Makere Stewart-Harawira is author of Indigenous ways of being and post-imperial global learning

Makere Stewart-Harawira, author from North America, holds a Ph.D from the University of Auckland, New Zealand and is an Associate Professor in Indigenous Education and Globalization at the University of Alberta. She has also held positions at the University of Auckland and Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi, a tribal university in New Zealand.

She is the author of The New Imperial Order: Indigenous responses to globalization and a number of edited book chapters and articles the themes of which include indigenous ontologies and political strategies, globalization and post-modern imperialism. Her recent research has focused on the intersections of indigenous languages and ontologies, global citizenship, and new formations of global governance. She is currently leading a research project which explores the intersection of energy development, extractive industries, indigenous communities and indigenous wellbeing and sustainability in Northern Alberta.

Stewart-Harawira’s research and scholarship is driven by her perceptions of this moment in time which, citing Wallerstein, she describes as a unique transformational time-space and her conviction of the need for a radically changed mode of ‘being in the world’.

“My interest in the Building Global Democracy project stems from my conviction of the need for the development of new and effective forms of global democracy and governance and the critical contribution of indigenous peoples in that process.”

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