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Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies - New Scholarship in New Zealand and Pacific Studies Part 2, Dec 2021
New Scholarship in New Zealand and Pacific Studies Part 2, Dec 2021
- Editorial
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- Special Issue Articles
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Making new history: Contemporary art and the temporal orientations of climate change in Oceania
More LessThis article explores artistic production in the region of Oceania that resists the ahistorical and future-oriented temporality of climate change discourse, as it perpetuates colonial structures of power by denying Indigenous futures and ignoring the violent histories that have led to the current climate breakdown. In the video poem Anointed (2018), prominent climate justice activist Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner strategically combines spoken word poetry with visual montage in order to situate Cold War nuclear tests by the US military within the same temporal plane as rising sea levels currently threatening the Marshall Islands. Katerina Teaiwa’s exhibition Project Banaba (2017) similarly mobilizes archival imagery in order to visualize the genealogical relationship between Banabans and the settler landscapes of Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia. Sean Connelly’s architectural and design practice in Hawaiʻi Futures, an ongoing digital design project that engages with the threats of sea level rise and coastal erosion in Hawaiʻi, problematizes linear formations of time and favours a future structured around cyclical, ecological time instead. Interacting with vastly different sites, strategies and temporalities, these three multidisciplinary projects provide critical alternatives to the ahistorical framing of colonial climate change in Oceania and thus play a crucial role in constructing a more just future.
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Conception, construction and the cultural significance of Te Parapara Garden in Hamilton, Aotearoa New Zealand
More LessTe Parapara Garden is the only complete pre-European-style Māori horticultural garden in the world. Historically inspired and empirically researched, it lies within the Hamilton Gardens on a young river terrace immediately adjacent to the Waikato River in Hamilton (Kirikiriroa), Aotearoa New Zealand. In this article, Wiremu Puke (Ngāti Wairere, Ngāti Porou) – a tohunga whakairo (master carver, including using pre-steel tools) and a tohunga whakapapa (genealogical expert on his tribal affiliations) of Ngāti Wairere (the mana whenua, or first people of the traditional ancestral tribal lands of Kirikiriroa) – describes the design and development of Te Parapara Garden from its initial concept in 2003 and the construction of its many features, including the waharoa (gateway), pou (carved pillars), pātaka (storehouse), whatarangi (small storehouse), taeapa (fencing) and rua kūmara (underground storage pit), and the sourcing and use of kōkōwai (red ochre). The garden was completed in 2010. Its ongoing functioning, including the annual planting and harvesting of traditional pre-European kūmara (sweet potato) using modified, mounded soils (puke or ahu), is also covered. The unique Te Parapara Garden is of great cultural importance and a source of pride, knowledge and understanding for national and international visitors and empirical and academic researchers.
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The ‘uncorrupted’ Paradise: Religion and imperial epistemic violence on Pitcairn Island
More LessThis article analyses chapters from Amasa Delano’s Narrative of Voyages and Travels in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres (1817) and Rosalind Amelia Young’s Mutiny of the Bounty and Story of Pitcairn Island, 1790–1894 (1894) in the context of US American perception of Pitcairn Island’s cultural identity. It envisions both Delano’s account of the island and the Californian Seventh-day Adventists’ missionary work, as described by Young, as examples of epistemic violence. The latter derives from imperial misrepresentations of the islanders as well as an imposition of US American cultural identity upon them. The violence committed against Pitcairn’s community is discussed in connection to Delano’s self-proclaimed approach of non-intervention and his depiction of the islanders as Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s ‘children of nature’, as well as to the direct involvement of the Adventists who converted the islanders. This article tests whether Delano’s and the Adventists’ approaches are mutually exclusive or whether they represent two different visions of the same imperialist project to constitute Pitcairn Islanders as the colonial ‘Other’.
