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He kanohi kitea, he ringa raupā: A guide to collaborative research with your own people

Expertise: 
History, Tikanga - Maori Customs, Traditional Knowledge
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Dennis Ngāwhare

How do we return the mauri to its pre-Rena state?

Expertise: 
Environment, Traditional Knowledge

Year: 2012
Primary Investigator(s): Dr Kepa Morgan
Organisation: The University of Auckland

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Kepa Morgan

International Network on Indigenous Knowledge, Risk Interpretation and Action

Expertise: 
Environment, History, Indigenous Development, Policy & Planning, Psychology / Mental Health, Social Science, Traditional Knowledge
Region: 
International

This project will involve collecting, synthesizing and sharing data on indigenous knowledge - including worldviews, experiences, practices and approaches – related to risk perception, interpretation and action facing both man-made and natural disasters and climate change in five countries. The four ISSC scholars that participated in the RIA seminar in New Zealand, plus invited Maori scholar Dr. Simon Lambert, will develop structured study-cases focusing on their regions, and share them during a workshop to be organized at University of Florida in the second semester of 2014.

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Simon Lambert

Kanakana harvest mātauranga: Potential tools to monitor population trends on the Waikawa River, Southland/Murihiku?

Expertise: 
Environment, Tikanga - Maori Customs, Traditional Knowledge

The population of kanakana (piharau, lamprey) is poorly understood and believed to be declining. In Murihiku concern for this taonga species led to this research in the Waikawa River.

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Jane Kitson

Ko Te Houhanga a Rongo Marae tōku tūrangawaewae: In search of a philosophical standing place for indigenous development

Expertise: 
Indigenous Development, Tikanga - Maori Customs, Traditional Knowledge

Dominant paradigms of development assume a linear progression from one established point to another. These paradigms do not take into account the complexity of indigenous voice, spirit and ways of being-in-the-world, leaving indigenous peoples without a meaningful place to

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Samantha Jackson
Michael Hennessy