title: Everyday experiences of racism: Suppressing Māori cultural expressions in mental health

authors: Southey, Kim Marie

abstract: Tēnā kautau i runga i ngā tini āhuatanga o te wā.

This publication has been produced as part of the He Kokonga Ngākau Fellowships, an initiative of Te Atawhai o Te Ao that seeks to support and contribute to our research projects, and grow Māori research capability that promotes Kaupapa Māori research. These fellowships have been established to support Māori postgraduate students, practitioners, community researchers, and writers in their writing on kaupapa that have relevance to our organisation and wider community.

Dr Kim Southey (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kuia) draws on her doctoral research on re-presenting Māori and Indigenous understandings of being, and deconstructing the notion of mental illness. This
publication focuses on how Māori and Indigenous expressions within the mental (and wider) health system are suppressed and restricted by a dominant (western) worldview. Dr Southey posits that the western insistence on representing things in the world through rational, logical explanations impacts on Māori cultural understandings, limiting how we can express ourselves. This is viewed by Dr Southey as a form of institutional racism.

text: Everyday experiences of racism: Suppressing Māori cultural expressions in mental health Tēnā kautau i runga i ngā tini āhuatanga o te wā.

This publication has been produced as part of the He Kokonga Ngākau Fellowships, an initiative of Te Atawhai o Te Ao that seeks to support and contribute to our research projects, and grow Māori research capability that promotes Kaupapa Māori research. These fellowships have been established to support Māori postgraduate students, practitioners, community researchers, and writers in their writing on kaupapa that have relevance to our organisation and wider community.

Dr Kim Southey (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kuia) draws on her doctoral research on re-presenting Māori and Indigenous understandings of being, and deconstructing the notion of mental illness. This
publication focuses on how Māori and Indigenous expressions within the mental (and wider) health system are suppressed and restricted by a dominant (western) worldview. Dr Southey posits that the western insistence on representing things in the world through rational, logical explanations impacts on Māori cultural understandings, limiting how we can express ourselves. This is viewed by Dr Southey as a form of institutional racism.

year: 2022

title: Mates at the school gates:Investigating peer relationships among rangatahi Māori

authors: Knowles, Anthea Heather

subjects: school attendance

abstract: As a teacher, I have found that while some rangatahi feel connected to school, many others do not. In an attempt to reduce the gap between Māori and non-Māori educational achievement, there have been significant nationwide initiatives implemented into schools across New Zealand. These programmes have been centred mostly around improving school engagement. Despite these efforts, school attendance rates among Māori continue to decline. This thesis explores the role of peer relationships among rangatahi Māori, including how these relationships may influence various domains of engagement at school, such as participation, belonging and orientation to learning. 

This research involves focus group interviews with six rangatahi Māori aged 17-18, and in Years 12 and 13 in a small-town New Zealand High School. The wāhine Māori who contributed to the study, had been identified by the school as successfully engaged through regular attendance and participation of school activites. The findings from this study identify some critical aspects to building strong peer relationships, including: having a social space to gather, practicing manaakitanga, recognising equity, maintaining connection with each other, and welcoming humour. The rangatahi in this study value their peers and social relationships and they freely access these resources as needed. In doing so they are able to collectively critique experiences of marginalisation and acquire a collective source of resilience. The participants in this study then draw on this collective resilience during challenging situations.

text: Mates at the school gates:Investigating peer relationships among rangatahi Māori As a teacher, I have found that while some rangatahi feel connected to school, many others do not. In an attempt to reduce the gap between Māori and non-Māori educational achievement, there have been significant nationwide initiatives implemented into schools across New Zealand. These programmes have been centred mostly around improving school engagement. Despite these efforts, school attendance rates among Māori continue to decline. This thesis explores the role of peer relationships among rangatahi Māori, including how these relationships may influence various domains of engagement at school, such as participation, belonging and orientation to learning. 

