Dan Hikuroa
Biographic Data
| ID | 174465 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dan Hikuroa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dan |
| FAMILY NAME | Hikuroa |
| SIGNATURE | HIKUROA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7340-7106 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
More-than-human geomorphologies
We propose more-than-human (MTH) geomorphologies as a conceptual reframing for undertaking socially situated, geographical and holistic landscape science. With increasing momentum in the environmental social sciences, more-than-human approaches offer less anthropocentric ways of perceiving landscapes and associated knowledge production. Here, the history of process conceptualisations in geomorphology, the study of the development and resultant la…
Stories and storytelling processes to support river knowledge and practice
We document how river stories, as sources of local knowledge, can inform management applications in the Waimatā Catchment on the East Coast of Aotearoa New Zealand. Analysis of semi-structured interviews with residents and users of the catchment shows how river stories express deep-seated connections for the river, emphasising concerns for river health, ancestral relations, recreational and aesthetic functions and biodiversity values. By opening …
Postcards From the Future: Polluted Sport in a Changing Climate
How is climate change affecting young athletes? Taking inspiration from the concepts of “polluted leisure” and “climatic affective atmospheres”, this article reveals how participating in sports (i.e., surfing, surf lifesaving, waka ama, kayaking, rowing) undertaken in/on rivers, oceans, and beaches damaged and destroyed by a changing climate are surfacing new affective and embodied relations with “polluted sport.” The analysis of focus groups and…
Aotearoa New Zealand: A laboratory for future marine conservation
Te Au o Te Moana (the Voice of the Ocean) was a session presented at IMPAC5. It gave an account of world views found across Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa (the South Pacific), but with a strong emphasis on Aotearoa New Zealand. In Aotearoa New Zealand natural features are personified by Indigenous Māori as atua (deities) and tūpuna (ancestors) through whakapapa – the relational Māori worldview in which everything derives from the primal parents Ranginui (Sk…
Listening To Rivers: Sharing river stories from Aotearoa New Zealand in a European context
This article explores cross-cultural approaches to river stories and riverine well-being, centring Indigenous and transdisciplinary perspectives. Originating in Aotearoa New Zealand, the ‘Let the River Speak’ project interweaves ancestral Māori philosophies, arts, and Earth sciences to engage with rivers as living communities of water, land, plants, animals, and people. The research highlights the Waimatā River in Te Tairāwhiti as a site of cultu…
Problematising the Anthropocene: Geographic perspectives upon the riverscapes of Waimatā Catchment, Aotearoa New Zealand
Drawing on a Critical Physical Geography perspective, this paper problematises conceptualisations of the Anthropocene landscape of the Waimatā catchment on the East Cape, Gisborne district of Aotearoa New Zealand, through three lenses: forestry, restoration and indigeneity. Historical practices of arbitrary land division and resultant unsustainable forestry have caused multiple environmental, social and cultural problems within the catchment. Des…
Against Defending Science: Asking Better Questions About Indigenous Knowledge and Science
This article addresses problems with a defensive turn in discussions of science and Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing. Philosophers and practitioners of science have focused recent discussions on coarse-grained questions of demarcation, epistemic parity, and identity—asking questions such as “Is Indigenous knowledge science?” Using representative examples from Aotearoa New Zealand, we expose rampant ambiguities in these arguments, and …
Regional implementation of coastal erosion hazard zones for archaeological applications
Hazard zone methodology: The paper employs a hazard zone methodology, typically used for managing erosion risk to modern infrastructure, to assess and manage the risk to coastal archaeological heritage. • Coastal archaeological heritage at risk: Coastal archaeological heritage in Aotearoa/New Zealand is under threat from coastal erosion, with accelerated risk due to rising sea levels. • Projected sea-level rise impact: The study predicts that a r…
Kia aiō ngā ngaru, kia hora te marino: Smoothing the waters in natural resource management to mitigate risk and uncertainty
