Indigenous Futures Institute (IFI)

Mobilising tofā sa’ili for ECE leadership

Maria Cooper, Jacoba Matapo

2021 | Pasifika

A talanoa confronting dominant conceptualisations from a Pasifika perspective Leadership is about all of us, but dominant frames of leadership serve only a few. In this commentary, we challenge the dominance of Western notions of leadership as linear influence relationships in order to shift Pasifika engagement from the margins. For…

Relational Indigenous systems: Aboriginal Australian political ordering and reconfiguring IR

Morgan Brigg, Mary Graham, Martin Weber

2021 |

Ontological parochialism persists in International Relations (IR) scholarship among gestures towards relational ontological reinvention. Meanwhile, the inter-polity relations of many Indigenous peoples pre-date contemporary IR and tend to be substantively relational. This situation invites rethinking of IR’s understandings of political order and inter-polity relations. We take up this task by…