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State-building intervention in weak, war-torn or failing states has
become a priority for the international community. However, the
question of how to legitimately engage in the shaping of national
governance remains, at the very least, a vexed one. This book
explores this key issue through a critical examination of a new
model of state-building intervention which has recently emerged in
relation to the Pacific 'arc of crisis'. Initiated by the
Australian Government in 2003, this 'cooperative intervention'
doctrine, built on declared principles of partnership and respect
for sovereignty, seems to offer a legitimate way to engage in
state-building intervention. Drawing on a group of distinguished
Pacific specialists, this book mounts a critique of these claims,
showing how international legitimacy does not automatically
translate into political legitimacy among those in the affected
societies; and how the attempt to legitimise the intervention
internationally may actually work against such legitimacy in the
recipient state. These insights will be of value to those
interested in public policy studies, international law, development
studies and international relations. -- .
On 21 March 2017, Associate Professor Teresia Kieuea Teaiwa passed
away at the age of forty-eight. News of Teaiwa's death precipitated
an extraordinary outpouring of grief unmatched in the Pacific
studies community since Epeli Hau'ofa's passing in 2009. Mourners
referenced Teaiwa's nurturing interactions with numerous students
and colleagues, her innovative program building at Victoria
University of Wellington, her inspiring presence at numerous
conferences around the globe, her feminist and political activism,
her poetry, her Banaban/I-Kiribati/Fiji Islander and African
American heritage, and her extraordinary ability to connect and
communicate with people of all backgrounds. This volume features a
selection of Teaiwa's scholarly and creative contributions captured
in print over a professional career cut short at the height of her
productivity. The collection honors her legacy in various scholarly
fields, including Pacific studies, Indigenous studies, literary
studies, security studies, and gender studies, and on topics
ranging from militarism and tourism to politics and pedagogy. It
also includes examples of Teaiwa's poems. Many of these
contributions have had significant and lasting impacts. Teaiwa's
"bikinis and other s/pacific notions," published in The
Contemporary Pacific in 1995, could be regarded as her breakthrough
piece, attracting considerable attention at the time and still
cited regularly today. With its innovative two-column format and
reflective commentary, "Lo(o)sing the Edge," part of a special
issue of The Contemporary Pacific in 2001, had similar impact.
Teaiwa's writings about what she dubbed "militourism," and more
recent work on militarization and gender, continue to be very
influential. Perhaps her most significant contribution was to
Pacific studies itself, an emerging interdisciplinary field of
study with distinctive goals and characteristics. In several
important journal articles and book chapters reproduced here,
Teaiwa helped define the essential elements of Pacific studies and
proposed teaching and learning strategies appropriate for the
field. Sweat and Salt Water includes fifteen of Teaiwa's most
influential pieces and four poems organized into three categories:
Pacific Studies, Militarism and Gender, and Native Reflections. A
foreword by Sean Mallon, Teaiwa's spouse, is followed by a short
introduction by the volume's editors. A comprehensive bibliography
of Teaiwa's published work is also included.
Christian theologians in the Pacific Islands see culture as the
grounds on which one understands God. In this pathbreaking book,
Matt Tomlinson engages in an anthropological conversation with the
work of "contextual theologians", exploring how the combination of
Pacific Islands culture and Christianity shapes theological
dialogues. Employing both scholarly research and ethnographic
fieldwork, the author addresses a range of topics: from radical
criticisms of biblical stories as inappropriate for Pacific
audiences to celebrations of traditional gods such as Tagaloa as
inherently Christian figures. This book presents a symphony of
voices-engaged, critical, prophetic-from the contemporary Pacific's
leading religious thinkers and suggests how their work articulates
with broad social transformations in the region. Each chapter in
this book focuses on a distinct type of culturally driven
theological dialogue. One type is between readers and texts, in
which biblical scholars suggest new ways of reading, and even
rewriting, the Bible so it becomes more meaningful in local terms.
A second kind concerns the state of the church and society. For
example, feminist theologians and those calling for "prophetic"
action on social problems propose new conversations about how
people in Oceania should navigate difficult times. A third kind of
discussion revolves around identity, emphasizing what makes Oceania
unique and culturally coherent. A fourth addresses the problems of
climate change and environmental degradation to sacred lands by
encouraging "eco-theological" awareness and interconnection.
Finally, many contextual theologians engage with the work of other
disciplines' prominently, anthropology-as they develop new
discourse on God, people, and the future of Oceania. Contextual
theology allows people in Oceania to speak with God and fellow
humans through the idiom of culture in a distinctly Pacific way.
Tomlinson concludes, however, that the most fruitful topic of
dialogue might not be culture, but rather the nature of dialogue
itself. Written in an accessible, engaging style and presenting
innovative findings, this book will interest students and scholars
of anthropology, world religion, theology, globalization, and
Pacific studies.
Throughout Oceania, land is central to identity because it is
understood to be spiritually nourishing and sustaining. Land is the
mother. Land, and the kinship it nurtures, is the basis for
sustaining livelihoods and ways of life. Therefore, Indigenous
dispossession from the land has deep and far-reaching consequences.
