School of Social & Cultural Studies
Albany Campus, Auckland

Professor Cluny Macpherson

MA (Hons) (Auck), DPhil (Waikato).

Sociology Programme

Cluny Macpherson has longstanding teaching and research interests in Oceania. These include social and economic development in Pacific states; relations between large and small states in the Pacific region; the social and economic consequences of migration in the Pacific region; health amd ethnic idenity of Pacific people in Aotearoa. He also has particular interests in Samoa and the Cook Islands and Fiji.

Room AT2.56, Atrium Building
Phone (09) 414 0800, Extn 9057
Email c.macpherson@massey.ac.nz
Massey University, Albany Campus, Auckland
Private Bag 102 904
North Shore MSC
Auckland, New Zealand

• Ethnicity
• Ethnic identity
• Identity politics
• Political Economy
• World-systems theory
• Sociology of Migration
• Pacific Migration systems

• Economic and social transformation in Oceania
• Social, economic and political development in Oceania
• Patterns and consequences of migration in Oceania
• Pacific communities in Aotearoa/New Zealand
• Health and Medicine in Pacific societies
• Practice and consequences of religion in Oceania

Books:

Macpherson, C and L. Macpherson, 2009. The Warm Winds of Change: Globalisation in Samoa. Auckland, Auckland University Press.

Oceania: an Introduction to the Cultures and Identities of Pacific Islanders, Durham N.C., Carolina Academic Press. 2001. (with Andrew Strathern3, Pamela J Stewart3, Larry Carucci3, Lin Poyer3 and Richard Feinberg3)

Edited Collections:

Tangata o te Moana Nui: Evolving Pacific Identities in Aotearoa New Zealand'. Palmerston North, Dunmore Press. (325 pp) 2001. (Macpherson, C., Spoonley, P., Anae, M, eds.)

Tangata Tangata: the Shifting Ethnic Contours of New Zealand. Sydney , Thomson Learning /Dunmore Press, (319 pp.) 2004 (Spoonley, P., Macpherson, C., and D. Pearson, eds.)

 

Macpherson, C and L. Macpherson, 2009.'Kinship and Transnationalism' (in) Lee H and Francis S T., (eds) Migration and Transnationalism:Pacific  Perspectives. Canberra, ANU Press.  (pp. 73-90)

Macpherson, C and L Macpherson, 2009. ‘It’s not quite what we expected: some Samoan returnees’ experiences of Samoa’ (in) Conway D and Potter R B., (eds) Return Migration of the Next Generations: 21st Century Transnational Mobility. London: Ashgate.

Macpherson C., ‘Pacific Healing Systems’ in Encyclopaedia of the History, Science, Technology and Medicine of Non-Western Societies (Editor: Helaine Selin) (Second Edition) Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2008.

‘Pacific People in Aotearoa/New Zealand: from Sojourn to Settlement’ in K. Ferro and M. Wallner (eds) Migration Happens. Reasons, Effects and Opportunities of Migration in the South Pacific, Vienna: Lit Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, (2006) (pp.97-126)

‘From Pacific Islanders to Pacific People: The Past, Present and Future of the Pacific Population in Aotearoa’ in Spoonley, P., Macpherson C., and D Pearson (eds) Tangata, Tangata: The Changing Contours of Ethnicity in Aotearoa New Zealand, Victoria, Thomson Dunmore Press. (2004)

‘Mediated Ethnicity: The Changing Relations between Media and Ethnicity in Aotearoa’ in Spoonley, P., Macpherson C., and D Pearson (eds) Tangata, Tangata: The Changing Contours of Ethnicity in Aotearoa New Zealand Victoria, Thomson Dunmore Press. (2004) (with P Spoonley)

‘Transnationalisation of New Zealand’s Migrant Populations’ in Spoonley, P., Macpherson C., and D Pearson (eds) Tangata, Tangata: The Changing Contours of Ethnicity in Aotearoa New Zealand, Victoria, Thomson Dunmore Press. (2004) (with P Spoonley)

'Reinventing the Nation: Building a Bicultural Future from a Monocultural Past in
Aotearoa/New Zealand' in Spickard, P.(ed.) Race and Nation: Ethnic Systems in the Modern World, NY and London, Routledge 2004 (pp.209-232)

'The Emergence of the Pacific Meta-Community: A Samoan Case' (in) Lockwood, V.,(ed.) Pacific Island Societies in a Global World, Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall, 2004, 165-81.

