Pacific Dynamics
Understanding the dramatic changes in the world today requires deeper and critical exploration of diverse paradigms of knowledge in their conceptual and applied forms. This involves reimagining the often fiercely guarded dominant disciplinary boundaries, research discourses and methodologies. The synergy between local and global discourses and the multidimensional aspects of modern society require diverse intellectual prisms for more critical scholarly research and knowledge production. Questioning dominant ideas and transcending the traditional boundaries of formal disciplines, while maintaining one’s core area of expertise, can be enriching and reflective of the complexity of the contemporary world.
Pacific Dynamics attempts to respond to this need for critical, open and interdisciplinary approach to research. The journal aims to promote rigorous debates on theoretical discourses, applied knowledge and policy issues regarding the Pacific Islands, including New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific Rim using multiple prisms. The journal accepts articles from diverse areas of study including gender studies, indigenous studies, conflict-peace-security studies, minority studies, politics, international relations, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, education, philosophy, literature, development studies, economics, marine studies, environmental studies and others not mentioned here. To ensure wide circulation, the journal is online and open access and for academic rigor, it has a comprehensive peer review process.
Pacific Dynamics is published biannually by the Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies in collaboration with the Arts Digital Lab at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
The main website for Pacific Dynamics is at: pacificdynamics.nz
All work in Pacific Dynamics is under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Licence
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Beyond the air-conditioned boardroom: Bridging western and Fijian Indigenous knowledge in tourism research
(Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2022)The COVID-19 outbreak and increasing natural disasters have intensified concerns about effective water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) practices in Fiji’s tourism sector. Whilst Indigenous values and customs are recognised ... -
An analysis of ecosystem-based adaptations in Pacific Island countries
(Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2022)Pacific Islands Countries and Territories’ (PICTs) has one of the richest and most complex ecosystems globally, surrounded by oceans with marine and terrestrial diversity. These diverse ecosystems are essential for the ... -
Adapting and reacting to Covid-19: Tourism and resilience in the South Pacific
(Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2022)As with small islands around the globe, many of the island states of the South Pacific are heavily dependent on tourism revenue. This article examines how tourism development and its disturbance by Covid-19 has influenced ... -
An integrated evaluation of mangrove health and ecosystem value to local inhabitants: a blended ecological and sociological approach
(Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2022)In Fiji, as in other Pacific Islands, mangroves provide substantial resources to local indigenous peoples. These resources include fuelwood, timber, food, and natural medicines. Despite this, Fijian mangroves are still ... -
Assessing the impacts of climate change on domestic crop production: Experience and perception of local farmers in North Malaita, Solomon Islands.
(Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2022)The aim of this research was to: 1) gather farmers' experiences and observations of climate change impacts on domestic crop yields during the last thirty years (1988-2018); 2) study climatic projections (2050) and their ... -
Introduction by the editor of the Special Edition on Indigenous Knowledge, Resilience and Climate Change
(Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2022)The ever growing impacts of the human induced climate crisis are experienced in very specific ways in the small Pacific Island nations, or what we prefer to call Big Ocean States. Many of these islands are facing the ... -
Waka hem no finis yet: Solomon Islands research futures
(Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2022)Research provides discovery in the present, and a legacy for the future. The knowledge gained is in pursuit of a more complete understanding of the world, natural and social. However, research is not a static entity. ... -
Climate change awareness in educational spaces: Itaukei responses through Indigenous knowledge sharing – case study: Talanoa with Dr T podcast & Fijian communities
(Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2022)With the exponential rise in ‘gloom-and-doom’ reports of climate change spreading like wildfire around the Pacific, something interesting has been taking place around the many digital platforms regarding learning for I ... -
The pathway to leadership is through service: Exploring the Samoan tautua lifecycle
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Decolonising quantitative methods within a Pacific research space to explore cognitive effects following kava use
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Methodology marriage: Merging Western and Pacific research design
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‘Music between the volcanoes’: Notes on developing a collaborative local performance history of a South Pacific port town under colonialism
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Big men, wantoks and donors: A political sociology of public service reform in Solomon Islands
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Breaking the paradigm(s): A review of the three waves of international relations small state literature
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Climate change adaptation programmes on water security in the Pacific: A focus on the Solomon Islands
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Ngā Whakaaro a Puhiwahine: A Political Philosophy and Theory from the Mōteatea of Puhiwahine
(Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2020)Mōteatea are the orally sung literature and one of its most famous composers was Ngāti Tuwharetoa and Ngāti Maniapoto’s Puhiwahine. This paper will explore the political philosophy and theory contained within Puhiwahine’s ... -
Promoting widening participation and its social value amongst Pacific people in Australia
(Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2020)Pacific people in Australia are less likely to access university due to structural disadvantages, including isolation from the dominant culture; the overlapping nexus between low socio-economic status and race; and ... -
Navigating Security in the Pacific
(Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2020)This article examines how New Zealand has framed recent security dynamics in the region and asks how this framing aligns with the priorities of Pacific partners. There are some indications of increasing alignment with ... -
Re-thinking Contextualisation in Solomon Islands school leadership professional learning and development
(Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2020)This article discusses the perceptions of Solomon Island mentors and regional administrators of a Solomon Islands aid-funded school leadership professional learning and development intervention. The focus is on context ... -
Education for a Vocation or Society ? The Dialectic of Modern and Customary Epistemologies in Solomon Islands
(Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2020)Rural Training Centres (RTCs) in the Solomon Islands are community-based initiatives that offer vocational education to men and women. Since the 1960s, RTCs have grown to become an organised movement of 47 centres present ...
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