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- About the Artist: Monica Dolores Baza
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Abstract: Monica Dolores Baza is of CHamoru and French-Canadian heritage and has a bachelor's degree in fine arts from Concordia University in Montreal. Her designs, drawings, paintings, and linoleum block prints are inspired by CHamoru material, visual, symbolic, and storytelling culture and the island environment of Guåhan (Guam). Baza was influenced by role models such as Filamore Palomo Alcon and Adriano Baza Pangelinan and credits her growth as an artist to participating in gatherings filled with robust discussions and constructive criticism of art practice and theory. She was one of nine founding members of the Chamorro Artists Association in 1987 and established Baza Designs that same year. In 1994 she collaborated ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-19T00:00:00-05:00
- Toward Cognitive Justice: Reconstructions of Climate Finance Governance in
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Abstract: Climate change has arrived in the Pacific region. In the words of Timoci Naulusala, a then twelve-year-old advocate at the twenty-third session of the Conference of the Parties (cop23) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, under Fiji's presidency: "The sea is swallowing villages, eating away at shorelines, withering crops. Relocation of people … Its [sic] catastrophic" (un Climate Change 2017). Various climate governance strategies have been developed to assist Pacific Small Island Developing States (psids) in adapting to climate change's worst effects, mitigating its escalation, and achieving national goals. Climate finance, the object of study here, is one such approach that seeks to ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-19T00:00:00-05:00
- Marshallese Women and Oral Traditions: Navigating a Future for Pacific
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Abstract: In her course-setting examination of twentieth-century women's activism in the Marshall Islands, Chuuk, and Palau, Teresia Teaiwa declared, "The perpetrators of colonialism made a grave mistake in failing to recognize the power of [Micronesian] women" (1992, 126). Teaiwa's argument stood on decades of historical scholarship aimed at re-centering Pacific Islanders and Indigenous knowledge. And yet it was a wake-up call: "Pacific history"—more specifically, histories of Micronesia—would remain colonial so long as they continued to ignore and misinterpret women's voices, agency, and contributions. Re-centering Micronesian women was profoundly necessary not only for the sake of representation but also because women are ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-19T00:00:00-05:00
- "It Will Be Like a Town Here, Things Are Really Coming Up!": Inequality in
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Abstract: In August 2013, construction began on a jetty at Kaibola Village in Kiriwina, in the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea (PNG), to much local expectation.1 The jetty would facilitate the regular arrival of large cruise ships, carrying up to 2,500 passengers and nearly a thousand crew to this tiny village of a few hundred inhabitants. As with other large-scale infrastructure projects in the region, such as mines and telecommunications towers, debates surrounded issues of landownership and kin ties, which would determine who would get what share of funds for land use. But beyond this were contestations about who would benefit from the sporadic arrival of tourists in large numbers for short periods of time ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-19T00:00:00-05:00
- Blue-Washing the Colonization and Militarization of "Our Ocean"
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Abstract: Managing editor's note: This op-ed was originally published in the online magazine the Hawai'i Independent on 26 June 2014 (https://thehawaiiindependent.com/story/blue-washing-the-colonization-andmilitarization-of-our-ocean). It has been lightly edited for style and clarity.On 17 June 2014, then President Barack Obama announced plans to expand the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument from 87,000 square miles to nearly 782,000 square miles (Eilperin 2014). Despite the media framing this move as a victory for ocean conservation, the truth is that these monuments will further colonize, militarize, and privatize the Pacific.Many mistakenly refer to marine "monuments" as "sanctuaries" because both are "marine ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-19T00:00:00-05:00
- Our Islands, Our Refuge: Response to Craig Santos Perez's "Blue-Washing
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Abstract: While Craig Santos Perez's article was written in 2014 shortly after then President Barack Obama's decision to expand the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, his critique remains more relevant than ever amid the increased militarization of the Pacific. We are reminded once again of the long and seemingly paradoxical relationship between militarism and the environment, one in which environmental protections themselves can promote violence in the name of conservation. While these outcomes have often been described as "green-washing," Perez's framing of monuments, parks, preserves, refuges, and sanctuaries as "blue-washing" highlights militarism's transformational capacity to shift our relations with the ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-19T00:00:00-05:00
