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Professor Carl Te Hira Lewis Mika

Contact

Department: Aotahi School of Māori and Indigenous Studies

Email: carl.mika@canterbury.ac.nz

Direct Dial: +64 3 3690637

Office: Te Ao Marama - Room148

Languages: English, German, Maori (Te Reo)

About
Research / Creative works
Supervision
Projects
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Fields of Research

  • Māori philosophy
  • Indigenous philosophy
  • Law
  • Mātauranga Māori
  • Mātauranga Māori and science/rationality
  • Continental philosophy
  • Kaupapa Māori
  • Education
  • Māori and Indigenous metaphysics
  • German Studies
  • Medicalisation

Researcher Summary

I am Maori of the Tuhourangi iwi and a professor in Aotahi: School of Māori and Indigenous Studies, University of Canterbury, specialising in Māori and Indigenous philosophy, with a particular focus on its revitalisation within a colonised reality. Committed to investigating indigenous notions of holism, I wrote Indigenous Education and the Metaphysics of Presence (2017, Routledge), along with several articles and chapters, on the issue of colonisation and reductionism. I am currently working on the Maori concepts of nothingness and darkness in response to an Enlightenment focus on clarity and am speculating on how they can form the backdrop of academic expression. I am also contributing to philosophical discussions arising around matauranga Maori and science.
I have experience teaching and researching in education and mātauranga Māori, the law, and global studies.
Internationally, I have held an adjunct professorship at RMIT and am involved in projects that engage with Indigenous philosophy: Sámi mánná jurddavázzin – Sámi Children as Thought Herders: Storytelling and critical philosophical inquiries in Indigenous Early Years Education (Swedish Research Council); and Understanding Indigenous ethics and wholism within academic and Aboriginal community research settings (SSHRC, Canada).
I welcome inquiries from doctoral students interested in diverse methods and delving into Maori and other Indigenous philosophies.

Subject Area: Disciplines

  • Indigenous Studies: Indigenous Studies
  • Māori Knowledge and Development: Māori Knowledge/Culture
  • Philosophy: Continental Philosophy; Philosophy

Resources

  • Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA) Exec
  • Graduate Super-Seminar on Global South Cosmologies and Epistemologies
  • Decolonial Futures

Prizes and Awards

  • PESA annual book award ( 2017 - present )
  • Adjunct Professorship for RMIT ( 2019 - 2021)

Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

  • Karamercan O., Matapo J., Kamenarac O., Fa’avae DTM., Arndt S., Irwin R., Kruger F., Mika C., Bassidou MYA. and Tesar M. (2022) Engaging and developing community in digital spaces: Approaches from the Editorial Development Group. Educational Philosophy and Theory http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2022.2041412. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika C. (2022) A Maori notion of what matters through Whakapapa. In 17th Istanbul Biennial - Afterthoughts: 30-35. Istanbul: Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, Vehbi Koc Vakfi. (Other)
  • Mika C. (2022) Darkly truthful: An indigenous séance with Novalis. Policy Futures in Education 20(3): 332-343. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14782103211042472. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika C. (2022) JWP Symposium: Why Give Up the Unknown? And How? Journal of World Philosophies 7(1): 101-144. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/jourworlphil.7.1.07. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika C. (2022) Stuck in time and space? Thinking through the Maori term 'wa'. Atlántica (2): 23-30. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika C. (2022) Tokenism and te reo Māori Why some things just shouldn’t be translated. PESA Agora. (Other)
  • Mika C. (2022) Tokenism and te reo Māori: why some things just shouldn’t be translated. In The Conversation The Conversation Media Group Ltd. (Other)
  • Mika C. (2022) A Maori il-logical ethics of the dark: An example with ‘trauma’. The University as an Ethical Academy?: 8-17.Routledge. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003324881-2. (Chapters)
  • Peters MA., Arndt S., Tesar M., Jackson L., Hung R., Mika C., Ozolins JT., Teschers C., Orchard J. and Buchanan R. (2022) Philosophy of education in a new key: A collective project of the PESA executive. Educational Philosophy and Theory 54(8): 1061-1082. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2020.1759194. (Journal Articles)
  • Peters MA., Jackson L., Hung R., Mika C., Buchanan RA., Tesar M., Besley T., Hood N., Sturm S. and Farrell B. (2022) The case for academic plagiarism education: A PESA Executive collective writing project. Educational Philosophy and Theory 54(9): 1307-1323. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2021.1897574. (Journal Articles)
  • Peters MA., Wang C., Mika C. and Fuller S. (2022) Cultural Apocalypse, Western colonial domination and ‘the End of the World’. Educational Philosophy and Theory http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2022.2085554. (Journal Articles)
  • Pidgeon M., Mika C. and Tiakiwai S-J. (2022) “Wholism is everything”: Deepening connections of Indigenous culturally informed ethics within research [Keynote]. 15 Jun 2022. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Mika C. (2021) A Maori il-logical ethics of the dark: An example with ‘trauma’. Educational Philosophy and Theory 53(5): 426-435. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2019.1683824. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika C. (2021) A Māori reflection on Spinoza’s primordial. Interstices: Journal of Architecture and Related Arts : 42-48. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/ijara.vi.672. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika C. (2021) Being and convergence within wā: Excessive and stupendous interconnection [Keynote\. 2 Dec 2021. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Mika C. (2021) Dialoguing as if we're not that important. The New Zealand Annual Review of Education 26: 90-95. http://dx.doi.org/10.26686/nzaroe.v26.6897. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika C. (2021) Indigenous Notions of Interconnection and Formation by the World. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.013.1558. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika C. (2021) Subjecting ourselves to madness: A Maori approach to unseen instruction. Educational Philosophy and Theory 53(7): 719-727. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2020.1761326. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika C. (2021) The problem of embodiment for the Maori academic [Keynote]. Philosophy of Education Society of Australia, 27 Aug 2021. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Mika C. (2021) The void and its parody: Thinking alongside Jahnke’s Whenua kore. Index Corp Ltd. (Other)
  • Mika C. (2021) Where do we stand when we know? Reflections on mātauranga Māori and its translation as “science.”. The Philosopher. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika C. (2021) Excess and indigenous worldview: Philosophizing on the problem of method. Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science: 126-133. (Chapters)
  • Mika C. (2021) When nothingness revokes certainty: A Māori speculation. Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies. (Chapters)
