Pacific futures, past and present / edited by Warwick Anderson, Miranda Johnson, and Barbara Brookes
- Bib ID:
- 7892373
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- Book
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- Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2018]
- vi, 305 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
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- 9780824874452 (hardcover ;) (alkaline paper)
- 0824874455 (hardcover ;) (alkaline paper)
- Summary:
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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."--Page [4] of cover.
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- Horizons and rifts in conversations about climate change in Oceania / Margaret Jolly
- Genetic drift : Pacific pasts and futures / Matt Matsuda
- Inside us the unborn : genealogies, futures, metaphors, and the opposite of zombies / Alice Te Punga Somerville
- A different historiography for "a handful of chickpeas flung over the sea" : approaching the Federated States of Micronesia's deeper past / David Hanlon
- "Time is on our side" : shipping and the coming of flight in the Pacific / Frances Steel
- Imagined futures in the past : empire, place, race, and nation in the mapping of Oceania / Bronwen Douglas
- Imperial futures and India's Pacifics : space, temporality, and the textures of empire / Tony Ballantyne
- Unbound space : migration, aspiration, and the making of time in the Cantonese Pacific / Henry Yu
- "Return of the native" : two routes back for a "dying race" / Barbara Brookes
- Education for the future : University of Hawaiʻi sociology, assimilationist historicity, and the making of settler colonial culture / Christine Manganaro
- "A lasting benefit for a new race"? : Rev. J.F.H. Wohlers and racial amalgamation in southern New Zealand / Michael J. Stevens
- On a beach in the Marquesas : weedy historicities and prosthetic futures / Warwick Anderson.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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