Tahu Kukutai
Tahu Kukutai received her BA in History and MA in Demography from the University of Waikato in New Zealand before joining the Ph.D program in Sociology at Stanford. While at Stanford Tahu has continued to collaborate with scholars in New Zealand on issues as diverse as ageing and age structural transitions, work-life balance and Maori educational outcomes. Curriculum Vitæ Email Tahu Kukutai

 

RESEARCH AREAS

ethnic and racial identity, ethnic enumeration practices, and the demography of indigenous populations in the Anglo settler states.

PUBLICATIONS

Recent Papers:

1) Peer reviewed:

Kukutai, Tahu. 2004. “The problem of defining an ethnic group for public policy:
Who is Maori and why does it matter?” New Zealand Journal of Social Policy (23), pp. 86-108.

2) Non peer reviewed:

Kukutai, Tahu. 2006. “Elder or merely older?: Enhancing the wellbeing of older
Mäori in an ageing Maori population”. Discussion paper prepared for
Enhancing Wellbeing in an Ageing Society project.

Sceats, Janet and Tahu Kukutai. 2006. “The hand that rocked the cradle”. In Looking
back, moving forward. The Janus Women’s Convention 2005. Ed. Dale Williams. Masterton: Janus Trust and Fraser Books.

Kukutai, Tahu. 2004. “The ethnicity question.” Waikato (Summer), pp.9-10.

Kukutai, Tahu 2003. The dynamics of ethnicity reporting: Maori in New Zealand. Report
prepared for the Ministry of Maori Development/ Te Puni Kökiri. Wellington.

Kukutai, Tahu, Janet Sceats and Ian Pool. 2002. Central North Island Iwi:
Population Patterns and Trends. Report prepared for the Crown Forestry Rental Trust. Wellington: CFRT.

3) Forthcoming:

Kukutai, Tahu. “White mothers, brown children: The intergenerational
transmission of Maori ethnicity in New Zealand”. Journal of Marriage and Family (USA). Accepted, contingent on revisions.

4) In progress:

Kukutai, Tahu and Victor Thompson. “Inside out: The politics of enumerating the
nation”. Paper submitted for European Social Science History Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 27 February – 1 March, 2008.

Kukutai Tahu and Victor Thompson. “Doing diversity ‘Down Under’: New
Zealand’s ethnic enumeration practices in global perspective”. Paper submitted for the Population Association of New Zealand conference, Wellington, New Zealand, 3 – 4 July, 2007.

Kukutai, Tahu and Robert Didham. “Can national identity become ethnic identity?
The case of the emerging ‘New Zealander‘ ethnic group”. Paper submitted for the Conference on Social Statistics & Ethnic Diversity, Montreal, Canada, 6 – 8 December, 2007