ABSTRACT

Indigenous scholars constantly contend with deficit tendencies associated with the value and place of their cultural knowledge and practices within higher education. When gender is imbued through a racialised view of indigeneity or the indigenous scholar, the proposition of ‘other’ and ‘othering’ becomes a struggle of power relations which necessarily shapes the critical encounters in higher education spaces. This article utilises ‘talanoa vā’, a Pacific indigenous critical analytical framework for understanding how academics comprehend indigenous masculinities through negotiating and interrogating the intersections of indigeneity, race, and gender. Captured through talanoa, we story our lived experiences as Pacific and indigenous scholars within New Zealand universities. We argue that, although ‘indigenous or indigeneity’ discourses have inspired and empowered minority scholars, utilising Pacific concepts enables a closer interrogation and negotiation of indigenous masculinities centred on spirituality and good relations, which is often overlooked when considering race, gender, colourism, and power within university settings.

摘要

土著学者不断地与与其文化知识和实践在高等教育中的价值和地位相关的缺陷趋势作斗争。当性别通过对土著性或土著学者的种族化观点灌输时，“他者”和“他者”的命题就变成了权力关系的斗争，这必然会塑造高等教育空间中的批判性遭遇。本文利用太平洋土著批判性分析框架“talanoa vā”来了解学术界如何通过协商和审问土著、种族和性别的交叉点来理解土著男子气概。通过 talanoa 拍摄，我们讲述了我们作为太平洋和土著学者在新西兰大学中的生活经历。我们认为，