Theorizing Māori-Philippine Solidarities Through Punk Rock Pedagogy

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Abstract

This article utilizes punk rock pedagogy (PRP), or the ways in which countercultural and decolonial ontologies are developed in punk subculture, to theorize Māori-Philippine relations in Aotearoa. It uses an agential realist methodology to engage with the creative works of TOOMS, James Roque, and Marianne Infante (three New Zealand performing artists of Philippine ancestry). These works are theorized in show how contemporary artists are reviving the ancestral bonds that once linked the Philippines and the Pacific. This paper serves as a provocation for practitioners of multicultural and decolonizing education, as theorizing Māori-Philippine relations through punk rock shows what Indigenous and immigrant peoples stand to gain when they decenter the colonizer and prioritize communing with one another.

Author

• Noah Romero, Hampshire College
  Presenting Author