• Strategies for language maintenance in transnational adoption: which role for the parents? 

  Fiorentino, Alice (2017)

  This paper investigates adoptive parents’ representations of their children’s birth-language and language negotiation which takes place during early stages of transnational adoption. By drawing on the interview discourse ...

• The lessons from the post-WW2 occupation of Japan 

  Radimor, Compel (Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2017)

  The American military occupation of Japan after 1945 has served as a widely admired example of successful post-conflict management. MacArthur’s General Headquarters not only achieved demilitarization and democratization ...

• The notion of ‘constellative thinking’ in Pacific thought: Expanding Oceania. 

  Rakuita, Tuinawi (Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2017)

  The current paper is a contribution to an ongoing discussion that stemmed from a seminal paper titled “Our Sea of Islands”, by the late Epeli Hau’ofa, Professor of Pacific Studies at the University of the South Pacific. ...

• Civil Society and Political Accountability In Samoa 

  Iati, Iati (Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2017)

  The year 1994 was a particularly interesting one in Samoan politics. Samoan politics is never short on controversy: corruption, allegations of corruption, inefficient government spending, and the odd challenge to a fistfight ...

• Waltzing with the powerful: Understanding NGOs in a game of power in conflict-ridden Mindanao 

  Espesor, Jovanie (Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2017)

• Young political aspirants in the Fiji 2014 elections- motivations and experiences 

  Vakaoti, Patrick (Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2017)

  In 2014, Fiji held general elections for the first time since the coup of 2006. The elections had many features that differed from previous elections. One feature was the reduction of the voting age to 18 years. This, ...

• Indo-Fijian Counter Hegemony in Fiji: A historical structural approach 

  Ramesh, Sanjay (Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2017)

  Indo-Fijians make up about 37 per cent of Fiji’s current population and have a unique language and culture, which evolved since Indians fist arrived into Fiji as indentured labourers on board the ship Leonidas in 1879. ...

• The Insecurity Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior Affair: A human rights transition from nuclear to climate-change refugees 

  Robie, David (Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2017)

  State-backed terrorism as exemplified by the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior, the Amsterdam-registered flagship of the Greenpeace environmental movement, on 10 July 1985 in New Zealand, and the assassination of pro-independence ...

• Pacific youth, acculturation and identity: The relationship between ethnic identity and well-being - new directions for research 

  Manuela, Sam; Anae, Melani (Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2017)

  Given the importance of studying ethnic identity, acculturation and cultural orientation research and scholarship on this phenomenon is rapidly increasing. Moreover there is a groundswell of interest in the relationship ...

• Mediating Publicness: An Analysis of Pacific Audiences’ Desire for a Sphere of their Own in Aotearoa/New Zealand 

  Ross, Tara (Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2017)

  This paper suggests that Pacific groups are positioned narrowly in New Zealand publicness, often in ways that run counter to Pacific audiences’ demand for in-depth news and information and public debate. Focus groups held ...

• Identity among Local Descendants of Early Jewish Settlers in Tahiti, Tonga, and Hawai’i 

  Horowitz, Michael (Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2017)

  By the mid-19th century there were three key kingdoms in Polynesia: Hawai’i (annexed by the U.S. in 1898; conferred statehood in 1959), Tahiti (annexed by the Republic of France in 1880; conferred collectivity status within ...

• The Articulated Limb: Theorizing indigenous Pacific participation in the Military Industrial Complex 

  Teaiwa, Teresia (Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2017)

  “Articulation is not a simple matter. Language is the effect of articulation and so are bodies. Articulata are jointed animals; they are not smooth like the perfect spherical animals of Plato’s origin fantasy in the Timaeus. ...

• Book Review - Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets by Todd McGowan 

  Zupancic, Alenka (2017)

• Nasty Feminism, Nasty Feminists 

  Thomas, Nicol (2017)

  The question “what does a woman want?” has been asked by psychoanalysts in the past—particularly by Freud and Lacan—and is a question that has been taken up by feminist scholarship and epistemology. This essay addresses ...

• Notes on Contributors 

  Zeiher, Cindy; Grimshaw, Mike (2017)

• Feminism in the Logic of Late Capitalism 

  Kunkle, Sheila (2017)

  This essay considers how Feminism might become a force for radical change as construed through two perspectives: the Marxist vision of Kathi Weeks and the Hegelian logic of Slavoj Žižek. I begin by enumerating the antinomies ...

• What Does Feminism Want? 

  Horbury, Alison (2017)

  Like Freud’s famous inquiry ‘what does a woman want?’, this paper asks a similar question of the signifier ‘feminism’ for if one aims to (re)imagine feminism for the new millennium one must first ask: what does Feminism ...

• Introduction: What does it mean to be Feminist today? 

  Zeiher, Cindy; Grimshaw, Mike (2017)

• Book Review - An Insurrectionist Manifesto: Four New Gospels for a Radical Politics by Blanton, Ward, Clayton Crockett, Jeffrey W. Robbins, and Noëlle Vahanian 

  McKay, Niall (2017)

• Book Review - The Trouble With Pleasure: Deleuze and Psychoanalysis by Aaron Schuster 

  Crockett, Clayton (University of Canterbury, 2017)

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