Alley reviews Framing the Islands: Power and Diplomatic Agency in Pacific Regionalism by Greg Fry. Canberra.
Alley评论Greg Fry的《陷害岛屿：太平洋地区主义中的权力和外交机构》。堪培拉。
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Abstract:High levels of youth unemployment have been a recurrent problem for decades in Fiji and Solomon Islands, including for those who complete secondary and tertiary education. In this article, I investigate structural issues within the formal education systems of each country and how these contribute to ongoing high unemployment. I also interrogate approaches designed to complement mainstream schooling in addressing unemployment. What emerges is a picture of education structures that are poorly designed and targeted, having little alignment with local needs and sociocultural values. I argue that envisioning the purpose of formal education from both social and economic perspectives will allow for curriculum that better identifies the skills and capabilities of individual students and prepares them to take advantage of livelihood opportunities. Philosophical and practical approaches to addressing these issues that are endogenous to Oceania are offered as guiding principles for creating more effective education systems.
{"title":"Seeking a Panacea: Attempts to Address the Failings of Fiji and Solomon Islands Formal Education in Preparing Young People for Livelihood Opportunities","authors":"Aidan Craney","doi":"10.1353/cp.2021.0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2021.0034","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:High levels of youth unemployment have been a recurrent problem for decades in Fiji and Solomon Islands, including for those who complete secondary and tertiary education. In this article, I investigate structural issues within the formal education systems of each country and how these contribute to ongoing high unemployment. I also interrogate approaches designed to complement mainstream schooling in addressing unemployment. What emerges is a picture of education structures that are poorly designed and targeted, having little alignment with local needs and sociocultural values. I argue that envisioning the purpose of formal education from both social and economic perspectives will allow for curriculum that better identifies the skills and capabilities of individual students and prepares them to take advantage of livelihood opportunities. Philosophical and practical approaches to addressing these issues that are endogenous to Oceania are offered as guiding principles for creating more effective education systems.","PeriodicalId":51783,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Pacific","volume":"33 1","pages":"338 - 362"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44471328","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:"Schooling journeys" is more than a metaphor in the southwestern Pacific. Especially in rural areas, many children travel hours each day or live away from home for months at a time in order to step into a classroom. Young people embark on these precarious journeys, and their families make sacrifices to support them, because schooling promises a better life. For decades, policy makers and educators have worried that this promise is misleading because there are not enough jobs in the formal economy to employ all graduates. Anthropologists have critiqued formal education as part of a colonial structure that devalues Indigenous knowledge, alienates young people from home, and creates unrealistic expectations of modernist lives. Yet, as we begin the third decade of the twenty-first century, it is hard to deny that schooling is a profoundly local project throughout the region. In this article, we outline distinctive features of formal education in the southwestern Pacific and suggest that questions about who controls education are more important than questions about whether knowledge is Western or Indigenous. Building on long-standing discussions about the relative importance of academic and practical training in the Pacific, we argue that schooling is about much more than paid employment—it is also a site where relationships are established, affirmed, and transformed. Along with the other contributors to this special issue, we suggest a new approach to schooling that sees it not as a foreign imposition but as an integral part of life.
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{"title":"Mobilities of Return: Pacific Perspectives ed. by John Taylor and Helen Lee (review)","authors":"J. Connell","doi":"10.1353/cp.2021.0046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2021.0046","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51783,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Pacific","volume":"33 1","pages":"608 - 611"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46938363","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:Boarding school in Solomon Islands has historically been a place where students learned a kind of knowledge—classroom knowledge—devoid of social content and meaning. Away from their homes for most of the year, young Solomon Islanders would focus on learning classroom knowledge, even though it was only useful to help them pass national examinations and advance to the next tier of formal education. Classroom knowledge aided colonization because it assisted in the separation of students from Indigenous knowledges and made them feel like failures if they did not master it. In this article, I show that new textbooks, written in the wake of the civil conflict that Solomon Islanders call "the Tension," have invited teachers to use Indigenous conceptualizations of how knowledge about violence should be shared in their teaching. Although for many the Tension could be rendered as the classroom knowledge of the colonial era, teachers have accepted the invitation the curriculum has offered them to refuse to pass on knowledge about the violent past.
