Garrick Cooper

Guest writer

Garrick Cooper is a Senior Lecturer at Aotahi School of Māori and Indigenous Studies at the University of Canterbury, researches and teaches indigenous and black philosophy. He is from Ngāti Whanaunga (Hauraki) and Ngāti Ranginui (Tauranga Moana).

SOUL co-leader Pania Newton (left) with Dr Haare Williams at Ihumātao in 2018. PHOTO: Qiane Matata-Sipu.

Ihumātao isn’t about young versus old, but new versus old-fashioned

The land protection movement at Ihumātao may have wrongly been pitted as rangatahi versus rangatira, but it has given rise to a new generation of ideas.

By Garrick Cooper | 15th August, 2019