Member Profile

First Name

Cybele

Surname

Locke

PHANZA Joining Date

8 March 2011

Region

International

Specialities

Twentieth-century New Zealand history, labour, Maori, women's history

About Me

I trained to be a historian at Otago and Auckland universities, and completed my doctorate, ‘Demanding ‘Jobs With Justice’: The Organisation of Māori and Pākehā Unemployed in Aotearoa/New Zealand during the 1930s and 1980s’, in 2000. Since that time I have been employed to teach New Zealand history as a visiting lecturer at Auckland, Massey, Otago and Victoria universities. Along the way, I was contracted to write Waitangi Tribunal reports for Ngāti Kuia, Marutūahu and Central North Island iwi. Most recently, I have been living in the United States and employed at Connecticut College to teach transnational courses on labour, women’s and indigenous movements. Currently, I am raising my toddler and researching independently of the academy.

Publications and Research

Workers in the Margins: Union Radicals in Post-War New Zealand, forthcoming with Bridget Williams Books.

“Māori Sovereignty and Black Feminism: Māori Women and the New Zealand Trade Union Movement in the early 1980s”, in Carol Williams, ed., Women at Work: Transnational Histories of Indigenous Women’s Labor in the Modern Era, forthcoming with University of Illinois Press.

“Fractious factions: the organized unemployed and the labour movement in New Zealand, 1978-1990”, in Matthias Reiss and Matt Perry, eds, Unemployment and Protest: New Perspectives on Two Centuries of Contention, Oxford University Press, 2011.

“Maori and Trade Unions”, entry for Te Ara, the online encyclopedia of New Zealand, 2010.

“‘Blame the System, Not the Victim!’ Organizing the Unemployed in New Zealand, 1983-1992”, International Labor and Working-Class History, 71, Spring 2007.

“Review: Sites of Gender: Women, men and modernity in southern Dunedin, 1890-1939”, New Zealand Sociology, 20, 1, 2005, 154-157.

“Accommodation and the Law: A Web Site Review”, Connecticut History, ‘Native Americans and the Law’, 43, 2, Fall 2004, pp. 219-225.

“Maori and Tourism (Taupo and Rotorua), 1840-1970”, Waitangi Tribunal report, commissioned by the Crown Forestry Rental Trust, July 2004.

“Organising the Unemployed: The Politics of Gender, Culture and Class in the 1980s and 1990s”, in Kerry Taylor and Pat Maloney, eds, On The Left: Essays on Socialism in New Zealand, Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2002.

“Wellington People’s Centre: Commemorating the Tenth Anniversary of the Establishment of the WPC: Te Rauhitanga o te Whanganui-a-tara”, Wellington, 2002.

“Ngati Kuia: ‘The Poorest Tribe Under the Heavens’: Ngati Kuia’s Socio-Economic Circumstances 1856-1950”, Waitangi Tribunal report, commissioned by the Crown Forestry Rental Trust, December 2002.

“The Social and Economic Circumstances of Marutuahu 1840 to 1960”, Waitangi Tribunal report, commissioned by the Crown Forestry Rental Trust, June 2002.

“Historical Consciousness and the Unemployed: Invoking Symbols from the Past to Protest a Cause”, New Zealand Journal of History, 35, 1, 2001.

History

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1 year 4 weeks