tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71748092024-03-06T14:36:49.243+13:00Indigenous EnduranceThis blog crosses different landscapes to pull together themes of Indigenous endurance and development within a context of environmental hazards and injustices. SJ Lamberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08293891958415604780noreply@blogger.comBlogger430125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7174809.post-3445554957795107632023-06-08T13:12:00.000+12:002023-06-08T13:12:15.465+12:00Bioprotection Aotearoa<p><a href="https://bioprotection.org.nz/" target="_blank">Bioprotection Aotearoa</a> is one of those research centres in Aotearoa NZ reframing how it engages with Māori. The short clip below gives an outline of their pitch. What is important to note is that Māori are no longer willing to be used for decoration; the old 'dial a powhiri' approach is exactly that, old!</p>
<iframe allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="314" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?height=314&href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FBioProtectionNZ%2Fvideos%2F616180872658199%2F&show_text=false&width=560&t=0" style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" width="560"></iframe> <div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEif1VHmJ0DPWtu9PnQyRr788xbZ3GAeZaBUPNXbvFjSl99TcQ0dF04up2yhzWG4dZ0s2mgFPch6BoAlsqzJGuzubao40KLEh6qBFS9s2_r8yW15UOdcdrqQfQdw0EzBCrLOWzotFqfZWxyrVQRoR5mZcStnpZnw_sgv0NrTWPEZcZJZcvU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="70" data-original-width="209" height="107" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEif1VHmJ0DPWtu9PnQyRr788xbZ3GAeZaBUPNXbvFjSl99TcQ0dF04up2yhzWG4dZ0s2mgFPch6BoAlsqzJGuzubao40KLEh6qBFS9s2_r8yW15UOdcdrqQfQdw0EzBCrLOWzotFqfZWxyrVQRoR5mZcStnpZnw_sgv0NrTWPEZcZJZcvU" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></div>SJ Lamberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08293891958415604780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7174809.post-82583898393286690472023-05-20T21:39:00.001+12:002023-05-20T21:39:19.348+12:00Long time, no see<p><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></p><blockquote style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-size: 14px;">It's been rough and rocky travelin'</span><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-size: 14px;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-size: 14px;">But I'm finally standin' upright on the ground</span><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-size: 14px;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-size: 14px;">After takin' several readings</span><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-size: 14px;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-size: 14px;">I'm surprised to find my mind's still fairly sound</span></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">So sung the great American philosopher, Mr. W. Nelson (born 1933) who according to many t-shirts said that if marijuana was a gateway drug, it better hurry up. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Anyway, I'm catching up but start by assuming there's still lots going on with the Maori Economy, however one defines and understands that. Going to The Google, I see MFAT provides <a href="https://www.mfat.govt.nz/assets/Trade-agreements/UK-NZ-FTA/The-Maori-Economy_2.pdf" target="_blank">a short PDF</a> that draws on a CHapman Tripp report valuing the, what, sector? <a href="https://chapmantripp.com/about-us/news/crown-maori-relationship-evolves-as-50b-industry-grows/">at $50 billion</a>. The research dates back to 2017 - another time in more ways than one - but will serve as shorthand:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgo9eKiHXQw2ql4qWC6-NOUHnEU2QT1_O4jGzeb74gyXxk7M5NWXGIIPcSq57AWOgXfgtKoO39Ba-LYi--cr_c6p6mmBMJVQV5dn-ccdA3N44DN6iA4sUYlJy_6FWl9q2XmNLwvHbyx61YOBHrMG7WMirKJw0rufpuA3bgHXj5R_DGuiAQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="442" data-original-width="1024" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgo9eKiHXQw2ql4qWC6-NOUHnEU2QT1_O4jGzeb74gyXxk7M5NWXGIIPcSq57AWOgXfgtKoO39Ba-LYi--cr_c6p6mmBMJVQV5dn-ccdA3N44DN6iA4sUYlJy_6FWl9q2XmNLwvHbyx61YOBHrMG7WMirKJw0rufpuA3bgHXj5R_DGuiAQ=w372-h160" width="372" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />Given the changes likely to come to forestry following <a href="https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/gisborne/132024194/slash-inquirys-urgent-call-an-environmental-disaster-is-unfolding-in-plain-sight">the slash controversy </a> and although a recession may now be averted (ironically through extra spending on the Cyclone recovery), Maori employment is - as always - higher than Pakeha and predicted to edge up over th enext year. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Watch this space...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic;"></span><p></p>SJ Lamberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08293891958415604780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7174809.post-83299227338453364102021-11-05T08:35:00.000+13:002021-11-05T08:35:52.209+13:00Indigenous Identity Fraud: Too much weights reprise<p>The <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/carrie-bourassa-indigenous">recent exposure of Dr. Carrie Bourassa </a>as having Russian-Czech-Polish ancestry and not the Metis-Tlingit-Anishinaabe genealogy she has persistently claimed for two decades has thrown Indigenous academia into turmoil.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-mqcUA1W0Kn8/YYQq0-9WjwI/AAAAAAAAsNk/AgqGndGdXjs5mZvlG8qBUYLCIA2CUDWzACNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="839" data-original-width="891" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-mqcUA1W0Kn8/YYQq0-9WjwI/AAAAAAAAsNk/AgqGndGdXjs5mZvlG8qBUYLCIA2CUDWzACNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="255" /></a></div><br />This latest case of identity fraud in academia comes close to home for me. The University of Saskatchewan has been my professional residence since 2017. Bourassa was much feted by the University, showered with awards and funding, and assumed a level of seniority, power and influence over significant federal investment in Indigenous health research. (Key in this is the $100m plus for the <a href="https://research-groups.usask.ca/neihrcoordcentre/index.php">Network Environments for Indigenous Health Research</a>; I am a Co-PI in the Saskatchewan NEIHR and executive director of the NEIHR <a href="https://research-groups.usask.ca/neihrcoordcentre/index.php">National Coordinating Centre</a>). <div><br /></div><div>There have been accusations of other fraudsters at other Canadian universities, notably Queens. But Bourassa's case has torched a fire of anger and grief that caught the institution flat footed. Fanned by social media - as is the modern way - people leapt to deride universities processes that have seen Indigenous positions given to non-Indigenous people. Many of these have simply applied for a position that did not specifically require an Indigenous appointment; others, like Bourassa, have fabricated genealogies and experiences that pass into cliché and perverse one upmanship of Indigenous trauma.</div><div><br /></div><p style="text-align: left;">Dean of the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. Professor Chris Anderson, has penned a <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/opinion-chris-andersen-indigenous-identity-fraud-1.6236018?fbclid=IwAR1ZBTz70BLq29Y8K092ppNheJ9dgrQo_kX_iPrn87zJcHhyp">thoughtful and insightful op-ed </a>outlining the issues and ways forward. He identifies <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">two characteristics to </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Indigenous identity claims in academia:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">"First, they are based primarily on self-identification that sits somewhere on a spectrum from complete dishonesty, to distant archival ancestors, to the family lore of a dark-skinned or high cheek-boned great/grandparent. Second, they involve no ongoing extended familial</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><i>connection to an Indigenous community."