Senior LecturerGarrick Cooper
Ngāti Karaua (Hauraki) / Te Pirirākau (Tauranga Moana)
Te Ao Marama 157
Phone: +6433692088
Internal Phone: 92088
Qualifications & Memberships
Research Interests
I am interested in practices of 'decoloniality' in Aotearoa. This includes understanding the ways in which coloniality reproduces and sustains itself and maintains the interests of dominant groups in society and how we might subvert those processes. To this end, one part of my research project includes using Maori epistemologies (and the philosophical insights that we can draw from these) to critique dominant narratives about Maori (and perhaps "others") and create new pathways forward that transcend the binaries of Europeans and natives, Maori and Pakeha, the oppressor and the oppressed.
Recent Publications
- Kolawole OD. and Cooper GW. (2022) Classifying Soils: Points of Convergence in Indigenous Knowledge Engagement with Scientific Epistemologies. International Journal of African Renaissance Studies 17(1): 125-145. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2022.2035784.
- Cooper G. (2021) Hidden Beneath Tiriti Discourse. In Tecun A; Lopesi L; Sankar A (Ed.), Towards a Grammar of Race in Aotearoa New Zealand.
- Mika C., Andreotti V., Cooper G., Ahenakew C. and Silva D. (2020) The ontological differences between wording and wordling the world. Language, Discourse and Society 8(1): 17-32.
- Cooper G. (2019) Ihumātao isn’t about young versus old, but new versus old-fashioned. [E-Magazine].
- Cooper G. (2019) It ain’t where you’re from its where you’re at - a kura hidden by mua and muri. Christchurch, New Zealand: NZARE Maori Educational Research Symposium, 18 Nov-20 Dec 2019.