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- General Article
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New Zealand in Great Famine Era Irish politics: The strange case of A Narrative of the Sufferings of Maria Bennett
More LessA Narrative of the Sufferings of Maria Bennett, a crudely printed, eight-page pamphlet, was published in Dublin in spring 1846. It has been interpreted as an early fiction concerning New Zealand, or alternatively as a New Zealand ‘captivity narrative’, possibly based on the author’s own experiences. Against these readings, it is argued here that Maria Bennett, more concerned with Ireland than New Zealand, is a piece of pro-British propaganda hurried out in connection with the British Government’s ‘Protection of Life (Ireland) Bill’ – generally referred to simply as the ‘Coercion Bill’ – first debated on 23 February 1846. The Great Famine had begun with the substantial failure of Ireland’s staple potato crop in autumn 1845. This led to an increase in lawlessness, and the Government planned to combine its relief measures with draconian new security regulations. The story of Maria Bennett, a fictional young Irishwoman transported to Australia but shipwrecked in New Zealand, was designed to advertise the humanity of British law. Having escaped from the Māori, she manages to get to London, where she is pardoned by Sir James Graham, the Home Secretary, the man responsible for the Coercion Bill. New Zealand, imagined at the very beginning of the British colonial era, functions in the text as a dark analogy to Ireland, a sort of pristine example of the ‘savage’ conditions making British rule necessary and desirable in the first place. A hungry, lawless Ireland could descend to that level of uncivilization, unless, the propagandist urges, it accepts more British law.
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- Interview
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In conversation with Stallone Vaiaoga-Ioasa
Authors: Stallone Vaiaoga-Ioasa and Sarina PearsonBecoming a feature film director is a privilege available to only a handful of people, no matter where in the world they live. In Oceania, access to filmmaking is arguably more constrained because the market conditions under which commercial films are produced do not favour small, geographically dispersed and linguistically distinct communities. Opportunities to make publicly funded, critically acclaimed Pacific films in metropolitan centres like Aotearoa New Zealand are vanishingly small. Often when they are made, these ‘art house’ Pacific films primarily appeal to audiences outside of the communities in which they are set. Stallone Vaiaoga-Ioasa has challenged this status quo by pioneering a mode of populist commercial filmmaking for Samoan (and other Pacific Island) audiences in the islands and across the diaspora. His commitment to making entertainment that is relevant to and reflects contemporary Samoan culture has been remarkable. On the eve of Vaiaoga-Ioasa’s fourth feature film release, filmmaker/academic Sarina Pearson sat down with him to talk about how he developed the ‘Stallone model’, the films he has made, and his plans for the future.
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- Review Article
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Tikopia Collected: Raymond Firth and the Creation of Solomon Islands Cultural Heritage, Elizabeth Bonshek (2017)
Collecting in the South Sea: The Voyage of Bruni d’Entrecasteaux 1791–1794, Bronwen Douglas, Fanny Wonu Veys and Billie Lythberg (eds) (2018)
Resonant Histories: Pacific Artefacts and the Voyages of HMS Royalist 1890–1893, Alison Clark with Eve Haddow and Christopher Wright (2019)By Max QuanchiReview of: Tikopia Collected: Raymond Firth and the Creation of Solomon Islands Cultural Heritage, Elizabeth Bonshek (2017)
Canon Pyon: Sean Kingston Publishing, 222 pp.,
ISBN 978 1 90777 439 3 (hbk), £60
Collecting in the South Sea: The Voyage of Bruni d’Entrecasteaux 1791–1794, Bronwen Douglas, Fanny Wonu Veys and Billie Lythberg (eds) (2018)
Leiden: Sidestone Press, 381 pp.,
ISBN 978 9 08890 574 2 (pbk), €60
Resonant Histories: Pacific Artefacts and the Voyages of HMS Royalist 1890–1893, Alison Clark with Eve Haddow and Christopher Wright (2019)
Leiden: Sidestone Press, 272 pp.,
ISBN 978 9 08890 629 9 (pbk), €55
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- Book Reviews
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The New Zealand Wars: Ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa, Vincent O’Malley (2019)
