnography,withethnographicstudiesfromacrossdisciplines.To do this, I have selected several ethnographic components which will becontrasted with public service performance management research alongsidemoretraditionalviewsofethnographicmethodology.Ifocusparticularlyontheview of the 'native' and discuss the possibilities and practicalities of usingethnographicmethodsastheprimarydatacollectionsource,whenoneisalreadyfamiliar(asa'native')withthecultureandprocesses,ifnotthespecifics,ofmanypublicserviceorganisations.
175 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
181. Cheesman Sue SchoolofEducation,UniversityofWaikatoInsider:OutsiderPerspectivesonworkingwithinanintegrateddanceworld.
PracticeandAdvocacy:DoingEthnographyontheGroundAbstract:Inteachingandfacilitatingdancehowdoesbeing"ablebodied"workingpredominantlyintheworldofindividualsthatare"differentlyabled"manifest?Whatdoesitmeantobeanoutsiderinthisprocess?Thispresentationseekstoidentifyandunpacksomeofthenegotiations,issues,challengesandjoysthisdifferenceengenders;throughrealtimediscussionanddanceimprovisationbetweenthepresenterandguestCatherineChappell,ArtisticDirectorofTouchCompassDanceCompanybasedinAuckland,NewZealand.Thesetwoindividualshaveworkedinthefieldofmixedabilitydanceformanyyearsandbothareasarticulateinthefieldofdanceimprovisationastheyareinconversation.
176 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
182.RuthDeSouza
CentreforAsianandMigrantHealthResearch,AUTUniversityChallenging systems of knowledge: Migrant maternities through apostcolonialfeministlensEmergingMethods Abstract Asscholarsareaskingnewquestions,pushingnewboundaries,anddiscoveringnewways of being, they are changing theway ethnography and ethnographicmethodologies answer such questions. This strand provides an arena for richdiscourseandthoughtsaboutsuchEmergingMethods.Researching migrant maternity in New Zealand provides a rich discursiveopportunity to explore three ways in which new populations are acquired:colonisation, migration and reproduction. Nursing as a profession has beencomplicitinthereproductionofinequalitiesandoppressionssuchaspatriarchyand racism. Foregrounding race and gender through postcolonial feministtheorising, creates a space for disrupting and interrogating intellectual andtheoretical gaps, legitimating subjugated knowledges and creating newpossibilitiesforprofessionalpractice.Thispresentationhasthreeaims;thefirstistodescribehowapostcolonialfeministmethodologywasusedinanempiricalstudy inNewZealand,where thediscoursesdrawnuponbywell child serviceproviderstorepresenttheirworkwithmigrantmothersandtheirimpactswereidentified.Secondly,thestrategiesforapplyingacriticalpostcolonialperspectiveto my own research practices to address postcolonial critiques that manyacademic research practices mirror colonial discourses and structures ofdomination is discussed. Finally, I will discuss how the deployment of such atheoretical lens offers nursing a mechanism for critiquing taken for grantedoppressive processes, disrupting power imbalances and broadening a socialjusticeagendatoincluderecognitionandparticipationineconomic,cultural,andpoliticalspheresformarginalisedgroups.