</i> </span> </span> </p><div><p></p></div><div>The Bourassa Incident will reverberate through academia for some time yet. But the worse impacts will be on the very Indigenous communities, including Indigenous grad students, that Bourassa aped and in doing so, mocked. I met with Carrie several times, including pre-covid, when I could observe her up close and in vivo or should that be in vitro. The overwhelming impression was one of performance, an OTT display of "Indiginess". Draped in a Metis sash, big earrings, often tremulously holding an eagle feather, Carrie seemed as if she was play-acting, a life where everyday was Halloween. <a href="https://brighterworld.mcmaster.ca/articles/tracy-bear-appointed-director-of-the-mcmaster-indigenous-research-institute/">Dr. Tracy Bear </a>eviscerates this dress-up as that of a "<a href="https://www.facebook.com/100013259506821/videos/1494472807603888/">life-sucking vampire</a>", dismissing accusations that it is a witch hunt as witches never enjoyed the power or wealth of Bourassa. </div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-QJ1xZHop7Xc/YYQzs4kDTSI/AAAAAAAAsNs/y6gi8pu6vMEUh-mty1kCrT4xZuPchiXggCNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1208" height="149" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-QJ1xZHop7Xc/YYQzs4kDTSI/AAAAAAAAsNs/y6gi8pu6vMEUh-mty1kCrT4xZuPchiXggCNcBGAsYHQ/w200-h149/image.png" title="Dr. Tracy Bear" width="200" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div>There's a lot of healing to be done. I do expect efforts to "follow the money" and shine some sunshine on what are too often opaque processes of appointment and funding. And of course we must have a real engagement with Indigenous communities, in Saskatchewan, across the country called Canada, and indeed the international Indigenous world.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Some readings:</b></div><div>Tuck and Yang (2012): <a href="https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/des/article/view/18630">Decolonization is not a metaphor.</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Memmi#Refuting_scientific_racism">Albert Memmi </a>on scientific racism. </div>SJ Lamberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08293891958415604780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7174809.post-84900424649835004962021-10-04T17:26:00.000+13:002021-10-04T17:26:52.007+13:00Too much weights...<br />
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Jake: Gee, where did you get those muscles from? Bro, you've been lifting those weights, huh?<br />
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Thug: …<br />
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Jake: What, you've done lag? Am I right?<br />
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Thug: You want to fuck with me?<br />
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Jake beats thug<br />
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Jake: You should learn to pay your respects. In case you want to know, it's Jake... Jake the Muss. <br />
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Cheers<br />
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Jake: I was right... too much weights, not enough speed work. Useless prick.<br />
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Mulvaney: There's only one sure thing in this life, Blondini, and that's doubt. I think.</div><div><br />
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</div>SJ Lamberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08293891958415604780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7174809.post-4760925284035001882021-10-04T08:00:00.001+13:002021-10-07T16:34:45.752+13:00No Natural Treasury: NZ coffer-keeper still behind the times<p> <span style="font-family: verdana;">Back in Aotearoa after several years away in Turtle Island, I am somewhat disturbed to find the NZ Treasury - now labelled 'Te Tai Ohanga - using the term 'natural disaster'.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This framing of disasters as exogenous to society was kicked to the sidelines in the <a href="https://www.undrr.org/publication/sendai-framework-disaster-risk-reduction-2015-2030" rel="nofollow">2015 UNDRR Sendai Framework</a>, with disaster risks now recognised is embedded in development processes. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The report is just published, I'll pick through it over the next week and see in what ways Aotearoa NZ is manifesting the much fabled resilience, and in particular how M</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">ā</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">ori are positioned. (The demographic projection for M</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">ā</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">ori, </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">21% of the total population</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> b</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">y 2043,</span> <span style="font-family: verdana;">and 11% of the over 6.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The prediction is that...</span></p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: verdana;">"Natural disaster events [sic] are likely to
become more common and add economic
and fiscal costs on top of the costs of
more gradual temperature and sea level
changes. Policy action today on
adaptation could reduce some of those
costs in the future."</span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Well, yes.</span> </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">As an example, the report provides this table of impacts from climate change.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-687dMkpKbYg/YVn81fxQSgI/AAAAAAAAr7I/wVZ_pzEZxroxgCA-sUa4_WXjc0Iqx1WXwCNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="864" data-original-width="1381" height="332" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-687dMkpKbYg/YVn81fxQSgI/AAAAAAAAr7I/wVZ_pzEZxroxgCA-sUa4_WXjc0Iqx1WXwCNcBGAsYHQ/w531-h332/image.png" width="531" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Climate Change Minister notes Te Arawa's climate change strategy provides some <a href="https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/126512112/climate-change-minister-james-shaw-praises-te-arawas-climate-change-strategy" target="_blank">ways forward in this troubled future</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuOXuEARQGpu945p3gSNyq-vKZEeUEQ3jB7QgjTMLmfYl1Ukqk_CCN3ntZimAW6l-IroJWpdFPLVuyUexs5jCuUPXF1jubU9j2lfjwgHADj8xRW14TW6XdaHY4H30hWdb1Uas/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuOXuEARQGpu945p3gSNyq-vKZEeUEQ3jB7QgjTMLmfYl1Ukqk_CCN3ntZimAW6l-IroJWpdFPLVuyUexs5jCuUPXF1jubU9j2lfjwgHADj8xRW14TW6XdaHY4H30hWdb1Uas/" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Neuzeit Grotesk", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-size: 15px; text-align: start;">Te Urunga o Kea - Te Arawa Climate Change Working Group </span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">For those wanting a bit of the history of Indigenous Peoples and disaster risk reduction, John Scott and I wrote about this in a paper published a couple of years ago in the </span><a href="https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/iipj/article/view/8057" style="font-family: verdana;" target="_blank">International Indigenous Policy Journal</a><span style="font-family: verdana;">. </span></p><p><a href="https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/126531771/treasurys-climate-change-model-finds-economy-resilient-to-natural-disasters" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: verdana;">link</span></a></p>SJ Lamberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08293891958415604780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7174809.post-66179546181346677712020-09-30T03:30:00.001+13:002020-09-30T03:30:11.218+13:00Environmental justice, climate change, and Indigenous Peoples: Webinar Roundtable, hosted by Devex at #UNGA75: Turning the Tide: Building community resilience throug...<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/r7MfeCQuEHk" width="480"></iframe>SJ Lamberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08293891958415604780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7174809.post-73931190564946398102020-01-14T02:15:00.000+13:002020-01-14T02:19:13.587+13:00Australian Indigenous community DRR<div class="MsoNormal">
