Pacific futures, past and present / edited by Warwick Anderson, Miranda Johnson, and Barbara Brookes.
"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 Futur...
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| Language: | English |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
[2018]
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| Physical Description: | vi, 305 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
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Contents:
- 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.