  • Peters MA., Jandrić P., Irwin R., Locke K., Devine N., Heraud R., Gibbons A., Besley T., White EJ. and Forster D. (2021) Towards a philosophy of academic publishing. The Methodology and Philosophy of Collective Writing: An Educational Philosophy and Theory Reader Volume X: 3-37. (Chapters)
  • Reader J., Jandrić P., Peters MA., Barnett R., Garbowski M., Lipińska V., Rider S., Bhatt I., Clarke A. and Hashemi M. (2021) Enchantment - Disenchantment-Re-Enchantment: Postdigital Relationships between Science, Philosophy, and Religion. Postdigital Science and Education 3(3): 934-965. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42438-020-00133-4. (Journal Articles)
  • Stewart GT., MacDonald L., Matapo J., Fa’avae DTM., Watson BK., Akiu RK., Martin B., Mika C. and Sturm S. (2021) Surviving academic Whiteness: Perspectives from the Pacific. Educational Philosophy and Theory http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2021.2010542. (Journal Articles)
  • (2020) Handbook of Anticipation. Springer International Publishing. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31737-3. (Authored Books)
  • Arndt S., Bengtsen SS., Mika C. and Nørgård RT. (2020) Spaces of Life: Transgressions in Conceptualising the World Class University. Evaluating Education: Normative Systems and Institutional Practices: 251-267.Springer Nature Singapore. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7598-3_15. (Chapters)
  • Engels-Schwarzpaul A-C. and Mika C. (2020) Silences generating space. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350076624.ch-011. (Journal Articles)
  • Gardner; Brandist C; White J; Mika C (Ed.) (2020) Bakhtin in the fullness of time: Bakhtinian theory and the process of social education. . (Edited Volumes)
  • Kirloskar-Steinbach M. and Mika C. (2020) Refusing the ‘Foolish Wisdom of Resignation’: Kaupapa Māori in conversation with Adorno. European Journal of Social Theory 23(4): 532-549. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1368431019872140. (Journal Articles)
  • Martin B., Stewart G., Watson BK., Silva OK., Teisina J., Matapo J. and Mika C. (2020) Situating decolonization: An Indigenous dilemma. Educational Philosophy and Theory 52(3): 312-321. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2019.1652164. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika C. (2020) The Maori more-than-human: Rethinking sovereignty [Keynote]. 24 Oct 2020. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Mika C. (2020) The Māori more-than-human: Rethinking sovereignty. In. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Mika C. (2020) The possibilities for exile from colonisation: A Maori return to terms. In Barber S; Davidson M (Ed.), Through that which separates us: 43-50.Te Reo Ke. (Chapters)
  • Mika C., Andreotti V., Cooper G., Ahenakew C. and Silva D. (2020) The ontological differences between wording and wordling the world. Language, Discourse and Society 8(1): 17-32. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika C., Pihama L., Green A., Rosskrudge., Simmonds., Nopera. and Skipper. (2020) Honour Project Aotearoa.. (Reports)
  • Gradovski M., Ødegaard., Rutanen., Sumsion., Mika C. and White EJ. (2019) The first 1000 days of early childhood: Becoming. 148. (Authored Books)
  • Mika C. (2019) Confronted by Indigenous Metaphysics in the Academy: Educating against the Tide. Beijing International Review of Education 1(1): 109-122. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/25902547-00101015. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika C. (2019) Rangirua and the concussed self: Removal from the first intonation. Social Alternatives. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika C. (2019) When ‘water’ meets its limits: A Maori speculation on the term wai. Journal of Sámi Language and Culture Research Association. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika C. (2019) Worlding the world. Canadian Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2 Jun 2019. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Nørgård R., Arndt S. and Mika C. (2019) Transgressing Governmentality: Teacher Quality in the WCU. Uppsala University: Creative Universities, 15 May 2023. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Hohepa M. and Mika C. (2018) Language-Culture-Education: Problem and potential: An introduction. Handbook of Indigenous Education. (Chapters)
  • Le Grange L. and Mika C. (2018) What is indigenous philosophy and what are its implications for education? International Handbook of Philosophy of Education. (Chapters)
  • Mika C. (2018) Māori knowledge in education: Revisiting terms and their concepts. educationhub. (Other)
  • Mika C. (2018) Points of discomfort: When the indigenous person talks philosophy. University of New England. Critical Philosophy of Race and Kriolising the Canons Symposium, 11 Jul 2018. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Mika C. and Arndt S. (2018) Dissident thought: A decolonising framework for revolt in the university. The Thinking University – a philosophical examination of thought and higher education. (Chapters)