<o:p> </o:p>Much online discussion about the Australian bushfires –
outpouring of sympathy etc. – and within that a growing role for First
Australian knowledges on, well, survival.</div>
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And lest we lose sight of the contributions from Australian
academics, let me remind colleagues and peers of a prescient paper by Dr. Heidi
Ellemor who in 2005 published a work arguing for Indigenous voices to be heard
in the strategies and tactics of environmental management in their territories <!--[if supportFields]><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>ADDIN EN.CITE
<endnote><cite><author>Ellemor</Author><year>2005</Year><recnum>3031</RecNum><displaytext>(Ellemor,
2005)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>3031</rec-number><foreign-keys><key
app="EN" db-id="5vfe2dte3ve5d9e0swc5d5a4xee5pvw55xtf"
timestamp="0">3031</key></foreign-keys><ref-type
name="Journal
Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Ellemor,
Heidi</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>Reconsidering
emergency management and indigenous communities in
Australia</title><secondary-title>Global Environmental Change Part
B: Environmental
Hazards</secondary-title></titles><pages>1-7</pages><volume>6</volume><number>1</number><keywords><keyword>Vulnerability</keyword><keyword>Resilience</keyword><keyword>Emergency
management</keyword><keyword>Indigenous
communities</keyword><keyword>Australia</keyword></keywords><dates><year>2005</year><pub-dates><date>//</date></pub-dates></dates><isbn>1464-2867</isbn><urls><related-urls><url>http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1464286704000294</url></related-urls></urls><electronic-resource-num>http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hazards.2004.08.001</electronic-resource-num></record></Cite></EndNote><span
style='mso-element:field-separator'></span><![endif]-->(Ellemor, 2005)<!--[if supportFields]><span style='mso-element:
field-end'></span><![endif]-->. Dr. Ellemor’s work builds on that of John
Campbell <!--[if supportFields]><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>ADDIN EN.CITE
<endnote><cite><author>Campbell</Author><year>2010</Year><recnum>3004</RecNum><displaytext>(J
Campbell, 2006; John Campbell, 2010)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>3004</rec-number><foreign-keys><key
app="EN" db-id="5vfe2dte3ve5d9e0swc5d5a4xee5pvw55xtf"
timestamp="0">3004</key></foreign-keys><ref-type
name="Journal
Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Campbell,
John</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>An
overview of natural hazard planning in the Pacific Island
region</title><secondary-title>Australasian Journal of Disaster and
Trauma
Studies</secondary-title></titles><volume>2010-1</volume><keywords><keyword>Ru
whenua</keyword><keyword>Pacific
Islands</keyword><keyword>Disaster response</keyword><keyword>Disaster
recovery</keyword><keyword>Communities</keyword></keywords><dates><year>2010</year></dates><isbn>1174-4707</isbn><urls><related-urls><url>http://www.massey.ac.nz/~trauma/issues/2010-1/campbell.htm</url></related-urls></urls></record></Cite><cite><author>Campbell</Author><year>2006</Year><recnum>4111</RecNum><record><rec-number>4111</rec-number><foreign-keys><key
app="EN" db-id="5vfe2dte3ve5d9e0swc5d5a4xee5pvw55xtf"
timestamp="0">4111</key></foreign-keys><ref-type
name="Report">27</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Campbell,
J</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>Traditional
disaster reduction in Pacific Island
Communities</title><secondary-title>GNS Science Report
2006/38</secondary-title></titles><pages>44</pages><volume>38</volume><number>2006/38</number><dates><year>2006</year></dates><pub-location>Lower
Hutt</pub-location><publisher>Institute of Geological and Nuclear
Sciences Ltd.</publisher><urls></urls></record></Cite></EndNote><span
style='mso-element:field-separator'></span><![endif]-->(J Campbell, 2006; John Campbell, 2010)<!--[if supportFields]><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span><![endif]--> who flipped ascriptions of
Pacific vulnerability (a colonial hangover) to one of resilience.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“The recognition and inclusion of indigenous peoples’
knowledge can help to destabilise the hegemonic status that certain
understandings or preferred readings of a situation have gained.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m sure back in the early days of the 1992 Mabo Decision,
Australians of all mobs could expect to see a more environmentally just and
survivable landscape, and that even the most diehard Ozzie racist (and they can
be a frightening beast) would accept a collaboration (alignment? acceptance? trust?!)
in any knowledge that would help the very survival of what you claim and
cherish is at mortal risk?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dr. Ellemor articulated all this very well, a generation of
Australians (and geography grads) ago. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I follow Aussie politics more than most not from the Lucky
Country, and for two reasons: 1) the remarkable endurance of myriad Indigenous
communities (see the <a href="https://www.miragenews.com/draft-plan-of-management-to-guide-future-of-uluru-kata-tjuta/">Uluru
policy change</a>); and 2) if the metaphor of ‘frontline’ is to mean anything
in this instance, then Aussies are in the trenches again.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Now to Kiwi’s, the imagery of brutal trench warfare is
closely linked to our Aussie mates and neighbours; I’m sure the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_and_New_Zealand_Army_Corps">‘ANZAC
spirit’</a> has been invoked. And with the orange haze over Aotearoa, and
people goggling PM25, we realize that if we’re not in the trenches just yet, we
can smell the carnage from the assembly point in godszone…<br />
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<h2>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Barnett, J.,
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the Environmental Vulnerability Index. <i>Annals
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Campbell, J.
(2006). <i>Traditional disaster reduction in
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Campbell, J.
(2010). An overview of natural hazard planning in the Pacific Island region. <i>Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma
Studies, 2010-1</i>. Retrieved from <a href="http://www.massey.ac.nz/~trauma/issues/2010-1/campbell.htm">http://www.massey.ac.nz/~trauma/issues/2010-1/campbell.htm</a>.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Ellemor, H.
(2005). Reconsidering emergency management and indigenous communities in
Australia. <i>Global Environmental Change
Part B: Environmental Hazards, 6</i>(1), 1-7. Retrieved from <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1464286704000294">http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1464286704000294</a>.
doi:<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hazards.2004.08.001">http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hazards.2004.08.001</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Lambert, S.
(2014a). Indigenous Peoples and urban disaster: Māori responses to the 2010-12
Christchurch earthquakes. <i>Australasian
Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies, 18</i>(1), 39-48. Retrieved from <a href="http://www.massey.ac.nz/~trauma/issues/2014-1/AJDTS_18-1_Lambert.pdf">http://www.massey.ac.nz/~trauma/issues/2014-1/AJDTS_18-1_Lambert.pdf</a>.
doi:<a href="http://www.massey.ac.nz/~trauma/issues/2014-1/AJDTS_18-1_Lambert.pdf">http://www.massey.ac.nz/~trauma/issues/2014-1/AJDTS_18-1_Lambert.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Lambert,
S. (2014b). Maori and the Christchurch earthquakes: the interplay between
Indigenous endurance and resilience through a natural disaster. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">MAI Journal, 3</i>(2), 165-180. Retrieved from
<a href="http://www.journal.mai.ac.nz/sites/default/files/MAI_Jrnl_V3_iss2_Lambert.pdf">http://www.journal.mai.ac.nz/sites/default/files/MAI_Jrnl_V3_iss2_Lambert.pdf</a>.
