P Moon
Biographic Data
| ID | 32954 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Moon |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Moon |
| SIGNATURE | MOON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Auckland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2788-8719 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The 1898 Dog Tax War as an Incursion on Māori De Recto Sovereignty
In the Hokianga region of Northland in 1898, a war nearly broke out between Māori and the Crown, ostensibly over the Crown’s imposition of a tax on dogs. This article explores some of the underlying issues that led to that crisis, focusing particularly on how various forms and dimensions of sovereignty were contested in the post-1840 colonial period in New Zealand. What the so-called ‘Dog Tax War’ exemplified was a trend during that era of encroa…
Indigenising Heritage: Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland’s Architectural Heritage – Challenging a Monocultural Construct
The purpose of this work is to explore how indigenous heritage has been both under-represented and misrepresented in colonial and post-colonial architecture in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, the largest city in Aotearoa/New Zealand. This work combines case-studies with a review of conceptual material relating to multi-cultural perceptions of heritage, and their manifestations in a modern cityscape. Included in this approach is a consideration of indig…
A Dissenter in the Ranks: Barzillai Quaife's Mission to New Zealand
The arrival of the Congregationalist minister Barzillai Quaife in New Zealand in 1840 casts a new light on the established historiography on the role of missionaries in the colony at this time, revealing substantial (imported) divisions between Anglicans and Dissenting sects, resulting in a level of antipathy that (ironically) exceeded that which existed between Protestants and Catholics in the country at this time. Quaife's presence also illumin…
No ‘s’ in te reo Māori? Colonisation, orthographic standardisation and a disappearing sibilant
By the 1840s, a substantial degree of orthographic standardisation of te reo Māori had been achieved, despite the fact that the first efforts to convert the language into a written form had only occurred around seven decades earlier. This trend towards greater standardisation accelerated from the mid-1810s, and was led primarily by missionaries. However, this process was occurring in an environment where there was a substantial degree of dialecti…
Applying the uses and gratifications theory to identify motivational factors behind young adult's participation in viral social media challenges on TikTok
Social media usage can impact its users’ mental and physical health. In particular, social media challenges, activities performed by an individual or a group that are uploaded to a social networking site to achieve a specific goal, have the potential to encourage and spread positive and negative behavior. We conducted interviews with thirty-two college students (ages 18-23) and using qualitative analysis grounded in the Uses and Gratifications Th…
The Historicity of the Doctrine of Discovery in New Zealand’s Colonisation
Over the last two decades, claims that the Doctrine of Discovery (based on a 1493 papal bull) had some bearing on New Zealand’s colonisation have been gaining force in academic and popular literature, with a nexus emerging between historical and legal analyses of its purported role in British intervention in the country from the eighteenth century. This article explores the bases for these claims, and introduces a distinction between functionalis…
Quotes From Paul Moon
This is the fifteenth year of Te Kaharoa – a journal founded and edited for a decade by Professor Paul Moon. It is also the 25th anniversary of its predecessor, He Tuhinga Aronui, which he also founded and edited. By way of a tribute to his contributions in this field for a quarter of a century, we have assembled quotes from his writings and lectures. Although these constitute a small selection, we hope that they give some insight into his though…
Amenable to Civil Power’: The Influence of the Periphery on British Policy on New Zealand, 1831 to 1837
From 1831, the New South Wales government employee James Busby began lobbying to be appointed as British representative in New Zealand. Against a backdrop of official British reluctance to intervene in the country, Busby persuaded officials that the indigenous Māori population was not as threatening as was popularly believed in the early nineteenth century, and that its leaders could be persuaded to acquiesce to a more formal British presence in …
Ideology, Morality, and Metaphor in Indigenous History: A New Zealand Case Study
The rise in the practice of “indigenous history” in New Zealand has occurred partially in response to the perceived need to revise historical narratives that have allegedly contributed to perpetuating the subjugation of the indigenous Māori population. This explicitly ideological orientation positions the researching and writing of indigenous history as a means to an extra-historical end: the transformation of “history into justice.” It also impo…
Third Worlds, Coolie and Coolitude: Unravelling the long arm of history
