%0 Journal Article
%T Kaupapa K┃rero: a M─ori cultural approach to narrative inquiry
%A Felicity Ware
%A Margaret Forster
%A Mary Breheny
%J AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples
%@ 1174-1740
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1177180117744810
%X In Indigenous culture, stories are a common repository of knowledge and facilitate the process of knowing. M─ori academics (Indigenous to Aotearoa New Zealand) have developed approaches based on key principles of M─ori research, oral traditions and narrative inquiry to express experiences as M─ori. To extend this, a M─ori approach called Kaupapa K┃rero was developed to gather, present and understand M─ori experiences. The application of whakapapa (genealogy) as a relational analytical framework provided a way of identifying personal k┃rero (stories) and integrating them within layers of interrelated k┃rero about their wh─nau (family), te ao M─ori (M─ori culture) and society that influences contemporary experiences of being M─ori. Whakapapa also enabled a cross-examination of k┃rero and identification of common intersecting factors such as M─ori ethnicity, age, parenting status and socioeconomic position. This M─ori narrative approach revealed a more complex and nuanced understanding of the interrelatedness and influence of societal expectations, indigeneity, M─ori culture and wh─nau
%K narrative inquiry
%K Indigenous methodology
%K M─ori research
%K p┗r─kau
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1177180117744810