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SJ Lamberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08293891958415604780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7174809.post-5409326610774831462020-01-08T17:14:00.000+13:002020-01-08T17:14:01.081+13:00The climate crisis is also a biodiversity crisisImportant message from Dr. Andrea Byrom, Director of the Biological Heritage National Science Challenge who has been provoked into a forthright contribution to the NZ <a href="https://sciblogs.co.nz/" target="_blank">Sciblogs site</a>.<br />
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<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: Vollkorn; font-size: 17px;">International media outlets are full of gut-wrenching images of </span><a href="https://metro.co.uk/2020/01/05/thousands-koalas-kangaroos-killed-fires-precious-nature-reserve-12004311/" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; color: #608ea9; font-family: Vollkorn; font-size: 17px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">burned koalas</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: Vollkorn; font-size: 17px;">, video footage of </span><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2019/12/31/kangaroos-flee-fires-australia-newsource-orig.cnn" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; color: #608ea9; font-family: Vollkorn; font-size: 17px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">fleeing kangaroos</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: Vollkorn; font-size: 17px;">, and firefighters </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pRV6mCedp0" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; color: #608ea9; font-family: Vollkorn; font-size: 17px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">sharing water</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: Vollkorn; font-size: 17px;"> with wildlife. Judging by the public outpouring of emotion (and </span><a href="https://www.bustle.com/p/how-to-help-animals-in-the-australian-wildfires-19765688" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; color: #608ea9; font-family: Vollkorn; font-size: 17px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">donations</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: Vollkorn; font-size: 17px;">) in response, intuitively we know something is very, very wrong. We care about biodiversity, and we care a lot. Indeed, we know that people </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/09/i-have-felt-hopelessness-over-climate-change-here-is-how-we-move-past-the-immense-grief" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; color: #608ea9; font-family: Vollkorn; font-size: 17px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">experience grief</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: Vollkorn; font-size: 17px;"> in relation to biodiversity loss.</span></i><br />
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Among other points Dr. Byrom raises is this:<br />
<br />
<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: Vollkorn; font-size: 17px;">I’ve been surprised and disappointed at the scarcity of Indigenous voices in this crisis, at least in mainstream media. As Lorena Allam </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/06/for-first-nations-people-the-bushfires-bring-a-particular-grief-burning-what-makes-us-who-we-are?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; color: #608ea9; font-family: Vollkorn; font-size: 17px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">eloquently points out</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: Vollkorn; font-size: 17px;">, Indigenous people in Australia have been connected to the land for tens of thousands of years, and they are watching in anguish as their sacred places go up in smoke. Perhaps Indigenous people can teach us a lot about disaster risk reduction, whether in New Zealand, Australia, or anywhere. That’s not to say that we should revert solely to traditional ways – these fires are </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/dec/25/factcheck-why-australias-monster-2019-bushfires-are-unprecedented" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; color: #608ea9; font-family: Vollkorn; font-size: 17px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">unprecedented</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: Vollkorn; font-size: 17px;"> in their intensity and scale and landscapes are different now – but there is something to be said for listening to the voices of those who have deep connections with the land and its plants and animals, and working respectfully together to come up with </span><a href="http://theconversation.com/our-land-is-burning-and-western-science-does-not-have-all-the-answers-100331" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; color: #608ea9; font-family: Vollkorn; font-size: 17px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">contemporary solutions</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: Vollkorn; font-size: 17px;"> in the apocalyptic world we all find ourselves in.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: Vollkorn; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span></i>
<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: Vollkorn; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span></i>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: Vollkorn; font-size: 17px;">Now if anyone knows anything about Aussies, they don't lack for confidence. Or they haven't until now. But </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: Vollkorn; font-size: 17px;">I do sense a change in how Australia sees itself, both at home and in the world. I think they have lost confidence in themselves, and in their ability to manage their </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: Vollkorn; font-size: 17px;">environment.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: Vollkorn; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: Vollkorn; font-size: 17px;">In the discussion on ecological tipping points we may now be witnessing a tipping point in political action down under.</span><br />
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<a href="https://sciblogs.co.nz/guestwork/2020/01/08/the-climate-crisis-is-also-a-biodiversity-crisis/" target="_blank">link</a> to the full blog post.<span id="goog_1870041511"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a><span id="goog_1870041512"></span>SJ Lamberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08293891958415604780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7174809.post-28119233759180563212020-01-06T09:42:00.002+13:002020-01-06T10:34:05.152+13:00Post-disaster elections: will the Australian wildfires lead to a paradigm shift in Australian politics?<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Spare a thought for our Indigenous brothers and sisters amidst the political storm raging around the wildfire response – or
lack thereof – by the Australian government, personalized around the
(in)actions of Prime Minister Scott Morrison.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Remarkable footage of Morrison forcing a young, distressed, </span><a href="https://youtu.be/kePvZkV-Zcs"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">woman to shake his hand</span></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">, and being
snubbed by a firefighter, has predictably gone viral.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">But governments are not always punished in an election for
actual or perceived ineffectiveness in the face of a disaster. </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">President George W. Bush survived Katrina. NZ
PM John Key survived the Christchurch earthquakes (his party’s position in the
munted city improved in the next election, although anecdotally many opposition
supporters may have been forced by their housing situation to relocate to other
electorates).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">So, what does the research say?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I did a quick Google Scholar search
and pulled up some stuff. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">First, a study published over 50 years
ago by </span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
107%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>ADDIN EN.CITE <endnote><Cite
AuthorYear="1"><author>Abney</Author><year>1966</Year><recnum>5760</RecNum><displaytext>Abney
and Hill (1966)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>5760</rec-number><foreign-keys><key
app="EN" db-id="5vfe2dte3ve5d9e0swc5d5a4xee5pvw55xtf"
timestamp="1578175013">5760</key></foreign-keys><ref-type
name="Journal
Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Abney,
F. Glenn</author><author>Hill, Larry
B.</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>Natural
Disasters as a Political Variable: The Effect of a Hurricane on an Urban
Election</title><secondary-title>American Political Science
Review</secondary-title></titles><periodical><full-title>American
Political Science Review</full-title></periodical><pages>974-981</pages><volume>60</volume><number>4</number><edition>2014/08/01</edition><dates><year>1966</year></dates><publisher>Cambridge
University
Press</publisher><isbn>0003-0554</isbn><urls><related-urls><url>https://www.cambridge.org/core/article/natural-disasters-as-a-political-variable-the-effect-of-a-hurricane-on-an-urban-election/4479BA7CDBAD24786136A3869F606E28</url></related-urls></urls><electronic-resource-num>10.2307/1953770</electronic-resource-num><remote-database-name>Cambridge
