Teena Brown Pulu

Ngāti Awa

Dr Teena Brown Pulu is a senior lecturer at Auckland University of Technology. She has a BA, BA (Hons), BSocSci (Hons), MSocSci (1st Class Hons), and a PhD. Her teaching areas include Pacific development, Pacific politics, and Pacific literature and her research interests are in Politics in Tonga, Tongan diaspora, and Pacific Islands’ regionalism.

Biographical sources

  • https://www.aut.ac.nz/profiles/te-ara-poutama/senior-lecturers/teena-brown-pulu 15 November 2016

    Non-fiction

  • "The Invention of Tradition in Japanese Society 1942 – 1945." University of Waikato Journal of Military History, 1 (1997).
  • "Turangawaewae/ Tu'ungava'e: Echoes of a place to stand and belong." He Puna Korero: Journal of Maori and Pacific Development 3.2 (2002): 14-30.
  • "Fault Finding the Government. What's So Confidential About That?" Website for Taimi Media Network, 19 December 2010.
  • Tonga Grown Exports: Tonga Agro-Exports to New Zealand. Stage One: Action Plan and Budget. Nuku’alofa, Tonga: Government of Tonga, 2011.
  • Legislation for Seabed Mining: Prime Minister's Office and the Ministry for Lands and Environment. Nuku’alofa, Tonga: Government of Tonga, 2011.
  • Nuku'alofa Central Business District Reconstruction. Report for the Prime Minister, Cabinet and Contracted/Sub-Contracted Companies. Nuku’alofa, Tonga: Government of Tonga, 2011.
  • Shoot the Messenger: The report on the Nuku'alofa reconstruction project and why the Government of Tonga dumped it. Kingdom of Tonga: Taimi Publishers, 2011.
  • "Introductory Paper: The Friendly Islands: and some not so friendly spots." International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business 16.2 (2012): 121-130.
  • "Ma'afu's Word is in the Hills: What is a Noble's Role in a Democratised Tonga?" Te Kaharoa: The e-Journal on Indigenous Pacific Issues, 5.1 (2012): 138-208.
  • "This Lazy Native’s Quitting the Daytime Job. Going Home to the Village. Yeah Right." Pacific Identities and Well-Being: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. M. Agee, T. McIntosh, P. Culbertson, & C. Makasiale (Eds.). Dunedin, N.Z.: Otago University Press, (2013): 84-102.
  • "This Lazy Native's Quitting the Daytime Job. Going Home to the Village. Yeah Right." Pacific Identities and Well-Being: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Ed. M. Agee, T. McIntosh, P. Culbertson, and C. Makasiale. New York: Routledge (2013): 66-86.
  • "Voluntary work in the transnational village." Mana Ngakau: Community Compassion: Maori and Pasifika 'Volunteer' Work. Ed. F. Te Momo, L. George, and T. Brown Pulu. Albany, N.Z.: Directorate Pasifika at Massey, Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor Maori and Pasifika, Massey University Albany, (2013): 23-48.
  • Mana Ngākau: Community Compassion. Māori and Pasifika ‘Volunteer’ Work. Albany, N.Z. : Directorate Pasifika at Massey, Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor Maori and Pasifika, Massey University Albany, 2013.
  • Co-authors F. Te Momo and L. George.
  • "Deep Sea Tension: The Kingdom of Tonga and Deep Sea Minerals." Te Kaharoa: The e-Journal on Indigenous Pacific Issues, 6.1 (2013): 50-76.
  • "Fish Tales: Local Fishing in the Kingdom of Tonga." Te Kaharoa: The e-Journal on Indigenous Pacific Issues 6.1 (2013): 50-76.
  • "What Reform? Reform Stories in the Kingdom of Tonga." Te Kaharoa: The e-Journal on Indigenous Pacific Issues 6.1 (2013): 110-146.
  • "She'll wake up one of these days and find she's turned into a Tongan: Agricultural Trade in the Kingdom of Tonga." Te Kaharoa: The e-Journal on Indigenous Pacific Issues 6.1 (2013): 184-216.
  • "Forget China: No shark trade in Tonga - Yeah Right." Te Kaharoa: The e-Journal on Indigenous Pacific Issues 6.1 (2013): 217-259.
  • "Climate change blues: Sustaining village life in Tonga." Te Kaharoa: The e-Journal on Indigenous Pacific Issues 6.1 (2013): 260-305.
  • "Rethinking development in Tonga: Dialogues with Sefita Hao’uli, Kalafi Moala, and Melino Maka." Te Kaharoa: The eJournal on Indigenous Pacific Issues 6.1 (2013): 306-344.
  • "Modern Colonialism: Dialogues with Sefita Hao’uli, Kalafi Moala, and Melino Maka." Te Kaharoa: The e-Journal on Indigenous Pacific Issues 6.1 (2013): 345-390.
  • "The Job of Thinking People: Dialogues with Sefita Hao’uli, Kalafi Moala, and Melino Maka." Te Kaharoa: The e-Journal on Indigenous Pacific Issues 6.1 (2013): 391-456.
  • "Disaster Politics: Cyclone Politicking and Electioneering in the Kingdom of Tonga." Te Kaharoa 7.1 (2014): 62-112.
  • "Who Owns Tonga: Dialogues with Sefita Hao’uli, Kalafi Moala, and Melino Maka." Te Kaharoa: The e-Journal on Indigenous Pacific Issues 7.1 (2014): 113-162.
  • "Off the Deep End: Tonga’s Continental Shelf Politics." Te Kaharoa: The e-Journal on Indigenous Pacific Issues 7.1 (2014): 173-244.