Dr Lyn Carter
BA, MA, PhD (Auckland); Adjunct Professor (Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiarangi)
Senior Lecturer (Appointed 2012)
Kāi Tahu, Kāti Mamoe, Waitaha, Te Rapuwai
Programme co-ordinator - Indigenous Development
Contact details
Room Richardson South Tower, Rm 4S9
Phone 64 3 479 3049
Fax 64 3 479 8525
Email lynette.carter@otago.ac.nz
Research
Lyn’s research interests include: social organisation and development structures; Indigenous Diaspora and identity; environmental literacy; Māori development in post-treaty of Waitangi settlement era. Her current research includes development strategies for building social capital among indigenous communities, Indigenous diaspora (internal and external migrations), investigating the politics around place naming and developing research into Māori and Indigenous development across social economic and political contexts.
Teaching
Awards and Research Grants
- 2010-2011 – Nga Pae o Te Maramatanga Maori Economic Development Pae Tawhiti Grant - Senior Academic Writer ( collaboration between Te Runanga o Ngāti Awa and Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi)
- 2009 – Senior Research Award, Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi
- 2005 – Te Amorangi, National Māori Academic Excellence award (PhD)
- 2003 – Rockefeller Foundation Scholarship, The Rockefeller Bellagio Research and Study Centre, Lake Como, Italy
Boards
- 2012 - Appointed by Kāti Huirapa ki Puketeraki Rūnaka to the Otago University Ngāi Tahu Research Consultation Committee (current)
- 2009 - Appointed as Review Editor for the Journal of the Polynesian Society, University of Auckland (current)
- 2008 - Appointed to Editorial Board, He Kupu Whakataki, Journal of Best Practice in applied and Māori/Indigenous vocational Education (collaboration Waiarki Institute of Technology, Tairawhiti Polytech, Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi)
Major Research Outputs
Book Chapters
Carter, L.J. (2011). "The ‘Big H’: naming and claiming landscapes". In Stephenson, J., Abbott, M., Ruru, J. (eds.) Making our place. Exploring land-use tensions in Aotearoa New Zealand. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, pp. 57-69.
Carter, L.J. (2010). "Travelling Landscapes. Ngai Tahu Rock Art and Ngai Tahu identity". In Stephenson, J., Abbott, M., and Ruru, J. (eds.) Beyond the Scene. Landscape and Identity in Aotearoa New Zealand. Dunedin: Otago University Press, pp. 167-180.
Carter, L. (2006). Perehi Māori. Readings From The Maori-Language Press. Curnow, J., Hopa, N., & McRae, J (eds.) Auckland: Auckland University Press, pp. 31, 33, 59, 113-117, 151-153, 223.
Waymouth, Lyn. (2002). "Parliamentary Representation for Māori: Debate and Ideology in Te Wananga and Te Waka Maori o Niu Tirani, 1874-1878". In Curnow, J., Hopa, N., & McRae, J. (eds.) Rere atu, taku manu! Discovering history, language & politics in the Maori-Language newspapers. Auckland: Auckland University Press, pp. 153-173.
Journal Articles
Carter, L.J., and Ruru, J. (2007). "Freeing the Natives: the role of Treaty of Waitangi Settlements in reasserting Tikanga Māori". Te Tai Haruru, Journal of Māori Legal Writing, 2, pp. 13-36.
Carter, L. J. (2006). "‘He muka no te taura whiri. Taura here and the hau kainga'. Issues of representation, participation and mandate for iwi members living outside their iwi territory". AlterNative. An International Journal of Indigenous Scholarship.
Carter, LJ., Cram, Fiona., Ormond, Adreanne. (2006). "Researching our Relations: Reflections on Ethics and Marginalisation". AlterNative. An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples.
Carter, L.J. (2006). "'Home' and 'Location'. The problem of place as an ethnic identifier". The International Journal of the Humanities.
Carter, L.J. (2005). "Naming to Own. Placenames as indicators of human interaction with the environment" AlterNative. An International Journal of Indigenous Scholarship, 1(1), pp. 7-25.
Waymouth, Lyn. (2003). "The Bureaucratisation of Genealogy". Ethnologies compares, 6 [e-journal: http://alor.univ-montp3.fr/cerce/r6/1.w.htm]
Conference Presentations
Carter, L.J. (2010) "Battlescape. The Politics of placenaming in Aotearoa/New Zealand; 2) singing the land: using Maori waiata to verify place and space on the landscape" International Conference on Indigenous Placenames. Sami alluskula/Sami University college, Gouvdaegeaidnu, Norway, 3-8 September.
Carter, L.J. (2009) “Travelling Landscapes” Fourth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Athens, Greece, 8-11 July.
Carter, L.J. (2008) "The Māori Way" Social Capital Conference, Malta, 13-19 September.
Carter, L.J. (2006) Fourth International conference on New Directions in the Humanities, University of Carthage, Tunisia, 3-6 July.
Carter, L.J. (2006) “Home” and “Location” The problem of Place as an ethnic identifier.
Book Reviews
Carter, L.J. (2007). Liu James., McCreanor, Tim., McIntosh, Tracey., & Teaiwa, T., "New Zealand Identities. Departures and Destinations" in The Journal of the Polynesian Society.
Carter, L.J. (2006). Silva, Noenoe, "Aloha Betrayed. Native Hawaiian resistance to American colonialism" in Contemporary Pacific, Journal of Island Affairs, Honolulu, University of Hawaii, Fall, 18 (1), pp. 154-159.
Carter, L.J. (2005). Parkinson, P, & Griffith P. "Books in Maori 1815-1900. Nga Taonga Reo Maori" in Journal of the Polynesian Society, 114 (2), pp. 174-176.
Carter, L.J. (2005). Tremewan, Christine, "Traditional stories from southern New Zealand. He Korero no Te Wai Pounamu" in Journal of the Polynesian Society, 113, pp. 207-209.
Waymouth, Lyn. (2000). "When the Waves Roll in upon us: Essays in Nineteenth-Century Māori History" in History Now: Te Pae Tawhito o Te Wā, Vol. 6, No. 2, September 2000, Department of History, University of Canterbury, pp. 47-48.
Invited Commentary
Carter, L.J. "Integration by Degrees. Blood, Politics and Identity" AlterNative. An International Journal of Indigenous Scholarship. Auckland: Nga Pae o Te Maramatanga, The National Institute of Research Excellence for Maori Advancement and Development, University of Auckland.
Carter, L.J., (2005). "Continuing the conversation: another Ngāi Tahu member’s view of 'Open Societies and Tribal Groups'", in Learning for Democracy. An International Journal of thought and Practice, Journal of Kings College, London, 1(2), pp. 57-62.
Commissioned Reports/Consultancy
Carter, L.J. (2006). New Zealand Law Commission on the report, ‘Waka umanga. A proposed law for Māori governance entities. New Zealand Law Commission, May 2006, Wellington.
Carter, L.J, & Petrie, H. (2001). Report produced for the Ngāti Whatua o Orakei Tribal Trust Board Treaty of Waitangi negotiations. "Comparative Literature research and review of nineteenth-century newspapers and the Orakei Land Court Minute Books".
Carter, L.J. & Petrie, H. (2001). Report produced for the Ngāti Whatua o Orakei Tribal Trust Board Treaty of Waitangi negotiations. "Interpretation of Crown on-sales of Ngāti Whatua o Orakei lands from the First Land Transfer Deed 1840 and the Second Land Transfer Deed 1841".
