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The UC QuakeBox Project: Creation of a community-focused research archive
(2013)The University of Canterbury is known internationally for the Origins of New Zealand English (ONZE) corpus (see Gordon et al 2004). ONZE is a large collection of recordings from people born between 1851 and 1984, and it ... -
How do people belong in the Pacific? Introduction to this issue
(Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2018)In early 2016, the two editors of this issue met together to discuss our common research interests. At that time, one of us (Jioji Ravulo) was a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology at Western ... -
A Shell and a Stone: Pacific Chaplaincy Practice at Western Sydney University
(Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2018)Universities typically host a broad range of students from many different backgrounds and cultural groups. Each of these groups brings with them their own stories, ways of knowing and sensing the world, and experiences ... -
The Tabligh Jama’at and Islamic revivalism in Fiji
(Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2018)Approximately 60,000 labourers travelled from various parts of India between 1879 and 1916 to Fiji to work in the sugarcane fields. Over seven thousand of these were Muslims who, like their fellow Indians, hoped to return ... -
Customary land title and Indigenous rights in Papua New Guinea
(Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2018)In a recent report on Papua New Guinea (PNG), the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) noted its concern at the alienation of land held under customary title through the granting of Special Agricultural Business ... -
Connecting and collaborating across Oceania and its diaspora: A shared approach to meaningful development and engagement
(Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2018)Through this short, critical piece, I, as someone who comes from an Indigenous Pacific heritage, aim to challenge the way in which mainstream society positions societal problems as siloed, isolated from a structural, ... -
Sound tracks of the Black Pacific: Music, identity and resilience in Australian South Sea Islander communities
(Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2018)Australian South Sea Islanders, the descendants of the Melanesians from (primarily) Vanuatu and Solomon Islands who were ‘blackbirded’ to Queensland and New South Wales (1847-1904) for their labour, have, through music and ... -
Female Japanese Citizens in New Caledonia: Pre-December 8, 1941
(Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2018)In January 1941, the Japanese female population in New Caledonia included the Japan-born as well as former French citizens and subjects, Dutch subjects (primarily Javanese) and local Indigenous Kanak women who were married ... -
Food security in Solomon Islands: Preliminary results from a survey of the Honiara Central Market
(Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2018)This article presents preliminary descriptive data findings from a study focusing on vendors and produce at the Honiara Central Market (HCM), the largest fresh food market in Solomon Islands and the main source of fresh ... -
Waves of words: Ancient Asia-Pacific connection with North Australia
(Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2018)In the 19th and (for most of the) 20th centuries, Europeans saw the Pacific as a sea of static, isolated islands. Recently Pacific Studies scholars have argued instead that it is interconnected and dynamic, a place where ... -
Language use and language attitudes in New Caledonia with particular reference to French Creole Tayo
(Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2018)New Caledonia has an unusual language dynamic in comparison to other French overseas territories. In most of these islands, a French Creole is usually the lingua franca and has a lower status than French. In contrast, ... -
Notes on Contributors
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Book Review - Notes on Guy Standing’s The Corruption of Capitalism: Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay.
(University of Canterbury, 2018)Guy Standing’s (2017) The Corruption of Capitalism gets it wrong from the very beginning: the title suggests that the social ills emanating from capitalism should be ascribed not to capitalism working according to plan, ... -
Book Review Spinoza and Hegel - Substance and Negativity Gregor Moder (Northwestern University Press: 2017)
(University of Canterbury, 2018)To claim that the field of Philosophy encompasses different lines of thought is nothing but an understatement. Sometimes philosophy can be seen as the ultimate clash of thought boxed into a field. We could name pairs and ... -
Ideology and its Pleasures: Althusser, Žižek & Pfaller
(University of Canterbury, 2018)Althusser famously explains the constitutive effects of ideology in terms of a process of “interpellation” by which an ISA (Ideological State Apparatus) addresses and calls upon the individuals who become its subjects. To ... -
Interpassive Online: Outsourcing and Insourcing Enjoyment in Platform Capitalism
(University of Canterbury, 2018)For Robert Pfaller, who first proposed the concept in 1996, interpassvity is most straightforwardly ‘the preference of particular subjects for delegating their enjoyment rather than having it themselves’. Interpassivity ... -
Interpassivity and the Impossible: From Art to Politics in Pfaller’s Interpassivity: The Aesthetics of Delegated Enjoyment
(University of Canterbury, 2018)As a philosophical and anthropological concept, the importance of interpassivity today seems secured, thanks in no small part to Robert Pfaller’s tireless efforts over the last two decades. Beginning life as a conceptual ... -
Interrogating Interpassivity
(University of Canterbury, 2018)The concept of interpassivity as developed by Robert Pfaller and Slavoj Žižek has become ubiquitous throughout many disciplines: media, sociology, technology studies, gamming, public spaces and so on. Interpassivity is ... -
Interpassivity and the uncanny illusions of our daily lives
(University of Canterbury, 2018)An Introduction on Interpassivity: it looks like an illusion, it feels like an illusion, do not be fooled - it is an illusion. Pfaller's book Interpassivity - The Aesthetics of Delegated Enjoyment (2017) provides us with ... -
Interpassive Anti-aesthetic
(University of Canterbury, 2018)This paper explores the implications of Robert Pfaller’s conception of interpassivity with reference to a predominantly Lacanian perspective on subjectivisation. In so doing, the aim is to engender a conversation encompassing ...
