Dr Garth Cant
Position
Kaitiakitanga and Resource Management
Qualifications
MA (NZ), PhD (Malaya)
Contact Details
Room:308
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext.6932
Fax: +64 3 364 2907
garth.cant@canterbury.ac.nz
Postal address:
Department of Geography
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch
New Zealand
Research
Garth has research interests in Treaty of Waitangi Claims, the work of the Waitangi Tribunal, the relationship between Treaty settlements and the Resource Management Act, and the interface between matauranga Maori/ traditional ecological knowledge and western science. He is a co-author of a research report, prepared for the Waitangi Tribunal, on the environmental impacts of Crown actions at Lake Waikaremoana.
Garth participates in the International Geographical Commission on Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Knowledge. He recently worked with colleagues in New Zealand, Australia, and Scandinavia to publish the book Discourses and Silences: Indigenous Peoples, Risks and Resistance and to edit a theme issue of Geographical Research on the subject of Indigenous Peoples' Knowledge and Rights.
Garth also has interests in rural social research and, in particular, the impacts of lifestyle blocks and dairy conversions on the rural communities of Canterbury.
Teaching
Selected Publications
- Cant G, Goodall A and Inns J (2005) Discourses and Silences: Indigenous Peoples, Risks and Resistance, Department of Geography, University of Canterbury, Christchurch.
- Johnston J, Cant G, Howitt R, and Peters E "Creating Anti-colonial Geographies: Embracing Indigenous Peoples' Knowledge and Rights" Geographical Research, vol 45, no 2, pp 117-120
- Cant R, Overton J and Pawson E (eds), 1993, Indigenous land rights in Commonwealth countries: Dispossession, negotiation and community action, Christchurch, Commonwealth Geographical Bureau.
- Cant R, 1995, Reclaiming land, reclaiming guardianship: The role of the Treaty of Waitangi in Aotearoa New Zealand, Aboriginal History, Vol 19, pp 797-108.
- Cant R, 1998, Teaching indigenous land rights in New Zealand, Australia and Canada: Practical experience in a bicultural situation in Aotearoa New Zealand, in Smit M J (ed), Geography education in multicultural societies: A selection of papers from the IGU/CGE Conference, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa, July 14-16, 1997, Stellenbosch, University Press, University of Stellenbosch, pp 65-76.
- Cant R, 1998, Repositioning the rural church: Sharing theology and praxis between Australia and New Zealand, in Kesby J A et al. (eds), Geodiversity: Readings in Australian geography at the close of the 20th century, Canberra, ACT, School of Geography and Oceanography, University College, Australian Defence Force Academy.
- Cant R and Kirkpatrick R (eds), 2001, Rural Canterbury: Celebrating its history, Wellington, Daphne Brasell Associates and Lincoln University Press.
- Cant R and Goodall A, 2002, The Ngai Tahu Land Claim Settlement: Financial redress and tribal reawakening, in Holland P, Stephenson F and Wearing A (eds), Geography: A spatial odyssey: Proceedings of the Third Joint Conference of the New Zealand Geographical Society and the Institute of Australian Geographers, Department of Geography, University of Otago, Dunedin, 2001, Hamilton, New Zealand Geographical Society (Inc.), pp 21-27.
- Cant R, Hodge R, Wood V and Bouton L, 2004, The impact of environmental changes on Lake Waikarmoana and Lake Waikareiti, Te Urewera, report commissioned by the Waitangi Tribunal, March 2004 (Wai 894, record of documents, #D1).