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View article: “It Has Totally Changed How I Think About the Police”: COVID-19 and the Mis/Trust of Pandemic Policing in Aotearoa New Zealand
“It Has Totally Changed How I Think About the Police”: COVID-19 and the Mis/Trust of Pandemic Policing in Aotearoa New Zealand Open
In the initial phase of COVID-19, Aotearoa New Zealand was internationally praised for its pandemic response that included lockdowns to control the spread and work toward elimination. Community compliance with control measures was thus ess…
View article: Critical engagements on <i>Making Kin not Population</i>: An epistolary review essay
Critical engagements on <i>Making Kin not Population</i>: An epistolary review essay Open
Anxiety about humans (over)reproducing has mobilized global capital and biomedical interventions, from hormonal contraceptives to sterilizations, historically as well as in the contemporary moment. It has allowed wealthier states to stand …
View article: The Research Imagination During COVID-19: Rethinking Norms of Group Size and Authorship in Anthropological and Anthropology-Adjacent Collaborations
The Research Imagination During COVID-19: Rethinking Norms of Group Size and Authorship in Anthropological and Anthropology-Adjacent Collaborations Open
This article explores some of the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has served as a collective critical event for anthropologists and other social scientists, examining how it has promoted new configurations of the research imagination. …
View article: ‘The most difficult time of my life’ or ‘COVID’s gift to me’? Differential experiences of COVID-19 funerary restrictions in Aotearoa New Zealand
‘The most difficult time of my life’ or ‘COVID’s gift to me’? Differential experiences of COVID-19 funerary restrictions in Aotearoa New Zealand Open
In 2020, the government of Aotearoa New Zealand imposed some of the most stringent funerary restrictions in the world as part of its efforts to eliminate COVID-19. This article explores how people experienced this situation, asking why res…
View article: Borders and Borderlands: (Re)negotiating biomedicine, belonging, and nation
Borders and Borderlands: (Re)negotiating biomedicine, belonging, and nation Open
This special issue takes as its primary theoretical touchstone cultural, queer, and feminist theorist Gloria Anzaldúa's La Frontera (2007), a text that interrogated Anzaldúa's own 'mestiza consciousness' to theorise the multiplying and hyb…
View article: Community healthcare workers’ experiences during and after COVID-19 lockdown: a qualitative study from Aotearoa New Zealand
Community healthcare workers’ experiences during and after COVID-19 lockdown: a qualitative study from Aotearoa New Zealand Open
Shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic reached Aotearoa New Zealand, a stringent lockdown lasting seven weeks was introduced to manage community spread of the virus. This paper reports the findings of a qualitative study examining how lockdow…
View article: Pathways and obstacles to social recovery following the elimination of SARS-CoV-2 from Aotearoa New Zealand: a qualitative cross-sectional study
Pathways and obstacles to social recovery following the elimination of SARS-CoV-2 from Aotearoa New Zealand: a qualitative cross-sectional study Open
Background Many public health experts have claimed that elimination strategies of pandemic response allow ‘normal social life’ to resume. Recognizing that social connections and feelings of normality are important for public health, this s…
View article: Social relationships and activities following elimination of SARS-CoV-2: a qualitative cross-sectional study
Social relationships and activities following elimination of SARS-CoV-2: a qualitative cross-sectional study Open
Objectives To investigate how successfully SARS-CoV-2 elimination strategies fulfil their promise of allowing a return to a ‘normal’ social life, and to identify obstacles and challenges that may inhibit the realisation of this goal. Desig…
View article: Reflections on an action-oriented workshop: How can more of our professors be Māori and Pasifika?
Reflections on an action-oriented workshop: How can more of our professors be Māori and Pasifika? Open
There is a chronic underrepresentation of Māori and Pacific academics in our university sector in Aotearoa New Zealand. Sitting behind the disparity are a range of practices that support some groups in Aotearoa New Zealand to succeed and m…
View article: Lockdown Ibuism: Experiences of Indonesian Migrant Mothers during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Aotearoa New Zealand
Lockdown Ibuism: Experiences of Indonesian Migrant Mothers during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Aotearoa New Zealand Open
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View article: (Alter)narratives of ‘winning’: Supermarket and healthcare workers’ experiences of COVID19 in Aotearoa New Zealand
(Alter)narratives of ‘winning’: Supermarket and healthcare workers’ experiences of COVID19 in Aotearoa New Zealand Open
COVID-19 stories, especially from Aotearoa New Zealand as one of the leading nations ‘winning’ over the virus will be important historical documentation. The ‘team of 5 million’ is writing its narratives of life with/out COVID-19 – stories…
View article: Negotiating risks and responsibilities during lockdown: ethical reasoning and affective experience in Aotearoa New Zealand
Negotiating risks and responsibilities during lockdown: ethical reasoning and affective experience in Aotearoa New Zealand Open
Over forty-nine days of Level 4 and Level 3 lockdown, residents of Aotearoa New Zealand were subject to ‘stay home’ regulations that restricted physical contact to members of the same social ‘bubble’. This article examines their moral deci…
View article: Editorial
Editorial Open
When the journal launched last year, it was not a culmination, but rather a start: of generative conversations, of relationships with a readership interested in the intrinsic political potential of commoning with/in ethnographic practice. …
View article: Introduction: Labours of Collaboration
Introduction: Labours of Collaboration Open
The four pieces in this section are innovative collaborations at various levels, ranging from anthropologists collaborating with communities to collaborative presentations as a way to subvert hierarchies and Euro-centric modes of being wit…
View article: An Editor's Farewell
An Editor's Farewell Open
Editor's Farewell from Nayantara Sheoran Appleton.
View article: Call for Papers
Call for Papers Open
We are pleased to open submissions for Issue 2, to be published December 2019. We accept standard research articles (6,000-8,000 words), as well as a range of other collaborative, creative and exploratory works (see out website for details…
View article: Ethnographic Frontiers: Of Things, Places, and Animals
Ethnographic Frontiers: Of Things, Places, and Animals Open
The frontier, in western imaginary, is the paradoxical space of romantic conquest and simultaneously unbridled dangers. It serves both to showcase the potentialities of futures that can be created and also the inherent dangers present in t…
View article: Feminist Commons and Techno-Scientific Futures
Feminist Commons and Techno-Scientific Futures Open
There have been sustained conversations within eco-feminism and feminist materialism about the way reproduction, ecologies, and everyday life for women is rendered visible and important within the commons. However, there has been a lack of…
View article: Unsettling the (presumed) settled: Contents and Discontents of Contraception in Aotearoa New Zealand
Unsettling the (presumed) settled: Contents and Discontents of Contraception in Aotearoa New Zealand Open
In January 2017, New Zealand’s medicines and medical devices safety authority, Medsafe, announced in a press release that its Medicines Classification Committee (MCC) had recommended a reclassification of certain oral contraceptives in ord…