Maria Bargh is from the Te Arawa/Ngāti Awa tribes and is Head of School and Senior Lecturer in Te Kawa a Māui/School of Māori Studies, Victoria University of Wellington. Her research interests focus on Māori politics, including constitutional change and Māori representation, voting in local and general elections, and the Māori economy including hidden and diverse economies. She also researches on matters related to Māori resources, such as freshwater, mining and renewable energy.Avril Bell is an Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her research is focused particularly on Aotearoa/New Zealand and centres on issues of settler colonialism, indigenous-settler relations and possibilities for decolonisation. She is the author of Relating Indigenous and settler identities: Beyond domination (2014, Palgrave Macmillan) and many journal articles and book chapters on these topics. Cathryn Eatock is a Gayiri/Badtjala woman, with ancestral connections to the lands of central Queensland, Australia. Cathryn is a PhD Candidate within the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney, following her completion of a Master in Human Rights. Cathryn is also the Chairperson of the Indigenous Peoples Organisation, a coalition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations and individuals in Australia that advocates for Indigenous rights, nationally and at the United Nations.Daphne Habibis is an Associate Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, and former Deputy Director of the Institute for the Study of Social Change at the University of Tasmania. The common thread throughout her career has been a concern with social inequality, with the last decade focusing on social housing and Indigenous issues, including race relations and remote Indigenous housing. She has over 60 publications and is co-author of Social inequality in Australia: Discourses, realities and futures (2009, Oxford Unversity Press), as well as Australia's best-selling sociology textbook Sociology (2016, 6th edition, Pearson). Daphne combines theoretical, scholarly work with applied policy analysis. Her recent work examined how housing provision to remote communities is at the intersection between Aboriginal aspirations for self-determination and the state's agenda of active citizenship for Aboriginal people. Earlier work included developing a research agenda on kindness as an ethical emotion that extends beyond the interpersonal to institutional domains. Current projects include an Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute study on how housing is implicated in improving outcomes for women and children in situations of family violence, and an ARC Linkage grant that asks Aboriginal people for their views on settler Australian people and culture.
PrefaceThe retreat of nation states from recognition of indigenous peoples' rights in the 21st century has been experienced within a broader ascent of politics, which has been framed within the rubric of neoliberalism.In November 2016,...