Pounamu’s research background explores the relationship between Indigenous sovereignty and state violence, through an interrogation of the central role of racism in maintaining the settler colonial state. In this, he is interested in Indigenous relationships to land and environment, the basis of his 2021/22 Fulbright research with Harvard University and the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. He is Director of Mana Pounamu Consulting, a kaupapa Māori and kaupapa Pasifika research consultancy. Pounamu is of Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Apakura, Ngāti Wairere, Ngāti Tarāwhai, Ngāti Uenukukōpako, Ngāti Awa, and Ngāi Te Rangi descent.
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