title: Between World Views: Nascent Pacific Tourism Enterprise in New Zealand

authors: Cave, Jennifer Barbara Jane

subjects: societal marginality

abstract: This thesis considers the dynamics of entrepreneurship at the 'pre-tourism' stage of tourism development.  It is written from the point of view of potential tourism hosts, diasporan Pacific peoples resident in New Zealand. 

The central question is 'that societal marginality can be a positive position from which to develop tourism enterprise and cultural product'.  The author used a collaborative action approach (Lopez  Potter, 2001) to respond to a community, rather than an academic agenda.  The research question reflects the aspirations of the Waitakere Pacific Board (WPB), an organisation which advocates for and undertakes projects to move towards economic, social and cultural equality with the mainstream western population, on behalf of nine diasporan Pacific communities.  It tacitly assumes that the nine 'Pacific' communities share common views and values and are all at a similar stage of integration or hegemony and that the WPB speaks on their behalf.  It further assumes that Pacific ethnic communities in Waitakere are in fact marginalised and that they all wish to and are capable of initiating commercial enterprise and tourism product.  Also, there is an expectation that non-Pacific peoples consume products and services that are based upon Pacific cultural knowledge and resources.  But most importantly, assumes that tourism can be as viable in a diasporan New Zealand non-indigenous context as it is in the Islands today. 

The core thesis is underpinned by three other questions.  Specifically, what are the diasporan Pacific community's aspirations for tourism and cultural enterprise to support tourism?  What factors enable or inhibit interaction at the interface between diasporan Pacific communities and tourism product/cultural enterprise?  What happens at the interface between diasporan communities and consumers?  Contemporary non-instrument navigation is used as a metaphor for the research voyage, the structure of the thesis, and each community's journey in diasporan social worlds.

text: Between World Views: Nascent Pacific Tourism Enterprise in New Zealand This thesis considers the dynamics of entrepreneurship at the 'pre-tourism' stage of tourism development.  It is written from the point of view of potential tourism hosts, diasporan Pacific peoples resident in New Zealand. 

The central question is 'that societal marginality can be a positive position from which to develop tourism enterprise and cultural product'.  The author used a collaborative action approach (Lopez  Potter, 2001) to respond to a community, rather than an academic agenda.  The research question reflects the aspirations of the Waitakere Pacific Board (WPB), an organisation which advocates for and undertakes projects to move towards economic, social and cultural equality with the mainstream western population, on behalf of nine diasporan Pacific communities.  It tacitly assumes that the nine 'Pacific' communities share common views and values and are all at a similar stage of integration or hegemony and that the WPB speaks on their behalf.  It further assumes that Pacific ethnic communities in Waitakere are in fact marginalised and that they all wish to and are capable of initiating commercial enterprise and tourism product.  Also, there is an expectation that non-Pacific peoples consume products and services that are based upon Pacific cultural knowledge and resources.  But most importantly, assumes that tourism can be as viable in a diasporan New Zealand non-indigenous context as it is in the Islands today. 

The core thesis is underpinned by three other questions.  Specifically, what are the diasporan Pacific community's aspirations for tourism and cultural enterprise to support tourism?  What factors enable or inhibit interaction at the interface between diasporan Pacific communities and tourism product/cultural enterprise?  What happens at the interface between diasporan communities and consumers?  Contemporary non-instrument navigation is used as a metaphor for the research voyage, the structure of the thesis, and each community's journey in diasporan social worlds.

year: 2009

title: Responding to the urbanisation of Melanesia’s populations: a critical 21st century challenge

authors: Bedford, Richard

subjects: population

abstract: Rowan Callick’s (1993) deliberately provocative ‘doomsday scenario’ for an increasingly impoverished and marginalised Pacific by 2010 was primarily designed to challenge a prevailing tendency at the time towards complacency about medium-term prospects for a region where the great majority of the population remained ruralresident.

text: Responding to the urbanisation of Melanesia’s populations: a critical 21st century challenge Rowan Callick’s (1993) deliberately provocative ‘doomsday scenario’ for an increasingly impoverished and marginalised Pacific by 2010 was primarily designed to challenge a prevailing tendency at the time towards complacency about medium-term prospects for a region where the great majority of the population remained ruralresident.

year: 2010

title: Hāwatewate

authors: Maxwell, Te Kahautu

abstract: Hāwatewate; this composition is in remembrance of the hanging of the Ōpōtiki missionary Rev Carl Sylvius Volkner by the Hauhau, Kereopa Te Rau of Ngāti Rangiwewehi of Te Arawa. As a consequence the Te Whakatōhea chief Mokomoko was wrongly convicted and executed by hanging in Mount Eden Prison 17 May 1866. 143870 acres of Te Whakatōhea land was confiscated under the New Zealand Settlements Act 1863. This item placed third in the Whakaeke discipline and was performed by Ōpōtiki Mai Tawhiti at the Te Matatini World Championship Kapa Haka Competition 2015.

text: Hāwatewate Hāwatewate; this composition is in remembrance of the hanging of the Ōpōtiki missionary Rev Carl Sylvius Volkner by the Hauhau, Kereopa Te Rau of Ngāti Rangiwewehi of Te Arawa. As a consequence the Te Whakatōhea chief Mokomoko was wrongly convicted and executed by hanging in Mount Eden Prison 17 May 1866. 143870 acres of Te Whakatōhea land was confiscated under the New Zealand Settlements Act 1863. This item placed third in the Whakaeke discipline and was performed by Ōpōtiki Mai Tawhiti at the Te Matatini World Championship Kapa Haka Competition 2015.

year: 2015-01-08