2020
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Spring 32(1) Special Issue: "Experiencing Pacific Environments: Pasts, Presents, Futures" Guest Editors: Eveline Dürr, Philipp Schorch, and Sina Emde Articles Experiencing Pacific Environments: Pasts, Presents, Futures Collaborative Strategies for Re-Enhancing Hapū, Connections to Lands and Making Changes with Our Climate Navigating for a Place in the Museum: Stories of Encounter and Engagement between the Old and the New from the Highlands of Papua New Guinea One Thousand and One Coconuts: Growing Memories in Southern New Guinea The Lizard in the Volcano: Narratives of the Kuwae Eruption The Capitalism of Chambri Cosmology: The 2017 Sir Raymond Firth Memorial Lecture Nesor Annim, Niteikapar (Good Morning, Cardinal Honeyeater): Indigenous Reflections on Micronesian Women and the Environment Afterword: “I Am the River, and the River Is Me," Resources Teaching Oceania: Creating Pedagogical Resouces for Undergraduates in Pacific Studies Political Reviews Micronesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019 Polynesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019 Book and Media Reviews Oceania [exhibition] Kaiāulu: Gathering Tides, by Mehana Blaich Vaughan Ē Luku Wale Ē: Devastation Upon Devastation, by Mark Hamasaki and Kapulani Landgraf Island Time: New Zealand’s Pacific Futures, by Damon Salesa The Bounty from the Beach: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Disciplinary Essays, edited by Sylvie Largeaud-Ortega Breaking the Shell: Voyaging from Nuclear Refugees to People of the Sea in the Marshall Islands, by Joseph H Genz Pacific Alternatives: Cultural Politics in Contemporary Oceania, edited by Edvard Hviding and Geoffrey White Dispossession and the Environment: Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea, by Paige West Pacific Futures: Past and Present, edited by Warwick Anderson, Miranda Johnson, and Barbara Brookes, Tatau: A History of Sāmoan Tattooing, by Sean Mallon and Sébastien Galliot
Featured Artist: Joy Lehuanani Enomoto
Joy Lehuanani Enomoto is a Kanaka Maoli, African American, Japanese, Caddo Indian, Punjabi, and Scottish visual artist, archivist, and social justice activist. Her work engages with climate justice mapping, extractive colonialism, saltwater conversations that occur within the space of the diaspora, the policing of black and brown bodies, the Black Pacific, demilitarization, and other issues currently affecting the peoples of Oceania. Her artwork and scholarship have been featured in Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawaiʻi (Duke University Press, 2019); the Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Politics (Routledge 2018); Na Wahine Koa: Hawaiian Women for Sovereignty and Demilitarization (University of Hawai‘i Press 2018); Finding Meaning: Kaona and Contemporary Hawaiian Literature (University of Arizona Press, 2016); Absolute Humidity (Hardworking Goodlooking, 2018); Amerasia Journal; Bamboo Ridge: Journal of Hawaiʻi Literature and Arts; Slate Magazine; and Hawaiʻi Review.
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Fall 32(2) Articles Of Monsters and Mothers: Affective Climates and Human-Nonhuman Sociality in Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner's "Dear Matafele Peinam," Their Sea of Islands? Pacific Climate Warriors, Oceania Identities, and World Enlargement Snaring the Nuclear Sun: Decolonial Ecologies in Titaua Peu's Mutismes: E ‘Ore te Vāvā Resources Climate Change, Mental Health, and Well-Being for Pacific Peoples: A Literature Review Dialogue Asylum Seekers in the Pacific (Manus, Nauru) “It Is Not Because They Are Bad People”: Australia’s Refugee Resettlement in Papua New Guinea and Nauru Expanding Terra Nullis No Friend but the Mountains: A Reflection Becoming through the Mundane: Asylum Seekers and the Making of Selves in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea The Story of Holim Pas Tok Ples, a Short Film about Indigenous Language on Lou Island, Manus Province, Papua New Guinea A Brief on the Intersection between Climate Change Impacts and Asylum and Refugee Seekers’ Incarceration on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea Weaponizing Ecocide: Nauru, Offshore Incarceration, and Environmental Crisis From Drifters to Asylum Seekers The Denial of Human Dignity in the Age of Human Rights under Australia’s Operation Sovereign Borders Political Reviews The Region in Review: International Issues and Events, 2019 Melanesia in Review: Issues and Events, 2019 Book and Media Reviews Engaging with Strangers: Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands, by Debra McDougall Living Kinship in the Pacific, edited by Christina Toren and Simonne Pauwels Grappling with the Bomb: Britain’s Pacific H-Bomb Tests, by Nic Maclellan Found in Translation: Many Meanings on a North Australian Mission, by Laura Rademaker
Featured Artist: Lisa Hilli
Born in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea (PNG), and living in Narrm/Melbourne, Australia, Lisa Hilli is a contemporary artist with lineages from PNG (Tolai/Gunantuna), Finland, England, and South Africa. Her work highlights the in/visibility of Black and Melanesian women’s bodies through themes of landscape, history, and archival research, which she explores through photography, video, textiles, and installation. Her major works have culminated in touring exhibitions, including Trade & Transformations (2018), Social Conditioner (2015–2016), Vunatarai Armour & Midi (2015–2016), and Just Like Home (2010–2013), while others have been featured at galleries and events in Australia, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
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