Associate Professor Brendan Hokowhitu

Brendan Hokowhitu BA, BPhEd, PhD (Otago), MA (Vic BC)
Associate Professor (Appointed 2002)
(Ngāti Pūkenga)

Contact details

Room Richardson South Tower, Rm 4S12
Phone 64 3 479 3977
Fax 64 3 479 8525
Email brendan.hokowhitu@otago.ac.nz

Research

Brendan's research interests include deconstructing historical and contemporary representation of Māori in dominant discourses, especially in relation to masculinity, popular culture, film and media, sport and physical education.

Teaching

Current/Past Supervision

Current

Vaughan Bidois - PhD - Culture and Identity: Postcolonial Reflections in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Bevan Erueti - PhD - Māori and Sport
Scott Klenner - PhD - Negotiating Subjectivity and Identity in the Teaching Profession (Temporarily withdrawn)
Matani Schaaf - PhD - Burnout and motivation in Elite Pacific Island Sportsmen
Kate Timms- PhD - Language Revitalization in Aotearoa New Zealand and Alba Scotland
Erina Hurihanganui - MA - State Governance and Negotiation with Māori (Temporarily withdrawn)
Kat McIntyre - MA - Te reo Māori teachers in mainstream secondary schools: Responsibility, knowledge and Foucault

Past

Michelle Schaaf - PhD - Body Image, Netball and Pacific Island Culture (2010)
Suzanne Boyes - MA - Māori Brand Marketing (2010)
Zoe Bristowe – MIndS - Theorising Māori Resistance (2010)
Deborah Goomes - MIndS - Chatham Islands Art Histroy (2009)
Filipo Levi - MIndS - Pacific People's experiences of Racism in Rugby (2009)
Johnathan Kapa - MPhEd - Ko te Papa Korero mo Te Aupouri: Three Generations Walking through the Whenua (2009)
Tracey Gardner - MCapSc - Design for Māori by Māori (2008)
David Roach - MIndS - Liberal-Egalitarianism, Indigeneity, and Health Outcome Equity (2008)
Christina Matteotti - MA - The Postcolonial Archive (2007)
Marcia Cassidy - MIndS - Māori Mental Health (2007)
Rosie Christensen - MPhEd - The Bicultural Imaginary and Physical Culture(s) in Aotearoa/New Zealand (2006)
Tangiwai Rewi - MIndS - Teacher Qualifications in Kura Kaupapa (2006)
Sarah Cripps - MIndS - Divisive Politics: Don Brash and the Orewa Speech (2006)
Micheal Brown - MIndS - Orientalism and Out Group Pākehā (2005)
Kirihimete Moxon - MIndS - Representations of Māori in Self-help Advertising (2005)
Vanessa Oxley - MIndS - Smoking Cessation in Māori Culture (2004)

Research Grants

Hokowhitu, B. (2009). Tertiary Education Commission: $187,500. Whakamana Tangata - Te Waipounamu: Building People - Accelerating Māori Postgraduate Enrolment, Completion, Supervisory Capacity and Māori Staff Capacity
Derrett, S., Langley, J., Hokowhitu, B., Stephenson, S., Bray, A., Buckingham, J. & Ameratunga, S. (2007). Health Research Council of New Zealand: $1,780,000. Prospective Outcomes of Injury Study.
Sullivan, J., Hokowhitu, B. and Williams, L. (2006). Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, Centre of Research Excellence Grant: $30,746. Knowledge and reporting of a concussion by young sports persons: cultural, education and health perspectives study.
Langley, J., Hokowhitu, B., Stephenson, S., Bray, A., Buckingham, J., & Ameratunga, S. (2004). Health Research Council of New Zealand Pilot Grant: $121,106. Project title: Prospective Outcomes Injury Pilot Study.
Eketone, A., & Hokowhitu, B. (2004). University of Otago Humanities Divisional Research Grant: $2,500. Proposed project title: The Representation of Māori in the print media.
Hokowhitu, B. (2003). University of Otago Research Grant: $10,000. Project title: The Sociological Antecedents of Māori Male Violence.
Hokowhitu, B. (2002). University of Otago New Zealand and Pacific Global Research Theme Summer Scholarship: $3,000. Project title: Māori masculinity, post-structuralism, and the emerging Self.

