by admin | Apr 7, 2015 | Aotearoa New Zealand, Cultural safety, Inequalities, Migration, Multiculturalism, Nursing, Power relations, Racism, Refugees, Te Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of Waitangi, Writing
Very excited about the 2nd Edition of Cultural safety in Aotearoa New Zealand being published by Cambridge Press in December 2015. I’ve contributed two chapters and I have excerpted the introduction of each chapter below: 8. Navigating the ethical in cultural...
by admin | Sep 8, 2014 | Colonialism, Cultural safety, Indigenous, Inequalities, language, Media, Nursing, Racism, Te Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of Waitangi, Writing
Nairn, DeSouza, Moewaka Barnes, Rankine, Borell, and McCreanor (2014). Nursing in media-saturated societies: implications for cultural safety in nursing practice in Aotearoa New Zealand. Journal of Research in Nursing September 19:...
by admin | May 7, 2013 | Mental health, Nursing, Professional development, Te Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of Waitangi
Here’s an excerpt from a chapter I wrote on culture/ethnicity and supervision, the paragraph seems more than apt these days. “We don’t colonise, these days, through the barrel of a gun, but through the comfortable words of those who change the hearts, minds and...
by admin | Dec 27, 2012 | Colonialism, Indigenous, Inequalities, Migration, Multiculturalism, Power relations, Te Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of Waitangi, Women, Writing
When my parents were considering migrating from East Africa, their focus was on the white settler contexts of Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States. For a bunch of reasons I won’t go into here, they settled on Aotearoa New Zealand. A part of me...
by admin | Aug 2, 2012 | Cultural safety, Feminism, Indigenous, Inequalities, Migration, Multiculturalism, Nursing, Power relations, Professional development, Racism, Te Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of Waitangi, Women, Writing
This is a lengthier version of an editorial published in this month’s Kai Tiaki New Zealand Nursing Journal. It is based on an invited address I gave at the 10th Annual Conference of the Women’s Health Section:’Divine Secrets of the Sisterhood’...
by admin | Oct 3, 2011 | Africa, Colonialism, Goa, Indians, Migration, Te Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of Waitangi, Writing
This piece was originally published at Tangatawhenua.com http://news.tangatawhenua.com/archives/14051 On October 3rd 2011 as part of the series: Are we there yet? These articles are being written as a prelude to the election in November, and focus on the ‘wish list’...