- Moana Nui Rising: A Response to "Blue-Washing the Colonization and
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Abstract: We sweat and cry salt water, so we know that the ocean is really in our bloodWhat does it mean to claim Moana Nui, Tåsi, or the "Pacific," in all its many names, as "Our Ocean"' The opening quote by the late and beloved Teresia Teaiwa inspires us to acknowledge a visceral embodiment of the sea. In my analysis, the quote asserts that the ocean is the pulse that beats through the veins of Indigenous, Moana peoples, fusing genealogical and genetic memories of connection between humans and nonhumans, the living and those who have passed. It is our connections to the ocean and all its inhabitants that ignite a desire to rise. As the tides rise, we rise. Moana Nui rising, we unite to address the challenges caused by ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-19T00:00:00-05:00
- Oceania in Review Editor's Note
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Abstract: Since the inception of The Contemporary Pacific, our journal has had a section containing short retrospective essays for each of the region's countries and territories. These essays, which intend to provide both a chronicle of issues and events and an analysis of these, have hitherto been labeled "political reviews."From this issue onward, we have decided to rename the section "Oceania in Review." This change in the section's title is not intended to radically shift its content. Rather, it is meant to better reflect the reality of many reviews already transcending the narrow boundaries of just "politics" and covering wider issues in society in their respective countries or territories. While each reviewer has a ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-19T00:00:00-05:00
- The Region in Review: International Issues and Events, 2022
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Abstract: At year's end, the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (pifs) released The Pacific Security Outlook Report 2022–2023, highlighting diverse challenges facing Island states and communities. Introducing the report, Forum Secretary General Henry Puna stressed that "climate change remains the region's single greatest security threat. … We must not allow new issues to distract us from action to address the most pressing threats to the peace and security of Pacific peoples" (pifs 2023).Pacific leaders sought to refocus attention on regional climate action, oceans policy, and sustainable development through the 2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent. The centerpiece regional framework was adopted in July at the 2022 ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-19T00:00:00-05:00
- Bougainville
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Abstract: In 2022, consultations between the Autonomous Bougainville Government (abg) and the Government of Papua New Guinea (GoPNG) on the implementation of the result of the Bougainville independence referendum of December 2019 made only slow progress. This was in part due to the elections in Papua New Guinea (PNG), which distracted Papua New Guinea's political elite for months, but it was also due to a more general disinterest, and perhaps even delaying tactics, on the PNG side. The abg has declared repeatedly that nothing but full independence is its goal, referring to the 97.7 percent vote for independence in the referendum. At the end of 2022, abg-GoPNG consultations were stuck. Both sides, however, remain committed to ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-19T00:00:00-05:00
- Fiji
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Abstract: Fiji's election year of 2022 was nothing short of dramatic and nail-biting, especially at the end. Throughout the year, there were positive changes in covid-19 regulations, tourism industry numbers, and the preparations for polling day. All key issues of the year revolved around the elections and government policies.Fiji was bracing itself for its third elections under the 2013 constitution. The Electoral Act of 2014 has served as the guiding legislation for the conduct of elections every four years, starting with the national elections of late 2014. The constitution and related legislation were drafted and orchestrated by the government of Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama with the direction of its attorney ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-19T00:00:00-05:00
- Kanaky New Caledonia
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Abstract: The year 2022 was a year of immobility in New Caledonia. Nothing on the institutional, economic, or societal levels seems to have changed. New Caledonian society is as tense as ever. Dialogue between the French Government, the loyalist parties, and the pro-independence parties did not resume.The political year began under the influence of the consultation organized only twenty days earlier, on 12 December 2021. This was the third consultative referendum provided for by the Nouméa Accord, and it returned an extremely surprising result: no to independence obtained 96.5 percent of the votes cast. However, not even half of eligible voters participated. The yes to full sovereignty recorded 2,747 votes, the no 75,720 ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-19T00:00:00-05:00
