Michael Luoma
Post-Doctoral Fellow (CSDD and IIGR)
He/Him
PhD (Queen's); MA (Queen's), BAH (University of Toronto)
Political Studies
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Brief Biography
Michael Luoma (PhD, Philosophy, Queen’s University, 2023) is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity (CSDD) and the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations (IIGR) at Queen’s University.
Michael’s research draws contemporary political philosophy into dialogue with grounded contexts of normative and political contestation. Specifically, Michael’s research examines the conditions for political legitimacy in Indigenous – settler relations, with a focus on the requirements for fair negotiation of territorial authority among self-determining peoples in a multinational federal system. Pursuant to this objective, Michael has conducted research on Indigenous political authority and collective self-determination, territorial rights and restitution, federalism, transnational Indigenous communities, and the negotiation of modern treaties.
You may find additional details about Michael’s research, on the negotiation of modern treaty agreements, on his CSDD profile.
You may view additional details about Michael’s research, on federalism and border governance, on his IIGR profile.
Publications
Luoma, M., Moore, M. (2024). Rectifying Historical Territorial Injustices. Res Publica.
Luoma, M. (2022). Collective Self-Determination, Territory and the Wet’suwet’en: What Justifies the Political Authority of Historic Indigenous Governments over Land and People? Canadian Journal of Political Science, 55 (1): 19-39.
Luoma, M. (2024, forthcoming). James Tully: Indigenous Self-Government in Modern Canada. In K. W. Gray (Ed.), Global Encyclopedia of Territorial Rights. Springer.
Luoma, M. (2023). Sharing Territories: Overlapping Self-Determination and Resource Rights Cara Nine, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, pp. 336. Canadian Journal of Political Science, 56 (4): 1000-1002.