177 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
183GlenisMark&KerryChamberlain
MasseyUniversityTHEUNSPOKENTIKANGAOFINTERVIEWINGMĀORI
EmergingMethods:Traditional,Experimental,TransgressiveformsAbstract: Theaimofthispresentationistoexploretheunspokenpracticesthattakeplacebefore, during and after interviewing Māori research participants. Māoriculturalvaluesandbeliefsunderlietheseprocesses, includingwhanaungatangaduring recruitment, bringing koha to the interview and, after the interview,keeping in touch,whichcanbevital tomaintaining linkswithcommunities forinformingoutcomesandforpossiblefutureresearchcontact. Theseprocessesare mostly non‐verbal, and are generally assumed and expected rather thanovertly voiced. Therefore, a cultural familiarity with unspoken tikanga whenconductinginterviewswithMāoriisadvantageousfortheresearcher. However,itisinformativetoconsiderwhetherthestructureoftheinterviewcenteredonMāoriculturalvaluesissimilartoresearchingwithparticipantsofothercultures. Anexplorationofwhether thesecultural tikangaduring interviewsarespecificto Māori or whether they are more universal for interviewing participants ofotherindigenouscultureswillbediscussed.184WithdrawnRoseRichards
178 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
185KerryChamberlain,HelenMadden&DarrinHodgetts
HominginonmedicationsPracticeandAdvocacyAbstract: Medications are complex material and social objects occurring in a variety offorms–includingprescriptionandover‐the‐counterdrugs,alternativemedicines,naturalremedies,anddietarysupplements–whichpervadecontemporarylifeincomplexways. This paper discusses the range ofmethodswe employed in anethnographically‐drivenprojecttoexplorethedomesticlifeofmedications,andconsiderstheirvalueforparticipantengagement,dataelicitation,dataanalysis,and researcher‐participant relationships. A wide variety of households weresampled for the project. Methods involved household group discussions,mapping,photographinganddocumentingmedicationswithindomesticspaces,alongside specific projects with individual household members involvingphoto‐elicitation on the world of medications, diary‐elicitation on dailymedicationuse,anddiary‐elicitationontheworldofmedications.Mappingandlocation photographs provided information about the spatial distribution,control and use of medications within households. Producing medications inmaterial formpromoted informationabout theusesofmedications, their flowsthroughhouseholds,andnotionsofidentityandpracticesofcaring.Discussions,in association with mapping, photo‐ and diary‐elicitation provided elaboratedinformation on the meaning of medications and social practices surroundingtheir use. These methods provided both unique and overlapping informationthatenhancedanddeepenedthedatasetandfunctionedtopromoteavarietyofinsights and outcomes. Understanding the role ofmedications asmaterial andsocialobjectswithindomesticspacesprovidesabroadercontextualisedaccountofpeople’smeaningsandusesofmedications.
179 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
186DrMissyMorton,
UniversityofCanterbury(Re)Making the case for participant observation in educationalethnographyPracticeandAdvocacy
Abstract: This paper is grounded in my experiences as a qualitative researcher usingethnographicmethods,astheteacherofacourseinqualitativemethodologytopostgraduate students in education, as a supervisor of postgraduate theses ineducation, and using participant observation in developing an approach toassessment. I want to suggest that qualitative research in education in NewZealandhasseenanover‐relianceoninterview‐basedstudies.Drawingonthreemasters’ theses using participant observation I will illustrate some of thepossibilities and opportunities for better understanding the contexts in whichteachers and students negotiate meanings in education. I will also draw on atwo‐year research project looking at narrative assessment to show some howteaching participant observation can broaden teachers’ understandings ofclassrooms as siteswhere identities are negotiated and re‐negotiated througheverydayclassroompractices.
180 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
187AmandaPorter
UniversityofSydneyAboriginal Night Patrols and the politics of postcolonialselfrepresentationEmergingMethodsAbstract:Thispaperwill consider theworkofAboriginalNightPatrolsasanexampleofalternative policing practice in Australia. Night Patrols are local, grassrootsinitiatives that have developed in a number of Aboriginal communities acrossAustralia.Due to Night Patrols being locally‐based, there is considerablediversity inthedefiningcharacteristicsandcoreactivitiesundertakenbyNightPatrols. Night Patrols are also Indigenous initiatives, and have developed inorder to counter some of the problems endemic to the conventional criminaljustice system. As such, the study of Night Patrols raises a number of issuesregarding the potential applicability and usefulness of Western concepts,frameworks and methodologies traditionally used in the social sciences.Accordinglythispaperwillattempttoaddressthefollowingquestions:CanNightPatrolsbeseenmerelyasameansofcrimeprevention?HowshouldwegoaboutevaluatingNightPatrols?Usingwhatcriteriaandfromwhoseperspective?Andmoregenerally,howshouldwegoaboutresearchingandaccuratelypresentingtheworkundertakenbyNightPatrols?
