Ocean Mercier
Title
Ocean Mercier
Rights
Image used with author's permission. Photograph credit to Grant Maiden.
Birthplace
Ngāti Porou: Aotearoa
Primary Sources
Mercier, O. R., Leonard, B. G., & Harry, D. (2023). Guest editorial. Ethical Space: International Journal of Communication Ethics, 2023(2/3). https://doi.org/10.21428/0af3f4c0.437a9a2c
Mercier, O.R & Jackson, A. (2023). 8 Indigenous Science Discourse in the Mainstream: The Case of ‘Mātauranga and Science’ in New Zealand Science Review. In E. Rasekoala (Ed.), Race and Sociocultural Inclusion in Science Communication: Innovation, Decolonisation, and Transformation (pp. 130-146). Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.56687/9781529226829-012
Mercier, O. R., Palmer, S., & King-Hunt, A. (2022). Hoha riha: Pest insect control in Maori tradition. TheJournal of the Polynesian Society, 131(3), 261-287. https://thepolynesiansociety.org/jps/index.php/JPS/article/view/592
Mercier, O. & Leonard, B.G. (2019). Indigenous knowledge(s) and the sciences in global contexts: Bringing worlds together. In E.A. McKinley & L.T. Smith (Eds.), Handbook of Indigenous education (pp. 1213–1241). Springer. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-981-10-3899-0_51
Mercier, O., Asmar, C., & Page, S. (2011). An academic occupation: Mobilisation, sit-in, speaking out and confrontation in the experiences of Māori academics. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 40, 81–91. https://doi.org/10.1375/ajie.40.81
Mercier, O. (2007). Close encounters of the Māori kind – Talking interaction in the films of Taika Waititi. New Zealand Journal of Media Studies, 10(2), 37–51. https://doi.org/10.26686/wgtn.12981110.v1
Secondary Sources
Ross, M., Kiddle, R., Thomas, A., Elkington, B., Mercier, O. R., & Smeaton, J. (2024). Decolonisation. In Dombroski, K., Goodwin, M., Qian, J., Williams, A., & Cloke, P. (Eds.), Introducing Human Geographies (pp. 963-976). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429265853
Black, A., Garner, G., Mark-Shadbolt, M., Balanovic, J., MacDonald, E., Mercier, O., & Wright, J. (2021) Indigenous peoples’ attitudes and social acceptability of invasive species control in New Zealand. Pacific Conservation Biology, 0(0), n.p. https://doi.org/10.1071/PC21049
Leonard, B., & Mercier, O. (2016). Indigenous struggles within the colonial project: Reclaiming Indigenous knowledges in the Western academy. Knowledge Cultures, 4(3), 99–116. https://doi.org/10.26686/wgtn.12980942.v1
Robson-Williams, M., Harcourt, N., & Mercier, O. (2023). Achieving societal collaboration and impact in Aotearoa-New Zealand through transdisciplinarity. GAIA-Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 32(1), 126-130. https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.32.1.9
Kiddle, R., Elkington, B., Ross, M., Mercier, O. R., Thomas, A., Gjerde, M., ... & Mawer, C. (2023). Imagining a decolonized city in and from Aotearoa New Zealand. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 47(1), 146-154. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13132
Black, A., Garner, G., Mark-Shadbolt, M., Balanovic, J., MacDonald, E., Mercier, O., & Wright, J. (2021) Indigenous peoples’ attitudes and social acceptability of invasive species control in New Zealand. Pacific Conservation Biology, 0(0), n.p. https://doi.org/10.1071/PC21049
Leonard, B., & Mercier, O. (2016). Indigenous struggles within the colonial project: Reclaiming Indigenous knowledges in the Western academy. Knowledge Cultures, 4(3), 99–116. https://doi.org/10.26686/wgtn.12980942.v1
Extra Resources
Dr. Ocean Mercier - Māori have always been scientists (July 16, 2022). YouTube. Accessed November 4, 2022. https://youtu.be/T3K06xZg0kQ
Collection
Citation
“Ocean Mercier,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed April 12, 2025, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/71.