TCP [The Contemporary Pacific], 2017 - Volume 29, Number 2
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Item type: Item , Review of The Price of Peace [documentary film](University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017) Roa, RaukuraItem type: Item , Review of Kanu Kaho‘olawe: Replanting, Rebirth [exhibition](University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017) Bruecher, NatalieItem type: Item , Item type: Item , Review of Facing the Spears of Change: The Life and Legacy of John Papa ‘Ī‘ī, by Marie Alohalani Brown(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017) Willams JR, RonaldItem type: Item , Review of Finding Meaning: Kaona and Contemporary Hawaiian Literature, by Brandy Nālani McDougall(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017) Perkins, 'UmiItem type: Item , Review of Maisa: The Chamoru Girl Who Saves Guåhan [Feature Film](University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017) Kuper, Kenneth GofiganItem type: Item , Review of Domination and Resistance: The United States and the Marshall Islands during the Cold War, by Martha Smith-Norris(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017) Barker, Holly M.Item type: Item , Review of Staking Claim: Settler Colonialism and Racialization in Hawai‘i, by Judy Rohrer(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017) Hobart, Hi'ilei JuliaItem type: Item , Review of Articulating Rapa Nui: Polynesian Cultural Politics in a Latin American Nation-State, by Riet Delsing(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017) Young, Forrest WadeItem type: Item , Vanuatu in Review: Issues and Events, 2016(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017) Van Trease, HowardItem type: Item , Solomon Islands in Review: Issues and Events, 2016(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017) Nanau, Gordon LeuaItem type: Item , Papua in Review: Issues and Events, 2016(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017) Hernawan, BudiItem type: Item , Fiji in Review: Issues and Events, 2016(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017) Durutalo, Alumita L.Item type: Item , Melanesia in Review: Issues and Events, 2016(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017) Durutalo, Alumita L.; Hernawan, Budi; Nanau, Gordon Leua; VanTrease, HowardItem type: Item , The Region in Review: International Issues and Events, 2016(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017) Maclellan, NicItem type: Item , Losing Oceania to the Pacific and the World(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017) Hanlon, DavidPacific history has been rediscovered of late by those seeking to incorporate the region into more transnational, global, and world histories. There is much good to be derived from regional and comparative approaches that link Pacific pasts to larger historical processes and to the boundary-defying movement of peoples, goods, and ideas. Pacific history needs very much to be in conversation with historians and theorists from elsewhere. There is also the issue of recovery. Drawing inspiration from the works of Greg Dening, Vince Diaz, and others, I address the persisting need for the recovery of deeper Oceanic pasts that bear on our shared if unequal present—an effort made even more necessary by the generalizations and omissions that come with a globalizing approach to Islands’ pasts. In this effort at recovery, I look to imagination, discursive flourish, indigenous knowledge, and Deep Time as integral methodologies that offer the possibility of transcending the conventions of historical research in the Pacific on a voyage that is ultimately about liberation.Item type: Item , Charting Pacific (Studies) Waters: Evidence of Teaching and Learning(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017) Teaiwa, Teresia K.In this article, I chart my experience of learning and teaching in the awe-inspiring waters of the Pacific and of Pacific studies. I begin by articulating the philosophy that underpins my approach as a teacher. One of the bedrocks of my philosophy is that a teacher must continue to be a learner in order to be of any lasting benefit to themselves or their students. I have used both the canoe and the ocean as metaphors to articulate my deliberate pursuit of a cooperative learning model for Pacific studies and my desire to encourage deep rather than surface learning about the Pacific. I focus now on two other tenets of my teaching and learning philosophy: one deals with the diversity of students’ learning positionalities, and the other anticipates the students’ potential learning trajectories. I present some illustrations of my practice, including narrations about some innovations in teaching and learning in Pacific studies; student evaluations of my teaching and rates of course completion in Pacific studies and graduate successes; my pursuit of professional development and attainment of further qualifications in higher education learning and teaching; and responses from students in the form of reflections and testimonials. I conclude by reflecting on the broader context of higher education in New Zealand in which Pacific studies is situated and some of its ongoing challenges.Item type: Item , Climate Change and the Imagining of Migration: Emerging Discourses on Kiribati’s Land Purchase in Fiji(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017) Hermann, Elfriede; Kempf, WolfgangIn this article we concentrate on the discursive links between climate change, migration, land, and imagined futures. We argue that the large tract of freehold land purchased by Kiribati’s government in Fiji has led citizens in both countries to develop imaginings of migration, which we interpret as building blocks for a cultural construct of the future, in anticipation of projected hazards resulting from climate change and sea level rise. We show that, contrary to official pronouncements that the land had been acquired for reasons of food security, many citizens of Kiribati and Fiji associated the purchase with the option of a future relocation. Thus I-Kiribati have taken to perceiving this property in terms of their concept of land, hoping that, in the event of an existential threat, this new land will allow them to preserve culture, nation, and identity over the long term. Citizens of Fiji, too, rely on their concept of land, as when they see that survival for I-Kiribati will only be possible if they can ground it in a territory of their own. Moreover, the governments of Kiribati and Fiji both engage in a politics of hope that contributed to imaginings of migration. We conclude that the emerging discourses on migration related to the land purchase were fostered by cultural conceptions of land as well as the climate policies of the two Pacific Island states.Item type: Item , About the Artist: Selwyn Maru(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017)Item type: Item , 29:2 Table of Contents - The Contemporary Pacific(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017)