{"title":"\"Just Something in History\": Classroom Knowledge and Refusals to Teach the Tension in Solomon Islands","authors":"D. Oakeshott","doi":"10.1353/cp.2021.0036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2021.0036","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Boarding school in Solomon Islands has historically been a place where students learned a kind of knowledge—classroom knowledge—devoid of social content and meaning. Away from their homes for most of the year, young Solomon Islanders would focus on learning classroom knowledge, even though it was only useful to help them pass national examinations and advance to the next tier of formal education. Classroom knowledge aided colonization because it assisted in the separation of students from Indigenous knowledges and made them feel like failures if they did not master it. In this article, I show that new textbooks, written in the wake of the civil conflict that Solomon Islanders call \"the Tension,\" have invited teachers to use Indigenous conceptualizations of how knowledge about violence should be shared in their teaching. Although for many the Tension could be rendered as the classroom knowledge of the colonial era, teachers have accepted the invitation the curriculum has offered them to refuse to pass on knowledge about the violent past.","PeriodicalId":51783,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Pacific","volume":"33 1","pages":"386 - 408"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47134824","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":"A Power in the World: The Hawaiian Kingdom in Oceania by Lorenz Gonschor (review)","authors":"Kealani R. Cook","doi":"10.1353/CP.2021.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/CP.2021.0022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51783,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Pacific","volume":"33 1","pages":"273 - 275"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/CP.2021.0022","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42716159","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:Over the past two decades, foreign discourses of climate change have envisioned the demise of the tropical island as a tragic metaphor for the fate of the world. Oceanians have indeed borne the brunt of the age of climate change; however, not all have submitted to the colonial trope of passive victims on the frontline of global forces beyond their control. While political, legal, and cultural forms of resistance have been well documented in the scholarship of Oceania, there remains a largely unexplored field of academic inquiry concerning the role of Oceanian activist art-story. This article seeks to redress this shortfall by examining the central importance of Tongan artist Latai Taumoepeau’s body-centered performance art within the settler-colonial context of Australia. Given the historical failings of successive Australian governments to address climate change, since 2013 Taumoepeau has consistently used embodiment-driven art performance to confront the apathy of Australia’s leadership and settler public and to highlight the importance of Indigenous Pacific environmental stewardship and leadership in addressing these issues. Weaving talanoa-based interviews with critical analysis, I examine several of her artistic works, including i-Land X-isle (2012); Repatriate (2015); Ocean Island, Mine! (2015); War Dance of the Final Frontier (2018); Archipela_GO . . . . this is not a drill (2017); and hg57 (Human Generator 57) (2016–2020). These projects illuminate the power of diasporic Pacific arts not only to solidify an enduring regional identity vested in Oceania but also to engage the broader Australian public around the ongoing environmental concerns of Oceania.
{"title":"Confronting Australian Apathy: Latai Taumoepeau and the Politics of Performance in Pacific Climate Stewardship","authors":"Talei Luscia Mangioni","doi":"10.1353/CP.2021.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/CP.2021.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Over the past two decades, foreign discourses of climate change have envisioned the demise of the tropical island as a tragic metaphor for the fate of the world. Oceanians have indeed borne the brunt of the age of climate change; however, not all have submitted to the colonial trope of passive victims on the frontline of global forces beyond their control. While political, legal, and cultural forms of resistance have been well documented in the scholarship of Oceania, there remains a largely unexplored field of academic inquiry concerning the role of Oceanian activist art-story. This article seeks to redress this shortfall by examining the central importance of Tongan artist Latai Taumoepeau’s body-centered performance art within the settler-colonial context of Australia. Given the historical failings of successive Australian governments to address climate change, since 2013 Taumoepeau has consistently used embodiment-driven art performance to confront the apathy of Australia’s leadership and settler public and to highlight the importance of Indigenous Pacific environmental stewardship and leadership in addressing these issues. Weaving talanoa-based interviews with critical analysis, I examine several of her artistic works, including i-Land X-isle (2012); Repatriate (2015); Ocean Island, Mine! (2015); War Dance of the Final Frontier (2018); Archipela_GO . . . . this is not a drill (2017); and hg57 (Human Generator 57) (2016–2020). These projects illuminate the power of diasporic Pacific arts not only to solidify an enduring regional identity vested in Oceania but also to engage the broader Australian public around the ongoing environmental concerns of Oceania.","PeriodicalId":51783,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Pacific","volume":"33 1","pages":"32 - 62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/CP.2021.0002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48448707","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":"Working with the Ancestors: Mana and Place in the Marquesas Islands by Emily C Donaldson (review)","authors":"Seth Quintus","doi":"10.1353/CP.2021.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/CP.2021.0024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51783,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Pacific","volume":"33 1","pages":"278 - 280"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/CP.2021.0024","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47787993","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":"The Moral Economy of Mobile Phones: Pacific Islands Perspectives ed. by Robert J Foster and Heather A Horst, and: Money Games: Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town by Anthony J Pickles (review)","authors":"F. Errington, D. Gewertz","doi":"10.1353/CP.2021.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/CP.2021.0029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51783,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Pacific","volume":"33 1","pages":"289 - 294"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/CP.2021.0029","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43352346","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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