Nga mahi a Tane-rore me Te Rehia (traditional Māori performing arts) is one of the most visible aspects of Māori culture. Traditional Māori performing arts is one of the key elements seen on the marae and it marked the ...

This thesis explores the netball experiences of a selection of people residing in Aotearoa/Niu Sila who have participated or continued to participate in netball. Adopting an inter-disciplinary approach, it sheds a light ...

The primary objective of this thesis is to place the pedagogies and practices of Halau Hula O Maiki, as expressed by a number of halau students, in the context of Hawaiian Education. The thesis begins by reviewing the ...

This thesis will show that the important Foreshore and Seabed Debate that took place in Aotearoa/New Zealand from 2003 to 2006 was at its heart a conceptual and jurisprudential dispute between contrasting ideas of equality ...

He wānanga tēnei tuhinga i te iranga e whakaaturia ana i ētahi kōrero tawhito o ngā iwi Māori. E toru ngā tino ara rangahau i whakamahia hei kupenga tātari i ngā whakaaro o nehe. Ko te reo Māori te ara rangahau matua. ...

Research conducted in small isolated island states in the South Pacific has been very limited in scope and frequency. This was particularly true in the Cook Islands, an archipelago of 15 tiny islands scattered across an ...

‘Pārahirahi: a case study of Māori tribal leadership’ explores the changing nature of marae-based, kin-accountable leadership over time and generations in Pārahirahi, Ngāwhā, Northland. It examines leadership in the context ...

Writings dedicated to the adoption of Māori children or whāngai are minimal and there appears to be very little literature in regards to the affect of adoption on descendants of Māori adoptees. Whāngai has often been ...

This thesis seeks to address the relative absence of literature about grounded and localised approaches to peacebuilding in contemporary Fiji. It documents how and why Fiji artists, activists and Civil Society Organisations ...

Rugby players from Pasifiki backgrounds are fast becoming a very powerful group globally. This thesis examines why Pasifiki players are playing rugby or, in more scientific parlance, what was/is the participation motivation ...