- Papua
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Abstract: The year of 2022 ended with a glimmer of hope for a humanitarian pause in Papua. On 11 November, the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ulmwp), the Majelis Rakyat Papua (mrp, the Papuan People's Assembly), the Komisi Nasional Hak Asasi Manusia (Komnas ham, the Indonesian National Commission on Human Rights), and the West Papua Council of Churches signed a Memorandum of Understanding (mou) in Geneva, Switzerland, facilitated by the Humanitarian Dialogue Centre, calling for a humanitarian pause from 10 December 2022 to 10 February 2023. The call consisted of three main points: ending conflict, assisting the internally displaced people (idps), and releasing the Papuan political prisoners (Rikang 2022).idps ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-19T00:00:00-05:00
- Papua New Guinea
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Abstract: The year 2022 proved to be momentous for Papua New Guinea (PNG), which held its tenth national elections, considered by some as among the worst ever; grappled with a sluggish economy; and struggled to respond to health concerns and natural disasters. All of this in a country whose population might actually be almost double its usual estimate sets the stage for challenges, opportunities, and growth moving ahead.The year began with the introduction of the Omicron variant of covid-19 confirmed in country as a traveler tested positive after arrival (Togiba 2022c). However, fears of a resurgence of the disease, as seen just a few months prior, slowly abated. Having previously encouraged citizens to follow the norms of a ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-19T00:00:00-05:00
- Solomon Islands
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Abstract: Solomon Islands remained under a state of public emergency throughout 2022. The country continued to tighten its border control with strict quarantine and entry requirements that controlled the movement of ships and people arriving on international flights. These requirements were breached when "6 cases of community transmission in the Ontong Java [Luangiua] group of islands" were detected by health authorities on 18 January (ocha 2022a). On 19 January it was reported in the local media that a passenger from the vessel Akwa, which was in Luangiua in early January and arrived in Honiara on 10 January, tested positive for covid-19. The prime minister in his special media address expressed that "after two years of ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-19T00:00:00-05:00
- Timor-Leste
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Abstract: A new specter is haunting the world—the specter of autocracy. Following several decades of the duration of the "third wave of democratization" initiated in 1974 with the Portuguese Carnation Revolution and invigorated by the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the ensuing demise of the Cold War (Huntington 1991), a new trend has been installed in the world political arena in the second decade of the new millennium. Since about 1994, and most noticeably since 2010, autocracy is challenging the advances of democracy not so much by means of a full democratic breakdown, but through processes of democratic erosion (Lührman and Lindberg 2019).Timor-Leste was a net beneficiary of the zeitgeist of the late ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-19T00:00:00-05:00
- Federated States of Micronesia
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Abstract: This review underscores major events that emerged in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) from 2020 to 2022 that are crucial to the future political and social development of the nation. The topics are many, but we will concentrate on the following: the impact of the covid-19 pandemic, the fourth Constitutional Convention, the review of the Compact of Free Association, the FSM's position in the Pacific Islands Forum (pif), the election of the first woman in the FSM Congress, and the FSM's reaction to China's continuing presence in the wider Pacific region. Each of these issues will be discussed widely as they impact the FSM's futurity.As in the rest of the world, the year 2020 was a challenging time in the FSM ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-19T00:00:00-05:00
- Guåhan (Guam)
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Abstract: The years 2020–2022 in Guåhan were eventful and challenging. From the impacts of covid-19 on various facets of the island community to recovery efforts, the island had to adjust to the health and economic effects of the pandemic. This trying time showed the minesngon (perseverance) and minetgot (strength) of the people of Guåhan and also revealed the vulnerabilities of our society.In 2020, strict lockdown measures were in place for much of the year. Mitigation measures to prevent the spread of covid-19 were also mandated, such as prohibiting gatherings of fifty or more people in a single space; wearing masks; ensuring six-feet (two meters) of physical distancing; and requiring those traveling to Guåhan to be ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-19T00:00:00-05:00
