title: Honouring Te Tiriti o Waitangi through addressing racism in universities

authors: Waitoki, Waikaremoana

abstract: Executive summary
The WERO team conducted two studies on university documents to identify how universities articulate
their commitments to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and address inequities for Māori within tertiary education. The
first study, which is a case study of a university’s Treaty Statement, highlighted the university’s limitations
in empowering Māori to exercise tino rangatiratanga within various decision-making structures. The
second study, which scrutinises Māori representation across strategic documents of all universities,
revealed that universities reify whiteness by selectively interpreting Te Tiriti articles, pursuing targeted
Māori recruitment, portraying Māori as reliant on the Crown for success, commodifying mātauranga
Māori, and evading discussions about settler colonialism and racial equity.
Drawing from our findings and constitutional transformation documents such as Matike Mai (2016), we
proffer three recommendations to enable universities to more effectively uphold Te Tiriti o Waitangi:
1. Universities must clearly define the operation of settler colonialism and racism in each institution so
that sustainable anti-racist initiatives can be identified.
2. Each university must grow relational spheres where Māori are empowered to make collective
decisions with the Crown representatives in the university.
3. Universities must invest in a Māori-led independent body to develop and deliver a Te Tiriti-centric
programme that decolonises university processes

text: Honouring Te Tiriti o Waitangi through addressing racism in universities Executive summary
The WERO team conducted two studies on university documents to identify how universities articulate
their commitments to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and address inequities for Māori within tertiary education. The
first study, which is a case study of a university’s Treaty Statement, highlighted the university’s limitations
in empowering Māori to exercise tino rangatiratanga within various decision-making structures. The
second study, which scrutinises Māori representation across strategic documents of all universities,
revealed that universities reify whiteness by selectively interpreting Te Tiriti articles, pursuing targeted
Māori recruitment, portraying Māori as reliant on the Crown for success, commodifying mātauranga
Māori, and evading discussions about settler colonialism and racial equity.
Drawing from our findings and constitutional transformation documents such as Matike Mai (2016), we
proffer three recommendations to enable universities to more effectively uphold Te Tiriti o Waitangi:
1. Universities must clearly define the operation of settler colonialism and racism in each institution so
that sustainable anti-racist initiatives can be identified.
2. Each university must grow relational spheres where Māori are empowered to make collective
decisions with the Crown representatives in the university.
3. Universities must invest in a Māori-led independent body to develop and deliver a Te Tiriti-centric
programme that decolonises university processes

year: 2024-06-30

title: Three Pacific writers from Aotearoa discuss Indigenous languages and visual poetry

authors: Salsano, Marama

abstract: This article draws on several months of conversations, creative workshopping, and writing sessions between Māori writers Ammon Hāwea Apiata and Marama Salsano, and Rotuman writer Mere Taito. Here, we contemplate the presence of Māori and Rotuman languages in our visual poetry. For too long, critical work about English language writing by Indigenous writers from the Pacific has been Eurocentric. Papua New Guinean writer-scholar Steven Winduo suggests the need to unwrite this “imagined Oceania,” while Māori author Keri Hulme writes disparagingly of the lower-cased ‘gods of literature’, and in her ReadNZ lecture, Sāmoan-Māori fantasy writer Lani Wendt Young describes traditional publishing as the “white castle of literature.” While white castled gods of literature have historically ignored the everyday vibrancy of Pacific voices, Indigenous writers from the Pacific continue to unapologetically write, read, experiment, critique, and play with words. Into this complexity, we acknowledge that for many Indigenous writers from the Pacific, English language Eurocentric thought and texts dominate our lives; many of us are second language learners of our languages.

text: Three Pacific writers from Aotearoa discuss Indigenous languages and visual poetry This article draws on several months of conversations, creative workshopping, and writing sessions between Māori writers Ammon Hāwea Apiata and Marama Salsano, and Rotuman writer Mere Taito. Here, we contemplate the presence of Māori and Rotuman languages in our visual poetry. For too long, critical work about English language writing by Indigenous writers from the Pacific has been Eurocentric. Papua New Guinean writer-scholar Steven Winduo suggests the need to unwrite this “imagined Oceania,” while Māori author Keri Hulme writes disparagingly of the lower-cased ‘gods of literature’, and in her ReadNZ lecture, Sāmoan-Māori fantasy writer Lani Wendt Young describes traditional publishing as the “white castle of literature.” While white castled gods of literature have historically ignored the everyday vibrancy of Pacific voices, Indigenous writers from the Pacific continue to unapologetically write, read, experiment, critique, and play with words. Into this complexity, we acknowledge that for many Indigenous writers from the Pacific, English language Eurocentric thought and texts dominate our lives; many of us are second language learners of our languages.

year: 2024-08-24

title: The JStar language philosophy

authors: Utting, Mark

subjects: computer science

abstract: This paper introduces the JStar parallel programming language, which is a Java-based declarative language aimed at discouraging sequential programming, en-couraging massively parallel programming, and giving the compiler and runtime maximum freedom to try alternative parallelisation strategies. We describe the execution semantics and runtime support of the language, several optimisations and parallelism strategies, with some benchmark results.

text: The JStar language philosophy This paper introduces the JStar parallel programming language, which is a Java-based declarative language aimed at discouraging sequential programming, en-couraging massively parallel programming, and giving the compiler and runtime maximum freedom to try alternative parallelisation strategies. We describe the execution semantics and runtime support of the language, several optimisations and parallelism strategies, with some benchmark results.

year: 2013-11-11