Aotearoa (New Zealand) is undertaking reforms in natural resource management, and there are promising signals that Indigenous perspectives will be included alongside science for decision-making. Any resource management system is underpinned by worldviews, from which values stem and then risk and uncertainty derive. Māori (the Indigenous peoples of New Zealand) and Eurocentric notions of risk and uncertainty are fundamentally different because kno…
He Karanga Maha. Investigating Relational Resource Management in Aotearoa, New Zealand
Reciprocity amongst Māori peoples and the natural world is the foundation of the Māori worldview and natural resource management. Autonomy over resource management and the associated practices is an essential component of Māori wellbeing. This paper investigates the cultural, spiritual, historical, and ecological dimensions of mutton-bird harvesting, to gain a better understanding of the relational approach of Māori natural resource management. R…
Te Maramataka—An Indigenous System of Attuning with the Environment, and Its Role in Modern Health and Well-Being
The connection between the natural environment and human health is well documented in Indigenous narratives. The maramataka-a Māori system of observing the relationships between signs, rhythms, and cycles in the environment-is underpinned by generations of Indigenous knowledge, observation, and experimentation. The maramataka enabled Māori and our Pacific relatives to attune with the movements of the environment and ensure activities essential fo…
Aotearoa New Zealand’s coastal archaeological heritage: A geostatistical overview of threatened sites
Coastal hazards threaten properties, infrastructure, and cultural sites around Aotearoa New Zealand’s (hereafter Aotearoa) coastline and sea-level rise (SLR) will escalate this problem. At present it is unclear how archaeological sites will be affected by future coastal erosion and inundation. In this paper we combine national-scale archaeological and environmental datasets to provide a first-pass overview of archaeological heritage at risk in Ao…
Rent as a regional asset: Rent platforms and regional development in Kaikōura, Aotearoa New Zealand
This paper reinterprets rent as geographical rent and argues that it can be mobilized as an asset to drive regional development in the form of geographical rent platforms (GRPs). Framing diverse regional development initiatives in Kaikōura, New Zealand (Aotearoa) as GRPs, the paper illustrates the potential of collectively developed and oriented place-based initiatives to enact futures from regional resourcefulness. It has particular value for re…
(Re)emergence of Pūtaiao: Conceptualising Kaupapa Māori science
Overcoming the long-standing distrust of ‘research’ is especially challenging within the colonial structures of Western science. This article aspires to rise to this challenge by conceptualising Pūtaiao as a form of Indigenous research sovereignty. Grounded in Kaupapa Māori Theory, Pūtaiao is envisioned as a Kaupapa Māori way of doing science in which Indigenous leadership is imperative. It incorporates Māori ways of knowing, being, and doing whe…
Participation for a better future
Global systems of production and consumption are damaging the biosphere on which human life depends. We offer four vignettes from a variety of allied disciplines aimed at understanding vibrant “communities of action” for the environment in Aotearoa New Zealand. We outline how they help build, and build on, policies and institutions that regenerate people’s relationship to the land and protect natural ecosystems; and their struggles to create resi…
Social–ecological connections across land, water, and sea demand a reprioritization of environmental management
Despite many sectors of society striving for sustainability in environmental management, humans often fail to identify and act on the connections and processes responsible for social–ecological tipping points. Part of the problem is the fracturing of environmental management and social–ecological research into ecosystem domains (land, freshwater, and sea), each with different scales and resolution of data acquisition and distinct management appro…
Investigating the Call to Kindness: A Study with Community Participants in Aotearoa New Zealand
Here in Aotearoa New Zealand there is a 'call' for kindness often associated with Jacinda Ardern and the Covid-19 response.But how do 'ordinary' people experience and understand kindness?What do their understandings and the tensions within these reveal about the call to kindness?In 2019, we ran a Rōpū Whai Whakaaro/Values-based Practice course in Auckland with 21 community participants.As part of the five-week course, six women aged from 31 to 65…
Landscape change as a platform for environmental and social healing
Aotearoa New Zealand is characterised by dynamic landscapes. Major landscape‐altering events, such as earthquakes, floods, landslides and tsunami, have deeply influenced the relationships that many Māori, the Indigenous peoples of Aotearoa New Zealand, have with their ancestral landscapes. This work documents perspectives of landscape change from five Māori individuals from various iwi (tribes) and hapū (kin groups) around Aotearoa New Zealand, w…
