Te Awa Tupua: Peace, justice and sustainability through Indigenous tourism

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dc.citation.issue2-3
dc.citation.volume30
dc.contributor.authorMika J
dc.contributor.authorScheyvens R
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-03T05:06:36Z
dc.date.available2022-03-04
dc.date.available2023-11-03T05:06:36Z
dc.date.issued2021-04-16
dc.description.abstractTe Awa Tupua is an ancestor of the Māori people of Whanganui, and is also the Whanganui River, who in 2017 was formally recognised as a person. While legally conferring personhood upon an element of nature is relatively novel, it recognises a fundamental principle of indigeneity, that all things—human and nonhuman—are related. We explore intersections of peace, justice, and sustainability through Indigenous tourism in case studies of three Māori tourism enterprises on Te Awa Tupua (the Whanganui River). Our paper spotlights three findings. First, that treaty settlements elevate the status of Māori knowledge and contain elements of peace-making and economy-making as decolonising projects of self-determined development. Second, while indigeneity is foundational, we found that syncretism is evident in the sustainability of Māori tourism enterprises. Third, we uncovered a socioecological dissonance in attitudes towards commercial growth, with Māori tourism enterprises opting for slower and lower growth in favour of environmental and community wellbeing. We propose a model of Indigenous tourism called kaupapa tāpoi. We conclude by suggesting that reconciling differences in viewpoints on sustainability and growth between Māori and non-Māori tourism enterprises will require involvement of several institutional actors, starting with Te Awa Tupua.
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dc.identifier.citationJOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM, 2022, 30 (2-3), pp. 637 - 657
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/09669582.2021.1912056
dc.identifier.eissn1747-7646
dc.identifier.elements-id444383
dc.identifier.harvestedMassey_Dark
dc.identifier.issn0966-9582
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10179/16315
dc.publisherTaylor and Francis Group
dc.relation.isPartOfJOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM
dc.rightsThis is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
dc.subjectTe Awa Tupua
dc.subjectindigeneity
dc.subjectIndigenous tourism
dc.subjectsustainability
dc.subjectAotearoa New Zealand
dc.subjectM&#257
dc.subjectori tourism
dc.subjectWhanganui
dc.subject.anzsrc1503 Business and Management
dc.subject.anzsrc1506 Tourism
dc.subject.anzsrc1604 Human Geography
dc.titleTe Awa Tupua: Peace, justice and sustainability through Indigenous tourism
dc.typeJournal article
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pubs.organisational-group/Massey University
pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/College of Humanities and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/College of Humanities and Social Sciences/School of People, Enviroment and Planning
pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/Massey Business School
pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/Massey Business School/School of Management
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