Sugar dictated the fortunes of many countries in the British Empire in the nineteenth century. With the abolition of slavery, thousands of indentured labour or coolies from the Indian subcontinent, filled the labour gap. The word coolie was derogatory, referring to a marginalized underclass, whereas the word coolitude evokes and acknowledges agency. Our article revolves around the question: How does a historical lens evoke understandings of ethni…
Issues of ‘Authenticity’ and Apocalyptic Thought in an Indigenous Religious Response to Colonisation
The traditional/colonial dichotomy dominates much of the discourse on New Zealand’s indigenous Māori society in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. However, this binary distinction can often be more nuanced in practice, and in the case of certain indigenous religious responses to colonisation, can potentially obscure as much as clarify the nature of Māori society in this era. The often overlapping rather than colliding forces of the tra…
The Rise, Success and Dismantling of New Zealand's Anglican-led Māori Education System, 1814–64
Anglican missionaries, serving under the auspices of the Church Missionary Society (CMS), were the first Europeans to settle in New Zealand. Within months of arriving in the country in 1814, they began to convert the language of the indigenous Māori into a written form in order to produce religious texts that would assist with Māori education and conversion. The CMS missionaries also established schools for Māori which later grew into a de facto …
Retracted: The Rise, Success, and Dismantling of New Zealand's Anglican‐led Māori Education System, 1814–1864
The above article from Journal of Religious History, published online on 14 August 2019 in Wiley Online Library ( wileyonlinelibrary.com ), has been retracted by agreement between the authors, the journal Editors in Chief, Joanna Cruickshank and Kriston Rennie, and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The retraction has been agreed following discovery of an administrative error resulting in extensive overlap between this article and previously published resear…
Missionaries and the Māori Language in Nineteenth‐Century New Zealand: A Mixed Inheritance
The historiography dealing with New Zealand's colonial period (1814 – c.1900) underwent a substantial revision during the second half of the twentieth century. In particular, the role and activities of the missionaries in the country during the colonial era was subject renewed scrutiny, which served as a much‐needed antidote to the largely uncritical depiction of these proselytisers in earlier histories. However, this revisionism sometimes took a…
They Bleed from Long-Healed Scars’: A Nietzschean Psychological Perspective on the Literature of Inherited Colonial Trauma in New Zealand
How do we account for the ideological orientation of so much of the literature produced by academics in New Zealand over the past three decades dealing with the state of the country’s indigenous population? Specifically, how do we explain the near uniformity in these works when addressing themes associated with the ongoing crises and trauma of colonisation, that are purportedly bearing down on Māori? The self-evident response would be to take thi…
Playing Cultures
The genesis of this article is a series of observations that occurred at a marae, which are used here as a platform from which broader issues of certain aspects of Māori-Pākehā interactions can be explored and critiqued. The trajectory of biculturalism and its accompanying narrative – as a linear progression of mutual engagement between Māori and Pākehā – has been an accepted orthodoxy in this discourse for decades, with the extent, character, an…
Reconstructions of Serbian National Identity in the Post-Yugoslav Era: A Thematic Survey
This paper surveys some of the challenges facing Serbia in reconstructing elements of its national identity following the break-up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Unlike most of the other republics that comprised the federation, Serbia fought to maintain the Yugoslav federation, and so to that extent was the least nationalist of the republics at the beginning of the 1990s. However, as Yugoslavia disintegrated in that decade, Serbia was forced to reco…
The ideology of progress in nineteenth-century accounts of New Zealand
By the nineteenth century, emergent ideas about social development were coalescing into an ideology of progress, the tenets of which were devised largely by British philosophers. The influence of this ideology in shaping perceptions of the non-European world by British writers is explored here in the context of works published about New Zealand in this era. The employment of the ideology of progress added a teleological dimension to representatio…
King’s 1793 ‘Vocabulary’: The culture, politics and linguistics behind the development of an early Māori lexicon
In 1793, Lieutenant-Governor Philip King produced a vocabulary of words in the Māori language. It contained 199 entries, and was based on information he obtained from two Māori chiefs who had been kidnapped and taken to King at Norfolk Island, where work on the Vocabulary took place. This list of translated words inadvertently exposed aspects of the balance of cultural power in the region in this period, and the challenges of developing an orthog…
Nostalgic Utopianism: The New Zealand Values Party’s 1972 Blueprint