Core</remote-database-name><remote-database-provider>Cambridge
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Press</remote-database-provider></record></Cite></EndNote><span
style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Abney and Hill
(1966)</span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:107%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin'><span
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made some interesting observations. P<span style="background: white;">olitical
scientists have traditionally assumed that political behavior is somewhat
determined by their physical environment. We should not, for example, “expect a
homogeneous political culture in a country sharply divided by mountains.” They
go on to say that disasters have historically been considered ‘bad omens’ for
sitting governments but note little empirical research on this: “political
activity seems more determined by social environment than physical.” However,
“such catastrophes place great stress upon the social framework and thus test
the adaptive capabilities of the political system.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Bien entendu. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Since then there have been a number of
studies. Summaries of just a few…</span></div>
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style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>ADDIN EN.CITE <endnote><Cite
AuthorYear="1"><author>Olson</Author><year>2010</Year><recnum>5761</RecNum><displaytext>Olson
and Gawronski
(2010)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>5761</rec-number><foreign-keys><key
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timestamp="1578175521">5761</key></foreign-keys><ref-type
name="Journal
Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Olson,
Richard Stuart</author><author>Gawronski, Vincent
T.</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>From
Disaster Event to Political Crisis: A “5C+A” Framework for
Analysis</title><secondary-title>International Studies
Perspectives</secondary-title></titles><periodical><full-title>International
Studies
Perspectives</full-title></periodical><pages>205-221</pages><volume>11</volume><number>3</number><dates><year>2010</year></dates><isbn>1528-3577</isbn><urls><related-urls><url>https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1528-3585.2010.00404.x</url></related-urls></urls><electronic-resource-num>10.1111/j.1528-3585.2010.00404.x</electronic-resource-num><access-date>1/4/2020</access-date></record></Cite></EndNote><span
style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Olson and
Gawronski (2010)</span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:107%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin'><span
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give a very useful overview of the issues. They ask “Why is it that some
authorities, governments, administrations, and even entire regimes emerge from
disasters more popular and politically stronger, while most appear to emerge
less popular and politically weaker, sometimes fatally so?” They argue that the
“often problematic political consequences” of a disaster can be seen as
‘‘Maslowian Shocks’’ (yes, that Maslow who drew in Native American philosophy
for this hierarchy of needs). A disaster rips off the scab of governance (“strong
revelatory components” as they put it) as the voting public analyze government
performance along six dimensions: capability, competence, compassion,
correctness, credibility, and anticipation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Thomas, and Tessier (2016)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>5757</rec-number><foreign-keys><key
app="EN" db-id="5vfe2dte3ve5d9e0swc5d5a4xee5pvw55xtf"
timestamp="1578151186">5757</key></foreign-keys><ref-type
name="Journal
Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Bodet,
Marc André</author><author>Thomas,
Melanee</author><author>Tessier,
Charles</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>Come
hell or high water: An investigation of the effects of a natural disaster on a
local election</title><secondary-title>Electoral
Studies</secondary-title></titles><periodical><full-title>Electoral
Studies</full-title></periodical><pages>85-94</pages><volume>43</volume><keywords><keyword>Election</keyword><keyword>Incumbency</keyword><keyword>Natural
experiment</keyword><keyword>Natural disasters</keyword><keyword>Retrospective
voting</keyword><keyword>Turnout</keyword><keyword>DRR</keyword><keyword>Policy</keyword><keyword>Political
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style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Bodet, Thomas,
and Tessier (2016)</span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:107%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--> <span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">found</span>
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">support for the incumbent Calgary mayor
increased after the devastating 2013 floods, albeit at a lower rate in those areas
of residential flooding. However, they acknowledged flooded areas differed “systematically”
from those areas not flooded “in ways key to the election outcome” (p.85): “When
analyzed more conservatively, results show that the flood had no effect on
incumbent support or voter turnout.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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style='mso-element:field-begin'></span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>ADDIN EN.CITE <endnote><Cite
AuthorYear="1"><author>Arceneaux</Author><year>2006</Year><recnum>5759</RecNum><displaytext>Arceneaux
and Stein (2006)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>5759</rec-number><foreign-keys><key
app="EN" db-id="5vfe2dte3ve5d9e0swc5d5a4xee5pvw55xtf"
timestamp="1578174630">5759</key></foreign-keys><ref-type
name="Journal
Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Arceneaux,
Kevin</author><author>Stein, Robert
M.</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>Who
Is Held Responsible When Disaster Strikes? the Attribution of Responsibility
for a Natural Disaster in an Urban
Election</title><secondary-title>Journal of Urban
Affairs</secondary-title></titles><periodical><full-title>Journal
of Urban Affairs</full-title></periodical><pages>43-53</pages><volume>28</volume><number>1</number><dates><year>2006</year><pub-dates><date>2006/01/01</date></pub-dates></dates><publisher>Routledge</publisher><isbn>0735-2166</isbn><urls><related-urls><url>https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0735-2166.2006.00258.x</url></related-urls></urls><electronic-resource-num>10.1111/j.0735-2166.2006.00258.x</electronic-resource-num></record></Cite></EndNote><span
style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Arceneaux and
Stein (2006)</span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:107%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">
looked at a Houston election (November) that followed their (June) </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Allison"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">floods of 2001</span></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">. Voters did punish the incumbent mayor for
the flood if they believed he/the city was responsible for flood prep. This
expectation of responsibility was shaped by whether a voter’s neighborhood had
been hit by flood waters, and their knowledge of local politics. </span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#1C1D1E;background:white'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>ADDIN EN.CITE <endnote><Cite
AuthorYear="1"><author>Sainz-Santamaria</Author><year>2013</Year><recnum>5755</RecNum><displaytext>Sainz-Santamaria
and Anderson (2013)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>5755</rec-number><foreign-keys><key
app="EN" db-id="5vfe2dte3ve5d9e0swc5d5a4xee5pvw55xtf"
timestamp="1578150649">5755</key></foreign-keys><ref-type
name="Journal
Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Sainz-Santamaria,
Jaime</author><author>Anderson, Sarah
E.</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>The
Electoral Politics of Disaster
Preparedness</title><secondary-title>Risk, Hazards & Crisis
in Public Policy</secondary-title></titles><periodical><full-title>Risk,
Hazards & Crisis in Public
Policy</full-title></periodical><pages>234-249</pages><volume>4</volume><number>4</number><keywords><keyword>DRR</keyword><keyword>Policy</keyword><keyword>Political
economy</keyword><keyword>elections</keyword></keywords><dates><year>2013</year></dates><isbn>1944-4079</isbn><urls><related-urls><url>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/rhc3.12044</url></related-urls></urls><electronic-resource-num>10.1002/rhc3.12044</electronic-resource-num></record></Cite></EndNote><span
style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="background: white; color: #1c1d1e; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Sainz-Santamaria and Anderson (2013)</span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#1C1D1E;background:white'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="background: white; color: #1c1d1e; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> examined U.S. disaster preparedness
