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

Area of Study / Keywords

climate change policy practice and implications Indigenous knowledges multi species justice freshwater governance global transformations

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About

Professor in Indigenous, Environmental, and Global Studies in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta, Canada.  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. An enrolled member of the Waitaha ki Waipounamu iwi (tribe) in Aotearoa New Zealand, also of Celtic heritage, living in Treaty Six territory in Alberta, Canada since 2004.

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Research

Areas and interests

• climate change, multi-species justice and planetary stewardship 
• Indigenous traditional and ecological knowledge systems
• 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 Dr. Chelsea Benally (Environmental 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.

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Teaching

Graduate

Climate Change Impacts, Implications & the Nature of Response. (EDPS 501, Wi 2021,EDPS 501 Sp 2024.)

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 Supervision

Nora Abercrombie, "Empowering Paradigm Shifts: Online Collaborative Learning as a Catalyst for Knowledge Mobilization and Climate Change Activism." 

EDPS 360 - Society and Education

The changing function and structures of education, with special reference to contemporary Canadian society.

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EDPS 528 - Climate Change Impact, Implications, & Nature of Response: Indigenous Knwldge at the Intersection

This course examines the socio-politico-economic and health impacts and implications of rapidly escalating climatic change on diverse groups and populations. It examines barriers to climate justice, particularly for marginalised and Indigenous populations and explores pathways to achievement. More-than-human or multi-species justice will also be a topic. An important focus is the role of Indigenous communities and Indigenous knowledge in responding to and mitigating the impacts of climate change on planetary health. Other responses such as the role and forms of activism, and political responses are also included. Participants will have the opportunity to develop solutions-oriented case studies, curricula for teaching climate change to school pupils and policy analyses and recommendations.

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EDPS 590 - Foundations of Education: Perspectives on Canadian Issues

Focuses on a critical examination of Canadian educational issues from philosophical, historical, sociological and cultural perspectives. Themes may include multiculturalism, educational reform and governance, the global economy and new technologies, changing nature of educational goals, and transformations in teaching.

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Browse more courses taught by Makere Stewart-Harawira

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

Makere Stewart-Harawira, Georgina Tuari Stewart

International. 2025 June;

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co-authored with Danielle Celermajer, David Schlosberg, Lauren Rickards, Petra Tschakert, Blanche Verlie, Christine Winter

Environmental Politics, Special Issue. 2021 October; 30 (1-2):119-140 10.1080/09644016.2020.1827608

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Stewart-Harawira, M.

The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies. (Henry Veltmyer & Paul Bowles Eds.), Routledge.. 2021 September; (2nd. ):358-365

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Tschakert, P., Schlosberg, D., Celermajer, D., Rickards, L., Winter, C., Thaler, M., Stewart-Harawira, M., Verlie, B.

Wires Climate Change. 2020 December; 12 (2) 10.1002/wcc.699

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Stewart, G., Stewart-Harawira, M.

Journal of World Philosophies . 2020 December; 5 (2):1-12

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Wires Water . 2020 August; 7 (5)

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McCullum Press. 2019 June;

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Jordan Kinder & Makere Stewart-Harawira (eds)

2018 January;

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Leiden, Brill.. 2014 November; 8 10.1163/9789004282087_011

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Stewart-Harawira, M

Socialist Studies / Études socialistes, North America. 2013 January; 9 (1)

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Coburn, E.; Stewart-Harawira, M.; Moreton-Robinson, A. & Sefa-Dei, G.

Socio. 2013 January; 2 (2):121-134 10.4000/socio.524

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Routledge. 2012 January; One 10.4324/9781315603476

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Joyce Green (Ed).

2007 January;

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London, UK & Palmerston Nth, NZ. 2005 January;