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Abigail McClutchie (Te Rarawa, Ngāti Porou), The University of Auckland

This research explores ‘mahi rangatira’ as central to Māori entrepreneurship, innovation and risk. Māori have a long history of entrepreneurship indicated by their navigation of Te Moana nui ā Kiwa, the Pacific Ocean. Pere asserts that, “mahi rangatira is doing what is great for the whole; it is serving the people with no hierarchy” (Pere, 2016, April 29). In the context of this study, mahi rangatira is a process which embraces opportunity for entrepreneurial pursuits with the intent of collective well-being  and by its nature, exercising tino rangatiratanga .

This research explores how mahi rangatira was expressed in historical-entrepreneurial contexts and how it is enacted among kaupapa driven Māori entrepreneurs in a contemporary-entrepreneurial context. I explore mahi rangatira from a collective well-being perspective historically and how kaupapa driven Māori entrepreneurs engage with mahi rangatira from a contemporary perspective. Critically, this research seeks to study the processes, systems, and characteristics of the mahi (work practices/ activities) that constitute mahi rangatira as entrepreneurial pursuits. I interviewed 12 kaupapa driven entrepreneurs and will report my findings to them. I will also present at and design workshops for Māori business networks and tribal entities, groups as well as academic forums. 

Alison Anitawaru, Cole (Ngāti ;Ruanui, Ngāruahine, Taranaki Whānui), Victoria University of Wellington

This research is examines Māori approaches to climate in order to propose an Indigenous foundation for sovereignty over our means of survival. The structure of our neo-colonial world systems is deeply enmeshed in the causes of the climate crisis, and it is of no historically derived coincidence that the communities experiencing the first waves of climate change are Indigenous, i.e. the social grouping most excluded from the colonial spaces creating the current climate change responses. I am developing a new approach based on the lived experience of our iwi as we build solutions to safeguard our future.

Christine Elers (Ngāti Kauwhata), Massey University

The broad aim of this research is to utilise the culture-centered approach (CCA) to foreground the voices of Whānau Māori, whose lived experiences reflect socio-economic disadvantage and voice erasure from mainstream and Māori discursive spaces. The CCA is an approach to social change communication that emphasises the nuances of listening to communities (Dutta, 2014); centering their knowledge claims, strategies and solutions that are often tied to structural injustices. The CCA method intentionally centers Whānau Māori as the experts of their own realities.

By building infrastructures for listening and co-creating platforms for voice, community participatory communicative spaces emerge often disrupting the hegemony of knowledge production and decision-making by dominant actors for the very Whānau and communities who have been erased from these sites of participation.

Kahurangi, Tipene (Waikato Tainui), University of Otago

I raro i ngaa parirau o te whakatakanga Marsden o Associate Professor Karyn Paringatai, he aronga taaku ki te titiro atu ki ngaa takahanga, ki ngaa wheako whaiaro o ngaa whaanau e mau nei ana i te taonga CDH1 gene mutation i mua i te aroaro o taatou te tangata, oo ngaa kaiwhakahaere hauora. Tee mahi o te tangata e kapo kau ana i ngaa wheako o ngaa taangata, o ngaa whaanau, noo reira, ko taaku, he kohi i ngaa wheako aa-rata, aa-hauora nei kia aahei te hunga kaiwhakahaere hauora te tiaki pai nei i ngaa taangata o ngaa ira rerekeetanga.

Kiri West (Ngāti Marutūahu), The University of Auckland

The New Zealand government has indicated a willingness to consider the application of Māori data sovereignty (MDS) in the storage, management and governance of data-sets held by them. To what extent is there alignment between the principles of Māori data sovereignty (as communicated by Te Mana Raraunga) and the government’s current data infrastructure? What are the barriers to the successful implementation of MDS, both from a state perspective, as well as from the perspective of Māori?

Essie Van Zuylen (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Kahungunu), University of Otago