Brendan Hokowhitu
Title
Brendan Hokowhitu
Birthplace
Ōpōtiki, New Zealand (Māori, Ngāti Pūkenga descent)
Primary Sources
Hokowhitu, B., Oetzel, J., Jackson, A., Simpson, M., Ruru, S., Cameron, M., Zhang, Y., Erueti, B., Rewi, P., Nock, S., & Warbrick, I. (2022). Mana motuhake, Indigenous biopolitics and health. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 18(1), 104–113. https://doi.org/10.1177/11771801221088448
Hokowhitu, B., Oetzel, J. G., Simpson, M. L., Nock, S., Reddy, R., Meha, P., Johnston, K., Jackson, A.-M., Erueti, B., Rewi, P., Warbrick, I., Cameron, M. P., Zhang, Y., & Ruru, S. (2020). Kaumātua Mana Motuhake Pōi: a study protocol for enhancing wellbeing, social connectedness and cultural identity for Māori elders. BMC Geriatrics, 20, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-020-01740-3
Hokowhitu, B., Moreton-Robinson, A., Tuhiwai-Smith, L., Andersen, C., & Larkin, S. (Eds.). (2020). Routledge handbook of critical Indigenous studies. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429440229
Hokowithu, B (2016) Monster: Post-Indigenous Studies, in Aileen Moreton-Robinson (Ed) Critical Indigenous Studies, pp. 83–101.Tucson: Arizona University Press.
Hokowhitu, B (2012). Producing elite Indigenous Masculiniites. Settler Colonial Studies, 2(2), 23–48. https://doi.org/10.1080/2201473X.2012.10648840
Hokowhitu, B. (Ed.) (2010). Indigenous identity and resistance: researching the diversity of knowledge. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press.
Hokowhitu, B. (2009). Indigenous Existentialism and the Body. Cultural Studies Review, 15(2), 101-118.
Hokowhitu, B. (2004). Tackling Māori masculinity: A colonial genealogy of savagery and sport. The Contemporary Pacific, 16(2), 259–284.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23721783
Hokowhitu, B. (2021). Indigenous materialisms and disciplinary colonialism. Somatechnics, 11(2), 157-173. https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/soma.2021.0349?role=tab
Hokowhitu, B., Oetzel, J. G., Simpson, M. L., Nock, S., Reddy, R., Meha, P., Johnston, K., Jackson, A.-M., Erueti, B., Rewi, P., Warbrick, I., Cameron, M. P., Zhang, Y., & Ruru, S. (2020). Kaumātua Mana Motuhake Pōi: a study protocol for enhancing wellbeing, social connectedness and cultural identity for Māori elders. BMC Geriatrics, 20, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-020-01740-3
Hokowhitu, B., Moreton-Robinson, A., Tuhiwai-Smith, L., Andersen, C., & Larkin, S. (Eds.). (2020). Routledge handbook of critical Indigenous studies. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429440229
Hokowithu, B (2016) Monster: Post-Indigenous Studies, in Aileen Moreton-Robinson (Ed) Critical Indigenous Studies, pp. 83–101.Tucson: Arizona University Press.
Hokowhitu, B (2012). Producing elite Indigenous Masculiniites. Settler Colonial Studies, 2(2), 23–48. https://doi.org/10.1080/2201473X.2012.10648840
Hokowhitu, B. (Ed.) (2010). Indigenous identity and resistance: researching the diversity of knowledge. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press.
Hokowhitu, B. (2009). Indigenous Existentialism and the Body. Cultural Studies Review, 15(2), 101-118.
Hokowhitu, B. (2004). Tackling Māori masculinity: A colonial genealogy of savagery and sport. The Contemporary Pacific, 16(2), 259–284.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23721783
Secondary Sources
Oetzel, J. G., Simpson, M., Meha, P., Cameron, M. P., Zhang, Y., Nock, S., ... & Hokowhitu, B. (2024). Tuakana-teina peer education programme to help Māori elders enhance wellbeing and social connectedness. BMC geriatrics, 24(1), 114. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-024-04703-0
Oetzel, J. G., Zhang, Y., Nock, S., Meha, P., Huriwaka, H., Vercoe, M., ... & Hokowhitu, B. (2023). Enhancing health outcomes for Māori elders through an intergenerational cultural exchange and physical activity programme: a cross-sectional baseline study. Frontiers in public health, 11, 1307685. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1307685
Rolleston, A.K., Cassim, S., Kidd, J., Lawrenson, R., Keenan, R., & Hokowhitu, B. (2020). Seeing the unseen: Evidence of kaupapa Māori health interventions. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 16(2), 129–136. https://doi.org/10.1177/1177180120919166
Rigney, L. I. (2020). Aboriginal Child as Knowledge Producer. In Hokowhitu, B., Moreton-Robinson, A., Thuhiwai-Smith, L., Andersen, C. & Larkin, S. (Eds) Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies. Abingdon, OX: Routledge.
Extra Resources
Modern Māori men: Postcolonial formations of Māori masculinity. (March 13, 2016). University of Waikato. YouTube. Accessed November 4, 2022. https://youtu.be/nrOVZNiHttQ
Collection
Citation
“Brendan Hokowhitu,” 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/66.