Hirini Matunga
Hirini Matunga is a New Zealand town planning academic and as of 2019 is a full professor at the Lincoln University. He has written on Māori tourism as well as indigenous thinking within the field of urban planning.
Academic career
With a degree in town planning from the University of Auckland Matunga had 25 years experience as a town planner before joining Lincoln University as Director of the Centre for Maori and Indigenous Planning and Development.Selected works
- Matunga, Hirini. "Theorizing indigenous planning." Reclaiming indigenous planning : 3–32.
- McIntosh*, Alison J., Frania Kanara Zygadlo, and Hirini Matunga. "Rethinking Maori tourism." Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research 9, no. 4 : 331–352.
- Matunga, Hirini. "Decolonising planning: The Treaty of Waitangi, the environment and a dual planning tradition." Environmental planning and management in New Zealand : 36–47.
- Dalziel, Paul, Hirini Matunga, and Caroline Saunders. "Cultural well-being and local government: Lessons from New Zealand." Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, The 12, no. 3 : 267.
- Matunga, Hirini. "17 Waahi tapu: Maori sacred sites." Sacred sites, sacred places 23 : 217.
- Zygadlo, F., Alison J. McIntosh, Hirini P. Matunga, John R. Fairweather, and David G. Simmons. "Maori tourism: concepts, characteristics and definition.".