spending between 1985 and 2008 and found increased spending in competitive
counties. They advise caution in demanding increased DRR spending as the
dollars may be put to electoral ends instead of public safety.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1c1d1e; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
literature seems to be dominated by US case studies. </span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#1C1D1E;background:white'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>ADDIN EN.CITE <endnote><Cite
AuthorYear="1"><author>Vanderleeuw</Author><year>2008</Year><recnum>5762</RecNum><displaytext>Vanderleeuw,
Liu, and Williams (2008)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>5762</rec-number><foreign-keys><key
app="EN" db-id="5vfe2dte3ve5d9e0swc5d5a4xee5pvw55xtf"
timestamp="1578177111">5762</key></foreign-keys><ref-type
name="Journal
Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Vanderleeuw,
James</author><author>Liu,
Baodong</author><author>Williams,
Erica</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>The
2006 New Orleans Mayoral Election: The Political Ramifications of a Large-Scale
Natural Disaster</title><secondary-title>PS: Political Science
&
Politics</secondary-title></titles><periodical><full-title>PS:
Political Science &
Politics</full-title></periodical><pages>795-801</pages><volume>41</volume><number>4</number><edition>2008/10/01</edition><dates><year>2008</year></dates><publisher>Cambridge
University
Press</publisher><isbn>1049-0965</isbn><urls><related-urls><url>https://www.cambridge.org/core/article/2006-new-orleans-mayoral-election-the-political-ramifications-of-a-largescale-natural-disaster/8BA8FBF1A33A5F80A6E7C1B3B74E5AF4</url></related-urls></urls><electronic-resource-num>10.1017/S1049096508081018</electronic-resource-num><remote-database-name>Cambridge
Core</remote-database-name><remote-database-provider>Cambridge
University Press</remote-database-provider></record></Cite></EndNote><span
style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="background: white; color: #1c1d1e; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Vanderleeuw, Liu, and Williams (2008)</span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#1C1D1E;background:white'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="background: white; color: #1c1d1e; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> provide a very interesting analysis of New
Orleans mayoralty election, post-Katrina (a more reasonable scale of analysis
than the race for president (pun intended…). They describe a 15.8% decline in
registered African-American voters and a decline of white registered voters of
only 5.1%. So, while a black mayor was returned, “whites clearly were in a
better position than they had been to challenge black domination in New Orleans
politics.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1c1d1e; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(Strange
language when taken out of context, so please go to the original paper if you
wanna argue, and take it up with the authors. I’m just cutting and pasting…)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1c1d1e; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">From
the US again, Reeves (2011) identified a relationship between a state’s
‘electoral competitiveness’ and the likelihood and number of presidential
disaster declarations. Reeves argues that “presidents use unilateral powers for
particularistic aims to gain electoral support.” His findings are based on data
drawn from 1981 to 2004, with this relationship existing since the 1988
Stafford Act which expanded presidents powers in declaring a disaster. (The
Stafford Act also has implications for Native Americans on reserve. More on
that another time). Reeves also argues the use of presidential powers in these
events do have the intended electoral benefits: voters will reward presidents
for declaring a disaster in their state, more than a one point increase in
support.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1c1d1e; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But
what about Australia?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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color:#1C1D1E;background:white'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>ADDIN EN.CITE <endnote><Cite
AuthorYear="1"><author>MacLean</Author><year>2016</Year><recnum>5764</RecNum><displaytext>MacLean
(2016)</DisplayText><record><rec-number>5764</rec-number><foreign-keys><key
app="EN" db-id="5vfe2dte3ve5d9e0swc5d5a4xee5pvw55xtf"
timestamp="1578247752">5764</key></foreign-keys><ref-type
name="Journal
Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>MacLean,
Rob</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>Unnatural
Disasters: Emergency Management in a Time of Zombies Part I: Refereed
Articles</title><secondary-title>Canberra Law
Review</secondary-title></titles><periodical><full-title>Canberra
Law Review</full-title></periodical><pages>47-62</pages><number>1</number><dates><year>2016</year><pub-dates><date>2016</date></pub-dates></dates><orig-pub>62</orig-pub><urls><related-urls><url>https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/canbera14&i=47</url></related-urls><pdf-urls><url>https://heinonline.org/HOL/PrintRequest?handle=hein.journals/canbera14&collection=journals&div=9&id=47&print=section&sction=9</url></pdf-urls></urls><language>eng</language></record></Cite></EndNote><span
style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="background: white; color: #1c1d1e; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">MacLean (2016)</span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#1C1D1E;background:white'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="background: white; color: #1c1d1e; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> in one of the more entertaining papers I have
read, hypothesizes the processes and transition of governmental power in a
Zombie apocalypse. He argues that, at least in the initial stages, a zombie
apocalypse will see coordinated emergency management from the three spheres of Australian
government. But as the zombies spread across Australia, he predicts “that both
the rule of law and effective communication networks will break down”. In this
situation, the Commonwealth government will struggle to “project its power” and
resistance will default down to the “effective use of people and resources” at the
State and then regional or local government levels. And like any B movie, “[i]n
the worst-case scenario, all the current recognised forms of government may
fail and survival will depend on new polities created out of desperate need.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1c1d1e; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Cold
comfort indeed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1c1d1e; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In
answer the question, ‘Will the wildfires lead to a change of government In
Australia?’ I’d have to kick for touch and say maybe. The next election will
undoubtedly feature climate change, and many new leaders will arise, as we have
seen in NZ through the Green Party. I do think PM Morrison is on shaky ground
and whether he survives to lead his party into the next election is another
matter, and down to the seething mass of jealousies and aspirations within his own
party. I like the </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">six dimensions
provided by Olsen and Gawronski: capability, competence, compassion,
correctness, credibility, and anticipation. From a distance, I’d rate the
Australian government as C+, C-, C-, B-, D, and D respectively. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">There's very few Indigenous voices to be heard in all this. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Time to break out the Mad Max memes?<span style="background: white; color: #1c1d1e;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">References<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>ADDIN EN.REFLIST <span style='mso-element:
field-separator'></span><![endif]-->Abney, F. G., & Hill, L. B. (1966).
Natural Disasters as a Political Variable: The Effect of a Hurricane on an
Urban Election. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">American Political
Science Review, 60</i>(4), 974-981. Retrieved from <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/article/natural-disasters-as-a-political-variable-the-effect-of-a-hurricane-on-an-urban-election/4479BA7CDBAD24786136A3869F606E28">https://www.cambridge.org/core/article/natural-disasters-as-a-political-variable-the-effect-of-a-hurricane-on-an-urban-election/4479BA7CDBAD24786136A3869F606E28</a>.
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Arceneaux, K.,
& Stein, R. M. (2006). Who Is Held Responsible When Disaster Strikes? the
Attribution of Responsibility for a Natural Disaster in an Urban Election. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Journal of Urban Affairs, 28</i>(1), 43-53.
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Bodet, M. A.,
Thomas, M., & Tessier, C. (2016). Come hell or high water: An investigation
of the effects of a natural disaster on a local election. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Electoral Studies, 43</i>, 85-94. Retrieved from <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026137941630213X">http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026137941630213X</a>.
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MacLean, R.