Distinctions

2002: Inaugural National Māori Academic Excellence Award (Arts and Humanities)

Major Research Outputs

Edited Books

Hokowhitu, B., Kermoal, N., Andersen, C., Petersen, A., Reilly, M., Altamirano-Jimenez & Rewi, P. (eds.) (2010). Indigenous Identity and Resistance: Researching the Diversity of Knowledge. Dunedin: University of Otago Press.

Book Chapters

Hokowhitu, B. (2010).'‘A genealogy of indigenous resistance'. In Hokowhitu, B., Kermoal, N., Andersen, C., Reilly, M., Rewi, P. & Petersen, A. (eds.). Indigenous Identity and Resistance: Researching the Diversity of Knowledge. Dunedin: University of Otago Press.

Hokowhitu, B. (2010). 'Indigenous studies: Research, identity, resistance'. In Hokowhitu, B., Kermoal, N., Andersen, C., Reilly, M., Rewi, P. & Petersen, A. (eds.). Indigenous Identity and Resistance: Researching the Diversity of Knowledge. Dunedin: University of Otago Press.

Hokowhitu, B. (2008). 'The Logic of Terror'. In Terror in Our Midst? Searching for Terrorism in Aotearoa New Zealand 2007, Keenan, D. (ed.). Wellington: Huia, Pacific Peoples, pp. 165-179.

Hokowhitu, B. (2007). 'Indigenous and First Nations Masculinities'. In International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities, 1 vol., Flood, M., Gardiner, J.K., Pease, B. and Pringle K. (eds.) London: Routledge.

Hokowhitu, B. (2007). 'History, Pacific'. In International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities, 1 vol., Flood, M., Gardiner, J.K., Pease, B. and Pringle K. (eds.) London: Routledge.

Hokowhitu, B. (2007). 'Māori Sport: Pre-colonisation to Today'. In Sport in New Zealand Society (2nd edition), C. Collins & S. Jackson (eds.), Albany, New Zealand: Thomson, pp. 78-95.

Jackson, S. and Hokowhitu, B. (2005). 'Sport, Tribes and Technology: The New Zealand All Blacks haka and the Politics of Identity'. In Sport and Corporate Nationalisms, Silk, M., Andrews, D. and Cole, C. (eds.). Oxford: Berg, pp. 67-82.

Hokowhitu, B. (2004). 'Physical Beings: Stereotypes, Sport and the “Physical Education” of New Zealand Māori'. In Ethnicity, Sport, Identity: Struggles for Status, Mangan, J.A. & Ritchie, A. (eds.). London: Frank Cass, pp. 192-218.

Hokowhitu, B. (2004). 'Te Tāminga o te Mātauranga Māori: Colonisation in Education'. In Ki te Whaiao: An Introduction to Māori Society, Ka’ai, T., Moorfield, J. and Reilly, M. (eds.). Auckland: Pearson Education New Zealand, pp. 190-200.

Journal Articles

Wyeth, E.H., Derrett, S., Hokowhitu, B., Hall, C., & Langley, J. (2010) 'Rangatiratanga and Ōritetanga: Responses to the Treaty of Waitangi in a New Zealand study'. Ethnicity & Health, 15(3), pp. 303-316.

Hokowhitu, B. (2009). 'Indigenous existentialism and the body'. Cultural Studies Review 15(2), pp. 101-118.

Hokowhitu, B. (2009). 'Māori rugby and subversion: Creativity, domestication, oppression and decolonization'. International Journal of the History of Sport, 26(16), pp. 2314 – 2334.

Hokowhitu, B. (2009). 'Māori culture: Contemporary or not?' (Commentary). Mai Review, 4(3).

Derrett, S., Langley, J., Hokowhitu, B., Ameratunga, S., Hansen, P., Davie, G., Wyeth, E., & Lilley, R. (2009). 'Prospective outcomes of injury study'. Injury Prevention, 15(5), p. 351.

Hokowhitu, B. (2008). 'Understanding the Māori and Pacific body: Towards a critical physical education pedagogy'. Journal of Physical Education New Zealand, 41(2).

