{"id":1097,"date":"2020-06-26T16:32:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T04:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2020-06-26T16:32:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T04:32:53","slug":"he-poroporoaki-ki-a-dr-lyn-carter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/he-poroporoaki-ki-a-dr-lyn-carter\/","title":{"rendered":"He poroporoaki ki a Dr Lyn Carter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Te Tumu is seeing further staff changes with the retirement of another senior staff member, Dr Lyn Carter<\/strong> <\/span>who, most recently, has been the Programme Coordinator of our Indigenous Development programme<\/a>. \u00a0Lyn was farewelled today at Te Tumu, accompanied by friends and colleagues from Te Tumu and the wider university, and by\u00a0members of K\u0101ti Huirapa ki Puketeraki.<\/p>\n

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Dr Lyn Carter. Speaking at her Farewell.<\/p><\/div>\n

Lyn was born in Christchurch but lived a large part of her life in the North Island, first in Hastings then in Auckland.\u00a0 Her dad\u2019s parents emigrated from England after the First World War, and on her mother\u2019s side she has links to early Scottish settlers \u2013 her great-grandparents had a boat building business at the bottom of Wharf Street in Dunedin. Her K\u0101i Tahu connections (K\u0101ti Huirapa, K\u0101ti Hawea, K\u0101ti Ruahikihiki, with connections to Te Wh\u0101nau a Apanui through the Stirling wh\u0101nau) also come through her mother and grandmother through the Wybrow wh\u0101nau.<\/p>\n

After taking a few extra-mural papers at Massey as a young mum, Lyn enrolled a few years later at the University of Auckland as a mature student (known as \u201cadult learners\u201d at the time), and completed a BA, MA and PhD, all in both Social Anthropology and M\u0101ori Studies.\u00a0 She had some stellar names as supervisors for her postgrad study, such as Patu H\u014dhepa and Ng\u0101pare Hopa, Sir Hugh K\u0101wharu and Andrew Sharpe.\u00a0 Lyn\u2019s MA investigated \u201chow oral traditions verify place on the landscape \u2013 this meant looking at the whakapapa relationships that make us who we are<\/em>\u201d. Her PhD, completed in 2003, was \u201cWhakapapa and the State: Some Case Studies in the Impact of Central Government on Traditionally Organised M\u0101ori Groups<\/a>\u201d.\u00a0 Lyn says that she \u201csteered slightly away from [her MA topic] with my PhD research mainly because of the circumstances surround Kai Tahu at the time. The treaty settlement negotiations and the eventual settlement made me think quite a lot about how being registered with an iwi could skew whakapapa from being the underlying force of identity and connections, relationships and so on, to becoming a name on a registration list. So I looked at how treaty settlement structures impacted on tradition-based whakapapa<\/em>.\u201d \u00a0The thesis caused some debate within Ng\u0101i Tahu circles.<\/p>\n

Lyn undertook a variety of roles at the University of Auckland.\u00a0 She tutored for Jane McRae\u2019s oral traditions papers, and through Jane and Jenny Curnow she became part of a team, in a Marsden-funded project, to develop English-language abstracts for articles in the Niupepa M\u0101ori corpus<\/a>.\u00a0 These abstracts allow researchers who do not read M\u0101ori a window into the many Maori language newspapers from the nineteenth and early twentieth century.\u00a0\u00a0 Lyn was also offered the lectureship teaching Ranginui Walker\u2019s old paper, Maori Society, and developing further papers in contemporary Maori Society and Governance. \u00a0During this time Lyn also fitted in a year teaching in the history programme at the University of Canterbury.<\/p>\n

Lyn went on to become the Director of the School of M\u0101ori Development and Humanities, Waiariki Institute of Technology in Rotorua. Later, she moved to Te Whare W\u0101nanga o Awanui\u0101rangi in Whakat\u0101ne as Interim Director to develop and implement the Centre for Post Treaty Settlement Futures, working alongside Professor T\u0101 Hirini Moko Mead and T\u0101 Wira Gardiner. This work developed from her PhD research around settlement structures and governance challenges. \u00a0While at Awanui\u0101rangi, Lyn also held a position as Professor of Anthropology in the Post Graduate School, which involved both teaching and research.<\/p>\n

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Poia Rewi (R) farewelling Lyn on behalf of Te Tumu. From left, Lyn and John, Matapura Ellison, and Katharina Ruckstuhl.<\/p><\/div>\n

In 2011 Lyn joined us in Te Tumu.\u00a0 She says \u201cI have worked with some really good and dedicated people here<\/em>\u201d. She is an active staff member, whose teaching and leadership has mainly been within our Indigenous Development programme. \u00a0She has also formed excellent links with colleagues<\/a> from other academic units, such as Geography and the Centre for Sustainability.<\/p>\n

