Circumstances of a Pacific atoll people in diaspora: a retrospective analysis of I-Nikunau

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dc.contributor.authorDixon K
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-09T23:08:44Z
dc.date.available2018-01-09T23:08:44Z
dc.date.issued2017en
dc.date.updated2017-11-11T22:52:39Z
dc.description.abstractLife for people on many atolls is undoubtedly hard, frequently affected by droughts, rough seas and other adverse climatic conditions to name a few. It is little wonder then that kinship is the foundation of many atoll societies, traditional and even modern. This study is a retrospective analysis of a Pacific people living in several countries but held together as a diaspora through notions of kinship. The people concerned have indigenous, ancestral, cultural, social and continuing residential connections with Nikunau Atoll (coordinates 1.3475°S 176.4512°E). The analysis incorporates the present diasporic circumstances of this people, including how these circumstances arose historically. The core idea of the paper is that such an analysis provides a basis for surfacing and explaining the circumstances of the people in question, and so a basis for improving their circumstances from a critical, better-informed standpoint. The method of conducting the analysis relies heavily on the partisan stance of me, the author, whose kinship ties with I-Nikunau (= people who identify with Nikunau) are affinal. I identify, grapple with, articulate and interpret situations and events, including those I observed or experienced, or was told about, and those at least referred to or, in many cases, delved into by other researchers. The circumstances are analysed under 14 themes, including geographical, demographical, economic, environmental, cultural and societal circumstances. As well as appealing to I-Nikunau, the analysis may be relevant to the growing number of studies about Nikunau and Kiribati, most of them concerned with prospects of climate change making Nikunau, Tarawa and other atolls where I-Nikunau reside uninhabitable. That the authors of many of these studies published recently make so many references to the matters covered in this analysis would seem to indicate how relevant and important the matters in question are to the future of I-Nikunau and I-Kiribati. Furthermore, this relevance and importance may apply to the future of other peoples still inhabiting the world’s atolls and facing whatever challenges this future may bring, climate-related and otherwise.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/14933
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherLMU Munich, Department for Social and Cultural Anthropologyen
dc.subjectHistory matters!en
dc.subjectNikunau Atollen
dc.subjectI-Nikunau (= people who identify with Nikunau)en
dc.subjectGilbert Islandsen
dc.subjectKiribatien
dc.subjectDiasporaen
dc.subjectCircular labour migrationen
dc.subjectColonialismen
dc.subjectImperialismen
dc.subjectClimate changeen
dc.subject.anzsrcField of Research::16 - Studies in Human Society::1699 - Other Studies in Human Society::169905 - Studies of Pacific Peoples' Societiesen
dc.subject.anzsrcField of Research::20 - Language, Communication and Culture::2002 - Cultural Studies::200210 - Pacific Cultural Studiesen
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::44 - Human society::4410 - Sociology::441002 - Environmental sociologyen
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::44 - Human society::4408 - Political science::440807 - Government and politics of Asia and the Pacificen
dc.subject.anzsrcField of Research::16 - Studies in Human Society::1604 - Human Geography::160403 - Social and Cultural Geographyen
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::47 - Language, communication and culture::4702 - Cultural studies::470213 - Postcolonial studiesen
dc.titleCircumstances of a Pacific atoll people in diaspora: a retrospective analysis of I-Nikunauen
dc.typeConference Contributions - Otheren
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