What does success look like? An indicative rubric to assess and guide the performance of marine participatory processes
Le Heron, E., W. Allen, R. Le Heron, M. J. Logie, B. Glavovic, A. Greenaway, D. Hikuroa, K. K. Davies, and P. Blackett. 2021. What does success look like? An indicative rubric to assess and guide the performance of marine participatory processes. Ecology and Society 26(1):29. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12211-260129
Aotearoa New Zealand: Participatory science and bicultural knowledge communication
How Can We Know Wai-Horotiu—A Buried River? Cross-cultural Ethics and Civic Art
The complex interactions and ruptures between contemporary settler colonialism, environmental ethics, and Indigenous rights and worldviews often emerge in projects of civil engineering. The continued capture, control and burial of natural water courses in Aotearoa-New Zealand is a case in point, and exemplifies a failure to stay abreast of evolving understandings and renewed relationships we seek with our waterways, our ancestors. Wai-Horotiu str…
Mātauranga Māori—the ūkaipō of knowledge in New Zealand
Mātauranga Māori spans Māori knowledge, culture, values and world view. Pūrākau and maramataka, forms of mātauranga Māori, comprise knowledge generated using methods and techniques developed independently from other knowledge systems. Hitherto mostly ignored or disregarded by the science community because it seemed to be myth and legend, fantastic and implausible, mātauranga Māori includes knowledge generated using techniques consistent with the …
Mātauranga Māori—the ūkaipō of knowledge in New Zealand
Mātauranga Māori spans Māori knowledge, culture, values and world view. Pūrākau and maramataka, forms of mātauranga Māori, comprise knowledge generated using methods and techniques developed independently from other knowledge systems. Hitherto mostly ignored or disregarded by the science community because it seemed to be myth and legend, fantastic and implausible, mātauranga Māori includes knowledge generated using techniques consistent with the …
(Re)emergence of Pūtaiao: Conceptualising Kaupapa Māori science
Overcoming the long-standing distrust of ‘research’ is especially challenging within the colonial structures of Western science. This article aspires to rise to this challenge by conceptualising Pūtaiao as a form of Indigenous research sovereignty. Grounded in Kaupapa Māori Theory, Pūtaiao is envisioned as a Kaupapa Māori way of doing science in which Indigenous leadership is imperative. It incorporates Māori ways of knowing, being, and doing whe…
How Can We Know Wai-Horotiu—A Buried River? Cross-cultural Ethics and Civic Art
The complex interactions and ruptures between contemporary settler colonialism, environmental ethics, and Indigenous rights and worldviews often emerge in projects of civil engineering. The continued capture, control and burial of natural water courses in Aotearoa-New Zealand is a case in point, and exemplifies a failure to stay abreast of evolving understandings and renewed relationships we seek with our waterways, our ancestors. Wai-Horotiu str…
Mātauranga Māori—the ūkaipō of knowledge in New Zealand
Mātauranga Māori spans Māori knowledge, culture, values and world view. Pūrākau and maramataka, forms of mātauranga Māori, comprise knowledge generated using methods and techniques developed independently from other knowledge systems. Hitherto mostly ignored or disregarded by the science community because it seemed to be myth and legend, fantastic and implausible, mātauranga Māori includes knowledge generated using techniques consistent with the …
Aotearoa New Zealand: Participatory science and bicultural knowledge communication
How Can We Know Wai-Horotiu—A Buried River? Cross-cultural Ethics and Civic Art
The complex interactions and ruptures between contemporary settler colonialism, environmental ethics, and Indigenous rights and worldviews often emerge in projects of civil engineering. The continued capture, control and burial of natural water courses in Aotearoa-New Zealand is a case in point, and exemplifies a failure to stay abreast of evolving understandings and renewed relationships we seek with our waterways, our ancestors. Wai-Horotiu str…
Investigating the Call to Kindness: A Study with Community Participants in Aotearoa New Zealand
Here in Aotearoa New Zealand there is a 'call' for kindness often associated with Jacinda Ardern and the Covid-19 response.But how do 'ordinary' people experience and understand kindness?What do their understandings and the tensions within these reveal about the call to kindness?In 2019, we ran a Rōpū Whai Whakaaro/Values-based Practice course in Auckland with 21 community participants.As part of the five-week course, six women aged from 31 to 65…
