2015
DOI: 10.1353/cp.2015.0027
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Re-Presenting Melanesia: Ignoble Savages and Melanesian Alter-Natives

Abstract: In this essay, I examine the dominant representations of Melanesia as a place and Melanesians as peoples and how these have influenced understandings of and responses to contemporary developments in this subregion. I begin with an overview of the discourses that influenced the mapping of Oceania and the negative representations of Melanesians. These have, in turn, framed and influenced discourses about and relationships with Melanesia and Melanesians, including Melanesian perceptions of themselves and their re… Show more

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“…The colonial boundaries created in the 1800s were later adopted by present-day Pacific Island nation-states when they gained independence. The Islands were also mapped into the subregions of Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia, which were envisioned not only as geographical spaces, but also racialised ones (Douglas 2011;Kabutaulaka 2015a).…”
Section: Geopolitical Mapping In Oceaniamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The colonial boundaries created in the 1800s were later adopted by present-day Pacific Island nation-states when they gained independence. The Islands were also mapped into the subregions of Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia, which were envisioned not only as geographical spaces, but also racialised ones (Douglas 2011;Kabutaulaka 2015a).…”
Section: Geopolitical Mapping In Oceaniamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Sixteenth century Portuguese and Spanish ‘explorers’ referred to the Pacific Ocean region as the ‘South Seas’ or the peaceful ‘Pacific’ (Douglas, 2015; Somerville, 2010, 2017). Early colonists and scholars of geography and anthropology preferred the racist divisions which unproblematically remain in currency, although with a revisionist strand (see Kabutaulaka, 2015) of Melanesia, Polynesia and Micronesia. Pacific humanist scholar Hau'ofa (1993) spoke of the vast unbounded contemporary ‘Oceania’ (Hau'ofa, 2008) which has provided fertile comfort for many scholars and artists.…”
Section: Surfacing Deep Ocean Currents: Naming the Pacificmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The example of food sovereignty demonstrates that who holds this right to determine environmental futures is not merely a question of political right, but is also a question about the right and practical agency to determine the very subsistence practices that sustain island-based communities. Building on Kabutaulaka (2015) and others’ work in the Solomon Islands, Spann (2018) describes the emergence of ‘Alter-Native’ political practices in the recent formation of the Bushmen Farming Network (BFN), an organization formed as a counter to large-scale agricultural development schemes and dependence upon foreign-grown rice. The BFN are revitalizing customary practices of smallholder agriculture and reintroducing traditional varietals of yam and taro.…”
Section: Food Sovereigntiesmentioning
confidence: 99%