  • Mika C. and Southey K. (2018) Exploring whakaaro: A way of responsive thinking in Maori research. Educational Philosophy and Theory 50(8): 795-803. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2016.1204905. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika C. and Stewart G. (2018) Introduction: Dominance and critique in and of education. Knowledge Cultures 6(1): 7-9. http://dx.doi.org/10.22381/KC6120181. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika C. and Stewart G. (2018) What is philosophy for indigenous people, in relation to education? Educational Philosophy and Theory 50(8): 744-746. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2017.1311489. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika C., Stewart G., Watson K., Silva K., Martin B., Matapo J. and Galuvao A. (2018) What is indigenous research in philosophy of education? And what is PESA, from an indigenous perspective? Educational Philosophy and Theory 50(8): 733-739. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2017.1317042. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika CTH. and Matapo J. (2018) The complexity of post-truth in research: An indigenous speculation. Post-Truth, Fake News: Viral Modernity Higher Education: 187-196. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8013-5_16. (Chapters)
  • Stewart G. and Mika C. (2018) Unsettling binaries of knowledge, culture and education. Knowledge Cultures 6(2): 7-8. http://dx.doi.org/10.22381/KC6220181. (Journal Articles)
  • Andreotti V., Mika C., Ahenakew C. and Hireme H. (2017) Indigenous knowledge systems and anticipation. Handbook of Anticipation. (Chapters)
  • Brandist C., Gardiner ME., White J. and Mika C. (2017) Bakhtin in the fullness of time: Bakhtinian theory and the process of social education. Educational Philosophy and Theory 49(9): 849-853. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2016.1227208. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika C. (2017) Dealing with the indivisible: A Maori philosophy of mystery [Keynote]. 17 Aug 2017. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Mika C. (2017) Indigenous Education and the Metaphysics of Presence A Worlded Philosophy. Routledge. 162. (Authored Books)
  • Mika C. (2017) Indigenous education and the metaphysics of presence: A worlded philosophy. Indigenous Education and the Metaphysics of Presence: A Worlded Philosophy : 1-162. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315727547. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika C. (2017) A Term’s Irruption and a Possibility for Response: A Māori Glance at “Epistemology”. Handbook of Indigenous Education: 1-19.Springer Singapore. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1839-8_20-1. (Chapters)
  • Mika C. (2017) Counter-colonial and philosophical claims: An indigenous observation of western philosophy. The Dilemma of Western Philosophy: 12-18. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315113333. (Chapters)
  • Mika C. (2017) Dealing with the indivisible: A Maori philosophy of mystery. In. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Mika C. (2017) The uncertain kaupapa of Kaupapa Māori. Critical conversations in Kaupapa Māori. (Chapters)
  • Mika C. and Stewart G. (2017) Introduction: Critical cultures of knowledge. Knowledge Cultures 5(4): 11-13. http://dx.doi.org/10.22381/KC5420171. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika C. and Stewart G. (2017) Lost in translation: western representations of Māori knowledge. Open Review of Educational Research 4(1): 134-146. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23265507.2017.1364143. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika CTH. and Tiakiwai SJ. (2017) Tawhiao’s Unstated Heteroglossia: Conversations with Bakhtin. Educational Philosophy and Theory 49(9): 854-866. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2015.1135409. (Journal Articles)
  • Peters M. and Mika C. (2017) The dilemma of western philosophy. 1-120. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315113333. (Authored Books)
  • Peters MA. and Mika CT. (2017) Aborigine, Indian, indigenous or first nations? Educational Philosophy and Theory 49(13): 1229-1234. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2017.1279879. (Journal Articles)
  • Roberts P. (2017) Doubt, despair and hope in western thought: Unamuno and the promise of education. The Dilemma of Western Philosophy: 74-86. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315113333. (Chapters)
  • Stewart G. and Mika C. (2017) Introduction: Economy, innovation, education. Knowledge Cultures 5(1): 11-12. http://dx.doi.org/10.22381/KC5120171. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika C. (2016) "Papatūānuku/Papa:" Some thoughts on the oppositional grounds of the doctoral experience. Knowledge Cultures 4(1): 43-55. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika C. (2016) Novalis’ Poetic Uncertainty: A Bildung with the Absolute. Educational Philosophy and Theory 48(6): 621-633. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2015.1068681. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika C. (2016) Some Thinking from, and away from, Heidegger. Educational Philosophy and Theory 48(8): 827-831. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2016.1165016. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika C. (2016) What is Intellectual Freedom Today? A Māori Perspective. . (Journal Articles)
