Translating Ahu Moana into the Local Community

Aschenbrenner, Marie (23. February 2025): Translating Ahu Moana into the Local Community. Marine Care and Near‐Shore Coastal Co‐Management on Waiheke Island, Aotearoa New Zealand. In: New Zealand Geographer, Vol. 81, No. 1: pp. 25-36

Abstract

This article engages with near-shore coastal co-management in the Hauraki Gulf Tīkapa Moana, Aotearoa New Zealand. I analysed various qualitative sources to demonstrate how Ahu Moana (ocean care areas) as a specific form of localism was translated on the side of the local community on Waiheke Island, Auckland. A specific assemblage of marine care emerged alongside a re-conceptualisation of the local community and a remapping of the Gulf as a relational care network. The article suggests that the attempt to realise Ahu Moana shows decolonising tendencies and challenges existing power structures. However, new patterns of inclusion and exclusion also emerged.

• Item Type: Journal article
• Faculties: Geosciences > Department of Geography
• Subjects: 500 Science > 550 Earth sciences and geology
• ISSN: 0028-8144
• Language: English
• DFG: Gefördert durch die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - 240207984