- Kiribati
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Abstract: The period under review focused on the unprecedented health challenge that Kiribati faced when the Omicron variant of covid-19 entered the islands after two covid-19-free years and in a strained context of climatic vulnerability, socioeconomic fragility, and diplomatic multipolarity. The period also marked global geostrategic and diplomatic uncertainties and a major transregional break in Pacific cooperation. Indeed, the Micronesian bloc's process of withdrawal from the Pacific Islands Forum (pif), which Kiribati, unlike the other bloc members, is upholding, may eventually shake the political and economic balance and security of the area.In 2020, an International Monetary Fund (imf) report had advised Kiribati to ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-19T00:00:00-05:00
- Northern Mariana Islands
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Abstract: In the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), the period in review was highlighted by (1) the local government's efforts to revive the tourism-based economy amid a global pandemic and (2) the political drama of impeaching a governor in an election year.On 1 July 2021, Marianas Variety reported that the CNMI and its main tourism market, South Korea, had established a "travel bubble" to resume air travel between the two jurisdictions while complying with covid-19 restrictions and safety measures (mv, 1 July 2021). The following day, the biggest news was the appearance before the House of Representatives Committee on Judiciary and Governmental Operations of a police officer assigned to provide security ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-19T00:00:00-05:00
- American Sāmoa and Sāmoa
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Abstract: The US citizenship case resurfaced at the end of 2021 in the US territory of American Sāmoa. Toward the end of 2019, American Sāmoa government moa made international news with a US District Court ruling in favor of three American Samoan nationals (Alofaituli 2021). The verdict in Fitisemanu v United States (426 f Supp 3d 1155 (d Utah 2019)) ruled that "Persons born in American Sāmoa are citizens of the United States by virtue of the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment." The plaintiffs had argued that although American Samoans serve in the US military, pay taxes to the US government, and can hold a US passport, they are denied recognition as US citizens. According to the plaintiffs, all 3.6 million ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-19T00:00:00-05:00
- Cook Islands
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Abstract: This review covers the two-year period from July 2020 to June 2022, which featured covid-19, corruption, and controversy. covid-19 dominated the Cook Islands during the review period. After being on alert since early 2020, the nation recorded its first case two years later on 13 February 2022. A total of 5,774 cases were recorded by 26 June 2022 (Te Marae Ora 2022a). By then, cases were recorded in six of the eleven inhabited islands, namely on Rarotonga, Aitutaki, Atiu, Mauke, Tongareva (Penhryn), and Mitiaro (cin, 24 June 2022). Sadly, a fully vaccinated sixty-three-year-old woman with underlying health conditions from Aitutaki died from covid-19, the only fatality to be recorded in the Cook Islands (cin, 23 ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-19T00:00:00-05:00
- French Polynesia
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Abstract: The period under review has been punctuated by many events. If the country's economic situation had been slowly improving (see Gonschor 2020, 233), then the covid-19 situation hit the country pretty hard. As was the case in other parts of Oceania, French Polynesia was severely affected by this multidimensional crisis. Unlike other countries in the region, such as Aotearoa/New Zealand, that had opted for autarkic measures to attempt to eradicate covid-19 and be covid-19-free, thus closing their borders, French Polynesia reopened its borders to flights on 15 July 2020 to reenergize the country's devastating economic situation. It relied on protective measures and collective immunity to fight off the spread of the ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-19T00:00:00-05:00
- Hawai'i
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Abstract: Among the most pressing issues in Hawai'i during the period under review was the leaking of fuel storage tanks beneath Kapūkakī, commonly known as Red Hill on O'ahu. In December 2021, it was discovered that the United States Navy, which administers the World War II–era tanks, knew there was petroleum in the water as early as July 2021 (Cocke 2021c). In November 2021, residents of naval bases such as Pearl Harbor began complaining of adverse effects, including "a fuel-like odor … skin rashes, nausea and vomiting as well as sick pets" (Cocke 2021a). Commentary from the Honolulu Star-Advertiser posited that a worst-case scenario would "put [the Halawa] aquifer at risk" (Hurley 2021). The aquifer, the largest on O'ahu ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-19T00:00:00-05:00