Landscape change as a platform for environmental and social healing
Aotearoa New Zealand is characterised by dynamic landscapes. Major landscape‐altering events, such as earthquakes, floods, landslides and tsunami, have deeply influenced the relationships that many Māori, the Indigenous peoples of Aotearoa New Zealand, have with their ancestral landscapes. This work documents perspectives of landscape change from five Māori individuals from various iwi (tribes) and hapū (kin groups) around Aotearoa New Zealand, w…
What does success look like? An indicative rubric to assess and guide the performance of marine participatory processes
Le Heron, E., W. Allen, R. Le Heron, M. J. Logie, B. Glavovic, A. Greenaway, D. Hikuroa, K. K. Davies, and P. Blackett. 2021. What does success look like? An indicative rubric to assess and guide the performance of marine participatory processes. Ecology and Society 26(1):29. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12211-260129
Participation for a better future
Global systems of production and consumption are damaging the biosphere on which human life depends. We offer four vignettes from a variety of allied disciplines aimed at understanding vibrant “communities of action” for the environment in Aotearoa New Zealand. We outline how they help build, and build on, policies and institutions that regenerate people’s relationship to the land and protect natural ecosystems; and their struggles to create resi…
Social–ecological connections across land, water, and sea demand a reprioritization of environmental management
Despite many sectors of society striving for sustainability in environmental management, humans often fail to identify and act on the connections and processes responsible for social–ecological tipping points. Part of the problem is the fracturing of environmental management and social–ecological research into ecosystem domains (land, freshwater, and sea), each with different scales and resolution of data acquisition and distinct management appro…
Kia aiō ngā ngaru, kia hora te marino: Smoothing the waters in natural resource management to mitigate risk and uncertainty
Aotearoa (New Zealand) is undertaking reforms in natural resource management, and there are promising signals that Indigenous perspectives will be included alongside science for decision-making. Any resource management system is underpinned by worldviews, from which values stem and then risk and uncertainty derive. Māori (the Indigenous peoples of New Zealand) and Eurocentric notions of risk and uncertainty are fundamentally different because kno…
He Karanga Maha. Investigating Relational Resource Management in Aotearoa, New Zealand
Reciprocity amongst Māori peoples and the natural world is the foundation of the Māori worldview and natural resource management. Autonomy over resource management and the associated practices is an essential component of Māori wellbeing. This paper investigates the cultural, spiritual, historical, and ecological dimensions of mutton-bird harvesting, to gain a better understanding of the relational approach of Māori natural resource management. R…
Te Maramataka—An Indigenous System of Attuning with the Environment, and Its Role in Modern Health and Well-Being
The connection between the natural environment and human health is well documented in Indigenous narratives. The maramataka-a Māori system of observing the relationships between signs, rhythms, and cycles in the environment-is underpinned by generations of Indigenous knowledge, observation, and experimentation. The maramataka enabled Māori and our Pacific relatives to attune with the movements of the environment and ensure activities essential fo…
Aotearoa New Zealand’s coastal archaeological heritage: A geostatistical overview of threatened sites
Coastal hazards threaten properties, infrastructure, and cultural sites around Aotearoa New Zealand’s (hereafter Aotearoa) coastline and sea-level rise (SLR) will escalate this problem. At present it is unclear how archaeological sites will be affected by future coastal erosion and inundation. In this paper we combine national-scale archaeological and environmental datasets to provide a first-pass overview of archaeological heritage at risk in Ao…
Rent as a regional asset: Rent platforms and regional development in Kaikōura, Aotearoa New Zealand
This paper reinterprets rent as geographical rent and argues that it can be mobilized as an asset to drive regional development in the form of geographical rent platforms (GRPs). Framing diverse regional development initiatives in Kaikōura, New Zealand (Aotearoa) as GRPs, the paper illustrates the potential of collectively developed and oriented place-based initiatives to enact futures from regional resourcefulness. It has particular value for re…
(Re)emergence of Pūtaiao: Conceptualising Kaupapa Māori science