'Auckland from over the Hills: How the Country Sees the City'. In Carter, I., Craig, D. and Mathewman, S., Amazing Auckland: the Sociology of Auckland, Palmerston North, Dunmore Press. 2003.

'Migrant Enclaves and Dynamism in Pacific Cultural Systems' (in) Koizumi, J., (ed) Dynamics of Cultures and Systems in the Pacific Rim, Osaka, Osaka University Press. February 2003, 51-86.

'Macpherson, C. 'Where Healing Cultures Collide: The Pacific Case' (in) Selin, Helaine and H. Shapiro (eds) Medicine Across Cultures, Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003, 235-251 (Science Across Culture Series)

'Making it on the Margins: The Shifting Contours of Samoan Culture in a Migrant Society'. (in) Fitzpatrick, J., (ed.) Endangered Peoples of Oceania: Struggles to Survive and Thrive. Westport, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001 (pp.153-166)

'One Trunk Sends out Many Branches: Pacific Cultures and Cultural Identities', in Macpherson C et al. (eds) Tangata o te Moana Nui: Evolving Pacific Identities in Aotearoa New Zealand'. Palmerston North, Dunmore Press. 2001. (pp. 66-81)

'Introduction', in Macpherson C et al. (eds) Tangata o te Moana Nui: Evolving Pacific Identities in Aotearoa New Zealand'. Palmerston North, Dunmore Press. 2001. (pp.10-17) (with Spoonley, P.3 Anae, M.2)

'Conceptualising and Explaining Ethnic Diversity among the Children of Samoan Migrants in New Zealand' (with La'avasa Macpherson3) (in) Spickard, P., (ed.) We Are a People. Narrative and Multiplicity in Constructing Ethnic Identity. Philadelphia, Temple University Press. 2000. (pp.70-85)

'Will the Real Samoans Please Stand Up: Social and Economic Roots of Diversity in Samoan Identity' (in) Pool, I. and D. Ball, (eds) Building Blocks of National Identity: Population in New Zealand's History. Hamilton, Population Studies Centre, University of Waikato. 2000. (pp. 77-99)

'Where Theory Meets Practice: Cultural Constraints on the Governance Agenda in the Pacific' (in) Elise Huffer and Asofou So'o (eds). Governance in Samoa, Canberra, Asia Pacific Press, ANU/ Suva, Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific. 2000. (pp.17-40)

'Changing Contours of Migrant Samoan Kinship' (in) King, R and Connell, J.,(eds) Small Worlds Global Lives: Islands and Migration. London, Cassell. 1999. (pp. 277-295)

'Creeping Paralysis: dependency and sovereignty in peripheral Pacific states' (with La'avasa Macpherson3) (in) Larmour, P. (ed.) Governance and Reform in the South Pacific. Canberra, National Centre for Development Studies, Research School of Asian and Pacific Studies, Australian National University. 1998. (Pacific Research Monograph Series) (pp.74-98.

 

Refereed Journal Articles:

Macpherson, C. and Anae, M (2008) "The Small Ministry with the Large Reach: Using Relationships to Extend Organisational Capacity", Kotuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, volume 3, issue 1, (June 2008) (Abstract can be viewed at http://www.rsnz.org/publish/kotuitui/2008/004.php)

Macpherson, C. (2008) Golden Goose or Trojan Horse? Cruise Ship Tourism in Pacific Development, Asia Pacific Viewpoint, volume 42, no.2: 185-197 (August 2008)   

‘The Nature and Limits of Traditional Dispute Resolution Processes in Contemporary Samoa’ Pacific Studies, 29, (1/2) March June 2006, 128-158 (with La’avasa Macpherson)

‘Like Moths to a Light: Misunderstanding the Process of Pacific Labour Migration’ in The New Pacific Review/La Nouvelle Revue Du Pacifique, 3,1, December 2005 (with La’avasa Macpherson) Canberra, ANU/ Pape’ete, UFP/ Noumea, UNC. (Edited by Professors Darrell Tryon of ANU and Paul de Deckker of UNC)

‘The Ifoga: Valuing Social Honour in Contemporary Samoa’ Journal of the Polynesian Society, 114, (2) June 2005, 109-134 (with La’avasa Macpherson)

‘A Brief History of the Study of the Samoan Diaspora’ Journal of Samoan Studies, 1, June 2005, 91-109.

