Ema Maria Bargh is a New Zealand academic, and is Professor of Politics and Māori Studies at

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Early life and education

Bargh is of

Te Arawa Te Arawa is a confederation of Māori people, Māori iwi and hapū (tribes and sub-tribes) of New Zealand who trace their ancestry to the ''Arawa (canoe), Arawa'' migration canoe (''waka''). The tribes are based in the Rotorua and Bay of Plent ...

and

Ngāti Awa Ngāti Awa is a Māori iwi (tribe) centred in the eastern Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand. It is made of 22 hapū (subtribes), with 15,258 people claiming affiliation to the iwi in 2006. The Ngāti Awa people are primarily located in towns ...

descent.

Academic career

Bargh completed a

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titled ''Re-colonisation and indigenous resistance: neoliberalism in the Pacific'' at the

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, under the supervision of

Barry Hindess Barry Hindess (11 July 1939 — 19 May 2018) was an emeritus Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Australian National University. He was for many years an academic sociologist in the UK (mainly at the University of Liverpool) and has pub ...

. Bargh joined the staff of Victoria University of Wellington, rising to full professor in 2022. Bargh's research covers Māori political representation and constitutional change, environmental politics and policy, and the political economy. She was on the Matike Mai Aotearoa working group on constitutional reform. Bargh has been appointed by Cabinet to the role of Deputy Chair of the Independent Review of Electoral Law, alongside Deborah Hart, Andrew Geddis, Alice Mander, Robert Pedden and Lara Greaves. She is co-editor of the MAI Journal: A New Zealand Journal of Indigenous Scholarship, and is on the editorial board for the New Zealand Political Science Journal.

Honours and awards

Bargh received a

Royal Society Te Apārangi The Royal Society Te Apārangi (in full, Royal Society of New Zealand) is a not-for-profit body in New Zealand providing funding and policy advice in the fields of sciences and the humanities. These fundings (i.e., Marsden grants and research fe ...

Te Puāwaitanga Research Award in 2020. She received a University Engagement Excellence Award in 2017 and a Research Excellence Award in 2021.

Selected works

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References

External links

University profile

Articles written by Bargh
at

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A tika approach to climate responses with Associate Professor Maria Bargh
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