New Zealanders have long-standing and multifaceted relationships with coasts, including recreation activities in, on and by the water. Leisure scholarship to date has paid little attention to outdoor recreation in…continue reading
Health
Too many Māori and Asian people are drowning – can better cultural understanding reverse the trend?
By: Belinda Wheaton & Lucen Liu
Published: 2022-12-20
Many New Zealanders consider the beach to be a great place for leisure activities. Despite our love of the water, New Zealanders have a terrible record of drowning deaths. Water…continue reading
Ethnicity and Diversity
Mainland Chinese firstgeneration immigrants and New Zealanders’ views on sport participation, race/ ethnicity and the body: Does sport participation enhance cultural understandings?
By: Richard Pringle and Lucen Liu
Published: 2023-03-11
This study set within the superdiverse city of Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand examined how mainland Chinese first-generation immigrants and Pākehā (white New Zealanders) discursively understood each other in the context of…continue reading