Hemopereki Hoani Simon

Honorary Indigenous Research Fellow

About

Hemopereki is a Māori (Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa, Tainui, Hauraki, Mataatua) scholar who is the Honorary Indigenous Research Fellow at The Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies. His academic background is very diverse and he self-identifies as a very interdisciplinary and critical researcher who specialises in Kaupapa Māori Research.

Hemopereki holds a Masters of Philosophy in Resource and Environmental Planning from Massey University and from The University of Waikato a Bachelor of Arts (hons) in Indigenous Studies and a Bachelor of Māori and Pacific Development. More recently Hemopereki was the first Māori scholar to be awarded a Research Justice at The Intersection Research Fellow at Mills College in California. He is also a former Pūrehuroa Scholar. It is expected that Hemopereki should graduate with a PhD in Interdisciplinary Indigenous Politics in 2023. His doctoral research deals with the intersection of mana motuhake (Indigenous sovereignty), settler colonialism, the white possessive, The Treaty of Waitangi and the collective future of Aotearoa New Zealand.

Hemopereki has a significant environmental and Indigenous policy and governance background. He is based on his occupied ancestral lands in Taupō, Aotearoa New Zealand.

Research interests

Hemopereki is an internationally award-winning Indigenous researcher who is acknowledged as an authority on the application of settler colonialism to Aotearoa New Zealand. He is currently writing a defining text on this topic called Invade. Suppress. Possess. Deny. Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism & White Possession in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Additionally, he is currently undertaking a major research project on Indigeneity, Lamanites and Mormonism in which he is moving to shape the new religio-colonial identity research field of Lamanite Studies. This is part of a wider move to create theory and cases to critique the Western church as a co-invading force with the white possessive state on Indigenous lands. Furthermore, he is undertaking a minor project on Indigenous Data Sovereignty, Cultural Appropriation, Indigeneity, Church Archives and Thought.

Issues around Māori culture, development, and politics are also of general interest to Hemopereki particularly using Māori cultural items like mōteatea and haka to produce Indigenous political philosophy and theory. He also has significant interest in Cultural memory theory, the work of Foucault and The White Possessive Doctrine. He has also written on the uses of haka.

He is also developing his skills as a Kaupapa Māori methodologist. Increasing development of Indigenous research methods that work in speaking back to power structures. In this space he has been developing methods in Indigenous Writing Inquiry, Critical Intercultural Dialogue, Indigenous Philosophy Methods and Indigenous Social Media Methods to date.

Teaching

Hemopereki is not teaching in 2022-2024.

Supervision

Hemopereki is not available for supervision.

Publications

Last updated 12th August 2022