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Refereed Articles. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Canberra Law Review</i>(1),
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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Olson, R. S.,
& Gawronski, V. T. (2010). From Disaster Event to Political Crisis: A
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Sainz-Santamaria,
J., & Anderson, S. E. (2013). The Electoral Politics of Disaster
Preparedness. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Risk, Hazards & Crisis
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<br />SJ Lamberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08293891958415604780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7174809.post-48148644609341481922019-06-18T06:25:00.004+12:002021-11-06T17:34:36.112+13:00I'm still a long way from Aotearoa, a long way from the Te Moana Nui a Kiwa, the Pacific, but am re-immersing myself in the Maori Economy, so to speak. This scandal over Maori pepi and Oranga Tamariki is best explained by Professor Leonie Pihama, ...<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Our people have called for generations for the halting of Māori child removal. Our tūpuna shared with us their visionary aspirations for future generations, their dreams for us to hold to our self-determination, to live on our lands as whānau, hapū and iwi, to know who we are and to live our lives as Māori.</span></span></blockquote>
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<a href="https://tewhareporahou.wordpress.com/2019/06/16/hands-of-our-tamariki-he-waka-eke-noa/" target="_blank">link</a>SJ Lamberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08293891958415604780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7174809.post-36026363430494407102018-12-29T02:43:00.001+13:002018-12-29T02:43:47.661+13:00Still are worriers<div align="left"><p dir="ltr">Hasn't heard of this survey or database but Maori t.v. are posting this, a survey of 800 Maori. Interesting for the emphasis on old-fashioned class issues...</p></div>
<div align="left"><p dir="ltr">1. Mounting debt and financial insecurity (26%)<br>
2. Housing affordability, homelessness (21%)<br>
3. State of rivers and lakes / concern for the land (19%)<br>
4. The number of Maori children in State Care (16%)<br>
5. The number of Maori in prison (9%) & (equal) The rising suicide rate and the mental health system (9%)<br>
</p><p dir="ltr"><br></p><p dir="ltr">Link here https://www.maoritelevision.com/news/national/top-five-concerns-among-maori-2018</p>
</div>SJ Lamberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08293891958415604780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7174809.post-35779658355798163632018-01-26T11:32:00.004+13:002018-01-26T11:40:13.737+13:00Crossing Arizona: the perils of colonial forces on Indigenous land...Re-posting this map of reported bodies crossing into Arizona from Mexico, 1999-2009. Total over this decade: 1,755. [sparked by recent blog posting on <a href="https://thestandard.org.nz/the-humanity/" target="_blank">The Standard</a><br />
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Mike Wilson narrates a powerful film, 'Crossing Arizona', on the undermining of Tohono O'odham sovereignty and the destruction of water stations which he and others tried to maintain. Mike's beef was with the Tohono O'odham Nation who he argues were complicit in these murderous acts.<br />
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See also <a href="http://bsnorrell.tripod.com/id61.html">http://bsnorrell.tripod.com/id61.html</a><br />
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<br />SJ Lamberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08293891958415604780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7174809.post-73661277522699878592018-01-06T09:28:00.002+13:002018-01-06T09:28:24.871+13:00Rain checkSo as you may have noticed, this blog is no longer a focus for me or my work. Instead I've started building a website in Indigenous Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), <a href="https://www.indigenousdrr.com/" target="_blank">here</a><br />
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May drop some thoughts on this in the future.<br />
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SimonSJ Lamberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08293891958415604780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7174809.post-6538937291529587562017-10-25T12:45:00.003+13:002017-10-25T12:45:52.975+13:00Maori Ministerial portfolios...<div class="_1dwg _1w_m" style="font-family: inherit; padding: 12px 12px 0px;">
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SJ Lamberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08293891958415604780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7174809.post-36664088069100033562017-10-11T09:58:00.002+13:002017-10-11T10:01:47.360+13:00Aboriginal Art<br />
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Now that I've said I can't be arsed keeping this blog updated, awesome things keep happening.<br />
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So, last night we promenade along Broadway, at the <a href="http://www.25thstreettheatre.org/" target="_blank">Fringe Festival</a>, is one is wont to do, and we pass by the sound check for <a href="http://www.dreamingcanada.ca/en/dreamcatcher" target="_blank">Dreamwatchers</a> so make a point of catching their show. Awesome, as we say.<br />
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Then the next day. on campus, I call in to the Gordon Oakes Aboriginal Student Centre and here's Dreamcatchers getting a tour. And one of the young women talks to Willa and tells her to live her dreams, and how the Creator has put in place the people and things she needs to achieve those dreams.<br />
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She gives the news that a group she is involved with, <a href="https://www.indigenousclimateaction.com/" target="_blank">Indigenous Climate Action</a>, have been won a prize - the Lush Award - for their work.<br />
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SJ Lamberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08293891958415604780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7174809.post-25825669369775228972017-08-04T02:45:00.000+12:002017-08-04T09:12:01.226+12:00Maori unemployment UP...Doesn't seem to be featuring in mainstream media coverage but Maori unemployment is UP in a climate of generally declining jobless. What the fuck?!<br />
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NB: Our whanau has emigrated to Canada and I must confess to be somewhat disconnected from issues that once featured regularly on these pages which started as a an effort to catologue and collate miscellaneous data on the so-called Maori economy (which I remain highly dubious about).<br />
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I will shortly be setting up a new webpage to rationalise my various interweb contributions.<br />
<br />SJ Lamberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08293891958415604780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7174809.post-32807286376104858382017-06-21T04:02:00.001+12:002017-06-21T04:02:34.333+12:00NZ Productivity (via 'Croaking Cassandra')...<br />
A while ago, I listed Michael Reddell's blog 'Croaking Cassandra' as a good one to follow for critique's of New Zealand's macro economic performance. His has had a few posts on productivity - the measure of wealth produced per unit of effort (normally GDP/hour). The <a href="https://croakingcassandra.com/2017/06/20/the-secretary-to-the-treasury-on-productivity/" target="_blank">latest</a> presents this graph:<br />
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And recall how often we compare our economic indicators to Oz?<br />
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In layman's terms we are poorer as a nation. The relevance of this to the Maori economy - always pitched as a way to grow the NZ economic pie - is that there is no extra paua's or pipi's for social programmes.</div>
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SJ Lamberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08293891958415604780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7174809.post-17950859039678794542017-02-06T14:53:00.000+13:002017-02-06T14:57:06.814+13:00Maori Economy on Waitangi Day<br />
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The Maori Economy discourse continues its momentum - ie the Common Knowledge on Maori economic functioning expands - yet the fragility of Maori communities remains.<br />
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Here's a <a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/88915435/maori-economy-about-more-than-just-treaty-settlements" target="_blank">good article on the diverse components</a> of this economy, and respect to Dr. Maria Bargh on highlighting such 'under-the-radar' <a href="http://www.mana.co.nz/archive/issue-128/danger-zones.html" target="_blank">contributions to the PMS</a> (Private Military Security).<br />
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But this $42b sector amounts to just over 6% of the NZ economy and as the new PM sez, the government has reached the limits of what is can (by what he means will) do for Maori. So we gotta pay our way.<br />
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User pays remember.<br />
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Downhill I'm afraid...<br />
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But there is one area where we can get an empirical understanding: "And there are stats to show that Maori business people are innovators. The rate of innovation in small to medium Maori businesses, with 100 or fewer employees, was 63%, Statistics New Zealand figures show. That is considerably higher than the 'whole' of New Zealand business rate of 49%."<br />
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'Innovation', like 'sustainability' and 'resilience' are things you just have to say you are, regardless of the definition or auditing.<br />
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An innovation is a new idea, object or activity. It can also be a rediscovered idea, object or activity (and in this conceptualisation, Indigenous Peoples can really bring some change!).<br />
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But I rarely, if ever, see commentators discuss empirical innovations.<br />