This research involves focus group interviews with six rangatahi Māori aged 17-18, and in Years 12 and 13 in a small-town New Zealand High School. The wāhine Māori who contributed to the study, had been identified by the school as successfully engaged through regular attendance and participation of school activites. The findings from this study identify some critical aspects to building strong peer relationships, including: having a social space to gather, practicing manaakitanga, recognising equity, maintaining connection with each other, and welcoming humour. The rangatahi in this study value their peers and social relationships and they freely access these resources as needed. In doing so they are able to collectively critique experiences of marginalisation and acquire a collective source of resilience. The participants in this study then draw on this collective resilience during challenging situations.

year: 2019

title: 1,2-Bis{(pentafluorophenyl)phenylphosphino}ethane:  A Probe for Configurational Stability in Three-Legged Piano Stool Complexes

authors: Nieuwenhuyzen, Mark

subjects: chemistry

abstract: The pentafluorophenyl-substituted diphosphine (C₆F₅)PhPCH₂CH₂PPh(C₆F₅) has been prepared, as a 1:1.7 mixture of rac (1a) and meso (1b) isomers, in four steps from dppe. The reaction between [Cp*RhCl(μ-Cl)]2 and 1 in the presence of tetrafluoroborate yielded a mixture of racemic diastereoisomers of [Cp*RhCl(κP,κP-1a)][BF₄] (4a•BF₄) and trans and cis isomers of [Cp*RhCl(κP,κP-1b)][BF₄] (4b•BF₄ and 4c•BF₄, respectively). On addition of Proton Sponge, 4a and 4c, in which at least one pentafluorophenyl group is close to the pentamethylcyclopentadienyl ligand, underwent rapid dehydrofluorinative carbon−carbon coupling giving trans- and cis-[{η⁵,κP,κP-C₅Me₄CH₂C₆F₄-2-PPhCH₂CH₂PPh(C₆F₅)}RhCl]⁺ (5 and 6), respectively. The latter underwent further dehydrofluorinative carbon−carbon coupling to give two isomers of [{η⁵,κP,κP-C₅Me₃[CH₂C₆F₄-2-PPhCH₂]₂}RhCl]+ (7). Isomerization of 4b to 4c was observed in chloroform and dimethlysulfoxide. Neither isomerization of 4a to 4b or 4c nor isomerization of 5 to 6 was observed at ambient or elevated temperature in dimethyl sulfoxide. The results provide the first evidence that complexes of η⁵,κP,κL-cyclopentadienyl-phosphine-donor ligands are configurationally stable at high temperature.

text: 1,2-Bis{(pentafluorophenyl)phenylphosphino}ethane:  A Probe for Configurational Stability in Three-Legged Piano Stool Complexes The pentafluorophenyl-substituted diphosphine (C₆F₅)PhPCH₂CH₂PPh(C₆F₅) has been prepared, as a 1:1.7 mixture of rac (1a) and meso (1b) isomers, in four steps from dppe. The reaction between [Cp*RhCl(μ-Cl)]2 and 1 in the presence of tetrafluoroborate yielded a mixture of racemic diastereoisomers of [Cp*RhCl(κP,κP-1a)][BF₄] (4a•BF₄) and trans and cis isomers of [Cp*RhCl(κP,κP-1b)][BF₄] (4b•BF₄ and 4c•BF₄, respectively). On addition of Proton Sponge, 4a and 4c, in which at least one pentafluorophenyl group is close to the pentamethylcyclopentadienyl ligand, underwent rapid dehydrofluorinative carbon−carbon coupling giving trans- and cis-[{η⁵,κP,κP-C₅Me₄CH₂C₆F₄-2-PPhCH₂CH₂PPh(C₆F₅)}RhCl]⁺ (5 and 6), respectively. The latter underwent further dehydrofluorinative carbon−carbon coupling to give two isomers of [{η⁵,κP,κP-C₅Me₃[CH₂C₆F₄-2-PPhCH₂]₂}RhCl]+ (7). Isomerization of 4b to 4c was observed in chloroform and dimethlysulfoxide. Neither isomerization of 4a to 4b or 4c nor isomerization of 5 to 6 was observed at ambient or elevated temperature in dimethyl sulfoxide. The results provide the first evidence that complexes of η⁵,κP,κL-cyclopentadienyl-phosphine-donor ligands are configurationally stable at high temperature.

year: 2006