PhD (ANU)
Lecturer
Contact details
Room 6C24, Richardson Building
Email tui.rakuita@otago.ac.nz
My research revolves around the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School, as well as its antecedents in Continental philosophy.
I also have an abiding interest in examining the synergies that could be accrued from re-examining discourses on the Pacific from the point of view of Critical Theory in general.
Courses
Publications
Rakuita, T. (2024). From an ideology of 'place' to an ontology of 'presence': Towards a new constellation in Pacific thought. Pacific Dynamics, 8(1), 551-564. doi: 10.26021/15182 Journal - Research Article
Gibbs, A., Wei, J., Gilmour, F., Dougherty, J., Bond, P., Bohn, S., Biggs, L., & Rakuita, T. (Eds.). (2023). Proceedings of the Sociology, Gender Studies & Criminology and Social & Community Work Postgraduate Symposium VII. Dunedin, New Zealand: Sociology, Gender Studies and Criminology Programme, University of Otago. 44p. Conference Contribution - Edited volume of conference proceedings
Kanemasu, Y., Rakuita, N. T., & Kopf, A. (2021). Foregrounding Pacific epistemologies in curriculum review: Exercising educator agency in a process of institutional change. Directions, 35(1), 18-28. Retrieved from http://www.usp.ac.fj/school-of-education/wp-content/uploads/sites/126/2021/08/Directions_2021_Special_Issue_Final.pdf#page=24 Journal - Research Article
Rakuita, T. (2017). The notion of 'constellative thinking' in Pacific thought: Expanding Oceania. Pacific Dynamics, 1(1), 21-32. doi: 10.26021/15182 Journal - Research Article
Rakuita, R. N. (2014). 'Radicalising' the public sphere: From Habermas to Adorno (PhD). Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. 202p. doi: 10.25911/5d5153380cf4e Awarded Doctoral Degree