My Land My Life: Dispossession at the Frontier of Desire explores
the land rush that took place in Vanuatu from 2001 to 2014 which
resulted in over ten percent of all customary land being leased. In
this book, Siobhan McDonnell offers new insights into the drivers
of capitalist land transformations. Using multi-scalar and
multi-sited ethnography she describes not simply a linear march
toward commodification of the landscape by foreign interests, but a
complex web replete with the local powerful Indigenous men involved
in manipulating power and property. McDonnell meticulously
describes land-leasing processes and maps the relationships between
investors, middlemen, and local men. She shows how property is a
tool with which foreigners reassert capitalism and neocolonial
control over Indigenous landscapes. The legal identity of
"landowner" contains foundational contradictions between the rights
established in Vanuatu’s kastom system and those afforded by
property, as individualized rights over land. Property has also
created sites for the production of masculine authority and enabled
men to manipulate claims to land and entrench their personal power.
This book explores how transactions of customary land have created
new domains of agency and frontiers of desire: foreign desire to
possess land and local desire to lease land for cash. It concludes
with a discussion of Vanuatu’s constitutional and land reform
package, drafted by the author, which took effect in 2014 and
delivered a more empathetic approach to Indigenous land rights and
ended the land rush. Informed by decades of study, legal work, and
community engagement, My Land My Life demonstrates an engaged
anthropological practice based on reciprocity that responds
directly to what Indigenous people have asked for. This book is
certain to appeal to a wide range of scholars as well as policy
makers.
Christian theologians in the Pacific Islands see culture as the
grounds on which one understands God. In this pathbreaking book,
Matt Tomlinson engages in an anthropological conversation with the
work of "contextual theologians," exploring how the combination of
Pacific Islands' culture and Christianity shapes theological
dialogues. Employing both scholarly research and ethnographic
fieldwork, the author addresses a range of topics: from radical
criticisms of biblical stories as inappropriate for Pacific
audiences to celebrations of traditional gods such as Tagaloa as
inherently Christian figures. This book presents a symphony of
voices-engaged, critical, prophetic-from the contemporary Pacific's
leading religious thinkers and suggests how their work articulates
with broad social transformations in the region. Each chapter in
this book focuses on a distinct type of culturally driven
theological dialogue. One type is between readers and texts, in
which biblical scholars suggest new ways of reading, and even
rewriting, the Bible so it becomes more meaningful in local terms.
A second kind concerns the state of the church and society. For
example, feminist theologians and those calling for "prophetic"
action on social problems propose new conversations about how
people in Oceania should navigate difficult times. A third kind of
discussion revolves around identity, emphasizing what makes Oceania
unique and culturally coherent. A fourth addresses the problems of
climate change and environmental degradation to sacred lands by
encouraging "eco-theological" awareness and interconnection.
Finally, many contextual theologians engage with the work of other
disciplines- prominently, anthropology-as they develop new
discourse on God, people, and the future of Oceania. Contextual
theology allows people in Oceania to speak with God and fellow
humans through the idiom of culture in a distinctly Pacific way.
However, Tomlinson concludes, the most fruitful topic of dialogue
might not be culture, but rather the nature of dialogue itself.
Written in an accessible, engaging style and presenting innovative
findings, this book will interest students and scholars of
anthropology, world religion, theology, globalization, and Pacific
studies.
On 21 March 2017, Associate Professor Teresia Kieuea Teaiwa passed
away at the age of forty-eight. News of Teaiwa's death precipitated
an extraordinary outpouring of grief unmatched in the Pacific
studies community since Epeli Hau'ofa's passing in 2009. Mourners
referenced Teaiwa's nurturing interactions with numerous students
and colleagues, her innovative program building at Victoria
University of Wellington, her inspiring presence at numerous
conferences around the globe, her feminist and political activism,
her poetry, her Banaban/I-Kiribati/Fiji Islander and African
American heritage, and her extraordinary ability to connect and
communicate with people of all backgrounds. This volume features a
selection of Teaiwa's scholarly and creative contributions captured
in print over a professional career cut short at the height of her
productivity. The collection honors her legacy in various scholarly
fields, including Pacific studies, Indigenous studies, literary
studies, security studies, and gender studies, and on topics
ranging from militarism and tourism to politics and pedagogy. It
also includes examples of Teaiwa's poems. Many of these
contributions have had significant and lasting impacts. Teaiwa's
"bikinis and other s/pacific notions," published in The
Contemporary Pacific in 1995, could be regarded as her breakthrough
piece, attracting considerable attention at the time and still
cited regularly today. With its innovative two-column format and
reflective commentary, "Lo(o)sing the Edge," part of a special
issue of The Contemporary Pacific in 2001, had similar impact.
Teaiwa's writings about what she dubbed "militourism," and more
recent work on militarization and gender, continue to be very
influential. Perhaps her most significant contribution was to
Pacific studies itself, an emerging interdisciplinary field of
study with distinctive goals and characteristics. In several
important journal articles and book chapters reproduced here,
Teaiwa helped define the essential elements of Pacific studies and
proposed teaching and learning strategies appropriate for the
field. Sweat and Salt Water includes fifteen of Teaiwa's most
influential pieces and four poems organized into three categories:
Pacific Studies, Militarism and Gender, and Native Reflections. A
foreword by Sean Mallon, Teaiwa's spouse, is followed by a short
introduction by the volume's editors. A comprehensive bibliography
of Teaiwa's published work is also included.
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