Recently added articles from The Contemporary Pacific:
Moving masculinities: memories and bodies across Oceania.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Abstract Past studies of Oceanic masculinities have tended to see masculinity in the singular, through the lens of unchanging cultural traditions, wherein types of men were iconic of cultural differences. This special issue considers masculinities in the plural, both within and ...
Re-membering Panala'au: masculinities, nation, and empire in Hawai'i and the Pacific.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Abstract Between 1935 and 1942, over one hundred thirty young, mostly Native Hawaiian men (later known as the Hui Panala'au) "colonized" five small islands in the Equatorial Pacific as employees of the US Departments of Commerce and Interior. Students and alumni from the ...
"The Martial Islands": making Marshallese masculinities between American and Japanese militarism.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Abstract For over a century, the Marshall Islands have been entangled between the United States and Japan in their conquest of the Central Pacific; yet because of this, these islands have also been a place where multiple masculinities have converged, competed, and transformed ...
Hui nalu, beachboys, and the surfing boarder-lands of Hawai'i.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Abstract In this article I argue that the Hawaiian conceptual, cultural, and physical space called po'ina nalu (surf zone) was a borderland (or boarder-land) where colonial hegemony was less effectual and Hawaiian resistance continuous. Through the history of Hawaiian surfing ...
The death of Koro Paka: "traditional" Maori patriarchy.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Abstract This article is underpinned by the simple question of what knowledge is produced about Maori men and why. In particular, it deconstructs the invention, authentication, and re-authentication of "traditional" Maori patriarchy. It begins by examining how Maori patriarchy ...
Globalizing drag in the Cook Islands: friction, repulsion, and abjection.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Abstract Male to female cross-dressing and performing have a long indigenous history in the Cook Islands. In recent years, Western-style drag shows have also been included in the Cook Islands cross-dressing repertoire. This article takes the highly cosmopolitan vehicle of the ...
Contending masculinities and the limits of tolerance: sexual minorities in Fiji.
Mar 22, 2008; ... Abstract Despite the fact that Fiji is one of only a handful of states to have given constitutional recognition to the rights of sexual minorities in its most recent constitution enacted in 1998, controversy over the issue of individual sexual orientation, and powerful ...
Federated States of Micronesia.
Mar 22, 2008; ... Reviews of Kirbati, the Marshall Islands and Nauru are not included in this issue The latter part of 2006 brought an air of political excitement and anticipation. The people were excited about the biannual national election scheduled for March 2007; they had anticipated that the ...
Guam.
Mar 22, 2008; ... Discussion of the 2006 elections, the island's economy, and various military issues dominated Guam's media during the year in review. However, perhaps the most telling event affecting the island's state of affairs, political and otherwise, was the granting of limited voting privileges to ...
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
Mar 22, 2008; ... Over the course of the year under review, events in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands spiraled almost out of control. The problems involved everything from the general economy, public utilities, public health, and education, to social issues and the environment. The garment ...
Republic of Palau.
Mar 22, 2008; ... Activities of Palau's president and National Congress, relocation of the national capitol, the Taiwan-sponsored summit with its Pacific allies, advances in conservation and environmentalism, preparations for compact review, establishment of diplomatic relations with Russia, and the ...
Cook Islands.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Reviews of American Samoa, Hawai'i, Niue, Tokelau, Tonga, and Tuvalu are not included in this issue. The period under review was dominated by an unprecedented call for general elections, parliamentary conflicts, and budget approval constraints that at times tested the ...
French Polynesia.
Mar 22, 2008; ... Political instability continued in French Polynesia during the year under review. The barely two-year-old pro-independence government of Oscar Temaru lost power to a pro-French coalition when assembly members switched their allegiances. However, the new government stood on very unstable ...
Maori issues.
Mar 22, 2008; ... While political tension increased for Maori during the year, there was also great sadness. Like our Tongan and Samoan relations we lost significant leaders. In August 2006 the Tainui confederation of tribes lost their arikinui (paramount chief) of forty years, Dame Te Atairangikahu. As the ...
Rapa Nui.
Mar 22, 2008; ... The year under review marked the beginning of great political change on Rapa Nui. In a long process initiated by the Chilean president, a draft bill for an organic law providing a special political status for the island was elaborated, while the Chilean constitution was finally amended to ...
Samoa.
Mar 22, 2008; ... As expected, Samoa's economy continued to thrive during the year. And again as expected, the main political developments of the latter half of 2006 concerned the aftermath of the 31 March general elections, the breakup of the Samoa Development United Party (SDUP), and the monopoly of ...
Tuvalu update.
Mar 22, 2008 ... In this special segment, Bikenibeu Paeniu, Tuvalu Minister for Finance, Planning, and Industries, provides his own account of some events analyzed by Tauaasa Taafaki in a 2004-2006 review of Tuvalu (The Contemporary Pacific 19 (1): 276-286 [2007]). In the review, Taafaki ...
Wallis and Futuna.(elections for the Territorial Assembly and history )
Mar 22, 2008; ... On Sunday, 1 April 2007, the 11,165 registered voters in Wallis and Futuna elected the twenty members of the Territorial Assembly. Thirteen of the twenty incumbent assembly members were part of the national presidential majority lead by Ermenegilde Simete (Union pour un Mouvement Populaire ...
Imagining the Other: The Representation of the Papua New Guinea Subject.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Imagining the Other: The Representation of the Papua New Guinea Subject, by Regis Tove Stella. Pacific Islands Monograph Series 20. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-8248-2575; xiii + 242 pages, illustrations, notes, bibliography. US$54.00. Regis Tove ...
Yali's Question: Sugar, Culture, and History.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Yali's Question: Sugar, Culture, and History, by Frederick Errington and Deborah Gewertz. Foreword by Anthony T Carter. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. ISBN cloth, 978-0-226-21745-1; paper, 978-0-226-21746-8; xiv + 319 pages, maps, tables, illustrations, bibliography, index ....