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Pacific Futures - Past and Present (Hardcover)
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Pacific Futures - Past and Present (Hardcover)
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How, when, and why has the Pacific been a locus for imagining
different futures by those living there as well as passing through?
What does that tell us about the distinctiveness or otherwise of
this "sea of islands"? Foregrounding the work of leading and
emerging scholars of Oceania, Pacific Futures brings together a
diverse set of approaches to, and examples of, how futures are
being conceived in the region and have been imagined in the past.
Individual chapters engage the various and sometimes contested
futures yearned for, unrealized, and even lost or forgotten, that
are particular to the Pacific as a region, ocean, island network,
destination, and home. Contributors recuperate the futures hoped
for and dreamed up by a vast array of islanders and outlanders-from
Indigenous federalists to Lutheran improvers to Cantonese small
business owners-making these histories of the future visible. In so
doing, the collection intervenes in debates about globalization in
the Pacific--and how the region is acted on by outside forces--and
postcolonial debates that emphasize the agency and resistance of
Pacific peoples in the context of centuries of colonial endeavor.
With a view to the effects of the "slow violence" of climate
change, the volume also challenges scholars to think about the
conditions of possibility for future-thinking at all in the midst
of a global crisis that promises cataclysmic effects for the
region. Pacific Futures highlights futures conceived in the context
of a modernity coproduced by diverse Pacific peoples, taking
resistance to categorization as a starting point rather than a
conclusion. With its hospitable approach to thinking about history
making and future thinking, one that is open to a wide range of
methodological, epistemological, and political interests and
commitments, the volume will encourage the writing of new histories
of the Pacific and new ways of talking about history in this field,
the region, and beyond.
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