Although the manifestos or policies of most New Zealand political parties aspire to improve some aspect of the country, few have matched the Values Party’s 1972 Blueprint for the utopian form and extent of the changes it promised to being into effect. And unlike the policies of most other New Zealand political parties in the twentieth century, the Values Party proposed that material progress ought to be stopped at some point, echoing the notion o…
Shades of the Savage in Colonial New Zealand
In the lexicon of colonial encounters in New Zealand, the word "savage" featured frequently, although references to the term in most of the historiography covering this period is generally limited to reiterations of its pejorative nature when applied to Maori. However, there was never a single archetype of the "savage" when applied to New Zealand's Indigenous Maori population. Its significance for how Europeans understood both Maori and their own…
‘Blond Beasts of Prey’: A Nietzschean interpretation of the language of Britain's colonisation of New Zealand
This article explores the efficacy of applying Friedrich Nietzsche's hypothetical reconstruction of the emergence of human morality, to examples of the language used by agents of the British colonisation of New Zealand in the nineteenth century, with a particular focus on notions of cultural and racial superiority/inferiority. The particular nexus of psychology and philosophy that Nietzsche formulated provides a useful ontological framework for e…
New Zealand in the mid-1960s: A Nexus of Culture, Economics, and Ethnicity
The purpose of this article is to provide a general survey of the nature of New Zealand culture, society, ethnicity, and the nation’s economy in the mid-1960s. It commences with a snapshot of the country in 1966, and then explores various facets of the country in that decade, with a focus on selected political, economic, and social developments, and the role of Maori in the emerging society and economy. The nexus between a nation’s culture and hi…
Augustus Earle in New Zealand: An Early Colonial Artistic Perspective
This article surveys the events and individuals encountered by the English artist Augustus Earle (1793 -1838) during his visit to New Zealand in 1827-8. Through his paintings, Earle offers one of the first comprehensive European artistic impressions of parts of New Zealand and its inhabitants prior to the onset of large-scale British colonisation. Many of his conclusions and perspectives were unavoidably subjective, but they at least offer a glim…
Discovery Myths of New Zealand: Some Cultural, Historical, and Philosophical Perspectives
The discovery of New Zealand, first by Polynesia and followed by Europe, have become important narratives in the nation’s evolving sense of identity.[i] However, these narratives are neither straightforward in themselves, nor always completely complementary with each other. The purpose of this particle is to explore some of the historical, cultural, and philosophical bases of these discovery myths, with a focus on their construction and reconstru…
The Influence of ‘Benthamite’ Philosophies on British Colonial Policy on New Zealand in the Era of the Treaty of Waitangi
Most of the recent historiography on the British presence in the South Pacific in the first half of the nineteenth century rightly reflects the dichotomy of private commercial enthusiasm for imperial expansion set against a backdrop of official hesitance and vacillation over any possible enlargement of the empire—a stance manifested in Britain's stance on New Zealand prior to 1840. However, such analyses, which emphasise the reactive, unplanned a…
Barzillai Quaife: An early advocate of indigenous land rights in New Zealand and victim of censorship
Cannibalism - This Horrid Practice
Interview on RadioNZ
The Emergence and Evolution of Urban Māori Authorities: A Response to Māori Urbanisation
When considering cultures and peoples in virtually any context, there can be an underlying tendency to compartmentalise these groups and make assumptions about their features and characteristics that are not necessarily borne out in practice. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the analysis of the dichotomy of traditional and modern societies presented in the writings of the American economists Walt Rostow and Neil Smelser. Rostow and Smelser b…
A Chequered Renaissance: The Evolution of Maori Society, 1984-2004
This article traces aspects of the evolution of Maori society in the two decades following the Hui Taumata in 1984. Issues of language, political and self-determination, and Treaty settlements are explored for their contribution to this evolution
Nākahi: The Matarahurahu Cult of the Snake
Throughout the nineteenth century, various Māori fusion religions flourished, combining elements of traditional Māori religion with those gleaned from the missionaries. One of the earliest of these was the Nākahi sect, which had its origins in the Ngāpuhi hapū of Matarahurahu. This paper focuses on the Matarahurahu form of the sect. t assesses its main tenets, the role of personalities in leading the sect, and follows its development through to i…
Links between Maori cultural well-being and participation in sports: A literature review