  • Mika C. (2016) Heidegger’s Enframing and the Indigenous Self in Education. Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory: 1-5.Springer Singapore. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_135-1. (Chapters)
  • Mika C. (2016) Papatuanuku in a Maori Philosophy of Education. Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory: 1-5.Springer Singapore. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_173-1. (Chapters)
  • Mika C. (2016) Questions on the Global Indigenous. Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory: 1-5.Springer Singapore. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_509-1. (Chapters)
  • Mika C. and Stewart G. (2016) Māori in the Kingdom of the Gaze: Subjects or critics? Educational Philosophy and Theory 48(3): 300-312. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2015.1013017. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika CTH. (2016) A counter-colonial speculation on elizabeth ratas -ism. Journal of World Philosophies 1(1): 1-12. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/jourworlphil.1.1.01. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika CTH. (2016) The ontological and active possibilities of 'Papatūānuku': To nurture or enframe? Knowledge Cultures 4(3): 58-71. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika CTH. (2016) Worlded object and its presentation: A māori philosophy of language. AlterNative 12(2): 165-176. http://dx.doi.org/10.20507/AlterNative.2016.12.2.5. (Journal Articles)
  • Peters MA., Jandrić P., Irwin R., Locke K., Devine N., Heraud R., Gibbons A., Besley T., White J. and Forster D. (2016) Towards a philosophy of academic publishing. Educational Philosophy and Theory 48(14): 1401-1425. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2016.1240987. (Journal Articles)
  • Stewart G. and Mika C. (2016) Editorial indigenous knowledge: Past, present, future. Knowledge Cultures 4(3): 11-14. (Journal Articles)
  • Balkenhol M. (2015) The art of tracing. Material Religion 11(1): 109-110. http://dx.doi.org/10.2752/205393215x14259900061715. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika C. (2015) Counter-Colonial and Philosophical Claims: An indigenous observation of Western philosophy. Educational Philosophy and Theory 47(11): 1136-1142. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2014.991498. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika C. (2015) The Co-Existence of Self and Thing Through Ira: A Maori Phenomenology. Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology 2(1): 93-112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20539320.2015.11428461. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika C. and Paki V. (2015) Special section editorial: Te kōhao o te rangahau—The indigenous lens on research. Waikato Journal of Education 20(2) http://dx.doi.org/10.15663/wje.v20i2.200. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika C. and Peters M. (2015) Blind, or Keenly Self-regarding? The dilemma of Western philosophy. Educational Philosophy and Theory 47(11): 1125-1127. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2014.991496. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika CTH. (2015) “Thereness”: Implications of Heidegger's “presence” for Māori. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples 11(1): 3-13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/117718011501100101. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika CTH. (2015) The thing’s revelation: Some thoughts on Māori philosophical research. Waikato Journal of Education 20(2) http://dx.doi.org/10.15663/wje.v20i2.206. (Journal Articles)
  • Peters MA. and Mika C. (2015) Te Reo Maori, philosophy and colonialism: A conversation with maori philosopher Carl Mika. Analysis and Metaphysics 14: 101-110. (Journal Articles)
  • Stewart G., Mika C., Cooper G., Bidois V. and Hoskins TK. (2015) Introducing the Indigenous Philosophy Group (IPG). Educational Philosophy and Theory 47(9): 851-855. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2014.991540. (Journal Articles)
  • Stewart G., Tamatea K. and Mika C. (2015) Infinitely welcome: Education, pōwhiri and ethnic performativity. . (Journal Articles)
  • Mika C. (2014) Is empirical research a Māori phenomenon? . (Other)
  • Mika C. (2014) Maori thinking with a dead white male: Philosophizing in the realm of Novalis. Knowledge Cultures 2(1): 23-39. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika C. (2014) The enowning of thought and whakapapa: Heidegger’s fourfold. Review of Contemporary Philosophy. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika C. (2013) Western “Sentences That Push” as an Indigenous Method for Thinking. Of Other Thoughts: Non-Traditional Ways to the Doctorate: 23-26.SensePublishers. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-317-1_3. (Chapters)