Hokowhitu, B., Sullivan, J. and Williams, L.T. (2008). 'Rugby culture, ethnicity and concussion'. MAI Review, 3(1).

Hokowhitu, B. (2008). 'Authenticating Māori Physicality: Translations of “Games” and “Pastimes” by early Travellers and Missionaries to New Zealand'. International Journal of the History of Sport, 25(10), pp. 1355-1373

Hokowhitu, B. and Scherer, J. (2008). 'The Māori All Blacks and the Decentering of the White Subject: Hyperrace, Sport, and the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism'. Sociology of Sport Journal, 25, pp. 243-262.

Hokowhitu, B. (2008). 'The Death of Koro Paka: “Traditional” Māori Patriarchy'. Special Issue, Pacific Masculinities, The Contemporary Pacific, 20(1), pp. 115-141.

Hokowhitu, B. (2007). 'Understanding Whangara: Whale Rider as simulacrum'. New Zealand Journal of Media Studies, 10(2), pp. 22-30.

Hokowhitu, B. (2007). 'Māori Masculinity: Overcoming Discourses of Savagery in Working with Māori Men'. New Zealand Journal of Counselling, 27(2), Special Issue: Working with Male Clients, pp. 63-76.

Andersen, C. and Hokowhitu, B. (2007). 'Whiteness, Naivety, Void and Control'. Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue, 8, pp. 39-49.

Hokowhitu, B. (2005). 'Rugby and Tino Rangatiratanga: Early Māori Rugby and the formation of Māori Masculinity'. Sporting Traditions: Journal of the Australian Society for Sports History, 21(2), pp. 75-95.

Hokowhitu, B. (2004). 'Tackling Māori Masculinity: A Colonial Genealogy of Savagery and Sport'. The Contemporary Pacific, 15(2), pp. 259-284.

Hokowhitu, B. (2004). 'Challenges to State Physical Education: Tikanga Māori, Physical Education Curricula, Historical Deconstruction, Inclusivism and Decolonisation'. Waikato Journal of Education, 10, pp. 71-84.

Hokowhitu, B. (2003). 'Māori Physicality: Stereotypes, Sport and the “Physical Education” of New Zealand Māori'. Culture, Sport, Society, 6(2), pp. 192-218.

Hokowhitu, B. (2003). 'Māori Masculinity, Post-structuralism, and the Emerging Self'. New Zealand Sociology, 18(2), pp. 179-201.

Hokowhitu, B. (2003). 'Race Tactics: The Racialised Athletic Body'. Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue, 1, pp. 21-34.

Jackson, S. and Hokowhitu, B. (2002). 'Sport, Tribes and Technology: The New Zealand All Blacks Haka and the Politics of Identity'. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 26(2), pp. 125-139.

Editorials

Hokowhitu, B. (2007). 'Voice and the postmodern condition'. Junctures: The Journal of Thematic Dialogue, 9, pp. 7-14.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

Hokowhitu, B. (2006). 'Traditional Māori Leadership: From Playing Rugby to Riding Whales.' World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education Hamilton, New Zealand, 27 November – 1 December, 2005.

Book Reviews

Hokowhitu, B. (2007). Invited book review of G. Ryan (ed.) (2005) 'Tackling Rugby Myths: Rugby and New Zealand Society 1854-2004'. The International Journal of the History of Sport.

Hokowhitu, B. (2005). Invited book review of J. S. Franks (2002). 'Hawaiian Sports in the Twentieth Century'. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 22(3), pp. 487-489.

Hokowhitu, B. (2002). Invited book review of Judith Simon's (ed.) (1998). 'Ngā Kura Māori: The Native School System 1867-1969'. The Journal of the Polynesian Society, 111(3), pp. 281-283.

Keynote Addresses

Hokowhitu, B. (2005). 'Māori Masculinity and Sport'. National Maori Nutrition and Physical Activity Hui, Wainuiomata Marae, 26-28 October.

Hokowhitu, B. (2005). 'Māori sport: Tino rangatiratanga or colonisation'. Māori Involvement, Development and Achievement in Sport Symposium, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, 25-26 July.

Hokowhitu, B. (2004). 'The ‘physical education’ of Māori'. Physical Education New Zealand Conference, Wellington, New Zealand.