Kaihekengaru: Māori Surfers' and a Sense of Place

Waiti, Jordan; Awatere, Shaun

doi:10.2112/si87-004.1

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“…At a more local scale, beaches can be 'colonised' by activity groups such as surfers, fishers or users of off-road vehicles [71]. Therefore, research needs to also consider the different cultural, economic, socio-demographic, and political factors that contribute to a disconnect with particular coastal bluespaces, as well as those that foster connectedness [35,62]. In contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand, as we show below, it is a contested [71,72] and liminal space where cultural and spiritual significance has been increasingly in friction with the 'capture' exerted by real estate and aspirations associated with the capitalist gaze [29].…”

Section: Literature Review: Interdisciplinary Approaches To Understanmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While internationally surfboard riding has since the 1960s become associated with California [100], surf board riding has long had cultural associations with Indigenous people in Polynesia [35,101]. What is less well known is that heke ngaru (surfboard riding) is also a Māori leisure activity that stretches back to the ancestral home of Māori, Hawaiki, and is also infused with heroic and romantic narratives.…”

Section: Aotearoa New Zealand Coastal Blue Spaces and Mātauranga Māorimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…What is less well known is that heke ngaru (surfboard riding) is also a Māori leisure activity that stretches back to the ancestral home of Māori, Hawaiki, and is also infused with heroic and romantic narratives. While surfing participation in Aotearoa over the recent past has been dominated by Pākehā participants, a small number of Māori researchers have begun to seek out and reclaim the narratives and Mātauranga Māori of heke ngaru (some also use the term eke ngaru e.g., [35]). Although there are periods over time when Māori surfers have not been visible, (and there may have been regional differences in participation levels), Māori have a long history of surfing.…”

Section: Aotearoa New Zealand Coastal Blue Spaces and Mātauranga Māorimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Waiti and Awatere [35] found that a sense of place for these kaihekengaru (Māori surfers) related to both the ocean and nearby landmarks. Drawing on the concept of whakapapa, surfing enabled these kaihekengaru to connect with iwi-specific environmental features, their ancestors and the variousātua (Māori deities).…”

Section: Aotearoa New Zealand Coastal Blue Spaces and Mātauranga Māorimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…First, in this island nation in the Southern Hemisphere, people's relationships with blue-ecosystems from rivers and lakes to estuaries and oceans, provide multiple and overlapping cultural, spiritual, recreational, health, and ecological, as well as economic, values and benefits [26][27][28][29][30][31]. Second, research has shown that surfing can create strong bonds between people and places, shaping participants' sense of physical, emotional, spiritual, community, social, and cultural wellbeing, impacting people, communities, 'more-than-humans' [32] and oceans [33][34][35][36][37][38]. Third, Aotearoa New Zealand's bi-cultural [23] context, i.e.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Coastal Communities, Leisure and Wellbeing: Advancing a Trans-Disciplinary Agenda for Understanding Ocean-Human Relationships in Aotearoa New Zealand

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Olive

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Commentators are advocating for research to better understand relationships between healthy coastal ecosystems and human wellbeing. Doing so requires inter- and transdisciplinary approaches across humanities, arts, social sciences, and science and technology disciplines. These approaches include culturally diverse knowledge systems, such as indigenous ones, that locate sustainable use of and relationships to marine ecosystems. This paper contributes to this agenda through a case-study of relationships between coastal ecosystems and human wellbeing in Aotearoa New Zealand. This article highlights interconnected cultural and wellbeing benefits of, and socio-ecological relationships between, these coastal ecosystems drawing on a case study of one ocean-based, ‘immersive’ leisure activity, surfing. Further, it examines how these relationships impact human physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing, and the wellbeing of communities and ecosystems. The research illustrates that surfing creates strong bonds between practitioners and coastal places, linking the health of marine environments and people. We demonstrate the value of a transdisciplinary place-based approach that integrates research across the humanities and social sciences and engages with Indigenous knowledge (Mātauranga Māori). This argument for multicultural co-learning shows the value of Western and Māori vantage points for how we understand coastal blue spaces. Indigenous perspectives, we conclude, deepen appreciation, as well as equity considerations, of how we understand place, wellbeing, and long-term sustainable relationships with marine ecosystems.

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Section: Literature Review: Interdisciplinary Approaches To Understanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Aotearoa New Zealand Coastal Blue Spaces and Mātauranga Māorimentioning

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Section: Aotearoa New Zealand Coastal Blue Spaces and Mātauranga Māorimentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Aotearoa New Zealand Coastal Blue Spaces and Mātauranga Māorimentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Acknowledging and understanding the contributions of nature to human sense of time

Correia

2024

People and Nature

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There is growing evidence that interacting and connecting with nature are essential to maintain human health and well‐being. The benefits of specific nature experiences and the cultural ecosystem services they provide are increasingly being recognized, but many others remain to be discovered and explored. In this perspective piece, I argue that there is a need to better explore the pivotal role of nature experiences in shaping human time perception—our sense of time. Specifically, I outline the main elements of human time perception and the key factors that shape it, describe recent evidence showing that human time perception changes between urban and natural environments and discuss the potential societal gains from developing a better understanding of this relationship. Human time perception is complex and involves at least three key dimensions related to temporal succession, temporal duration and temporal perspective. Time perception is shaped by various contextual factors, including the contents of the time period and the cognitive, emotional and bodily characteristics of the experiencer. There is growing evidence that nature experiences can influence human sense of time by (i) extending human perception of temporal duration and (ii) shifting time perspectives. People who spend time in nature tend to overestimate the length of that experience and show a more positive outlook of the past, present and future, with less focus on a single‐time perspective. In the context of increasing time scarcity in modern urban societies with dire consequences for human health and well‐being, I argue we need a better understanding of how nature experiences shape our sense of time and suggest how future research can provide actionable insights to help restore a healthier and more balanced relationship with time and nature. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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