
Michael Luoma
Post-Doctoral Fellow at IIGR and CSDD
Institute of Intergovernmental Relations
成人大片 University
Michael Luoma (PhD, Philosophy, Queen鈥檚 University, 2023) is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations (IIGR) and the Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity (CSDD) at Queen鈥檚 University.
Michael鈥檚 research draws contemporary political philosophy into dialogue with grounded contexts of normative and political contestation. Specifically, Michael鈥檚 research examines the conditions for political legitimacy in Indigenous 鈥 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.
In his capacity as postdoctoral fellow at the IIGR, Michael is pursuing research on multinational federalism and border governance in the field of Indigenous 鈥 state relations, in association with the Institute鈥檚 partnership with the 21st Century Borders project.
You may find additional details about Michael鈥檚 research, on the negotiation of modern treaty agreements, on his CSDD profile.
Articles:
Luoma, M. (2024). 鈥淕roup-differentiated rights for Indigenous communities that straddle borders.鈥 Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 28 (1): 121鈥142.
Luoma, M. (2024) 鈥淧ublic Education, Multinational Identity Formation, and Territorial Legitimacy: An Analysis of the 2004 and 2023 Ontario Curricula on Indigenous 笔别辞辫濒别蝉.鈥 Frontiers in Political Science, Peace and Democracy, 6: 1-16.
Luoma, M. & Moore, M. (2024). 鈥淩ectifying Historical Territorial Injustices.鈥 Res Publica, 30: 683鈥703.
Luoma, M. (2022). 鈥淐ollective Self-Determination, Territory and the Wet'suwet鈥檈n: What Justifies the Political Authority of Historic Indigenous Governments over Land and 笔别辞辫濒别?鈥 Canadian Journal of Political Science, 55(1), 19-39.
Book Chapters:
Luoma, M. (2025). 鈥淚ndigenous Perspectives on Climate Change.鈥 In Madsen, R. & Sullivan, W.M. (Eds.), Ethikon Series in Comparative Ethics: Climate Change and Morality. Brookings Institution Press. Forthcoming.
Book Reviews and Encyclopedia Entries:
Luoma, M. 鈥淛ames Tully: Indigenous Self-Government in Modern Canada.鈥 In Gray, K. (Ed.), Global Encyclopedia of Territorial Rights (pp. 1-10). Springer.
Luoma, M. 鈥淪haring Territories: Overlapping Self-Determination and Resource Rights Cara Nine, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, pp. 336.鈥 Canadian Journal of Political Science 56 (4): 1000-1002.