{"id":1275,"date":"2022-01-07T17:07:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T17:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/centreforindigenousandsettlercolonialstudies\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2022-01-19T17:27:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T17:27:27","slug":"wip-mana-wahine-theory-and-the-long-road-to-the-waitangi-tribunal-emma-gattey-cambridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/centreforindigenousandsettlercolonialstudies\/2022\/01\/07\/wip-mana-wahine-theory-and-the-long-road-to-the-waitangi-tribunal-emma-gattey-cambridge\/","title":{"rendered":"WiP: “Mana W\u0101hine Theory and the Long Road to the Waitangi Tribunal” – Emma Gattey (Cambridge)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Online, Jan 14th, from 3.30pm (GMT)<\/strong><\/p>\n

For zoom link and other details, contact us at indigenousstudies@kent.ac.uk<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the fundamental aspects of tino rangatiratanga (Indigenous sovereignty) in Aotearoa New Zealand is restoring the mana (power, status, authority) of w\u0101hine M\u0101ori (M\u0101ori women), reversing the changes in gender roles and relations wrought by colonisation, and correcting the distortion of M\u0101ori history by P\u0101keh\u0101 (settler colonial) scholars. A key site for this whakamana (empowerment) has been the Waitangi Tribunal, established in 1975 as a government response to M\u0101ori struggle. In 1993, a group of w\u0101hine M\u0101ori activated their legal entitlements, filing a claim alleging that the Crown\u2019s historical and contemporary policies have denied the mana and iho (essence) of w\u0101hine M\u0101ori, resulting in systemic discrimination, deprivation, and inequities. In 2021, the Mana Wahine claim (Wai 2700) is finally progressing to substantive hearings, presaging weeks of women-led, women-focused evidence and a series of Tribunal reports recovering the centrality of w\u0101hine M\u0101ori within pre- and \u2018post\u2019-colonial M\u0101ori society.<\/p>\n

Despite their mana and accomplishments, w\u0101hine M\u0101ori have been doubly marginalised within national histories: first, within their contemporary political and intellectual circles; and secondly, within popular memory and academic histories of Aotearoa. In the form of legal action, the Wai 2700 claim exemplifies Mana Wahine theory: a theoretical framework or \u2018decolonizing methodology\u2019 that reaffirms the inherent rights, power, and status of M\u0101ori women, both against the Crown and M\u0101ori men.<\/p>\n

By tracing key Mana Wahine theorists and the Wai 2700 claim, this paper examines allied forms of legal action, activism, and revisionist feminist scholarship as means of moving w\u0101hine M\u0101ori from the margins to the centre of the M\u0101ori sovereignty debate, and thus New Zealand history. Through activist-intellectual work and the instrumentalisation of statutory rights, w\u0101hine M\u0101ori continue to play a crucial role in the internationally inflected, intersectional transition towards radical revisionist history, the assertion of M\u0101ori sovereignty, and the re-centring of women within local and global histories. Adopting the research paradigm of Mana Wahine theory to analyse the development of Wai 2700, this paper hopes to contribute to the whakamana and re-centring of w\u0101hine M\u0101ori as the heart of the M\u0101ori sovereignty movement.<\/p>\n

Bio:<\/p>\n

A P\u0101keh\u0101 (New Zealander of European descent) from Aotearoa New Zealand, Emma Gattey is a History PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge. Her doctoral research focuses on Indigenous feminism, anti-colonialism and intellectual sovereignty in late 20th century New Zealand. Emma (she\/her\/hers) regularly reviews books for Landfall, a New Zealand literary journal, and is a Research Fellow at the University of Otago Law Faculty, working on Te Takarangi, a collaborative publishing project celebrating 200 years of M\u0101ori scholarship and publication.<\/p>\n

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