- Māori Issues
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Abstract: Aotearoa New Zealand lost its battle to keep the covid-19 pandemic under control and has seen case numbers and deaths surge over the last year. A disproportionate number of those were Māori and our relations from the Pacific Islands, but we did eventually manage to prize sufficient resources and information out of the government to slow down our rates of infection and death. By the end of the year in review, the percentage of Māori (and Pacific Islander) case numbers and deaths had reduced to a level commensurate with our population sizes. European numbers had soared, caused in part by a twenty-three-day protest outside Parliament in February and early March.During the year, steps continued to be taken toward ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-19T00:00:00-05:00
- Pitcairn
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Abstract: The islands of Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie, and Oeno (commonly known as Pitcairn) make up a single territory, the last remaining British Overseas Territory in the Pacific Ocean. During the period under review, two key issues shaped the territory. First, there was the continuing threat posed by the covid-19 pandemic, as well as later efforts to prepare for the reopening of the island to visitors. Despite most of the population being fully vaccinated, there were anxieties about removing the tough restrictions that had been in place for two years. Second, there were robust discussions between the Pitcairn Island Council and British government officials about funding and concerns over rising costs as a consequence of ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-19T00:00:00-05:00
- Rapa Nui
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Abstract: As this two-year review period came to an end, a major political event for the Rapa Nui people and the state of Chile that loomed on the horizon was mobilized to structure analysis. On 4 September 2022, the citizens of the country were mandated to participate in a plebiscite to affirm or reject a newly written constitution to replace the operational one created in 1980 under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (Los Angeles Times, 5 Sept 2022). The presence of a special article in the drafted constitution—Article 238—that called for recognition of the 1888 treaty between representatives of the Rapa Nui Kingdom and the state of Chile was a particularly important feature of the draft for many Rapa Nui leaders, who ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-19T00:00:00-05:00
- Tokelau
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Abstract: The last two years (2020–2022) for Tokelau have largely been defined by three core concerns. Though the pandemic is relatively quickly becoming a concern of the past for many governments around the world, Tokelau continues to face difficult decisions about travel restrictions during an ongoing pandemic after most countries have opened their borders. In addition to the pandemic, Tokelau's governance arrangements have received more attention as pressure for the UN Special Committee on Decolonization (which is now responsible for a group of seventeen Non-Self-Governing Territories) and its colonial governments to rethink governance arrangements has grown. The last concern is the continuation of core government ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-19T00:00:00-05:00
- Tuvalu
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Abstract: Tuvalu is an independent parliamentary democracy in the West Central South Pacific with a population of approximately eleven thousand. It is made up of eight main islands with distinct dialects and traditions. It gained independence from Great Britain on 1 October 1978, as it had been colonized in 1916 as part of the Ellice and Gilbert Islands. Tuvalu adopted to some extent the British parliamentary system and currently has eight electoral districts, seven of which are represented by two members of Parliament (mps). The eighth is Nukulaelae electoral district, which used to have a single member who served for four-year terms (ifes 2019). Elections are held every four years, and in the past, fourteen members were ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-19T00:00:00-05:00
- Moving Islands: Contemporary Performance and the Global Pacific by Diana
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Abstract: Diana Looser's Moving Islands: Contemporary Performance and the Global Pacific is an impressive book. It joins an exciting body of interdisciplinary scholarship that moves beyond the geographic and conceptual boundaries of area studies in order to provide global perspectives of mobility and the exchange of ideas, commodities, and, in this instance, contemporary performance from Oceania. This expansive global lens has enabled artists and activists to create, and scholars to record, sweeping circuits of mobile networks. Looser's rigorously researched work draws from a broad and diverse scholarship including Pacific studies, Indigenous studies, postcolonial studies, history, feminism, and anthropology. She extends key ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-19T00:00:00-05:00
- Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-Literatures ed. by Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner,
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Abstract: Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-Literatures is an anthology of literary works that includes poetry and excerpts from novels, chants, short stories, and dramatic plays. Editors Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, Leora Kava, and Craig Santos Perez, well-established and Indigenous writers, share in their introduction that they felt inspired to create an anthology that "would focus exclusively on representations of the environment in contemporary Pacific Islander literature" (xiv). This collection gives voice to Pacific Islanders' stories—stories that are our genealogies and culture, our oceans and waters, our lands and islands, and our plants and animals. Into these beautiful and diverse stories, the 102 Indigenous writers also ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-19T00:00:00-05:00
- In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua by
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Abstract: In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua is an extraordinarily compelling account of the multispecies worlds of Indigenous Marind in West Papua that both foster and challenge more-than-human flourishing. Sophie Chao tells the story of capitalist plantations that endlessly grow and expand throughout Marind lands, overtaking the forests that they rely on for sustenance and replacing a rich, diverse environment of plant and animal kin with rows and rows of oil palm. Based on intensive, and at times tense, research within the repressive Indonesian state, the book is a significant contribution to telling the story of a marginalized Indigenous community. Further, it is singularly important as ... Read More
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- The Indigénat and France's Empire in New Caledonia: Origins, Practices
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Abstract: How does a democratic republic legally justify conquering someone else's country and treating the Indigenous people like an inferior race' In The Indigénat and France's Empire in New Caledonia: Origins, Practices and Legacies, two well-respected scholars of the French Pacific, Isabelle Merle of Aix-Marseille University in France and Adrian Muckle of the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, have painstakingly documented the creation and practice of the Indigénat, a colonial policy that began in 1887 in Algeria, France's largest settler colony, and spread to New Caledonia. The authors also argue that the coercive system of inequality, segregation, and exploitation laid the groundwork for ethnopolitics in ... Read More
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- Cartooning History: Lai's Fiji and the Misadventures of the Scrawny Black
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Abstract: Cartooning History: Lai's Fiji and the Misadventures of the Scrawny Black Cat was a walk through Fiji's postindependence history. It is an exhibition of cartoons published by the two mainstream daily nationals at the time, spanning four decades. The panels immortalize socioeconomic and political milestones of a nation's growing pains.Comprising fifty panels, captioned by sections of a 2016 article by Sudesh Mishra ("Cartooning History: Lai's Fiji and the Misadventures of a Scrawny Black Cat," in The Contemporary Pacific 28 [1]: 97–126), the exhibition showcased many of the published works of Laisiasa Naulumatua (hereafter "Lai"). By the time he died in 2014, Lai had crafted a caricatural take on Fiji's evolution as ... Read More
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- Leveling Wind: Remembering Fiji by Brij V Lal (review)
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Abstract: Leveling Wind: Remembering Fiji was completed in 2019 at the end of Professor Brij Vishal Lal's long academic career at the Australian National University (anu) in Canberra, Australia, where he was an emeritus professor of Pacific and Asian history. He was born in 1952 and passed away suddenly in December 2021. The idea of the book began in 1977, the year he started his doctoral studies on the social origins of Fiji's Indian indentured migrants. Ten years later, the first military coup in Fiji drew him to the study of Fiji's politics. In the 1990s, he began writing about his personal experience of being a grandson of a girmitiya (indentured immigrant [xi]) and was now well equipped to write the stories of his ... Read More
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- Radiation Sounds: Marshallese Music and Nuclear Silences by Jessica A