More LessReview of: The New Zealand Wars: Ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa, Vincent O’Malley (2019)
Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 272 pp.,
ISBN 978 1 98854 599 8 (pbk), NZ$39.99
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Odyssey of the Unknown Anzac, David Hastings (2018)
By Adam ClaasenReview of: Odyssey of the Unknown Anzac, David Hastings (2018)
Auckland: Auckland University Press, 208 pp.,
ISBN 978 1 86940 882 4 (pbk), NZ$34.99
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How We Remember: New Zealanders and the First World War, Charles Ferrall and Harry Ricketts (eds) (2014)
By Leonard BellReview of: How We Remember: New Zealanders and the First World War, Charles Ferrall and Harry Ricketts (eds) (2014)
Wellington: Victoria University Press, 272 pp.,
ISBN 978 0 86473 935 3 (pbk), NZ$40
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Niue and the Great War, Margaret Pointer (2018)
More LessReview of: Niue and the Great War, Margaret Pointer (2018)
Dunedin: Otago University Press, 216 pp.,
ISBN 978 1 98853 123 6 (pbk), NZ$39.95
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Mothers’ Darlings of The South Pacific: The Children of Indigenous Women and U.S. Servicemen, World War II, Judith A. Bennett and Angela Wanhalla (eds) (2016)
More LessReview of: Mothers’ Darlings of The South Pacific: The Children of Indigenous Women and U.S. Servicemen, World War II, Judith A. Bennett and Angela Wanhalla (eds) (2016)
Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 379 pp.,
ISBN 978 0 82485 152 1 (hbk), US$65
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Race and Redemption: British Missionaries Encounter Pacific Peoples, 1797–1920, Jane Samson (2017)
More LessReview of: Race and Redemption: British Missionaries Encounter Pacific Peoples, 1797–1920, Jane Samson (2017)
Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 284 pp.,
ISBN 978 0 80287 535 8 (pbk), US$50
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Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai‘i and Oceania, Maile Arvin (2019)
By Yifen BeusReview of: Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai‘i and Oceania, Maile Arvin (2019)
Durham: Duke University Press, 328 pp.,
ISBN 978 1 47800 633 6 (pbk), US$27.95
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Beyond Hawaiʻi: Native Labor in the Pacific World, Gregory Rosenthal (2018)
More LessReview of: Beyond Hawaiʻi: Native Labor in the Pacific World, Gregory Rosenthal (2018)
Oakland: University of California Press, 320 pp.,
ISBN 978 0 52029 507 0 (pbk), £28
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Built in Niugini: Constructions in The Highlands of Papua New Guinea, Paul Sillitoe (2017)
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Made in Niugini: Technology in The Highlands of Papua New Guinea, Paul Sillitoe (2017)Review of: Built in Niugini: Constructions in The Highlands of Papua New Guinea, Paul Sillitoe (2017)
Canon Pyon: Sean Kingston Publishing, 348 pp.,
ISBN 978 1 90777 445 4 (hbk), £100
Made in Niugini: Technology in The Highlands of Papua New Guinea, Paul Sillitoe (2017)
Canon Pyon: Sean Kingston Publishing, 636 pp.,
ISBN 978 1 90777 489 8 (hbk), £120
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The Tongan Double Canoes, Peter Suren (2018)
More LessReview of: The Tongan Double Canoes, Peter Suren (2018)
Berlin: Peter Lang, 178 pp.,
ISBN 978 3 63174 552 6 (pbk), €36.10
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New Zealand and the Sea: Historical Perspectives, Frances Steel (ed.) (2018)
More LessReview of: New Zealand and the Sea: Historical Perspectives, Frances Steel (ed.) (2018)
Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 384 pp.,
ISBN 978 0 94751 870 7 (pbk), NZ$59.99
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Scenic Playground: The Story behind New Zealand’s Mountain Tourism, Peter Alsop, Dave Bamford and Lee Davidson (2018)
More LessReview of: Scenic Playground: The Story behind New Zealand’s Mountain Tourism, Peter Alsop, Dave Bamford and Lee Davidson (2018)
Wellington: Te Papa Press, 416 pp.,
ISBN 978 0 99414 602 1 (hbk), NZ$80
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Athens to Aotearoa: Greece and Rome in New Zealand Literature and Society, Diana Burton, Simon Perris and Jeff Tatum (eds) (2017)
By Sonja MausenReview of: Athens to Aotearoa: Greece and Rome in New Zealand Literature and Society, Diana Burton, Simon Perris and Jeff Tatum (eds) (2017)
Wellington: Victoria University Press, 361 pp.,
ISBN 978 1 77656 176 6 (pbk), NZ$40
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