Institutional ethnography (IE) lends itself to exploring tensions and disjunctures arising in our social worlds, providing the opportunity to explicate how institutional processes are organising our everyday actions. This explication raises into consciousness how authorised and, in our reflection, colonial knowledge practices are perpetuating injustices by devaluing and marginalising Māori (the Indigenous people or tāngata whenua). We enter this ethnographical reflection grounded in the ontology of IE as New Zealand embarks on a(nother) era of health reforms under Te Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act (2022). As co-leaders (one Māori, one Tauiwi/ non-Māori) and a Māori academic, of a national workforce programme to increase Māori nurse practitioners (NPs) working in communities, we explore our deep unease as to how the reforms, with their intent to promote equity, are being enacted. Our work is textually organised by Te Tiriti o Waitangi, New Zealand’s founding document, which should guide all public sector work. Te Tiriti principles require tino rangatiratanga (Māori self-determination); equity; active protection of Te Ao Māori (Māori worldview); options for kaupapa Māori health services (for Māori by Māori); and partnership where Māori co-design systems, processes, and models of care using Mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge).
In this session, we explore our experiences as we are caught up in (and endeavour to resist) how the institutional practices are seeking to organise our actions; how our knowledge and experience is marginalised and devalued; and how ruling institutional relations are perpetuating colonising and racist practices. We reflect on how IE offers a lens to not only explicate the disjunctures we experience, but offers a pragmatic approach to challenging the institutional processes being adopted at a national level. We too reflect upon the existence of favoritism within the health sector and how this is being used to perpetuate the status quo and retain organisational power.
Institutional ethnography (IE) lends itself to exploring tensions and disjunctures arising in our social worlds, providing the opportunity to explicate how institutional processes are organising our everyday actions. This explication raises into consciousness how authorised and, in our reflection, colonial knowledge practices are perpetuating injustices by devaluing and marginalising Māori (the Indigenous people or tāngata whenua). We enter this ethnographical reflection grounded in the ontology of IE as New Zealand embarks on a(nother) era of health reforms under Te Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act (2022). As co-leaders (one Māori, one Tauiwi/ non-Māori) and a Māori academic, of a national workforce programme to increase Māori nurse practitioners (NPs) working in communities, we explore our deep unease as to how the reforms, with their intent to promote equity, are being enacted. Our work is textually organised by Te Tiriti o Waitangi, New Zealand’s founding document, which should guide all public sector work. Te Tiriti principles require tino rangatiratanga (Māori self-determination); equity; active protection of Te Ao Māori (Māori worldview); options for kaupapa Māori health services (for Māori by Māori); and partnership where Māori co-design systems, processes, and models of care using Mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge).
In this session, we explore our experiences as we are caught up in (and endeavour to resist) how the institutional practices are seeking to organise our actions; how our knowledge and experience is marginalised and devalued; and how ruling institutional relations are perpetuating colonising and racist practices. We reflect on how IE offers a lens to not only explicate the disjunctures we experience, but offers a pragmatic approach to challenging the institutional processes being adopted at a national level. We too reflect upon the existence of favoritism within the health sector and how this is being used to perpetuate the status quo and retain organisational power.
Institutional ethnography (IE) lends itself to exploring tensions and disjunctures arising in our social worlds, providing the opportunity to explicate how institutional processes are organising our everyday actions. This explication raises into consciousness how authorised and, in our reflection, colonial knowledge practices are perpetuating injustices by devaluing and marginalising Māori (the Indigenous people or tāngata whenua). We enter this ethnographical reflection grounded in the ontology of IE as New Zealand embarks on a(nother) era of health reforms under Te Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act (2022). As co-leaders (one Māori, one Tauiwi/ non-Māori) and a Māori academic, of a national workforce programme to increase Māori nurse practitioners (NPs) working in communities, we explore our deep unease as to how the reforms, with their intent to promote equity, are being enacted. Our work is textually organised by Te Tiriti o Waitangi, New Zealand’s founding document, which should guide all public sector work. Te Tiriti principles require tino rangatiratanga (Māori self-determination); equity; active protection of Te Ao Māori (Māori worldview); options for kaupapa Māori health services (for Māori by Māori); and partnership where Māori co-design systems, processes, and models of care using Mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge).
In this session, we explore our experiences as we are caught up in (and endeavour to resist) how the institutional practices are seeking to organise our actions; how our knowledge and experience is marginalised and devalued; and how ruling institutional relations are perpetuating colonising and racist practices. We reflect on how IE offers a lens to not only explicate the disjunctures we experience, but offers a pragmatic approach to challenging the institutional processes being adopted at a national level. We too reflect upon the existence of favoritism within the health sector and how this is being used to perpetuate the status quo and retain organisational power.