181 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
188AwanuiTeHuia
VictoriaUniversityofWellingtonKia Mau Hei Tiki: Maori Culture as a Psychological Asset for NewZealanders'AcculturationExperiencesAbroadABSTRACT:The current research addresses the acculturation experiences of Māori andPākehā/NZEuropeansinJapan.Thestudyutilisedaqualitativeapproachwithatotalof16participants.Thematicanalysesof interviewsrevealedthreethemesatamacrolevelincludingTetūrangaāmanuhiri:tauiwi(foreigner)asaliveablesubjectposition,Ngāpaingaatuotāwāhi:releasefromnegativerepresentationsofMāori inNewZealand, andKiamau hei tiki: shared benefits throughMāorisymbolic representation between Māori and Pākehā/NZ Europeans. Findingsrevealed that the Māori actively utilised indigenous frameworks (such asmanuhiri/tauiwi –guest/foreigner) to successfully adapt to out‐groupmembersubject positions. Secondly, Māori were relieved from negative stereotypingexperienced within New Zealand overseas, enhancing positive migrationexperiences. Finally, Māori cultural activities (kapa haka ‐ Māori performancegroup)andsymbolsactedasaprotectivefactorforbothMāoriandPākehā/NZEuropeans abroad. ForMāori, culture provided support at the individual level(i.e through connection to family, spirituality etc). In comparison, Pākehā/NZEuropeans acknowledged that Māori cultural symbols contributed to theiridentity at a national level through creating positive distinctiveness betweenthemselves and others. Findings have implications for how understandingindigenouscognitive frameworksandsymbolsareappliedwithinacculturationexperiences, particularly in terms of building cross‐cultural understandingthroughrelationshipsratherthansocialcategories.
182 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
189PaniaLee
VictoriaUniversityofWellingtonIncreasinginterculturalunderstandingbetweenMāoriandPākehāwithinEducationEmergingMethodsAbstract: Māori culture is fundamental to New Zealand history, present‐day and futureNewZealandsocietythatisbuiltupontraditionalmouritangatawhenuasocietyand a Treaty of Waitangi partnership. While educational institutionsacknowledgeabiculturalrelationshipandaresponsibilitytofulfiltheprinciplesoftheTreaty,theextenttowhichthisisenactedoutsideMāoriculturaldomainsisquestionable.Biculturalrelationshipswithintertiaryeducationmaybegreatlyimproved if non‐Māori can learn to interpret different behaviours through theperspective of Māori work colleagues and students. One avenue to improvecultural knowledge is through an Intercultural Sensitizer (ICS) that helpsindividualsmakeisomorphic(same)attributionsofthehostculture.Theaimofthis study was to construct an ICS that may be used to assist in trainingnon‐MāoritobetterunderstandMāoriwithintertiaryeducation.InterviewsandfocusgroupswereconductedwithMāoriandPākehā (NewZealandEuropean)studentsandstaff(N=13)tocreatecriticalincidentsforaMāorispecificICS.Atotalof40criticalincidentsweredevelopedandreviewedbyabi‐culturalpanel(N=3)toevaluatetheculturalrelevanceofthevignettesandaligningattributionsthatresultedinafinalsetof25criticalincidents.Implicationsofthisprojectarediscussed.
