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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, ...
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 ...
Introduction to Issue: Thinking Sex with Alenka Zupančič
(University of Canterbury, 2018)
Zupančič’s What IS Sex? is more than just a guide to thinking about sex and the subject of sex because when we are inevitably thrown into chaos by this task she helps us to preserve clear thinking. The subject of sex is ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
