AbstractProfessor Maria Bargh (Te Arawa, Ngāti Awa) is a Professor of Politics and Māori Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. Her research spans a wide range of topics, including Māori political representation, constitutional change, environmental politics, and political economy. Maria's influential work is particularly focused on the intersections of Māori political economy and resource management, including hidden and diverse economies. In addition to her academic contributions, Maria has been actively involved in various governance roles. She has served on the Matike Mai Aotearoa working group on constitutional reform and has been appointed as the Deputy Chair of the Independent Review of Electoral Law.
Recently, Maria and colleagues completed a project that developed an approach to sharing authority between Indigenous and settler systems for environmental management. The report Me Tū ā-uru: for a flourishing and abundant environment drew on a huge range of successful case studies to develop a set of 'pou' or ethical coordinates around which a flourishing and abundant environment could be organised.
In this LIVIANA session, Maria will be in conversation with Kelly Dombroski, reflecting on some of the intersections between Maria's interests in diverse and community economies and her influential work on Māori economic and environmental sovereignty. Associate Professor Kelly Dombroski (Pākehā/settler) works on social, environmental and economic change using feminist geography, diverse economies and community economies approaches in Aotearoa New Zealand and the wider Asia Pacific. Language: English and Te Reo Māori
Find out more:
New Zealand's Biological Heritage National Sicence Challenge Ngā Koiora Tuku Iho Adaptive Governance and Policy Working Group. (2023). Me Tū ā-Uru: Towards a flourishing and abundant environment. https://www.metuauru.co.nz/
Bargh, M., & Tapsell, E. (2021). For a Tika Transition: strengthen rangatiratanga. Policy Quarterly, 17(3).
