Maori Women’s Political and Cultural Convictions: Shaping the Academy

• In Event: Roundtable Session 60
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Abstract

Maori Political and Cultural Convictions- Shaping the Academy.

Donna Gardiner
Aroha Harris

In Aotearoa New Zealand, Maori women have participated within, alongside and outside of mainstream organisations often as a means of negotiating access to power – social, cultural, economic and political power.
In this joint paper, Maori women with shared experiences of the 1980s Maori Women’s Movement reflect on the past and present of Maori women’s activism and leadership in community and the academy.
With Kaupapa Maori methodology as the analytical framework, this research discusses the achievements of “Te Amorangi” women whose political and cultural convictions continue to resonate in community and the academy.

Reflections on how Maori women’s activism in the academy might shape the Maori 21st century?

Authors

• Donna Ngaronoa Gardiner, New Zealand's Indigenous Centre of Research Excellence.NPM

• Aroha Harris, The University of Auckland