Keywords
Indigenous
colonisation
institutional ethnography
nurse practitioner
Institutional ethnography (IE) lends itself to exploring tensions and disjunctures arising in our social worlds, providing the opportunity to explicate how institutional processes are organising our everyday actions. This explication raises into consciousness how authorised and, in our reflection, colonial knowledge practices are perpetuating injustices by devaluing and marginalising Māori (the Indigenous people or tāngata whenua). We enter this ethnographical reflection grounded in the ontology of IE as New Zealand embarks on a(nother) era of health reforms under Te Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act (2022). As co-leaders (one Māori, one Tauiwi/ non-Māori) and a Māori academic, of a national workforce programme to increase Māori nurse practitioners (NPs) working in communities, we explore our deep unease as to how the reforms, with their intent to promote equity, are being enacted. Our work is textually organised by Te Tiriti o Waitangi, New Zealand’s founding document, which should guide all public sector work. Te Tiriti principles require tino rangatiratanga (Māori self-determination); equity; active protection of Te Ao Māori (Māori worldview); options for kaupapa Māori health services (for Māori by Māori); and partnership where Māori co-design systems, processes, and models of care using Mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge).
In this session, we explore our experiences as we are caught up in (and endeavour to resist) how the institutional practices are seeking to organise our actions; how our knowledge and experience is marginalised and devalued; and how ruling institutional relations are perpetuating colonising and racist practices. We reflect on how IE offers a lens to not only explicate the disjunctures we experience, but offers a pragmatic approach to challenging the institutional processes being adopted at a national level. We too reflect upon the existence of favoritism within the health sector and how this is being used to perpetuate the status quo and retain organisational power.
Institutional ethnography (IE) lends itself to exploring tensions and disjunctures arising in our social worlds, providing the opportunity to explicate how institutional processes are organising our everyday actions. This explication raises into consciousness how authorised and, in our reflection, colonial knowledge practices are perpetuating injustices by devaluing and marginalising Māori (the Indigenous people or tāngata whenua). We enter this ethnographical reflection grounded in the ontology of IE as New Zealand embarks on a(nother) era of health reforms under Te Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act (2022). As co-leaders (one Māori, one Tauiwi/ non-Māori) and a Māori academic, of a national workforce programme to increase Māori nurse practitioners (NPs) working in communities, we explore our deep unease as to how the reforms, with their intent to promote equity, are being enacted. Our work is textually organised by Te Tiriti o Waitangi, New Zealand’s founding document, which should guide all public sector work. Te Tiriti principles require tino rangatiratanga (Māori self-determination); equity; active protection of Te Ao Māori (Māori worldview); options for kaupapa Māori health services (for Māori by Māori); and partnership where Māori co-design systems, processes, and models of care using Mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge).
In this session, we explore our experiences as we are caught up in (and endeavour to resist) how the institutional practices are seeking to organise our actions; how our knowledge and experience is marginalised and devalued; and how ruling institutional relations are perpetuating colonising and racist practices. We reflect on how IE offers a lens to not only explicate the disjunctures we experience, but offers a pragmatic approach to challenging the institutional processes being adopted at a national level. We too reflect upon the existence of favoritism within the health sector and how this is being used to perpetuate the status quo and retain organisational power.
Institutional ethnography (IE) lends itself to exploring tensions and disjunctures arising in our social worlds, providing the opportunity to explicate how institutional processes are organising our everyday actions. This explication raises into consciousness how authorised and, in our reflection, colonial knowledge practices are perpetuating injustices by devaluing and marginalising Māori (the Indigenous people or tāngata whenua). We enter this ethnographical reflection grounded in the ontology of IE as New Zealand embarks on a(nother) era of health reforms under Te Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act (2022). As co-leaders (one Māori, one Tauiwi/ non-Māori) and a Māori academic, of a national workforce programme to increase Māori nurse practitioners (NPs) working in communities, we explore our deep unease as to how the reforms, with their intent to promote equity, are being enacted. Our work is textually organised by Te Tiriti o Waitangi, New Zealand’s founding document, which should guide all public sector work. Te Tiriti principles require tino rangatiratanga (Māori self-determination); equity; active protection of Te Ao Māori (Māori worldview); options for kaupapa Māori health services (for Māori by Māori); and partnership where Māori co-design systems, processes, and models of care using Mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge).
In this session, we explore our experiences as we are caught up in (and endeavour to resist) how the institutional practices are seeking to organise our actions; how our knowledge and experience is marginalised and devalued; and how ruling institutional relations are perpetuating colonising and racist practices. We reflect on how IE offers a lens to not only explicate the disjunctures we experience, but offers a pragmatic approach to challenging the institutional processes being adopted at a national level. We too reflect upon the existence of favoritism within the health sector and how this is being used to perpetuate the status quo and retain organisational power.
Keywords
Indigenous
colonisation
institutional ethnography
nurse practitioner
