Stitching tivaevae: a Cook Islands research method

Futter-Puati, Debi; Maua-Hodges, Teremoana

doi:10.1177/1177180119836788

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“…This represents the relationships between the individual in relation to external factors and its effect on well-being (Tu’itahi, 2009). Other examples include the Tongan Kakala (process of making a fragrant garland) model (Thaman, 2003), the Cook Island Tivaevae (traditional quilt patchwork) model (Futter-Puati & Maua-Hodges, 2019; Maua-Hodges, 2016) and Tokelauan Te Vaka Atafaga (canoe) model (Kupa, 2009). These models present specific components with critical roles and functions which are mutually dependent on each other.…”

Section: Pacific Worldviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Strengthening Pacific voices through Talanoa participatory action research

Cammock

Conn

Nayar³

2021

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

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Approaches to health and social research and development in the Pacific are dominated by Eurocentric frameworks that fail to reflect the region’s ethnic diversity and inherent cultural knowledge and belief systems. We aimed to advance innovative, indigenous methodology with a focus on youth voice and transformative approaches that contribute to a decolonising and sustainable model of development. Talanoa—a Pacific framework for communicating and connecting—and participatory action research were adapted to create a unique Pacific “action cycle” focused on providing opportunities to (a) hear from fruit and vegetable young entrepreneurs and (b) foster healthy and sustainable food systems among young entrepreneurs in Suva, Fiji. A Fijian worldview helped to centralise Fijian concepts of knowledge enquiry and research. This article describes the way in which Pacific Talanoa can be incorporated within a Fijian epistemological paradigm for research and development undertaken in the Fijian context.

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Section: Pacific Worldviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Strengthening Pacific voices through Talanoa participatory action research

Cammock

Conn

Nayar³

2021

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

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“…1 For example, kakala method (Thaman, 1992); kura kaupapa method (Smith, 2006); tivaevae method (Futter-Puati and Maua-Hodges, 2019);vanua (Nabobo-Baba, 2008); iluvatu (Naisilisili, 2012); kaliloa (Toetu'u-Tamihere, 2014); and mo'olelo (Nakoa and Wright, 2015) among others. 2 Upon reflection, the 'intimacy' characterising island societies (Baldacchino and Veenendaal, 2018: 342) may also be integral to talanoa.…”

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Inter‐island relations in Oceania's archipelagos: Identity and everyday politics

Prinsen

Mawyer

Cholymay

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Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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Oceania includes sovereign states as well as overseas territories of metropolitan powers. In both cases, contemporary geopolitical borders are legacies of colonialism. As in many (de)colonised places, materialisations of spatially anchored social imaginaries and practices of self and otherness, play a role in the everyday politics of Oceania's communities and states. Notably, cultural intimacies (Herzfeld, 2016) in this region are also shaped by tensions between islands in an archipelagic unit. Characterised by plural identities, Oceania's communities must navigate solidarities within the colonial borders of unitary sovereign states or non-sovereign island territories. Given this context, we ask whether spatially anchored identities within archipelagic contexts are politically engaged, playing a role in the politics of state (dis)cohesion across the region. This paper presents findings from 73 interviews across four pairs of Pacific islands -Wallis-Futuna, Tahiti-Mangareva, Rarotonga-Manihiki, Pohnpei-Chuukexploring how communities define their own identities and the identity of those on 'the other island'. We find both sides in agreement on six complementary and rather respectful identities. We therefore suggest that while political tensions and calls for secession in archipelagos are real, it is unlikely that identity politics at this point in time inflames political break ups.

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“…The quilts I grew up with in New England always had another layer of batting in between, plus overlapping edges at the seams where the different swatches of fabric came together. Building on this paper's theme of dissolving boundaries and blending worlds, and with a nod to uses of quilting and other Indigenous practices as research methodologies in Oceania ( e.g ., Fua 2014; Futter‐Puati and Maua‐Hodges 2019; Wilson‐Hokowhitu 2019), I invite you to visualize sovereignty as multiple overlapping, not‐fully‐distinct layers of fabric. Starting with a look at the layers of power that frame both politics and heritage in the Marquesas, we will explore how the entrenched divides and dispossessions of colonialism ripple through local land tenure, heritage and Marquesan cultural, political and spiritual sovereignty.…”

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Quilting Power:Mana,UNESCOand Spiritual Sovereignty in the Marquesas Islands

Donaldson

2022

Oceania

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The Marquesas Islands were added to UNESCO's Tentative World Heritage List (WHL) in 1996. Twenty‐five years later, the project to join the coveted WHL continues, plagued by volatile politics and, more subtly, an underlying discomfort with the colonial past. This world heritage initiative highlights key cultural and political tensions between the Marquesas and the two much larger partners involved in the project: Tahiti and France. As a colonial territory of France and an outlying archipelago of French Polynesia, the Marquesas see WHL status as a step toward greater global recognition and power. Yet UNESCO's specific requirements for how heritage is defined, perceived, and promoted threaten to suppress more local, embodied, and relational understandings of Marquesan heritage, echoing long‐standing colonial patterns of social and religious oppression. In particular, the troubled relationship between Islanders and their past trivializes questions about whether to recognize colonial or Indigenous ruins, illustrating the lasting entanglement of these histories and the insidious workings of power across local, state and territorial scales. While the WHL initiative expresses both Indigenous and colonial ambitions, different parties are using the term ‘heritage’ as a political tool that either voices or, in some cases, silences, Indigenous interpretations. The underlying link between Marquesan heritage and agency points to the critical role of spiritual sovereignty in the tense and dynamic interplay of power in contemporary French Polynesia.

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Stitching tivaevae: a Cook Islands research method

Cited by 21 publications

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Strengthening Pacific voices through Talanoa participatory action research

Strengthening Pacific voices through Talanoa participatory action research

Inter‐island relations in Oceania's archipelagos: Identity and everyday politics

Quilting Power:Mana,UNESCOand Spiritual Sovereignty in the Marquesas Islands

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