Waitaha Taiwhenua ki Waitaki iwi/tribe, Aotearoa New Zealand

Dr. Makere Stewart-Harawira is Professor, Indigenous, Environmental and Global Studies, College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta. She is an enrolled member of the Waitaha Taiwhenua ki Waitaki tribe in Aotearoa New Zealand and has been actively engaged in issues related to global transformation, fresh-water governance and Indigenous knowledges and ethics for several decades.

Dr. Stewart-Harawira is an Expert Member on a number of Commissions for the International Union for the Conservation including the Commission on Ecosystem Management, joint Specialist Group on Indigenous Peoples, Customary & Environmental Laws and Human Rights and is a National Board Member for Keepers of the Water, Canada.

Makere’s engagement and research reflect her passion for and commitment to global transformation, climate change, freshwater protection and governance, multispecies justice and our co-habitation of planet earth. As global society struggles to transition to new modes of co-existence, the contributions of Indigenous communities and Indigenous traditional knowledge systems are critical to this process.

Her published work includes Troubled Waters: Maori Values and Ethics for Freshwater Management and New Zealand’s Fresh Water Crisis. WIREs Water, 2020; Resilient Systems, Resilient Communities, 2018; Returning the sacred: Indigenous ontologies in perilous times in Williams, Roberts & McIntosh, Radical Human Ecology: Intercultural and Indigenous Approaches, 2012; The New Imperial Order. Indigenous Responses to Globalization, 2005.