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<p style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Name:
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<p style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Thesis title:
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Terra in our Mist: A Tűhoe Narrative of Indigenous Sovereignty and State Violence</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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National Centre of Indigenous Studies, <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt">John Yencken building, 45 Sullivans Creek Road</span></span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Date/time:
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<p style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Thesis abstract: </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Minion Pro",serif;color:black">This thesis examines the relationship between Indigenous sovereignty and state violence in the Aotearoa New Zealand context.
To do so, I explore the following argument. The settler colonial state is founded upon the perpetual negation of Indigenous sovereignties, their peoples, and ways of life. This process is necessarily on-going: despite significant efforts at extermination,
Indigenous peoples have survived – albeit on terms dictated by the state. Ngâi Tűhoe, the illustrious ‘people of the mist’ of Te Urewera, in New Zealand’s Eastern Bay of Plenty, are bearers of a superior, adamantine sovereign claim over their homelands. As
I demonstrate, however, this prerogative is irreconcilable with settler sovereignty. Unable to completely eradicate Tűhoe in the initial stages of British colonisation, the contemporary New Zealand settler colonial state periodically reasserts its existential
legitimacy, predominantly through repeated shows of force upon Tűhoe communities. In the last ten years, this has manifested in four major paramilitary Police operations targeting Ngâi Tűhoe, violently raiding whânau (<i>family</i>) homes with reckless abandon.
The overwhelming force used by the Police in instances such as these demonstrates that Tűhoe exist within what Giorgio Agamben has described as the ‘state of exception’ (2005). Drawing on the thinking of Michel Foucault (2003), I suggest that Tűhoe are rendered
biopolitical ‘contaminants’ that threaten the health and wellbeing of the social body, and must be expelled by any means necessary. This distinctly colonial project is most ardently manifest upon the frontier – the threshold between ‘civilisation’ and ‘savagery’
– to which the state deploys its most violent machines of war in the circumscription of Indigenous existence. Central to this has been the colonial depiction of Tűhoe as savage, primitive, inferior, and simple beings, a system of representation that continues
to inform the manner in which the state interacts with Tűhoe today. In this matrix, Tűhoe are ‘known’ by the state through an exclusively violent and hostile lens, but in this thesis I urge that manifold alternative portrayals of Tűhoe exist, untethered to
these colonial convictions. To this end, I use ethnography and photographs of the everydayness of Tűhoe life to rupture such colonial stereotypes, in giving voice and sight to alternate ways of ‘knowing’ – and hopefully, interacting with – Ngâi Tűhoe.
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