a pedagogical consideration. In the Pacific Islands region, students bring personal experiences and family histories to the classroom, and often with considerable emotion. History is manifest in the surrounding landscapes and seascapes and in the artifacts and ongoing influences of colonial pasts. Students from beyond the region might be able to tap into this more intimate and personal educational environment through exchanges, winter-quarter visits, videoconferencing, and online forums with Pacific schools. The sweep of this primer also elicits a historiographical comment. A broadstroke Pacific Worlds approach risks losing sight of islands’ own histories. Despite the author’s efforts, it is difficult to keep the islands at the center of a “truly transpacific Pacific” (85). The different islands of the region did not experience these larger regional movements equally or at the same time. Moreover, it’s important to ask how different Island peoples actually understood and made sense of these contacts with the larger region. This, in turn, raises the question of historicities, or the culturally specific ways that different Island peoples make their history. A Pacific histories course should include this critical topic as well as a more extensive consideration of the concept of indigeneity. Students might also be alerted to the politics of history making in settler colonies where the harshness of colonial rule is often elided in favor of false narratives of reconciliation. It is also helpful to keep in mind Teresia Teaiwa’s distinction between the Pacific and Oceania; the Pacific is a term that reflects external orderings and understandings, while Oceania speaks to the fluid, rich, vibrant world envisioned by the Tongan scholar Epeli Hau‘ofa—a world whose parameters were not the bordering rims of continental bodies but more immediately and specifically the seas, shores, and skies of the islands called Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. A Primer for Teaching Pacific Histories outlines a course with a rich, welcome, and innovative historical perspective on the broader Pacific region. Such an approach also needs to acknowledge the complexities and specificities of Island histories.
{"title":"Pathway of the Birds: The Voyaging Achievements of Māori and Their Polynesian Ancestors by Andrew Crowe (review)","authors":"P. Lincoln","doi":"10.1353/cp.2021.0050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2021.0050","url":null,"abstract":"a pedagogical consideration. In the Pacific Islands region, students bring personal experiences and family histories to the classroom, and often with considerable emotion. History is manifest in the surrounding landscapes and seascapes and in the artifacts and ongoing influences of colonial pasts. Students from beyond the region might be able to tap into this more intimate and personal educational environment through exchanges, winter-quarter visits, videoconferencing, and online forums with Pacific schools. The sweep of this primer also elicits a historiographical comment. A broadstroke Pacific Worlds approach risks losing sight of islands’ own histories. Despite the author’s efforts, it is difficult to keep the islands at the center of a “truly transpacific Pacific” (85). The different islands of the region did not experience these larger regional movements equally or at the same time. Moreover, it’s important to ask how different Island peoples actually understood and made sense of these contacts with the larger region. This, in turn, raises the question of historicities, or the culturally specific ways that different Island peoples make their history. A Pacific histories course should include this critical topic as well as a more extensive consideration of the concept of indigeneity. Students might also be alerted to the politics of history making in settler colonies where the harshness of colonial rule is often elided in favor of false narratives of reconciliation. It is also helpful to keep in mind Teresia Teaiwa’s distinction between the Pacific and Oceania; the Pacific is a term that reflects external orderings and understandings, while Oceania speaks to the fluid, rich, vibrant world envisioned by the Tongan scholar Epeli Hau‘ofa—a world whose parameters were not the bordering rims of continental bodies but more immediately and specifically the seas, shores, and skies of the islands called Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. A Primer for Teaching Pacific Histories outlines a course with a rich, welcome, and innovative historical perspective on the broader Pacific region. Such an approach also needs to acknowledge the complexities and specificities of Island histories.","PeriodicalId":51783,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Pacific","volume":"33 1","pages":"621 - 624"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47162348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Climate-change impacts, especially those on health, are widely unequal and inequitable. For Pacific Island peoples, climate change has been suggested as perpetuating and exacerbating existing vulnerabilities and poor health outcomes related to the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age and the surrounding social and political organization of society—the social and structural determinants of health. In this analytical literature review, we evaluate the diverse impacts of common climate-change interventions—including migration, ecosystem-based management, community-based adaptation, and adaptation of the tourism industry and health sector—through the lens of these determinants of health, highlighting both opportunities and challenges. We show that climate-change interventions around the Pacific present possibilities not only to address the direct impacts of climate change but also, with careful planning and local leadership and action, to positively impact the determinants of health for Pacific Islanders. By intentionally designing and leading climate-change interventions that improve these determinants of health, Pacific communities could decrease their vulnerabilities to the health impacts of climate change while promoting better health outcomes in general.
