Maria Bargh

Bargh is of Te Arawa and Ngāti Awa descent.[1]

Bargh completed a PhD titled Re-colonisation and indigenous resistance: neoliberalism in the Pacific at the Australian National University, under the supervision of Barry Hindess.[2] Bargh joined the staff of Victoria University of Wellington, rising to full professor in 2022.[3]

Bargh's research covers Māori political representation and constitutional change, environmental politics and policy, and the political economy.[3] She was on the Matike Mai Aotearoa working group on constitutional reform.[4] Bargh has been appointed by Cabinet to the role of Deputy Chair of the Independent Review of Electoral Law, alongside Deborah Hart, Andrew Geddis, Alice Mander, Robert Pedden and Lara Greaves.[3][5] She is co-editor of the MAI Journal: A New Zealand Journal of Indigenous Scholarship, and is on the editorial board for the New Zealand Political Science Journal.[6]

Bargh received a Royal Society Te Apārangi Te Puāwaitanga Research Award in 2020.[1][7]

She received a University Engagement Excellence Award in 2017 and a Research Excellence Award in 2021.[3]

• Maria Bargh (2011). "The Triumph of Maori Entrepreneurs or Diverse Economies?". Aboriginal Policy Studies. 1 (3). doi:10.5663/APS.V1I3.12560. ISSN 1923-3299. Wikidata Q117473145.
• Maria Bargh (1 January 2006). "Changing the game plan: The Foreshore and Seabed Act and constitutional change". Kotuitui: New Zealand Journal Of Social Sciences Online. 1 (1): 13–24. doi:10.1080/1177083X.2006.9522408. ISSN 1177-083X. Wikidata Q117473146.
• Maria Bargh; Jacob Otter (August 2009). "Progressive spaces of neoliberalism in Aotearoa: A genealogy and critique". Asia Pacific Viewpoint. 50 (2): 154–165. doi:10.1111/J.1467-8373.2009.01390.X. ISSN 1360-7456. Wikidata Q117473147.
• Maria Bargh (1 January 2012). "Rethinking and re‐shaping indigenous economies: Māori geothermal energy enterprises". Journal of Enterprising Communities. 6 (3): 271–283. doi:10.1108/17506201211258423. ISSN 1750-6204. Wikidata Q117473148.
• Maria Bargh (1 June 2014). "A Blue Economy for Aotearoa New Zealand?". Environment, Development and Sustainability. 16 (3): 459–470. doi:10.1007/S10668-013-9487-4. ISSN 1387-585X. Wikidata Q117473152.
• Maria Bargh (1 December 2013). "Multiple sites of Māori political participation". Australian Journal of Political Science. 48 (4): 445–455. doi:10.1080/10361146.2013.841123. ISSN 1036-1146. Wikidata Q56483790.
• Maria Bargh; Sarsha-Leigh Douglas; Annie Te One (13 August 2014). "Fostering sustainable tribal economies in a time of climate change". New Zealand Geographer. 70 (2): 103–115. doi:10.1111/NZG.12042. ISSN 0028-8144. Wikidata Q117473154.
• Maria Bargh; Estair Van Wagner (1 March 2019). "Participation as exclusion: Māori engagement with the Crown Minerals Act 1991 Block Offer process". Journal of Human Rights and the Environment. 10 (1): 118–139. doi:10.4337/JHRE.2019.01.06. ISSN 1759-7196. Wikidata Q117473155.

• University profile
• Articles written by Bargh at Newsroom
• A tika approach to climate responses with Associate Professor Maria Bargh (YouTube video)