Ivor Jones The Māori Green Ltn

“Whakapapa, Eyes of Time: How Māori Circular Temporality Challenges Western Linear Domination” - 28 December 2025

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“Whakapapa, Eyes of Time: How Māori Circular Temporality Challenges Western Linear Domination” - 28 December 2025

The Māori concept of time shatters the Western illusion of a straight line marching from past to future. Instead of imagining history as a sequence of moments disappearing into a rearview mirror, Māori understand time as whakapapa —an ever-expanding genealogical web where all existence, past, present, and future, collapses into

By Ivor Jones The Māori Green Ltn