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Centering on cases of sexual violence, this book illuminates the
contested introduction of British and French colonial criminal
justice in the Pacific Islands during the late 19th and early 20th
centuries, focusing on Fiji, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu/New
Hebrides. It foregrounds the experiences of Indigenous Islanders
and indentured laborers in the colonial court system, a space in
which marginalized voices entered the historical record. Rape and
sexual assault trials reveal how hierarchies of race, gender and
status all shaped the practice of colonial law in the courtroom and
the gendered experiences of colonialism. Trials provided a space
where men and women narrated their own story and at times
challenged the operation of colonial law. Through these cases,
Gender, Violence and Criminal Justice in the Colonial Pacific
highlights the extent to which colonial bureaucracies engaged with
and affected private lives, as well as the varied ways in which
individuals and communities responded to such intrusions and
themselves reshaped legal practices and institutions in the
Pacific. With bureaucratic institutions unable to deal with the
complex realities of colonial lives, Stevens reveals how the
courtroom often became a theatrical space in which authority was
performed, deliberately obscuring the more complex and violent
practices that were central to both colonialism and colonial
law-making. Exploring the intersections of legal pluralism and
local pragmatism across British and French colonialization in the
Pacific, this book shows how island communities and early colonial
administrators adopted diverse and flexible approaches towards
criminal justice, pursuing alternative forms of justice ranging
from unofficial courts to punitive violence in order to deal with
cases of sexual assault.
After breaking up with her boyfriend, Haley is ready to embrace all
that life has to offer. Her adventure begins when she starts
talking to Gavin-a guy she knew in high school. She is intrigued by
the church he is attending, which seems to have changed his life.
But soon, she begins to see a darker side of him. With the help of
his coworker, Clark, she unravels the mystery behind Gavin's dark
secrets. Clark brings Haley to the church Gavin was attending, and
she starts getting involved. She introduces her sister, Madison, to
the church, and Madison is miraculously touched by God. They are
invited to lavish outings with the church, but rumors begin to
surface about affairs and hidden secrets. The leaders of the church
force members to talk about personal information, and Haley starts
feeling uncomfortable. Haley's mother thinks the church is a little
extreme, but Haley isn't worried because the leaders warned her
that people might try to tell her that. With the help of a trusted
Professor, Haley discovers that the church really might be
dangerous. Now she must devise a way to break the news to Madison,
who was deceived into thinking the devil is working through anyone
who tries to take her away from the church. She hopes to save her
sister before it's too late.
More than any other locale, the Pacific Ocean has been the meeting
place between humans and whales. From Indigenous Pacific peoples
who built lives and cosmologies around whales, to Euro-American
whalers who descended upon the Pacific during the nineteenth
century, and to the new forms of human-cetacean partnerships that
have emerged from the late twentieth century, the relationship
between these two species has been central to the ocean's history.
Across Species and Cultures: New Histories of Pacific Whaling
offers for the first time a critical, wide-ranging geographical and
temporal look at the varieties of whale histories in the Pacific.
The essay contributors, hailing from around the Pacific, present a
wealth of fascinating stories while breaking new methodological
ground in environmental history, women's history, animal studies,
and Indigenous ontologies. In the process they reveal previously
hidden aspects of the story of Pacific whaling, including the
contributions of Indigenous people to capitalist whaling, the
industry's exceptionally far-reaching spread, and its overlooked
second life as a global, industrial slaughter in the twentieth
century. While pointing to striking continuities in whaling
histories around the Pacific, Across Species and Cultures also
reveals deep tensions: between environmentalists and Indigenous
peoples, between ideas and realities, and between the North and
South Pacific. The book delves in unprecedented ways into the lives
and histories of whales themselves. Despite the worst ravages of
commercial and industrial whaling, whales survived two centuries of
mass killing in the Pacific. Their perseverance continues to
nourish many human communities around and in the Pacific Ocean
where they are hunted as commodities, regarded as signs of wealth
and power, act as providers and protectors, but are also ancestors,
providing a bridge between human and nonhuman worlds.
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