This literature review explores various dimensions of the relationship between participation by Maori in sports, the creation and maintenance of sustainable cultural infrastructures, and the contribution of these elements to an enhanced sense and practice of cultural identity. This is achieved through undertaking a qualitative survey of the present domestic literature on the topic, as well as drawing on the more extensive corpus of international …
Maketu’s Execution and the Extension of British Sovereignty in New Zealand
The execution of a minor chief in 1842 in Auckland Prison for the crime of murder would normally be of little significance in the evolution of a nation’s statehood, unless it triggered some form or rebellion or even revolution. The history of colonial rule in the British Empire in the nineteenth century contains many examples of murderers receiving capital punishment for their crime. However, the constitutional significance of the Governor’s dete…
When Perception Becomes Reality: The Creation and Reproduction of Images of Traditional Taonga Whakairo (Māori Carvings): An Introduction
This paper explores ways of seeing as they relate specifically to traditional taonga whakairo (Māori carvings). The focus here is not on the carvings themselves, but on the effects on the perception of these objects caused by reproducing images of taonga whakairo in books and in electronic form. Among the themes considered are the absence of neutrality in photographs, the reduction of traditional taonga whakairo to the status of art or antiquitie…
The Influence of ‘Benthamite’ Philosophies on British Colonial Policy on New Zealand in the Era of the Treaty of Waitangi
Most of the recent historiography on the British presence in the South Pacific in the first half of the nineteenth century rightly reflects the dichotomy of private commercial enthusiasm for imperial expansion set against a backdrop of official hesitance and vacillation over any possible enlargement of the empire—a stance manifested in Britain's stance on New Zealand prior to 1840. However, such analyses, which emphasise the reactive, unplanned a…
Augustus Earle in New Zealand: An Early Colonial Artistic Perspective
This article surveys the events and individuals encountered by the English artist Augustus Earle (1793 -1838) during his visit to New Zealand in 1827-8. Through his paintings, Earle offers one of the first comprehensive European artistic impressions of parts of New Zealand and its inhabitants prior to the onset of large-scale British colonisation. Many of his conclusions and perspectives were unavoidably subjective, but they at least offer a glim…
Discovery Myths of New Zealand: Some Cultural, Historical, and Philosophical Perspectives
The discovery of New Zealand, first by Polynesia and followed by Europe, have become important narratives in the nation’s evolving sense of identity.[i] However, these narratives are neither straightforward in themselves, nor always completely complementary with each other. The purpose of this particle is to explore some of the historical, cultural, and philosophical bases of these discovery myths, with a focus on their construction and reconstru…
Impression of Hybridised Indigeneity: A History of the United Nations’ Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and the Emergence of a Globalised Construction of Indigeneity
The purpose of this article is to examine how the work of the United Nations (UN) nurtures hybridised constructs of indigeneity, especially through the activities of the United Nations’ Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII). This article surveys particular aspects of the literature relating to cultural and indigenous hybridisation, and then applies this to the activities of the UNPFII as a means of interpreting the contribution of the org…
‘Blond Beasts of Prey’: A Nietzschean interpretation of the language of Britain's colonisation of New Zealand
This article explores the efficacy of applying Friedrich Nietzsche's hypothetical reconstruction of the emergence of human morality, to examples of the language used by agents of the British colonisation of New Zealand in the nineteenth century, with a particular focus on notions of cultural and racial superiority/inferiority. The particular nexus of psychology and philosophy that Nietzsche formulated provides a useful ontological framework for e…
New Zealand in the mid-1960s: A Nexus of Culture, Economics, and Ethnicity
The purpose of this article is to provide a general survey of the nature of New Zealand culture, society, ethnicity, and the nation’s economy in the mid-1960s. It commences with a snapshot of the country in 1966, and then explores various facets of the country in that decade, with a focus on selected political, economic, and social developments, and the role of Maori in the emerging society and economy. The nexus between a nation’s culture and hi…
Nostalgic Utopianism: The New Zealand Values Party’s 1972 Blueprint
Although the manifestos or policies of most New Zealand political parties aspire to improve some aspect of the country, few have matched the Values Party’s 1972 Blueprint for the utopian form and extent of the changes it promised to being into effect. And unlike the policies of most other New Zealand political parties in the twentieth century, the Values Party proposed that material progress ought to be stopped at some point, echoing the notion o…
Shades of the Savage in Colonial New Zealand