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Hybrid corn varieties were one of the classic case studies, and one Maori can identify with (Zvi Griliches work was among the <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/1905380?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents" target="_blank">seminal publications</a>). We - as in NZers - have come up with some <a href="http://natlib.govt.nz/items?i%5Bsubject%5D=Agricultural+innovations+--+New+Zealand" target="_blank">seriously valuable innovations in agribusiness</a>.<br />
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But we now import considerable inputs to our main sector (<a href="http://www.indexmundi.com/agriculture/?country=nz&commodity=palm-kernel-meal&graph=imports" target="_blank">Palm Kernel Extract for example</a>). We are, if anything, <b>late adopters of best practice</b> agriculture. Our 'clean, green image' is now <a href="http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11593210" target="_blank">completely trashed internally</a> and subject to dispute externally. Our <a href="http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/201830347/are-struggling-families-on-govt's-2017-to-do-list" target="_blank">increasing inequality</a> is yet another symptom of a dysfunctional society.<br />
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And through all of this, the Maori Economy is to not just maintain our communities but improve their situation?!<br />
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Ain't gonna happen without significant transfer of wealth from individuals with wealth to those without. Which political parties promise that?<br />
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And <a href="https://butwhosaidthat.com/2014/09/24/therein-lies-the-rub/" target="_blank">therein lies the rub</a>.<br />
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Recall <a href="http://www.berl.co.nz/assets/Economic-Insights/Economic-Development/Maori-Economy/BERL-2011-The-Asset-Base-Income-Expenditure-and-GDP-of-the-2010-Mori-Economy.pdf" target="_blank">its inception by BERL</a> (at the behest of the Minister of Maori Development). The initial model toted it up as:</div>
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• Trusts and incorporations of $4.0 billion<br />
• Other Maori entities of $6.7 billion<br />
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• Businesses of Maori employers of $20.8 billion</div>
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I'd suggest few Maori are actually 'beneficiaries' (a loaded term) of this economy, and many who are, aren't picking up much of a cheque.</div>
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Fast-forward to 2017. Yes an election year, so expect lots of soundbites (including a rich white man calling a not-so-rich Maori man <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11787777" target="_blank">an Uncle Tom</a>). The key comment for me came from the new Prime Minister, Bill English:<br />
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This is contrary to what <a href="http://www.victoria.ac.nz/sog/about/staff/jonathan-boston" target="_blank">Professor Jonathon Boston</a> stated on Radio NZ (interview link <a href="http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/201830347/are-struggling-families-on-govt's-2017-to-do-list" target="_blank">here</a>). Boston discusses evidence on the growth of poverty and the loss of opportunity for many New Zealanders through <u>explicit government policies</u> (from the left and the right although the mainstream left in NZ are hardly supportive of labour)<br />
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So if the government won't do more (I actually think they will, simply to maintain appearances), where are the resources to come from? I think it's quite clear that the expectation of government and many Maori leaders (iwi and business), is that Maori are to be supported by this Maori economy.<br />
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One might expect Maori to start heckling speakers such as Bill English. But not just Wee Will Pom (let's not forget his <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10599678" target="_blank">double-dipping over Parliamentary accommodation monies</a>). Maori leaders should also be heckled over their economic naivety (ok, tikanga may prevent or at least censure traditional European heckling. And as an academic i must abide my many ancient rules that frame debates).<br />
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This Maori Economy is not the economy of many Maori at all, at all...</div>
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SJ Lamberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08293891958415604780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7174809.post-30950343097224130632017-01-24T10:27:00.000+13:002017-01-24T10:27:02.926+13:00Expertsure link...A while ago (sheez, 7 years!) I posted on Indigenous Peoples and Mining, specifically in response to <a href="http://whogetswhat.blogspot.co.nz/2010/04/indigeneous-peoples-and-mining-maori.html" target="_blank">Schedule 4 land in Aotearoa</a>.<br />
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One of the links, to Bolivian lithium reserves, went to a site that has recently shifted domains. So, in the interests maintaining the information exchange, the new site can be viewed at...<br />
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<a href="https://www.expertsure.com/">https://www.expertsure.com/</a>SJ Lamberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08293891958415604780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7174809.post-80779966795641651212017-01-12T09:35:00.002+13:002017-01-13T11:34:48.462+13:00Data ethics: The Signal CodeHot of the press, The Signal Code articulates five human rights to information during crisis:<br />
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I was lucky enough to be one of the reviewers of this important publication and feel privileged to have met some of the instigators.<br />
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In this digitally connected world where data is generated by setting your alarm clock and sending some 'xxx' to your children, the need for a transparent ethical approach to data management in a humanitarian crisis might seem too messy.<br />
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/> <a href="https://signalcode.org/" target="_blank">Read 'The Signal Code' here</a>.</div>
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The full name of the maunga tells this history: Te Moengahau-o-Tamatekapua (the windy sleeping place of Tamatekapua).<br />
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SJ Lamberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08293891958415604780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7174809.post-57805200187407103892017-01-08T11:02:00.000+13:002017-01-08T11:04:19.922+13:00The Second Eejit thesis: Dickheads, Race Hustlers, PR Queens...The recent Aotearoa NZ racism spat has been dismissed by some as a non-event, <a href="http://thedailyblog.co.nz/2017/01/06/coffee-coloured-race-hustlers-the-year-of-weeping-millennials-on-social-media-and-casual-racism-what-96-hours-of-leitch-taught-us/" target="_blank">a rush of outrage to fill the Xmas holidays slow-news days</a>. The facts are not in dispute: Wealthy Pakeha sports fan and philanthropist Sir Peter Leitch made a throwaway comment to Lara Wharepapa Bridger that Waiheke Island was <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11777839" target="_blank">'white man's island'</a> . Even the Race Relations Conciliator Dame Susan Devoy (we throw gongs around here for sportsie peeps) <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11777105" target="_blank">called this 'casual racism'</a> and she's <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10872741" target="_blank">hardly renowned by Maori for being a bastion of support</a>.<br />
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Sir Peter quickly backtracked, not least because his accuser went to Facebook with a tearful video she removed after many thousands of hits.<br />
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While many people want to brush this aside, it is always the response to accusations of racism that is important, The Second Eejit Thesis.<br />
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So the Second Eejit in this case was the redoubtable Ms Michelle Boag, National Party stalwart and PR Queen, who Sir Peter enlisted to go on point and who promptly fucked up by saying Ms Bridger was only 'coffee coloured', implying she didn't really have much claim to being Maori, and she just wanted to get famous.<br />
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Comments by Auckland City Councillor Dick Quax that Ms Bridger is a 'race hustler' are also offensive, like calling a rape victim a slut. At this point I repeat the old joke: How do you win a silver medal in the Olympics? Sit in a bucket of cold water until your dick quacks... Dick Quax just gets a bronze this time.<br />
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The best comments I found on this tawdry episode come from Leilani Tamu who calls Pete Leitch what he is: <a href="https://leilanitamu.com/2017/01/04/my-beef-with-the-mad-butcher/" target="_blank">a patron</a>. While PL may not be racist - and our country's Race Relations 'expert' considers him the 'least racist person' she's ever met, he certainly leverages his support from people he has financially supported.<br />
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Patronage. The money's great but the hours suck.<br />
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<a href="https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/did-he-get-knighted-mma-fighter-mark-hunt-says-mad-butcher-used-term-coconut-samoans" target="_blank">MMA Fighter Mark Hunter on Pete Leitch</a>SJ Lamberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08293891958415604780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7174809.post-69949344489373451052017-01-08T09:52:00.001+13:002017-01-08T09:53:28.580+13:00White Owl on a HighwayMoving to Saskatoon very soon, I've decided to start a new blog <a href="https://indigenous2017.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">'White Owl on Highway 11'</a> about personal and professional experiences in a new land, background research for which has already started...<br />
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