Huritanga mo te mauri ora: braided rivers and pluriversal planetary wellbeing

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Huritanga mo te mauri ora

Amanda Yates
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June 2024

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Wellbeing concepts are increasingly central to ecological regeneration and urban discourse. In industrial modern or settler contexts, wellbeing is normally framed anthropocentrically as relating to the human. Taking a pluriversal approach, this chapter explores place- based Indigenous- Māori wellbeing concepts. The aim here is to decolonize and indigenize wellbeing thinking to give force to Indigenous voice and actions for the salutary. The chapter explores how an indigenous- Māori ethic of mauri ora [more- than- human wellbeing] can interface productively with a planetary ‘boundaries’ model to draw attention to and frame actions for planetary wellbeing. The chapter asserts the importance of place- based wellbeing concepts and links human and non- human wellbeing together as an indissoluble whole.

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