Hirini Matunga is a New Zealand town planning academic and as of 2019 is a full professor at the Lincoln University.[1] He has written on Māori tourism as well as indigenous thinking within the field of urban planning.

Hirini Matunga
Matunga in 2013
Alma materUniversity of Auckland
Scientific career
FieldsTown planning
InstitutionsLincoln University

Academic career edit

With a degree in town planning from the University of Auckland[2] Matunga had 25 years experience as a town planner before joining Lincoln University as Director of the Centre for Maori and Indigenous Planning and Development.[1][3][4][5][6][7]

Selected works edit

  • Matunga, Hirini. "Theorizing indigenous planning." Reclaiming indigenous planning (2013): 3–32.
  • McIntosh*, Alison J., Frania Kanara Zygadlo, and Hirini Matunga. "Rethinking Maori tourism." Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research 9, no. 4 (2004): 331–352.
  • Matunga, Hirini. "Decolonising planning: The Treaty of Waitangi, the environment and a dual planning tradition." Environmental planning and management in New Zealand (2000): 36–47.
  • Dalziel, Paul, Hirini Matunga, and Caroline Saunders. "Cultural well-being and local government: Lessons from New Zealand." Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, The 12, no. 3 (2006): 267.
  • Matunga, Hirini. "17 Waahi tapu: Maori sacred sites." Sacred sites, sacred places 23 (1994): 217.
  • Zygadlo, F., Alison J. McIntosh, Hirini P. Matunga, John R. Fairweather, and David G. Simmons. "Maori tourism: concepts, characteristics and definition." (2003).

Personal life edit

Matunga is Māori, of Kāti Māmoe, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāi Tahu and Rongowhakaata descent.

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Hirini Matunga – Professor of Māori and Indigenous Development". Lincoln University New Zealand. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  2. ^ http://www.massey.co.nz/massey/fms/AVC%20Academic/documents/Audit/MUPanelBiographies2008.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  3. ^ "Auditors | AQA". www.aqa.ac.nz.
  4. ^ https://www.komako.org.nz/person/1507
  5. ^ "Hirini Matunga – Strategic Indigenous Impact Assessment". NZAIA.
  6. ^ "Leadership – Recovery and Rebuild". Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu. 23 April 2013.
  7. ^ https://www.natekore2018.com/keynotes/hirini-matunga

External links edit