Pita King

Doctor of Philosophy, (Psychology)
Study Completed: 2019
College of Humanities & Social Sciences

Citation

Thesis Title
Māori ways-of-being: Addressing cultural disruption through everyday socio-cultural practices of [re]connection

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Indigenous scholars have endeavoured to retheorise the foundations, focus, and methods used within the discipline of psychology in an effort to construct psychologies that are more reflective of their own cosmologies and contexts. Mr King’s thesis contributed to this tradition by exploring the ways in which mainstream psychology, and its underlying philosophical assumptions, can disrupt Indigenous peoples’ attempts to articulate our own understandings of being. His thesis strengthened understandings of how M?ori subjectivities develop and shift in response to the socio-cultural conditions and structural inequalities that many of our communities continue to face. It achieved this by providing insight into how urban M?ori construct and reproduce novel, creative, and culturally grounded strategies for dealing with colonial disruptions.

Supervisors
Professor Darrin Hodgetts
Dr Mohi Rua
Professor Mandy Morgan