183 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
190SilviaTorezani
EdithCowanUniversityWesternAustraliaEthnography across Disciplinary Borders: An exploration into newrelationshipsbetweentechnique,resources,emotionsandtheproductionofknowledgeEmergingMethodsAbstractAsanethnographicresearchertrained inarcheologyandsocialanthropology, Iwasawareofthedifferentapproachestothistechnique.ItwasonlyrecentlythatI noticed the increasing popularity of ethnography in other fields, such asmanagement, nursing, education and psychology. In my position as researchtraining coordinator for graduate students across disciplinary borders, fromcreative arts to Information Technology, I began sharing reflections withstudents using the ethnographic method, about the different ways in whichethnography is understood and practiced across disciplines. In this paper, Ireflect on the expectations and transformations of ethnography as a researchtechniquebycomparingtwostudiesthatIundertook.Thefirststudyrepresentsa more ‘traditional’ take on ethnography with the purpose of understandingcommunity formation through cultural performance. The second study is anethnography on the experiences of Higher Degree International Students astemporarymigrantswhich takes placemostlywithin the university social andphysical spaces and constraints and incorporates the perspectives of thedisciplineofeducation.Inthispaper,Ireflectonthetransformationsoftheusesofethnographyasamethodologicaltechnique,seekingtoanswertwoquestions.Firstly,howdothedifferentdisciplinarysettingsandconstrainsenabletheuseofethnographyoutsideof theanthropologytradition?Amongthechallengesoffieldwork is the emotional labor ethnographers go through, of becoming the‘stranger’,whichultimately leads tonewwaysof thinking,seeingandknowingthe world. This new setting requires a new understanding of boundaries(physical and symbolic) to performing research, hence producing newmethodologicalsubjectivities.Mysecondquestioniswhatkindofknowledgedothesesubjectivitiesproduce?
184 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
191KeriTopperwien,
TeWhareWānangaoWaikatoTheUniversityofWaikatoTheplaceandspaceforautoethnography:speakingofhome,identityanddeath ABSTRACT:Bringing thebodyhome’ is a commonphraseheardwhen someonedies awayfromhome.Debatesaboutthisissuehavehadanincreasedpresencewithinthemediarecently.Despitethiswhereandwhat ‘home’means inrelationtodeathanddyingforMāoriisanareathathasreceivedlimitedacademicattention.Thishesitancy is due perhaps to the sensitivity and sacredness surrounding deathandthebody.Examiningthediscoursesaboutdeathandpeople’sexperiencesofthis inrelationtothespaceofhomeisbynomeansstraightforward.Giventheparticularly sensitive nature of the research it requires careful negotiation ofethically complex and methodologically bumpy terrain. In this paper I willdiscusstheuseofautoethnographyasatooltodevelopacritical,selfreflexiveandinclusiveaccountofthediversityofexperienceswithdeathandthebody.
185 CEAD Hui, Full Schedule of Abstracts
192.BinduRajendren
UniversityofOtago,DunedinEmpowermentthroughTheyyamRitualandPerformativePractices
AbstractThis paper takes an ethnographic approach and examines issues concerningrepresentation of the Theyyam ritual performance tradition practiced in theSouth Indian stateofKerala,within religious, social, performativeandpoliticalcontexts. Asan important ritualisticperformance ‘owned’by the lowestcasteof Keralan Hindu society, Theyyam, serves different purposes, has diversemeaningsandfulfilsspecificroles.Thispaperwilldiscusssomeofthemeaningsandpurposesthatpermitthisgrouptopresentthemselvesinadignifiedmannerthatcelebrateshumanachievements,anddemarcatesandbringstolighthumanresponsibilities.Theperformanceswillbeevaluatedtoassertthenotionthatthecaste is able to find their profound sense of religious and socialmeaning andjusticeintheactivityofTheyyam.The participation and recognition obtained through the rituals affirms andreaffirms theparticular valuesof the caste.Theyyam, consequently, authorisesthe caste to contribute and bring their economic, social, political and religiousavenues into focus which facilitates their integration into society. As an artformthatinculcatesacomplexarrayofunderstandings,beliefs,customs,valuesand traditions, I will posit that Theyyam provides social, economic, political,religiousandculturallegitimacytotheperformersandtheircasteasawhole.