Theorizing Māori-Philippine solidarities through agential realism and punk rock pedagogy.

This article examines Māori-Philippine relations in Aotearoa New Zealand through the lens of punk rock pedagogy (PRP), a form of critical pedagogy rooted in punk subculture that fosters anti-oppressive politics and intercultural solidarity. Using an agential realist methodology, it analyzes the creative works of three New Zealand-based Philippine-descended artists—TOOMS, James Roque, and Marianne Infante—to explore how contemporary independent art revives ancestral connections between the Philippines and the Pacific within a shared Austronesian cultural continuum. The study highlights how PRP and Indigenous futurity—conceptualized as the preservation and flourishing of Indigenous values and lifeways—offer alternative frameworks for understanding multiculturalism, emphasizing horizontal alliances between Indigenous Māori and immigrant Philippine communities beyond settler colonial paradigms. Through artistic expressions and embodied encounters, the article suggests that such solidarities challenge dominant narratives of assimilation and racialized capitalism, proposing new possibilities for decolonial education and intercultural communion in Aotearoa.