Garrick CooperGarrick Cooper

Garrick Cooper is a Senior Lecturer at Aotahi School of Māori and Indigenous Studies at the University of Canterbury, researches and teaches indigenous and black philosophy. He is from Ngāti Whanaunga (Hauraki) and Ngāti Ranginui (Tauranga Moana).

Ihumātao isn’t about young versus old, but new versus old-fashioned

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The land protection movement at Ihumātao may have wrongly been pitted as rangatahi versus rangatira, but there’s no denying it has given rise to a new generation of leaders and values. Have Treaty settlements and tribally controlled assets changed how iwi leaders see land, and is it time for recalibration? The tension that gave rise … Read more