Mohi Rua

Title

Mohi Rua

Rights

Image used with author's permission. Photograph credit to University of Auckland.

Birthplace

Ngai Tūhoe, Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Whakaue, Aotearoa

Primary Sources

Rua, M., Hodgetts, D., & Stolte, O. (2024). Māori men renewing cultural embeddedness through engagements in tangihanga. Community Psychology in Global Perspective, 10(2), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1285/i24212113v10i2-2p1

Rua, M., Hodgetts, D., Groot, S., Blake, D., Karapu, R., & Neha, E. (2023). A Kaupapa Māori conceptualization and efforts to address the needs of the growing precariat in Aotearoa New Zealand: A situated focus on Māori. British Journal of Social Psychology, 62, 39–55. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12598

Rua, M., Hodgetts, D., Masters-Awatere, B., Nikora, L., Groot, S., King, P., & Karapu, R. (2021). Decoloniality in being Māori and community psychologists: Advancing an evolving and culturally-situated approach. In G. Stevens & C. Sonn (Eds.), Decoloniality, knowledge production and epistemic justice in contemporary community psychology. Springer. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-72220-3

Rua, M. (2015). Māori men’s positive and interconnected sense of self, being and place, Doctoral dissertation, University of Waikato. https://hdl.handle.net/10289/9440.

Secondary Sources

Furness, J., Rua, M., Masters-Awatere, B., Piercy-Cameron, G., Cochrane, B., & Heaton, S. (2023). A Mātauranga Māori Perspective of Literacy for Adult Learners. New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 58(2), 309-324. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40841-023-00302-6

King, P., Hodgetts, D., Rua, M., & Morgan, M. (2018). When the Marae Moves into the City: Being Maori in Urban Palmerston North. City & Community, 17(4), 1189–1208. https://doi.org/10.1111/cico.12355

King, D., Rua, M., & Hodgetts, D. (2017). How Māori precariate families navigate social services. In S. Groot, C. Van Ommen, B. Masters-Awatere, & N. Tassell-Matamua (Eds.), Precarity: Uncertain, insecure and unequal lives in Aotearoa New Zealand (pp. 123–134). Massey University Press. https://hdl.handle.net/10289/12204

King, P., Hodgetts, D., Rua, M., & Whetu, T.T. (2015). Older men gardening on the marae: Everyday practices for being Māori. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 11(1), 14–28. https://doi.org/10.1177/117718011501100102

Nikora, L. W., Rua, M., & Te Awekotuku, N. (2007). Renewal and resistance: moko in contemporary New Zealand. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 17(6), 477–489. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.942

Extra Resources

Knowledges for democratic & sustainable futures (November 7, 2022). International Community Psychology (ICCP). YouTube. Accessed September 22, 2023. https://youtu.be/smZwX7pLb5A

Citation

“Mohi Rua,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed April 4, 2025, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/65.

Output Formats