Makere Stewart-Harawira, PhD, MA (1st Hons), BA

Professor, Faculty of Education

Pronouns: she, her, hers

Contact

Professor, Faculty of Education
Email
makere@ualberta.ca
Address
7-117 Education Centre - North
8730 - 112 St NW
Edmonton AB
T6G 2G5

Availability
By Negotiation

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

Indigenous knowledge and ecosystems climate change multi species climate justice freshwater governance


About

Professor in Indigenous, Environmental, and Global Studies in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta, Canada. An enrolled member of Waitaha ki Waipounamu iwi (tribe) in Aotearoa New Zealand and also of Celtic heritage, living in Treaty Six territory in Alberta, Canada since 2004. Research focus: climate change, freshwater governance, Indigenous knowledge systems, ethics and values in relation to integrative approaches to ecosystem and human-more-than-human wellbeing, multi species justice and planetary stewardship. Program Lead for I-STEAM Pathways Indigenous Youth Environmental Research and Education Program, a cross-disciplinary Indigenous Initiatives program. 


Research

Areas and interests

  • Indigenous traditional and ecological knowledge systems
  • climate change and planetary stewardship 
  • freshwater systems and planetary health 
  • Critical Studies in Governance, Sustainability and Transition 

Projects

Current:

2018 – Present. I-STEAM Pathways Indigenous Youth Environmental Education Program, Project Team Lead, with co-leads Dr. Greg Goss (Biological Science) and Professor Jessica Vendenberghe (Engineering).

Recent:

2017 -2018. “Learning to Listen and Listening to Learn”, Indigenous Community Engagement, Research and Learning Project. With Dr Ania Ulrich, Principal Investigator, Office of the VP Research and the Faculty of Graduate Studies Award, University of Alberta

2015 - 2018. Intersections of Sustainability. Collaborative Research Network on Water Governance, Climate Change and the futures of Communities, Principal Investigator, Kule Institute for Advanced Study Cluster Research Grant funded.


Teaching

Graduate

Climate Change and its Intersections (EDPS 501, Wi 2021)

Global Transformations, Indigenous Knowledge and the Crisis of Sustainability (EDPS 528)

Contemporary Issues in Education: Perspectives on Policy and Practice (EDPS 580)

Foundations of Education: Perspectives on Canadian Issues (EDPS 590) 

Past Courses

Critical Indigenous Pedagogies and Transformative Strategies in Education (EDPS 536)

Indigenous Research Methodologies (EDPS 535)

Revitalizing Indigenous languages (EDPS 539)

Indigenous Ontologies in the Global Context (EDPS 636)

Undergraduate

Philosophy of Moral Education (EDPS 456)

Society and Education (EDPS 360)

Past Courses

History of Native Education in North America (EDPS 432)

Contemporary Issues in First Nations Education in Canada (EDPS 474)

Current Doctoral Supervisions

Eddie Gillis "How will the inclusion of Indigenous history, perspectives and culture as a mainstay of Indigenous education intervention efforts effect the graduation rates of Indigenous students?"






Announcements

Not accepting new doctoral students at present. 

Courses

EDPS 501 - Conference Course on Selected Topics

Prerequisite: consent of Department.


EDPS 580 - Contemporary Issues in Education: Perspectives on Policy and Practice

Introduces students to foundational approaches to contemporary issues in Canadian and international education contexts. Introduces multidimensional approaches associated with the history, sociology, and philosophy of education to help students understand and critically assess educational policy and practice. May contain alternative delivery sections; refer to the Tuition and Fees page in the University Regulations section of the Calendar.


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Scholarly Activities

Research - Intersections of Sustainability. Collaborative Research Network on Water Governance, Climate Change and Traditional Communities."

20150202 to 20180331

Funded by the Kule Institute for Advanced Studies, this project responds to:

  1. the urgency of addressing issues of water governance, land use and climate change, 
  2. the implications for communities, particularly in relation to water quality and availability and agriculture, and 
  3. the University of Alberta’s unique positioning and goal to produce world-class leading-edge research on critical issues that confront humanity. 

Our goal is the development of innovative research and solutions that target this critical intersection and to contribute to calls for a new global paradigm of sustainability. 