In the lexicon of colonial encounters in New Zealand, the word "savage" featured frequently, although references to the term in most of the historiography covering this period is generally limited to reiterations of its pejorative nature when applied to Maori. However, there was never a single archetype of the "savage" when applied to New Zealand's Indigenous Maori population. Its significance for how Europeans understood both Maori and their own…
They Bleed from Long-Healed Scars’: A Nietzschean Psychological Perspective on the Literature of Inherited Colonial Trauma in New Zealand
How do we account for the ideological orientation of so much of the literature produced by academics in New Zealand over the past three decades dealing with the state of the country’s indigenous population? Specifically, how do we explain the near uniformity in these works when addressing themes associated with the ongoing crises and trauma of colonisation, that are purportedly bearing down on Māori? The self-evident response would be to take thi…
Playing Cultures
The genesis of this article is a series of observations that occurred at a marae, which are used here as a platform from which broader issues of certain aspects of Māori-Pākehā interactions can be explored and critiqued. The trajectory of biculturalism and its accompanying narrative – as a linear progression of mutual engagement between Māori and Pākehā – has been an accepted orthodoxy in this discourse for decades, with the extent, character, an…
Reconstructions of Serbian National Identity in the Post-Yugoslav Era: A Thematic Survey
This paper surveys some of the challenges facing Serbia in reconstructing elements of its national identity following the break-up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Unlike most of the other republics that comprised the federation, Serbia fought to maintain the Yugoslav federation, and so to that extent was the least nationalist of the republics at the beginning of the 1990s. However, as Yugoslavia disintegrated in that decade, Serbia was forced to reco…
The ideology of progress in nineteenth-century accounts of New Zealand
By the nineteenth century, emergent ideas about social development were coalescing into an ideology of progress, the tenets of which were devised largely by British philosophers. The influence of this ideology in shaping perceptions of the non-European world by British writers is explored here in the context of works published about New Zealand in this era. The employment of the ideology of progress added a teleological dimension to representatio…
King’s 1793 ‘Vocabulary’: The culture, politics and linguistics behind the development of an early Māori lexicon
In 1793, Lieutenant-Governor Philip King produced a vocabulary of words in the Māori language. It contained 199 entries, and was based on information he obtained from two Māori chiefs who had been kidnapped and taken to King at Norfolk Island, where work on the Vocabulary took place. This list of translated words inadvertently exposed aspects of the balance of cultural power in the region in this period, and the challenges of developing an orthog…
The Rise, Success and Dismantling of New Zealand's Anglican-led Māori Education System, 1814–64
Anglican missionaries, serving under the auspices of the Church Missionary Society (CMS), were the first Europeans to settle in New Zealand. Within months of arriving in the country in 1814, they began to convert the language of the indigenous Māori into a written form in order to produce religious texts that would assist with Māori education and conversion. The CMS missionaries also established schools for Māori which later grew into a de facto …
Retracted: The Rise, Success, and Dismantling of New Zealand's Anglican‐led Māori Education System, 1814–1864
The above article from Journal of Religious History, published online on 14 August 2019 in Wiley Online Library ( wileyonlinelibrary.com ), has been retracted by agreement between the authors, the journal Editors in Chief, Joanna Cruickshank and Kriston Rennie, and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The retraction has been agreed following discovery of an administrative error resulting in extensive overlap between this article and previously published resear…
Missionaries and the Māori Language in Nineteenth‐Century New Zealand: A Mixed Inheritance
The historiography dealing with New Zealand's colonial period (1814 – c.1900) underwent a substantial revision during the second half of the twentieth century. In particular, the role and activities of the missionaries in the country during the colonial era was subject renewed scrutiny, which served as a much‐needed antidote to the largely uncritical depiction of these proselytisers in earlier histories. However, this revisionism sometimes took a…
Ideology, Morality, and Metaphor in Indigenous History: A New Zealand Case Study
The rise in the practice of “indigenous history” in New Zealand has occurred partially in response to the perceived need to revise historical narratives that have allegedly contributed to perpetuating the subjugation of the indigenous Māori population. This explicitly ideological orientation positions the researching and writing of indigenous history as a means to an extra-historical end: the transformation of “history into justice.” It also impo…
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