Over the past several blog posts, we have examined mostly media articles about disability in New Zealand.

This blog post is different.

To better understand how disability intersects with inclusion with the rest of marginalised groups within a society, it’s necessary to break the population down even further.

Disability is a collective group, but it also contains individuals with varied life experiences and cultural identities.

These are often not taken into consideration with the current social and medical models of disabilities adopted by most western cultures.

As NZ prides itself on being a bicultural nation, I wanted to find out how its indigenous Maori people viewed disability.

An article in the open access journal, MAI Journal which publishes peer reviewed multidisciplinary articles which critically analyses indigenous and Pacific issues in the context of Aotearoa New Zealand.

This 2017 article examines disability from the Maori perspective.

http://aut.researchgateway.ac.nz/handle/10292/10678

 

 

MAIJrnl_6_1__Hickey_02a.pdf

WHÄNAU HAUÄ

Reframing disability from an Indigenous perspective

Huhana Hickey* Denise Wilson†