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Abstract: Jessica A Schwartz's Radiation Sounds: Marshallese Music and Nuclear Silences offers a compelling framework from which to address Cold War "nuclear silences," bringing our attention to seventy-five years of Marshallese musical repertoire that sounds loudly against the devastating impacts of US nuclear militarism. Schwartz argues that there is a need to understand nuclear culture as sonic culture, focusing on its aurality precisely because it was historically rendered secretive, insensible, and silent. In contrast, Marshallese make the insensible sensible through embodied performance, knowledge, and activism.Schwartz outlines a few key concepts that reappear throughout the monograph and identify "global nuclear ... Read More
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- Navigating CHamoru Poetry: Indigeneity, Aesthetics, and Decolonization by
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Abstract: Navigating CHamoru Poetry: Indigeneity, Aesthetics, and Decolonization represents the first indepth literary analysis of CHamoru literature using an Indigenous Pacific framework. Craig Santos Perez seeks to demonstrate how CHamoru poetry is a part of a vibrant literature by employing "wayreading," a methodology he describes as "examining contemporary CHamoru literature through the lens of customary CHamoru oral, visual, and performing arts" (31). He explains that by "centering CHamoru literary creations within Indigenous intellectual, historical, cultural, and political contexts," the reader experiences literature as "complex articulations [that reflect cultural identity and reveal] acts of self-determination and ... Read More
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- Placental Politics: CHamoru Women, White Womanhood, and Indigeneity under
U.S. Colonialism in Guam by Christine Taitano DeLisle (review)-
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Abstract: CHamorus, like myself, trace our origins to Lasso Fu'a (Fouha Rock), a stone pillar that sits along the southern shores of Guåhan (Guam). This is the site where Fo'na, the first divine feminine element and creator of the world, transformed herself into the rock from which our first ancestors emerged. As descendants of Fo'na, the early CHamoru matrilineal society especially valued famalao'an (women) as life-creating, life-giving, and life-sustaining, which continues to be focal to the CHamoru way of life today.Despite their cultural significance, the famalao'an of Laguas yan Gåni, or what is more commonly known today as the Mariana Islands, are hidden and absent in historical accounts, largely due to centuries of ... Read More
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- CHamoru Legends: A Gathering of Stories / Lihenden CHamoru: Rinikohen
Hemplo Siha by Teresita Lourdes Perez (review)-
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Abstract: Across the Pacific, orality has carried stories bearing insight into cultural pathways from generation to generation. For Guåhan (Guam), where generations have shared stories through orality for over four thousand years since the arrival of the first CHamorus, the writing down of these stories in the English language has occurred only within the past century.CHamoru Legends: A Gathering of Stories / Lihenden CHamoru: Rinikohen Hemplo Siha is the first collection of its kind, entirely authored, edited, translated, and illustrated by Indigenous CHamorus. Reflecting the communal culture of the CHamorus, this retelling of CHamoru legends is collaboratively written across history, families, archives, and relationships. ... Read More
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- Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical
Settler Cartographies in Hawai'i by Candace Fujikane (review)-
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Abstract: Candace Fujikane's powerful work Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawai'i expands our vision and understanding of cartographic method by contrasting colonial settler mapping strategy with Indigenous cartographies. We learn about obsolete, dysfunctional mapping methods that render places barren and empty, geographically and culturally decontextualize wahi pana (storied places), remove relationality, and fail to honor Indigenous language sources, ultimately serving the interests of capital of the occupying state. In their place, the author offers inspiring Indigenous cartographies generated through mo'olelo (storied histories), huaka'i (excursions), hei ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-19T00:00:00-05:00
- Desire, Obligation, and Familial Love: Mothers, Daughters, and
Communication Technology in the Tongan Diaspora by Makiko Nishitani
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Abstract: One of the most compelling questions that is raised by the study of modernities in Pacific cultures and societies has to do with their impacts on gender and, vice versa, the impacts of gender on modernity. Makiko Nishitani sheds light on this issue in her ethnography of mothers and daughters among a diasporic community of Tongans who have resettled in Melbourne, Australia. Desire, Obligation, and Familial Love: Mothers, Daughters, and Communication Technology in the Tongan Diaspora, originally a PhD thesis, has been revised into a brief, well-focused, and clearly written monograph that remains thoroughly grounded in cross-cultural and regional ethnography, as well as in relevant theoretical literatures.Despite the ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-19T00:00:00-05:00
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