'Divided loyalties and fractured sovereignty: transnationalism and the nation-state in Aotearoa/New Zealand' Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 29,1, January 2003. (with Paul Spoonley and Richard Bedford)

'From Moral Community to Moral Communities: the Foundations of Migrant Social Solidarity among Samoans in Aotearoa New Zealand' Pacific Studies, 25, 1&2, 71-93, March-June 2002.

'Evangelical Religion Among Pacific Island Migrants: New Faiths or Brief Diversions?' Journal of Ritual Studies, 15, 2, 27-37, 2001. (with La'avasa Macpherson)

'The Pacific Population in Aotearoa: Emerging Socio-Demographic Diversity', Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 42, 1, 25-31, 2001. (Special Issue: New Zealand in the 90s)

'Oasis Or Mirage: The Role Of Black Pearl Cultivation In Atoll Development.' Pacific Studies, 23, 3, 33-55. September-December, 2000.

'Fact or Fable: The Consequences of Migration for Educational Achievement and Labour Market Participation among Pacific Islanders in New Zealand.' The Contemporary Pacific, 12, 1, 57-82, 2000. (with R.D. Bedford and P Spoonley)

'The Impact of Economic Incorporation on the Structure of Kinship in Pacific Societies'. Pacific Studies, 22, 2, 71-95, June, 1999.

'Will the Real Samoans Please Stand Up? Issues in Diasporic Samoan Identity'. New Zealand Geographer, 55, 2, 50-59, October 1999.

 

 

'Pacific Diaspora' in Encyclopaedia of the Pacific (General Editor: Brij V Lal), Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press/Asia Pacific Press, Australian National University. 2000. Pp.106-108.(2500 word essay)

'Pacific Island Populations in New Zealand' in Encyclopaedia of the Pacific (General Editor: Brij V Lal), Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press/Asia Pacific Press, Australian National University. 2000. Pp.114-115 (1000 word entry)

'Samoa' (in) Countries and their Cultures: Encyclopaedia of World Cultures, (Editors: Caroline and Melvin Ember) NY, Macmillan/Scribners (pp.1907-1912), 2000.

 

'Pacific Communities in the Information Age'. in Naidu, V., Vasta, E. and Hawksley, C., Current Trends in South Pacific Migration Wollongong: Centre for Asia-Pacific Social Transformation Studies. Asia-Pacific Migration Research Network, Working Paper #7, 1-19. (with R. D. Bedford and P.Spoonley )

Some Issues Deriving from the Use of Official Statistics in Identifying The Nature and Causes of Maori Disparity and Formulating Maori Social Policy. Final Subcontract Report to Te Puni Kokiri on the Urban Maori Disparities Project, James Henare Maori Research Centre, June, 2001.

'Divided City? Tangata Pasifika in a New Zealand Metropolis' in Best Practices for the Social Inclusion of Ethnic Minorities in Local Communities, (eds) Kristine Dösen and Irene Molina, University of Umeå, Sweden. Norrköping, 2000. (with R. D. Bedford and P.Spoonley )

'Some Social and Economic Consequences of Migration: A Draft Curriculum for Samoa', Bangkok, UNESCO, 94pp. 2000 (Contract no. 844.521.0 (00/203)(217))

Echoes from the Voiceless Land: the Policy Implications of Drowning in the Mainstream. A Report to Te Puni Kokiri on the Urban Maori Disparities Project, James Henare Maori Research Centre, September 2000. (R Benton2, N Hopa2, Merata Kawharu2, Cluny Macpherson2, Miki Roderick2) 39pp

Drowning in the Mainstream. Urban Maori Disparities Project Report. June 2000 (R Benton, E Douglas, N Hopa, M Kawharu, Cluny Macpherson, H-K Yoon, et al) 125pp

Some Planning Parameters for Pacific Communities in the New Millenium (in) Proceedings of the Pacific Visions Conference, Wellington, The Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs. 1999.

Pacific Communities in the Information Age, Proceedings of the Pacific Visions Conference, Wellington, The Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs. 1999. (with R.D Bedford and P Spoonley)