About me
Ko Ngāti Kahungunu ki Heretaunga tōku iwi. I am an Indigenous philosopher and Māori Learning Advisor at the University of Canterbury. My research sits at the intersection of analytic philosophy and Indigenous epistemology. I work on whakapapa as a rigorous philosophical method in its own right, and on what it actually means for Indigenous communities to act with agency within colonial structures.Talk to me about: Indigenous philosophy and whether it belongs in philosophy departments (yes), whakapapa as method, colonial archives as sites of Indigenous resistance, what agency actually requires, philosophy and te reo Māori, or the state of Indigenous Philosophy in Aotearoa. Also happy to talk about academic writing, postgraduate supervision, and why plain language is philosophically superior to jargon.
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