{"title":"Do Climate Change Interventions Impact the Determinants of Health for Pacific Island Peoples? A Literature Review","authors":"Daphnée Voyatzis-Bouillard, I. Kelman","doi":"10.1353/cp.2021.0039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2021.0039","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Climate-change impacts, especially those on health, are widely unequal and inequitable. For Pacific Island peoples, climate change has been suggested as perpetuating and exacerbating existing vulnerabilities and poor health outcomes related to the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age and the surrounding social and political organization of society—the social and structural determinants of health. In this analytical literature review, we evaluate the diverse impacts of common climate-change interventions—including migration, ecosystem-based management, community-based adaptation, and adaptation of the tourism industry and health sector—through the lens of these determinants of health, highlighting both opportunities and challenges. We show that climate-change interventions around the Pacific present possibilities not only to address the direct impacts of climate change but also, with careful planning and local leadership and action, to positively impact the determinants of health for Pacific Islanders. By intentionally designing and leading climate-change interventions that improve these determinants of health, Pacific communities could decrease their vulnerabilities to the health impacts of climate change while promoting better health outcomes in general.","PeriodicalId":51783,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Pacific","volume":"33 1","pages":"466 - 496"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49568289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
exploring experiences of reconciliation, exchange, and the “creation of common ground” in Australia (133), with a focus on “The Big Sing in the Desert.” In chapter 11, Anne Power, Brydie-Leigh Bartleet, and Dawn Bennett explore service learning in the arts. This chapter reports on the successes of service programs linked with Indigenous Australian communities. Drawing on Indigenous perspectives of learning, the authors discuss reflections and collaborations that emerged from these arts projects. In chapter 12, David Lines investigates the importance and implications of arts projects in early education and specifically reports on an arts program initiative within three early childhood centers in Auckland. In a thorough and interesting study (chapter 17), Naomi Cooper describes the process of learning within community choirs across Australia, with a focus on visual, aural, and physical techniques used by choir directors. Space precludes a full overview of the contents of the book, but the additional chapters will spark interest for readers looking to understand the varied relationships between communities and music. This collection of essays demonstrates how music making draws people together, and thus it reflects on the importance of participation in the arts. Having these case studies assembled into one volume provides readers with a glimpse into the dynamic potential of music within societies.
{"title":"In the Absence of the Gift: New Forms of Value and Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Community by Anders Emil Rasmussen, and: If Everyone Returned, the Island Would Sink: Urbanisation and Migration in Vanuatu by Kirstie Petrou (review)","authors":"Frederick Errington, Deborah B. Gewertz","doi":"10.1353/cp.2021.0048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2021.0048","url":null,"abstract":"exploring experiences of reconciliation, exchange, and the “creation of common ground” in Australia (133), with a focus on “The Big Sing in the Desert.” In chapter 11, Anne Power, Brydie-Leigh Bartleet, and Dawn Bennett explore service learning in the arts. This chapter reports on the successes of service programs linked with Indigenous Australian communities. Drawing on Indigenous perspectives of learning, the authors discuss reflections and collaborations that emerged from these arts projects. In chapter 12, David Lines investigates the importance and implications of arts projects in early education and specifically reports on an arts program initiative within three early childhood centers in Auckland. In a thorough and interesting study (chapter 17), Naomi Cooper describes the process of learning within community choirs across Australia, with a focus on visual, aural, and physical techniques used by choir directors. Space precludes a full overview of the contents of the book, but the additional chapters will spark interest for readers looking to understand the varied relationships between communities and music. This collection of essays demonstrates how music making draws people together, and thus it reflects on the importance of participation in the arts. Having these case studies assembled into one volume provides readers with a glimpse into the dynamic potential of music within societies.","PeriodicalId":51783,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Pacific","volume":"33 1","pages":"613 - 618"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46911123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Loimata, The Sweetest Tears dir. by Anna Marbrook (review)","authors":"D. Lipset","doi":"10.1353/cp.2021.0051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2021.0051","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51783,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Pacific","volume":"33 1","pages":"624 - 626"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45540136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The global Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic dominated regional and international politics throughout 2020. Despite many Pacific countries avoiding the worst impacts, the pandemic highlighted social, political, and economic inequalities, with many vulnerable communities affected by overburdened health systems, changes in food production, and disruption of the formal and informal economy. Here, Maclellan discusses the economic impacts of COVID-19 in the Pacific.