  • Mika C. and White J. (2013) Coming of age? Infants and toddlers in curriculum. (Chapters)
  • Mika C. (2012) A review of the law relating to assisted reproductive technology, and its implications for Māori: Application to other areas of law. The gift of children: Māori and infertility. (Chapters)
  • Mika CTH. (2012) Overcoming 'Being' in Favour of Knowledge: The fixing effect of 'mātauranga'. Educational Philosophy and Theory 44(10): 1080-1092. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-5812.2011.00771.x. (Journal Articles)
  • Thrupp M. and Mika C. (2012) The politics of teacher development for an indigenous people: Colonising assumptions within Ma-ori education in Aotearoa, New Zealand. The Routledge International Handbook of Teacher and School Development: 204-213. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203815564-26. (Chapters)
  • Franke N. and Mika C. (2011) Verwandtes Sprechen: Lernen, Naturerkenntnis und Kommunikation in Novalis’ Die Lehrlinge zu Saϊs und Mātauranga Māori Diskursen der Māui Legenden und der Whakataukī.. Monash University: Zur Aktualitaet der Romantik, 21 Feb 2011. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Franke N; Mika C (Ed.) (2011) In die Natur - Naturphilosophie und Naturpoetik in interkultureller Perspektive. . (Edited Volumes)
  • Mika C. (2011) Constraints on Māori knowledge: Reductionist approaches to a holistic phenomenon. Universidad de Grenada: Ninth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, 8 Jun 2011. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Mika C. (2011) Unorthodox assistance: Novalis, Māori, scientism, and an uncertain approach to ‘whakapapa’. In die Natur – Naturphilosophie und Naturpoetik in interkultureller PerspektivGoethe Institut. (Chapters)
  • Pihama L. and Mika C. (2011) The Treaty of Waitangi and policy in Māori broadcasting. 'Always Speaking': The Treaty of Waitangi and Public Policy. (Chapters)
  • Te Wiata., Crocket., Woolf. and Mika C. (2011) Te Tiriti and ethics as dialogue: A unique call to partnership? Ethics in Practice: A guide for counsellors. (Chapters)
  • Mika C. (2010) A chance for ontology. MAI Review. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika C. (2009) “Body-Snatching”: Changes to Coroners Legislation and Possible Maori Responses. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples 5(1): 26-41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/117718010900500103. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika C., Tiakiwai S-J., Ahuriri-Driscoll A., Hudson M., Hepi M. and Baker. (2009) The future of rongoā Māori: Wellbeing and sustainability. A report for Te Kete Hauora, Ministry of Health.. (Reports)
  • Mlcek S., Timutimu N., Mika C., Aranga M., Taipeti., Rangihau., Temara., Shepherd. and McGarvey. (2009) Te piko o te māhuri, tērā te tupu o te rākau: language and literacy in marae-based programmes.. (Reports)
  • Ahuriri-Driscoll A., Baker V., Hepi M., Hudson M., Mika C. and Tiakiwai S. (2008) The future of rongoā Māori: Wellbeing and sustainability. Summary.Commissioned by Christchurch: Institute of Environmental Science and Research/Ministry of Health. 22pp. (Reports)
  • Ahuriri-Driscoll A., Baker V., Hepi M., Hudson M., Mika C. and Tiakiwai S. (2008) The future of rongoā Māori: wellbeing and sustainability.Commissioned by Te Kete Hauora, The Ministry of Health. 66pp. (Reports)
  • Aranga M., Mika C. and Mlcek S. (2008) Kia Hiwa Ra! The challenges of student support at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi. MAI Review. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika C. (2007) The Utterance, the Body and the Law: Seeking an Approach to Concretizing the Sacredness of Maori Language. Sites: a journal of social anthropology and cultural studies 4(2): 181-205. http://dx.doi.org/10.11157/sites-vol4iss2id79. (Journal Articles)
  • Mika C. (2007) Locating the Lisp Gene. Sexuality & the stories of indigenous people. (Chapters)
  • Mika C. (1900) Reclaiming mystery: A Māori philosophy of Being, in light of Novalis’ ontology.. (Theses / Dissertations)
  • Mika C. (1900) When the Gaze meets the gaze. Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi. (Theses / Dissertations)
  • Thrupp M. and Mika C. (1900) The politics of teacher development for an indigenous people. The Routledge International Handbook of Teacher and School DevelopmentRoutledge. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203815564.ch16. (Chapters)

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  • PhD - Bailey B: Do students’ experiences align with UC identity as a diverse and equitable institution?
  • PhD - Maclean J: Senses and Sensibility
  • PhD - Mohi A: 'Taiahaha, taiahaha - ko au ko koe, ko koe ko au…’ Exploring the Mokoia Taiaha Wananga in relation to cultural reclamation, resilience and affirmation.
  • PhD - Palmer S: Urban Maori Diaspora and Connections to Whenua
  • PhD - Te Aotonga K: Te Ao Maori in the New Zealand Aotearoa Public Service Sector

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  • Indigenous notions of holism and ethical representation

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