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Whose Knowledge Counts?
From Warp Drive to Waka Huia
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Knowledge takes many forms, but not all are valued equally. Pounamu Jade Aikman shows how particular ways of knowing underpin life in Aotearoa, to the exclusion of others. Ranging from Foucault to Spock to school lunches, he traces the marginalisation of Indigenous knowledge. He also looks...
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Description
Knowledge takes many forms, but not all are valued equally. Pounamu Jade Aikman shows how particular ways of knowing underpin life in Aotearoa, to the exclusion of others. Ranging from Foucault to Spock to school lunches, he traces the marginalisation of Indigenous knowledge. He also looks at its impact on our economy, prisons, politics and constitutional relationships, askingβare we caught in the holodeck?
Challenging, optimistic and ever curious, this text asks why whose knowledge counts matters, as we work out what living on shared whenua means for us all.
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ISBN: 9781991301871
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 October 2026
Country: New Zealand
Imprint: Bridget Williams Books
Audience: General / adult
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About the Author
Dr Pounamu Jade William Emery Aikman (Ngati Apakura, Ngati Maniapoto, Ngati Wairere, Ngati Awa, Ngai Te Rangi, Ngati Uenukukopako, Ngati Tarawhai) is an independent scholar working at the intersections of Indigenous sovereignties, epistemologies and criminal justice. He completed his PhD at The Australian National University in 2019, and was a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University in 2022. He is the author of Terra in Our Mist: A Tuhoe Narrative of Indigenous Sovereignty and Settler-State Violence, published by ANU Press in June 2026, and co-leader of the 2025-28 Marsden-funded project Tiaki Tane, examining causes of youth offending among young Maori men. He was the 2025 Emerging Maori Writer in Residence at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington.
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