cultural identity

Moko Wahine: A framework for guiding and nurturing Māori women leaders

Article type: 
Journal article
Key words: 
cultural identity
framework
indigenous women
mana wāhine
Māori women
moko
Author(s): 
Shonelle Wana
DOI: 
10.20507/MAIJournal.2022.11.1.6

This article has been inspired by doctoral research that focused on the pathway to leadership for wāhine Māori. For the purpose of the study, a mana wahine theoretical framework was created to analyse the lived experiences and character of several Māori women leaders. Known in the study as the Moko Wahine framework, it is embedded in Māori cultural values. A key aspect of the Moko Wahine framework is the potential to strengthen the Indigenous identity of women leaders who are of Māori descent.

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Is This Professor Māori? Personal reflections on identity in academia in Aotearoa New Zealand

Article type: 
Journal article
Key words: 
Māori
Pākehā
universities
academics
cultural identity
Author(s): 
John Overton
DOI: 
10.20507/MAIJournal.2021.10.1.7

This article has been inspired by “Why Isn’t My Professor Māori?” (McAllister et al., 2019), an article which appeared in this journal and addressed the under-representation of, and inequities facing, Māori academic staff in universities in Aotearoa New Zealand. I present some personal reflections and raise some questions with regard to academics with Māori heritage but who struggle to identify as Māori.

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Contemporary popular Waiata provide a place of Belonging

Article type: 
Journal article
Key words: 
Māori music
waiata
“Tahi”
Moana Maniapoto
cultural identity
Author(s): 
Maree Sheehan
DOI: 
10.20507/MAIJournal.2017.6.2.13

This paper considers the use of contemporary popular waiata in promulgating a Māori worldview by expressing cultural identity and belonging. Waiata are a traditional medium, a practice through which Māori knowledge, histories, culture and language continue to be passed down from one generation to another (Ka‘ai-Mahuta, 2010; McLean, 1996; Orbell, 1991; Smith, 2003). Similarities can be observed between traditional and contemporary waiata, in that messages are delivered through musical, melodic, rhythmic and harmonic motifs that are distinctively Māori.

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