Coming to Otago allowed Lyn\u00a0to\u00a0engage more fully with her\u00a0local K\u0101i Tahu connections. While she was in Auckland she helped found (with Hirini Matunga and Kepa Morgan) the taura here group, Kai Tahu ki Tamaki Makaurau. She already owned a crib at Warrington, so also used to attend various things at Puketeraki Marae<\/a> at Karit\u0101ne so when she eventually moved down here to the University of Otago she was already involved to some extent with the marae \u2013 that spread to being on various committees and becoming very much part of the day-to-day life. \u00a0She says \u201cWhen I had my stroke I lived in our kaumatua house next door to the Runaka offices and that was amazing \u2013 such great support and whanaukataka from just living that close. I used to say that living away one could still participate, and yes you can, but I now realise that it is not the same as being in the landscape and rejoining with the whenua<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Megan P\u014dtiki, Hinerangi Ferrall-Heath, Janine Kapa, Khyla Russell, Lyn Carter, and Katharina Ruckstuhl.<\/p><\/div>\n

Lyn was able to capitalise on her connections to Puketeraki in her popular paper, INDV301: M\u0101ori and Indigenous Development, Ethics and Governance<\/a>, which not only provided students with theoretical tools, but took them outside the classroom for practical \u00a0work with iwi and community groups on local projects.<\/p>\n

Lyn\u2019s research has followed a circular path with her current research interests drawing on her earlier research on how oral traditions verify place on the landscape<\/a>. \u201cI have now gone full circle and concentrate on place naming and landscape and identity \u2013 this led to me working with Sami researchers in arctic Norway where awareness of landscape and place naming shapes their existence.\u00a0 My research focus for the past 14 years has been on landscape and identity<\/a> and in particular how place names can act as environmental indicators for landscape changes over time \u2013 more recently in the context of climate change. Again this is a key area working with Associate Professor Kaisa Helander in Gouvdageaidnu, the Sami capital in northern Norway.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Lyn has many highlights from her academic career to look back on.\u00a0 \u201cThere are so many really \u2013 teaching has always been rewarding and seeing post-grad and graduate students develop and flourish has been great \u2013 brings truth to the whakatauki about new nets taking over from the old in terms of legacy for future Maori academics at universities. Each generation is the legacy of another. \u00a0I have always felt privileged to have worked with people like Patu Hohepa, Bruce Biggs, Margaret Mutu, Ranginui Walker, Wairete Norman, Hugh Kawharu, up at Auckland \u2013 The ones who were instrumental in developing Maori Studies at a University and also getting the marae in place there.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cTe Wananga o Waipapa Marae<\/a> never seemed like a University Department \u2013 more of a meeting of Maori minds. I remember we all took part in the Foreshore and Seabed march across the Harbour Bridge and hosted and supported the various hui and protest groups at Waipapa Marae \u2013 in some ways the Department operated as a marae, and the various protests were Maori society in action \u2013 Never sure though if many of the students appreciated it all\u00a0 LOL. But those were different times.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I have particularly liked at Otago is the whakawhanaukataka<\/a> between Maori academics and staff on campus and how that brings Maori together from all disciplines – Maori first and that underpins academia.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cPerhaps the main highlights then are all the people I have met and worked with in some capacity and the broadening of mind and thought that that brings with it; not to mention the conferences and research projects that have stretched my own knowledge and capabilities for the better \u2013 I have discovered that yes, we are always learning<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2018, Lyn published Indigenous Pacific Approaches to Climate Change: Aotearoa\/New Zealand<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0published as part of Palgrave\u2019s Studies in Disaster Anthropology Series.\u00a0 Click here to access the e-book.<\/a> This was a sister volume to former Te Tumu academic, Jenny Bryant-Tokalau\u2019s Indigenous Pacific Approaches to Climate Change: Pacific Island Countries<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lyn says, \u201cPublishing my book on climate change was an achievement \u2013 after my stroke I had three key goals and finishing that book was one of them. The others were seeing more of my mokos, and getting back on my motorbike<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed motorbike trips feature heavily in Lyn and her partner John\u2019s retirement plans.\u00a0 This includes \u201cextended touring around Te Waipoumanu and Aotearoa and visits with the mokos<\/em>\u201d, although she \u201cmay be delayed from going to London for a bit yet to see my son and wh\u0101nau<\/em>“.\u00a0 Lyn still has some work for K\u0101ti Huirapa that she is continuing on with, but she says \u201cI pretty much hope to do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING for a little while<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Lyn and John, looking forward to motorcycle trips.<\/p><\/div>\n

He mihi nunui ki a koe, e hine; k\u0101ore e kore ka haere tonu \u0101u mahi. Heoi, ko t\u014d te Tumu t\u016bmanako, ka harikoa, ka p\u0101rekareka hoki ng\u0101 tau maha o t\u014d r\u012btaiatanga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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