Asian relationships with Te Tiriti o Waitangi: Titiro whakamuri, kōkiri whakamua webinar

Asian relationships with Te Tiriti o Waitangi: Titiro whakamuri, kōkiri whakamua
10:00am Saturday 23 March
Kaikōrero:
Lincoln Dam, Dr Saburo Omura
Ringa hāpai:
Dr Clive Aspin
Asian communities have a long association with Aotearoa, with some Indian and Chinese people settling here as early as the 19th Century. Demographic projections suggest that Asians will soon outnumber Māori in Aotearoa and will comprise more than a quarter of the overall population by 2043 (Stats NZ, 2022). Despite this long history and our (Asian) growing number, talk of Te Tiriti o Waitangi often centres on Māori and Pākehā relations. In this session, we reflect on our doctoral research - completed 10 years apart - on Asian relationships with Te Tiriti. Saburo revisits his 2014 research findings and reflects on what has changed since. Lincoln explores what Asian meditations on relationality and ethics can teach us about be(com)ing tangata Tiriti (people of Te Tiriti). This session invites other (Asian) im/migrants to consider how their communities can honour Te Tiriti o Waitangi and be(come) tangata Tiriti.
See also: Lincoln Dam (2023) Be(com)ing an Asian tangata tiriti, Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, 18:3, 213-232, DOI: 10.1080/1177083X.2022.2129078 Lincoln Dam (2023) Be(com)ing an Asian tangata tiriti, Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, 18:3, 213-232, DOI: 10.1080/1177083X.2022.2129078
Out of respect for our kaikōrero and ringa hāpai, we have not translated karakia, pepeha from Te Reo Māori to English.
This webinar was part of the Te Tiriti-based Futures + Anti-racism open access, online conference, 16-25 March 2024. #TBF2024 www.tiritibasedfutures.info