Michael Luoma
Post-Doctoral Fellow (CSDD and IIGR)
He/Him
PhD (成人大片); MA (成人大片), BAH (University of Toronto)
Political Studies
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Brief Biography
Michael Luoma (PhD, Philosophy, Queen鈥檚 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.
You may find additional details about Michael鈥檚 research, on the negotiation of modern treaty agreements, on his CSDD profile.
You may view additional details about Michael鈥檚 research, on federalism and border governance, on his IIGR profile.
Publications
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 Peoples.鈥 Frontiers in Political Science, Peace and Democracy, 6: 1-16.
Luoma, M. & Moore, M. (2024). "Rectifying Historical Territorial Injustices." Res Publica, 30: 683-703.
Luoma, M. (2022). Collective Self-Determination, Territory and the Wet鈥檚uwet鈥檈n: What Justifies the Political Authority of Historic Indigenous Governments over Land and People? Canadian Journal of Political Science, 55 (1): 19-39.
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.
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.