title: The Unmet Legal, Social and Cultural Needs of Māori with Disabilities

authors: Hickey, Susan Jane

subjects: Māori

abstract: There is little work done in the area of indigenous disability identity issues and how they are recognised in domestic and international human rights laws. The discourse of disability has always been based on social constructionism and without it, there is no identity. I discuss its relevance to indigenous (Māori) with disabilities and how the multiplicitous nature of the identity of  other  has a particular impact when indigenous, gender and disability are all identified from marginalised groups. I also explore the impact of westernised thinking around impairment, in particular the models of disabilities on indigenous well-being. The issues of family (whānau), whakawhanaungatanga (family relationships), interdependence (community) and collectivity identities central to indigenous thinking are largely ignored by law and policy, yet central to indigenous identity. This ignorance in policy has led to the disparities that continue to remain for indigenous persons with disabilities, particularly those from within thematic identity groups.

text: The Unmet Legal, Social and Cultural Needs of Māori with Disabilities There is little work done in the area of indigenous disability identity issues and how they are recognised in domestic and international human rights laws. The discourse of disability has always been based on social constructionism and without it, there is no identity. I discuss its relevance to indigenous (Māori) with disabilities and how the multiplicitous nature of the identity of  other  has a particular impact when indigenous, gender and disability are all identified from marginalised groups. I also explore the impact of westernised thinking around impairment, in particular the models of disabilities on indigenous well-being. The issues of family (whānau), whakawhanaungatanga (family relationships), interdependence (community) and collectivity identities central to indigenous thinking are largely ignored by law and policy, yet central to indigenous identity. This ignorance in policy has led to the disparities that continue to remain for indigenous persons with disabilities, particularly those from within thematic identity groups.

year: 2008

title: "Everything has shaped you": Contributors to young Māori university students' ability to flourish

authors: Major, Darcie Ngahuia

subjects: Maori

abstract: There are many disparities when considering the health and wellbeing of Māori in Aotearoa today, and the education sector is no different, with Māori less likely to leave school with level 2 certificate or higher compared with non-Māori.  In response to the deficit orientated research on Māori and education, my thesis explores those factors contributing to young Māori tertiary students flourishing. My research includes five students from the University of Waikato who were between the ages of 17-24 years. A multi-method qualitative approach was utilised while engaging a Kaupapa Māori research framework. Participants were found to have a range of interconnected factors which contribute to their ability to flourish both inside and outside of the university.  Of particular importance to my participants was relational connectedness or whanaungatanga within and outside of the tertiary environment, landscapes which offered multiple forms of care, and notions of both collective and individual motivation. Some of the challenges experienced by my participants included a sense of socio-cultural isolation, the minimal inclusion of Māori worldviews and perspectives within the general curriculum, and the personal stress of responding to negative stereotypes of Maori as generally unproductive members of society. Flourishing for my participants is therefore multi-layered, and recognises the interconnected nature of health and wellbeing.

text: "Everything has shaped you": Contributors to young Māori university students' ability to flourish There are many disparities when considering the health and wellbeing of Māori in Aotearoa today, and the education sector is no different, with Māori less likely to leave school with level 2 certificate or higher compared with non-Māori.  In response to the deficit orientated research on Māori and education, my thesis explores those factors contributing to young Māori tertiary students flourishing. My research includes five students from the University of Waikato who were between the ages of 17-24 years. A multi-method qualitative approach was utilised while engaging a Kaupapa Māori research framework. Participants were found to have a range of interconnected factors which contribute to their ability to flourish both inside and outside of the university.  Of particular importance to my participants was relational connectedness or whanaungatanga within and outside of the tertiary environment, landscapes which offered multiple forms of care, and notions of both collective and individual motivation. Some of the challenges experienced by my participants included a sense of socio-cultural isolation, the minimal inclusion of Māori worldviews and perspectives within the general curriculum, and the personal stress of responding to negative stereotypes of Maori as generally unproductive members of society. Flourishing for my participants is therefore multi-layered, and recognises the interconnected nature of health and wellbeing.

year: 2017

title: Congruences modulo ρ between ρ-wisted Hasse-Weil L-values

authors: Delbourgo, Daniel

subjects: Science & Technology

abstract: Suppose E₁ and E₂ are semistable elliptic curves over Q with good reduction at p, whose associated weight two newforms f₁  and f₂ have congruent Fourier coefficients modulo p. Let RS(E*, ρ) denote the algebraic padic L-value attached to each elliptic curve E, twisted by an irreducible Artin representation, ρ, factoring through the Kummer extension Q(μp∞, Δ1/p∞).
If E₁ and E₂ have good ordinary reduction at p, we prove that RS(E₁, ρ) ≡ RS(E₂, ρ) mod p, under an integrality hypothesis for the modular symbols defined over the field cut out by Ker(ρ). Under this hypothesis, we establish that E₁ and E₂ have the same analytic λ-invariant at ρ.
Alternatively, if E₁ and E₂ have good supersingular reduction at p, we show that |RS(E₁, ρ) − RS(E₂, ρ)|ₚ < p ᵒʳᵈᵖ⁽ᶜᵒⁿᵈ⁽ρ⁾⁾/².
These congruences generalise some earlier work of Vatsal [Duke Math. J. 98 (1999), pp. 399–419], Shekhar–Sujatha [Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 367 (2015), pp. 3579–3598], and Choi-Kim [Ramanujan J. 43 (2017), p. 163–195], to the false Tate curve setting.

text: Congruences modulo ρ between ρ-wisted Hasse-Weil L-values Suppose E₁ and E₂ are semistable elliptic curves over Q with good reduction at p, whose associated weight two newforms f₁  and f₂ have congruent Fourier coefficients modulo p. Let RS(E*, ρ) denote the algebraic padic L-value attached to each elliptic curve E, twisted by an irreducible Artin representation, ρ, factoring through the Kummer extension Q(μp∞, Δ1/p∞).
If E₁ and E₂ have good ordinary reduction at p, we prove that RS(E₁, ρ) ≡ RS(E₂, ρ) mod p, under an integrality hypothesis for the modular symbols defined over the field cut out by Ker(ρ). Under this hypothesis, we establish that E₁ and E₂ have the same analytic λ-invariant at ρ.
Alternatively, if E₁ and E₂ have good supersingular reduction at p, we show that |RS(E₁, ρ) − RS(E₂, ρ)|ₚ < p ᵒʳᵈᵖ⁽ᶜᵒⁿᵈ⁽ρ⁾⁾/².
These congruences generalise some earlier work of Vatsal [Duke Math. J. 98 (1999), pp. 399–419], Shekhar–Sujatha [Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 367 (2015), pp. 3579–3598], and Choi-Kim [Ramanujan J. 43 (2017), p. 163–195], to the false Tate curve setting.

year: 2018