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When the ‘tuna wars’ went hot: Kiribati, the Soviet Union, and the fishing pact that provoked a superpower
(Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2017)In 1985 the Republic of Kiribati, a low-lying island nation in the central Pacific, entered into a fisheries access arrangement with the Soviet Union. Coming at the height of renewed Cold War tensions between the USSR and ... -
Education, colonisation and Kanak aspirations in New Caledonia: Historical contexts and contemporary challenges
(Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2017)This is an analysis of the role that education has played in the development of colonial relations in New Caledonia. It examines the historical impact of French colonialism and particularly colonial education, and details ... -
Hegemony and counter hegemony in Fiji
(Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2017)The article analyses Fiji politics by utilising the analytical framework established by neo-Gramscian scholars, who emphasise the role of social forces and constitutive moments in the making of history. Elite hegemony in ... -
Twenty-five years of inequality-reduction policies in school achievement in New Caledonia
(Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2017)New Caledonia, the largest French Territory in the South Pacific, enjoys a high standard of living but is marked by huge social inequalities as a result of geographic and ethnic origin. In New Caledonia, as in the rest of ... -
Domesticating by commodifying the liberal peace? Evidence from the southern Philippines
(Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2017)Liberal peacebuilding is the prominent and popular framework employed by intergovernmental organisations and many international non-government organisations in conflict management and resolution in conflictual societies ... -
The lessons from the post-WW2 occupation of Japan
(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.
(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
(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
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Young political aspirants in the Fiji 2014 elections- motivations and experiences
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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. ...
