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100 Māori Leaders

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100 Māori Leaders

A multi-media and new media resource celebrating existing Māori leadership. Māori speaking about Māori, who are leaders in Aotearoa / New Zealand.

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Margaret Wilkie

A Respository of Knowledge: Maatauranga Maori

Expertise:

Environment, Indigenous Development, Kaupapa Māori Research, Law / Justice, Science / Engineering, Te Reo Māori, Tikanga - Maori Customs, Traditional Knowledge

The purpose of this project is to create a repository of knowledge for all information identified as mātauranga Māori. Having this knowledge recorded and collected within the Sustainable Seas
Challenge will help identify where mātauranga Māori has been used to integrate with other knowledge frameworks, and how it contributed to the distinctive products, processes, systems and services of the Challenge. Other factors that would be captured:
• The source of the mātauranga Māori (who the knowledge came from).

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James Whetu

Food Sovereignty from an Indigenous perspective: Case studies of Maori of Aotearoa and Quechua peoples of Peru

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Agriculture / Botany, Business & Economics, Environment, Indigenous Development, Kaupapa Māori Research, Law / Justice, Policy & Planning, Tikanga - Maori Customs, Traditional Knowledge

Region:

New Zealand

My PhD topic addresses the question: Is Indigenous knowledge able to contribute to food security?

This PhD thesis investigates how the knowledge possessed by Indigenous people – New Zealand Māori and Peruvian Andeans – can contribute to improving food security. . This comparative research focuses on the Māori principle of ‘Te Ātanoho’ or ‘good life’ and ‘Sumaq Kawsay’, the Andean principle of ‘good living’. I am investigating traditional food production from an Indigenous perspective.

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Mariaelena Huambachano

Generations: How identity, equality and participation impact the realization of indigenous education rights

Expertise:

Education, Indigenous Development, Law / Justice

The main aim of my doctoral research is to show that specifically indigenous education rights are crucial to the realization of equality in education and other fundamental rights and freedoms for indigenous people. In contrast to prevailing American jurisprudence on discrimination and the kind of rhetoric present in the 2004 Foreshore and Seabed saga which relies on an anonymous model of the liberal individual, I will argue that recognizing and protecting specifically indigenous education rights actually combats discrimination and enhances substantial equality.

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