Projects

Construction Workshops with Uku

Expertise: 
Science / Engineering, Traditional Knowledge

Year: 2003
Primary Investigator(s): Dr Kepa Morgan

This research project developed from a need to solve a problem for Māori: to find a more cost-efficient, sustainable building technology than timber for papakāinga housing.

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Kepa Morgan

Contested Boundaries: Indigenous Peoples, Tourism and Protected Areas in Canada and New Zealand.

Expertise: 
Environment, History, Policy & Planning, Social Science, Tourism & Hospitality, Traditional Knowledge

Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Insight Development Grant (2016-2018)

Co-Investigators: Dr Courtney Mason (Thompson Rivers University), William Snow (Nakoda Consultation, Alberta) .

This international collaboration is a comparative study of how Indigenous communities in Western Canada and New Zealand are reasserting their cultural rights in the co-management and management of national parks and protected areas with a focus on issues relating to policy/planning input, consultation, representation and empowerment.

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Anna Carr (Thompson-Carr)

Exploring a Māori classificatory system of flora and fauna within Tainui waka

Expertise: 
Biology / Biotechnology, Traditional Knowledge

For many years, the knowledge of indigenous peoples has been the preserve of Western anthropologists and ethnographers. Like other indigenous people, Māori are concerned with the ongoing neglect, misuse and erosion of traditional ecological knowledge. This is further compounded by the loss of key knowledge holders over the years and their scarcity today.

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Tom Roa

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

Expertise: 
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

Haka and hula representations in tourism

Expertise: 
Indigenous Development, Traditional Knowledge

 Haka and hula performances tell stories that represent histories, traditions, protocols and customs of the Māori and Hawai’ian people and give insight into their lives and the way that they see the world. The way that haka and hula performances are represented is being tested, as the dynamics of the tourism industry impact upon and influence the art forms. If allowed, these impacts and influences can affect the performances and thus manipulate or change the way that haka and hula are represented.

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Acushla O'Carroll

He Ahuwhenua Taketake: Indigenous agroecology

Expertise: 
Environment, Traditional Knowledge

Agroecology applies ecological principles to agricultural systems. Indigenous agroecology is an opportunity for mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) to inform and generate innovation in farm practices. It focuses on guardianship of the land and the waters that flow through it, based on the traditional and contemporary experience of Māori agricultural practitioners.

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Marion Johnson