Browsing by Author "McCormack, Fiona"
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The Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary: Terraqueous Territorialization and Māori Marine Environments
(Pacific Affairs, 2021)This paper interprets the disrupted establishment of the Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary, a 620,000 square kilometre marine protection area, as a crucial moment in Pacific frontier making. The development of large-scale protected ... -
TATAU: A History of Sāmoan Tattooing [Book review]
(Pacific Affairs, 2021)This book is a homage to tatau, honouring its deep socio-political significance and central mediating role in Sāmoan culture, past and present. As much as this is a social anthropological account, however, it is also a ... -
UNDER THE VOLCANO: The People of Kalapana, 1823 to 2010 [Book review]
(Pacific Affairs University British Columbia, 2018)Kalapana is a significant place in Hawaiian imaginaries. It was one of the few Hawaiian communities to survive as such into the twentieth century. It also lies in the shadow of Kīlauea, the most active of the Hawaiian ...
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Colonial versus ancestral legacy: The assertion of culture and identity through public arts in Kirikiriroa/Hamilton
(The University of Waikato, 2021)This thesis is an ethnography of Hamilton. It focuses on the role of public arts as a cultural regeneration tool and their function in shaping the community(s) in Kirikiriroa/Hamilton through building a sense of place and ... -
Te Mauri o te Kaitiaki - Exploring Te Ao Māori in environmental relations and kaitiakitanga in Aotearoa New Zealand
(The University of Waikato, 2020)Indigenous environmental empowerment is on the rise as humans look at ways to slow the adverse effects of anthropogenic environmental degradation. In the context of Aotearoa New Zealand, the concept and practice of ‘kaitiaki’ ... -
A Sea of Voices: Deep sea mining and the Solwara 1 Project in Papua New Guinea
(The University of Waikato, 2019)Deep sea mining is a new and increasingly important part of the capitalist exploitation of the world’s oceans. Situated off the coast of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, Solwara 1 is expected to become the world’s ... -
Smallholder sugarcane growers, indigenous technical knowledge, and the sugar industry crisis in Fiji
(The University of Waikato, 2019)This is a cross-disciplinary study that draws upon the agronomic, ecological, and social sciences to analyse the current crisis facing the sugar industry in Fiji. Its particular focus is the livelihood crisis facing the ... -
Culture and collaborative conservation? Inter-cultural difference and the Maungatautari Project
(The University of Waikato, 2018)This thesis situates and examines the role of sociocultural difference and biculturalism in the Maungatautari Sanctuary Mountain project, a multi-stakeholder community-based biodiversity conservation project in the Waikato ...
