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    Affective encounters with digital knowledge collections : towards supporting Indigenous wellbeing.
    (Sage, 2026) Lipscombe, Ailsa; Liew, Li Chern
    Building on discussions in the Information Sciences on responsibility and decolonizing digitization, we emphasize how cultural context is key, not only for understanding matauranga Maori [Maori Indigenous knowledge], but also for ethically and compassionately caring for such knowledges in Aotearoa New Zealand. Our korero [dialogues] with Maori archival users highlight the intricate ways digital knowledge collections are embedded within—and accessed through—webs of social practices, including those that support intergenerational knowledge transmission, whanaugatanga [kinship] and turangawaewae [one’s connection to self through place]. We introduce the concept of “awhi”—meaning to support, cherish, or nurture—to frame the ethical archiving of matauranga Maori in Aotearoa New Zealand. We contend that awhi is an interpersonal invitation to center dynamic relational partnerships, guided in the Aotearoa context by the tikanga [customary practices or behaviors], kawa [protocols], and whanonga pono [values] that our communities find meaningful. Keywords Decolonization, digital archiving, emotionality, ethics of care, Indigeneity, relationality