Emalani Case

Emalani Case is a lecturer in Pacific Studies in Te Wānanga o Waipapa, the School of Māori and Pacific Studies at Waipapa Taumata Rau, The University of Auckland. As a Kanaka Maoli activist, teacher, and writer, she is deeply engaged in issues of Indigenous rights and representation, settler colonialism and decolonisation, militarism and demilitarisation, and environmental and social justice. Her work, including her teaching, is motivated by a desire to draw on Pacific and Indigenous knowledges and histories to reflect upon the past, promote action and solidarity in the present, and envision better futures. She is the author of Everything Ancient Was Once New: Indigenous Persistence from Hawaiʻi to Kahiki (2021, UH Press). She comes to Aotearoa from Waimea, Hawaiʻi.