“Large Ocean States”: Sovereignty, Small Islands, and Marine Protected Areas in Global Oceans Governance

Chan, Nicholas

doi:10.1163/19426720-02404005

Cited by 41 publications

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“…The Ocean is not seen as a territorial limit but as an extension of it. The changing perspective theorized by Epeli Hau'ofa (1993) takes on special resonance in the current emergence of large-scale marine areas in the Pacific and perfectly illustrates the ongoing transformations from Small Islands Developing States (SIDS) to Large Ocean Islands States (LOIS) (Chan 2018). SIDS refers to the 'developing countries' category assigned to national economies that receive an external rent (administrative, military, development aid or private through migrations).…”

Section: French Pacific Territories and The Lois Turnmentioning

confidence: 99%

LSMPA Sovereignties in New Caledonia and French Polynesia: Territorialities, Alliances and Powers in Oceania

Dégremont

2022

Oceania

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Over the last decades, the establishment of large‐scale marine protected areas (LSMPA) in the Pacific Ocean has profoundly transformed the region's political geography. Pacific LSMPAs have played a striking role in converting Small Island Developing States (SIDS) into Large Ocean Island States (LOIS), generating a significant shift in regional and international politics. This paper is a new exploration of the ongoing political construction of the Ocean, at multiple scales and through different forms. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, an anthropological approach is used to investigate governance processes involving multiple actors shaping marine environmental policies in New Caledonia and French Polynesia, two French overseas territories. This research interrogates how territorial dynamics and sovereignty issues in the francophone Pacific are being driven and reshaped by the emergence of LSMPAs and offers an overview of current structural changes in Oceania.

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Section: French Pacific Territories and The Lois Turnmentioning

confidence: 99%

LSMPA Sovereignties in New Caledonia and French Polynesia: Territorialities, Alliances and Powers in Oceania

Dégremont

2022

Oceania

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“…In 2014, the Pacific Leaders synonymously decided to replace the Pacific Plan with the Framework for Pacific Regionalism (Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, 2014). When the emphasis was shifted from Small Islands Developing States to Large Ocean States in 2015, the ocean states were recognised as a "ocean continent" (Chan, 2018). To this effect, in 2017 the Blue Pacific narrative was endorsed by the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Leaders (Searight et al, 2019).…”

Section: Pacific Regional Ocean Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Orchestrating the Ocean Using a National Ocean Policy: The Case of the Solomon Islands

et al. 2021

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Oceans are governed by multiple policies at international, regional and national levels. National level policies have traditionally been sector-based, covering fisheries, tourism, environment etc. Recently more integrated and holistic National Ocean Policies (NOP) have been promulgated. The Pacific Ocean also has well-developed regional ocean-related policies spanning decades. The work presented here uses lexicometric analysis to map the interlinkages between regional and national policies to determine if they are evolving synergistically. Focusing on the Solomon Islands, due to its reliance on the ocean and producing a NOP in 2018, 13,622 expressions were extracted from the corpus of 8 national and 10 regional ocean-related policies. Network analysis displayed limited differentiation between the NOP, national sector-based policies and regional policies. Clustering of policies showed progressive splitting of policies from a single cluster, rather than by formation of a number of separate clusters. This behaviour reflects the thematic interlocking of policies: all share many themes, and the more integrative policies add a few additional sectoral themes. The themes rarely addressed in the corpus include energy, agriculture, pollution and education. The NOP was predominantly built on existing national or regional policies and their main themes rather than setting a new direction in ocean governance. The benefit of the NOP may be less about its content itself, but the creation of allied cross-ministerial architecture. With the intense pressure on the oceans and its resources in present times, there will be a growing need for more substantive policy evolution.

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“…They note how GGLC linked the concepts of environmental sustainability and resilience with notions of social relationships and indigenous culture in ways that vernacularised discourses that were often used, or defined differently, elsewhere. The burgeoning use of the terms 'green growth' and 'blue-green economy,' linked in turn to notions of Pacific islands as "large ocean states" (Chan, 2018), is seen by some as part of a new assertive Pacific regionalism (Fry & Tarte, 2018, p. 3) that is a significant departure from donor-dominated agendas of the past.…”

Section: The Green Growth Leaders' Coalitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Characteristics of Locally Led Development in the Pacific

Roche

Cox

Rokotuibau³

et al. 2020

PaG

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There is a growing recognition of the effectiveness of locally led processes of social change and development. However, most of the case studies that have been discussed in the literature are focused on <em>programs</em> run by international development agencies. This article examines three locally led <em>processes</em> of change in the Pacific. These include the Simbo for Change Initiative in the Solomon Islands, the Voice in Papua New Guinea and a regional process led by the Green Growth Coalition. We explore how local understandings of leadership, preferences for informal ways of working, holistic ways of thinking, the importance placed upon maintaining good relationships and collective deliberation fundamentally shaped each of the cases. We note how these preferences and ways of working are often seen, or felt, to be at odds with western modes of thought and the practice of development agencies. Finally, we conclude by exploring how these initiatives were supported by external agencies, and suggest further research of this type might provide benchmarks by which Pacific citizens can hold their governments and development agencies to account.

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“Large Ocean States”: Sovereignty, Small Islands, and Marine Protected Areas in Global Oceans Governance

Cited by 41 publications

References 15 publications

LSMPA Sovereignties in New Caledonia and French Polynesia: Territorialities, Alliances and Powers in Oceania

LSMPA Sovereignties in New Caledonia and French Polynesia: Territorialities, Alliances and Powers in Oceania

Orchestrating the Ocean Using a National Ocean Policy: The Case of the Solomon Islands

The Characteristics of Locally Led Development in the Pacific

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