Intersections of Sustainability. Interdisciplinary Research Network on Water Governance, Climate Change & Futures

Publications

Multispecies Justice: Theories, Challenges, and a Research Agenda for Environmental Politics

Author(s): co-authored with Danielle Celermajer, David Schlosberg, Lauren Rickards, Petra Tschakert, Blanche Verlie, Christine Winter
Publication Date: 10/8/2021
Publication: Environmental Politics, Special Issue
Volume: 30
Issue: 1-2
Page Numbers: 119-140
DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2020.1827608
External Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09644016.2020.1827608

Colonialism’s Miasmas. Indigenous Resistance and Resilience

Author(s): Stewart-Harawira, M.
Publication Date: 9/30/2021
Publication: The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies. (Henry Veltmyer & Paul Bowles Eds.), Routledge.
Issue: 2nd.
Page Numbers: 358-365
External Link: https://www.routledge.com/The-Essential-Guide-to-Critical-Development-Studies/Veltmeyer-Bowles/p/book/9780367478858

"Multispecies justice: Climate-just futures with, for and beyond humans"

Author(s): Tschakert, P., Schlosberg, D., Celermajer, D., Rickards, L., Winter, C., Thaler, M., Stewart-Harawira, M., Verlie, B.
Publication Date: 12/28/2020
Publication: Wires Climate Change
Volume: 12
Issue: 2
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.699
External Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/EKAWU7MKCWVNESGDRQG2?target=10.1002/wcc.699

'Under Erasure’: Suppressed and trans-ethnic Māori identities.

Author(s): Stewart, G., Stewart-Harawira, M.
Publication Date: 12/9/2020
Publication: Journal of World Philosophies
Volume: 5
Issue: 2
Page Numbers: 1-12
External Link: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/index.php/jwp/article/view/4042

Troubled Waters: Maori Values and Ethics for Freshwater Management and New Zealand’s Fresh Water Crisis.

Author(s): Stewart-Harawira, M.
Publication Date: 8/29/2020
Publication: Wires Water
Volume: 7
Issue: 5
External Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/IS9WZHXMIVHPEHJBUJ8A?target=10.1002/wat2.1464

Indigenous Resilience and Pedagogies of Resistance during Conflicted Times.

Author(s): Stewart-Harawira, M.
Publication Date: 6/30/2019
Publication: McCullum Press
Page Numbers: 158-179
External Link: http://ssrn.com/abstract=3139192

Resilient Systems, Resilient Communities

Author(s): Jordan Kinde & Makere Stewart-Harawira (eds)
Publication Date: 2018
External Link: https://doi.org/10.7939/R38K75B1W

Re-singing the World. Indigenous Pedagogies and Global Crisis during Conflicted Times, in Globalization and Minority Cultures. The role of “minor” cultural groups in shaping our future, (Crosier, Ed.).

Author(s): Stewart-Harawira, M.
Publication Date: 11/13/2014
Publication: Leiden, Brill.
Volume: 8
Page Numbers: 160-184
DOI: 10.1163/9789004282087_011
External Link: https://brill.com/view/title/26787

Challenging Knowledge Capitalism. Indigenous Research in the 21st Century

Author(s): Stewart-Harawira, M
Publication Date: 2013
Publication: Socialist Studies / Études socialistes, North America
Volume: 9
Issue: 1
External Link: https://www.socialiststudies.com/index.php/sss/article/view/23523

Unspeakable things: Indigenous research and social science.Transgressive Pedagogies and Research. Révolutions, contestations, indignations.

Author(s): Coburn, E.; Stewart-Harawira, M.; Moreton-Robinson, A. & Sefa-Dei, G.
Publication Date: 2013
Publication: Socio
Volume: 2
Issue: 2
Page Numbers: 121-134
DOI: 10.4000/socio.524
External Link: http://socio.revues.org/524

Returning the sacred: Indigenous ontologies in perilous times, in Radical Human Ecology ( L. Williams, R. Roberts, A. MacIntosh (eds)

Author(s): Stewart-Harawira, M.
Publication Date: 1/28/2012
Publication: Routledge
Volume: One
Page Numbers: 73-90
DOI: 10.4324/9781315603476
External Link: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781315603476/radical-human-ecology-rose-roberts-lewis-williams

Making Space for Indigenous Feminisms

Author(s): Joyce Green (Ed).
Publication Date: 2007

The New Imperial Order. Indigenous Responses to Globalization

Author(s): Stewart-Harawira, M.
Publication Date: 2005
Publication: London, UK & Palmerston Nth, NZ
Page Numbers: 288
External Link: https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/new-imperial-order-9781848130753/