TCP [The Contemporary Pacific], 2018 - Volume 30, Number 2
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Item type: Item , Review of Oceanian Journeys and Sojourns: Home Thoughts Abroad, edited by Judith A Bennett(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018) Lee, Amanda SullivanItem type: Item , Review of Sinuous Objects: Revaluing Women’s Wealth in the Contemporary Pacific, edited by Anna-Karina Hermkens and Katherine Lepani(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018) Cadora, MarionItem type: Item , Review of Mele Murals [Documentary Film](University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018) Lipset, DavidItem type: Item , Review of Tautai: Sāmoa, World History, and the Life of Ta‘isi O. F. Nelson, by Patricia O’Brien.(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018) Alofaituli, BrianItem type: Item , Review of Postcards from Oceania: Port Towns, Portraits and the Picturesque during the Colonial Era, by Max Quanchi and Max Shekleton.(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018) Amaama, Safua AkeliItem type: Item , Review of Marking Indigeneity: The Tongan Art of Sociospatial Relations, by Tēvita O Ka‘ili.(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018) Wander, MaggieItem type: Item , Review of Archipelagic American Studies, edited by Brian Russell Roberts and Michelle Ann Stephens.(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018) Hogue, RebeccaItem type: Item , Review of The Power of the Steel-Tipped Pen: Reconstructing Native Hawaiian Intel- lectual History, by Noenoe K Silva(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018) Hobart, Hi‘ilei JuliaItem type: Item , Timor-Leste in Review: Issues and Events, 2017(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018) Leach, MichaelItem type: Item , Solomon Islands in Review: Issues and Events, 2017(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018) Foukona, Joseph DanielItem type: Item , Papua New Guinea in Review: Issues and Events, 2017(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018) Stiefvater, JamesItem type: Item , Papua in Review: Issues and Events, 2017(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018) Hernawan, BudiItem type: Item , New Caledonia in Review: Issues and Events, 2017(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018) Chauchat, MathiasItem type: Item , Fiji in Review: Issues and Events, 2017(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018) Durutalo, AlumitaItem type: Item , Bougainville in Review: Issues and Events, 2017(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018) Boege, VolkerItem type: Item , Melanesia in Review: Issues and Events, 2017(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018) Boege, Volker; Chauchat, Mathias; Durutalo, Alumita; Foukona, Joseph Daniel; Hernawan, Budi; Leach, Michael; Stiefvater, JamesItem type: Item , The Region in Review: International Issues and Events, 2017(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018) Maclellan, NicItem type: Item , Beyond a 3S Approach to Marketing Island Nations? Destination Marketing and Experiences from Timor-Leste(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018) Currie, SaraWhen marketing an island destination for tourism, ethical and moral issues must be considered, particularly given that the way in which a nation is promoted can have a profound impact on its residents and the type of tourism and tourists it attracts. In this article, I examine this challenge as it is faced by Timor-Leste, a young island nation attempting to grow its tourism sector. I investigate the possibility of developing a marketing campaign that avoids the commodification of paradise and, instead of adopting a “3S” (sun, sea, and sand) approach to marketing, begins from a “sense of place” as understood by local residents, through analyzing their desired representations of paradise, culture, people, and personality. The article concludes with describing a marketing campaign developed in collaboration with tourism stakeholders in Timor-Leste that demonstrates the potential for an Indigenous stakeholder-led approach to marketing an island nation.Item type: Item , Selling “Sites of Desire”: Paradise in Reality Television, Tourism, and Real Estate Promotion in Vanuatu(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018) McDonnell, SiobhanIn a continuum from early voyages of “discovery,” Pacific landscapes continue to be created through the visual representations and geographical imaginings that inform foreign desires. Just as early exploration narratives and paintings fashioned the Pacific as an exotic Eden peopled with alluring women, contemporary media manufactures Pacific landscapes as sites of desire. Beginning with the filming of the Survivor reality television series, this article explores how the visual representations and narrative tropes attached to Efate Island in Vanuatu were instrumental in the commodification of customary land as real estate, subsequently sold to expatriates for tourism resorts and residential housing. Television, tourism, and real estate images are not benign. In these images the landscape is rendered terra nullius—absent of local inhabitants and ripe for possession—enabling the neocolonial possession of Pacific landscapes by foreigners and the dispossession of local Indigenous inhabitants.Item type: Item , Disaster, Divine Judgment, and Original Sin: Christian Interpretations of Tropical Cyclone Winston and Climate Change in Fiji(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018) Cox, John; Finau, Glen; Kant, Romitesh; Tarai, Jope; Titifanue, JasonParadise in the Pacific is often rendered as a natural state where “native” people live in simple harmony without the need for government or state institutions. However, Christian traditions also include paradise not simply as a state of inno- cence but also as a narrative of salvation history in which paradise is lost through original sin and must be restored through sacrifice and repentance. This article takes recent Fijian Christian interpretations of Tropical Cyclone Winston as a key site in which contested ideologies of Paradise are being reworked. As the idyll of island harmony is disrupted by disaster, Christians have seen Winston as an act of divine judgment and punishment on a sinful people. This essay analyzes how narratives of a sinful nation intersect with contemporary formulations of climate change, disaster, politics, and human agency.