{"title":"The Region in Review: International Issues and Events, 2020","authors":"N. Maclellan","doi":"10.1353/cp.2021.0040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2021.0040","url":null,"abstract":"The global Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic dominated regional and international politics throughout 2020. Despite many Pacific countries avoiding the worst impacts, the pandemic highlighted social, political, and economic inequalities, with many vulnerable communities affected by overburdened health systems, changes in food production, and disruption of the formal and informal economy. Here, Maclellan discusses the economic impacts of COVID-19 in the Pacific.","PeriodicalId":51783,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Pacific","volume":"33 1","pages":"500 - 522"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46504902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:In this article, we explore themes of education, work, and employment in the life stories of Indigenous inhabitants of Jayapura, the capital city of Papua Province, Indonesia. We draw on life-history interviews collected from men and women ranging from the pre–World War II generation to contemporary youth. This population is the most educated and literate in the province, but education does not shield people from marginalization and displacement or from violence, tragedy, isolation, and economic hardship. What education "does" is often bittersweet, as our interlocutors reveal the rocky course of the first sixty years of formal schooling in an enduring colony. We look beyond statistics about high literacy and educational attainment to illuminate the decline of an urban public service, the stops and starts in school and work because of familial influences, and the circuitous and unpredictable pathways unleashed by a fluctuating "project" economy. All of the stories shared here involve mobility away from Jayapura, job precarity, and serial casual employment. Women's work in particular usually involves a considerable history of unpaid service and volunteer work. We suggest that education in a fluctuating, frontier economy leads to "diploma disruption" rather than "diploma inflation," in which graduates outnumber jobs or do not want low-status work. What education is for, or even what it is, is conditional and temporary, yet there is continuity in the belief that having some education, whatever it entails or brings, is better than having none.
{"title":"\"There's Money but No Work\": Diploma Disruptions in Urban Papua","authors":"J. Munro, Lyn Parker, Yohana Baransano","doi":"10.1353/cp.2021.0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2021.0035","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this article, we explore themes of education, work, and employment in the life stories of Indigenous inhabitants of Jayapura, the capital city of Papua Province, Indonesia. We draw on life-history interviews collected from men and women ranging from the pre–World War II generation to contemporary youth. This population is the most educated and literate in the province, but education does not shield people from marginalization and displacement or from violence, tragedy, isolation, and economic hardship. What education \"does\" is often bittersweet, as our interlocutors reveal the rocky course of the first sixty years of formal schooling in an enduring colony. We look beyond statistics about high literacy and educational attainment to illuminate the decline of an urban public service, the stops and starts in school and work because of familial influences, and the circuitous and unpredictable pathways unleashed by a fluctuating \"project\" economy. All of the stories shared here involve mobility away from Jayapura, job precarity, and serial casual employment. Women's work in particular usually involves a considerable history of unpaid service and volunteer work. We suggest that education in a fluctuating, frontier economy leads to \"diploma disruption\" rather than \"diploma inflation,\" in which graduates outnumber jobs or do not want low-status work. What education is for, or even what it is, is conditional and temporary, yet there is continuity in the belief that having some education, whatever it entails or brings, is better than having none.","PeriodicalId":51783,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Pacific","volume":"33 1","pages":"364 - 384"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46041326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Education in Oceania tends to orient students to distant shores. Schooling is a path away from home places and often away from home languages. In this article, we discuss a vernacular language movement that has grown over two decades on Ranongga, a mountainous island on the far western edge of Solomon Islands. Named the Kulu Language Institute after the two languages spoken on the island (Kubokota and Luqa), the movement has as its emblem a sprouting nut, a resonant symbol of one of the island's most important foods and trees, and its motto is "All read well." In Ranongga, the English word "read" is translated to "tiro," a word that encompasses many other forms of searching for signs in the environment, including searching for nuts under the forest litter. This metaphor runs through the curriculum materials, encouraging students to look under the surface of words for their deeper meaning. Today, approximately 20 percent of the island's population has studied writing and reading in Kubokota or Luqa, and a growing number of young people have undertaken an intensive series of courses focusing on the grammatical structures of Luqa. Students and teachers at the school speak of how studying their own language has anchored them intellectually. In contrast to the English-language instruction of primary and secondary school, learning in their own language has given them a sense of being firmly connected to the ground, no longer flailing toward an uncertain future.
{"title":"\"All Read Well\": Schooling on Solid Ground in a Solomon Islands Language Movement","authors":"D. McDougall, A. G. Zobule","doi":"10.1353/cp.2021.0037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2021.0037","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Education in Oceania tends to orient students to distant shores. Schooling is a path away from home places and often away from home languages. In this article, we discuss a vernacular language movement that has grown over two decades on Ranongga, a mountainous island on the far western edge of Solomon Islands. Named the Kulu Language Institute after the two languages spoken on the island (Kubokota and Luqa), the movement has as its emblem a sprouting nut, a resonant symbol of one of the island's most important foods and trees, and its motto is \"All read well.\" In Ranongga, the English word \"read\" is translated to \"tiro,\" a word that encompasses many other forms of searching for signs in the environment, including searching for nuts under the forest litter. This metaphor runs through the curriculum materials, encouraging students to look under the surface of words for their deeper meaning. Today, approximately 20 percent of the island's population has studied writing and reading in Kubokota or Luqa, and a growing number of young people have undertaken an intensive series of courses focusing on the grammatical structures of Luqa. Students and teachers at the school speak of how studying their own language has anchored them intellectually. In contrast to the English-language instruction of primary and secondary school, learning in their own language has given them a sense of being firmly connected to the ground, no longer flailing toward an uncertain future.","PeriodicalId":51783,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Pacific","volume":"33 1","pages":"410 - 439"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41446069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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