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9:00am NZST

Indigenous Humanism(S) Against Colonial Inhumanity

Monday July 6, 2026 9:00am - 10:25am NZST

“I say that between colonialism and civilisation there is an infinite distance; that out of all the colonial expeditions that have been undertaken, out of all the colonial statutes that have been drawn up, out of all the memoranda that have been dispatched by all the ministries, there could not come a single human value.”
Aimé Césaire, 1955, Discourse on Colonialism
This paper interrogates the possibility that today, in this moment marked by genocide, violence, and the collapse of international law, by imperialist expansion and the return to colonial subjugation, humanity must be found elsewhere and elsewhen. Through examining the absent humanity inherent in any project born of colonial violence and imperialist expansion this paper turns to Oceanian futurisms and liberation movements as the prospective horizons for resurgent Indigenous humanisms. As such, reading Césaire’s diagnosis of colonialism alongside the liberatory theory of Oceanian freedom fighters, this paper concludes with a reflection on the prospect of humanity lying in rebellion against the order which has birthed and sustains these moments of genocidal and imperial violence.

Chair

Georgina Tuari Stewart

Professor of Māori Philosophy of Education, Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makau Rau | Auckland University of Technology

Speakers

Nathan Rew

University of Waikato

Nathan Rew is a Papua New Guinean/Pākehā activist and academic, and a lecturer of Indigenous Studies in Te Pua Wānanga ki te Ao – the Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Studies at the University of Waikato.

Monday July 6, 2026 9:00am - 10:25am NZST
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AAP 2026 CONFERENCE

9:00am NZST

Georgina Tuari Stewart

Nathan Rew

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