2021 33(1) & 33(2)
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Spring 33(1) Articles “We Want Development”: Land and Water (Dis)connections in Port Moresby, Urban Papua New Guinea Michelle Nayahamui Rooney Confronting Australian Apathy: Latai Taumoepeau and Politics of Performance in Climate Stewardship Talei Luscia Mangioni “Keeping an Eye Out for Women”: Implicit Feminism, Political Leadership, and Social Change in the Pacific Islands Ceridwen Spark, John Cox, and Jack Corbett Gesturing to the Past: The Case for an Ethnography of Melanesian Poetics Deborah Van Heekeren Smart Sanctions, Hollow Gestures, and Multilateral Sport: New Zealand–Fiji Relations and the Politics of Professional Rugby, 1987–2011 Greg Ryan Political Reviews Micronesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020 Michael Lujan Bevacqua, Elizabeth (Isa) Ua Ceallaigh Bowman, Zaldy Dandan, Tiara R Na’puti, Gonzaga Puas Polynesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020 Brian T Alofaituli, Peter Clegg, Adriano Favole, Lorenz Gonschor, Margaret Mutu, Christina Newport, André Nobbs, ‘Umi Perkins, T Melanie Puka, Amanda Sullivan-Lee, Salote Talagi, Trish Tupou, Forrest Wade Young Book and Media Reviews Inundation: Contemporary Art and Climate Change in the Pacific [exhibition] Reviewed by Maggie Wander Reclaiming Kalākaua: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives on a Hawaiian Sovereign, by Tiffany Lani Ing Reviewed by Drew Gonrowski A Power in the World: The Hawaiian Kingdom in Oceania, by Lorenz Gonschor Reviewed by Kealani Cook Possessing Polynesia: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai‘i and Oceania, by Maile Arvin Reviewed by Joy Lehuanani Enomoto Working with the Ancestors: Mana and Place in the Marquesas Islands, by Emily C Donaldson Reviewed by Seth Quintus The Past Before Us: Mo‘okū‘auhau as Methodology, edited by Nālani Wilson-Hokowhitu Reviewed by Gregory Pōmaika‘i Gushiken Indigeneity: A Politics of Potential: Australia, Fiji and New Zealand, by Dominic O’Sullivan Reviewed by Nālani Wilson-Hokowhitu Wantok Meri [documentary] Reviewed by David Lipset Pacific Women in Politics: Gender Quota Campaigns in the Pacific Islands, by Kerryn Baker Reviewed by Monique Mironesco The Moral Economy of Mobile Phones: Pacific Islands Perspectives, edited by Robert J Foster and Heather A Horst Money Games: Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town, by Anthony J Pickles Reviewed by Frederick Errington and Deborah Gewertz Featured Artist: Latai Taumoepeau ![]() Repatriate (2015), by Latai Taumoepeau Latai Taumoepeau makes live art, drawing from her homeland, the Kingdom of Tonga, and her birthplace, Sydney, land of the Eora Nation. Her body-centered faivā (performance practice) emerges from Tongan philosophies of relational space and time, integrating ancient and everyday temporal practice to illustrate the impact of environmental and social crisis in Oceania. Through her engagement with the sociopolitical landscape of Australia, spotlighting issues related to race, class, and the female body politic, she seeks to bring minority community voices and experiences into the foreground. | Fall 33(2) Special Issue “Schooling Journeys in the Southwestern Pacific”Guest Editors: David Oakeshott, Rachel Emerine Hicks, and Debra McDougall Articles The Promise of Education: Schooling Journeys in the Southwestern Pacific” Rachel Emerine Hicks, Debra McDougall, and David Oakeshott Seeking a Panacea: Attempts to Address the Failings of Fiji and Solomon Islands Formal Education in Preparing Young People for Livelihood Opportunities Aidan Craney “There’s Money but No Work”: Diploma Disruptions in Urban Papua Jenny Munro, Lyn Parker, and Yohana Baransano “Just Something in History”: Classroom Knowledge and Refusals to Teach the Tension in Solomon Islands David Oakeshott “All Read Well”: Schooling on Solid Ground in a Solomon Islands Language Movement Debra McDougall and Alpheaus G Zobule Dialogue Becoming Educators in Oceania: From Ridge to Reef to the Region and Then Returning Home Rosarine Rafai, Jiokapeci Qalo-Qiolevu, and Maca Radua-Stephens Resources Do Climate Change Interventions Impact the Determinants of Health for Pacific Island Peoples? A Literature Review Daphnée Voyatzis-Bouillard and Ilan Kelman Political Reviews The Region in Review: International Issues and Events, 2020 Nic Maclellan Melanesia in Review: Issues and Events, 2020 Volker Boege, Rebecca Bogiri, Mathias Chauchat, Joseph Daniel Foukona, Budi Hernawan, Michael Leach, James Stiefvater, Jope Tarai Book and Media Reviews Atea: Nature and Divinity in Polynesia [exhibition] Reviewed by Dan Taulapapa McMullin, Albert Refiti, and Maia Nuku Framing the Islands: Power and Diplomatic Agency in Pacific Regionalism, by Greg Fry Reviewed by Roderic Alley Mobilities of Return: Pacific Perspectives, edited by John Taylor and Helen Lee Reviewed by John Connell Community Music in Oceania: Many Voices, One Horizon, by Brydie-Leigh Bartleet, Melissa Cain, Diana Tolmie, Anne Power, and Mari Shiobara Reviewed by Brian Diettrich In the Absence of the Gift: New Forms of Value and Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Community, by Anders Emil Rasmussen If Everyone Returned, the Island Would Sink: Urbanisation and Migration in Vanuatu, by Kirstie Petrou Reviewed by Frederick Errington and Deborah Gewertz A Primer for Teaching Pacific Histories, by Matt Matsuda Reviewed by David Hanlon Pathway of the Birds: The Voyaging Achievements of Māori and Their Polynesian Ancestors, by Andrew Crowe Reviewed by Peter C Lincoln Loimata: The Sweetest Tears [documentary] Reviewed by David Lipset Featured Artist: Jasmine Togo-Brisby ![]() Centre Flower no. 794 (2020), by Jasmine Togo-Brisby Jasmine Togo-Brisby is a fourth-generation Australian South Sea Islander with roots in Ambae and Santo, Vanuatu, and now based in Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand. Her practice is multidisciplinary, including painting, early photographic techniques, and sculpture, and her research examines the historical practice of blackbirding, a euphemism for the Pacific slave trade, in which over sixty thousand Islanders were taken to work on Australian sugarcane plantations between 1847 and 1903. This labor trade has a contemporary legacy, continuing to impact those who trace their roots to Aotearoa/New Zealand and Australia through the South Sea Islander and other slave diasporas. Togo-Brisby, whose great-great-grandparents were taken from a beach in Vanuatu in 1899 and put to work as house slaves for the Sydney-based Wunderlich family, is one of the few Pacific artists exploring cultural memory and shared histories of plantation colonization and displacement across the Pacific. |