Rate My Professor Simon Barber

Prior to his current position, Barber held the Te Tomokanga Postdoctoral Fellowship in Sociology at the University of Auckland, where he taught an undergraduate course on colonisation and social justice and coordinated the Critical Theory Network. He co-edited the book "Through That Which Separates Us" (2021) with Miri Davidson, addressing themes of deportation, incarceration, and colonialism. Barber also co-edited a Special Issue of New Zealand Sociology (2022, Vol. 37, Issue 1) with Sereana Naepi, exploring how Māori and Pacific scholars transform the social sciences. Notable publications include "Māori Sovereignty or Death" (2023, Decolonization of Criminology & Justice, 5(1), co-authored with A. Rata and G. Brayne), "In Wakefield's Laboratory: Tangata Whenua into Property/Labour in Te Waipounamu" (2020, Journal of Sociology), "Sociology in a Crisis: Covid-19 and the Colonial Politics of Knowledge Production in Aotearoa New Zealand" (2020, co-authored with S. Naepi), and "Māori Mārx: Some Provisional Materials" (2019, Counterfutures). He serves as a researcher for Economic and Social Research Aotearoa and sits on the executive committee of the Māori Association of Social Sciences.