TY - CHAP
T1 - Māori perspectives on social work disaster practice
AU - Adamson, Carole
AU - Mlcek, Susan
AU - Ikkala, Shirley
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2025 selection and editorial matter, Carole Adamson, Margaret Alston, Bindi Bennett, Jennifer Boddy, Heather Boetto, Louise Harms, and Raewyn Tudor.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - Indigenous communities draw upon their deep-rooted knowledge of the land and environment to inform their responses to disasters. This knowledge, passed down through generations, shapes disaster planning, preparation, response, and recovery, integrating them into social, environmental, and cultural practices. However, in multicultural contexts, the challenge lies in recognising, honouring, and integrating this existing knowledge within dominant disaster response frameworks. Social work, inclusive of Indigenous perspectives, has the potential to serve as an active agent in disaster practice. The earthquakes in Canterbury, Aotearoa New Zealand, from 2010 to 2011, were extensively researched to incorporate Māori perspectives but lacked a social work dimension. This chapter aims to bridge this gap by leveraging existing research from various disciplines alongside the authors’ bicultural and social work perspectives. Through this lens, it explores the understanding of social work and disaster practice within Indigenous contexts.
AB - Indigenous communities draw upon their deep-rooted knowledge of the land and environment to inform their responses to disasters. This knowledge, passed down through generations, shapes disaster planning, preparation, response, and recovery, integrating them into social, environmental, and cultural practices. However, in multicultural contexts, the challenge lies in recognising, honouring, and integrating this existing knowledge within dominant disaster response frameworks. Social work, inclusive of Indigenous perspectives, has the potential to serve as an active agent in disaster practice. The earthquakes in Canterbury, Aotearoa New Zealand, from 2010 to 2011, were extensively researched to incorporate Māori perspectives but lacked a social work dimension. This chapter aims to bridge this gap by leveraging existing research from various disciplines alongside the authors’ bicultural and social work perspectives. Through this lens, it explores the understanding of social work and disaster practice within Indigenous contexts.
KW - Māori, disaster management
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85211264631
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85211264631#tab=citedBy
UR - https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-International-Handbook-of-Social-Work-and-Disaster-Pract/Adamson-Alston-Bennett-Boddy-Boetto-Harms-Tudor/p/book/9781032310763
U2 - 10.4324/9781003309208-5
DO - 10.4324/9781003309208-5
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
AN - SCOPUS:85211264631
SN - 9781032310763
VL - 1
T3 - Routledge International Handbooks
SP - 47
EP - 58
BT - The Routledge International Handbook of Social Work and Disaster Practice
A2 - Adamson, Carole
A2 - Alston, Margaret
A2 - Bennett, Bindi
A2 - Boddy, Jennifer
A2 - Boetto, Heather
A2 - Harms, Louise
A2 - Tudor, Raewyn
PB - Routledge
CY - Oxon & New Yotk
ER -