Overcoming the long-standing distrust of ‘research’ is especially challenging within the colonial structures of Western science. This article aspires to rise to this challenge by conceptualising Pūtaiao as a form of Indigenous research sovereignty. Grounded in Kaupapa Māori Theory, Pūtaiao is envisioned as a Kaupapa Māori way of doing science in which Indigenous leadership is imperative. It incorporates Māori ways of knowing, being, and doing whe…
Against Defending Science: Asking Better Questions About Indigenous Knowledge and Science
This article addresses problems with a defensive turn in discussions of science and Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing. Philosophers and practitioners of science have focused recent discussions on coarse-grained questions of demarcation, epistemic parity, and identity—asking questions such as “Is Indigenous knowledge science?” Using representative examples from Aotearoa New Zealand, we expose rampant ambiguities in these arguments, and …
Regional implementation of coastal erosion hazard zones for archaeological applications
Hazard zone methodology: The paper employs a hazard zone methodology, typically used for managing erosion risk to modern infrastructure, to assess and manage the risk to coastal archaeological heritage. • Coastal archaeological heritage at risk: Coastal archaeological heritage in Aotearoa/New Zealand is under threat from coastal erosion, with accelerated risk due to rising sea levels. • Projected sea-level rise impact: The study predicts that a r…
Aotearoa New Zealand: A laboratory for future marine conservation
Te Au o Te Moana (the Voice of the Ocean) was a session presented at IMPAC5. It gave an account of world views found across Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa (the South Pacific), but with a strong emphasis on Aotearoa New Zealand. In Aotearoa New Zealand natural features are personified by Indigenous Māori as atua (deities) and tūpuna (ancestors) through whakapapa – the relational Māori worldview in which everything derives from the primal parents Ranginui (Sk…
Listening To Rivers: Sharing river stories from Aotearoa New Zealand in a European context
This article explores cross-cultural approaches to river stories and riverine well-being, centring Indigenous and transdisciplinary perspectives. Originating in Aotearoa New Zealand, the ‘Let the River Speak’ project interweaves ancestral Māori philosophies, arts, and Earth sciences to engage with rivers as living communities of water, land, plants, animals, and people. The research highlights the Waimatā River in Te Tairāwhiti as a site of cultu…
Problematising the Anthropocene: Geographic perspectives upon the riverscapes of Waimatā Catchment, Aotearoa New Zealand
Drawing on a Critical Physical Geography perspective, this paper problematises conceptualisations of the Anthropocene landscape of the Waimatā catchment on the East Cape, Gisborne district of Aotearoa New Zealand, through three lenses: forestry, restoration and indigeneity. Historical practices of arbitrary land division and resultant unsustainable forestry have caused multiple environmental, social and cultural problems within the catchment. Des…
More-than-human geomorphologies
We propose more-than-human (MTH) geomorphologies as a conceptual reframing for undertaking socially situated, geographical and holistic landscape science. With increasing momentum in the environmental social sciences, more-than-human approaches offer less anthropocentric ways of perceiving landscapes and associated knowledge production. Here, the history of process conceptualisations in geomorphology, the study of the development and resultant la…
Stories and storytelling processes to support river knowledge and practice
We document how river stories, as sources of local knowledge, can inform management applications in the Waimatā Catchment on the East Coast of Aotearoa New Zealand. Analysis of semi-structured interviews with residents and users of the catchment shows how river stories express deep-seated connections for the river, emphasising concerns for river health, ancestral relations, recreational and aesthetic functions and biodiversity values. By opening …
Postcards From the Future: Polluted Sport in a Changing Climate
How is climate change affecting young athletes? Taking inspiration from the concepts of “polluted leisure” and “climatic affective atmospheres”, this article reveals how participating in sports (i.e., surfing, surf lifesaving, waka ama, kayaking, rowing) undertaken in/on rivers, oceans, and beaches damaged and destroyed by a changing climate are surfacing new affective and embodied relations with “polluted sport.” The analysis of focus groups and…
Aotearoa (14 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Ecology (11 works) · Geography (11 works) · Indigenous (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Environmental ethics (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (5 works)