Australia’s Response to China in the Pacific:

Varrall, Merriden

doi:10.2307/j.ctv1h45mkn.7

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“…Development projects frequently benefit foreign political strategies rather than addressing the root causes of environmental vulnerability: alienation and power imbalances (Manuel-Navarrete, 2010). Most development projects in Vanuatu expressly introduce outsider norms, even if these norms conflict with existing social structures and kastom values within Vanuatu (Varrall, 2019).…”

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Beyond the vulnerability/resilience dichotomy: Perceptions of and responses to the climate crisis on Emau, Vanuatu

Ruehr¹

2022

ISJ

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In Vanuatu, a South Pacific island nation, the effects of climate change pose new challenges for low-lying coastal communities. This study explores how one village on Emau, an island offshore of capital island Efate, has developed several overlapping strategies to manage climate change impacts, including drought and sea level rise. Informants reveal their perceptions of changing environmental baselines and how socio-economic processes, including population growth, cultural loss, and limited access to cash incomes, have shaped the community’s response. Informants describe four climate adaptation strategies: 1) expanding access to cash income through seasonal or urban labor migration; 2) leveraging international expertise and funding to meet their goals; 3) developing hybrid forms of traditional practices and contemporary ideology to preserve environmental knowledge; and 4) performing physical and emotional labor to preserve and remain on their land. These strategies span oceans and cross international borders, refuting narratives of islands’ being ‘isolated’ from the rest of the world and passive ‘victims’ of climate change. Contextualizing perceptions of and responses to environmental change provides critical nuance to the resilience/vulnerability framework, which alone obscures ongoing political, social and economic processes on islands.

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Beyond the vulnerability/resilience dichotomy: Perceptions of and responses to the climate crisis on Emau, Vanuatu

Ruehr¹

2022

ISJ

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“…In regards to Australia's response to China in the Pacific, Australia has moved from a posture of alert to one of alarm as regards China's growing presence in the Pacific. As one security analyst expounds, Canberra is increasingly concerned about Beijing's interests and endeavours in the Pacific Islands including attempts to sway political elites, political parties, and targeted pursuit of transportation and infrastructure projects in locations across Melanesia [Varrall: 2021].…”

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The China Syndrome: The Impact of China's Growing Economic and Political Influence in the South Pacific

Moses¹

2021

African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Research

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The People's Republic of China in the past decades has experienced dynamic and accelerative growth. Its activities the world over, particularly in the South Pacific is a projection of its foreign policy as well as its economic and political ambition. While its growing power remains progressive, the dominant explanation for this trend is its desire to attain the hegemonic status that is unrivalled.

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Australia and New Zealand’s Pacific policy: aligned, not alike

Köllner

2022

Political Science

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Australia’s Response to China in the Pacific:

Cited by 6 publications

References 11 publications

Beyond the vulnerability/resilience dichotomy: Perceptions of and responses to the climate crisis on Emau, Vanuatu

Beyond the vulnerability/resilience dichotomy: Perceptions of and responses to the climate crisis on Emau, Vanuatu

The China Syndrome: The Impact of China's Growing Economic and Political Influence in the South Pacific

Australia and New Zealand’s Pacific policy: aligned, not alike

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