Decolonising Blue Spaces in the Anthropocene

Meg Parsons is senior lecturer at the University of Auckland, New Zealand who specialises in historical geography and Indigenous peoples’ experiences of environmental changes. Of Indigenous and non-Indigenous heritage (Ngāpuhi, Pākehā, Lebanese), Parsons is a contributing author to IPCC’s Sixth Assessment of Working Group II report and the author of 34 publications. Karen Fisher (Ngāti Maniapoto, Waikato-Tainui, Pākehā) is an associate professor in the School Environment, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Aotearoa New Zealand. She is a human geographer with research interests in environmental governance and the politics of resource use in freshwater and marine environments.Roa Petra Crease (Ngāti Maniapoto, Filipino, Pākehā) is an early career researcher who employs theorising from feminist political ecology to examine climate change adaptation for Indigenous and marginalised peoples. Recent publications explore theintersections of gender justice and climate justice in the Philippines, and mātuaranga Māori (knowledge) of flooding.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Environmental Justice and Indigenous Environmental Justice.- Chapter 3: ‘The past is always in front of us’: locating historical Māori waterscapes at the centre of discussions of current and future freshwater management.- Chapter 4: Remaking muddy blue spaces: histories of human-wetlands interactions in the Waipā River and the creation of environmental injustices.- Chapter 5: A history of the settler-colonial freshwater impure-ment: water pollution and the creation of multiple environmental injustices along the Waipā River.- Chapter 6: Legal and ontological pluralism: Recognising rivers as more-than-human entities.- Chapter 7: Transforming river governance: the co-governance arrangements in the Waikato and Waipā Rivers.- Chapter 8 Co-management in theory and practice: co-managing the Waipā River.-Chapter 9: Decolonising River Restoration: restoration as acts of healing and expression of rangatiratanga.- Chapter 10: Rethinking freshwater management in the context of climate change: planning for different times, climates, and generations.- Chapter 11: Conclusion: Spiralling forwards, backwards, and together to decolonise freshwater.