This general issue of MAI Journal, Volume 5, Issue 1 (2016) contains six articles on themes including ethnic-specific equity programmes in New Zealand universities, Māori values in the workplace, mental health support for Māori following the Christchurch earthquakes, digital media with Māori-language interfaces, representations of Māori and smoking in media, and discourses around mahinga kai, Māori food-gathering sites and practices.

This general issue of MAI Journal, Volume 4, Issue 2 (2015) contains six articles and one book review which engage with various themes including pōwhiri and ethnic performativity, indigeneity and external citizenship rights, diabetes prevention, early childhood education, Māori adolescent identity formation and Māori models of health and well-being.

This general issue of MAI Journal, Volume 4, Issue 1 (2015) consists of six articles and two book reviews, covering a range of themes including Māori identity formation, Māori fire use and management practices, Māori food security and sovereignty, indigenous peoples’ experiences of entering tertiary education, as well as indigenous research methodologies. 

This general issue of MAI Journal, Volume 3, Issue 3 (2014) covers a variety of themes including incarceration, historical trauma, positive youth development, kaupapa Māori methods of research, indigenous research ethics and iwi vitality.

This special themed issue of MAI Journal, Volume 3, Issue 2 (2014) focuses on the concept of resilience and brings together a collection of articles written from a Māori perspective.

This latest issue is composed of five articles, one commentary and three book reviews. The articles traverse issues concerning environmental impact, Māori wellbeing and research, education in an indigenous tertiary context and mātauranga Māori in the sporting arena.

The latest issue of MAI Journal: A New Zealand Journal of Indigenous Scholarship (Volume 2, 2) is now available. The theme of health and social wellbeing and the need to reduce Māori health disparities features prominently in four of the articles in this issue.

The newest issue of MAI Journal: A New Zealand Journal of Indigenous Scholarship (Volume 2, 1) is now available. Anne-Marie Jackson provides a discursive analysis of rangatiratanga in the context of Māori fisheries. The article entitled “Whānau-centred health and social service delivery in New Zealand” by Amohia Boulton, Jennifer Tamehana and Tula Brannelly explores the “whānau ora philosophy that became the cornerstone of Māori health policy”.

This second issue of MAI Journal includes such diverse topics as the Ngāi Tahu traditional management of natural resources, Mātauranga Māori and information hierarchies, kiatiaki and loss of abundance and biodiversity of coastal ecosystems in Aotearoa New Zealand, Indigenous food sovereignty, and Deterritorialising geopolitical spaces and challenging neoliberal conditions through language revernacularisation in kōhanga reo.

The inaugural issue of MAI Journal: A New Zealand Journal of Indigenous Scholarship was launched at the Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga International Indigenous Development Research Conference June, 2012. MAI Journal is an open access journal that publishes multidisciplinary peer-reviewed articles around indigenous knowledge and development in the context of Aotearoa New Zealand. We aim to publish scholarly articles that substantively engage with intellectual indigenous scholarship.