Matariki and the decolonisation of time

Matamua, Rangi

doi:10.4324/9780429440229-7

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“…In a very real way that tradition should be, if you like, the literature review of any research that we do. (p. 61) This mātauranga could include Toi whakairo (carving) (see Mead, 1986), Raranga (weaving) (see Mead, 1968), Kapa haka (contemporary performance) (see Whitinui, 2007), Whaikōrero (oratory) (see Rewi, 2013), Karanga (oratory) (see Houpapa, 2021), Maramataka (astronomy, fishing and gardening calendars) (Matamua, 2017;Roberts et al, 2006;Tāwhai, 2013), Pūrākau (narratives) (see Roberts, 2013), waiata, mōteatea (songs), oriori (genealogies and invested hopes sung to babies) (see Ngata, 2004), intergenerational wisdom, memory and practice (as referenced in Smith et al, 2016). Whakapapa demonstrates how to weave together diverse sets of practices and knowledges to understand Māori epistemology, and can further include conventional scientific literature, academic accounts of mātauranga, and cultural narratives.…”

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(Re)emergence of Pūtaiao: Conceptualising Kaupapa Māori science

Moko-Painting

Hamley

Hikuroa

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Overcoming the long-standing distrust of ‘research’ is especially challenging within the colonial structures of Western science. This article aspires to rise to this challenge by conceptualising Pūtaiao as a form of Indigenous research sovereignty. Grounded in Kaupapa Māori Theory, Pūtaiao is envisioned as a Kaupapa Māori way of doing science in which Indigenous leadership is imperative. It incorporates Māori ways of knowing, being, and doing when undertaking scientific research. An essential element of Pūtaiao is setting a decolonising agenda, drawing from both Kaupapa Māori Theory and Indigenous methodologies. Accordingly, this centres the epistemology, ontology, axiology and positionality of researchers in all research, which informs their research standpoint. This approach speaks back to ontological framings of Western scientific research that restrict Indigenous ways of researching in the scientific academy. Furthermore, Pūtaiao offers tools and language to critique the academic disciplines of Western science which are a colonial construct within the global colonising agenda. As such, the theoretical search for Indigenous science(s) and Indigenising agendas explore the dialogical relationship between both knowledge systems – Kaupapa Māori science and Western science. This relationship necessitates setting a decolonising agenda before an Indigenising agenda can be realised, whereby they are mutually beneficial rather than mutually exclusive. This article is an affirmation of the work and discourse of Indigenous scientists. In this way, Pūtaiao becomes a pathway for asserting Indigenous sovereignty over and redefining scientific research for future generations of Māori and Indigenous researchers.

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(Re)emergence of Pūtaiao: Conceptualising Kaupapa Māori science

Moko-Painting

Hamley

Hikuroa

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“…For many decades Indigenous scholars have highlighted the Western historical and cultural assumptions which underpin academic disciplines and universities. Some of these examinations have become calls to decolonise academic disciplines and universities (Elkington et al, 2020;Gudgeon, 2021;Mataamua, 2021;Moosavi, 2019;Ruru & Nikora, 2021;Tuck & Yang, 2012;Xavier et al, 2021). Some universities and academic disciplines have begun to respond by including Indigenous knowledge, or taking steps towards "decolonising", "indigenising" or "reshaping" their institutions and practices (Battiste & Henderson, 2009;Gaudry & Lorenz, 2018;Kuokkanen, 2007).…”

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Towards a fairer and more ‘tika’ political science and politics: Are political science programs equipping students adequately for Aotearoa realities?

Te One,

Bargh

2023

AJIE

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Social and political change is occurring in Aotearoa New Zealand and tikanga, mātauranga, te reo Māori (the Māori language) and Te Tiriti o Waitangi (Treaty of Waitangi) are increasingly being recognised in diverse political and legal contexts. This article explores whether the political science discipline is keeping pace with these political changes, whether research and course content is adequately reflecting these new realities, and if students are appropriately equipped to participate. In particular, we examine the state of university politics programs and outline the form and quantity of Māori politics in the teaching and research of these programs. From the assessment of the current state of politics programs, we make some observations about what changes may be required to ensure politics programs, their students and academics are fully equipped to work in the unique political and legal landscape of Aotearoa New Zealand. Approximately 1% of political science lecturers are Māori, 1% of content taught can be classified as Māori politics and approximately 1% of publications in the New Zealand Political Science journal can be classified as kaupapa Māori politics. This 1–1–1 crisis provides a bleak picture of the existing arrangements in politics programs in Aotearoa New Zealand and must change.

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“…27 E.g. Finney (1998Finney ( , 1999Finney ( , 2003; Matamua (2017); the on-line work of the Polynesian Voyaging Society and the Society for Maori Astronomy, Research and Traditions; plus many other sources, including those cited in these notes. 28 For a detailed, absorbing account of these exchanges and experiments, see Low (2013).…”

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“…E.g. Finney (1998, 1999, 2003); Matamua (2017); the on-line work of the Polynesian Voyaging Society and the Society for Maori Astronomy, Research and Traditions; plus many other sources, including those cited in these notes.…”

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Star canoes, voyaging worlds

Salmond

2021

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

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This paper explores the realities of voyaging as understood by early Polynesian navigators. The voyaging world of Kaveia, a contemporary navigator from Outlier Polynesia, as recorded by the anthropologist sailor Mimi George, is juxtaposed with those of Tupaia and Puhoro, eighteenth century navigators from the Society Islands, to examine Polynesian understandings of the sea, canoes and islands, and how long-distance voyaging was accomplished in ancestral times. The renaissance in Polynesian voyaging is also examined, in the context of human harm to the oceanic realm, and modernist understandings of relations between people and the sea are interrogated.

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Matariki and the decolonisation of time

Cited by 8 publications

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(Re)emergence of Pūtaiao: Conceptualising Kaupapa Māori science

(Re)emergence of Pūtaiao: Conceptualising Kaupapa Māori science

Towards a fairer and more ‘tika’ political science and politics: Are political science programs equipping students adequately for Aotearoa realities?

Star canoes, voyaging worlds

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